The PS2 Is Still Buttering EA's Bread

[KnackChap]

via kotaku

 

Buried amongst the rubble of EA's Q3 fiscal results are some details on not only how each platform is doing for EA, but what EA is doing for each platform. Did you know, for instance, that for all the sheen and luster of current-gen consoles, the PS2 was EA's biggest bread-winner for the quarter? Or that they released more mobile games than DS and PSP titles combined? Do now!

 

Total revenue by platform:

 

PlayStation 2: $301 million

Xbox 360: $196 million

PC: $148 million

Nintendo Wii: $139 million

Nintendo DS: $122 million

PlayStation 3: $102 million

PlayStation Portable: $74 million

Mobile: $38 million

Xbox: $3 million

Game Boy Advance: $2 million

GameCube: $1 million

 

FYI, they also list the revenue raked in from co-partnered deals, which are games EA distributed, like The Orange Box, Crysis and Rock Band. They accounted for $320 million. Now, the number of games released by platform:

 

Mobile Games: 13

PlayStation 2: 7

Nintendo Wii: 7

Xbox 360: 5

PlayStation 3: 5

Nintendo DS: 5

PC: 4

PlayStation Portable: 4

iPod: 4

Mac: 3

 

Only 4 PC games and yet it made so much cash? Remember, that was only the number of games they released new last quarter. The Sims is a little older than "new"

[Liquid ocelot]

Thats the power of 120 million consoles!

 

EA actually made a playstation 1 game in 2005(fifa 2k5)....I guess that shows that a lot of people dont really take the next gen for quite sometime