EA full-year financials - everything in one place
What do you call a company that bins $1 billion in a year, trims its Q4 losses, takes 15 percent more revenue than the previous year and makes the entire thing genuinely sound good on the telephone? Electronic Arts! We love you, John. You're the greatest.
EA announced full-year figures last night while you were watching the football/wanking/staring at the wall. Here's what happened:
- EA loses over $1 billion in fiscal 2009, cuts Q4 loss
- EA full-year earnings call - the full transcript
- EA: Two new online subs services this year
- Riccitiello - Negative comps to continue until June
- Riccitiello: Current hardware cycle to be “very extended”
- Warhammer Online ended March with 300,000 subs
- EA released more PC games than anything else last year
- EA: Mobile revenues rose 24% last year
- EA: The PC is “rapidly becoming the largest gaming platform in the world”
- EA’s Wii revenue nearly doubles to 14% compared to last year
- EA to release 30 games on iPhone this year
- Spore sells 2 million copies
- FIFA 09, Madden NFL 09, Need for Speed Undercover each sell 5 million copies