We knew EA were looking to make a return with Need for Speed next year, but if an anonymous person (claiming to be a former employee of Ghost Games) on 4chan (via NeoGAF) is to be believed it will be a new Need for Speed: Underground.
"Yes we have skipped a year with NFS games, EA was at first contemplating to shut down the franchise after many titles failed to meet expectations, now as a last ditch effort they gave us more time (and horrendous working hours) to work on the new title Underground: Need For Speed."
"Yes this a Sequel to the Underground series, but to make it seem new we had to reboot it, make it more modern add some of the elements of 2012's NFS most wanted
If you don't believe me, at this year VGX we will announce the game."
The source claimed that EA were putting pressure on the devs to achieve 60 frames per second and that Xbox One was struggling with that at 900p...
"EA is now jumping on the whole Frame rate craze and the game will run at 60 fps on all systems although the Ps4 and Xbone version are a pain in the ass to make it run well, the trailer we will show will look slightly better than the endgame, 900p on PS4 and 720p on xbone, altough the xbone version is struggling to stay at 60 and MS is pressuring us to lower the Ps4 version to 720p too, EA will probably make that call, so if they say it runs at 1080p 60 fps, its damage control."
Whether the leak is accurate or not remains to be seen, but if a last ditch attempt to reignite Need for Speed is what's in store, then a new Need for Speed: Underground (the best selling entry in the series) would be the logical choice.