Game Company Financials Examined

An anonymous reader writes "An article over at Curmudgeon Gamer collects together and discusses the revenue reported over the past eight quarters for five game companies: Electronic Arts, Take Two Interactive, Activision, THQ, and Midway. Using graphs and some discussion, it reveals some interesting points and trends in the market. You can see how important Grand Theft Auto has been to Take Two, just how big EA really is compared to Activision, and whether the Xbox or GameCube is generating more revenue for these game companies." This is a very interesting attempt at collating and comparing revenue data for some of the bigger multi-platform game publishers.

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Wow the PS2 is Big for EA, Overall Comment

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I didn't realize that the PS2 was just THAT BIG for EA. Considdering that they publish the best selling game of all time (and all 9 (or whatever) of it's expansion packs), you'd think that The Sims would make the PC a bigger share of their revenue. For the PC revenue to stay smaller than PS2, you can tell just how big the PS2 really is.

That said, I would have liked to see the graphs in millions or something like that, instead of percent. That way you could tell that while the PS2 make look like it's market is shrinking for a company in a specific timeframe, it's actually growing, but some smash hit game on the PC just dwarfed the revenue. I also would have liked to see "dots" on the graphs representing some of the bigger games being published so we could see the results.