Throughout an investor’s day occasion online game writer EA revealed just a few attention-grabbing numbers about their Star Wars video games. And whereas many really feel Star Wars is at an alltime low proper now, after The Acolyte, the numbers EA revealed show that the model can nonetheless be well-liked. So long as Lucasfilm just isn’t involed an excessive amount of.
EA revealed that web earnings for all of their video games mixed is $5 billion (this contains older titles in addition to microtransactions in video games like Battlefront). Fascinating right here is that in 2021 EA mentioned mixed web earnings for his or her Star Wars video games are $3 billion, that means mixed gross sales of Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor plus gross sales of older titles added one other $2 billion up to now three years alone.
Fallen Order and Survivor have a mixed participant depend of over 40 million (EA didn’t present detailed numbers for every sport individually, however we all know Fallen Order, all in all, has bought at the very least 20+ million copies so far, and this was in 2021, so perhaps whole gross sales at the moment are within the 25-30 million vary, with Survivor having perhaps 10-15 million)! Whereas this will not be fairly on the extent of GTA V which bought one thing like 65 million copies since its launch 11 years in the past, that is nonetheless an excellent quantity, in truth, these are actually nice numbers. Most video games by no means promote these many copies. EA additionally revealed that Fallen Order retains promoting, it bought about as many copies within the years following its initital launch which is fairly uncommon, most video games don’t hold promoting in vital numbers years after launch. EA additionally acknowledged that Survivor gross sales beat expectations, regardless of a troubled launch on PC with many technical points. Survivor may even quickly be out there for the older console technology. That would give gross sales one other enhance.
A 3rd and ultimate Jedi sport is within the works by Respawn (which was confirmed earlier than however as soon as once more retiterated in the course of the occasion). However don’t count on a launch date earlier than 2026. Fallen Order was launched in November 2019, Survivor in April 2023.
Given how Lucasfilm will after all obtain royalties and minimal ensures by EA it means, EA, regardless of all the problems that they had with Star Wars, earned them fairly some huge cash. And whereas my private opinion of Fallen Order and Survivor just isn’t remotely as optimistic as that of most different individuals it’s good to see that single participant solely video games with no microtransactions achieve this properly for EA; the corporate that famously mentioned single participant video games are on their approach out (and who famously turned Battlefront II into some form of on-line on line casino), solely to be confirmed incorrect by each Fallen Order and Survivor. In reality, it’s the sport as a service and new multiplayer titles which might be actually struggling, dropping their publishers a whole lot of hundreds of thousands this yr alone (Suicide Squad and Harmony are among the worst gaming flops ever).
Nothing was mentioned a few potential Battlefront III sport by EA. It’s additionally unclear what the way forward for Star Wars at EA shall be after the third Jedi sport is launched. However with numbers like these one may suppose EA might wish to launch extra (single participant) video games for Star Wars even after the Jedi video games trilogy concludes.
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