Need for Speed: The Run, which was only announced last week, has now been confirmed for the holiday quarter.ĮA said during its call to investors that it while it had expected to release Star Wars: The Old Republic during Q2 or Q3 for FY 12, the "end of our guidance range assumes the outside possibility of a January launch." "We know we have a big competitor, but head-to-head with Call of Duty in Q3, we have the superior game engine, a superior development studio, and a flat out superior game.Our goal is to significantly gain share in the huge FPS category and to put the other team on defense." The company also gave a full release schedule for the coming fiscal year, showing the newly-slipped Mass Effect 3 in the fourth quarter and confirming RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning for the same first three months of calendar 2012. "Our goal is to significantly gain share in the huge FPS category and to put the other team on defense."įIFA 11 has now sold 11 million units, EA said Bad Company 2 has now moved 7 million and NfS: Hot Pursuit and Madden 11 has now shifted 5 million apiece.Ĭumulative sales of Dead Space 2 are now 40 percent higher than that of the original at this point in the game's cycle, the firm said, although no specific figures were given. "We know we have a big competitor, but head-to-head with Call of Duty in Q3, we have the superior game engine, a superior development studio, and a flat out superior game," said Frank Gibeau.
The company also said that Battlefield 3 pre-orders were up over 700 percent on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the last game in the series which released last year. Profit for the fourth quarter, ending March 31, was well up, at $151 million compared to $30 million in the previous corresponding period. "Outside chance" SWTOR could slip into January 2012.ĮA lost $276 million in the year ended March 31, narrowed from the $677 million lost in the previous year, while sales stayed virtually unmoved at $3.589 billion compared to last year's $3.654 billion. Need for Speed: The Run out Q4 calendar 2011, Kingdoms of Amalur out Q1 calendar 2012.įull-year loss down from $677 million to $276 million in year-ending March 31, 2011.īattlefield 3 pre-orders up over 700 percent on 2010's Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Mass Effect 3 delayed into Q1 calendar 2012. EA has said pre-orders for Battlefield 3 are hugely higher than those for Bad Company 2, and has shown solid results for both the full-year ending March 31 and its fiscal Q4.
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