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Battlefield 1 beats Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in social video battle

Electronic Arts said that its social media reactions broke records with its revelation of the Battlefield 1 video game last Friday. And the reaction to the reveal trailer for the World War I-based game was far more positive than the reaction earlier last week to the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer.

On YouTube, Battlefield 1’s trailer received 20.6 million views in the first 72 hours. That compares to 14.9 million views for the Call of Duty trailer in more than a week. In addition, the reactions to Battlefield 1 were overwhelmingly positive, while the reaction to Infinite Warfare was negative. EA noted that the views on Battlefield 1 were bigger than a full year’s worth of views on Star Wars Battlefront.

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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.