FIFA 23 will have cross-play and more women’s leagues claims leak
This year’s new FIFA game will supposedly have cross-play for the first time, allowing PlayStation and Xbox fans to play together.
There might not ever be a FIFA 24, because EA is planning to give up using the FIFA name and licence, but this year’s game is expected to be business pretty much as usual… except for all the new features that have just leaked.
According to proven EA insider Tom Henderson, writing on website Xfire, FIFA 23 will include a number of never-before-seen options, including the first ever support for cross-play – meaning that PlayStation, Xbox, and PC players will all be able to compete together in the same matches and tournaments.
That’s likely to immediately raise concerns about cheating on the PC, but between the two console families, at least, the option is likely to be warmly welcomed by fans.
Another focus for the new game is creating parity between the men’s and women’s games, with both World Cups set to be included and official licences for all major women’s teams.
Other rumoured new additions include an improved version of FIFA 22’s Hypermotion Technology, which has supposedly been ‘enhanced tenfold’ by allowing the team to capture animations purely from stadium cameras – so no need to get players into a studio wearing motion capture suits.
This has apparently led to capturing over 100 times more data in a single season than has been logged over the entire 29-year history of the franchise.
These all sound like perfectly reasonable suggestions, with Henderson indication that rumoured plans to make the game free-to-play will not come into effect this year. Which is understandable if the game is also about to go through the upheaval of a name change.
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