Today, EA announced that FIFA 12 has had the biggest launch ever in the history of sports games with 3.2 million copies sold in a week.

The game was released in North America last Tuesday and Worldwide last Friday and the success has surpassed EA’s belief with Andrew Wilson, Executive Vice President of EA Sports saying “The massive FIFA online community has overwhelmingly connected to the new live services in the game, including EA Sports Football Club, and we intend to keep them engaged all season long as FIFA 12 follows the heartbeat of the football season”.

Some of the notable achievement for FIFA 12 along with the 3.2 million copies sold includes:

• 200 million minutes of online games of FIFA 12 as of October 2, 2011
• Rise of 23% on sales in comparison to last year’s FIFA 11.
• 879,000 copies of the iOS version have been sold.
• October 1, 2011 saw 8 million online game sessions of FIFA 12.