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EA is weathering Star Wars: Battlefront II selling only 9 million copies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts reported financials for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31 that were slightly below what analysts expected, as its marquee game, Star Wars: Battlefront II, sold only 9 million copies during the holiday quarter.

The earnings were the first real indication of how EA’s big release of the holidays sold. Star Wars: Battlefront II came out on November 17 and was timed for the Star Wars extravaganza related to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi. But pesky gamers mucked it up when they complained that EA’s loot boxes unfairly created a pay-to-win situation.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.