The next big game from EA DICE will ship during EA’s 2022 fiscal year - which runs from April 1, 2021, through Maand EA will instead focus on another game, Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends, as its marquee shooter in 2020.Īpex Legends will expand next year onto new platforms, including mobile, and EA will push the game into China, the company said. “We know the title is going to be very strong,” he said.The next Battlefield game is coming in either 2021 or early 2022, Electronic Arts announced during an investor call Tuesday. He said there is financial conservatism in the forecast about Battlefield. Jorgensen said that guidance is for high expectations for Battlefield, and he thinks that will be very achievable. Rival Activision Blizzard has done that, using free-to-play Call of Duty: Mobile and Call of Duty: Warzone to upsell players to Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War. The free-to-play mobile game will be a good way to ramp up the number of players for the Battlefield franchise, and hopefully EA will be able to upsell those people to the premium game for the PC and consoles. And it shows EA’s own efforts to make big moves into mobile games, as the publisher recently bought Glu for $2.4 billion. It’s a growing sign of mobile’s importance to traditional triple-A game publishers as the biggest revenue generator among game platforms. Meanwhile, EA has also engaged mobile game studio Industrial Toys in Pasadena, California, to make a mobile version of Battlefield for launch in 2022. Wilson said the team has had unrivaled ambition in building the game. “As I mentioned before, our strategy is to grow Battlefield as we have with our other blockbuster franchises like FIFA and Apex - best-in-class gameplay, deeply-engaging live service, a new mobile experience, and more ways to play that we will introduce to reach more players all over the world.”Ĭhief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said the unreleased trailer for the game blew him away, and he believes players will engage with the game for a long time. “We’re looking forward to players around the world getting their hands on this innovative Battlefield experience later in FY22,” Wilson said. He said Industrial Toys’ mobile Battlefield is in testing now. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

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