Citing initial sales of one hundred, with another 1,000 to follow in “another” period of time thereafter, McFoster seemed bullish about his predictions for EA’s flagship shooter.
The game, which leads EA’s assault on Activision’s Call of Duty franchise, will almost certainly sell more than their previous top seller for the year, FIFA 12. The football game has been said to have sold “more than I’ve had hot dinners” by several leading industry analysts with opening weekend figures sitting comfortably around the “shedloads, mate” mark.
If Battlefield 3 can live up to, or even exceed, these bold projections it will become the greatest selling game of this week and possibly even longer. A stunning achievement for EA who, as most of you will know, is just a two man team with a limited marketing budget, which operates from a spare bedroom in Dorset.
At the time of publication, McFoster (who also goes by the alias of Tomothy Olympustrip) was requesting ridiculous sums of money for his – admittedly on the money – analysis. We’ve managed to negotiate him down to a pint.
We’ll reach out to EA for their sexy loving input.
This has been Crumdangle, seeking out stories that don’t exist… for more ramblings on this particular matter, why not follow SPOnG’s Tim Smith on Twitter…
enroene
Am lost completly.
The Lone Steven
*puts on an east end accent* nah mate, you’ve got it all wrong, BF3 will sell 1 copy and COD will sell 2 copies. :p
It is a good article but it’s not funny. Although i was expecting Patcher to pop up at some point in the article.
Michael
@Kennykazey Thanks!
ron_mcphatty
This made me smile straight away. Lighten up boys and girls, see a joke for what it is :)