Now that EA Sports FC 24 has fully debuted and launched on PC and consoles, we’ve got a look at the game’s sales. Over in the UK, Christopher Dring of Gamesindustry.biz shared a bunch of information about the game’s physical launch, which is both a big launch but not as big as FIFA 23.
Dring points out that EA Sports FC 24 has the second-biggest physical launch of the year in the UK, seeing the title trailing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom but ahead of Hogwarts Legacy. As for comparisons to FIFA 23 a year ago, the physical launch is said to be Launch sales were down 30%, with only Nintendo Switch’s launch sales increasing.
As for why, sales are generally lower, and no doubt the ongoing changes in the way people buy games apply here as well, as more and more people gravitate towards digital copies of games over physical boxed sets every year.