The CEO of EA will not call the delay of GTA 6 by name, but says that the new window of liberation from the battlefield is “clearer than before”
I have admired for a long time, and I mean that, really the capacity of the CEO of EA, Andrew Wilson, to answer a question without answering it, and its recent (no) comment on the delay GTA 6 and what it could mean to Battlefield 6 is an excellent example.
During the part of the questions and answers of the call for results of the fourth quarter of EA 2025, Wilson was questioned about “the big and great expected liberation” and how its delay until May 2026 could have an impact on “the competitive landscape of the launching window of the battlefield and subsequent performance expectations”.
Battlefield did not have a firm release date, but EA recently revealed that it should be launched during the year 2026, which takes place from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, which means that the game must be launched before April 2026. Wilson, of course, refused to comment or even say that GTA 6 explicitly, but it was strongly involved than Battlefield 6 Strike this liberation window that before.
“The games take many years to build and develop, and it is unlikely that if you were not already ready to be launched in this window, it can be difficult to prepare and take advantage of what could be otherwise a less competitive window that we would have planned earlier compared to the battlefield,” said Wilson.
“What we have said from the start is that we have built towards a window which, in our opinion, made the most meaning for Battlefield, but we would not launch in a window which, in our opinion, truncated the value that we have invested in the franchise or the value that we think that our players will derive from it once they will jump and start playing.
“I think now, without going too far, we think that the window is clearer than before, and we feel very good to launch Battlefield in exercise 26.”
Let me make my best translation of Wilson’s Corpo Speak here: Yes, GTA 6 is delayed is good for the Battlefield 6 release window because there is less competition now. But while GTA 6 has a concrete release date, Battlefield 6 has only a very vague liberation window. All we can really deduce is that Battlefield 6 will probably not start anywhere near the launch date of GTA 6 of May 26, 2026.
EA says that “it doesn’t always understand” what players in the battlefield want, but the response to the new entry “far exceeded our expectations” after “thousands of hours” of game tests.
