EA is the world's largest computer games publisher
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The latest quarterly results from US games giant Electronic Arts have beaten market expectations, despite the firm seeing its profits fall 38%.
Reporting its figures for the last three months of 2006, Electronic Arts' net profit fell to $160m (£81m) from $259m in the previous year.
A larger fall had been expected because of the limited availability of the latest Sony and Nintendo consoles.
The firm's quarterly revenues rose 1%. The results saw its shares rise 3%.
'Increasing growth'
Analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan said the results were a relief.
"The sentiment was that they were going to miss badly," he said.
Electronic Arts is the world's largest computer games publisher.
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