{"id":84,"date":"2007-12-02T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/02\/ea-makes-more-with-mobile-than-with-ps3-and-psp\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:19:00","slug":"ea-makes-more-with-mobile-than-with-ps3-and-psp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/ea-makes-more-with-mobile-than-with-ps3-and-psp\/","title":{"rendered":"EA makes more with mobile than with PS3 and PSP!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R1Kz65vsAmI\/AAAAAAAABbU\/nYVdmlSmAC0\/s1600-R\/EA+Logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;width:110px;height:110px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R1Kz65vsAmI\/AAAAAAAABbU\/sdE8rKuiMB0\/s320\/EA+Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Someone went deep into EA&#8217;s financials to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.co.uk\/r\/Mobile\/EA+Mobile\/news.asp?c=5014\">find<\/a> that the gaming giant actually makes more money with its mobile games than it does with releases on the super-high-end <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.playstation.com\/ps3\/\">Sony PS3<\/a>: the numbers are apparently $37m for mobile vs. $21m and $17m for <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.playstation.com\/psp\/\">PSP<\/a> and PS3 respectively, and this is despite a shallow 5.7% revenue growth (industry leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameloft.com\/\">Gameloft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/chrismarketingresearch.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/gameloft-record-sales-of-eur244-million.html\">grew<\/a> by 51% in the same time).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R1K0_5vsAoI\/AAAAAAAABbk\/_5A16Pph4ho\/s1600-R\/NBA07mob.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;width:131px;height:151px;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R1K0_5vsAoI\/AAAAAAAABbk\/8CbNpwUCclw\/s320\/NBA07mob.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>However, one must of course take into account that the PS3 was only released in spring 2007, so will have a smaller install base and &#8211; arguably most importantly &#8211; it leaves aside the first big season for the PS3, namely the upcoming Christmas sales, which traditionally account for a huge amount of console and game sales.<\/p>\n<p>It is nonetheless very encouraging that even mighty EA, despite the huge marketing effort by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com\">Sony<\/a>, made more from mobile, which is still being perceived niche by many, than from Sony&#8217;s new flagship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone went deep into EA&#8217;s financials to find that the gaming giant actually makes more money with its mobile games than it does with releases on the super-high-end Sony PS3: the numbers are apparently $37m for mobile vs. $21m and $17m for PSP and PS3 respectively, and this is despite a shallow 5.7% revenue growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[138,174,177,235,519,539,540,603],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-console","tag-ea","tag-ea-mobile","tag-gameloft","tag-playstation","tag-ps3","tag-psp","tag-sony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1m","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}