Battlefield 1943 has earned EA $16 million

We've known for quite some time that Electronic Arts' Battlefield 1943 "experiment" was successful, selling over a million units on Xbox Live alone, but now CFO Eric Brown has revealed some numbers on the game's development cost and revenue. The EA exec stated at UBS's 39th Annual Media and Communications Conference the the game cost "single-digit millions" to create and netted (after Sony and Microsoft took their cuts) a healthy $16 million for the publisher.

[Nightshadow]

EA is finally getting things right. BF:BC2 Vietnam is going to be epic.

[NegativeCreepWA]

EA doesn't deserve the credit, give it to Dice. EA is still the same company everyone hated a few years ago, Activions only took there spot at the top of the hated publisher list. EA is still right below them.

[Mr Exclusive]

I agree with this.

They only reason people are s*cking EA's schlong is because of the MW2 fisaco and Bad Company 2 being a pretty decent game.

I belive we will see a shift as EA will just keep bringing out sequel after sequel for the rest of the generation. Your've all read how they don't have time for new IP's anymore.

[nnotdead]

EA Partners is why they are getting the credit.

[Ducky]

... I'm still angry at EA for diverting DICE to MoH.
That was a few painful months of BC2 without any support.

Thankfully they're back now.

Wonder what's worse, milking one franchise by rotating devs, or by making multiple franchises by the same dev.

Oh well, atleast EA has sales on the EAStore. Activision is strict with it's no-sale policy.

[dkgshiz]

Would have to be the outrageous dlc that they launch. Like for Battlefield BC2 you can unlock all guns and items for $20. Same with medal of honor, well its $10 cheaper with medal of honor. Whats the point of playing?

[Rich1631]

Fun $15 game that was worth the money

[Yi-Long]

... it's a shame it isn't getting any support in the form of new maps.

I'm pretty sure this is the game I have played the most this gen.

[Ducky]

How much of that is from the PC preorders? *shakes angry first at EA*

[Government Cheese]

I know.. I can't believe it still hasn't been released for PC yet. They insist that it hasn't been canceled though.

[Bolts]

By the time this get released on the PC, no one will care.

[bumnut]

i dont care about it anymore, i would have liked it on pc with an increased player count but i have already played it to death on 360 and moved on

[Megaton]

Fun game, bought it on PS3 the day it came out.

[phatak]

nice now please spend it on new ips and dont follow competitors and their milking business formulas

[nnotdead]

why would they? people tend to buy known series. 20/25 top selling 360 games have been franchises. 19/25 for PS3, and 18/25 Wii top selling games have been franchises.

[zerox505]

i honestly thought this game was much better then bc2, sure bc2 was awesome, though the maps weren't big, it's gameplay was a lot fast paced and would appeal to cod players, heck it even converted a lot of them but 1943 was probably the closest of becoming one of the true battlefield experience, and coming from a console thats only 15 bucks really says a lot

[vickers500]

Agreed. I had MUCH more fun playing 1943 than I do Bad Company 2. 1943 still required a fair amount of skill, but it also had way better controls than Bad Company 2.

I was disappointed to play the Bad Company 2 beta, and then later on the full game to realize that it was so much more different than 1943. 1943 looked and played a lot better than Bad Company 2 and even though it only had a few maps, the design of the maps were FAR better than the ones in Bad Company 2, which gets me thinking, it would be pretty cool if they brought some 1943 maps over to Bad Company 2.

[ll_UNDERSCORE_ll]

If anyone has read my past comments they would realize i'm pretty much pro-BF.
Now that is said, this is one of those games I regret purchasing. I just wish it was on disc so I can trade it in for at least something of value.

[XTerminator]

Dice should make a real BF1942 remake, that would be awesome

[Bolts]

They did. Its called BF2 which is just as epic if not even more so.

[Garnett]

And not one new map pack? You stupid mother fuckers!

Oh and it doesn't work for me, did they shut the servers down?

[Skynetone]

you need to change your nat type to nat type 1

[branchedout]

I'd be happy if you know.

They actaully did something to the game.

I bought it long ago, and they've YET to fix the overpowered Ranger class!

I bought Bad Company 2, and have been dissapointed in after-game support. They've at least added bug fixes and such, but still!

Maybe I'm just worn out on shooters.

[Skynetone]

love flying the plane

[TheColbertinator]

I'm surprised a map pack was never added on.Loved 1943,it was a great game,a total deal at 1200 points

[dkgshiz]

Then I did with 60% of the full retail games that came out this gen. I always lol'd when I seen the Japanese carrying M1 Garands though.

[zeph94]

They need a.....BF1942.....2

[yamzilla]

play the real game...1942...it will run on ur moms laptop and look about as good as most console games, better than crackdown 2 or tiger woods 2011 or skate or any of those other low res disasterpieces

[Mondayding]

Best XBLA game in years. Loved the fact that there was no levelling up, no better weapons, nothing but what you get when you start. A proper level playing field and maps that didn't get pwned by snipers after the first month.