EA Confirms Launch Periods For Star Wars Battlefront And Battlefield Hardline

During a recent financial call to investors, EA revealed the finalised release date for cops and robbers shooter Battlefield Hardline, as well as confirming that DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront will be coming in holiday 2015. Visceral Games, the Dead Space devs working on Battlefield Hardline, has confirmed that it is readying the multiplayer shooter in preparation for a March 17th launch in North America and March 19th in Europe, some six months after its initially intended October 2014 release date.

During the financial call EA also revealed that the next title in the Battlefield series wouldn’t be arriving until at least holiday 2016, with EA’s chief financial official Blake Jorgensen saying “This allows us to have a major first-person shooter title each year.” 

From the sounds of it it’s looking like EA is planning to alternate between a Battlefield title and presumably a Star Wars Battlefront year on year. EA’s executive vice president Patrick Söderlund said back in June this year that EA has no intention to annualise Battlefield, and while it doesn’t look to be doing quite that, it’s coming pretty close with this pair. 

In terms of Star Wars Battlefront, this multiplayer shooter will most likely be coming out around the same time as the Disney Star Wars movies begin to arrive next year, the first of which is due to arrive on December 18th, 2015. We haven’t seen much of Battlefront yet save for some assorted artwork, although it’s likely to be a reskinned title similar to Battlefield 4, with DICE recently confirming the series will be switching to FPS rather than the third-person of the originals.