FIFA 17 Breaks Launch Week Sales Records
The FIFA series is one of the most popular franchises in the world so it should come as little surprise that the latest instalment will have sold particularly well. However, few might have expected it to break the sales record for the series. That is exactly what it has done though. Having released across all platforms it has now earned the highest ever launch week of any game in the franchise in the UK. Altogether, the sales were up 18 per cent compared its predecessor, giving it just enough to pass the previous record holder of FIFA 13. A whopping 53 per cent of the copies were sold on the PlayStation 4 while the Xbox One had a respectable 41 per cent. The rest of the sales were accounted for by the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. The charts for the week show that FIFA was the biggest selling game of the week, nudging fellow new releases like Forza Horizon 3 and BioShock: The Collection down the list. The