After what some could say is a pretty successful announcement of there new battlefield labs today its led to fans asking questions about some of EA’s other successful Ip and where in the world they are. One of the most questioned is the Need for Speed franchise and EA has now shed some light on the future of the series.

Eurogamer has reported that Need for Speed and Burnout developer Criterion is now entirely focused on developing EA’s next Battlefield game but there are still plans for the studio to return to its racing roots at some point in the future.

Head of Battlefield Studios Vince Zampella and this to say in a statement “The Need for Speed team at Criterion are joining their colleagues working on Battlefield,” Said Zampella “As a company, it was important to us to take the last year to listen to our Need for Speed community and use their feedback to create content for Unbound.

“With an increased understanding of what our players want in a Need for Speed experience, we plan to bring the franchise back in new and interesting ways.”

So from this statement alone I think it makes it clear that there are no Need for Speed games in development at this time and when the game does return it wont be for quite some time.

This really does show that EA are going all in on this new battlefield entry so fingers crossed  for more from 1-Up be sure to check out our the story on EA Revealing Battlefield Labs.