[Game News] Battlefield Bad Company 2 heading for top seller in March?

In a statement released by EA, Bad Company 2 is set to be March 2010's top selling game. The title, EA's nearest contender to Activision's FPS monolith, Modern Warfare 2, has reportedly sold over 2.3m across both North America and Europe. In a month where the game went up against FFXIII, this seems a pretty good achievement.

March will also contain other big hitters like God of War 3, so it's a pretty mean feat in such a blockbuster month.

Hit the break for the EA statement

Battlefield Bad Company 2 is currently on target to become the top selling title of March 2010. With over 2.3 million units sold it has become the best-selling March release on record in North America and Europe.

With 46 reviews awarding Bad Company 2 over 90 or higher (allowing for converting to a score out of 100 bywww.metacritic.com) it is no wonder Battlefield Bad Company 2 is showing such strength in numbers throughout the game stats and social media networks:

81 billion points have been earned in online multiplayer sessions

43 million weapons and gadgets have been unlocked in online multiplayer

Over 6 million video views on YouTube

2.9 million hours have been spent playing online in the last 24 hours alone

230k peak-concurrent-users (PCUs)

Over 44k Twitter fans (most out of any EA title) http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2

Bad Company 2 has proven so popular that our servers experienced such overwhelming demand that EA and DICE have had to add even more hardware to handle the player numbers. We continue to monitor online play daily to make sure everyone can play as well as continue to work on the game for future updates and DLC which you can get at no extra cost with the VIP code (PC BFBC2 players will get the content in the form of downloads without the need for a VIP code).