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Train wreck on 13 February 2013
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KungKras said:
Train wreck said:

Yea, where they sell for like 5 cents.

Come on, that's a terrible excuse.

5 cents...OK.  

Madden (which on the iphone and ios are full featured), when the game is not on sale, cost $6.99 (with sales of .99 cents). so if you have 207.7 million smartphones that were sold in the past Q4 and EA was able to get lets say 4 million downloads at a price average of $4. you get 16 million in revenue, apple gets 35% so you are left with 10.4 million dollars.

The best selling madden for the 3DS and DS with their multimillion userbases is about 300k and it retailed at $30 dollars (most likely a short lived price), so lets say the publishers cut was 50% so 15$ @ 300k is  4.5m and that does not factor any of the brick and mortar trouble.

Yea, terrible excuse.

That was a gimped game on an early 3DS. Realistically, and with adequate features, it would do better. EA usually makes the sports games anywhere where they can profit, they obviously can on 3DS.

Do you know how many downloads EA actually gets?

Im sure EA doesnt break down those numbers I do know that since the beginning of its current fiscal year they have made $144 million in revenue from their mobile division which im sure equates to alot of 5 cent games.