--- title: "It's a nice story to tell": How DICE bounced back from... description: Rebecka Coutaz, VP and GM for Battlefield Studios Europe, discusses how DICE and Electronic Arts overhauled their development process after Battlefield 2042's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-a-nice-story-to-tell-how-dice-bounced-back-from-battlefield-2042-s-disastrous-launch-to-rele-u4z8zix9z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "It's a nice story to tell": How DICE bounced back from Battlefield 2042's disastrous launch to release the blockbuster Battlefield 6 | daily.dev og:description: Rebecka Coutaz, VP and GM for Battlefield Studios Europe, discusses how DICE and Electronic Arts overhauled their development process after Battlefield 2042's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-a-nice-story-to-tell-how-dice-bounced-back-from-battlefield-2042-s-disastrous-launch-to-rele-u4z8zix9z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U4Z8ZIX9z.png og:image:alt: "It's a nice story to tell": How DICE bounced back from Battlefield 2042's disastrous launch to release the blockbuster Battlefield 6 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # "It's a nice story to tell": How DICE bounced back from Battlefield 2042's disastrous launch to release the blockbuster Battlefield 6 **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rebecka Coutaz, VP and GM for Battlefield Studios Europe, discusses how DICE and Electronic Arts overhauled their development process after Battlefield 2042's troubled 2021 launch. Key changes included reorganizing to support live-service updates, empowering teams, and splitting development across four studios (DICE, Criterion, Motive, and Ripple Effect) working in parallel from the start rather than joining late. The approach paid off: Battlefield 6 sold over 7 million copies in three days and became the best-selling game of 2025 in the US, despite some rough patches including layoffs and mixed reception for spinoff Battlefield Redsec. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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