Battlefield 3 took market share from Call of duty - EA

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Despite Activision’s latest Call of Duty setting entertainment launch records for the third consecutive year, rival EA was successful in capturing a slice of the franchise’s pie this year with Battlefield 3, COO Peter Moore is confident.

“I think when the dust fully settles, maybe when we’re looking at the end of our fiscal year, we’ll do an analysis and I think we will have taken [market] share,” Moore tells MCV. “I don’t think there’s any doubt about that, unless everything BF3 sells is just incremental.”

The rivalry of the shooter giants, which mainly manifested in verbal back and forths initiated and kept alive by EA, also benefited “gamers and the industry,” Moore adds.

“Together we’ve grown the genre enormously. 10m sold in and 5m sold through doesn’t come out of nowhere – if we haven’t gained share, that means in the first week we’ve added 5 million new FPS gamers.” That, or a lot of people simply bought both shooters.

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StonerzardPosted:

coDyDaTallGuy
Hawks484
ExoticzOG
Y0_MAMA_N_PAPA
Epic-BigC
Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.
2 things,
1: Skyrim is nominated for top game of 2011, not CoD or BF3
2: Skyrim had a prequel, and so did MW3, BF3 had zero% base start so that means BF3 had to get all fans hooked in one game. MW series has been out how long?(5 years) 5 more years than BF to get a base to start with story wise. BTW MW3 only advertised multiplayer because they knew their story skills were garbage.

BF3 had no prequel? Have you not played BF2 of BF1


I hope you are joking when you say BF1. The first battlefield game was Battlefield 1942. Get your facts straight!
Battlefield 1942 came first then battlefield 1, then BF2 then Badcompany, then Badcompany 2, then BF3. You get your facts straight!
No get your facts straight !!!
2002 Battlefield 1942
2003 Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
2003 Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
2004 Battlefield Vietnam
2005 Battlefield 2
2005 Battlefield 2: Special Forces
2005 Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
2006 Battlefield 2: Euro Forces
2006 Battlefield 2: Armored Fury
2006 Battlefield 2142
2007 Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
2008 Battlefield: Bad Company
2009 Battlefield Heroes
2009 Battlefield 1943
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
2010 Battlefield Online
2011 Battlefield Play4Free
2011 Battlefield 3
This is the order in which they came out... Now stop arguing on what came out when...


You can't compare Battlefield or CoD to Skyrim. They're two different genres. I prefer CoD to Battlefield, and having played both I'm entitled to my own opinion. I'd happily play a FIFA game over any other game if I'm honest, and also get your facts right. Battlefield has had many other prequals, MW3 has had 7, not including spin-offs and extensions. Releasing a Battlefiels 3 open beta obviously entised a lot more customers. But if you see the amount of people that play CoD to Battlefield, then look at the ratio. I would guess that CoD would have more players.

coDyDaTallGuyPosted:

Hawks484
ExoticzOG
Y0_MAMA_N_PAPA
Epic-BigC
Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.
2 things,
1: Skyrim is nominated for top game of 2011, not CoD or BF3
2: Skyrim had a prequel, and so did MW3, BF3 had zero% base start so that means BF3 had to get all fans hooked in one game. MW series has been out how long?(5 years) 5 more years than BF to get a base to start with story wise. BTW MW3 only advertised multiplayer because they knew their story skills were garbage.

BF3 had no prequel? Have you not played BF2 of BF1


I hope you are joking when you say BF1. The first battlefield game was Battlefield 1942. Get your facts straight!
Battlefield 1942 came first then battlefield 1, then BF2 then Badcompany, then Badcompany 2, then BF3. You get your facts straight!
No get your facts straight !!!
2002 Battlefield 1942
2003 Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
2003 Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
2004 Battlefield Vietnam
2005 Battlefield 2
2005 Battlefield 2: Special Forces
2005 Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
2006 Battlefield 2: Euro Forces
2006 Battlefield 2: Armored Fury
2006 Battlefield 2142
2007 Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
2008 Battlefield: Bad Company
2009 Battlefield Heroes
2009 Battlefield 1943
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
2010 Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
2010 Battlefield Online
2011 Battlefield Play4Free
2011 Battlefield 3
This is the order in which they came out... Now stop arguing on what came out when...

Hawks484Posted:

ExoticzOG
Y0_MAMA_N_PAPA
Epic-BigC
Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.
2 things,
1: Skyrim is nominated for top game of 2011, not CoD or BF3
2: Skyrim had a prequel, and so did MW3, BF3 had zero% base start so that means BF3 had to get all fans hooked in one game. MW series has been out how long?(5 years) 5 more years than BF to get a base to start with story wise. BTW MW3 only advertised multiplayer because they knew their story skills were garbage.

BF3 had no prequel? Have you not played BF2 of BF1


I hope you are joking when you say BF1. The first battlefield game was Battlefield 1942. Get your facts straight!
Battlefield 1942 came first then battlefield 1, then BF2 then Badcompany, then Badcompany 2, then BF3. You get your facts straight!

nausirPosted:

shadow1
UKxRush Battlefield has not been around longer than cod and BF3 is not being played by a lot of people as it is not a bad company and people want to carry on the series of BF1 and BF2


Im pretty sure BF:1942 came out like a year or 2 before cod 1. And BC is just another side story that is nothing different from the oringinal series besides the story. You sir need to learn some stuff.


Battlefield 1942 came out in 2002 while Call of Duty came out a year later.

shadow1Posted:

Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.


That is true, but skyrim has already passed oblivion sales and it is going to catching up fast for mw3. Just look at christmas, skyrim will probably pass BO.

shadow1Posted:

UKxRush Battlefield has not been around longer than cod and BF3 is not being played by a lot of people as it is not a bad company and people want to carry on the series of BF1 and BF2


Im pretty sure BF:1942 came out like a year or 2 before cod 1. And BC is just another side story that is nothing different from the oringinal series besides the story. You sir need to learn some stuff.

SteelSeriesPosted:

UKxRush Battlefield has not been around longer than cod and BF3 is not being played by a lot of people as it is not a bad company and people want to carry on the series of BF1 and BF2


The Battlefield series is older that CoD's, and your sentence makes no sense.

UKxRushPosted:

Battlefield has not been around longer than cod and BF3 is not being played by a lot of people as it is not a bad company and people want to carry on the series of BF1 and BF2

ExoticzOGPosted:

Y0_MAMA_N_PAPA
Epic-BigC
Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.
2 things,
1: Skyrim is nominated for top game of 2011, not CoD or BF3
2: Skyrim had a prequel, and so did MW3, BF3 had zero% base start so that means BF3 had to get all fans hooked in one game. MW series has been out how long?(5 years) 5 more years than BF to get a base to start with story wise. BTW MW3 only advertised multiplayer because they knew their story skills were garbage.

BF3 had no prequel? Have you not played BF2 of BF1


I hope you are joking when you say BF1. The first battlefield game was Battlefield 1942. Get your facts straight!

System32Posted:

Epic-BigC
Kira All I got to say to BF3 fanboys is,

Skyrim is beating you.

A game that doesn't even have Multi Player is beating you.

Get embarrassed.
2 things,
1: Skyrim is nominated for top game of 2011, not CoD or BF3
2: Skyrim had a prequel, and so did MW3, BF3 had zero% base start so that means BF3 had to get all fans hooked in one game. MW series has been out how long?(5 years) 5 more years than BF to get a base to start with story wise. BTW MW3 only advertised multiplayer because they knew their story skills were garbage.


Battlefield has been around longer than COD... :facepalm:


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