Electronic Arts, arguably the world's biggest games behemoth just released their financial results for the first quarter of the Fiscal Year 2017, and the company's CEO Andrew Wilson is pumped for what's to come. He said:
"EA is leading our industry through innovation, with more of our biggest games powered by Frostbite, breakthrough EA SPORTS titles on console and mobile, and the unstoppable combination of Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 coming this holiday. We're looking forward to connecting more players around the world to each other through the games they love to play."
Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 are EA's main pillars this holiday season (not counting the many sports titles they have coming), and given Battlefield 1's Alpha reception, Wilson has good reason to be excited (we certainly loved it). Among the droves of numbers, EA included a few notable highlights regarding some of the company's biggest brands. Here they are:
- The Battlefield™ franchise, led by Battlefield 4™, had more than 11.5 million unique players during Q1.
- Star Wars™ Battlefront™ had more than 6.6 million unique players in Q1.
- Madden NFL 16 unique players increased more than 20% year-over-year during Q1.
- Madden NFL Mobile had 25% more monthly active players in Q1 over last year.
- Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes players averaged nearly 2.5 hours of gameplay per day in Q1.
- EA titles shown at EA PLAY and E3 garnered 81 awards, including the Best Action Game for Battlefield 1 and Best Online Multiplayer for Titanfall® 2 from the E3 Game Critics.
- The EA Access subscriber base more than doubled year-over-year in Q1.
To put it simply, if you're a hater of EA's….get ready to hate them for years to come. They aren't going away anytime soon.
Source: [Business Wire]
