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EA reveals some juicy info on two of its most successful franchises, Battlefield and Need For Speed...
Speaking at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference, EA has revealed that its Need For Speed franchise will be put into the thoroughly capable hands of Burnout developer Criterion, while DICE is hard at work on Battlefield 3.
Rumours arose last month linking Criterion to the Need For Speed franchise, although this is the first we've heard straight from the horse's mouth after EA's Chief Operating Officer, John Pleasants told investors:
"We've taken the Burnout team and combined it with our Need For Speed franchise. So we now have that in our favour because that Burnout team is probably one of the more online-centric and notably high-quality game developers that we have out at Criterion," said Pleasants (reports G4TV).
Reports elsewhere on Kotaku, citing EA's CEO John Riccitello talking at E3, suggest that Criterion will be producing the next Need For Speed after Slightly Mad Studios' NFS Shift this year. Riccitello did clarify, however, that the Burnout and NFS franchises won't be blending into one.
Getting back to the William Blair Conference, John Pleasants also mentioned that Battlefield 3 is in development at DICE, which will no doubt be music to the ears of diehard Battlefield 2 fans who are tiring of the more recent Battlefield: Bad Company games.
"I've had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product," Pleasants stated. "Of course, that's not [coming out] in the fiscal year, but that is a product that is looking very good."
This positions the release of Battlefield 3 sometime after March 2010. Could this be linked to the leaked Battlefield 3 project we reported on way back in 2007? If so, then it's been a long time coming. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is due out later this year.
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Added:Sat 29th Jan 2011 16:58, Post No: 22
nfs on wii is bull [#@!?]
Added:Fri 28th Jan 2011 16:36, Post No: 21
trade at cex which probably gives the best trade price for none dlc (online code used in other words) cash will get you £16 and trade will get you £21, GT5 will get you cash £28 and trade £30 now you can clearly see what this retarded 1 use only code is doing to the games resale value.
Added:Fri 28th Jan 2011 16:29, Post No: 20
lol sales for any EA online functionality title will eventually slow to a crawl unless they remove the retarded online code crap, why should anyone have to pay to play online, rental services like blockbuster and love film must have already noticed the drop in people wanting to rent games by EA as to play online now requires that stupid 1 off payment per game let alone the resale value of such games will also dent sales as anyone who plays games and then trade for newer games will bother to either play it online or not buy it at all and only diehards will use the code knowing when they do the instantly lose £10 off the trade price.
Added:Fri 28th Jan 2011 10:10, Post No: 19
Why would they want to stop selling it? Presumably they'll only stop when the sales numbers die down and it becomes unprofitable to ship any more units, and that could be a while to be honest...
Added:Thu 27th Jan 2011 02:23, Post No: 18
when wil they stop selling the game (need for pseed hot persuit)?
Added:Tue 04th Jan 2011 22:27, Post No: 17
no just face it GT5 was crap but your in denial and yes it was really over hyped.
Added:Tue 04th Jan 2011 21:31, Post No: 16
gt5 was not horrible, it was a good game, but really overhyped.
Added:Tue 04th Jan 2011 18:53, Post No: 15
lol if your seriously saying GT is going multiplat just sit back and think about it for a while, GT5 sucks and was over hyped, FF13 was "let down by the 360 being on DVD the game was reduced in size, lol yet another ps3 fanboy excuse", you must be seriously demented if you think GT can recover from just how crap GT5 is let me put it to you a bit clearer.
GT6 will need to have actual 1080p graphics not upscaled 1080p "1280x1080" is not true 1080p, it will need shadows to be smooth and not have low res jaggid edges that look so pathetic, in car views on EVERY CAR and PREMIUM CARS ONLY, how the hell did anyone think the game was so good that even the bugatti veyron would end up as a standard car when it should have been a PREMIUM CAR.
the menu system needs sorting out that you can freely move the cursor around the sreen directly to what you want rather than the crap system in GT5, online is pi** poor and takes ages to find online games you actually feel you can have a fair race also it needs dedicated servers as lag between areas in the world is just pathetic (i have a fast broadband connection yet i was still getting lagged by the host having a poor connection).
back to the cars GT6 should get rid of the ridiculous amount of japanese cars (even in the online car store in the GT5 update, the majority of cars are japanese and there almost all the same model with a small variation its pathetic), there are just as mony european and american car models in the world yet were subjected to hundreds of boring japanese cars like the demio or the prius not to mention the stupid number of civics, skylines, RX-7's ect, there just there to boost the car numbers up so they could boast about having over a thousand cars, at least 65% of the cars in GT5 are japanese though that number is probably higher.
overall if GT6 is going to beat anything they need to seriously get ther prioritys correct first like less japanese cars and better graphics plus while im at it better course designs and better phisics, MORE REALISTIC PHYSICS, if anything GT6 had better up there game cause its now up against Forza 4 which Forza 3 already caught up with GT4's physics and its as good as GT5 so where does that leave you GT/ps3 fanboys (in a panic lol).
Added:Tue 04th Jan 2011 09:47, Post No: 14
GT6 is likely to fix GT5 flaws, at wich point NFS Hot pursuit doesn't have a chance. Especially if a Wii release is in the mix for the next GT game.
Added:Tue 04th Jan 2011 01:57, Post No: 13
GT6 is likely to fix GT5 flaws, at wich point NFS Hot pursuit doesn't have a chance. Especially if a Wii release is in the mix for the next GT game.