Battlefield 6 is coming in holiday season 2021 .

EA CONFIRMS BATTLEFIELD 6 TO BE LAUNCHED IN LATE 2021,

The next instalment of Battlefield has received a green signal from Electronic Arts with the publisher working with DICE to produce Battlefield 6 next year. EA CEO and director Andrew Wilson made the announcement during EA’s quarterly earnings call a few days ago. Apart from announcing that the game is set to launch in the 2021 Holiday season, Wilson also said that the upcoming Battlefield will be on a “never before seen scale”.

Using the latest technology, EA is currently conducting internal hands on play testing and more about the game will be shared in the coming Spring, as per Wilson. He said, “The technical advancements of the new consoles are allowing the team to deliver on a true next-gen vision for the franchise. We have hands-on play testing underway internally, and the team’s been getting very positive feedback on the game as we’ve begun to engage our community.”

Battlefield 6 setting and gameplay

With each Battlefield game comes a key question – when and where is it set? Given that previous entries have had seriously diverse settings, a lot is up in the air on this front.

However, most of the rumours we’ve seen point toward a more modern setting. With Battlefield 1 and Battlefield V, DICE went back to both World Wars to explore an earlier form of combat, but the likes of Battlefield 3 and 4 showed years ago that it can excel at modern combat scenarios, too.

That’s being confirmed by more and more leaks, with various sources indicating that Dice is looking to recapture the magic of Battlefield 3, and that the game can almost be considered a soft reboot of that era in the franchise’s past.

Either way, this is a detail that DICE will be guarding closely until it’s ready to fully unveil Battlefield 6 – a huge amount of the hype surrounding the game will likely be triggered by when and where it’s principally set. We’ll keep our ears to the ground on that front.

However, when it comes to gameplay we can make a few more leaps. We know that Battlefield’s core formula is unlikely to change, so you can expect big maps, big player counts and vehicles aplenty.

The manner in which the likes of Call of Duty: Warzone have upped the player count to highs of 150 and 200 in recent times also makes us hopeful that we could see some truly huge battles unfold in Battlefield 6, and the extremely limited test footage DICE showed at this year’s EA Play looks like it promises just that.

Featuring a huge building collapsing, and whitebox footage of hundreds of soldiers on-screen at once, it’s an exciting glimpse of things to come for Battlefield fans.