NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

[choy]

Won't EA make the money up selling NBA Jam anyway? I think most people who want to buy Elite 11 were more after Jam than Elite. Now that Jam is selling on its own, more people will go ahead and buy.

[iamamodelcitizen]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

the funny thing is people think this will phase EA.
EA makes so money every year. although their profits are lower than last year, they are NEVER in the red. they say we took a loss this year to confuse idiots into thinking they aren't making money but what they really mean is we made less money than we did last year. In the end it was EA who decided to delay the game not the developers so they already knew what was going to happen. i can see somebody getting fired but don't for a second think this will hurt EA in any way.

[rspencer86]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

the funny thing is people think this will phase EA.
EA makes so money every year. although their profits are lower than last year, they are NEVER in the red. they say we took a loss this year to confuse idiots into thinking they aren't making money but what they really mean is we made less money than we did last year. In the end it was EA who decided to delay the game not the developers so they already knew what was going to happen. i can see somebody getting fired but don't for a second think this will hurt EA in any way.

Come on man, at least do some research before you post.

NEVER in the red? Ok... EA Loses Over $1 Billion in FY 2009

And why would they say they took a loss to "confuse idiots into thinking they aren't making money?" That doesn't even make sense. Yeah, let's convince people we aren't making money. Great idea.

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

First off Pachter is an idiot.

Duyuhhhhh lets see… 1.1 mil copies X $59.99 = $60 mil in lost revenues. Oops. Looks like someone forgot that retailers actually have to make a profit. Please don’t ever post another quote from this guy.

2nd no way this game sells a million copies. I hope he wasn’t quoting the EA sales forecast because obviously they had no clue what was going on.

plus losses from in game advertisments.

This guy pac, says alot of outrageous stuff.

I remember ps3 was supposed to sell more than 360 like 2 years ago. Still waiting for it to happen lol.

[Bondgirl0072]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

ouch. that is a lot of money.

[pHiLKizer]

EA is going to lose $60 Million?

So...

Don't put out sucky games and expect us to buy them.

Remember about 5 years ago when EA was having their workers work ridiculous hours and weren't paying them? What goes around comes around and EA is getting what it deserves.

[DrJones]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

Won't EA make the money up selling NBA Jam anyway? I think most people who want to buy Elite 11 were more after Jam than Elite. Now that Jam is selling on its own, more people will go ahead and buy.

Doesn't work that way. Two different dev teams, two different budgets. Companies like EA project revenues for each fiscal quarter/year. Those projections will include projected sales for NBA Elite AND NBA Jam. When revenues turn out to be less than anticipated (in this case, far less), stock prices drop and people get laid off.

[DrJones]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

Remember about 5 years ago when EA was having their workers work ridiculous hours and weren't paying them? What goes around comes around and EA is getting what it deserves.

If you think something like this happening is good for the workers, you're mistaken.

[Brandon Jennings]

Re: NBA Elite 11 Delay Could Cost EA $60 Million (Gamespot)

Come on son!