Gaming company EA is blaming Medal of Honor for a poor 3rd quarter. The game was just released and the game saw week sales. No EA really cant blame Medal of Honor but blame strong efforts from Assassins Creed III and gamers gearing up for Black Ops 2. Medal of Honor just does’nt move like it use too and the company may have to find a new lane or not release games so close to one another might help. And canceling NBA Live 2013 might have hurt the company also, it seems like the biggest draw to EA is it’s Madden series. Hopefully EA can get it together in 2013.
That doesn’t seem to be the case for the third quarter, however, as the publisher believes it will post a profit of $0.50 to $0.60 per share on revenue of $1.25 billion to $1.35 billion, which falls short of the profit of $0.71 per share on $1.38 billion in sales that analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected.
In an investor’s call, the company acknowledged that its third quarter “appears soft,” and this is largely blamed on the weak critical reception of its latest modern military shooter, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which currently has a Metacritic score of 51 to 56 depending on the platform.
[Techspot]
