FIFA 13 sells 353,000 on North American release day

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Sales up 42 percent over FIFA 12's launch

Sales of FIFA 13 are up 42 percent from last year's soccer title, with 353,000 Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 copies sold on its Tuesday launch in North America. Electronic Arts also announced fans have played more than 1.4 million online matches so far, with a significant boost expected when the game hits store shelves globally on Friday.

EA pointed to an ESPN article published this week, which attributed soccer's climb to second-most-popular sport among the U.S. 12 to 24 age bracket (based on ESPN polls) largely to games like FIFA.

The iOS versions of FIFA 13 enjoyed an even greater climb, with launch-day sales up 62 percent over those of FIFA 12.

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.