Battlefield 6 poised to hit big in its first week

Analysts anticipate Battlefield 6 will sell five million copies in its first week on the market. This comes thanks to the game’s high beta player count of around 22 to 25 million players.

According to The Game Business, data supplies, such as Ampere, note behaviors from normally COD players who jumped in to try BF6’s beta. Interestingly, a substantial percentage of players ranging on different platforms — 29% of Xbox players, 24% of PlayStation players, and a whopping 48% of PC players — never returned to their original FPS.

Now, to be fair, there is a distinct differences between the audiences of COD and Battlefield. On one hand, both games are first-person military shooters, but where COD focuses on small-scale battles and team-based multiplayer, Battlefield likes more large-scale assaults.

Plenty of people hope Battlefield 6, which is promising some stuff that feels a wee bit targeted, will put the heat on Activision to improve Call of Duty, but in the end, let’s be real — these are competing games with differing audiences.

Battlefield 6 launches to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S on October 10.

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