The company is not setting any limits when it comes to sequels

Jun 23, 2014 23:15 GMT  ·  By

Battlefield 4 might have been affected by some problems on launch, but the development team at DICE that created the first-person shooter franchise says that it has long term-plans to make new titles for it as long as they have great ideas to power them.

Karl-Magnus Troedsson, the leader of the studio, tells Eurogamer that, “There's no rule set in place for this. We'll keep making Battlefield games as long as we have great ideas for them. In this case we have a new team building a brand new setting. We couldn't ship this game this close after the other one if we didn't have another team of course.”

DICE now has a variety of teams around the world working on Battlefield and the final two downloadable content packs for the fourth installment are being created by a group in Los Angeles.

At the same time, the core team in Stockholm is working on another project, presumably the new Battlefront title that is associated with the coming Star Wars movies.

Previously, publisher Electronic Arts has made it clear that Battlefield is not an annual franchise, despite the coming launch of the Hardline spin-off.

Troedsson is not willing to talk about a potential launch in 2015 and adds, “We'll have to wait and see what happens in the future. The latest games we have launched have been in the window we're talking about now for this game as well, but we'll see what makes sense in the future and what kind of ideas we come up with.”

Electronic Arts has positioned the Battlefield series as a rival to Call of Duty from Activision, but it has never managed to match it in terms of overall sales.

The two companies face the tough task of delivering titles with as little as 12 month gaps between them, while also introducing innovation that makes them attractive for players.

Battlefield Hardline will be offered on October 28 of this year on the PC, the Xbox One from Microsoft, the PlayStation 4 from Sony and current-gen consoles.

It will focus on the combat between law enforcement agencies and criminal cartels and the developers at Visceral Games are saying that they want to create a more dynamic experience in multiplayer, while making a single-player story that focuses on characters and their choices.

DICE is consulting with the developers to make sure that all the core elements of the Battlefield series are part of the coming experience.