DICE made this announcement shortly after it confirmed that the next content updates for Battlefield V and Star Wars Battlefront 2 would be their last. With DICE ending its support for those games in terms of new content updates, it will be able to focus entirely on its next project, which is the next-generation Battlefield game. Details on what the new Battlefield game will entail are scarce beyond that it will be for next-gen platforms, presumably meaning the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

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Of course, the new Battlefield will likely come out on PC as well, and there’s also a chance that it could be a cross-generation game. Both PS5 and Xbox Series X are expected to have cross-gen titles for the first couple of years they’re on the market, though that largely depends on what DICE plans to do with the new Battlefield. There’s a chance that the game simply won’t be able to run on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

When the new Battlefield game does launch, it will be interesting to see what time period it’s set in. Battlefield 1 was set in World War I, whereas Battlefield V was set in World War II. However, both Battlefield 3 and 4, games set in modern times, were hugely popular with players, so maybe the franchise will come back to present day. This would make sense, especially when one considers just how popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is right now.

Some of the rumors and leaks surrounding the next Battlefield seem to indicate that the series will indeed be returning to modern times. A leak has said that the new Battlefield will have drones of some kind, so if that leak is true, then fans shouldn’t count on a historical setting for the next game in the series.

It will definitely be interesting to see if any of the rumors surrounding the new Battlefield game are true. Other rumors claim that the game will be the long-awaited Battlefield: Bad Company 3, though that remains to be seen. The Bad Company series has been dormant since 2010, and DICE hasn’t really shown much interest in returning to it. Fans will just have to stay tuned to find out more about the next-generation Battlefield game, whatever form it takes.

Battlefield is in development for next-generation consoles.

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Source: GameSpot