12 Quotes by Larry Probst

We decided we wanted to move really fast on this, so we joined with the leader in North America to enable our content to be deployed on mobile phones more aggressively here and globally.

I am extremely pleased with our performance this past quarter and our strong market position at this early stage of the console cycle.

There is no greater storyteller than Steven Spielberg, ... In addition to his gift for pleasing movie audiences, he has an innate understanding of games and how to immerse players into a fantastic world of action and characters.

We think that more people will buy two football games than they did last year.

Holiday sales are not meeting expectations. For the December quarter, it is likely the industry will be down double digits on a percentage basis.

John Madden is under contract for the 2005-2006 season and we'll see where it goes from there, ... But let's not forget that Madden is a part of the ESPN family with Monday Night Football. ... It's possible we'll continue working with John longer term.

We ended 2005 in a very strong competitive position. We were number one on the PlayStation 2, the Xbox, PSP and PC in both North America and Europe. We also had a successful launch on the Xbox 360 and expect that we will be the number one publisher on this platform in 2006.

We really underestimated the impact of consumers sitting on the sidelines and not getting their hands on the next-generation 360 console.

With our compelling products, a rapidly developing installed base of new hardware, and consumer enthusiasm for video games, we increased our sales by 30 percent ... a record quarter for Electronic Arts.