Finally, Black Box and EA Shanghai are working on Need for Speed World Online, a PC-only, free-to-play game.Īlthough Nitro isn't out until November 3 and Need for Speed World Online won't arrive until next year, Need for Speed: Shift went on sale September 15. EA Montreal is putting the finishing touches on an arcade racer, Need for Speed: Nitro, for the Wii and DS. A hardcore racing sim, Need for Speed: Shift, was developed for the PC, PSP, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 by Slightly Mad Studios in the UK in conjunction with downsized Canadian studio EA Black Box. In part due to these declining domestic sales, the Need for Speed series got an ambitious reboot this year, being split into three subfranchises. Need for Speed: Most Wanted was the series' high point, selling 16 million units worldwide. Lifetime US sales figures from NPD show 2006's Need for Speed: Carbon selling 3.2 million, 2007's Need for Speed: ProStreet selling 2.4 million, and 2008's Need for Speed: Undercover selling 1.4 million. However, the subsequent years have seen its once white-hot popularity cool somewhat domestically. In 2005, the series was the undisputed racing king, with Need for Speed Most Wanted selling 16 million copies worldwide, according to EA, and 3.9 million in the US, according to the NPD Group. The sum generated by the sales-$2.7 billion-also matches or exceeds the gross national product of many smaller countries. (The only other EA title to hit the mark is the Sims series.) To put that in perspective, EA helpfully pointed out that the figure equals one third the total US population and is triple that of Canada's inhabitants. Today, EA announced that the Need for Speed franchise has sold more than 100 million units worldwide during its 15-year career-the only racing series ever to do so. Need for Speed: Shift rebooted the series this year.
Though that platform is long gone, the Need for Speed series went on to become one of the most popular racing series of all time, with 15 different games on 14 platforms. In 1994, Electronic Arts released an all-new racer, The Need for Speed, for the 3DO console.
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