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Within the announcements for College Football 26 and Madden 26, EA put up pre-order bonuses for both games in the dual-game bundle. This revealed the platforms each game will be on, and ended the dream that we might get College Football 26 on PC this year.
College Football 26 will only release on current-gen consoles once again, which means the Xbox Series X/S and PS5. I had been somewhat bullish on College Football 26 making it to PC this year in my sports game predictions article, and while I still feel it’s inevitable it gets to PC, that won’t happen this year. The MVP Bundle (which gets you both CFB and Madden) is also only available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, which further cements that information.
College Football 25 was a massive sales success, so that was part of the reason I thought it might make it to PC this year, but since it’s also not going to be on the Switch 2, it seems like EA is keeping the tent small for now. It makes sense if you think about how well the game did on just two platforms, and so EA perhaps does not feel the need to throw extra resources at porting the game to new platforms as of yet.
Regardless, it’s a bummer we won’t get the game on PC this year. The modding scene for the game would be tremendous, but whether for legal or just development reasons, we’ll need to wait at least one more year for that dream to come true.