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Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed franchise has been a fixture in the gaming world for many, many years, and thanks to the success of the latest installment, Need for Speed: Shift, the racing franchise has passed the 100 million units sold mark. That translates into over $2.7 billion in sales, which means it is now the best-selling racing franchise in gaming -- and Shift just came out and NFS: Nitro is still a few weeks away from release.
EA put together the following comparisons list to help illustrate just how successful the Need for Speed games have been:
- Launched 15 blockbuster titles across more than 14 platforms
- Released in 22 languages in over 60 countries
- Players have raced over 279 billion miles of roads & race tracks
- Generated over 17 trillion user-generated vehicle customizations
- Sold more games than all new passenger cars sales in the U.S since 1994 (According to internal EA data)
- If Need for Speed boxes were laid out end-to-end, it would span 173,609 football fields
- 100M units represents nearly every household in the United States and is 3x the population of Canada (93.8 Million according to Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
Impressive indeed; especially the bit about selling more games that three-times the population of Canada. You hear that neighbors to the north? You better pray game boxes never mysteriously come to life and decide to take over your country. Because if they do, there won’t be anything you’ll be able to do to stop them. Start stockpiling those annoying stickers you always have to peel off before you can open a game. They might just save your life someday.
On a less insane note: How many Need for Speed games have you owned/currently own? What has been your favorite installment in the series?
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Philofish
Need For Speed Shift.
The game runs but where the road should be I see only flashing colors, like strobe lighting in a night club. lol very very disappointed in EA Games. Reading other blogs I found my Radeon HD 4890 and NFS S%$t do not get on. One of the people in support said (they are nice) that the reason was because NFS S%$t came out before Vista came out lol WTF!?! lol I am looking here everyday, waiting for the patch lol reminds me of my old commador64 days lol Wolfenstine runs better than this game lol
EA Blog is full of bad comments
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/ forums/show/252.page
I have PS3, Xbox360 and Gaming PC. I thought purchasing this game on PC would be better than the PS3, better graphics etc boy was I wrong! but it sounds like you guys are having problems too.
At E3 2009 this game looked fantastic, what happened?
Flynfsh
dude. NFS shift is INSANE! i am now realizing that the only thing missing from Gran Turismo was the ability to customize your car beyond its paintjob and rims... you know what; i dont care i just want to play some shift
JX3605
NFS Most Wanted was the best
goodbiscuits
None. I played hot pursuit II. Great game, but man when midnight club II came out.
whiteniht16
Need for speed jumped the shark. Hot pursiut hot pursuit2, were the best then most wanted. This new one, shift, not my cup of tea. If i wanted that style i would get forza or gran turismo. They need to go back to their roots for this series.
thiswillallbeburned
Players have raced over 279 billion miles of roads & race tracks
Actually EA it's more like 278.5 billion miles or roads & race tracks. Sheesh how did you come up with that number any how?
Thakker
NFS Shift driving controls + Free roaming racing = FTW
Jimi0088
shift is not a sim racer
Tankgod25
I must agree with most of you. NFS most wanted had to be one of the best NFS games and Need for speed shift is just one intense and edge of you seat racing simulation game. I would like to see in the near future a NFS most wanted,and a NFS shift combination. That, my firends, would be the ultimate racing game. I just love the whole racing, drifting, customizing, with a story line to it.
NOhara24
I had a need for speed game I played (Well my dad played, I watched.) way back on my old windows 95 PC. The next one I remember playing was HP2, and that was good. Then underground one and 2 came out, the street racing ended after most wanted. (Easily the best in the series, much better than shift.)As soon as the need for speed series left the streets the first time, the downward spiral started. Even during the return back to the roots with undercover (That was a monstrosity.) The NFS series seems to have lost it's way. If they were to simply re-make most wanted, even just with updated graphics, i'd buy it.
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