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Star Wars Battlefront sells 12 million copies

by on04 January 2016


The force is strong in this one

EA's Star Wars Battlefront has sold 12 million copies since its launch in November thanks to Disney's Star War's reboot.

Adding up the numbers and dividing by the number of Ewoks who can defeat the Empire with stone age weapons, Video game industry analyst Michael Pachter (via Forbes) has calculated that the game has generated approximately $660 million in revenue.

His figures are backed up by research analyst Evan Wilson, who estimates the game sold up to 13 million copies.

The game is based on the original 1977-1983 trilogy of films and does not have any references to the new film, although word on the street is that there may well be additional content based on it released for Battlefront some time in 2016.

The Force Awakens flick has been represented in the video game medium with a new playset for Disney Infinity 3.0, which was released alongside the film and did depict the events from it.

Pachter said that Disney Infinity's Star Wars games, which are (based on The Force Awakens and the Clone Wars animated TV series, have generated £200m in revenue during the latter part of 2015, putting it ahead of competing toys-to-life games Lego Dimensions and Skylanders.

Last modified on 04 January 2016
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