With Criterion being known as out as one of many many groups that make up EA’s newly titled Battlefield Studios, gamers who like driving actually quick vehicles, who you may even say have a ‘want’ for doing so, had been left questioning what’ll occur to Criterion’s Want for Pace video games.
Vince Zampella, the person who at all times appears to be EA’s first name with regards to any of its massive franchises needing new management, advised followers in an announcement to Eurogamer that Want for Pace followers needn’t fear. The sequence has not been forgotten, Criterion simply needs to be all-hands-on-deck with Battlefield proper now.
“The Want for Pace group at Criterion are becoming a member of their colleagues engaged on Battlefield. As an organization, it was vital to us to take the final 12 months and take heed to our Want for Pace group and use their suggestions to create content material for Unbound,” Zampella stated.
“With an elevated understanding of what our gamers need in a Want for Pace expertise, we plan to convey the franchise again in new and attention-grabbing methods.”
All the way in which again in 2023, simply months forward of the announcement that Criterion had been acquired by EA, a job itemizing pointed to Criterion having already begun engaged on the subsequent Want for Pace title.
It’s doable that no matter started in 2023 remains to be persevering with at a snails tempo in a sort of extended incubation course of, however even when that’s the case, it’ll nonetheless be a very long time earlier than we see a brand new Want for Pace sport.
Want for Pace Unbound launched in 2022, and at time of writing it’s the start of 2025, and so far as we all know Criterion has barely even began engaged on the subsequent entry within the sequence. At this charge, we’d not see a brand new Want for Pace sport till 2028, maybe 2027 on the earliest.
Supply – [Eurogamer]
