Surprisingly, EA has canceled Battlefield Mobile and Apex Legends Mobile.

In a completely unexpected move, Electronic Arts announced that will close Apex Legends for mobilethe company’s first attempt to gain a foothold in battle royale for mobile devices. But the bad news doesn’t end there. Directed by Andrew Wilson they canceled the development Mobile Battlefieldwhich was scheduled to launch sometime this year (through VentureBeat).

The worst thing about this situation is that Industrial toys responsible for Mobile Battlefieldthey will close their doors. This team, quite promising from the start, was founded by Alex Seropian, known throughout the video game industry as the founder and president of Bungie. During 2018, Electronic Arts opened a portfolio and bought a studio to increase its presence on mobile devices.

Unfortunately, Industrial Toys couldn’t even get a single job done for the EA umbrella. Mobile Battlefield it has generated too much anticipation since its existence was revealed in mid-2021. catastrophic launch Battlefield 2042 (November 2021) damaged the image of the franchise as a whole. This led, of course, to Mobile Battlefield.

Electronic Arts itself admits that significant changes are coming to the saga. His idea after the failure Battlefield 2042is to create connected ecosystem which meets quality standards. The franchise will likely try its hand at mobile again, but that will have to wait. Before exploring other platforms, a company must first make sure that battlefield get back on the path you lost.

“As the industry evolves and our strategy to create an interconnected Battlefield ecosystem evolves, we have decided to change our current direction to better align with our vision for the franchise and the expectations of our players.

EA.

Apex Legends for mobile He didn’t even last a year.

O Apex Legends for mobile, released in May last year, in fact, it did not achieve its goals in this market. Despite a positive launch in terms of active users, we know what is the hardest thing to play free to play is to uphold the public interest. Apex Legends for mobile couldn’t keep up with content updates which requires such a competitive sector. Resane Entertainment, the franchise’s managers, explained the farewell to their proposal:

“Our goal at Respawn is to provide players with the same experience. After a good start, content updates for Apex Legends Mobile started to fall behind in terms of quality, quantity, and frequency. It is for this reason, after several months of working with our development partner, that we have jointly decided to cancel it.”

EA.

Despite the disappointing outcome, Respawn is confident they made the right decision in favor of the franchise. It should not be forgotten that Apex Legendson consoles and PC, remains one of the battle royale more popular.

Canceled Mobile Battlefield D Apex Legends for mobile, EA is left without a benchmark of the genre on mobile devices. Yes, we doubt they will remain with their arms crossed.