Last year saw EA finally transition from its long-running FIFA series of licensed football games towards its own upstart competitor. Except EA Sports FC wasn't so much an upstart as the moneybags incumbent, and the same yearly upgrade alongside a marketing blitz that saw it plastered across seemingly every football ground saw the audience move over more-or-less seamlessly: EA Sports 24 sold slightly fewer units than 2023's FIFA 24, but ultimately made a lot more money.
EA Sports FC 25 launched in so-called early access (read: pre-order bonus) on September 27, and the publisher's now released a bunch of stats covering the game's first 25 days. Irritatingly this stat dump avoids some of the key metrics such as, y'know, how many people bought the thing, and instead offers up plenty of meaningless fluff about 4.3 billion goals scored and 1.7 billion matches played. But there are some gems in the mud.
