Battlefield 6 Has Passed 20 Million Copies Sold – WGB

2025 appears to have been the yr of Battlefield 6. Whereas the newest Name of Obligation has been struggling in each gross sales and participant numbers, Battlefield 6 has continued to carry out nicely, and in response to the newest gross sales knowledge, it’s comfortably the best-selling recreation of the yr.

Alinea Analytics has confirmed pretty dependable on the subject of its gross sales knowledge. Reading through the latest newsletter by Rhys Elliott reveals that Battlefield 6 has allegedly bought over 20 million copies.

Based mostly on what we at present know each formally and unofficially, this makes Battlefield 6 the best-selling recreation of 2025, by way of copies bought. If we generously assume every copy was bought for the RRP of $70, that’s a complete of $1.4 billion in income. Not too shabby.

Mind you, it was reported that by 2023, Battlefield 6‘s development costs had already hit $400 million, and that EA were gunning for 100 million players. On the time of writing, the sport is bringing in simply over 100,000 concurrent gamers per day on Steam.

Precisely why this Battlefield has carried out so nicely is a layered subject. There was a rising Name of Obligation fatigue, which has undoubtedly aided in Battlefield 6 with the ability to promote tens of millions upon tens of millions of copies in simply its first week on sale. It even beat out Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by 63% in Europe. However Name of Obligation’s failure doesn’t negate the arduous work of Battlefield Studios, who labored tirelessly to create a wonderful multiplayer shooter that targeted on delivering a grittier tone than the clown present that Name of Obligation’s multiplayer has turn out to be over time. Ultimately, launching proper when CoD stumbled was like capturing lightning in a bottle for Battlefield 6.

Leaping again to the info for a second, Alinea claims that Battlefield 6 has managed to usher in 26 million gamers, though that quantity does embody Redsec, the free-to-play Battlefield 6 spinoff.

Except Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 manages to conjure up some insane gross sales from someplace, it seems to be like Battlefield 6 will take the crown this yr.