Possible Release Revealed for Battlefield 3
The Battlefield series has been a long and successful franchise — easily one of EA’s most popular first-person shooters. During this generation of consoles we were introduced to the Battlefield: Bad Company games. The original sold rather well, but it wasn’t until the second one that the sales took off, and the online really felt like it was perfected. So, the question is, when do we get our hands on a third installment? EA’s CEO has the answer.
In a recent interview, John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, was discussing the state of EA’s FPS franchises and how they fare against juggernaut Call of Duty. While discussing that, he mentions that he doesn’t think Treyarch, the team behind Call of Duty: Black Ops, has proven themselves to gamers just yet, and that EA can rival the powerhouse franchise with their own IPs. He then moved on to the 2011 releases and dropped some very interesting news.
“next year we’ll make a lot more progress. We’ve got a couple of third-party games in the form of Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm, and then our big focus is Battlefield 3 in the second half of the year. I’d be shocked if we didn’t take a notch out of [Activision].”
So it looks like EA is set to release Battlefield 3 at the end of next year, which should be interesting since Call of Duty releases annually that time of the year to capitalize on the holiday sales rush. This is definitely shaping up to be quite a battle, and should be interesting to see how much EA can cut into Activision’s profits.
Look for more information as we move into 2011.
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7 Responses to “Possible Release Revealed for Battlefield 3”
And I already know what I’ll be buying at the end of next year…
BFBC2 is still my #1 online shooter by a mile… Has everything & works very well unlike other titles im not going to mention LOL – Day 1 buy for me…
P.S I know this is off topic etc but GT5 has a 608mb update..?! Any ideas PSLS??
Bad Company 3 is gonna be epic
its not a bad company game , its the sequal to battleifled 2 modern combat i belive. its battlefield 3, which is not apart of the bad company series.
@ZombieHell- I am pretty sure it is going to be battlefield 3 not bad company 3. The bad company games were a spin off of battlefield made by the same people who made battle field. But if it is bad company 3 that would be awesome too. I love all of the battlefield games they are so much fun.
This game is going to be all sorts of Epic. Battlefield Series alone made me stop playing Black Ops.
Hell, playing black ops made me stop playing black ops