Ubisoft is making the Star Wars game that EA couldn’t

Ubisoft is making an open-world Star Wars game. Lucasfilm Limited and Ubisoft made the announcement this morning, and you can read all of the known details in our story right here. Electronic Arts, the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order publisher, is continuing to make Star Wars games as well. But it is not renewing its exclusivity agreement with Walt Disney. So what’s happening here? The simplest explanation is that Lucasfilm wants the kinds of games that Ubisoft makes and EA doesn’t.

We don’t know much about the Ubisoft Star Wars game. The publisher began talking with Lucasfilm more than a year ago. Circumstantial evidence for that includes EA scaling back one of its Star Wars projects to release the smaller Squadrons game before the end of 2020 (and before this announcement).