EA snags $90m booty from digital distribution in Q1

by Xav de Matos { Jul 30th 2008 at 12:40PM }

When it was introduced to the masses, digital distribution of games and content seemed too crazy to work. Press a few buttons and a game is delivered to me ... legally? Well sunshine, it did work and for EA it worked out really well.

During their fiscal Q1 conference call, Electronic Arts announced it has generated over $90 million in revenue through digital distribution. Ostensibly compiled from data of sales via the EA Store and downloadable content on consoles, the $90m shot in the arm accounted for 11% of EA's overall quarterly revenue ($804m in total).

To think, if those Battlefield: Bad Company weapons did go for sale EA would make like $90.1m -- because we all have that one friend who would think it was a good idea. And by friend we mean the guy we just deleted from our Friend's List, because that dude's a fool.

[via Joystiq]

Tags: digital-distribution, dlc, downloadable-content, ea, electronic-arts, q1

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tony @ Jul 30th 2008 1:10PM

I would have to guess that Spore Creature Creator was almost all of that.

emirabal @ Jul 30th 2008 1:14PM

EA IS A BEHEMOTH

AxFactor @ Jul 30th 2008 1:25PM

I'd be interested to know what chunk of that was RB songs.

ZenGaijin @ Jul 30th 2008 1:48PM

90 million dollar booty?

Now thats something as a African American man I can get.....behind....sorry.

monkeywithnoeyes @ Jul 30th 2008 5:31PM

yeah the dude would be a fool for paying to unlock content that already exists in the game he's just paid for...though ironically the majority of xbox 360 owners do this when paying for xbox live..as we're simply unlocking existing content thats in the games we've paid for. Whats the difference? Why does this site support the charge for live, yet not for guns in a game?