We officially have bad news for the fans hyped up for the nextNeed for Speedinstallment because its development is making an inconvenient pit stop along the way.

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The Need for Speed team over atCriterionwill now besolely focusing on theup-and-coming Battlefield 6, with Vince Zampella, the head of the said game, revealing the following viaEurogamer.

The Need for Speed team at Criterion are joining their colleagues working on Battlefield. 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.

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Since the creators of NFS, Criterion, come under the sameEA umbrellaas Battlefield, the developers' focus has now been shifted to work on the upcoming title instead, which happens to be a crucialinstallment to the warfare franchisethat once used to dominate the industry.

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While this small detour at the timecompletely halts the development ofNeed for Speed Unbound’scontentand possibly a future title, the scramble to bring their flagship shooter back on track feels more than a justified reason to take away all the attention for now.

A cinematic depiction of a gunfight from Battlefield 4.

Zampella also, fortunately, reveals that there are still plans to bring back our favorite racing franchise in the future, which is hopefully going to be soon after Battlefield 6 proves to be a blazing success.

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With Battlefield 6 aiming to regain the trust of its audience, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Which is exactly the reasonwhy four different studios under EA, including Criterion, are working on crafting and refining the game as much as possible.

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In addition to all the developer manpower, the studio this time around is also aiming to collect massive feedback from fans and working on it with hopes of making one of the greatest comebacks ever.

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This effort includes the recently launched Battlefield Labs, a community testing program that you’re able to read .

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