Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

On April 1, 2018, we adopted six new accounting standards which are discussed below. Other than Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue From Contracts with Customers (the “New Revenue Standard” or “ASC 606”), these other accounting standards did not have a material impact to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued the New Revenue Standard, which replaced ASC Topic 605, Revenue Recognition (the “Old Revenue Standard” or “ASC 605”), including industry-specific requirements, and provided companies with a single principles-based revenue recognition model for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers. The core principle of the New Revenue Standard is that a company should recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers.

We adopted the New Revenue Standard on April 1, 2018, the beginning of fiscal year 2019, using the modified retrospective method. We elected to apply the New Revenue Standard only to contracts that were not completed as of the adoption date. The comparative information for periods prior to April 1, 2018 has not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for those periods. The net cumulative effect adjustment upon adoption resulted in an increase to retained earnings of $590 million, net of tax, and included the impact from the following adjustments to our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at April 1, 2018:



BALANCE SHEETS (In millions)	Balance at March 31, 2018			Adjustments due to New Revenue Standard Adoption			Balance at April 1, 2018
Assets
Receivables, net	$	385		$	158		$	543
Deferred income taxes, net	84			(64		)	20

Liabilities
Accrued and other current liabilities
Sales return and price protection reserves	$	—		$	158		$	158
Deferred net revenue (other)	108			(3		)	105
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	1,622			(673		)	949

Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	$	4,062		$	590		$	4,652
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss)	(127		)	22			(105		)

The most significant impacts of the New Revenue Standard are:

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The accounting for our transactions as multiple elements or “bundled” arrangements. Under prior software revenue recognition accounting standards, because we did not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for unspecified future updates or online hosting, we were not able to account for performance obligations separately, and therefore, the entire sales price of most transactions that had multiple performance obligations was recognized ratably over the period we expected to provide the future updates and/or online hosting performance obligations (the “Estimated Offering Period”). Under the New Revenue Standard, this VSOE requirement is eliminated and is replaced with a requirement for us to determine our best estimate of the stand-alone selling price of each performance obligation and allocate the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on a relative stand-alone selling price basis. Therefore, we are able to account for performance obligations separately.

For example, for an individual sale of a game with both online and offline functionality, we typically have three distinct performance obligations; (1) the software license; (2) a right to receive future updates; and (3) online hosting. The software license performance obligation represents the game that is delivered digitally or via physical disc at the time of sale and typically provides access to offline core game content. The future update rights performance obligation includes updates on a when-and-if-available basis such as software patches or updates, and/or additional free content to be delivered in the future. The online hosting performance obligation consists of providing the customer with a hosted connection for online playability.

Since we do not sell the performance obligations on a stand-alone basis, we consider market conditions and other observable inputs to estimate the stand-alone selling price for each performance obligation. For games with services under the New Revenue Standard, generally 75 percent of the sales price is allocated to the software license performance obligation and recognized at a point in time upon delivery (which is usually at or near the same time as the booking of the transaction), and the remaining 25 percent is allocated to the future update rights and the online hosting performance obligations and recognized ratably over the Estimated Offering Period. For sales prior to April 1, 2018, our deferred revenue balances decreased by $740 million upon adoption of the New Revenue Standard because the software license performance obligation had been delivered in the prior fiscal year.

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Mobile platform fees. The adoption of the New Revenue Standard also changed how we present mobile platform fees after March 31, 2018. Previously, mobile platform fees retained by third-party application storefronts such as the Apple App Store and Google Play, were reported on a net basis (i.e. as a reduction of net revenue) because we previously determined that generally, the third party was considered the primary obligor. Upon adoption of the New Revenue Standard, we concluded that we are the principal in the transactions, resulting in mobile platform fees now being reported within cost of revenue rather than as a reduction of net revenue. We recognized $64 million of mobile platform fees at April 1, 2018 as an increase to our deferred revenue balances. Mobile platform fees for the three months ended June 30, 2018 was $49 million, and accordingly increased both service and other net revenue and cost of revenue by this amount relative to the same period a year ago. While this change also decreased our gross margin percentage, it does not have a material impact on our annual total gross profit or overall profitability.

