You really can't doubt the power of the force! EA's Star Wars: Battlefront was released on multiple platforms less than two months ago but it's already managed to move an incredible about of units. According to Michael Patcher, a Wedbush securities analyst, the game managed to close out the year at 12 million copies sold, 6 million in November and December. This is even a bit more surprising considering Game Stop executive Tony Bartel spoke about the title back in December saying that "we had high expectations that diminished somewhat as it got closer and failed to hit those lower expectations." This lead to a response from the CFO of Gamestop correcting the prior comments as well as the COO of EA Peter Moore who was "surprised" with the comments made, stating that they were indeed on track to pull in their end goal of 13 million units by the end of the fiscal year in March. Fortunately for EA, it looks very likely that they'll get that last 1 million over the next 3 months if not far surpass their original projections but it looks like Star Wars: Battlefront will be a big pay off for the developer.
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Happy New Years! Although this post is coming a bit late in the day, it means all the same. Looking forward to another exciting year full of awesome games and inspiring movies. Over the next week, I'll be rolling out the last of the 2015 post and introducing something new for 2016! Thank you to everyone who regularly checks this little nerd corner blog and here is to bigger and better things in the year to come!
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