While EA hasn’t revealed any sales numbers for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, it seems to be doing fairly well against expectations — at least according to EA CEO Andrew Wilson.
During EA’s latest quarterly earnings call, EA was asked how Survivor was faring against its predecessor Fallen order.
Matthew Thornton (Truist Securities): Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, just wondering if you can maybe give us a little bit of color — put a little more meat on the bone, just maybe how that’s faring relative to its predecessor and how to think about that title for the balance of the year.
Andrew Wilson (EA CEO): On Jedi, again, we’re overjoyed. We made the bold decision to move the title 6 weeks to give the team the opportunity to really get to the quality of games they wanted. And of course, as you heard in our prepared remarks, the quality has been very, very strong, and many are proclaiming is going to be a game of the year contender. And certainly, playing it and speaking to people who are playing it, it represents incredible storytelling in the Star Wars universe. And so I think we’re building on where we were with Jedi: Fallen Order. And we’re — and it’s certainly been a very strong launch for us. It was very early. I think we’re 11 days in at this point. We’re in a different kind of market dynamic, but I would tell you it’s pacing very strongly against our expectations and against Jedi: Fallen Order.’
Hopefully, we’ll get a proper sales number from EA soon. At the very least, it seems to be doing well, so the chances of gamers getting the trilogy its game director wanted seems to be looking very likely.
If you haven’t played the game yet, go check out our review here where we said, “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is a fun action game and a worthy follow-up from Respawn, just be prepared to fight some of its tech issues along the way.”
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