EA Looking into Cross-Play for Key Franchises (Battlefield V)

EA Might Implement Cross-Play in their Future games

EA hasn’t had a very good year. With Star Wars Battlefront II dying off on PC and everyone hating on Battlefield V because of the implementation of woman in its story mode EA hasn’t been doing very well. EA didn’t do well in 2017 either thanks to the failure of one their biggest game Star Wars Battlefront II. In 2018 most developers have been looking into cross-platform. Cross-Play has been really big in 2018 with Nintendo and Microsoft activly trying to encourage more cross-play and Sony blocking it. According to EA’s CEO, EA is looking into bringing cross-play to their key franchises.

During an investor call EA CEO Andrew Wilson talked about cross-platform games. 

Wilson said, 

“In terms of cross-platform play, again we are seeing the same thing. And remember, we have a vision on a 3- to 5-year time horizon where a great portion of game experience will exist in the cloud and be pushed to every device you own. And the game experience you have won’t be measured by local CPU or GPU but will be measured by screen size and session time you have, and will drive tremendous liquidity in the market – in a player base. And I think we are to deliver very different types of experiences as a result of a cloud gaming offering.

In the near term, you should also appreciate that we’re looking at key franchises in terms of how we could deliver cross-platform players in a similar way that Fortnite has, especially some of the titles have a broad and diverse player base. Households typically have one console, so the ability to bring PC to console and console to mobile into that play experience can bring families together, can bring friends together. And we think it’s an important part of our future development profile both in terms of mobile games that we have today moving up per se to console and PC, and console and PC games being playable in mobile. And so, I expect more from us on that front in the future.”

It seems like EA is trying to follow Fortnite’s lead on their future games by bringing battle royal mode to Battlefield V. 

Battlefield V is going to be released on October 19, 2018, for the PC, Xbox One, and PC and it will cost $59.99. If you want to enjoy Battlefield V and a bunch of other EA games for less then $100 a year you can get access to most EA games through Origin Access Premier. 

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