In October, EA Sports FC 24 took the second place among the highest-grossing games in the United States and the United Kingdom
On September 29, 2023, Electronic Arts released EA Sports FC 24, the first football simulator released after the company ended its partnership with FIFA. Newzoo analysts studied the success of the project in October and compared its initial performance with that of FIFA 23.
- According to Newzoo, EA Sports FC 24 has become the second highest-grossing game for consoles and PCs in the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2022, FIFA 23 also ranked second in the box office top in these countries. Analysts did not say how much both titles earned.
- In October, EA Sports FC 24, like FIFA 23 at the time, topped the box office top sports simulators in the United States and Great Britain.
- The standard edition of EA Sports FC 24 was bought much more often than the ultimate edition. It accounted for 87.1% of sales.
- For the sake of EA Sports FC 24, many gamers stopped playing other games. 58.1% of all EA Sports FC 24 users spent time playing Counter-Strike 2 before the title was released, 48.1% played FIFA 23, and 32.5% played Fortnite.
- In October, 74% of EA Sports FC 24 users also spent money on FIFA 23, 56.2% on Fortnite, and 55.8% on FIFA 22.
- EA Sports FC 24 significantly surpassed its predecessor in terms of the number of monthly active users (MAU) on PCs and consoles worldwide* in the first month among games of all genres. She took the eighth place in the ranking, whereas FIFA 23 at one time was able to take only the 15th place.
- However, in the ranking only with sports simulators, both EA Sports FC 24 and FIFA 23 took second place, losing to Rocket League.
- EA Sports FC 24's main MAU markets are the United Kingdom and the United States. In FIFA 23, they were the United Kingdom and Germany.
- In October 2023, EA Sports FC 24 users spent an average of 38.1 hours playing the game. This is slightly more than for FIFA 23 in October 2022. Then the average playing time was 36 hours.
- However, EA Sports FC 24 lost to FIFA 23 in terms of the number of hours of stream views in the first month. EA Sports FC 24 streams on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook Gaming** have accumulated a total of 53.7 million hours of views. FIFA 23 streams — 64.6 million hours of views.
Earlier, Electronic Arts announced that EA Sports FC 24 has become its new hit. During the debut week, 11.3 million people tried the game, including EA Play subscribers, and by the end of the first month, the simulator's audience exceeded 14.5 million people.
At the same time, gamers speak rather coolly about the game. Its rating on Steam is 56%, on Metacritic, users rated EA Sports FC 24 at 2.5 points out of 10. Most often, gamers complain about similarities with previous games in the series and various technical problems.
*Newzoo collects data in 37 major markets, excluding China and India.
**Belongs to the Meta company banned in the territory of the Russian Federation.
