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Brendan Lowry

Battlefield 6 boldly claims it's the "best-selling shooter game of the year," even though Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 just came out — will its lead hold?

An official screenshot of Battlefield 6.

There's no denying it: Battlefield 6 has proven to be a smash hit for publisher Electronic Arts (EA) and developer Battlefield Studios, and the FPS is still drawing in thousands upon thousands of players over a month after launch. At release, it blew up the Steam charts with nearly 750K concurrent players, sold a gargantuan 7 million copies in just three days, and scored highly on Metacritic with widespread positive reviews.

That copies sold metric, in particular — as well as the fact that Battlefield 6 held the #1 position on Steam's Top Sellers list for weeks — is indicative of the fact that the game has been a massive commercial success for EA, at least in its opening month. Indeed, 7 million sales in three days is a majorly impressive achievement, and I do not doubt that sales since then have continued to be strong.

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