Not if they lose $100s of millions again. Because all that will prove is that they can't make money using that business model.

It's obvious the business model is flawed. If you make the most money on the platform that has sold the least, that's bad business. You aren't capitalizing on the bigger markets. I see why they lost money last fiscal year.

The T2 acquisition has no impact on earnings, since there was no transaction. That might effect the stock price, but not earnings.

Can't blame it on the economy either, because those losses were when the economy was still decent.

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All one has to do is look at the sales of Ubi's sales figure for the last 6 months to see how this happened...it's not like...oh WOW! I'll bet EA results for THIS quarter look different, and probably for Ubi as well for this upcoming quarter...and you see that in hte report for the past qtr, vice the past 6 months.

It's crazy to see how EA isn't doing good on DS compare to Ubisoft.

What you're referring to only equals that 969% figure

From my understanding, those 2 charts deal with total revenue, in which case the PS3 is tops for EA (hello Fifa in Europe) and PS3 is 2nd for Ubisoft behind the DS.

The economy was decent? Since when? The economies for many countries have been doing poorly since the turn of the century, and it was pretty bad in early 2008 as well. Anyways, EA's losses don't surprise me that much. Early 2008 is likely when they're in the middle of A LOT of development (Fifa, Madden, NHL, Need for Speed, etc.), and they didn't release all that many games during that times. Losses don't surprise me, especially given the size of EA.

And that still doesn't account for the PS3's success with Ubisoft, who is quickly becoming a staple in the industry.

Compartive to the last 3 months, the economy was decent especially for the video game sector for ERTS FY08. EA was losing money while other companies like Activision were doing quite well. The $454 million loss for the entire fiscal year, so seasonal development was not a factor.

ROFLOL...that's pure bunk!  The reason that developers are leading with te PS3 is because it's MORE difficult to program for the PS3, and EVEN MORE difficult to port it over to other platforms, NOT because of sales.  Even the Sony spokesman said so, but i guess you're more informed.  I can assure you that when EA reports for this qtr, the % of sales will not be as favorable to PS3 as last qtr's report.  I'll even go as far as to say neither will Ubisoft's, and it's got nothing to do with undertracking, it's got to do with release sked and revenue reciept.  Fanboys ought ot stay out of financial analysis and stick to deciding who can win between Superman and Hulk..