According to Electronic Arts' Q4 2008 fiscal report, all of Sony's current platforms (PS3, PS2, PSP) dominated EA's game sales across the three month period. The PS2 did the best out of the lot and accounted for $166 million Sony also reigned supreme in the portable arena with the PSP accounting for $69 million. This gave the PSP a boost taking 47 percent of total EA portable software for Q4 2008. Mobile phones surprisingly beat out the Nintendo DS with 28 and 25 percent shares respectively.
It's great to hear that Sony's platforms are strong systems for software sales. On the other hand, it's not so grand to think that this sales push contributes funds for EA's obsessiveness to buyout Take-Two. Switching topics, this news also makes it all so apparent why EA's Peter Moore showed so much concern over PS3 related products recently.
Update: The numbers reflected in this article are not about units sold but rather they're about revenue generated. We apologize for any confusion. Our source, GamesIndustry.biz, initially reported these number as unit sold.
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5-13-2008 @ 8:35PM
Glen said...
Funny how publishers are getting SO BIG that we can talk about profit shares specific to just those publishers and actually have it mean something.
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5-13-2008 @ 8:56PM
Dehshizknight said...
I bet Valve feels pretty freaken' stupid right now... Lol
EA, bring on the Road Rash!!!
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5-14-2008 @ 1:28PM
FrankTheCrank said...
Amen, brother.
Although I have great respect for the folks at Valve, as they put out stellar product, Doug Newell's lack of respect for the PS3 is just flat out unprofessional.
The guy worked and made huge bank at Microsoft for 13 years, we get it. You like and are very comfortable with the PC architecture. You are monetarily threatened by Sony's architecture, hence the backlash by you. We get it.
5-13-2008 @ 8:59PM
Brett from Atlanta said...
Wow, maybe now EA will take a "develop on ps3, port to 30 approach" They now have the numbers not to argue. I swear, if madden is 30fps again I don't know what I'm gonna do.
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5-13-2008 @ 9:55PM
Kurt said...
That would be a very smart move for EA, then we can all sit back and LOL when the Xbots go up-in-arms about how their versions of games aren't as good ^^
5-14-2008 @ 1:08AM
PSN: KillaKornbread (the shirt is a lie!) said...
the games are always more equal when they develop on PS3 first. i dont understand why devs dont do it now. Burnout Paradise turned out great from what i hear (first EA game ported to 360 from PS3).
5-13-2008 @ 9:26PM
AF said...
Madden is supposed to be 60fps this year.
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5-13-2008 @ 10:09PM
massive_98 said...
This is incredible considering the last time I heard about EA and PS3 sales, it was only to the tune of 30 million. Also amazing considering the PS3 owners who blindly hate EA.
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5-13-2008 @ 10:51PM
anthonyjh said...
I hate Ea and my vision is 20/20.
*Pops in NFL 2k5*
5-14-2008 @ 12:26AM
kawzi said...
are u serious ps3 sold 152mil vs 360 selling 128mil? that is hard to believe considering the install base difference. or maybe im just not reading it correctly. anyhow, congrats to sony for being responsible for more than half of the behemoth's sales.
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5-14-2008 @ 2:15AM
leiwei said...
well you have to think for a moment, even though install base is different, this is purchases of EA games. Perhaps there're just more EA games being bought by PS3 owners. 360 owners also purchase EA games, but at the same time there're also games distributed by other publishers.
5-14-2008 @ 3:54AM
Erik said...
Serioulsy!?
What is the total PS3 sales world wide, 12 mil?
So every PS3 owner has bought 12-15 EA games, I find that hard to believe! Personally I have bought 3 EA games.
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5-14-2008 @ 5:13AM
ErikS said...
As I suspected. It is $152 million not 152 million units. Edit the post please.
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5-14-2008 @ 8:52AM
Draco said...
* Please note, this was initially reported as units sold, not revenue generated. GamesIndustry.biz apologises for any confusion caused.
5-14-2008 @ 6:35AM
koehler83 said...
*Face palm*
WHO'S RESPONSIBLE?!
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5-14-2008 @ 7:06AM
Brucie B said...
EA - SUCKS, Maybe they'll step up & start to make some decent games.
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5-14-2008 @ 8:16AM
OddyOh said...
Q4 2008? EA must have a time machine...
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5-14-2008 @ 8:36AM
RC said...
Q4 08 ends May 08, We are now starting Q1 09
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5-14-2008 @ 11:28AM
chris.westermann said...
Wow, now imagine if EA actually tried to create good PS3 titles, imagine how much more they would sell.
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5-14-2008 @ 1:43PM
Brett from Atlanta said...
See Burnout