As expected, it appears that Xbox One owners will get to play Star Wars Battlefront first, courtesy of EA Access.
This beautiful bit of news comes from a tweet from Aaron Greenberg - Microsoft's games marketing lead - replying to a tweet asking if he's ready for the game.
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At this point, this can't be considered as official confirmation, since EA hasn't made any announcements about the highly anticipated Battlefront coming to their subscription service. But given that every EA game released since the launch of EA Access has come with a timed trial of the full version, we'd be very surprised if Battlefront didn't make the cut.
We are expecting the first official trailer for Battlefront during the Star Wars Celebration and we may find out more then.
Star Wars Battlefront is set to release this autumn for Xbox One
[source twitter.com]
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Glad we have the option
@Utena-mobile The new login screen is pretty nice!
By "first" they mean that it'll be available 5 days before launch to EA Access subscribers, to play for a specific maximum number of hours. Then when it's released, you buy the game and carry on your progress.
It's been the same for all EA games since EA Access launched. The good news is that Microsoft didn't pay for exclusivity. EA offered EA Access to both Sony and Microsoft, and Sony turned it down, stating that it represented "poor value" for gamers. Oh, how wrong they were...
@Utena-mobile I'm going to guess that they turned it down as they wouldn't be making a great deal of money from it. Plus an argument could be made that it could cloud the marketing of a service like PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now.
Even still, I would have left it up to the gamers to decide if they wanted it or not.
Really hate timed exclusives.
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