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Summary: Electronic Arts has teased that one of its multiple in-development Star Wars titles is an all-new Battlefront game. Speaking today during the Stifel 2013 Technology Conference, CFO Blake Jorgensen offered the hint.

"The opportunity to do a new Battlefront, for example, which is one of the very popular Star Wars games, or some of the other traditional games that were made, is very exciting."

Star Wars: Battlefront III, despite never actually being announced, was reportedly 99 percent complete, though this claim was contested.

Jorgensen further explained that its new Star Wars games stand to benefit from the marketing potential at Disney, a company that owns many consumer-focused enterprises like amusement parks, film studios, cruise lines, and media outlets.

He also reiterated that EA's new Star Wars games will not be based specifically on any of the upcoming Star Wars films, though they may be released near them to leverage the marketing opportunity.

"These aren't movie games, per se; these are stand-alone games," Jorgensen said. "But obviously they would come out near the movies and be able to tailgate off of some of the buzz that will be created around the new Star Wars movies.

[NR]Delta wrote:I'm betting on a battlefield 3 type game with star wars unit skins, weapons and vehicles. Although that isn't by itself a bad thing, it certainly won't be anywhere even close to what swbf2 is like. With BF3, EA/DICE sacrificed the core gameplay mechanics of battlefield 2 for a call-of-duty style gameplay, then covered up their hack job with hundreds of useless unlocks and weapons. Additionally, this probably means we'll have to install Origin, which EA' spyware, and the game itself will have to run off of battlelog, which is a main menu based off a web browser. That means every time you switch servers, you have to fully restart the game. Also, Battlelog is extremely vulnerable to DDOS attacks, as demonstrated about a month ago.
In conclusion, I think an EA/DICE SWBF3 will be utter garbage- EA's strategy seems to be to dumb down every franchise, to make it more like COD, so it can attract the "casual" gaming crowd, which is the one thing that still fuels COD's unbelievable sales. The battlefront franchise as we know it is probably dead.

[NR]Delta wrote:On a side note, I did find a team who was trying to recreate SWBF2 using the Cryengine 3, and that looks fairly promising.

A Hobo wrote:agree with delta, regs will dominate the game. also, there's a 100% chance of cb being gone. but look on the bright side (for you EA haters), all the previous companies that tried to make bf3 went out of business. so if the curse of star wars battlefront still holds true, EA will die. :D