BioWare’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the primary title within the franchise since 2014’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, has underperformed. In keeping with Digital Arts (per Bloomberg), it reached 1.5 million gamers within the quarter ending December thirty first, 2024, which missed projections by about 50 %.
Alongside the combined reception to EA Sports activities FC 25, the writer missed earlier bookings forecasts of $2.4-2.55 billion, coming in round $2.22 billion as a substitute. Consequently, it’s decreasing projected bookings for the fiscal 12 months from $7.5-$7.8 billion to $7-$7.15 billion. Stay service bookings are additionally taking a success, declining by a mid-single-digit share in comparison with the beforehand anticipated mid-single-digit enhance.
Although it should reveal complete outcomes on February 4th, CEO Andrew Wilson mentioned the corporate stays “assured in our long-term technique and count on a return to development in FY26, as we execute in opposition to our pipeline.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched on October thirty first for Xbox Sequence X/S, PS5, and PC. It crossed 89,000 concurrent gamers on Steam, although EA by no means revealed gross sales figures. First-week gross sales in Europe have been reported to be decrease than Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Closing Fantasy 7 Rebirth, although UK gross sales have been much like the 2. Director Corinne Busche additionally just lately left the studio for a brand new provide described as a “can’t flip down” alternative.
