Battlefield may have been moved to a 3-year dev cycle

Future Battlefield games could be developed on a 3-year development cycle, EA has suggested.

Responding to a question asking whether Activision's move to a 3-year dev cycle had impacted EA's approach to Battlefield development, EA Studios EVP Patrick Soderlund explained:

"What they [Activision] are doing mimics to some extent how we're thinking. Obviously, more time, if managed correctly, yields a better product. So I would say that we're similarly aligned, and that we're taking a similar approach, but we haven't articulated exactly what teams are working [on], because that would imply announcing things that we can't right now."

Nevertheless, Soderlund confirmed that DICE Sweden had also been working on "other things" in addition to Battlefield 4 expansion packs.