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FIFA 12 scores 3.2 million sales within first week

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 5th 2011 6:00AM

As was foretold, FIFA 12 had the largest first-week sales of any sports game ever and of any video game in 2011 to date -- meaning, the window in which Gears of War 3 held that title was even smaller than expected. Electronic Arts estimates FIFA 12 sold 3.2 million units between September 27 and October 2.

EA also estimates that FIFA 12 sales are up approximately 23 percent over last year's record-breaking launch. Other stats from the publisher include FIFA 12 for iPhone and iPad selling 879,000 units, and October 1 being the busiest day for online gaming in EA Sports history. 10 million EA Sports game sessions were played, with eight million of those being FIFA 12.

If EA gets lucky, it'll double-dip some FIFA success within a year when FIFA Street launches in March.

Source: EA

Tags: EA, EA-Sports, Electronic-Arts, fifa-12, fifa-soccer-12, microsoft, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (15)

mmh fifa.. havent played fifa since fifa 98.

16 days til FM12...

@Viiral
Fifa 98 was the bomb!

@Hivetyrant yes it was! best fifa.

Worth mentioning that Fifa was every-platform, gears was 360 exclusive. Does that include iPhone/iPad sales, too?

@liam FIFA is like on... everything.

@liam So? Make Gears for more platforms then.

I never got the appeal of Fifa, but man a ton of "bros" on campus love them some Fifa so I can see this performing strong.

My Live account was hacked into because of this silly game. The person bought a bunch of gold premium cards with my MSpoints and unlocked two achievements.
Apparently I'm not the only one. http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/f/12/p/97215/466387.aspx

@lippenhoffer

Same here. They bought points, a family account, and Fifa.

I was going to be snarky about "estimated" sales, but that's a lot of futbol.

Easily the best to date... Bought it on PC ($20 cheaper) and its every bit as good as its console counterpart.

The PC version is actually better now. Same engine and features as the consoles (at last), but with faster load screens, higher resolutions and better graphics options. Shame that my friends are on 360.

Am I the only one who bought PES instead?

@Cranky Penguin

Statistically speaking, yes.

Fifa always comes and reminds me that other people in the world play video games and those people all like only one sport - soccer

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Posted: Oct 5th 2011 6:22AM Viiral said

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