Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, has revealed during the publisher’s quarterly earnings call overnight that its upcoming College Football game is making ‘incredible progress,’ although there’s no sigh of a release date yet.
When asked for an update on the game, Wilson revealed that EA has “many if not most of the schools licensed” and that the core gameplay is “really coming together.”
The team’s doing an incredible job building out what will be the future of College Football. Gameplay is really coming together, and really capturing all the action of pageantry, and the difference in college football versus the NFL. I feel really confident in what the team’s doing. We’re working through the licence situation broadly – as of now, we’ve got many if not most of the schools licensed as part of our licensing platform.
We’ll continue to work with the various governing bodies of the sport in the country, and some key third-party partners we have, around how and when to include college athletes themselves into the game, and we’ll work very closely with them. But I’m confident that this will be an incredible re-emergence of that college football experience, that it will capture all the action and pageantry, driven by the schools and all that goes on with the schools in the context of this game.
And I do believe that we’ll find a place where we can work in lockstep with the athletes for inclusion in the game as well.
EA previously published 21 college football games between 1993 — 2013, and its latest effort was announced back in early 2021. Beyond that however, not much else is known about the title yet, but at the time of its announcement EA said “launch timing [is] still to come as the project progresses in the years ahead.”
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