shio on 31 October 2008
| Squilliam said: Wait a second! EA is one of the biggest PC publishers and yet a single console platform still beats it. This isn't all consoles vs PC in some kind of unfair matchup, its one console or the HD twins depending on how you want to cut it. It does show that consoles are >>>> the PC platform. PC revenue total: $515 Million Xbox 360 revenue total: $847 Million PS3 revenue total: $508 Million. Added together the PS3+Xbox 360 produce more than 2.5 times more revenue for EA than the PC. Wheres this mystical huge PC market? |
PC revenue doesn't count for Internet services, Subscriptions and Digital Distribution revenues. So the "PC revenue" is skewed.
For example, you can expect the $140 Million figure of "Subscription Services" revenue to be entirely from PC. You can also expect a big chunk of that $1053 Million of "Co-Publishing and Distribution" to be PC because of Digital Distribution (it made $90 millions in Q1 FY09 alone) and publishing/distribution of some games like Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Orange Box (PC) in the last 5 quarters.
You need to take figures from several places to have a better picture of PC's true revenue.
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Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
Q1 |
Q2 |
YOY % |
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| PLATFORM NET REVENUE MIX | ||||||||||||
| Xbox 360 | 218 | 196 | 128 | 81 | 224 | 3% | ||||||
| PLAYSTATION 3 | 17 | 102 | 152 | 139 | 98 | 476% | ||||||
| PlayStation 2 | 73 | 301 | 166 | 79 | 54 | (26%) | ||||||
| Wii | 59 | 139 | 75 | 57 | 33 | (44%) | ||||||
| Xbox | 12 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | (92%) | ||||||
| Nintendo GameCube | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | (100%) | ||||||
| Total Consoles | 382 | 742 | 522 | 356 | 410 | 7% | ||||||
| PC | 79 | 148 | 114 | 86 |
88 |
11% |
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| Wireless | 38 | 39 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 24% | ||||||
| Nintendo DS | 47 | 122 | 36 | 21 | 43 | (9%) | ||||||
| PSP | 21 | 74 | 69 | 57 | 36 | 71% | ||||||
| Game Boy Advance | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | (100%) | ||||||
| Total Mobility | 110 | 237 | 147 | 122 | 126 | 15% | ||||||
| Co-publishing and Distribution | 33 | 320 | 295 | 191 |
214 |
548% |
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| Subscription Services | 23 | 25 | 25 | 28 | 29 | 26% | ||||||
| Licensing, Advertising & Other | 13 | 31 | 24 | 21 | 27 | 108% | ||||||
| Total Internet Services, Licensing & Other | 36 | 56 | 49 | 49 | 56 | 56% | ||||||
| Total Net Revenue | 640 | 1,503 | 1,127 | 804 | 894 | 40% |
