Xbox Series X|S is the Official Console for Battlefield 2042 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2021 / 2,054 Views
Publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE in a press release has announced a partnership with Microsoft that makes the Xbox Series X|S will be the official console for Battlefield 2042. This does not mean the game will be an Xbox console exclusive, as it is also coming to the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
The deal was done to "ensure that the next entry in the Battlefield franchise is the best one yet."
Senior marketing manager for Xbox Josh Munsee via Twitter clarified the partnership is for marketing, branding, gameplay capture, and more will be focused exclusively on the Xbox Series X|S.
It sounds similar to the deal PlayStation has with Call of Duty. However, we don't know if the Xbox versions of Battlefield 2042 will get DLC early or exclusive content.
marketing, branding, gameplay capture, etc.
— Josh Munsee (@joshmunsee) June 30, 2021
Battlefield 2042 will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Origin on October 22.
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I hope both consoles get the DLC at the same time. I hate that staggered release crap. But I have no problem with showcasing a game on a preferred console.
Seriously! I've been having a PS for the past 2 gens and I hate when CoD has it's own exclusive game mode or something. It's one thing for your first-party games to be exclusive, but third party games locking game modes like that is just a scummy practice.
Love it, can't wait to play it after such a letdown from BFV (BF1 was amazing though).
I also love the fact that the game has women and nobody is complaining, just as expected.
Loll. Good go microsoft, atleast secure some dlc.
Sounds like this deal has absolutely no meaningful substance... which is good. Not a fan of spins like this, but on the other hand, no one should really find this problematic either, which is great (unless of course there's more to this, but they didn't mention anything else, which probably means there is nothing else).
Does anyone honestly care about this? What a weird statement
It'll play best on XBOX
A very huge mistake from EA HAHAHAHA!
Looks like Microsoft is buying EA next after that ea plays included in gamepass and now this fiasco we are seeing it happen from miles away.
Battlefield tied to Xbox branding? Sounds cool to me
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