First Month Bad Company 2 Sales Impress

by Jim Reilly - IGN.com | 19 March 2010 12:00
 
Game is on pace to be the best selling March release ever.
 
Electronic Arts announced Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold 2.3 million copies since its release earlier this month in North American and Europe. The title is on pace to become the best selling March release ever.
 
"This is a testament to the massive response players have had worldwide for the extraordinary action experienced in the Battlefield sandbox," says Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer, Battlefield Franchise. "DICE and EA have brought more servers online. We now have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections seamlessly and we continue to monitor online play daily."
 
EA also passed along some online statistics:
 
- 81B points have been earned in online multiplayer sessions
 
- 43M weapons and gadgets have been unlocked in online multiplayer
 
- Over 6M video views on YouTube
 
- 2.9M hours have been spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone
 
- 230K peak-concurrent-users (PCUs)
 
- Over 44k Twitter fans (most out of any EA title)
 
The second VIP map pack will be made available to those who purchased the game new on March 30, the same day rival publisher Activision will launch the first map pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
 
Supplied by IGN.com