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EA beats earnings estimates, but revenues fall short with mixed holiday sales

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts reported earnings that exceeded Wall Street targets today as it chronicled its first holiday selling season under new chief executive Andrew Wilson. But revenues fell short of expectations due to weaker sales of games for older Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.

EA, one of the largest U.S. game publishers in a multibillion dollar industry, reported third-fiscal quarter non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.26 on revenue of $1.57 billion, compared with 57 cents on revenue of $1.18 billion a year ago.

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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.