Sims 4's development is ending?
So, I heard from people that the Sims series kind of has a "schedule" to the release of sequels. Once every four years or something like that. We are already in the fourth year, which means that the S...
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Here, I'll just put in a question from just one of the Investors and the resulting answer from one of EA's heads - and you tell me who is speculating what. This was just a few days ago at the 3rd quarter Earnings call:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Operator
(Operator Instructions) And your first question comes from Goldman Sachs.
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division -
Research Analyst
So you called out live service revenue growth of 39% in the quarter, and I don't think we've seen that level of growth, quarterly growth since fiscal
'15. So I was wondering if you could help us understand the components of that a bit better, in particular, what drove such a strong acceleration
in growth.
Blake J. Jorgensen
- Electronic Arts Inc. -
Executive VP & CFO
The Sims 4 added a substantial amount to extra content live services.
The continuation of our successful content packages that we shipped with The Sims 4 was very strong during the quarter. And then as we brought The Sims 4 out on console, that also started that process for the console side of the equation. So we're excited about the continued long future of The Sims 4 down the road.
we are not speculating as you can see. That's one of the heads at EA that tells Maxis what they can and can't do - keep that in mind.
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