Battlefield 3 sells five million units in first week, says internal EA estimates
Battlefield 3 has successfully deployed into five million homes worldwide, EA has announced. According to the publishing giant's "internal estimates," it is now "the fastest-selling game in EA's history."
Battlefield 3 has successfully deployed into five million homes worldwide in its first week, EA has announced. According to the publishing giant's "internal estimates," its sell-through of units to actual customers makes DICE's latest title "the fastest-selling game in EA's history."
In its second fiscal quarter results, EA estimated good fortunes for Battlefield 3 following "nearly" three million pre-orders for the shooter.
"Battlefield 3 fans executed 73M savior kills, 48M revives and destroyed 67M vehicles," a press release revealing the internal estimate noted.
Earlier today, DICE's general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson wrote a lengthy blog post thanking Battlefield 3 players for their support, as well as promising the development team at DICE is taking steps to correct some of the game's online-related issues.
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Battlefield 3 has successfully deployed into five million homes worldwide, EA has announced. According to the publishing giant's "internal estimates," it is now "the fastest-selling game in EA's history."-
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Good, keep them off our servers. Not like they play the PC version anyway.
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Thats funny, you sound just like those little kids.
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Actually maturity quite quickly segways into senility then shortly after death!
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I'm sure the both of you not knowing will have a huge impact on sales
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wtf242'd
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Same here. I stopped at Blops (but then, I ignore all the non-IWard ones anyways).
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I've bought 4 through Blops and didn't even know MW3 was coming out next week. I'm not really interested in it.
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My point was that while I have seen BF3 advertised for weeks and weeks at every single opportunity (on billboards, at the cinema, on TV, down the sides and across the top of almost every website I can think of, in magazine, in news articles, in TV shows etc) I've yet to see a single piece of advertising for MW3 other than a couple of trailers and of those trailers I don't remember the date as I saw them a couple of weeks ago.
On top of that I've barely seen anyone talk about it in the chatty. I just assumed it would be out closer to Christmas. It seems really underhyped compared to all the previous entries and is eclipsed by the huge marketing campaigns of BF3 and to a slightly lesser extent Batman, Uncharted, and Skyrim.-
my point is a couple of people not knowing about the release of the game won't effect anything, the hardcore COD people know when it's coming out
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also I must have seen ads for it a million times during NFL games on Sunday
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what
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lol that's what I figured you meant
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Yeah I had no idea MW3 was coming out next week until I saw an ad for it last week.
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I thought it was at least another month away. I'll definitely pick it up when it's on sail.
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It will outsell BF3, so yeah, it will be news.
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Speaking of MW3, check out this link... http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1211242p1.html
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I wonder if it would have sold another million or two if it was on Steam, or if being on Steam wouldn't have changed anything.
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I'd hate to think there's a million herp-derpers out there who wouldn't buy a game they wanted to play simply because it wasn't on steam
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It does make a difference to me, I'll say that. It didn't stop me from enduring the whole Origin thing, but honestly I'd rather not have had to fuck with it. SWTOR is the only other game I'll ever play on Origin, probably.
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yea this is my point, if people want to get a game, they'll get it regardless of the delivery/login method. I'd rather launch the game from an icon on my desktop then have to deal with steam or origin running in the background but I can't so there's no sense crying about it
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I'm not really thinking about boycotters but rather that Steam has 30+ million subscribers and it's very good at advertising.
There should still be an enormous amount of people who don't even know Origin exists, but check Steam every day. At least that's my theory.-
so your theory is that there's a million or two people in the world who only hear about games through steam?
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So would I, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were. The herp-derp is strong with the Sperger generation.
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I really doubt it.
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whoever doesn't buy this game is retarded.
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I want a redo. I'd like the chance to go back to retarded.
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a retard that is 60 bucks richer!
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I'm retarded. I just can't think of a reason to get it besides the graphics. Some of the gameplay of the series is actually getting worse and worse... i.e. unlocks.
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I bought it, not happy that I bought it. The SP pretty well sucks. It's like a hot chick with a shitty personality. It's bug ridden, poorly designed and cliched. Multiplayer seems fun, but there are still massive server issues and squads work about 50% of the time. All that won't matter, because next week the vast majority of my friends will buy MW3 and BF3 multiplayer will settle down to a dull roar.
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What do you mean by squads work 50% of the time? This seemingly doesn't make sense.
Multiplayer is the reason to buy this game, as it is the best multiplayer game ever.-
Half the time when we get in the game 1 or more people are not in our squad even though we started in the same squad when searching for a game. And so far it's not the "best" ever. I still had more fun in BF2. That may change with time, but as I mentioned most will move on to MW3 next week so I'll probably do that as well as I'd prefer to squad up with friends than play with randoms.
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You're adorable.
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You must be talking about the Germans:
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=27006233
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No surprise, game is exceptional, where it counts. The multiplayer.
The frostbite 2 engine is pure FUEGO and you'll be playing for months unlocking everything there is to unlock. Besides you the look and feel of the game is such that you can easily suspend disbelief and see yourself in a digital battlefield.
To say nothing of the imaginative scenarios, jumping off a cliff then parachuting to reach your next objective, while the enemy is sniping and shooting rockets from below? PURE AWESOME!
Gotta hand it to DICE, they delivered the goods.
Now come next week, I'll be buying and playing MW3 and see what they got for me.
But as it stands right now, they have a lot to live up to.-
Does FUEGO mean buggy as fuck?
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Buggy as fuck? Really? How is it buggy? I haven't encountered really anything game breaking.
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I've posted multiple times about the SP bugs. The bugs I've seen in MP are mostly likely going to be patched, but it's hard to tell if it's lag/server related sometimes or legit bugs.
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Do you even own this game?
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Yes, humper of flat cakes made in a pan. I bought it release day.
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that makes 7 million Battlefield 3 "sales"
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They call those "story problems" instead of "word problems" now? Well shit.
Also I think he was just being sarcastic. -
*reads your post then facepalms*
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