FIFA 10 EA's Best European Launch Ever

November 9, 2009 6:06 PM

Electronic Arts' Q2 earnings report reveals that FIFA 10 became their strongest selling launch title in European history, selling 4.5 million units in its first week and achieving a Metacritic ranking of 91. The report further states that EA currently has seventeen released titles this calendar year that have achieved a rank of "80 or above," including NHL 10, The Beatles: Rock Band, Battlefield 1943, NCAA Football 10, Dead Space: Extraction, and Need for Speed SHIFT.

The report also provides some other insight about EA's top performing games for the financial quarter, while simultaneously demonstrating continued a reliance on Metacritic's review aggregation metrics for assessing titles' performance. It's interesting to still see so much stock being placed in Metacritic as an assessment tool, since we've already seen it have some questionable effects on both developers and publishers.

The report touts EA as the number one publisher for Europe and North America, releasing four of the top ten games for the quarter in both regions, with Madden NFL 10 garnering the number one position in North America.

Jeff Mattas

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abjectblitz

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November 9, 2009 6:16 PM

They should be ashamed of the PC version, it should not even have the same name as the console versions, pure scam.
- Lionhart32935
  
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  November 9, 2009 7:29 PM
  
  They've been doing it for years now, the FIFA community has always lamented this. Pro Evolution is your game is you actually want a next gen soccer game.
  - abjectblitz
    
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    November 9, 2009 7:54 PM
    
    Got the new pro evo which is much better. I don't understand how EA can get away with that they even use the console screenshots on the PC packaging. Disgraceful.
    
    And I hate how they call the console version next gen.. IMO That is current gen, the PC stuff is very much last gen legacy crap. Heh.
    - st4rdog
      
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      November 10, 2009 2:41 AM
      
      On that point about next-gen - how long are companies going to keep using the next-gen term? The 360's been out since 2005 and the PS3 since 2006. They're a little less than current-gen.
      - frank_bures
        
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        November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
        
        It's a marketing term, it doesn't really have any meaning to begin with.
- irishbloke
  
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  November 10, 2009 7:09 AM
  
  yeah it sucked complete rubbish, i got the xbox version instead.
- g3dHorse
  
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  November 10, 2009 10:56 AM
  
  Honestly, the bugs are unbelievable...a whole level above most usual bugs you get in games.
  
  The fact that I can get some enjoyment out of the game makes it even more of a shame... I mean who develops it? How do they take pride in their job when they are just releasing such rubbish? It's beyond me.