FIFA 18 Sells an Estimated 5.9 Million Units First Week at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 18 November 2017 / 16,687 Views
The football simulator game from publisher EA Sports and developers EA Vancouver and EA Romania - FIFA 18 - sold 5,899,532 units first week at retail, according to our estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending September 30.
Breaking down the sales by platform, the game sold best on the PlayStation 4 with 4,394,107 units sold (74%), compared to 1,111,813 units sold on the Xbox One (19%). The game also sold 175,773 units on the PlayStation 3 (3%), 107,788 units on the Nintendo Switch (2%), 68,115 units on the Xbox 360 (1%), and 40,936 units on Windows PC (1%).
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 4,593,403 units sold (78%), compared to 450,844 units sold in the US (8%) and 71,084 units sold in Japan (2%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 831,421 units in the UK, 1,007,997 units in Germany, and 692,069 units in France.
FIFA 18 released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC worldwide on September 29.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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So that's why EA releases this gsme annualy. It's a cash cow.
PEEP you're trying to hard.
is this the biggest cash print in gaming yet?
sometimes I think of FIFA more a football simulator instead of a video game, and the majority of people who buy it are not big fans of video games at all, but mostly football fanatics, just sayin
Yet again
And people ask for innovation in gaming LMAO
Wow, does any other game sell like this FW, besides COD? This is insane!
wow nice number on Switch considering it's small base
It prints money !!!
That's a lot of units for a single week.
With digital this number is probably way larger. Great game!
Solid Switch numbers considering the low install base and Fifa's main territory by a vast margin is Europe, which is where Switch is weakest. Next year's Fifa should easily sell in the millions lifetime on Switch.
Also, just got back into gaming this year because of the Switch, after not paying attention for 6 years or so. And oh my god FIFA has gotten so popular! I can't believe how well this game sells now. Incredible how many people will buy the exact same sports game over and over every year. I don't understand that mentality. When I used to actually buy sports games back in the day one game per sport per generation was enough. Though I guess there are probably a few million people in the world who primarily buy video game systems just to play sports games, and in Europe all of these people buy Fifa every year.
epic sales, and I haven't seen a single ad for FIFA18. really impressive.
Ive seen plenty, one with the real life Ronaldo copying a trick from his ingame counterpart
Fifa and football don't really need ads, people expect them every year like they do for christmas hahah
Interesting to see that it’s selling decent on Switch. EA may be pleased after several weeks.
@KLAMarine Regardless to how good or bad FIFA has done on the Switch, using install base as proof for either position is silly. The average PS3 has been in the wild for a long time now, and its direct successor has been on the market for almost 4 years. The PS4 has also sold less than the PS3 so far, yet the PS4 version of FIFA18 sold 25~ times more. That alone should highlight how pointless a reference point install base has become for the PS3.
Based on comparisons to FW sales on Wii U, Vita, and other newish systems that are part of a secondary market (for FIFA that is), Switch version is doing well. If the numbers are accurate, it should pretty easily pass a million.
I would imagine that EA is contractually obligated by FIFA to put out the game on any platform that is considered viable for it (pretty sure that's the case with Madden). If the game hits a million, it may also be enough to justify other sports titles on the platform.
@Zekkyou
We should still be able to do a bit of math: fifa units sold / platform adoption numbers. I'm gonna speculate that the switch version did much better than the ps3 and 360 versions in this regard. Based on this, I'm guessing there will be a fifa 19 on switch and as switch adoption increases so too will fifa sales...
@PhatChips
"Suck my tiny asian dick, nintendo fanboys"
Charming.
And imagine how much they get in microtransactions from this title alone :/
FIFA 14 sold 3.42 on ps4 with a "small install base", selling +600k on 3 weeks
amazing numbers, would like to see such numbers on other ip's too that deserves it
So sad :(
