Everything is going very well at Electronic Arts, which has just recorded the largest turnover in its history for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. 6.7 billion euros for 1.2 billion euros of operating profit is still a small notch behind Activision Blizzard, but Electronic Arts has its own guarantees with FIFA and Apex Legends. And as if to celebrate the end of the historic partnership with the International Football Federation, the latest EA Sports football game to be named like that has broken all records by surpassing total sales of FIFA 22 in just six months. Before making the big transition to the name EA Sports FC, FIFA 23 therefore officially becomes the biggest success of the franchise. Meanwhile, Apex Legends kicked off 2023 with a Season 16 that increased peak weekly active users by 20%, and The Sims 4 has surpassed 70 million players since its debut in 2014. these key titles, “live services” turnover reached the colossal sum of 5 billion euros, while sales of traditional games remained stable (1.7 billion euros).
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, going strong
For the new fiscal year, Electronic Arts anticipates even more spectacular results with a turnover of between 6.6 and 7 billion euros and a net profit of between 833 and 960 million euros. The catalog of releases by March 2024 includes EA Sports PGA Tour, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth, Super Mega Baseball 4, F1 23, Immortals of Aveum, Madden NFL 24, EA Sports FC and NHL 24. At least two more titles will be added to this list, a racing game (presumably Codemasters’ first WRC) and a sports game (possibly EA Sports UFC). Titles like Dragon Age: Relentless Wolf and Skate will need a bit more time, as will the Battlefield franchise which is carefully preparing for its rehabilitation under the guidance of former Call of Duty veterans Vince Zampella and Byron Beede.
During his presentation, CEO Andrew Wilson had the opportunity to congratulate the start of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Without revealing a first sales figure, we know that “millions of players” have already gone on an adventure with Cal Kestis and that the management of Electronic Arts is delighted with this launch, despite it being tainted by a lack of optimization which has already required the deployment of several patches on consoles and PC. Radio silence, however, regarding the performance of the remake of Dead Space released in January.
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