Today, FIFA It is one of the great sagas that exist in video games since every year a completely updated edition is launched with the latest names and teams on the soccer planet that sweeps sales. In addition, this 2023 will be special because as many of you already know, we have in stores the last of the titles that will bear in its name the initials of the organization that governs football at a planetary level.
The best-selling FIFA in history
Starting next September, the saga FIFA will be renamed EA Sports FC So if that’s okay with you, let’s review the list of the ten best-selling games in the saga so far. A series that has totaled more than 325 million units and that two decades ago no one could have imagined such a success because, as many of you know, in the 90s the relevance of Electronic Arts soccer titles was relative, since since mid-1990s was Konami with its International Superstar Soccer the one who led the singing voice.
This series later became Pro Evolution Soccer and there the distance with FIFA it became insurmountable, until the Japanese games languished with the arrival of PS3 and Xbox 360 and Electronic Arts took over… until today. Come on, do you want to know which is the top 10 of the best sellers ever?
10.FIFA 08
With Sergio Ramos and Ronaldinho Gaucho on the cover, this issue of FIFA managed in 2007 to reach some total sales of 4,500,000 units on all the platforms it reached. Do you think many?
9.FIFA Football 2005
With Morientes on the cover, this game of FIFA It has a lot of merit because I had in front of a good PES. Even so, he managed to sell in all the systems for which he arrived in 2004 more than 4,500,000 sets. A truly remarkable amount.
8.FIFA 07
With David Villa and Ronaldinho at the height of their careers at FC Barcelona, Electronic Arts managed to sell 6,000,000 games of this version. Those were the times when it was not yet the hegemonic title in the world of football.
7.FIFA 09
Higuaín and Wayne Rooney appear on the cover and a change of cycle in soccer games is already beginning to be perceived. This installment managed to sell 7,800,000 units.
6. FIFA 12
Piqué and Xabi Alonso star on the cover of a game that is already the leader in the world of football games and proof of this are the 10,000,000 units that he managed to sell.
5. FIFA 10
Benzemá and Xavi (the current Barça coach) appear on the cover of the game and its edition managed to comfortably exceed 10,000,000 units approximately. It is the beginning of the end of the PES as we knew them until then.
4. FIFA 13
The cover of this game was curious because Messi and Soldado appear when he was at Valencia CF. To reach this fourth place, FIFA 13 managed to sell 14,500,000 sets.
3. FIFA 11
Kaká and Iniesta filled the cover image of this FIFA which climbs to the third position. So much quality could only bring good results: 16,000,000 units sold.
2.FIFA 19
Here Cristiano Ronaldo enters the scene, in the edition that had two covers: one with the Portuguese wearing the Real Madrid shirt and another with that of Juventus, since he left in the summer of 2018 for the Turin team. In total the game managed to sell 20,000,000 units.
1.FIFA 18
Cristiano Ronaldo also appears on this cover and this title is the culmination so far of the franchise’s games seen, with 26,400,000 units sold.
