Battlefield 6[1] seems to be kicking some camouflaged backside because, according to the latest data the game has already surpassed 6.5 million copies sold.
Those numbers come from analytics firm Alinea Analytics,[2] and so, as always, do take them with a pinch of salt and perhaps a smidgen of pepper. They use their own super-secret special sauce way of calculating numbers that we mere mortals cannot verify. Still, their data has proven reasonably reliable in the past.
Let’s break down the numbers a bit further, shall we? 6.5m copies sold through equate to roughly $350m in gross revenue. That sounds mighty impressive, but a report earlier this year from Ars Technica revealed that anonymous developers claimed the game had a massive $400m budget…back in 2023. That could have easily climbed by another hundred or two hundred million at this point. The same sources also told Ars Technica that EA was aiming for 100 million players, which would be over 3x more than their most successful Battlefield game, Battlefield 1.[3]
So far, PC is the biggest Battlefield 6 platform by far, with Alinea claiming Steam makes up 65.7% (3.5+ million copies) by itself. PS5 comes in second at around 23.7%, with Xbox trailing in last place at 19.6%.
That isn’t all, because Alinea also says Steam has consistently brought in 2.3m-2.5m players every day, while PlayStation is grabbing about 1m. Xbox wasn’t mentioned, but that means Battlefield 6 is managing around 3.3m-3.5m players per day. It’s still very early, but apparently that number has stayed impressively flat, with Alinea also noting that there was barely a drop-off on Monday.
Season 1 will kickoff in Battlefield 6 on October 28, so it’ll be interesting to see the player numbers then and how much of a boost it gets.
Meamwhile, EA’s other big release, Skate, also seems to be doing pretty well[4]. I have mixed feelings on it, which you can about here,[5] but on Steam it’s still hitting 40,000-50,000 concurrent players daily.
In other EA news, the company recently announced that it is in the process of being bought by a conglomerate in a massive leveraged deal worth $55 billion.[6]
References
- ^ Battlefield 6 (wolfsgamingblog.com)
- ^ Those numbers come from analytics firm Alinea Analytics, (alineaanalytics.substack.com)
- ^ a report earlier this year from Ars Technica revealed that anonymous developers claimed the game had a massive $400m budget…back in 2023. (arstechnica.com)
- ^ also seems to be doing pretty well (wolfsgamingblog.com)
- ^ which you can about here, (wolfsgamingblog.com)
- ^ the company recently announced that it is in the process of being bought by a conglomerate in a massive leveraged deal worth $55 billion. (wolfsgamingblog.com)