Electronic Arts Games President Frank Gibeau hat sich bei Gamespot über das zukünftige Need for Speed geäußert. Durch die nicht zu erwarteten schlechten Verkäufen von NfS Pro Street, dass ja bekannter maßen von der alten Serie von Illegalen Straßenrennen mit Polizei sehr stark abweicht.
Daher will EA zurück zu den Wurzeln von Need for Speed, unter anderem mit einer frei befahrbaren Stadt und neuen Rennmodis wie einen „Highway Battle Mode“.
Gibeau also mentioned the next installment in another of EA’s racing franchises, Need for Speed. While a new Need for Speed in development isn’t surprising (the franchise has been annualized since 2002’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2), Gibeau did give the analysts an early look at the direction EA would be taking with the next installment of the series.Noting that sales of last year’s Need for Speed ProStreet didn’t live up to EA’s hopes for the game, Gibeau said he thinks it was because the series drifted too far from what consumers expected. ProStreet had dropped the tuner culture and police evasion aspects of previous installments in favor of perfectly legit closed track racing. For the next Need for Speed, Gibeau promised that the series would be getting back to its roots with a number of features, including open-world racing and a new highway battle mode.
