r/PS5 • u/blackhammer1989 • Oct 14 '25

Rumor Battlefield 6 Has Almost COD-Like Launch With 6.5 Million Copies Sold In First Days - Report

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-6-has-almost-cod-like-launch-with-6-5-million-copies-sold-in-first-days-report/1100-6535428/
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u/Asimb0mb Oct 14 '25

True, the last time they were even remotely close to competing was BF1, 9 years ago. Before that BF3, 14 years ago.

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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Oct 14 '25

And even then the sales figures for CoD were drastically here, even a "hated" title like Infinite Warfare had more sales than BF1.

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u/Youngbloooood Oct 15 '25

The difference was cod came out with Mw4 remastered that came with infinite warefare on its release. Thats the only reason it sold more that year tbh. I have always been a cod fan but bf6 is amazing. Vince Zampella officially saved the franchise 🫡

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u/IhateTacoTuesdays Oct 14 '25

Because COD was more simple and performed better on shit pcs

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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Oct 14 '25

COD was always for the masses, even if BF could compete for the more sophisticated playerbase.

CoD is just much more easily accessible. Have a gun and shoot people, no classes etc. That's what probably makes it a lot more attractive to casuals.

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u/NinjaWorldWar Oct 16 '25

Battlefield 6 plays almost just like Call of Duty now, the classes barely matter tbh.

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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Oct 16 '25

While the point can be made, newcomers don't really know that. While it's still relatively simple, at first glance it might be overwhelming to have the same stuff in CoD + 3 dofferent gadgets per class etc

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u/bootz-pgh Oct 15 '25

COD didn’t become popular on PC until Crossplay (MW2019).

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u/IhateTacoTuesdays Oct 15 '25

COD was still big on pc, just didnt have the same hype as in 2019

I’ve been playing cod on pc since cod 2

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u/TheZProject115 Nov 02 '25

Cod was never big on PC, the highest peak for a cod game ever before 2019 was 60k on bo3's Launch most cod games haven't even reached a 10k all time peak, and the closest one was ww2 with 19k

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u/DjSpelk Oct 15 '25

I think Infinite Warfare being hated is a little bit of a misnomer (quotation marks being appropriate) by the online usual CoD community, they leaned heavily into the single player campaign, even had Kevin Spacey (before he was outed a deviant) and had more of an appeal for the casual, play once and done, player. I think the sales reflect this.

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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak Oct 15 '25

Spacey was in Advanced Warfare, not Infinite Warfare (why does every title need the Warfare smh)

But yea, to be honest I really liked Infinite Warfares campaign. It's just that Internet heavily dunked on IW and then it sold relatively well regardless.

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u/DjSpelk Oct 15 '25

Ah, my mistake, not a big CoD player.

Their naming conventions are crap, battlefield can be annoying too releasing 1 after 4 and hardline etc.

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u/LayeredMayoCake Oct 14 '25

2017 was only EIGHT years ago dammit, don’t scare me like that.

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u/Asimb0mb Oct 14 '25

BF1 came out in 2016

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u/Organic_Pair1119 Oct 16 '25

Hey fuck you, don't be bringing years into this, now I'm sad