Fiscal year 2020 is from April 2019 to March 2020.
From yesterday's earnings call:
Our Sims 4 live service also continues to be a rich and rewarding experience for our players and a strong platform for growth. The Sims 4 continues to be one of the great owned IP success stories of our portfolio and we are planning for FY '20 to be our biggest year yet of new content. Knowing that, we gave more fans a chance to get into the game through a one week promotion in May to download the base game for free. Almost 7 million players downloaded the game during that time. In addition to the base game promotion, total expansion and game pack downloads also increased 55% year-over-year in Q1. We launched our seventh expansion pack, Island Living, in late June and has already become one of the best selling packs for The Sims 4. We are fortunate to have an incredibly vibrant and creative Sims community on console, PC and mobile, and we are continuing to double down on this amazing franchise to reach new players and open up exciting new dimensions of The Sims this year.
Finally, as Andrew mentioned, The Sims 4 base game promotion delivered nearly 7 million new installs, and we remain on track to have the fifth consecutive year of growth in The Sims 4 following its launch in 2014.
EA expects TS4 to generate $300-400 million revenue for them in fiscal year 2020.
Now turning to guidance. Except for the increase of our tax benefit of $200 million or $0.66 a share on GAAP EPS, we are reiterating our guidance for the full year. We continue to expect The Sims 4 and Apex Legends to each deliver net bookings in the $300 million to $400 million range.
They also talked about the possibilities of The Sims being on the Nintendo Switch.
Jeffrey Cohen
Thanks for the incremental color on The Sims. It feels like that franchise would be one that would do really well on the Nintendo Switch. So I'm curious how you guys determine which platforms you'd bring the game to or games to? And is there any reason why you wouldn't want to bring that one on there?
Andrew Wilson
Any time we're evaluating platform conversations, we are really looking at a couple of things. One, does the game really fit the profile of that platform in terms of the control or the community ecosystem? Two, do we think the community playing on that platform would appreciate the game to go there? Or would they prefer to play it somewhere else?
We have a lot of data that would suggest a great many Switch owners also own a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One or a PC and very often choose to play the games that we make on those platforms even though they have a Switch and they enjoy a lot of great content on the Switch. And so there's always an evaluation process that goes on a case-by-case basis. And I wouldn't say that The Sims would never go to the Switch, but I think we're doing really, really well attracting Sims players. As we said, we did the promotion in the last couple of months and brought in 7 million new Sims players that we expect will engage in that community on a platform that is really tailored to user-generated content, creativity and customization.
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FY2015: 1 expansion pack, 1 game pack
FY2016: 1 expansion pack, 1 game pack, 6 stuff packs
FY2017: 1 expansion pack, 2 game packs, 4 stuff packs
FY2018: 1 expansion pack, 2 game packs, 4 stuff packs
FY2019: 2 expansion packs, 1 game pack
I'm predicting in FY2020 we'll get 2 expansion packs (Island Lving and EP8 in November), 2 game packs (Realm of Magic and GP9 early next year), and at least 1 stuff pack (Moschino Stuff). This is easily the most content we've gotten in a year.
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Why would someone owning an Xbox mean they don’t want to play The Sims 4 on their Switch? The consoles do different things and exist for different reasons.
What a strange explanation just to say “No, we’re not bringing TS4 to Switch any time soon”.
The heart of his argument is that most people who own a switch also own an XB, PS, or PC. That’s generally true, at least from what I have seen from people who own switch. He’s saying they don’t really need to make a switch version because they’re able to sell the game on the other systems just fine.
I do think he underestimates the main selling point for switch, and that’s the portability of it being a handheld. I would buy it on Switch just for that alone, but he does have a point that PC/XB/PS would probably be the preferred platforms because they would offer the best experience.
Right. People have Switch because they want to play games on the go or away from a tv or computer.
The real truth is they just got 7 million new players to download the game for free during the promotion onto their computers and that’s 7 million more people they can now expect to purchase additional content. So, financially speaking, and right now anyway, there is zero incentive for them to put time and money into developing a Switch version. Because, why do that when they can wait to see how much money they get from these new PC players first?
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Not getting my cash
The cynical part of me thinks the reason why they are earning so much money is because their budget for game development is so low.
I wouldn't put that past them. Have you seen how much depth and effort they put into EP's now? They even recycle recipes lol
I hope my Sims and lots aren't too terrible!
Revenue != profit. Budget has nothing to do with the revenue generated.
If you bought every single TS4 pack your cash would still be a rounding error for them.
Fingers and toes crossed?
Not happening.
Let's not forget this one.
That joke...
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7 millions of FREE copies, I didn't think there were so many illegal copies
And there are still people who missed that promotion.
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