EA President Opens Up About 'Battlefield 6', 'The Sims', Marvel, And 'Star Wars'
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If you have been saving your pennies for a big video game purchase this fall, you might still get lucky. After Rockstar Games had moved the release of Grand Theft Auto VI to May 2026, EA will fill the empty timeslot and release Battlefield 6, the next chapter of the hugely popular game franchise, on October 10.
And while it seems as if Electronic Arts had just waited for Rockstar to make its move, EA's Entertainment president, Laura Miele, confirms that the company had aimed for a fall release all along:
“We have always have been heads down, unblinking about this fall and executing at a level of excellence,” Miele said in an interview with Variety. "But we always said that with all of this investment and with all the potential of this franchise, we would not have put it in harm’s way, and we would not have put it out in the blast radius of something really large. We were like, no, we have to get this done, because the opportunity is so big and the potential is so significant for the company.”
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But Battlefield 6 is by far not the only arrow in the quiver of the video games juggernaut. Miele's teams are also working on the multiplayer version of The Sims, which she regards as "one of the biggest growth opportunities for Electronic Arts".
"You’re going to have this life simulation, you’re going to have multiplayer capabilities, we are going to have mobile expressions of this," the Entertainment president explains and clarifies why the multiplayer version of The Sims won't be a sequel to the fourth installment of the hugely popular game series:
“What I wouldn’t want to have happen is you to have to start from day zero and start from scratch and give up all of the things that you have created, give up all of the content that you’ve purchased over the years. We put out over 85 content packs over the last 10 years on ‘The Sims 4,’ and so resetting that is not player-friendly and not a good idea for our community.”
In addition to the game itself, Amazon MGM Studios and Margot Robbie's LuckyChap are developing a The Sims movie, for which Miele hopes to be able to create tie-ins for the video games.
And aside from its original titles, EA keeps working on other IPs: Although the Black Panther game has been canceled this May, Miele is still very much committed to working in both the Marvel and the Star Wars universe.
EA's upcoming slate includes Star Wars Jedi: 3, from developer Respawn, the large-scale mobile title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, an Iron Man video game, and “a few others that haven’t been announced yet.”
"I think we are striking the right balance of investing in these big online communities with EA’s brands and IP, and while partnering with this incredibly rich, amazing IP for the action RPG category that is still really strong and we are quite confident our ability to execute in that space.”
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Source: Variety
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