EA has explained it has no plans to annualise Battlefield

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“ You also want to be really careful that you don't destroy the franchise along the way.

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That's according to CFO Blake Jorgensen, who made the comments when asked by an analyst at a UBS conference (via Seeking Alpha )."The challenges are you've got to most likely do it out of two studios because it's hard," he responded in reference to rival publisher Activision Blizzard splitting Call of Duty development between Infinity Ward and Treyarch. "It's a two-year project.""And Battlefield is a product that doesn't just sell once, it sells for 24-months associated with not just Battlefield, but all the additional Battlefield Premium activities that the consumer wants. So you've got to be careful that you don't destroy some of that tail that is on the Battlefield product."Seeing as Swedish-based Battlefield creator DICE is likely to be tied up working on Mirror's Edge 2 now that Battlefield 4 is released, with its new LA studio tackling the scary task of creating Star Wars: Battlefront , it seems unlikely the series could be annualised without the help of another developer.Despite this, it seems like Battlefield 5 is pretty much a certainty - the studio has already spoken about what it wants to see from the game

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