EA's Financial Report

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swanie on 04 August 2009

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looks like EA sports active is undertracked
1.8 million by end of june. leaving about 500k on store shelves according to the sales numbers.

Why does that indicate the title is undertracked?

i guess at the rate the title is selling, half a mil isn't too much on shelves. it just seems like a bunch of larger boxes to store on shelves.

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swanie said:

ioi said:

swanie said:
looks like EA sports active is undertracked
1.8 million by end of june. leaving about 500k on store shelves according to the sales numbers.

Why does that indicate the title is undertracked?

i guess at the rate the title is selling, half a mil isn't too much on shelves. it just seems like a bunch of larger boxes to store on shelves.

Funny story: I've seen EA Sports Active at a store which doesn't even have a Wii section. Their Wii merchandise consists of two copies of Sports Active, a couple boxes full of plastic wiimote shells, and a half-dozen $20 Wii games in a bargain bin.

This same store has full sections dedicated to selling PS3, 360, PSP, and PC games. I guess Nintendo pissed in the manager's corn flakes at some point. Or he's trapped in 2005 and still thinks the PSP will drive Nintendo out of the handheld space.

So if you consider that every store which doesn't even sell Wii games has two copies of Sports Active sitting on the bottom shelf somewhere, the numbers make sense. ;P

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MonstaMack on 04 August 2009

I don't understand how companies can lose so much money with such big games. Gheeze.

It's just that simple.

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Aion on 04 August 2009

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I don't understand how companies can lose so much money with such big games. Gheeze.

I agree, do big games not make enough money.

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Alterego-X on 05 August 2009

It would be very interesting to see what would happen to the industry if EA would go bankrupt...

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Demotruk on 05 August 2009

famousringo said:

Funny story: I've seen EA Sports Active at a store which doesn't even have a Wii section. Their Wii merchandise consists of two copies of Sports Active, a couple boxes full of plastic wiimote shells, and a half-dozen $20 Wii games in a bargain bin.

This same store has full sections dedicated to selling PS3, 360, PSP, and PC games. I guess Nintendo pissed in the manager's corn flakes at some point. Or he's trapped in 2005 and still thinks the PSP will drive Nintendo out of the handheld space.

So if you consider that every store which doesn't even sell Wii games has two copies of Sports Active sitting on the bottom shelf somewhere, the numbers make sense. ;P

What a strange story. I guess the shop owner just doesn't like money...

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outlawauron on 05 August 2009

What exactly did they lose money on?

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NJ5 on 05 August 2009

outlawauron said:
What exactly did they lose money on?

Too expensive game development:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2432585

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outlawauron on 05 August 2009

I see. Although the increase in R&D could also have something to do with making new games to work with M+, Natal, or Sony's wand perhaps?

Also, how do you increase advertising by nearly 33%? That's huge!

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