[neged]

EA's third quarter came to an end on the 31st, ending one of EA's most profitable quarters ever. The success was driven in large part by Battlefield 3's success, selling over 10 million copies in just over two months. You can read the full press-release here.

Riccitiello said:

We are pleased to report a strong holiday quarter driven by Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 and a strong showing by our digital games and services,

FIFA 12 (released late September '11) sold a similar amount of units. If Battlefield 3's third quarter sales rate is continuing and counting in the holidays, the current count might be at about 12.5 million copies. Origin is also catching on with gamers, it helped to generate some $100 million in revenue for the company during the same quarter. Battlefield 3 is still one of the most popular products on Origin.

[oreozzy]

neged, on 02 February 2012 - 01:14 AM, said:

Battlefield 3 is still one of the most popular products on Origin.

Only popular product on Origin

[VW Man 53]

News just in: 10 million people want their money back

[ABATTLEDONKEY]

LOL a big fat ^^^^^

with all of this money you would think they would provide a better product, but such is the world we live in these days.

[oreozzy]

They spent all that time and money creating the frostbite 2 engine, games come later

[ABATTLEDONKEY]

oreozzy, on 02 February 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

They spent all that time and money creating the frostbite 2 engine, games come later

Thats a good point! wish the game part would come sooner. does anyone know the full dev cost of BF3?

[Knightbird]

oreozzy, on 02 February 2012 - 01:40 AM, said:

Only popular product on Origin

A big fat THIS ^^^^

Origin is ONLY popular (if you can even use that word) because PC players were obviously forced to have/use it.. DUH.

[HeadshotZealot]

"EA most profitable quarter ever"

But god damn that pirating its killing our business.....right

[CoLFC]

wonder how it stood upto that bag o shit MW3 ? must have given a fair fight seeing that there are still plenty of COD players running around not having a clue what PTFO is all about...

[oreozzy]

Well there are still more COD players on Xbox Live than there are BF3 players, coming 5th overall for unique users.
COD MW3
COD BO
Skyrim
FIFA 12
Battlefield 3

Source

[HARRO PREAS3]

i'm pretty sure they made a loss of $205 mil... the REVENUE was 1061 mil, that's not profit...

[ABATTLEDONKEY]

HARRO PREAS3, on 02 February 2012 - 07:56 PM, said:

i'm pretty sure they made a loss of $205 mil... the REVENUE was 1061 mil, that's not profit...

HARRO PREAS3, on 02 February 2012 - 07:56 PM, said:

i'm pretty sure they made a loss of $205 mil... the REVENUE was 1061 mil, that's not profit...

Based on this report, thats what i took away from it as well. that was not however BF3's loss. that was a company wide loss. I did not see, in this report, how BF3 did compared to the investment they put into it. i know they put $100M in pre-release advertisment lol gimme a little piece of that pie and I will dis-appear never to be seen again.