Engineered a major turnaround with ea announcing record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. So lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling in many ways, financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is the consumerist named you the quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. And we had struggled. And it wasnt because we were a company or because we made bad games. Its because we had lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Thats make games. Thats the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vo
It has made a turnaround with ea announcing record earnings. 1. 0, andrewn studio wilson. So lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. In 2013, the company was struggling in many ways, financially. The consumerist named you the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the Company Since 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. And we had struggled. And it wasnt because we were a company or because we made bad games. Its because we had lost our focus. We came in and we said what is , the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love, which is made games . Which was our player. So, we started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . The Worst Company in america vote feels like an age ago now, but its still at the forefront of o
What does this mean for your fourth plans . Chris sowers the man in the hot seat. I did see sprinkles coming in this morning. Reporter its going to be enough to be ray annoying, but not that bad. As we look at the center city skyline, we have clouds and gray and spritzes and sprinkles starting to show up. Temperatures wise not too bad 70 in philadelphia. 68 in millville. Low 0s along the coast. Sea isle city, along the boards in Atlantic City, 72. Cooler where its raining, 66 in reading and lancaster. Were lucking out. We have two areas of concentrated moisture one is working out to sea the other is pushing up the spine of the appalachians, we are sitting in the middle, were missing out of the heaviest weather west and south of the viewing area. Well zoom into the western suburbs, reading to lancaster shower activity, pressing north into hamburg and slatington and showers this morning thats about it. Other than sprinkles across south jersey, for today mostly cloudy, its not a wash, the
Forecast with meteorologist, Chelsey Ingram. Good sunday morning, chills i. Rainy overnight. How is it looking right now . Kinds of wet overnight on my drive in, had to use the windshield wipers but the main batch of rain has moved on out things overall will be looking much better throughout the day , still dreary, have the clouds hanging around, by the way let me take to you live look where you can see illuminated city sky thanks to the clouds cover and those lights reflecting off the the clouds. Low clouds across the region this morning, clouds will hang around pretty much all day a look at storm scan3 does show the main batch of rain has moved on out. Still have to hold for stray shower, maybe patchy drizzle as a possibility through the your sunday. 53 degrees in philadelphia, 56 in millville, in the mid and up ears down the shore, it is 56 degrees in Atlantic City right around 59 in wildwood. We arent as chilly as we were this time yesterday. So that means were in for a milder afte
Surfer has geared a major turnaround with ea announcing record earnings in 2017. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, Electronic Arts ceo Andrew Wilson. Lets start at the beginning of your time at ea. 2013, the company was struggling financially. The consumerist name to the Worst Company of the year two years in a row, but today, it is different. You have reported record profits. What did you do differently . Andrew i have been in the company 2000. In 2013, they made me ceo. Emily i dont think that is quite true. Andrew somewhere in there is some truth. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . That is the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . Age ago now, an but it is still the forefront of our memory, is there was a bunch of stuff that we were doing they did not like. There was a bunch o