GameSpot: "Respawn Entertainment cofounder says upcoming shooter won't match Call of Duty sales out of the gate; multiplayer-only game will be $60."
Battlefield franchise boss thinks Battlefield "absolutely can" outsell Call of Duty, but says they're not targeting that with the next entry.
Feel like if that were true, we would have seen it during the BF3/4 era. Just focus first on releasing a Battlefield that's actually feature complete, well put together, that people actually want to play right out of the gate. Hoping Zampella can make this happen.
The best opportunity was BF1 vs. Infinite Warfare. I've never actually seen a worldwide sales comparison so I'm not convinced BF1 didn't eventually win, but I do know COD sold better in the US at launch, because it was the NPD #1 that year, while BF was #2.
The best opportunity was with BC2 and BF3. BF4 dropped the ball with a short campaign and bugged multiplayer at launch
Release a decent game and let the mouth to eat do the rest.. you choose to release another BF4 then blame yourselves for it
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Definitely not BC2. I love the Bad Company games (even though everyone always pretends the first one didn't exist), but even though BC2 has achieved great respect in hindsight, at the time it came out a lot of casuals who bought COD every year either didn't know of Battlefield's existence or saw it as a knockoff of COD. Plus coming out in spring 2010 it was competing against MW2 (the original one) which came out the prior fall.
I mean, the title of the game doesn't have a lot to do with how it sells. The next game is not going to change things but Zampella course change the course of the series towards something that's more on track with that those big player numbers.
With that said, battlefield fans might not want that. To acquire the wider audience they would probably need to betray a lot of the series design principles. Call of Duty is as popular as it is because it is as simple as it is.
In his defense, BF2042 did turn things around eventually though still falls short of franchise expectations if you based it on BF4, BF3, BF1.
Hated it at lunch, came back a two years after and it was an absolute blast. Not sure how it did sales wise to be called failure or success but BF2042 is a pretty good game .
We don't need more games ruined. It's like that company puts water on their bread before they eat it.
Here we go again with rubbing mouths. BF has been a flop consistently since BF4, and I mean flop as in disappointing to the fan base due to the technical issues each has had and the gameplay changes needlessly made. Shut up and make a good BF before hyping up another potential disappointment.
Bro gave one pretty decent interview and answered the questions he was asked. Not really his fault if people want to cherry pick quotes for "content".
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I don't mind them claiming BF2042 wasn't a failure so long as they learned from it and use that experience moving forward into the new game, it was terrible at launch but towards the end it got a bit better. I don't want to see the same thing play out with the new BF though because the ones who are still interested in the franchise have been pretty vocal with what they want and don't want from Battlefield.
In an exclusive interview with IGN, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Organization Vince Zampella defended the price of the PS5 Pro while taking a wait and see approach to what it might mean for Battlefield.
In an exclusive interview with IGN, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Organization Vince Zampella sat down to talk about Battlefield's return to a modern setting while revealing its first concept art.
With Zampella at the helm, we're likely in for a treat.
Still bummed that the abandoned BFV abruptly and didn't cover the whole of WW2 timeline/progression. It was actually well thought out at the time. And instead we got the half-baked 2042. Still hate 2042.
Hope the next BF brings back BF1 level of polish and atmosphere.
Agreed, though 2042 did fix a ton of odds problems and the later maps were better.
The way he's talking here makes it sound like those launch maps were part of the problem. And he said no specialists.
Would love another battlefield 1 theme game ww2 in that meeting would have been amazing! BF1 atmosphere is unmatched!
It’s kinda funny how Vince Zampella who used to be Battlefield’s rival game’s dev CEO, is now in charge of Battlefield :)
Personally I think this can be great for Battlefield, Respawn did an amazing job with Titanfall 2’s SP & MP, you could feel modern warfare’s DNA throughout, obviously because they (many of them) were the dev who created it, but if there’s a dev that can bring back Battlefield’s DNA for the next one, it’s them.
I'd love of the brought back Bad Company with a sweet new campaign to go along with mp.
For some bizarre reason, they're not interested in the gold mine named, BadCompany 3
Problem is just slapping bad company on it doesn't make it better. Everyone then made those games what they were are long gone
Yeah I’m
Not falling for any hype train dice tries to start. Absolutely no trust in ea or dice.
DICE are the developers along with support from Motove and Criterion
Respawn aren't really involved but Vince appears to be overseeing the franchise with the wider role he appears to have now at EA.
Used to love the series, but couldn't be bothered with it for a long while now. Too many missteps with the newer releases. I'm really, really hoping Zampella corrects this.
Same, it was my go to for mp, and i really don't even play mp that much but bf i would play religiously since Bad Company. It being dead has really left me with nothing Worthy of filling that void for a looooong time. Id love to have it back in my rotation
No shet Call of duty on every fking system.
Depends on how good of a game it is. A lot of people are getting tired of the SSDD with CoD. Titanfall looks pretty good, though. It's on my buy list.
it will probably sell 3 million lifetime.
Ofcourse not. I don't get why games always wanna use the "CoD killer" slogan when it never happens. Whatever thou it'll be a good game none the less.
Well better port the game to more systems.
Not getting a Bone anytime soon and I really dont want anything to do with EA origin on pc.