For the first time in team history, this year’s FIFA entry will feature cross-play.
This is according to a report by Xfire, which states FIFA 23 Players on PC, PlayStation and Xbox will be able to play together in all game modes.
The report also states that the game will feature both the men’s and women’s World Cups for a single experience that combines the two.
The series’ Hypermotion technology, which was first introduced in FIFA 22, is said to have been improved. Xfire says the technology “has been enhanced tenfold” as it can now use stadium cameras to capture animations in real games, rather than having athletes in Xsens suits.
HyperMotion technology is a machine learning algorithm that writes new animations in real-time based on 8.7 million frames of game capture data. For example, in FIFA 22, 22 professional players played in an 11v11 match, all wearing Xsens motion capture suits. Hypermotion technology is only available on PS5, Stadia and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game.
This year’s entry in the series may be the last to bear the FIFA name.
Back in October, EA publicly stated that it was considering renaming the FIFA franchise, and a trademark application filed the same month suggested that the FIFA series could eventually be called EA Sports FC.
EA has also suggested that if it cannot reach an agreement with FIFA, EA still has a separate license from FIFA covering leagues, players and stadiums.
FIFA responded that it was currently engaging with “various industry players, including developers, investors and analysts” outside EA.
Recently, a report surfaced claiming that at an internal company meeting last November, EA boss Andrew Wilson said that while the company had “had a good relationship with FIFA for over 30 years”, in the end, “FIFA is just Name Box” and FIFA licensing has been a “hurdle” to developing the franchise.
