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EA Announce Q1 2012 Financial Results

We’re not the Financial Times and we’re definitely not bothered about how other EA games are performing financially, but we do of course have a vested interest in our beloved FIFA, which by all accounts has sold like hot cakes. EA have released their preliminary financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30th 2011 and they’re mighty pleased with the results.

Most of the report is as you’d expect mind numbingly dull but because we’re nice we’ll pull out all of the best FIFA highlights just for you:

  • For the quarter, EA had four of the top 20 selling games in Western markets: Portal 2, Crysis 2, FIFA 11, and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters.
  • Life to date, including digital and mobile downloads, FIFA 11 has sold nearly 15 million units, demonstrating strong cross platform performance.
  • EA Games Label and EA SPORTS garnered 148 award nominations and 19 wins at E3. Winners included Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, STAR WARS: The Old Republic, FIFA 12, SSX, Need for Speed: The Run, Kingdoms of Amalur:Reckoning, Madden NFL 12, and NHL 12.
  • FIFA 11′s digital revenue as of July 26th 2011 was $64 million through Q1 FY2012.
  • That’s forecast to grow a further $7 million through Q4 FY2012.

So there you have it, a little inside knowledge on the financial performance of FIFA 11. We’ve added the most relevant screenshots below and if anyone could tell us who is still buying digital products for FIFA 09, we’d appreciate it…

Source: xboxgamezone

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  • gooners

    how can fifa 12 win an award wen its not even out yet?

  • Tom Mills

    They were E3 awards.

  • Guilherme

    Maybe this could show EA they need to stop with their online code BS and trust us to give them our $$$$$$$$$$$$. And yes, I am referring to us as billionaires.

  • bender

    lukas podolski will be on the german cover of fifa 12 along with mats hummels

  • MUFC 4 life

    who on fifa 12 uk cover?

  • Walker

    This is why I’m so pessimistic about fifa12, they can release a game full of bugs with little effort and the masses will still buy it. Until people stop buying this crap the game will continue with its two steps forward and one and three quarter steps back. Fifa12 = Don’t hold your breath, more of the same.

  • Frederik the Dane

    Well I’m counting on you not buying the game then, Walker? Someone has to be the first not to buy it, eh?

  • Tom Mills

    @walker the problem is, everyone has different expectations from the game. Even here, there are people who are more interested in offline vs online and vice versa. And that’s just people who are invested enough in the game to seek out news, post on forums and get involved in the FIFA community.

    Then you have people who just want a football game, without really worrying about the issues or bugs or where features in CM are missing/not true to life. They see two games on the market and buy the one with authentic kits and player names. That’s the basis of their descision on which one to purchase and that’s why FIFA sells so well year after year.

    I’ve got friends who fall into that bracket, they’ll buy FIFA every year because that’s what they’ve always bought. I’ll point out problems and they shrug, because they bought it to have a football game to pick up once in a while. My Dad even buys FIFA for himself at least every other year and he probably turns his playstation on once every couple of months.

  • miner49er

    Tom do you have any idea when new screenshots/gameplay or anything like that will be made public?

  • miner49er

    And also what date do EA usualy confirm what stadiums are in the game – I have waited years for celtic park and Ibrox to be put in and every year I just get more and more dissapointed when I first put on the game.

  • bender

    found this in the german forum

    http://forum.ea.com/de/posts/list/807599.page

    8 new things for fifa 12

    1. keepers now can catch up the ball from a player dribbling along him

    2. you can now select the keeper at freekicks and 1on1 situations

    3. new nationalteams : ivory coast,chile,colombia

    4.better movement by hard shots from the keepers

    5. players have real pics at the menu

    6. ea is going to show a new feature which will be a system against quitting onlinegames.. on gamescom

    7. the bergkamp move will be in fifa12

    8.new team selection style

    ————————————————

    not sure if everything is for sure but it sounds good and the sources are quite good….

  • Guilherme

    I like point #2 a lot

  • Walker

    @Frederik the Dane.

    Your right after last years joke in which I got rid of it after a fortnight and recouped my money, I won’t be rushing out and buying this years. I had little critiicism of Fifa World Cup and still enjoy that game, but fifa11 was a disgrace.

  • Markov

    @Walker

    Yeah, I think a lot of people will be holding out to see what fifa12 brings before buying. From what I have heard people say about fifa12 early code it doesn’t sound too convincing.

    PES has me excited this year.

  • PES King

    of course Pes has everyone excited. we have heard from all the people that played fifa at guilford that the game is broken and not nearly as playable as older Fifa games.

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