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PS3 games earn big bucks for EA News
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Games for PlayStation 3 bring home the most money for EA, according to fresh financial papers released just last night.
EA software sales for the system between April and June increased 969 per cent over the same period last year. Sony's console has now been the major bread winner for EA since the start of 2008.
The PS3 made USD 139 million for the publisher during the quarter, followed by PC with USD 86 million and Xbox 360 with USD 81 million.
The PS2 was only marginally behind with USD 79 million, while Wii and PSP tied on USD 57 million.
Mobile games performed well to take USD 44 million, leaving DS in last position - for a change - with USD 21 million.
That means games for Sony systems combined to make a total of USD 275 million for EA during those three months.
Wii and DS development is one of the areas grey-maned EA boss John Riccitiello has already ear-marked for extra focus, revealing he has 40 games in the works for both platforms.
Riccitiello told us earlier this week that he made the "wrong call" by assuming PS3 and Xbox 360 would be the current generation leaders.
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SeesThroughAll
30/07/08 @ 11:06
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Would be ironic if EA suddenly dropped support on both PS3 and 360...
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Inquisitor
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30/07/08 @ 11:13
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I can't see how that makes any sense...
EA do well in, I imagine, the UK and US specifically. Both regions where the 360 version of a multiplatform game will tend t outsell the PS3 version. How then did the PS3 make more money? No EA games in Japan so it has to be all down to mainland Europe? |
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Prodigy_BE
30/07/08 @ 11:16
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Did he notice that 3rd party software (also called thurd party sofware in most cases), doesn't sell very well on Wii?
And oh boy, not good for MS, EA making more money on PS3. That will mean more PS3 dev, and porting to 360. |
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Eighthours
30/07/08 @ 11:17
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I don't understand these figures, when every chart I've seen shows the 360 versions of EA games easily outselling the PS3 ones. Very strange.
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I mean no disrespect but my collegues from work, who really don't play much (it's more the style of, come to my place so I can show you my TV and Playstation) usually buy the footy game + NFS once a year, so it must be that demographics.~
"And oh boy, not good for MS, EA making more money on PS3. That will mean more PS3 dev, and porting to 360. " by all means, be my guest...
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This is funny... I'm sure it was this time last year when EA were saying they were disappointed with their PS3 game sales compared with Xbox 360 ones. How things have changed... LOL
... but, of course, this is good news in the long run for the PS3 as it means that EA will hopefully put as much effort in their PS3 games as their 360 ones, e.g. PS3 games won't run at half the framerate of the 360 versions like last year's Madden NFL 08. |
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Well lots of people got PS1 and 2 for FIFA etc. So I guess it's a natural progression they upgrade to PS3 as that's what they know. I know a few people like that TBH.
Or maybe it's that 360 owners don't buy EA games. Oh and Riccitiello, 360/PS3 are the current generation leaders...for gamers / runs |
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Greychapter
30/07/08 @ 11:23
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Its also possible that some of EA's titles which didn't set the 360 ablaze did better on PS3 due to less competition. Army of Two springs to mind as one possible case for this. Might also be worth considering the slightly higher PS3 games price tag as well as I am sure some of this additional money would filter in to the revenues.
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SeesThroughAll
30/07/08 @ 11:24
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miiiiiguel, you know what? I'm going to buy a 360. I want to be cool, just like you!
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"I don't understand these figures, when every chart I've seen shows the 360 versions of EA games easily outselling the PS3 ones. Very strange."
What should you believe: internet charts that are never the same or financial reports from the publishers? Anyway, maybe EA can put some bloody effort into PS3 ports now... |
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Inquisitor
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30/07/08 @ 11:35
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Perhaps it's EA games selling consistetnly well on the PS3. We all know that at release, the 360 game easily outsells the PS3, but perhaps as sales of the PS3 grow you're seeing games bought at a far steadier rate than 360 owners, who seem to buy then forget.
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"but perhaps as sales of the PS3 grow you're seeing games bought at a far steadier rate than 360 owners, who seem to buy then forget."
er... kinda weird theory. I mean, it'd be crazy to be, perhaps, due to the fact that 360 has almost 1000 titles to chose from where PS3 has mainly mainstream ones ? no... that's crazy! "Wii currently is in a race of it own. " Where's the Wii sales? I mean trying to tie EA sales numbers to consoles sucess is... fine.
