EA and DICE have revealed that Battlefield 6 sold 7 million copies in its first three days, a new franchise record and a launch on the scale of Call of Duty, according to the publisher’s press release.
That 7 million figure translates to roughly $490 million if every copy was the $70 base edition, and the total is higher once you factor in $100 premium bundles and other editions. Battlefield 6 also hit massive peaks on Steam at launch, with 747,000 concurrent players that pushed the series toward Steam’s all-time Top 10, a momentum hint we first covered when early numbers surfaced in our previous report on the game’s initial sales surge.
Call of Duty’s publisher has not been as transparent with unit totals in recent years, and Black Ops 7 lands on November 14. Activision’s use of Xbox Game Pass for recent CoD releases has been credited with lowering traditional unit sales, so comparing raw numbers across launches is messier than it looks. Still, Battlefield 6’s early haul is the clearest sign in years that the franchise can reach Call of Duty levels during a big launch window.
For players and the industry, this looks like a meaningful reassertion of Battlefield’s commercial heft. Console and PC communities will be watching whether Black Ops 7 can match or beat these numbers when it launches next month.
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