Many fans calmored for a third entry in the Star Wars Battlefront series back in the early 2000s (and are still asking for a modern third game from rebooted series developer DICE), and it turns out that work did begin on a third game, and now one of the original game's developers has explained why it never materialized, almost 20 years later. The original Star Wars Battlefront series saw critical acclaim and commercial success, leading to publisher LucasArts wanting another game quickly, but a transition to new hardware made it impossible.
Speaking to VideoGamer, Battlefront 2 designer Dan Nanni explained that Pandemic Studios did start work on a third game but were given only one year to work on it, while also transitioning to the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 generation of hardware. The first two Battlefront games were released in 2004 and 2005, with just a year in between new entries, so LucasArts wanted the same turnaround time. But that wasn't achievable, according to Nanni, with him stating: “When you’re moving to a new console it’s not as easy as saying, 'let me just make a game for it like we did for the old console.'"
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