EA: We don’t expect Battlefield 3 to beat Modern Warfare 3

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There has been a lot of mudslinging and smack talking between the heads of EA and Activision, where EA folks have repeatedly stated that Battlefield 3 is designed to take down Modern Warfare 3 and that Call of Duty will be over in 2-3 years. That’s EA when they’re speaking in general to create hype around their product.
However, the tone is quite different when they’re talking to investors and shareholders. EA CFO Eric Brown recently told a group of investors that they don’t expect Battlefield 3 to surpass Modern Warfare. Brown said:
“Just to be clear, the [Call of Duty] franchise did about 23 million units worldwide. We don’t expect to surpass them with this year’s Battlefield 3, just to be very clear.”
To borrow the phrase from Brown, “just to be very clear”, no one really expected Battlefield 3 to beat Modern Warfare 3 in terms of units sold, but it will most certainly give it a run for its money. Many industry analysts expect Battlefield 3 sales to top 10 million, and the game is off to a great start, if recent pre-order numbers are any indication: Battlefield 3 has been pre-ordered 1.25 million times to date, with a month and a half left until game launch.

http://bf3blog.com/2011/09/ea-we-dont-expect-battlefield-3-to-beat-modern-warfare-3/

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spy4561Posted:

rayanXxX this site is full with whiny **** kids, if you don't like bf3 then gtfo you worthless piece of ****, same to you bf3 fanboys, who gives a **** if bf3 is better then mw3 ? it's a **** game you stupid **** Jew **** **** licking **** dumpster **** sniffing douchebag gay adopted 10 years old.


Calm down, now you seem like a whiny kid. If you were more mature, you wouldn't even comment complaining.

rayanXxXPosted:

this site is full with whiny ass kids, if you don't like bf3 then gtfo you worthless piece of shit, same to you bf3 fanboys, who gives a **** if bf3 is better then mw3 ? it's a **** game you stupid ****** Jew ****** penis licking *** dumpster **** sniffing douchebag gay adopted 10 years old.

iijesuschristPosted:

blackoutsn1per
dxbeats Finally they realize that battlefield 3 never gonna beat MW3 in ANY WAY.


Beat in Sales. They didnt mention Quality, Gameplay, Sound, Feel, or anything else Mw3 is going to lose in the fight. Its like a slap in the face. Bf3 may lose the sales but Bf3 will be the better game.
RIGHT the game is all around better period

BF3Posted:

shadow1
DRoseMVP
-MaGNeTic_MaN- I'm not a Cod fan boy but any game that you can see people spawn in the other side of the map and then you can snipe them i would say is a fail! Nearly every battlefield game you can do that in! I'm still going to get the game but think that it's nothing compaired to Mw3. Anyway can't hate on any game until its out dipshits.

Lol spawntrapping was a BIG reason that Black Ops sucked. It is way more effective than sniping someone in their spawn. I hope that when you get the game you realize that it is better.


The thing is that gravity effects bullets so it will be hard to spawn trap.


and that snipers are only ohk to the head so no body shots will kill

shadow1Posted:

DRoseMVP
-MaGNeTic_MaN- I'm not a Cod fan boy but any game that you can see people spawn in the other side of the map and then you can snipe them i would say is a fail! Nearly every battlefield game you can do that in! I'm still going to get the game but think that it's nothing compaired to Mw3. Anyway can't hate on any game until its out dipshits.

Lol spawntrapping was a BIG reason that Black Ops sucked. It is way more effective than sniping someone in their spawn. I hope that when you get the game you realize that it is better.


The thing is that gravity effects bullets so it will be hard to spawn trap.

DecyferGamingPosted:

Sorry I had to post for the third time because you COD FANBOYS won't get in your head that, sales means nothing when it cmes to the better game. People buy it because it says ''Call of duty''. There is nothing exciting to look forward too for MW3. I'm getting both games but sales don't prove anything.

blackoutsn1perPosted:

dxbeats Finally they realize that battlefield 3 never gonna beat MW3 in ANY WAY.


Beat in Sales. They didnt mention Quality, Gameplay, Sound, Feel, or anything else Mw3 is going to lose in the fight. Its like a slap in the face. Bf3 may lose the sales but Bf3 will be the better game.

KiiLERPosted:

iZoid
TTG_KiiLER
ImJello
Poetic
Rozy EVERY BATTLEFIELD FANBOY PLEASE SHUT UP NOW! Even the makers of your game said MW3 will win in sales and if they win in sales that means it is better. Its like saying a ford focus is better than a chevy camaro. CoD will always outsell and be better then battlefield games.

You know realize by your logic, you are saying a ford taurus is better than a bugatti veyron.
I was looking through the comments to find his and was going to comment comparing the exact same thing, but i was gonna throw in a ferrari too...oh well


HEY LOOK GUYS IM RETARRDEDD AND I PLAY MW3!


Kids on this site need to grow up. If you don't want to play a game, then don't play it, You don't need to get upset becuase other people choose to play it, I will buy both games. Their two different games. You can buy both games if you want too, even the developers of these games don't hate on the other games. robert bowling played Battlefield and liked it, and of course he likes MW3. Seriously just grow up.


Im not a kid fuccckerr get ur shat strait

thePiManxPosted:

The reason that CoD is so successful is the CoD4 formula. WaW was just a worn out beaten down dog.

it was only saved by the zombies and that is becoming BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING!

Black Ops was better because of the 'more' modern and pretty much everyone is tired of WWII games.

MW2 really brought it home.

BUT, I if EA and Dice keep refining the formula, it will truly be a contender.

Im still a CoD fanboy, but i WILL be buying MW3 along with BF3.

DRoseMVPPosted:

-MaGNeTic_MaN- I'm not a Cod fan boy but any game that you can see people spawn in the other side of the map and then you can snipe them i would say is a fail! Nearly every battlefield game you can do that in! I'm still going to get the game but think that it's nothing compaired to Mw3. Anyway can't hate on any game until its out dipshits.

Lol spawntrapping was a BIG reason that Black Ops sucked. It is way more effective than sniping someone in their spawn. I hope that when you get the game you realize that it is better.


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