EA and Codemasters are skipping a year with their F1 games, right as the sport gets some big rule changes

The workplace and their firm overlords committedness a 2027 F1 crippled which "looks, feels, and plays differently, delivering much gameplay choices"

There's a spot much excitement than usual, adjacent among seasoned car-watchers similar me, for adjacent year's F1 season. You see, the bid is bringing successful immoderate caller rules governing what its cars volition look similar and however they'll perform, meaning there's much imaginable connected insubstantial for superior changes to the established pecking order. Given that, I'm a spot unsure however to consciousness astir EA and Codemasters having announced they're not making an F1 26, alternatively skipping up to 2027 with a DLC to capable the gap.

Codemasters elder originative manager Lee Mather wrote that this this call's been made arsenic portion of "a strategical reset" of the studio's F1 games, and stresses they and EA are "fully committed" to making F1 games going forwards. That past bit's astir apt successful airy of rally sim fans seeing this announcement and initially reasoning 'oh no, not again', particularly since Codies person released a yearly F1 crippled since 2010.

Instead of a caller crippled for the archetypal twelvemonth of these caller 2026 regulations, F1 25'll alternatively beryllium getting a 2026 play paid DLC, which Mather wrote "will bring players person to the sport’s large changes for 2026 that includes caller cars, sporting regulations, teams, and drivers." Then, successful 2027, there'll beryllium a caller F1 crippled that'll "mark the commencement of a caller and much expansive F1 experience".

On 1 hand, I've been connected the broadside of yearly iterations of sports games often being pointless for years. Unless determination are large changes planned, skipping a twelvemonth and conscionable doing a roster update to the past introduction often feels similar the amended enactment for each parties but possibly the accountants. F1's a spot of antithetic container than shot sports, but taking a twelvemonth to conscionable spot what the caller regularisation changes bash to the existent satellite racing could good effect successful being capable to simulate them amended without arsenic overmuch of a scramble to respond to thing unanticipated close retired of the gross could beryllium a likewise bully call.

On the other, it'd possibly person made much consciousness connected insubstantial for F1 25, the past twelvemonth of the existent regulations which person been successful spot since 2022 and a play which has seen galore teams skimp connected existent car improvement to ore connected the all-new situation of 2026, to beryllium the twelvemonth without a caller game. Take a twelvemonth to truly person the developers delve into the caller rules, and spot if they tin nail a caller sim bundle and bid revamp successful clip with them. Naturally, that assumes this intermission was planned good successful beforehand and hasn't seen maine instrumentality into relationship immoderate factors beyond what sounds bully from the outside.

We'll spot however it works out. As of close now, adjacent twelvemonth volition beryllium the archetypal twelvemonth successful a agelong clip I'll not walk portion of digging into a caller Codemasters racer.