Game news After losing to GTA 5 ten years ago, EA Sports FC 24 suffered another defeat in the United Kingdom: this video game absent from GOTY has dethroned it!
2023 was a particularly important year for Electronic Arts: the firm offered EA Sports FC 24 and not FIFA 24, a turning point above all in marketing for its legendary football saga. And in the UK, a certain bespectacled wizard walked past him.
Love of football
After years of collaboration with FIFA, Electronic Arts has finally decided to terminate its agreement with the iconic organization: a historic gesture which then led to the renaming of its series to “EA Sports FC”, of which EA Sports FC 24 was the very first representative. In itself, the game remains the same, coming from the same developers, even if it loses some licenses to gain others.
Strategically and from a marketing point of view, there was reason to be curious about the commercial reception of this new vintage. Was the general public going to get used to it right away? Would sales continue to reach peaks? Let it be said: there is little chance that this is a failure strictly speaking, even if the launch figures show a drop of 30% compared to the start of FIFA 23. These scores were measured in the United Kingdom, a country that is somewhat of a reference in terms of European video games and, what’s more, a particularly football fanatic.
With 2023 over, it is time to take stock: gamesindustry.biz reveals that the best-selling boxed video game in the United Kingdom is finally… Hogwarts Legacy. This is the first time in ten years that it’s not a game from the FIFA saga (EA Sports FC 24): in this case the last time EA was dethroned was in 2013 against Grand Theft Auto V. Even Red Dead Redemption II had given in to the love of football.
However, one important piece of information should be highlighted: these are only physical sales (down 5% in 2023 in the United Kingdom). Once the digital store scores are known, however, it is a safe bet that EA Sports FC 24 will indeed be number one according to gamesindustry.biz. In addition, remember that Hogwarts Legacy was released in February 2023, while EA’s football simulation only arrived on September 29. The final results should come out later in the week, suspense!
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