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Forums - Sales - EA Oct-Dec figures are in - lots of interesting data!

landguy1 on 03 February 2011
Degausser said:
landguy1 said:
leatherhat said:
landguy1 said:

I remember when the EA logo alone meant that the game was worth buying...  Not so much anymore.  

 

Still, they should have had a killer quarter.  Something is amiss at EA!


Say what now?

Well, Back in the early nineties, EA dominated what was then the casual market.  Sports games.  Oddly, the still own this segment, but people don't buy the new Madden/Fifa/whatever every year like they did back then.  There seems to be little innovation.  Now, as far as the other games, they were Electronic Arts.  They were one of the few companies that people actually associated with the developer's name, not just the game title/brand as it is now.  Today, call of duty is a brand - regardless of which developer/studio makes it.  Soon enough the same will be said of Halo.  So, when i say the name used to mean something, it's because it did(back in the day).

 I'm not sure about Madden but I'm pretty sure FIFA is doing better now then it's ever been doing...

 

 As for EA, er, it's very hard to really make sense of their results nowadays. They're just far too big of a company with so many different things, sounds like they're heading to profitability though which is good. They've got a long way to go to appease shareholders though.

My only added thought to your Madden/Fifa comment is this:  I think that the overall base/amount of users of video games has really expanded.  I guess the time i was referring to way back when , the were so many people playing on a PC and the console market was much smaller.  Today, the console market is incredibly large and the average person is much more interested in actually playing games.  This has allowed for games such as Fifa to really expand - Especially in Europe where the sport has real meaning to the masses.  Again, "back in the day" when Madden launched, there were big lines and big parties to go with it.  Sure the numbers for both of these games are great, but atleast for Madden they used to be much bigger culturally.