Bad Company 2 Sales Explode From The Battlefield
Defined by its intense vehicle choices, variety of weapons and destructive terrains, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is one of the best games to be released this year. EA and DICE‘s shooter is seen as the direct competitor to Modern Warfare 2 but are the sales for the title up to par?
Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which was once the fastest selling game in the UK, has sold over 2.3 million units since its release a few weeks ago in both US and the UK. The title is now on pace to becoming the top selling title of March, 2010.
EA has also released some interesting stats for the shooter. An accumulative of 81 billion points have been earned in online multiplayer matches, as well as 2.9 million hours being spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone.
Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer of the Battlefield franchise speaks of his delight with the news:
We are so thrilled with the success of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sales and fan response. In the first 48 hours we had such a tremendous rush to multiplayer gameplay that our servers experienced overwhelming demand. This is a testament to the massive response players have had worldwide for the extraordinary action experienced in the Battlefield sandbox.
DICE and EA have brought more servers online. We now have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections seamlessly and we continue to monitor online play daily.
If you’re still on the fence on whether to get the game, check out PlayStation LifeStyle’s Bad Company 2 review.
9 Responses to “Bad Company 2 Sales Explode From The Battlefield”
I was on the fence but since buying it a week ago (and revisiting MW2 inbween) I can safely say this was a good buy…
I certainly wont be rushing out and buying the MW2 map pack…
BFBC2 has a decent campaign and engaging multiplayer. It’s not as whizz bang as MW2, it’s more tactical and makes you think about what you are doing, where you are going and how you to get there.
Don’t get me wrong I love sprinting around Favella on MW2 with my tactical knife but “sprint and slash” is not very clever. BFBC2 is a solid game and deserves to be compared with MW2.
What ThatBoyTim said x 2.
@ ThatBoy Battlefield BadCo 2 DOES NOT deserve to be compared to MW2! WTF! MW2 is a steaming pile of crap with 25yard x 25yard maps!
What Caphead said. lol@”deserves” to be compared.
Non of the of the 3 main fps shouldnt be compared,
MW2 is fast paced killstreak stacking shooter (completely different from its predecessor) which for some reason the singleplayer doesnt feel like nothing compare to the online play lol. Most COD singleplayer are best in the fps genre but multiplayer feels like its two games in one since they feel completely different. The game has its ups and downs with hackers and glitches also the issue the game uses non dedicated servers so matches really depend on you connection especially if your hosting. But if you want to feel like a one man rambo killing machine with jelly blood this is your game.
BFBC2 is a tactical 4 man squad base game with realistic destructible areas and some of the most realistic moments you will see in gaming. The single player is ok its a step up from the first. But it does give you a taste what multiplayer is about you know without the A.I.s. The game has its rocky start but its ok right now since they are having maintence with the servers so sometimes you see a lag once in a blue moon. But the game is pretty addictive.
MAG is a flow blown war experience game with 256 players. Using a mix of COD and BF controls the game performs very well with so much players. It has some Socom mulitplayer element such as customization but there isnt a no respawn mode for those hardcore Socom vets. There is no singleplayer but a ok training mode but gives a steep learning curve for those who like to experience instead of read what certain features do. The game is a blast with a good squad even if your losing but sometimes if you have a garbage squad its not going to be that nice. This goes for BFBC2 as well but its more serious in BFBC2 since its only 24 players. If you have a crap squad in MAG it doesnt really affect that much since you have 120 other players on your side unless you squad is the one holding back the objective. But this game is meant for a group of friends or clans that like working together. Which mean lone wolfing is not the best option unless you leader commands you to take out a objective sneakily.
Actually Caphead – yes it does. For the sole reason that in comparison MW2 is a steaming pile of crap. Thats the point of a comparison. They are both FPS and if you compare them and show how in many many respects BFBC2 is better or improved over the incredibly popular CoD franchise, then it is a good thing for the game. How can you possibly not compare these two games?? I mean seriously, it just doesn’t make sense at all not to.
@ bigwhoop yes they are both FPS, yes they are both modern era war games and that’s where the similarities end. other than that they cannot be compared! only one of these has destructible environments that plays a big role in the game. Only one of these games has a multitude of vehicles to use, So how can it be compared? seems like two totally different games to me!
What erks me is how they compare everything now with MW2, even if its a totally different game!
yeah that bothers me too. These comparisons will run for the rest of the year. Every FPS game reviewed from here on will mention something about MW2, from Killzone 3, to that Bow and Arrow Playstation MOVE game
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