EA Claims Battlefront is the Largest Digital Launch in its History - News
by Chinh Tran , posted on 25 November 2015 / 3,530 ViewsAccording to Electronic Arts, Star War Battlefront had the most successful launch of any Star Wars game as well as the largest digital launch in the company's history.
"It’s been just one week since we launched Star Wars Battlefront around the world, and on behalf of our teams at DICE and EA, I wanted to thank you for joining us on this awesome journey. And what a start! Star Wars Battlefront is the biggest launch of a Star Wars™ video game ever and is the largest digital launch in the history of EA."
Although EA didn't share any numbers regarding units shipped or downloaded, the company has stated in the past that it expects Star Wars Battlefront to sell 13 million units by March of next year. We'll have to wait and see if EA can reach said goal.
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I dont plan on buying it, Im afraid if I buy this more games will release with $50 season passess and no real single player, which im both not a fan off :(
You're not alone there. That business model sucks. I'm ok with some games being MP only. But that season pass and DLC plans...
It's apparently doing quite well for an MP only game, MP only games do deserve to exist just as much as those on this site that dislike MP only and prefer SP only.
Keywords here "EA Claims"
Numbers or it didn't happen.
EA access+all those digital vouchers=typical misleading EA public relations BS.
EA Access trial doesent count as a purchase. But EA Access members do get 10 percent off.
Well, Gamestop said it isn't, so what now? ^^
Gamestop is not a digital retailer :p
Also I suspect the main audience for this game (those who don't care/know about lack of content) would be more likely to go to target/walmart to pick it up
Gamestop said that no title sold out of the ordinary for digital. So if this was 22% for example it could be their best digital launch but it would be out of the ordinary. It might beat the previous record by 2%. They're random numbers but just an example.
@OneKartVita, and how exactly would gamestop know what sold digitally? Do they have some magical connection into these companies that others don't where they can see the numbers that everyone else can't?
Microsoft and EA. All aboard the Bullsht Train. If these games were selling well, they'd be releasing numbers.
Not only do we have all this analytical information, we can also do a simple common-sense check. Any friends playing it, is it high up on xbox most played, are people streaming it on twitch, is youtube blowing up about it, how does the retail sales look. Answer is pretty clear: BO3 and Fallout4 doing great, Battlefront not doing so hot, Tomb Raider and Halo doing terrible.