When deciding on Battlefield 6’s launch date, EA government Laura Miele stated it was necessary to present the sport room to breathe to assist guarantee it would not launch close to the “blast radius” of different massive video games.
(*6*), Miele did not point out a recreation by title, however she is probably going referring to massive video games like Grand Theft Auto 6 and Name of Obligation: Black Ops 7. Miele stated EA tried to “not get distracted by what was occurring round us,” however on the identical time, the corporate did purposefully plan to keep away from different main releases.
“We at all times stated that with all of this funding and with all of the potential of this franchise, we’d not have put it in hurt’s manner, and we might not have put it out within the blast radius of one thing actually massive,” she stated. “We have been fairly unblinking, and we weren’t permitting ourselves to play the, ‘What if?’ recreation with the schedules and improvement. We have been like, ‘No, we’ve to get this performed,’ as a result of the chance is so massive and the potential is so vital for the corporate.”
GTA 6 was initially scheduled to launch in Fall 2025 earlier than Take-Two delayed the sport to Could 2026. After the GTA 6 delay, EA administration stated the launch window for Battlefield 6 was “clearer than earlier than.”
As for Black Ops 7, Activision has not introduced a launch date but, however a report stated the sport will launch on November 14, which might give Battlefield 6 a couple of month’s area.
Timing is necessary for recreation releases, and a few have theorized that one other EA recreation, Titanfall 2, launching sandwiched between Battlefield 1 and Name of Obligation: Infinite Warfare again in 2016 negatively impacted that recreation’s gross sales. There was more to the story, nevertheless.
Battlefield 6 is coming to PS5, Xbox Collection X|S, and PC on October 10. An open beta kicks off very quickly, and a battle royale mode is coming later.