Xbox<\/a> \u2060and PlayStation down from the third quarter, TD Cowen analysts said in a note last \u200bmonth.<\/p>\n\u2022 EA \u200breported fourth-quarter bookings \u200bof $1.86 billion, missing analysts’ \u200caverage estimate of $2.0 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Profit rose to $461 million, compared with $254 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The upcoming launch of Take-Two Interactive’s “Grand Theft Auto VI” poses \u200ca threat to EA, as \u200bthe biggest videogame launch \u200bof all time \u200bis likely to dominate player attention \u200cand discretionary spending.<\/p>\n
\u2022 EA \u200bis preparing \u200bto go private in an acquisition led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, along \u200bwith private equity \u200cfirms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners for $55 \u200bbillion.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sriraj Kalluvila)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 5 (Reuters) – Videogame publisher Electronic Arts missed quarterly bookings estimates on Tuesday, weighed \u200cdown by a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,53032,53031,1033,39573,71291,171,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-775928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-battlefield","tag-battlefield-6","tag-design","tag-electronic-arts","tag-engagement","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116524450147496404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}