Electronic Arts Revenue Rises on Football Video Game Strength

Online game firm Digital Arts noticed income rise to $2.02 billion in its second quarter, up 6 p.c on a year-earlier $1.9 billion, on the power of American soccer online game gross sales growth.

EA posted internet revenue at $294 million, or $1.11 per share, in comparison with a year-earlier internet revenue at $399 million, or $1.47 per share. The corporate noticed its newest outcomes come out amid regular demand for video video games globally after a increase throughout pandemic-era lockdowns.

EA reported $2.07 billion in whole internet bookings for the previous three months, a document for the second monetary quarter and up 14 p.c from year-earlier internet bookings at $1.82 billion. The corporate mentioned its American soccer sports activities video sport sequence was on monitor to surpass $1 billion in internet bookings for full 12 months 2025. That’s after whole hours of soccer sport play rose within the second quarter 140 p.c year-over-year.

“EA delivered one other robust quarter with document Q2 internet bookings, pushed by our unbelievable groups, broad portfolio and know-how management. The momentum in our enterprise reinforces our strategic imaginative and prescient to ship modern experiences and interactive leisure that deepens and expands engagement throughout our international communities,” Andrew Wilson, CEO of Digital Arts, mentioned in an announcement that accompanied his firm’s newest monetary outcomes.

On an after-market analyst name, Wilson reiterated EA was creating video video games over prolonged intervals and for more and more related ecosystems, quite simply develop a gaming world with distinctive characters for launch and sale on restricted platforms.

Which means launching soccer online game franchises much less on a yearly or seasonal foundation, as was typical prior to now, and shifting the Madden NFL sport franchise to a “soccer fan platform that serves all American soccer followers for three hundred and sixty five days a 12 months,” Wilson argued.

He added EA would leverage the size and know-how of its artistic groups to construct video video games primarily based on different international sports activities apart from American soccer, which incorporates the latest launch of the NFL 25 sport primarily based on the Nationwide Hockey League, and plans to launch video video games primarily based on LaLiga, or Spain’s prime skilled soccer competitions.

“International soccer is just the start. We plan to introduce extra sports activities in additional areas sooner or later via a scaled launch cadence with knowledge from every launch serving to to outline deeply participating future options,” Wilson instructed analysts about EA Sports activities, a division of Digital Arts that creates and publishes sports activities video video games.

The online game publishing big earlier this 12 months unveiled plans to chop its workforce. In Feb. 2024, the corporate mentioned it will shed round 5 p.c of its workforce, or over 650 jobs, and incur about $125 million to $165 million in whole fees to finish a restructuring plan.

Different price chopping included the cancelation of a high-profile Star Wars first-person shooter sport.