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Analysts see the positive in Andrew Wilson’s first holiday season as EA chief

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game giant Electronic Arts reported mixed holiday quarter results Tuesday, hitting its earnings targets but missing on revenues as its first Xbox One and PlayStation 4 console game sales materialized.

But analysts are looking on the bright side today, and EA’s stock price is up 2.6 percent in midday trading on Wall Street — and that the publisher is positioned well for 2014 in the multibillion game industry. EA chief executive Andrew Wilson said sales of games for Microsoft’s and Sony’s new systems games were better than expected, but these were not enough to make up for weaker sales for the older Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.