"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant," former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said in 1969, describing the relationship between the US and Canada. "No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." This is also true of some videogames, which are so massive that their impact has ripples across the entire industry—Cyberpunk 2077, for instance, muscled more than a couple games out of its way ahead of its splashdown in 2020.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is poised to be an even bigger deal, and game industry executives not employed by Take-Two Interactive have been sweating: As one anonymous executive put it earlier this year, "We don't want to be anywhere near that." The recently announced GTA 6 delay is thus very good news indeed for anyone looking to release a game prior to May 2026—people like, for instance, Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson.
EA is going hard on the next Battlefield game, with four studios working on it—Criterion, DICE, Ripple Effect (formerly DICE LA), and Motive—and a major playtesting initiative called Battlefield Labs. The official reveal isn't set to happen until this summer, and there's always the possibility that it could be delayed too, which would be very bad news for EA. There's no sign of that happening at this point, and in fact Wilson said during the same call that the response to the new game during playtesting "has far exceeded expectations," but even so I suspect there'll be some real pressure on the development team to ensure it gets done on time.
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