Electronic Arts raises revenue for Q3, SWTOR sells 2m units

EA has posted their Q3 financial results, and it’s looking bright and chirpy for the publisher. We won’t bore you with rows of paragraphs, so here is a summary in neat little bullet points.

• Revenue jumped 15% from last year, rolling in $1.65 billion as compared to last year’s $1.41 billion.
• Losses have been reduced as well, coming in $205 million as compared to $322 million year-over-year.
• The publisher managed to sell $1.23 billion in packaged goods, which is also an increase from last year’s $1.108 billion.
• BioWare’s recently released MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has moved 2 million units, with about 1.7 million active users. It is the “fastest growing subscription MMO in history”.
• 40% of sales of SWTOR came from Origin; actual revenue generated will be disclosed at a later date.
• Origin, too, is doing good. The service now has 9.3 million users, with 1 million daily users. It has made about $100 million in revenue since launch.
• Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 moved 10 million units, whereas Madden 12 moved 5 million units life-to-date.
• EA’s recent acquisition PopCap got their revenue up by 30%, bringing the company’s social gaming division a cool $377 million, a massive 78% bump from last year.
• EA’s social gaming division has about 54 million monthly active users.
• Full game downloads made $130 million in revenue, whereas DLCs and other such packs made $49 million.

The company is now all set to release two biggies in the span of two weeks: Syndicate on Feb 24th, and Mass Effect 3 on March 7th.