Battlefield 3 launches with 3 million pre-orders
Battlefield 3 launches today with roughly three million pre-orders already secured, marking a strong launch for EA's attempt to tackle the Call of Duty franchise.
Battlefield 3 is launching today across all platforms, and already EA is popping the champagne. The game has racked up roughly three million pre-orders, guaranteeing an impressive start for its sales figures. But, even with the impressive feat, the game will have to work all the harder to catch up with Call of Duty's mean sales record.
EA posted the pre-order news yesterday, claiming it's the biggest FPS launch in the company's history. The beta also set the company bar, topping its social online play record with nine million testers.
It's an impressive achievement, but worth keeping in mind that Call of Duty: Black Ops sold roughly 5.6 million on launch day. While predictions show that Modern Warfare 3 will easily top the sales figures of Battlefield 3, it's unlikely EA is going to complain about the millions of dollars it will be banking on DICE's shooter.
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Battlefield 3 launches today with roughly three million pre-orders already secured, marking a strong launch for EA's attempt to tackle the Call of Duty franchise.-
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The game would of looked like utter crap on consoles if they had gone for 60fps vs 30fps.
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i remember in the old days, getting 30fps in quake was fucking fantastic!
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I used to be happy with 15 FPS in Doom 3.
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jack?
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Which is why a bunch of us shackers got it on PC! Love that 64 man Shack server
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You're playing it on 6 year old hardware.
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I'm not sure what you expected from the console version. The hardware in them is garbage, its a miracle that the game runs at all.
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It's been shitloads of fun so far. Problem though, my mumble basically turns off while i'm in game, and works fine when i'm at the desktop. I have the voice settings in the lower right of battlelog disabled / muted, but that doesn't change anything. Anyone else run into this problem?
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Only Mercfox held out like the MAN he is.
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that makes two of us
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You could've just purchased it in a retail store if you wanted to show that you didn't want the profits to go to Origin. I think that would work.
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I've said this, numerous times. Those people are boycotting BF3 because they 'don't want to support Origin', since BF3 comes with and requires Origin.
If you mention Half-Life 2, they either have no response or say that 'Steam was never this bad!'. Shows a clear lack of a functioning memory.-
Steam was more useful. (It could patch games when it came out).
Both of them are pretty fast.
Origin unlocks games much faster (Steam still has to hitch and do a decryption, Origin doesn't even bother encrypting it).
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The more you use it, the more you realize there is absolutely space in the market for two distribution platforms like Steam and Origin. Bonus win for the consumer in the form of price competition down the line.
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It's been pretty widely reported there is a tremendous difference w/o the HD install
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DDciDLweCso
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Game is amazing, graphics are smooth and flawless... if you like CoD then go play CoD.... we here in Battlefield Land like a fresh new approach EVERY TIME :)
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Isn't there some statistic that like either only %40 or %60 of pre-orders actually translate into sales? Some are never picked up or the cash is moved to other games or some such.
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I didn't think I would be, but I've been really impressed with the Battlelog. Choosing servers is as fast as my browser can render and don't even have to bother with Origin after the install. Much better than having to load a client, sit through stupid intro cinematics I can't skip, wait for the slow steam server browser to come up, then finally launch the real game engine and have to wait for it to load again. Now I'm sitting at work comparing my (bad) stats against everybody on a laptop without Origin installed.
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This game is pure awesome. PURE.
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they def. made the cost of dev. and marketing back with pre-orders alone. now anything sold after launch date is gravy.
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http://www.destructoid.com/battlefield-3-ps3-didn-t-come-with-1943-as-promised-214591.phtml
Earlier in the year, Electronic Arts said (via Sony's Jack Tretton) that Battlefield 3 on the PS3 would ship with a free copy of Battlefield 1943 -- a potentially sweet selling point for the deal-conscious gamer. Well, it wasn't until the game's launch yesterday that customers found out EA had changed the deal. There's no freebie in there.
EA said - "In lieu of 1943 being available on disk for PS3 customers, EA has made all BF3 expansions available early to PS3 customers," said the company.
So they aren't providing the free content they promised and are offering to *sell* you content early?
That's even sleazier than the Cat Woman content in Batman AC.
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