Battlefield V for PlayStation 4 was the top selling new release in Japan last week with 110,653 retail units sold during its opening week, the latest Media Create sales figures reveal.
Also new last week, Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories and Shenmue I & II, both for PlayStation 4, launched at 42,272 and 37,529 retail sales, respectively.
Outside of new releases, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! continue to do well a week after launch with an additional 162,467 sales.
On the hardware side, Switch sold 108,375 units, the PlayStation 4 family sold 24,364 units, and the 3DS family sold 9,884 units.
That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA's own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.
Now if you try to run it, you'll be greeted with an error. A shame to see a game that's multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games. Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it's only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?
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47 comments in hours bf5 won't launch anymore ea is saying meh not my prob bitch tosses a faq
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Yes counter cheating that is good but when the ea app on pc is still totally broken and these cheaters are on 2042 same anti cheat this is just putting scotch tape on trumps file cabinet to prevent leaks its nothing more than a stop gap.
I mention ea app as for 4years it was in beta then tossed out with 3 year old issues and i still cant not get the products that i purchased on origin yeah i purchased digital but guess what there is no dvd games on pc anymore.
The rough part of all of this is that for those of us on PC mostly be it Windows or Linux based, the anti-cheat sucks up a lot of resources. It kind of reminds me of the conversation between, security and freedom. Too much of ether is both good if managed well or very bad. We just as gamers keep seeing this pop up over and over again. Wish I had some magic wand to stop cheaters... but I don't... hell we just seen what happened with Apex at a high level event.. getting that kind of access and such is not good... but at the same time. Can anyone, one person provide me an example where Anti Cheat has even like a hit rate above 50? I know I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but it seems the cheaters beat the systems in place time and time again. Where there is a lock, and a smith to make it. We always will have a thief that breaks it.
Battlefield V, getting easy anticheat
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So steamdeck might have issues and those out there that are anti kernal drm will get a surprise. Depending on your setup you also might get new issues as i know rgb software likes to fight with easy anti cheat.
Game Freak was used to smaller platforms and from Sword & Shield onwards were expected to scale up in the midst of a pandemic. That’s when it all started to go wrong, but it isn’t until now that fans are finally starting to smell the pixelated roses.
While the games began to lag behind and make their shortcomings ever so clear, the wider Pokemon community and other pieces of media kept on trucking.
I only ever got up to Pokemon Yellow. I still go back every handful of years for some nostalgia.
I'd like to try Pokémon someday. I was probably just a hair older and missed the og Pokémon craze back in the day. My issue with Pokémon is the 2 games thing. Stop selling them like that. Put it all into one. I feel that's a giant rip-off. Say what you want
I never had any interest to play Pokémon video games,never watched the cartoons as well. Guessing because when it all started I was way into my adulthood.
it started to go wrong when the shift to 3d happened, decades after everyone else.
imo, GF spent way too long in the 2D development world and just couldnt do it. what we got was bugs, lack of polish and experience.
but that will never change since the games sell like crazy.
"Battlefield tops new releases".. and is still outsold by Pokemon. That game will cross a million in the next week or so.
Japanese love their FPS's though..
Switch sold 108,375 units....I'll act like I don't see that....haha......drop the damn mic Nintendo. :)
Another big week for Nintendo and Pokemon Company.
The Switch continues its success. It will be very interesting to see what the sale will be like after Smash.