Although FIFA 22 has just recently been released, it doesn’t appear as though EA SPORTS is stopping momentum on the franchise anytime soon. EA SPORTS has shared a new job posting on LinkedIn for the position of Game Project Manager, with it mentioning an interesting bit of information about the FIFA video game.
The discourse around the FIFA franchise has been riddled with arguments about the video game’s small changes from each installment as well as the controversial in-game microtransactions, but it appears as though the franchise is still fairing rather well. In a job posting on LinkedIn, EA claimed that EA SPORTS FIFA is the best-selling video game in the industry.
The job post specifically states: “At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world’s #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.” With FIFA 22 just having recently come out, and the huge sales FIFA has already done in previous installments, it’s no surprise the video game series has more than 200m engaged players.
The FIFA video game series has always been a juggernaut for EA, garnering millions of sales with each new game - and that’s not even including the amount it makes off of microtransactions and subscriptions. Currently, it seems as though EA is looking into changing the name of the FIFA video game series, so it'll be interesting to see if this has any effect at all on future sales.
The FIFA video game franchise has an installment just about every year, so the number of sales for FIFA is, on one hand, not too surprising. Still, most of that surprise comes from the recently mixed discourse around FIFA. Even though each installment has been garnering fairly decent reviews, at least over on Metacritic, each installment has also been bombarded with negative reviews from the fans.
Even still, FIFA finds itself selling millions of copies, seemingly without any issues. On top of that, players that aren’t rushing out to purchase the newest FIFA installment are still actively playing the previous ones. 200m engaged players is a massive amount of people, especially for just one video game franchise. It’s unclear how the engaged players metric was measured, seeing as the job post didn’t mention if these stats nor did it mention how many copies of the FIFA video game series has sold. Still, if this job posting is to be believed, it doesn’t appear as though the FIFA franchise is stopping anytime soon.