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Increased portion of our sales from games with services are presented as service revenue. The amount of the transaction price allocated to future update rights and the online hosting performance obligations are presented as service revenue under the New Revenue Standard (previously, revenue associated with future update rights were generally presented as product revenue). Therefore, for the three months ended June 30, 2018, approximately $186 million of revenue for future update rights are now presented as service revenue under the New Revenue Standard as compared to product revenue under the Old Revenue Standard.


•	Sales returns and price protection reserves. Upon adoption, our sales returns and price protection reserves are now presented within accrued and other liabilities (previously, these allowances were presented as contra-assets within receivables on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets). We reclassified $158 million of sales returns and price protection reserves on April 1, 2018.

The adoption of the New Revenue Standard impacted our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2018 and our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the three months ended June 30, 2018 as follows:



	As of June 30, 2018
BALANCE SHEETS (In millions)	Under New Revenue Standard			Under Old Revenue Standard			$ Change
Assets
Receivables, net	$	371		$	242		$	129
Other current assets	282			277			5
Deferred income taxes, net	92			118			(26		)

Liabilities
Accrued and other current liabilities
Sales return and price protection reserves	$	129		$	—		$	129
Deferred net revenue (other)	63			89			(26		)
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	602			900			(298		)
Other liabilities	253			257			(4		)

Stockholders’ Equity
Retained earnings	$	4,944		$	4,644		$	300
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	(26		)	(33		)	7



	Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
(In millions, except per share data)	Under New Revenue Standard		Under Old Revenue Standard		$ Change			% Change
Net revenue:
Product	$	202	$	716	$	(514	)	(72	)%
Service and other	935		700		235			34	%
Total net revenue	1,137		1,416		(279		)	(20	)%
Cost of revenue:
Product	68		78		(10		)	(13	)%
Service and other	147		88		59			67	%
Total cost of revenue	215		166		49			30	%
Gross profit	922		1,250		(328		)	(26	)%
Operating expenses:
Total operating expenses	622		622		—			—	%
Operating income	300		628		(328		)	(52	)%
Interest and other income (expense), net	19		19		—			—	%
Income before provision for income taxes	319		647		(328		)	(51	)%
Provision for income taxes	26		64		(38		)	(59	)%
Net income	$	293	$	583	$	(290	)	(50	)%
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	0.96	$	1.91	$	(0.95	)	(50	)%
Diluted	$	0.95	$	1.88	$	(0.93	)	(49	)%

The adoption of the New Revenue Standard accelerated the revenue recognition of prior period game sales into retained earnings, which will result in a one-time increase in cash taxes paid on our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.

Refer to the following sections of our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the additional disclosures required by the New Revenue Standard:


•	See Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, for our updated revenue accounting policy, including significant judgments, under ASC 606. For a discussion of our revenue recognition policy as it relates to revenue transactions accounted for prior to April 1, 2018, which were accounted for under ASC 605, refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018.


•	See Note 10 — Balance Sheet Details, for a discussion on our contract liabilities (“deferred net revenue”) and our remaining performance obligations. We had an immaterial amount of contract assets as of April 1, 2018 and June 30, 2018.


•	See Note 16 — Segment Information, for our disaggregations of revenue.

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments (Topic 825-10), which requires that most equity investments be measured at fair value, with subsequent changes in fair value recognized in net income. The ASU also impacts financial liabilities under the fair value option and the presentation and disclosure requirements for financial instruments. The adoption did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-04, Liabilities – Extinguishments of Liabilities (Subtopic 405-20): Recognition of Breakage for Certain Prepaid Stored-Value Products. The amendments in the ASU are designed to provide guidance and eliminate diversity in the accounting for derecognition of prepaid stored-value product liabilities. Typically, a prepaid stored-value product liability is to be derecognized when it is probable that a significant reversal of the recognized breakage amount will not subsequently occur. This is when the likelihood of the product holder exercising its remaining rights becomes remote. This estimate shall be updated at the end of each period. The adoption did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. This update is intended to reduce the existing diversity in practice in how certain transactions are classified in the statement of cash flows. The adoption did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force), which requires amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown in the statement of cash flows. The adoption did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02, Income Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income. This update gives the option to reclassify to retained earnings tax effects related to items in accumulated other comprehensive income that the FASB refers to as having been stranded in accumulated other comprehensive income as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The adoption did not have a material impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.