NPD is reporting (via WSJ) that Star Wars Battlefront 2 sales (in the US), were only 882,000 in its debut month. This is in sharp contrast to chief Activision rival Call of Duty: WWII, which instead sold 4.4 million copies during the month using the same metric. And more generally, it’s hard to come back from being utterly savaged by fans and critics like Battlefront has been. It may remain locked in place, but this year has been just an utter disaster between Battlefront 2’s performance and the cancelation of the much-hyped Visceral Star Wars game from Amy Hennig. That leaves upcoming Star Wars games from Respawn and I believe BioWare, and whatever will happen to Battlefront next, but there needs to be a healing and learning process after the pitfalls of this year.

Source: Forbes December 08, 2017 14:33 UTC