While EA hasn’t revealed any official Battlefield 5 sales numbers, industry data has cropped up that seems to heavily suggest that the game isn’t performing as the publisher would have liked. It seems even analysts are in agreement as well.
In a new report by SeekingAlpha (login required), analyst John Miller states that additional estimate reductions should be expected when it comes to earnings as Battlefield 5 sales disappoint. Check out the summary of his findings, where it posits that the reason for the low sales are due to the delayed battle royale mode, consumer backlash, and more.
- Battlefield V suffered from consumer backlash as a less authentic portrayal of WWII was revealed.
- EA formally revised FY 2019 net bookings guidance; the outlook was revised from $5.55 billion to $5.20 billion.
- The limited nature of Battlefield V’s single player campaign at launch, unimplemented cooperative missions and the delay for the battle royale mode frustrated players.
- All the major retailers currently have the title on sale for 33% to 50% off.
- As hard sales data comes forward in January, look for additional downward revenue revisions from analysts and corresponding pressure on the stock price.
Will EA garner a lot of holiday sales for Battlefield V? For DICE’s sake, let’s hope so.
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They told me not to buy it. I happily obliged 🙂
You didn’t buy it because you don’t like women in your video games. That is the only reason.
I didn’t buy it for the same reason i didn’t buy Fallout 76 or won’t buy Diablo Immortal. Devs thinking so little of their fanbase and mocking them should know their place. Consumers decide rheir fortunes, not the other way around.
Dice, Blizzard and Bethesda will hopefully learn or go down belitting their fans.
Funny how your ignorant comments shows his spin about his daughter to blame us “uncultured gamers” (the dumbest shit i read all year” seems to have worked on you hahahaha xD.
The entire game is a soup of ultra left bullshit. It’s not just because there are women in it. NPCs, of course, won’t pick up on this.
Yep. the single player is full of propaganda tries to rewrite history for diversity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlAITCBprI
What a ignorant and misinformed response. All straight males like women in their video games, big ol’boobs and dressed revealing. What we don’t like is inclusion where it doesn’t belong, if a game involves a real life historical event, we don’t want political correctness to piss all over it. If you weren’t such a sjw (yes I can tell you are a complete sjw/wimp by your response) you wouldn’t need me to point out the obvious. But then again, PC people aren’t exactly known for their intelligence.
Don’t be a clown. I bought it, but I was disgusted with them shoving their politics and alternate history down my throat. I bought it but at half the price only a month after release. Don’t confuse your SJW beliefs with my entertainment dollars.
Nothing worse than a male feminist
Don’t be a clown. I bought it, but I was disgusted with them shoving their politics and alternate history down my throat. I bought it but at half the price only a month after release. Don’t confuse your SJW beliefs with my entertainment dollars.
Nothing worse than a male feminist
When does Battlefield V’s battle royal mode come out again?
Don’t know. At this point, don’t much care.
It doesn’t matter when it comes out since it is BF5 related, could be tomorrow or in 10 years, it truly does not matter.
I love women in my video games and the alternate WW2 didn’t bother me at all. Who cares? It’s a video game.
The problem was EA told me NOT to buy it. They lashed out at the consumer and called me those “____-ist” insults. They told me they didn’t want people like me playing their games anymore.
So I decided to skip this game. I gave them want they wanted. They shouldn’t complain when they tell the fan base not to buy it and then they get poor sales as a result.
Keep your opinions to yourselves and focus on making a great game instead of bashing consumers who don’t agree with whatever opinion you have.
I can care less of their opinions… I just want a BF game to feel like a BF game with real war immersion not this agenda ridden game that is trying to keep their Activists happy with their far extreme and worse, forced ideology. EA don’t give a shit about their core customers then I don’t give a F about their games.
The target audience of this game are women, gays, blacks and trans. Good for them. Much progressive.
We are not the target audience.
So we did not buy the game.
Dude you ok? You need to stop smoking crack asap.
Whoosh.
I never knew that smoking crack made people make accurate comments. I guess it’s true what they say, you learn something new everyday. LOL
lmao you damn right mate
lmao you damn right mate
So you are whining about haters by being one? Way to go for that hypocrite title!
White sexist pricks are just as bad as black/hispanic/asian/indian sexist pricks and almost as bad as female sexist pricks (those are the worst.) All you showed with your comment is that you are a racist, could not be more plain and simple. Enjoy being part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
cerodeathblades yes
There is no backlash on the characters in this game. That is a large pile of BS. What the backlash is about is the constant lies coming out of EA and their games. Battlefront 2, come on, this was the biggest screw up from the get go. Battlefield one is good but how many games are they going to make that are so similar to one another.People whined about Activision doing it for years and EA does the exact same thing.
Ummm, on what planet do you live on? The backlash, here on Earth, is the female inclusion where there were no females (in the frontlines.) EA lying is nothing new nor is it the source of the backlash.
I live on a planet where 200 idiots who speak BS about a game doesn’t make it the narrative for the rest. Name me one Battlefield game that is historically accurate?
Of course there was backlash on the unauthentic portrayal of certain ‘characters’ in the game. Wake up and smell the huge vocal outcry.
Where is your source, evidence? There are ZERO Battlefield games that are historical accurate. Go find one and I can tell you how many flaws there are. Just because some keyboard jockey says there is sexism in games, doesn’t make it so.
Seeing as you are able to post here I assume you have access to the general internet, and can see for yourself the very obvious massive backlash about the inappropriate portrayal of WW2 veterans by women. This upsets many people, who aren’t cucks and male feminists
you sir, are an idiot. Just check the youtube video trailer for this game. How many people backlash about the characters. Just the fact that there are now 3 people rebuking your ridiculous comments and no one supporting it says something.
Oh wow, some people on the internet complained, NOOOOOOOOO! You sir are the idiot. How many people is considered a backlash?
Only one word is needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcQzheaGE-w
I got the game because of its gunplay. 100x better than BF1 and with less b.s. on so many things that BF1 got wrong. … But at the other end DICE delivered the
most UN-immersive Battlefield game that I’ve ever played. Even worse for being a WW2 game, something that would make it easy on them but they end up f’ing it up hard with their insane design aesthetics.
I love these feel good stories. Nothing more satisfying than seeing BF5 crash and burn like it deserves. I bet Alex (writer of this article) is crying his eyes out since he has been spinelessly supporting this piece of crap “game” since it was announced. Poor Alex, on the wrong side of history and he isn’t able to grasp that.
Nothing worst in the gaming industry than a SJ journalist pretending to be a gamer
What an incredible analysis. Here is one for free yet again. Next EA gargantuan flop coming up is Anthem, a studio that DOES NOT need to be wasting its time/life making such a generic Destiny clone with an even lacking story then the original Destiny. Get ready for Bioware’s closure in 2 months time.
Or wait for a genius to tell you this a month after the flop is out and why it obviously flopped which we all saw a mile away.
– less authentic portrayal of WWII was revealed.
– very short and actually revising real stories in the single player campaign to pander their agenda
– co-op still missing in the game
– battle royale mode is stil missing int he game and not available for many months
– big retailers have had BFV(a new release game) on sale for 33% to up to 55% .
– a very buggy and unfinished game missing basic features or mechanics
– a AAA EA exec(Patrick… no not that one, the other idiot) shitting on their customers
– a AAA developer, DICE has a party mocking players and their valid criticisms of the game.
These are not counting the reveal day tweets that have been deleted
…these are just some short and quick examples.. The gunplay may be good but the game has been a disaster from day one. What a shame what this franchise has become. From a hype monster to a laughing stock.
Looks like SJ does not sell.