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At its launch, FIFA 22 managed to reach 9 million new players who purchased a copy of the video game.
According to company data, FIFA 22 generated revenue of 1.75 billion dollars.
FIFA 23, since it was released, has sold 10.3 million units, setting a new record.
It’s been just over a month since the release of FIFA 23 and now comes the teaser official content of the Qatar 2022 World Cup that will arrive for the entire EA Sports video game community.
2022 brought with it the launch of FIFA 23, with which EA Sports celebrated 30 years of relationship with the highest governing body of football, the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA), which gave rise to one of the most successful sagas in the videogame history.
Since last year, what was confirmed months later was announced, and that has to do with the end of the relationship between both companies and, with it, the end of the saga. ‘FIFA’ which, in 2021, sold more than nine million units in the first days after its releasethis according to data from the North American company.
In May of this year, EA Sports officially presented the EA Sports Football Club, the successor to FIFA, after it was made official that FIFA 23 would be the last to bear that title.
According to a publication in The New York Times, which was released in October 2021FIFA intended to collect around a billion dollars from EA Sports for every four years, a figure that, in reality, is double what it was already charging, and that was the conflict that led to the end of an era that, As revealed by the video game company, it has started well.
Now, ahead of the launch of FIFA 23, the greatest challenge was not to beat Konami’s eFootball, but to beat itself, and this it has achieved.
Thus, just over a month after FIFA 23 reached the various video game consoles, Electronic Arts, in a recent report, announced that, in less than 15 days since its most recent title was released, Some 10.3 million units were sold, surpassing what FIFA 22 did, and setting a new sales record.
What follows for the company, at least in the remainder of 2022, is one of its most anticipated releases by video game fans, which has to do with the next World Cup.
And it is that, finally, today the teaser of the update with which the official game of the Qatar 2022 World Cup will be launched and with which FIFA 23 hopes to reach more fans, thinking about what will happen in 2023, with the arrival of its next new title.
According to what the company announced, this update will be free and will be available from November 9, 11 days before the World Cup begins, and will reach PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, except on Switch.
This is, without a doubt, good news for fans, especially at a time when criticism of the company has begun to emerge, mainly due to the loss of two relevant licenses.
In short, the battle of soccer video games continues to be led by EA Sports, a company that, however, will face a big bet in 2023, when the FIFA saga has disappeared and a new era begins.
With its next update, Electronic Arts seeks to consolidate a market that is already large, since, as is well known, the World Cup is one of the most important commercial windows. In fact, very important income is expected for this edition, above all because, according to information from the FIFA, the last World Cup, the one in Russia, achieved revenues of more than four billion dollars, more than half of what it registered in the World Cup in Brazil, in 2014.
We’ll see how FIFA 23 fares when the World Cup update hits consoles.