FIFA 19 and FIFA 18 had 45 million unique console and PC players in EA’s fiscal 2019

FIFA is one of the most popular franchises in video games. How popular? The soccer sim drew 45 million unique players on PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One during fiscal year 2019, publisher EA said today in its solid fourth quarter earnings report. EA said this included players for both FIFA 19 and FIFA 18.

FIFA might be EA’s biggest game these days. The brand has incredible power. In April, market research firm The NPD Group reported that FIFA 19 was the ninth best-selling game in the United States between March 2018 and March 2019. And in September, EA said that lifetime sales of the soccer franchise has passed 260 million copies since its first launch in 1993, with more than 193 million downloads for FIFA Mobile and over 115 million registered players for FIFA Online 3 and FIFA Online 4, which are in Asia.