Battlefield 6 appears to be kicking some camouflaged bottom as a result of, in line with the newest information the sport has already surpassed 6.5 million copies bought.
These numbers come from analytics agency Alinea Analytics, and so, as at all times, do take them with a pinch of salt and maybe a smidgen of pepper. They use their very own super-secret particular sauce approach of calculating numbers that we mere mortals can not confirm. Nonetheless, their information has confirmed fairly dependable up to now.
Let’s break down the numbers a bit additional, lets? 6.5m copies bought via equate to roughly $350m in gross income. That sounds mighty spectacular, however a report earlier this 12 months from Ars Technica revealed that nameless builders claimed the sport had a large $400m finances…again in 2023. That might have simply climbed by one other hundred or 2 hundred million at this level. The identical sources additionally instructed Ars Technica that EA was aiming for 100 million gamers, which might be over 3x greater than their most profitable Battlefield recreation, Battlefield 1.
To this point, PC is the largest Battlefield 6 platform by far, with Alinea claiming Steam makes up 65.7% (3.5+ million copies) by itself. PS5 is available in second at round 23.7%, with Xbox trailing in final place at 19.6%.
That isn’t all, as a result of Alinea additionally says Steam has persistently introduced in 2.3m-2.5m gamers every single day, whereas PlayStation is grabbing about 1m. Xbox wasn’t talked about, however meaning Battlefield 6 is managing round 3.3m-3.5m gamers per day. It’s nonetheless very early, however apparently that quantity has stayed impressively flat, with Alinea additionally noting that there was barely a drop-off on Monday.
Season 1 will kickoff in Battlefield 6 on October 28, so it’ll be fascinating to see the participant numbers then and the way a lot of a lift it will get.
Meamwhile, EA’s different large launch, Skate, additionally appears to be doing fairly effectively. I’ve combined emotions on it, which you’ll be able to about right here, however on Steam it’s nonetheless hitting 40,000-50,000 concurrent gamers day by day.
In different EA information, the corporate just lately introduced that it’s within the technique of being purchased by a conglomerate in a large leveraged deal value $55 billion.
