Research Firm Says Titanfall 2 Sales Will Be "Substantially Disappointing"

Titanfall 2 is out today, following upwardly Respawn Entertainment's hit 2022 mecha first-person shooter with an improved multiplayer feel and a spanking new full-fledged single thespian campaign mode. While the game launched to a big eagerly pending fan base, and is getting strong reviews from both critics as well every bit players, Electronic Arts might be in for a blow. The latest FPS from ex-Phone call of Duty developers is set to be a disappointment in terms of sales, co-ordinate to Cowen & Company, a company defended to the investment management and market inquiry.

Titanfall 2 sales are going to be "substantially disappointing," Cowen & Visitor said in its written report today, ahead of Electronic Arts' earnings briefing next week. They are expected to exist bad plenty to offset how potent Battleground 1 is expected to be, notes GameSpot. The research business firm estimates sales of the just-launched shooter to be in the 5 million to 6 million range. This is a drib from the firm's previous ix meg forecast. The quality of Titanfall 2, Cowen & Company points out, isn't the problem, but the launch timing is not the best.

"We think the game got squeezed between Battlefield ane and [Telephone call of Duty: Space Warfare]," the report stated. "Nosotros doubtable EA believed that past launching two shooters next to Call of Duty it could put a big paring in its biggest competitor, but instead EA appears to have wound up shooting its own foot off."

On the other hand, Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, said before that Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 serve dissimilar types of shooter games players, allowing EA to broadly comprehend the genre. "[Shooters are] a behemothic category in our industry, $4.5 billion, there'due south a very broad and diverse set of players who are looking to fulfill different gameplay motivations," Wilson said dorsum in May. "Some people play very quick play, some people play more than strategic, some people want both in different context."

For Battleground i, things seem to exist getting fifty-fifty better, equally Cowen & Company has pushed its initial sales projections of 14 million units sold to 16.5 one thousand thousand. Battleground i and Titanfall 2 had a gap of one week but in their launch schedules; the former was released last week on Oct 21, while the latter, as mentioned above, was made available to all today. We volition take more than on the topic once full breakup Electronic Arts' earnings report is out adjacent week, so keep checking back here.