Despite some worrying news from yesterday, Stadia still isn’t going anywhere. Today, it has been confirmed that finally, EA is launching its mega-hit FIFA 21 on Google Stadia next month.
In a press release today, EA announced plans to expand FIFA 21 through a multi-year license extension, greater free-to-play experience on the PC and some mobile offerings in development. In that same press release, EA confirmed the launch of FIFA 21 on Google Stadia.
Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) announced a multi-year license extension from UEFA, ensuring that the pinnacle of club football remains exclusive to EA SPORTS. EA is expanding access to football video games through a number of mobile offerings under development and expanding the reach of FIFA Online 4title free download for PC to potentially 80 million players in more than 15 new countries. In addition, the franchise will launch on Stadia for the first time when EA SPORTS FIFA 21 is available on March 17 for Stadia.
This release has been known for some time, as Google and EA confirmed that a FIFA game would go to Stadia almost a year ago. However, it’s great that we finally have an adequate release date. Notably, this also comes as close as you can get to EA by losing its promised “Winter 2021” launch window, as the season ends just a few days later. This release also puts the game in the middle of the 2021 Champions League season, just a few weeks before the quarterfinals.
FIFA 21 was launched on October 6, 2020, on other platforms, leaving the launch of Stadia about six months before the arrival of FIFA 22. The upside, however, means that sales are highly likely at the time of game launch. For example, the “Champions Edition” currently costs only $ 20 on the PlayStation (digital).
This marks the third EA game to be released on Stadia, previous releases including Jedi: Fallen Order and Madden NFL 21. Google and EA previously proved at least two other titles that would come to the platform, but have not confirmed which ones they would be.
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