"Battlefield 6 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, 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."
"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."
"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."
Battlefield 6 has sold more than 6.5 million copies, equating to roughly $350 million in gross revenue. Reported development costs reached about $400 million in 2023 and may have increased by another $100–$200 million. The stated player target is 100 million, more than three times the peak of Battlefield 1. PC via Steam accounts for the largest share of copies, with PlayStation and Xbox trailing. Daily concurrent players total about 3.3–3.5 million, with Steam contributing 2.3–2.5 million and PlayStation around 1 million. Season 1 begins October 28. Skate averages 40k–50k concurrent players on Steam.
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