It's not a good time to be the financial controller of a large global company and while game publishers haven't been hit as badly as car makers or bankers, the news as we enter the period for end of financial year announcements isn't expected to be good.

Certainly EA hasn't been having a good time of it recently, and despite only being a relatively small part of its overall operations, the performance of its games on DS or PSP as detailed in its preliminary report for Fiscal Year 2009 haven't helped much either.

Compared to the same period last year, PSP sales during the three months ending 31st March 2009 (Q4), fell 39 percent to $44 million while DS sales were exactly the same at $38 million.

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