EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront expectations: up to 10M copies sold

Electronic Arts hopes that the Force is strong with its first Star Wars game.

The publisher revealed that it expects to sell around 10 million copies of its upcoming shooter Star Wars: Battlefront, which developer DICE is building based on the beloved sci-fi franchise. EA also expects all of that to come during fiscal 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. This may be a reasonable expectation for EA’s big fall shooter — especially considering that the hype for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will reach a zenith around the time of Battlefront’s Nov. 17 launch. Shooters along the lines of DICE’s Battlefield series, which typically launch in the fall, are often among the top-selling games of the year, and the money from Battlefront will factor significantly into EA’s bottom line.