FIFA Soccer 13 tops 4.5 million copies worldwide in first 5 days

Following up on EA Sport’s announcement of sales being up 42% for FIFA Soccer 13 year over year in North America comes more hard sales figures for the first 5 days at retail, worldwide.

FIFA Soccer 13, with 4.5 million copies sold across all regions and platforms, is officially smashing records and is so far the “biggest videogame launch of 2012”. Impressive! Online games have peaked at 800k players simultaneously with 66 million+ sessions already played thus far.

Read on for the announcement from EA.

Electronic Arts Inc. today announced the record-smashing start of EA SPORTS? FIFA Soccer 13, selling over 4.5 million games across all platforms worldwide* in just five days. It is the biggest videogame launch of 2012 and biggest sports videogame launch of all-time. FIFA 13 was the No. 1 selling game in at least 40 countries around the world.

The blistering FIFA Soccer 13 launch which began September 25 was driven by high game quality and record sales in key regions, led by more than 1.23 million^ games sold in the first 48 hours in the United Kingdom. FIFA Soccer 13 is only the second videogame franchise ever to sell more than 1 million units in the UK within just 1 day.

Critics are praising FIFA Soccer 13 with 75 reviews scores of 90 or above. Joystiq awarded FIFA 13 a perfect 100 score, saying ?FIFA 13 is, in a word, superb.? Multiplayer in Italy called it the ?best FIFA ever? and JeuxVideo Magazine said ?FIFA 13 approaches perfection.?

Fans are also playing FIFA Soccer 13 in record numbers. September 30, 2012 was the busiest day for online gaming for a single title in EA history. An astounding 800,000** fans played FIFA Soccer 13 simultaneously. More than 66 million online game sessions have already been played on FIFA Soccer 13, representing a staggering 600 million minutes of online play.

?FIFA Soccer 13 is a critical and commercial success unprecedented in sports entertainment,? said Andrew Wilson, Executive Vice President of EA SPORTS. ?Every minute of every day millions of fans around the world are experiencing what the critics have already said? FIFA Soccer 13 is the biggest and best sports game we have ever created.?

FIFA Soccer 13 captures the unpredictability of the real-world sport with breakthrough features like First Touch Control that ensure no two matches ever play the same, and new online services like EA SPORTS Football Club Match Day that completely connect FIFA Soccer 13 to the real-world season for the world?s top leagues. The FIFA Soccer 13 demo is available through Origin, Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network.

* according to internal sales data as of October 1, 2012.
^ according to GfK Chart-Track Total UK Market estimates
** according to internal data sources as of October 1, 2012.