Top 10 in Sales - Electronic Arts Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 May 2012 / 32,781 Views
Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
In the last four weeks we have taken a look at some of the biggest publishers in gaming, three of which are first party, and the other was first party a little over 10 years ago. This week we will be taking a look at the biggest third party publisher, Electronic Arts, including games that were bundled. However this list does not include EA Sports, which will be looked at in next week’s Top 10. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling games published by Electronic Arts, six of the games are for the PlayStation 2, two are for the PC and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have one a piece. Three of the PlayStation 2 games are for the Need for Speed franchise which sold a combined 18.47 million units or 30.1 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two PC games are for the Sims franchise, and the game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Battlefield 3, is the only game in the top 10 to be released in the current generation.
The top 10 games sold a combined 61.31 million units. The six PlayStation 2 games sold a combined 35.1 million units, or 57.3 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two PC games sold a combined 14.98 million units or 24.4 percent. The Xbox 360 game is 9.6 percent of the total and the PlayStation game is 8.7 percent.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games published by Electronic Arts, the original The Sims is the bestselling EA game on a single platform, by outselling the second bestselling game by four million units. Seven of the top 10 games sold more than five million units and as a note the top 62 games sold more than two million units.
As a side note for those who are interested here are the sales for the Battlefield franchise. The franchise has sold a total of 23.74 million units, with Battlefield 3 selling the most with combined sales of 13.18 million units. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat sold a combined 1.37 million units. Battlefield: Bad Company sold a combined 2.58 million units and Bad Company 2 sold a combined 6.54 million units.
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The Guinness Book of World Records includes the original Sims as 'best selling PC game of all time' at 16 million units shipped. I know, I know, shipped vs sold, but these numbers were released in 2005 and so the 6 million difference is obviously erroneous.
These articles will not be accurate until you have a site-wide revision of your data, or stop listing PC games completely. I do not like Ea as a company, but misrepresenting their games like this just isn't professional.
Both sims 2 and sims 3 have shipped 13 and 10 million according to EA, and neither are shown on the 10 list is quite baffling. Even sims 2 pets shipped 5 million
Yep, as of May 2011 the franchise as a whole has moved over 150 million units. A 10 second google search will find multiple sources that have proper data for the games listed here and more. And we wonder why the site is berated for its accuracy.
I guess the proper question to ask would be, what will it take to fix accuracy issues? More people? Money?
Both would help.
And Fifa still doesn't exist on the other side of the Atlantic...
i feel like the need for speed series has drastically gone down hill
so the Sims 2 and 3 sold less than... 3 million each? bullocks. This article is faulty!
EA should focus on quality over quantity.
Quantity clearly isn't working out for them.
EA looks like a company of a bygone era other than Battlefield 3.
From The Sims 2 wikipedia page:
"Sims Fans Embark on Exotic Travels as EA Announces The Sims 2 Bon Voyage" (Press release). Electronic Arts. 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2008-10-12. "The Sims 2 shipped in September 2004 with sales already topping 13M units worldwide, it was the best selling PC game of 2004.", someone needs to make its homework.....
Can you also create an article about EA Sports. I'm interested whether those yearly games sell more these days like FIFA (which has set records with their latest installment)
This is BS... you should have complete PC data or dont include them at all, and dont add EA sports titles separatly ;-) This list is pretty awful, no offense to the author :-P
I'm glad EA made this chart whit only their good games.
I'm surprised the sims has sold so little.
Wow, not a single Madden game. And only 2 Sims titles, I'm surprised Sims 3 hasn't sold better.
EA Sports later.
sort of funny for all the fuss we make about their sports portfolio there isn't a single sports game on there.
