The CEO of Electronic Arts has said that the publishing giant is feeling more positive about the release of the next Battlefield game following the delay for Grand Theft Auto VI.
Speaking during the company’s latest financial results overnight, Andrew Wilson revealed that the new Battlefield game will launch by March 2026, and comes just a few days after Rockstar Games announced that GTA VI would no longer make its Fall 2025 launch window.
Wilson was asked during an investor Q&A how EA views “the competitive landscape of the Battlefield launch window and subsequent performance expectations” following the delay of GTA VI, as well as how other companies will position their own releases in wake of the news.
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I’m not sure I can comment on the rest of the industry and their launches or launch timings, other than to say typically today games take many years to build and develop, and it’s unlikely that if you weren’t already ready for launch in this window, it may be hard to get ready and take advantage of which might be otherwise a less competitive window than we may have anticipated earlier.
Relative to Battlefield, what we have said all along is we’ve been building towards a window that we thought made the most sense for Battlefield, but we wouldn’t launch into a window that we thought truncated the value that we’ve invested into the franchise, or the value that we think our players will derive from it once they jump in and start playing. I think now, without going too far, we believe that window is clearer than it was before and we feel very good about launching Battlefield in [FY] 2026.
The new Battlefield game is currently undergoing extensive playtesting via EA’s Battlefield Labs initiative, and is in development at Battlefield Studios, which is comprised of four teams including EA Motive and DICE. Grand Theft Auto VI is now due for release on May 26, 2026 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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