Phil Spencer confirmed that through EA Access, Xbox gamers will be the first to play SW:Battlefront.

@MJC3809 @majornelson @EAAccess @XboxQwik @DMC_Ryan Yes you can play SW: Battlefront first on Xbox One, exclusively with @EAAccess

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 20, 2015

Good news for impatient gamers and a good way for EA to show an ever increasing support of EA Acess.

The EA Access app contains a plethora of EA titles that can be played for a monthly/annual fee.

Pretty convinced I'll be disappointed by this game. It seems to have half the features of Battlefront II and will instead be an almost entirely online experience... It's just battlefield with star wars units.

It does look great visually, though... I think this December release date to coincide with the movie has really limited what they could include; heck, a couple people who recently played it said the flying controls were among the worst they'd experienced.

Reeeeeally hope I'm wrong.

This so very much.

Wow isn't that kind of a conflict of interest seeing as Sony has exclusive marketing rights and such?

It's releasing around the same time as the next Star Wars movie... I'd say there's never been a game that didn't require marketing quite like this one, the hype will be real.

I would've thought sony would have found some way to counter that, like an exclusive ps plus alpha/beta which starts days before the EA access early access.

Not a big loss
SW is nothing compared to COD

Technically it will be played first on PC first(ALPHA), then PS4(BETA), then XB1.

That could help it sell better on the X1.

I'm looking forward to this game. Not a day one purchase but I'll wait for it to go one sale like I do with most games.

Old news is old, this was confirmed months ago.