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Forums - Sales - FIFA 13 sells 7.4M units, Battlefield 3 Premium 2M subscriptions

VGKing on 30 October 2012
shanbcn said:
@jimreilly EA: "The Medal of Honor Warfighter launch is below our expectations." uh oh

@jimreilly: Battlefield 3 has shipped 17 million copies to date.


Didn't EA themelves say in a press release that Battlefield is on its way to becoming a Billion Dollar annual franchise? Wouldn't they need to kill Medal of Honor in order to do that? Looks like this latest MoH just gave them an excuse to finally pull the plug.



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VGKing on 30 October 2012
man-bear-pig said:
shanbcn said:
As expected Fifa is undertracked here. 4m PS3 3m 360 and rest of 400k between other platforms.


It's not necessarily undertracked here; they've included iOS sales in their 7.4m figure.


No, they didn't. Read the press release over here http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/30/fifa-13-sells-74-million-copies-in-4-weeks?abthid=5090372c60b1d4a47800007c

EA has revealed that 7.4 million copies of FIFA 13 were sold in the four weeks following its launch. According to EA, the figure excludes mobile downloads and gives FIFA 13 the “biggest sports launch of all-time.” EA reports that, along with Madden, FIFA "debuted as one of the two top-selling titles in September in the Western World."



wfz on 30 October 2012
VGKing said:
shanbcn said:
@jimreilly EA: "The Medal of Honor Warfighter launch is below our expectations." uh oh

@jimreilly: Battlefield 3 has shipped 17 million copies to date.


Didn't EA themelves say in a press release that Battlefield is on its way to becoming a Billion Dollar annual franchise? Wouldn't they need to kill Medal of Honor in order to do that? Looks like this latest MoH just gave them an excuse to finally pull the plug.


Oh god, please no. I could never handle seeing Battlefield turned into a yearly series. :( First of all, it would require a second developer to alternate yearly releases with, which is just a big no-no considering that DICE are the only ones who truly understand what makes the Battlefield experience so great.

Please EA, don't.



VGKing on 30 October 2012
Argh_College said:
BF3 17m.

Thats close to Cod numbers!


Not really. Modern Warfare 3 is at 29.22 million on all consoles combined according to Vgchartz.

If you count only Ps3/360 its still ~27million. Almost double. And we're counting sold here, EA is counting shipped.



man-bear-pig on 30 October 2012
VGKing said:
man-bear-pig said:
shanbcn said:
As expected Fifa is undertracked here. 4m PS3 3m 360 and rest of 400k between other platforms.


It's not necessarily undertracked here; they've included iOS sales in their 7.4m figure.


No, they didn't. Read the press release over here http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/30/fifa-13-sells-74-million-copies-in-4-weeks?abthid=5090372c60b1d4a47800007c

EA has revealed that 7.4 million copies of FIFA 13 were sold in the four weeks following its launch. According to EA, the figure excludes mobile downloads and gives FIFA 13 the “biggest sports launch of all-time.” EA reports that, along with Madden, FIFA "debuted as one of the two top-selling titles in September in the Western World."


Ahh...I thought it said includes. My bad.



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

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VGKing on 30 October 2012
wfz said:
VGKing said:
shanbcn said:
@jimreilly EA: "The Medal of Honor Warfighter launch is below our expectations." uh oh

@jimreilly: Battlefield 3 has shipped 17 million copies to date.


Didn't EA themelves say in a press release that Battlefield is on its way to becoming a Billion Dollar annual franchise? Wouldn't they need to kill Medal of Honor in order to do that? Looks like this latest MoH just gave them an excuse to finally pull the plug.


Oh god, please no. I could never handle seeing Battlefield turned into a yearly series. :( First of all, it would require a second developer to alternate yearly releases with, which is just a big no-no considering that DICE are the only ones who truly understand what makes the Battlefield experience so great.

Please EA, don't.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/30/battlefield-3-premium-passes-2-million-subscribers

"Coupled with today’s announcement that FIFA sales have crossed 7.4 million, EA president Frank Gibeau commented that “On the strength of our digital extensions, FIFA and Battlefield are the two biggest revenue events in our company’s history. Both are well on their way to becoming billion dollar annual franchises.”



man-bear-pig on 30 October 2012

Battlefield and MoH are like EA's Call of Duty. They take it in turns releasing new games bi-yearly (like Treyarch and Infinity Ward do for CoD)



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

theprof00 on 30 October 2012

I said this premium was a great idea and im happy to be proven right by those numbers which are far higher than i vouldve anticipated.



Nsanity on 30 October 2012