Global software, week ending 18th Nov

[PAOerfulone]

Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) First Week numbers:
PS4 - 2,762,639
XBO - 1,171,567
PC - 157,669
Total - 4,091,875

Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) First Week numbers:
PS4 - 869,493
XBO - 438,708
Total - 1,308,201

Now, I'm sure some of this has to do with not as much hype around The Last Jedi as with The Force Awakens as well as the fact that this wasn't the first Star Wars Battlefront game since 2005, but even still, that's a huuuge drop from one game to the next.

At least with Pokemon, it has the excuses of releasing after the 3DS' successor had already been out for 8 months at the time, and US/UM were just enhanced 3rd and 4th versions of Sun/Moon, it was already the 4th Pokemon game in the series, and it's pretty much expected of 3rd versions (or sequels of main games in Black/White 2's case) to sell significantly less than mainline entries, except for Pokemon Yellow which came out right in the middle of the first PokeMania phenomenon.

There's no way this was anywhere near what EA was expecting and hoping for from Battlefront II, on an evergrowing and rapidly rising combined install base, with the PS4's peak year and what will most likely be the Xbox One's peak year.
That's what happens when you let greed and lust get the better of you. Keep playing with fire, and sooner or later you get burned.