Battlefield 1's player base just keeps growing – it hit 21 million by the end of June
Battlefield 1 continues to be popular with players, and it has gained another 2 million since March 2017.
EA announced today there are 21 million unique players diving into Battlefield 1. This figure is up from the 19 million reported for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017.
FIFA 17 continued to do well, fared well too as FIFA Ultimate Team unique player population was up by 11% year-over-year (yoy) compared to Q1 of fiscal year 16/17. And the FIFA Mobile unique player base also stands at 95 million per end of quarter's end on June 30, 2017.
While financial numbers can be rather boring, we've posted some figures below pertaining to digital and packaged goods.
Digital sales for the quarter came in at $681 million, up from $568 million yoy. Revenue from packaged goods were down yoy to $570 million compared to $582 million during Q1 FY 16/17.
Breaking digital sales down by platform, console sales brought in $368 million, up 25% yoy, while PC and other brought in $163 million, up from $133 million yoy. Mobile contributed to digital revenue with $150 million added to the Q1 pot.
Broken down by sales type, full game download sales contributed $111 million to net digital sales, Live Services which houses DLC, $420 million and mobile $150 million.
For the full quarter, net revenues were up by 14% to $1.45 billion yoy, and 60% came from digital sales.
A call to investors will go off soon, so hopefully, CEO Andrew Wilson and COO Blake Jorgensen will have some interesting tidbits to share. Especially since Star Wars Battlefront 2 is on the way, and more Battlefield 1 content is planned for the year.
We might hear more information on FIFA 18 expectations, maybe something on Visceral's Star Wars game, like how it's coming along, etc, what's going on with Mass Effect: Andromeda and more.
If anything of use to you comes out of the call, we'll be sure to update this post. Or, if it's super-duper interesting, we'll post it separately.
