FIFA 13 Demo Breaks Series Records, Pre-Orders Through the Roof

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Pineapple said:

Fifa is arguably the most surprisingly impressive game series sales-wise this generation. Every single iteration has outsold the last, unless I'm reading something wrong.

Fifa 06: 5.11 million
Fifa 07: 6.34 million
Fifa 08: 9.38 million
Fifa 09: 9.34 million
Fifa 10: 10.42 million
Fifa 11: 11.91 million
Fifa 12: 11.98 million (and still sneaking upwards a bit. Should do up to 250,000 more)

 

And then you have Madden NFL, EA's other major sports series. It's just gone the opposite way instead.

Madden NFL 06: 9.03 million
Madden NFL 07: 10 million
Madden NFL 08: 8.03 million
Madden NFL 09: 7.8 million
Madden NFL 10: 7.42 million
Madden NFL 11: 6.45 million
Madden NFL 12: 5.14 million

 

It's quite astounding how they managed to more than double the size of Fifa, while halving the size of Madden, all during the same generation.  I'm not sure what they did differently between the two, either.

 

Madden didn't get any better.

FIFA got better, especially from 08 onwards.

Basically word got out that FIFA was actually better than Pro Evo from 07 onwards, and by 08, the Pro Evo fans couldn't pretend any longer that FIFA was finally better.

Nowadays it's a given that FIFA is better than Pro Evo, but you will still find the odd idiot who will swear otherwise.