‘College Football 25’ Racks Up Record 5 Million Players in First Week as EA Beats Wall Street Estimates for June Quarter
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer “EA Sports College Football 25″ drew a record-breaking 5 million unique players during its first week of availability, up from the 2.2 million that had joined the live-services game for early access by its July 19 release date.
Electronic Arts (EA) announced the impressive stats for the new title in its fiscal first-quarter 2025 earnings report Tuesday, where the video game giant also noted that 500,000 users played the game via EA Play’s trial option.
Wall Street forecast a GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of 88 cents and a non-GAAP EPS of 42 cents on $1.22 billion in net bookings, according to analyst consensus data provided by Seeking Alpha.
EA reported diluted EPS of $1.04 and non-GAAP EPS of 52 cents on $1.26 billion in net bookings. That’s a drop of 14% in revenue from the year-ago quarter, and 29% fall in earnings.
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