{"id":1591,"date":"2009-08-06T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/06\/spinning-the-numbers-ea-revenue-by-gaming-platform\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:58:03","slug":"spinning-the-numbers-ea-revenue-by-gaming-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/06\/spinning-the-numbers-ea-revenue-by-gaming-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning the numbers.  EA revenue by gaming platform."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another game of spin the numbers.  This time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/35278\/PS3-outperforms-Xbox-360-for-EA\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/35278\/PS3-outperforms-Xbox-360-for-EA', 'MCV');\" target=\"new\">MCV<\/a> (via N4G) shows us that the <em>PS3 outperforms Xbox 360 for EA<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wii revenues lead the charge at $161m, up from $109m in the same quarter last year. Next up was PC, which courtesy of The Sims 3, bought in a considerable $124m.<\/p>\n<p>Next in line was PS3 with total revenues of $121m, markedly higher than Xbox 360, which generated $73m for EA. The PSP was also a surprise victor over DS with revenues of $38m compared to DS\u2019 $28m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess you could say that is interesting, but it is funny that the lead was not Wii outshines other consoles, or maybe the PC kicks Sony and MS in the nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of articles I reference, be sure to check out the comments.\u00a0 Sometimes (and this is the case with this article) the comments are better than the article.\u00a0 Well \u2026 maybe more entertaining.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another game of spin the numbers. This time MCV (via N4G) shows us that the PS3 outperforms Xbox 360 for EA. Wii revenues lead the charge at $161m, up from $109m in the same quarter last year. Next up was PC, which courtesy of The Sims 3, bought in a considerable $124m. Next &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/06\/spinning-the-numbers-ea-revenue-by-gaming-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spinning the numbers.  EA revenue by gaming platform.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,62,39,50],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-14","tag-pc","tag-ps2","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}