Need For Speed franchise exceeds 100 million units sold

Posted Oct 21st 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Driving

Electronic Arts' Need For Speed racing game franchise has been one of the publishers' tentpoles. Today EA announced that the franchise has now sold over 100 million units since it began with the first Need for Speed game in 1994. 15 games in the series have been released including this year's PC entry Need For Speed Shift which have created a total of $2.7 billion in revenues for EA over the years.

The press release annoucing this achievement goes over a number of the milestones the series has achieved including players racing over 279 billion miles in the games themselves.and creating 17 trillion user-generated car customization. EA's next announced game is Need For Speed World Online, a free-to-play online game that is scheduled to launch in 2010. While not officially announced it's known that Criterion Games, developer of the Burnout series, is now working on a new Need For Speed game.

Tags: ea, electronic-arts, need-for-speed, need-for-speed-shift, need-for-speed-world-online

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