EA Confirms Battlefield 4 Will be a Next-Gen Release

In news that will surprise very few people, Battlefield 4 has been confirmed as a next-gen title.

We already knew that Battlefield 4 would be hitting store shelves in 2014, that news leaked out of EA a few weeks back, and the 2014 date all but confirmed that it would be a next-gen title. EA has rubber stamped that assumption today, with EA labels president Frank Gibeau stating in a blog post titled “Transition is our Friend” that Battlefield 4 is already impressing all of those lucky enough to have seen it;

“For EA’s creative teams, this transition comes as no surprise. We’ve been investing and innovating on new technology for months. Console partners who have seen our early work agree, EA’s next-gen software is nothing short of astonishing.

“At a GameStop company meeting earlier this week, we gave 500 store managers a sneak peak at Battlefield 4. The game received a huge ovation and thousands of fans reacted to a single enthusiastic Tweet by GameStop’s CEO.”

The blog post was written on the back of last week’s news that EA was laying off staff at its LA and Montreal sites. Those layoffs have since been put down to EA not being able to retrain all of its staff to be fit for next-gen purpose, which sounds a little woolly to us, but hey, what do we know.

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