Fight Night will re-enter the ring, in accordance with a report by VGC – however EA Sports activities is prioritising a brand new UFC title first. It’s been over 10 years – and a complete console era – since Fight Night Champion launched on the PlayStation 3, leaving many to imagine that EA had completely shelved its boxing model. Nevertheless, with the announcement of EA Sports College Football and EA Sports PGA Tour, there was a willingness from the writer to diversify its catalogue of late – and a brand new brawler named Moneyball has apparently been given the go-ahead.
Sadly, it looks like you’ll have to attend years to play it. In accordance with “improvement sources”, the writer has briefly paused manufacturing of its boxing venture so as to deal with EA Sports UFC 5, which is seemingly primed for launch late subsequent 12 months. VGC claims to have seen inside emails, wherein the writer explains that it’s had issue staffing up for Combat Evening, and thus can’t create it concurrently alongside its blended martial arts recreation.
“We’re very enthusiastic about EA Sports UFC 5 and we need to remove the cut up focus that a number of members of our management staff have had over the previous whereas so we are able to solely deal with delivering migration and EA Sports activities UFC 5 at prime quality,” the e-mail purportedly states. There’s no info on when work will transition to the brand new Combat Evening recreation, however based mostly on what VGC is reporting it sounds prefer it received’t go into full manufacturing till 2023.
Within the meantime, EA Sports activities might discover it faces stiff competitors from eSports Boxing Club, which is shaping as much as be one thing particular. Whereas there’s no launch date hooked up to the UK developed brawler, it has assembled an unlimited listing of licensed fighters, and the gameplay looks spectacular. Ought to these two titles finally go head-to-head, this’ll be an even bigger bout than Joshua vs Fury – assuming that battle ever even occurs.
