EA ends 2011 on high note: financial results show best performance in years

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Electronic Arts has financial results from the final quarter of 2011, revealing that last year's holiday season saw the company operating at its highest cash-flow in almost eight years. CEO John Riccitiello cited Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 as key factors in the company's positive results, wit♋h both titles se🎐lling over 10 million units.

Riccitiello also cited “a strong showing by our digital games and services,” with the company's Origin platform having generated more than $100 million and 9.3 million registered users since its June 2011 launch. Star Wars: The Old Republic, launched to capitalize on the 2011 holiday season, sold more than 2 million copies and generated 1.7 million active users in just over a month of sale, the company says (it's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:previously projected the title would become profitable with less than half that player-count). Overall digital revenue exceeded $1 billion for the calender year o🐎f 201ꦐ1.

EA reports that it held the #1 market share in both European and North American territories, with 3% growthꦿ in the former and 1% in the latter region. T൲he company also reports that it was the top game publisher on Apple's App Store for the month of December, driven by the company's first free-play mobile title, The Sims: FreePlay.

Overall revenue exceeded the company❀'s high-end projection by $1 million, with the company posting a net earning of $1,651 million.

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