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@Greychapter
"Might also be worth considering the slightly higher PS3 games price tag as well as I am sure some of this additional money would filter in to the revenues." I don't buy 360 games or PS3 games over £40. If a game is over fourty I just have a look in Dixons or Tesco, or if I can wait a few days, online. |
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There is not one EA developed game in my Xbox 360 collection; primarily because their products rarely exceed mediocrity and are marketed to casual gamers and chavs. The Fifa and Need For Speed franchises exemplify this strategy. It is my experience that the average Playstation 3 owner is significantly less interested in gaming than the average Xbox 360 owner, as much invested in a status symbol as they are in a piece of gaming hardware. They are the kind of people who are never searching for any deep, engaging and thoughtful experience from anything in their lives, nevermind a videogame. In fact, the only reason they purchased a Playstation 3 seems to be that they owned a Playstation 2 and a Playstation, and that 'Xbox' is a geeky name. If it is true that EA developed games on the Playstation 3 are outselling their counterparts on the Xbox 360 then I would not be surprised, since in my exprience EA develops games which would uniquely satisfy the Playstation 3 owning demographic. That said, my experience is solely in a small corner of the UK, perhaps things are different elsehwere.
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Wierdly enough this is actually good news for 360 owners. I said a while back that the 360 crowd was wising up to EA putting out constant updates of sports titles and simply not buying them. What this means is that PS3 will most likely get the Maddens and tiger woods before the 360. Original titles like Dead Space will then most likely sell better on 360 than PS3.
Not sure why they suddenly want to flood the Wii with their games though, as clearly the Wii crowd are so not interested in the Madden and realistic Golf etc. etc. |
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what I find it funny is why the problem to admit what Nocturne and I said is true? I mean, it's not like we're saying EG's demographic is like that, but generally PS buyers do it for some kinda of status or "oh it's kinda stylish in my living room" + NFS.
on gramatical and spelling errors: I do my best in english (which I know, sometimes is not enough), I'm not from the island, and I prefer it here than EG.pt (for now).
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miiiguel, Oh, absolulely, I agree. The PS brand is a more stylish commodity than Xbox. It's one of the reasons MS will regret their bullish E3 sales prediction.
I was joking about the spelling thing as I suspect you were with the C3ll. If you weren't, I'd be seriously worried!
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These figures are wrong, read the financials. PS3 did $68m not $139m.
Bizzarely EA have decided because they don't know enough about PS3 DLC royalties they have decided to estimate what to expect and have taken all expected ESTIMATED royalties for games released in the past and in the present quarter in one hit now! (so the bulk is probably Rockband) Its a huge fudge to make their loss for the quarter not look so bad, they did not do this for 360 as MS can give them reliable data so the revenue for DLC for MS comes in as when it is paid by gamers. At the bottom of the quarters accounts it shows the 360 on $81m and the PS3 on $68m so they basically improved their figures by $61m by taking future revenue and only on PS3!! http://investor.ea.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=8...
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Watkins381
30/07/08 @ 11:54
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lol
well im sure it has nothing to do with 360 games being £39 and PS3 games being £49 in just about every high street shop |
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While I'm unsure about Nocturne's whole take on things there is no question on two things.
1. True there are people (according to many game store workers who I've seen post over the net) of a certain demographic who enjoy a lot of EA games like NFS and FIFA street etc, but I'm sure that is not the only demographic for EA games or indeed PS3, 360 has it's angry little chavs to you know. 2. There are people (again not ALL) out there who do buy Playstation purely because it is Playstation and that's all they've ever owned no other reason. I always find that bizarre but horses for course I suppose....... |
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Zuljin,
Both Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and Battlefield: Bad Company were published by EA, not developed by EA in-house. I myself own one EA published game, a very good game called The Orange Box, but EA had nothing to do with its development so far as I know (except for the shoddy Playstation 3 port). Besides, I was careful to say that EA developed games 'rarely exceed mediocrity', because even EA can make a good game. I did not intend to suggest that EA have never or will never develop a game which 'exceeds mediocrity'. |
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Moonprince
30/07/08 @ 12:12
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Original titles like Dead Space will then most likely sell better on 360 than PS3.
Having seen it throughout dev I can assure you that's not the case ;) |
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SpaceMidget75
30/07/08 @ 12:22
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My experience in the UK has been exactly like Nocturne's.
I only own 1 EA game which is Burnout Paradise. (Bought for my son. Although I think it's great so far.) It appears that GamerG has given us the real info (thanks!) unless someone can discredit it. |
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designerheadache
30/07/08 @ 12:23
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@Dizzy
They released SKATE and Burnout Paradise, which did well on PS3, but apart from that i cant think of anything! |
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@Nocturn
It is my experience that the average Playstation 3 owner is significantly less interested in gaming than the average Xbox 360 owner, as much invested in a status symbol as they are in a piece of gaming hardware. They are the kind of people who are never searching for any deep, engaging and thoughtful experience from anything in their lives, nevermind a videogame. In fact, the only reason they purchased a Playstation 3 seems to be that they owned a Playstation 2 and a Playstation, and that 'Xbox' is a geeky name. Read that back to yourself. Are you saying that becasue I bought a PS3 I am not "searching for any deep, engaging and thoughtful experience from anything in (my life)"!?!? A very sweeping statement about 15 million people. edit: and im not surprised spacemidget65 agrees :)
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LunatikCajun
30/07/08 @ 12:41
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Does this financial information relate to EA developed games solely? Or does it include games that they have published too?
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