Anthem Sold 5 Million Units Lifetime, According to Former EA Employee - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 December 2023 / 4,666 Views
Publisher Electronic Arts and developer BioWare's Anthem had a big launch, but saw numbers quickly fall off to the point EA never shared any sales figures.
Former EA employee Alexandre Scriabine in his LinkedIn profile, spotted by Twitter user Timur222 revealed Anthem had sold two million units in its first week and ended up selling five million units lifetime.
He also revealed Battlefield 1 from DICE had sold 21 million units in its first year and Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) combined have sold over 50 million units. Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order has also sold over 10 million units.
Scriabine worked at EA for nearly 11 years having been hired in October 2011 as the assistant product manager on Need for Speed World and working his way up to the director of global social media engagement
Anthem released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in February 2019.
Anthem (Bioware) sold 2 million units in its first week. The game sold 5 million units to date pic.twitter.com/2cipNqpBRZ
— Timur222 (@bogorad222) December 19, 2023
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I personally have 3 copies, but never touched it. Needed some replacement boxes, and where I live those are sold at $3, but this game was $2.5, so...
Likely for under $5
About half of them would have sold under $5. Probably a lot of them at the $2 mark. The marketing machine generating interest out of nothing in the weeks up to launch with something that wasn’t looking good was certainly something.
It's currently £1.09 on the PlayStation Store. I just bought it. I'm sorry.
They were giving aways discs at GameStop at one point. Not sure if those counted as sales or not though hahaha
Not bad for a crappy game
