Battlefield 6 Sold 'Record Shattering' 7 Million Copies in 3 Days, Giving EA's Shooter Franchise Its Best Ever Launch

It's official: the merchandise of Battlefield 6 has been a immense success, with an tremendous 7 cardinal copies sold implicit the game's archetypal 3 days. Simply put, it's the franchise's champion motorboat ever.

A triumphant property merchandise contiguous from EA describes Battlefield 6's accomplishment arsenic "record-shattering," "explosive" and — successful the words of Battlefield brag Vince Zampella — "momentous."

"We ne'er instrumentality moments similar this for granted, truthful I privation to explicit our sincere gratitude to our planetary Battlefield Studios and passionate assemblage that has helped get america to this point," Zampella said. "We admit you joining america for Battlefield 6's momentous launch. We person truthful overmuch much to travel successful the weeks ahead."

Some much stats from Battlefield 6's opening weekend: fans played much than 172 cardinal matches, and clocked up much than 15 cardinal hours watching gameplay streams. On Steam, Battlefield 6 saw a immense motorboat with a whopping 747,440 highest concurrent players. Sony and Microsoft bash not marque subordinate numbers public.

Next up for Battlefield 6 volition beryllium the motorboat of its Season 1 connected October 28, which adds Rogue Ops, caller representation Blackwell Fields, and a 4v4 mode.

It's a stunning instrumentality for the Battlefield franchise aft the nonaccomplishment of Battlefield 2042, and volition apt ramp up the unit connected this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, owed to motorboat connected November 14.

Battlefield 6 launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S a week agone today, connected October 10. The BF Studios squad has kept up connection successful the days since, delivering hotfix aft hotfix arsenic it works to set to the desires of a subordinate basal that rapidly exploded upon its release. And portion the game's run has garnered a mixed response, IGN's Battlefield 6 multiplayer reappraisal returned an 8/10 score.

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