Electronic Arts (EA) announced on Tuesday reservations for financial year 2026 superior to the expectations of Wall Street, focusing on the solid performance of its sports titles and on the launch of a new “Battlefield” game.
This optimistic perspective on the part of EA testifies to the confidence of the video game industry in sales resilience, despite a more general decline in consumption expenses, against the backdrop of macroeconomic volatility linked in particular to American customs tariffs.
Last week, Roblox also noted his annual reservations forecasts and exceeded the quarterly results estimates.
“As we turn to the future, we are confident in our ability to execute an ambitious roadmap – which will start this summer with the highly anticipated Battlefield revelation,” said Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA.
EA’s bet on this new part of the “Battlefield” franchise, launched more than twenty years ago, comes only a few days after Take-Two Interactive postponed the exit of the highly anticipated “Grand Theft Auto VI” outside its 2026 tax exercise.
According to analysts, this postponement of GTA VI reduces competition and could stimulate sales of other video game publishers.
-At EA, players also continue to favor proven titles from its sports portfolio, such as the football franchise “FC” and “Madden NFL”.
EA said on Tuesday that the monetization of “FC” had increased by more than 10 % since an update in January, after a halftone performance at the start of the year for the football franchise.
EA provides for the year 2026 reservations between 7.60 and 8 billion dollars, against an estimate of $ 7.62 billion according to data compiled by LSEG.
These forecasts also exceed 7.36 billion dollars in reservations recorded by EA during the year ended on March 31.
For the fourth quarter, the publisher recorded reservations of $ 1.80 billion, surpassing the $ 1.56 billion estimates, carried by the success of his multiplayer action-adventure game “Split Fiction”, which has risen among the best sales in March.
