Electronic Arts claims that NHL 12 had the best week ever. Based on the company's internal estimates, NHL 12 had its biggest launch week in the franchise's history with more than $27 million is sales at retail outlets worldwide. EA also claims that first week unit sales of NHL 12 were up 19 percent across Europe and North America. The game launched Sept. 9 in Europe and Sept. 13 in North America.
NHL 12 sold through (meaning actually sold units) more than 451,000 copies at retail worldwide in its first week and fans played more than 6.9 million online game sessions last week (Sept. 13-19), the most online games played in one week in the game series' history - 17 percent more than last year's opening week. Finally, EA says that every day last week, an average of 86 total hours of online gameplay of NHL 12 were played by fans.
Apparently people like hockey games. Who knew?
