The subsequent Battlefield sport will launch someday earlier than April 2026

Digital Arts has confirmed that the following Battlefield sport can be revealed this summer season, forward of a launch date a while earlier than April 2026. The information was shared within the firm’s This autumn and and monetary yr 2025 outcomes, revealed this week.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson known as the most recent installment within the long-running first-person shooter sequence a “pivotal step in delivering on our subsequent era of blockbuster leisure” and recommitted to a beforehand introduced FY26 launch window for the at the moment untitled sport. Which means it could’t launch any later than March 2026, when EA's fiscal yr ends.

A launch date earlier than April subsequent yr would imply the brand new Battlefield sport will get a little bit of room to breathe earlier than the just lately delayed Grand Theft Auto 6, which is meant to reach on Could 26, 2026. Like each different writer on the planet, EA has possible factored GTA 6 into its personal upcoming launch plans for quite a lot of titles. Eurogamer reported earlier this yr that Wilson had admitted a willingness to delay video games with a purpose to get out of the best way of the (unnamed, however closely implied) competitors.

The latest Battlefield sport was 2021’s Battlefield 2042, to which EA has steadily added new content material. Again in February, EA launched Battlefield Labs, a group testing initiative that enables registered followers to playtest and provides suggestions on sequence fundamentals corresponding to fight, destruction, automobiles and map designs.

EA additionally confirmed in an investor name that it at the moment has no plans to extend the value of its video games, following the latest Xbox value hike and Nintendo making the choice to cost a whopping $80 for Mario Kart Worldon its upcoming Change 2.

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