Long story short, it looks like EA has delayed the next Need for Speed game, and put the man power of Criterion games behind DICE in order to ensure that Battlefield next ocomes out on time.
[Battlefield] is shaping up great, the team has been working incredibly hard, they pushed hard last year, and yes, we have been working from home,” Miele told Polygon. “And it’s hard; it’s hard to make games from home, and the [EA DICE] team is fatigued a bit.
As an aside, it was called ‘Battlefield’ and not Battlefield 6 as we said here
“We have a great game and some incredible potential with this game,” Miele added. “We’re playing to win; we’re playing to put a great Battlefield game out in the market.”