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 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. [laughter] 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 . It feels like an age ago now, 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 of stuff they expected us to be doing and we were
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 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. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. It is because we lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Make games. That is the player. We started every conversation for the longest time and continuing today is, is this good for the player . What you discover, it feels like an age ago now, but it is still the forefront of our memory, is there was a bunch of stuff that we were doing they did
Wilson, longtime gamer, musician, and surfer has engineered 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. In 2013, the company was struggling 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. We had struggled. It wasnt because we were a bad company or made bad games. Is we had lost our focus. We said, what is the most important thing . Who facilitates us to do what we love . Thats make gains. Games. That is 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 vote feels like
A year later, we were launching another battlefield game and it was not quite ready. You follow our industry, firstperson shooters always launch in the quarter right before the holidays. We had to make a decision for our players. We could launch it, but the game is not ready. So we held it. That was the big move to hold the biggest game in the biggest quarter and ship it six months later. Once players see that, they recognize we were serious. We have made a series of decisions like that in service of our player. You look after them, they look after you. Emily what are you excited about most this year . Andrew everything we do is fun and exciting, but reaching people through new platforms, mobile, new games, new Business Models, and new geographies. More people play games now than ever before. When you are not building for a hundred million people, but 2. 5 billion people, then you can do impressive and wonderful things. Emily you mention mobile, how much money are you making for mobile
Flooding coming up. The bus stop buddy still has rain gear on, breezy with some on and off rain, temperatures in the upper 30s right now, you can even see a little pink , mixed with green on ultimate doppler radar. It could be sleet, snow, but very, very light no matter what you get. Wind are no where near where they were yesterday but we have a 28mile an hour gust the Atlantic City international. It is 37 degrees at the airport with 17 miles an hour sustain wind, sunrise happening at 7 16. Mostly cloudy throughout the day eventually getting to 42 degrees. Even a to showers for the ride home but not as big of a tiehl as it was yesterday. We will tell you when sun comes back coming up. We will have a party when that sun comes out. Right. 7 01 on a tuesday update from patco, they have already cancelled that 8 03 again today, coming toward philadelphia, expect delays and overcrowding as we hoff through the morning. The Atlantic City rail line Service Suspended, patco says they will accept