Despite the recent trend of releases, EA will not bring out a Battlefield game every year to compete with Activision Blizzard’s annualized Call of Duty franchise. The confirmation came from EA Studio’s executive vice president Patrick Söderlund. In an interview with Polygon, Söderlund stated that the company is not going to dedicate itself to simply releasing the same big franchises every year. “The EA that I’m trying to help build isn’t an EA that needs to annualize everything,” he said.
It’s not difficult to see why fans of the franchise may have got that impression as we have had a major Battlefield release in four of the past five years. Even though there was a 2 year gap between Battlefield 3 in 2011 and Battlefield 4 in 2013,the latter still felt like a very rushed game and suffered severe problems at launch. Now EA is launching Battlefield: Hardline less than 12 months later and many are wondering how EA will avoid the mistakes of the past.”Everything that we’ve fixed with [Battlefield 4] will go into Hardline”, said Söderlund. ”Once people get their hands on the netcode patch, which I think is profound, that will take care of a lot of the complaints around Battlefield.
Battlefield: Hardline will launch on October 21 for PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360.
Via Gamespot