The highly-anticipated launch of Battlefield 6 has been a success, EA has confirmed. The publisher officially revealed some key numbers from the first-person shooter’s launch, and they all look very positive.
Battlefield 6 was very much a make-or-break game for EA, and the beleaguered Battlefield series, but it looks like the first hurdle has been surmounted. According to EA, the game had the “biggest opening ever” in franchise history.
In raw numbers, BF6 sold over 7 million copies in its first three days of launch. This is a new record for the series in terms of sales. As a result, BF6 also had the highest number of concurrent players for any Battlefield game, which is definitely in line with the game’s Steam statistics.
Of course, the writing has been on the wall since the release of the game’s open beta, which itself was the biggest thing ever for Battlefield on Steam. Indeed, launch numbers on the same platform have surpassed even that, which is impressive.
Over the launch period, over 172 million matches were played online. Battlefield 6’s performance on streaming platforms has amounted to over 15 million hours watched, which also isn’t surprising considering how consistently highly the game ranked on Twitch over the three-day launch period.
Battlefield 6’s first post-launch content update arrives in about ten days, kicking off the game’s first season, and bringing a new map and mode. More content will arrive in stages as part of the same season over the course of the remainder of this year.
If you’d rather be in the present, we recently published our picks for the top meta weapons across all categories in Battlefield 6. If you’re after vehicle loadouts instead, we’ve got you covered there as well. Of course, if you haven’t already, these are the BF6 settings you should definitely change.
