Making the third installment of the multiplayer shooter carried too many costs for Electronic Arts.
Cinema licenses are increasingly being seen in the world of video games, which have also gone the opposite way and have been adapted to other media. We have many examples of both, such as the Indiana Jones of Bethesda in the first case or the recent premiere of the Arcane series for the second, but what there is no doubt is that there is a larger license that has marked the entertainment in the last years.
We talk about Star wars, whose appearance in the form of video games has always been constant, but lately it is being carried out through larger projects. There are several studios behind productions related to the legendary saga, but thanks to journalist Tom Henderson, today we know that Battlefront 3 exists, but has finally been scrapped by Electronic Arts.
They needed 20% more sales for the same benefitsThe journalist’s information is supported by several sources, and ensures that, after the second part, EA considered continuing with the franchise, but the high license costs they brought the project to a complete halt. A former DICE developer claimed that they needed 20% more sales to achieve the same money.
However, that does not mean that the company is idle. According to the information, EA is currently working on two Star Wars single-player games, or at least much more focused on the story than adding a competitive multiplayer component. Battlefront 3 could continue to be considered for the future, but it does not seem that it will become a reality after the departure of several developers from the studio.
The last installment of the multiplayer shooter was Battlefront 2, which was released at the end of 2017 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In addition to a new project from Ubisoft, the remake of KOTOR was recently announced, which will try to adapt to the new times the Dear BioWare RPG. Knights of the Old Republic could even have changes at the plot level, while remaining faithful to what we knew at the time.
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