New Star Wars: Battlefront 'almost didn't happen'

The new Star Wars: Battlefront game from DICE came close to not happening, claimed EA Games Label boss Patrick Söderlund.

A new Battlefront game was teased during EA's E3 press conference, and it's the first confirmed Star Wars game to come out of the partnership between Disney and EA.

Söderlund said that DICE specifically came and asked for the option to make Battlefront.

"It was almost not happening," he told CVG. "It was just something as boring as resources and availability.

"The DICE guys Karl-Magnus [Troedsson] and Patrick [Bach] were talking and I told them we were in dialogues with Disney over this deal and they just looked at me and said, 'Why haven't you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront'."

Söderlund added that EA didn't originally speak to DICE about Battlefront as they are a studio that likes to work on their own IP.

"DICE is a very particular place and they are very proud of what they do and you don't really tell them what to do.

"I didn't anticipate them wanting to work on a license, they've always been new IP or their own IP.

"But they were just like, 'We would kill to make this game' and the whole studio started talking about it like, 'Please give us this game'."

BioWare and Visceral are the other EA studios working on Star Wars games, although those are yet to be revealed.