OG Star Wars Battlefront devs were asked to make Battlefront 3 in just one year, but Pandemic couldn't hit LucasArts' timeline

OG Star Wars Battlefront devs were asked to make Battlefront 3 in just one year, but Pandemic couldn’t hit LucasArts’ timeline - VideoGamer

Star Wars Battlefront 3 was in development at Pandemic Studios, but LucasArts wanted the team to make the game in just one year.

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TL;DR: After nailing Star Wars Battlefront I and II in one‐year sprints on PS2/Xbox, Pandemic Studios quietly kicked off Battlefront 3…only to hit a brick wall when LucasArts demanded another one‐year turnaround on unfamiliar PS3/X360 hardware. Negotiations stalled, Pandemic’s ambitious space-to-ground combat ideas never left the hangar, and LucasArts shifted the project to Free Radical Design—who also scrapped theirs at 95% completion.

Pandemic’s team says they needed “a good two years” to learn the new consoles and build the next-gen experience they envisioned. With Lucasfilm chasing movie marketing windows and unwilling to extend the dev cycle, Battlefront 3 never got the runway it needed—and a truly “next-gen” Battlefront remains the one that got away.