Why College Football 25 Deserves To Be The Bestselling Sports Game Of All Time
was a breath of fresh air for fans of sports games, which likely helped it earn its spot as one of the best-selling sports games of all time. It can be hard to get excited about new sports games, but seems to have had the perfect combination of elements to make it widely appealing. EA also seems to have put a high level of effort into making, something that can’t always be said about an EA Sports title.
Looking at the success of, it’s hard to say if its success is the start of a new era for sports games, or if it is simply a flash in the pan. After all, it could be difficult for future titles to recreate the exact circumstances that seem to have led to the game’s high sales numbers. While some other sports games sold well this year, like , none were able to achieve the same heights as .
According to Mat Piscatella, an Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana, is officially the highest selling sports game in US history using the metric of dollar sales. Given the prominence of sports titles — many sports franchises release a new game every year — this is an impressive accomplishment for. However, it didn’t just beat out other sports games when it came to sales.
After having played both of EA Sports' football games from this year, I can confidently say which I would choose between College Football and Madden.
According to Piscatella, is also “.” It’s one thing for to top the charts of a specific genre, but it’s even more impressive for it to reach the top 50 of all sorts of video games. There is clearly something special about that makes it more appealing than any other sports game.
was essentially the perfect storm. To start, it was the first college football game to come out in a decade. Its predecessor, was well-loved by fans, and grew something of a cult following after EA decided to part ways with the NCAA and stop making college football games. This made fans eager to see the franchise return in the form of, generating a lot of hype around
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