Electronic Arts welcomes IT Takes Two, Mass Effect and F1 2021 - News - Mass Effect

Electronic Arts has unveiled its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021 and distributed much more good points than bad.

If the profit is sharply decreased in relation to the same quarter last year, which benefited from the confinement effect, Electronic Arts is particularly satisfied with its results, citing the best performance and expected for IT Takes Two * * and Mass Effect Legendary Edition . Regarding the latter, EA even sees a grevy of the flame in the eyes of fans of the franchise, fans who only have to take their trouble to patience until the next opus. Excellent handling also for F1 2021 whose launch surpasses that of its predecessor with sales up 20% at the same stage. In the end, only Knockout City ** has not been mentioned among the recent outputs of the group.

Results of Electronic Arts

Period | Turnover | Operational Profit | Net profit --- | --- | --- | --- April 2020 - June 2020 | 1.2 billion euros | 398 million euros | 308 million euros April 2021 - June 2021 | 1.3 billion euros | 272 million euros | 172 million euros

These new outputs are added to the pillars of the group that FIFA 21 (more than 31 million players on consoles and PCs, number of matches was an annual increase of 48%) and APEX LEGENDS ** which does not Stopping its recording records (more than 13 million active players per week since the launch of Season 9) and whose total contribution is approaching the $ 2 billion. If there is an acquisition that Andrew Wilson must not regret, that is that of Respawn Entertainment. After this good quarter, Electronic Arts reviews its upward targets for the fiscal year and now anticipates a turnover of 5.8 billion euros and net profit (not record) of 385 million. euros.

In the quarter, game sales generated 272 million euros against more than one billion euros for other sources of revenue (purchase purchases, additional content, subscriptions). Electronic Arts adds that 58% of its games sold on PlayStation and Xbox are now for download rather than a box (against 52% a year earlier).

The consoles capture the largest share of the quarter (586 million euros) in front of the PC (312 million euros) and the mobile (230 million euros). Electronic Arts points out that the mobile is growing for the 6th consecutive year, which seems logical given the many investments made in this area. Combined, the recent acquisitions of GLU Mobile and Playdemic cost it far from 3 billion euros.

With the exception of Lost in Random , the next game of the EA Originals label, the group calendar for the rest of the fiscal year remains of an incomparable banality with FIFA 22 , Madden NFL 22 , NFL 22 , Battlefield 2042 and EA Sports PGA Tour . Announced during the recent Ea Play, Dead Space and Grid Legends will land somewhere in 2022. Remember that Need for Speed ​​ must return to 2022 with Criterion Games driving. After the recent release of the game on PS5 and Xbox Series, EA also confirmed its intention to invest in the franchise Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order .