http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-17/electronic-arts-rises-12-percent-on-upgrade-tied-to-titanfall-title

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA:US), producer of the “Madden NFL” video games, rose more than 12 percent after CRT Capital Group LLC recommended the stock, citing prospects for the March release of “Titanfall” and soccer titles.

Electronic Arts, based in Redwood City, California, gained (EA:US) 12 percent to $24.10 at 12:13 p.m. in New York after reaching $24.20 earlier, the biggest intraday jump since Oct. 30. The shares advanced 58 percent last year.

“Video game stocks trade on game slates, and we believe that EA has one of the most highly anticipated games coming out at the end of March, ‘Titanfall,’” Neil Doshi, a CRT analyst, said in a research note yesterday. He also forecast a strong year for the company’s soccer titles because of the World Cup.

Good to see. Titanfall should be a lot of fun to play.

Wow, if Microsoft wanted to buy EA last week would have been a good time.

Something about having the most anticipated new IP next gen exclusive just looks good to investors.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Titanfall sell 10m across all platforms. Good news for EA.

Gaf Alpha thread seems to agree with the majority of the impressions since the get go, that the game is fucking legit.

If titanfall is a success, MS will probably do everything to make it permanently exclusive to the XBox brand :)..

And EA will only get eviler...

I doubt Microsoft would be willing to pay that bill, tbh you just need the first game in a series to be exclusive then the sequels sell better on that console, look at Mass Effect, Dead Rising, and Saints Row.

it does kinda have a declining effect as the series progress's say Saint's Row 3 the sales are 2.2m to 2.6m in favour of the 360 and with Bioshock infinate it's 1.2m on the ps3 to 1.6 on the 360 again the difference died down a lot compared to the Bioshock 2 sales which sold almost double the number of units on the 360.

Still tho there was a press statement not long ago which suggested that even if games were coming to both X1 and PS4 from 3rd party devs Microsoft would do what they could to secure additional content for the X1 versions of the game... which I'm not really a fan of since it means they're basically investing the money which Microsoft sets aside for their gaming division not into creating games really but paying 3rd party devs to cut chunks outta ps4 games... it's lose/lose for gamers.

I think the declining effect has more to do with the PS3 picking up steam near the end of this generation.