“Players across Madden NFL and College Football across console and PC grew double digits and hours played were up 68%, leading to net bookings of over $1 billion dollars – up over 70% year over year.”
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Meanwhile, the three-month period also saw the launch of Split Fiction. “This incredible title overperformed our expectations, captured global attention, and to date has reached nearly four million units sold,” he added.
Split Fiction peaked at 260k concurrents on Steam, and has 96% positive reviews, so looks like it was solid. That said, 4 million sales, retail price of $50, that gives them $200 million maximum. And I guarantee that Madden cost a fraction of what Split Fiction did to make since by all reports Madden 20XX has basically been Madden 20XX-1 with the player names changed for years. But the sports game players keep buying.
It's really the sports games keeping them afloat, and subsidizing everything else. (Well, Sims could probably stand on its own).
From an article from early May:
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Split Fiction peaked at 260k concurrents on Steam, and has 96% positive reviews, so looks like it was solid. That said, 4 million sales, retail price of $50, that gives them $200 million maximum. And I guarantee that Madden cost a fraction of what Split Fiction did to make since by all reports Madden 20XX has basically been Madden 20XX-1 with the player names changed for years. But the sports game players keep buying.