Battlefield 6 Has Reportedly Sold Over 6.5 Million Copies So Far – WGB

Battlefield 6 appears to be kicking some camouflaged bottom as a result of, in keeping with the newest knowledge the sport has already surpassed 6.5 million copies bought.

Those numbers come from analytics firm Alinea Analytics, and so, as all the time, do take them with a pinch of salt and maybe a smidgen of pepper. They use their very own super-secret particular sauce means of calculating numbers that we mere mortals can’t confirm. Nonetheless, their knowledge has confirmed moderately dependable prior to now.

Let’s break down the numbers a bit additional, lets? 6.5m copies bought by means of equate to roughly $350m in gross income. That sounds mighty spectacular, however a report earlier this year from Ars Technica revealed that anonymous developers claimed the game had a massive $400m budget…back in 2023. That might have simply climbed by one other hundred or 2 hundred million at this level. The identical sources additionally advised Ars Technica that EA was aiming for 100 million gamers, which might be over 3x greater than their most profitable Battlefield recreation, Battlefield 1.

Thus far, PC is the most important Battlefield 6 platform by far, with Alinea claiming Steam makes up 65.7% (3.5+ million copies) by itself. PS5 is available in second at round 23.7%, with Xbox trailing in final place at 19.6%.

That isn’t all, as a result of Alinea additionally says Steam has persistently introduced in 2.3m-2.5m gamers every single day, whereas PlayStation is grabbing about 1m. Xbox wasn’t talked about, however which means Battlefield 6 is managing round 3.3m-3.5m gamers per day. It’s nonetheless very early, however apparently that quantity has stayed impressively flat, with Alinea additionally noting that there was barely a drop-off on Monday.

Season 1 will kickoff in Battlefield 6 on October 28, so it’ll be fascinating to see the participant numbers then and the way a lot of a lift it will get.

Meamwhile, EA’s different large launch, Skate, also seems to be doing pretty well. I’ve combined emotions on it, which you can about here, however on Steam it’s nonetheless hitting 40,000-50,000 concurrent gamers day by day.

In different EA information, the company recently announced that it is in the process of being bought by a conglomerate in a massive leveraged deal worth $55 billion.