Portal 2 Sells 2 Million In First Quarter -- EA Q1 2012 Fiscal Results

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Posted July 26, 2011 - By Nikole Zivalich

Electronic Arts Looks Toward More Price Cuts, Digital Sales, Motion Controls

The numbers are in and EA seems pleased with their financial results for Q1 2012. They have announced the preliminary results for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, which ended on June 30, 2011. Due to both digital sales and retails sales growth, EA plans on "increasing non-GAAP digital revenue guidance to a range of $1.100 billion to $1.150 billion for fiscal 2012." This means they think they're going to make bank in 2012, especially from digital games.

Some of EA's wins included Portal 2, which sold 2 million units in the first quarter, Crysis 2 sold 3 million since launch and both Dead Space 2 and Dragon Age 2 sold over 2 million units to date. EA published four of the top 20 games in Western markets with Portal 2, Crysis 2, FIFA 11, and Tiger Woods 12: The Masters.

Electronic Arts has high hopes for the rest of the year and they included a list of upcoming games to prove it. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is listed for Q4, making the a February release date likely. Noticeably absent from the list was Star Wars: The Old Republic. Don't panic though, during their Comic-Con panel it was announced the game would be Holiday 2011. My fingers are still crossed for a SW:TOR 2011 release.

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DPsx72

I only bought Portal because I needed a 4th game to get for $25. That's new by the way (yes it was a great deal). I hardly buy EA games otherwise. Yeah NFS was decent and Burnout is an old fave. Won't touch Mass Effect, their sports games, any of their RTS or MMO garbage, etc. Although I'll add that I don't feel quite as bad about them since Mirror's Edge and Dead Space. Activision is the new company I won't buy anything from and Capcom is working their way down the list too.

Posted: July 27, 2011 5:45 AM
Nub Salad

I'm so disappointed that I supported EA when I bought portal 2. Those bastards have their grubby hands on everything. On one hand I want to get Mass Effect 3 and on the other I want nothing to do with EA buying every decent developer out there. Also, I have my eye on Bethesda. It's only a matter of time before they stop making games and become publishers only.

Posted: July 26, 2011 8:54 PM
nfonseca

So EA made a lot of money selling Valve's game to console gamers, and now they have blocked Valve from selling Battle Field 3 on steam to PC gamers......

Posted: July 26, 2011 8:16 PM
crocodilius

i only hear bad things about DragonAge2.
i recently bought the first one and its ok i guess.
BioWare games are too D&D heavy. turn waiting, only goes to lvl20...
just weird.

this concerns me about TOR, but i remain positive.

Posted: July 26, 2011 5:59 PM
bolo73

I am one of those buyiers as well. Not liking the whole transfer your ea games to orign from steam but otherwise.

Posted: July 26, 2011 5:53 PM
Stellerman7

For anyone that is confused, EA distrubuted the retail copies of Portal 2.

Posted: July 26, 2011 4:01 PM
lucidity

EA revenue results

Platform Net Revenue Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2012Q1
Xbox 360 262 172 285 336 345
PLAYSTATION 3 209 152 282 357 308
Wii 40 25 130 71 42
PlayStation 2 11 29 20 4 3

Posted: July 26, 2011 3:47 PM
lunchlady55

Nm, they published the console versions.

Posted: July 26, 2011 3:26 PM
lunchlady55

Is this deliberate trolling? Valve published Portal 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Portal_2

Posted: July 26, 2011 3:24 PM
NightmareOF2012

I was one of those 2 million :)

Posted: July 26, 2011 3:21 PM