{"id":79497,"date":"2015-08-03T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79497"},"modified":"2015-08-03T02:32:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:32:53","slug":"pc-gaming-may-be-eas-most-profitable-single-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/79497-pc-gaming-may-be-eas-most-profitable-single-platform","title":{"rendered":"PC Gaming may be EA’s most profitable single platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a similar vein to Ubisoft, who also reported the solid profitability of the PC platform<\/a>, EA’s recent earning results<\/a> show that PC gaming is quite possibly their most single profitable platform.<\/p>\n

According to their non-GAAP<\/a> figures, a somewhat more accurate portrayal of reliable profitability in this case, you can see that PC gaming is responsible for 21% of net revenue in the most recent quarter.<\/p>\n

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EA’s total non-GAAP<\/a> net revenue for Q1 – 4 Financial Year 15 – 16.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Of course, Xbox One and PS4 revenue accounts for a larger portion, but that number, 41%, is shared between two platforms.<\/p>\n

Granted, the PS4 share may be larger than the PC’s 21%, but that doesn’t detract from the profitability of PC gaming.<\/p>\n

And don’t forget that PC gaming is only becoming more popular, not less.<\/p>\n

Just keep that number in mind before deciding on how to handle PC game development or porting EA.<\/p>\n

Don’t be like Warner Bros. Don’t pull a Batman<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For an understanding of what GAAP and non-GAAP figures are, you might want to check out this article<\/a> by Business Insider.<\/p>\n

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Source: WCCF Tech<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Here’s hoping it translates into something meaningful for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":79501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175,813,15119,1969,15397,15123,241,15121],"class_list":["post-79497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-figures","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-profitability","tag-sales","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}