EA Confirm Apex Legends Mobile - Planned for 2021!

Fortnite and PUBG - both of these hugely successful battle-royales have one thing in common that played a key part in increasing their popularity within the community: they're extension into mobile gaming through respective ports. Apex Legends from EA is still building itself up as a reputable and competitive battle-royale title. Finally, we can confirm that the title will be coming to mobile!

It's been bittersweet as of late for Apex Legends as at EA Play 2020, the title's Nintendo Switch port was announced and that was it: nothing about mobile. With the community hopeful and resorting to rumours, EA finally let the cat out of the bag as Andrew Wilson, CEO at EA revealed that Apex Legends Mobile is real and planned to release shortly: 

EA wants to reach all players no matter what platform. In mobile games, the company has Plant v Zombies in soft-launch already and will also soft-launch Apex Legends By the end of this year - Andrew Wilson, CEO at EA 

If you're a fan or either Apex Legends or mobile gaming, this is definitely a region to celebrate. Now, however, it's all up to EA to handle porting the graphically impressive title into our hands just as well as Fortnite and PUBG have done in the past. 

This is certainly an opportunity for esports too - PUBG Mobile has fostered its very own scene in particular regions with prize pools reaching up to $800,000. If Apex Legends isn't thriving as an esport, perhaps a mobile port could solve that problem. 

One thing to consider here is the cross-platform compatibility - will mobile players be matched with PC players for Apex Legends Mobile? Honestly, I'm not too sure, but it definitely doesn't make sense to match a touch-screen player with a keyboard. 

If EA does this right, this could be the next big thing. Let us know in the comments if you'll be downloading this once it releases globally in early 2021, most probably.