(13) COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Lease Commitments

As of December 31, 2011, we leased certain current facilities, furniture and equipment under non-cancelable operating lease agreements. We were required to pay property taxes, insurance and normal maintenance costs for certain of these facilities and any increases over the base year of these expenses on the remainder of our facilities.

Development, Celebrity, League and Content Licenses: Payments and Commitments

The products we produce in our studios are designed and created by our employee designers, artists, software programmers and by non-employee software developers ("independent artists" or "third-party developers"). We typically advance development funds to the independent artists and third-party developers during development of our games, usually in installment payments made upon the completion of specified development milestones. Contractually, these payments are generally considered advances against subsequent royalties on the sales of the products. These terms are set forth in written agreements entered into with the independent artists and third-party developers.

In addition, we have certain celebrity, league and content license contracts that contain minimum guarantee payments and marketing commitments that may not be dependent on any deliverables. Celebrities and organizations with whom we have contracts include: FIFA, FIFPRO Foundation, FAPL (Football Association Premier League Limited), and DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (German Soccer League) (professional soccer); National Basketball Association (professional basketball); PGA TOUR, Tiger Woods and Augusta National (professional golf); National Hockey League and NHL Players' Association (professional hockey); National Football League Properties, PLAYERS Inc., and Red Bear Inc. (professional football); Collegiate Licensing Company (collegiate football); ESPN (content in EA SPORTS games); Hasbro, Inc. (most of Hasbro's toy and game intellectual properties); and LucasArts and Lucas Licensing (Star Wars: The Old Republic). These developer and content license commitments represent the sum of (1) the cash payments due under non-royalty-bearing licenses and services agreements and (2) the minimum guaranteed payments and advances against royalties due under royalty-bearing licenses and services agreements, the majority of which are conditional upon performance by the counterparty. These minimum guarantee payments and any related marketing commitments are included in the table below.

The following table summarizes our unrecognized minimum contractual obligations as of December 31, 2011 (in millions):


	Contractual Obligations										Total
	Leases ^(a)		Developer/ Licensor Commitments		Marketing		Convertible Notes Interest ^(b)		Other Purchase Obligations
Fiscal Year
Ending March 31,
2012 (remaining three months)	$	13	$	50	$	18	$	2	$	5	$	88
2013		52		191		58		5		9		315
2014		48		121		51		5		7		232
2015		39		116		32		5		-		192
2016		28		84		33		5		-		150
Thereafter		36		334		95		2		-		467
Total	$	216	$	896	$	287	$	24	$	21	$	1,444

(a) Lease commitments have not been reduced by minimum sub-lease rentals for unutilized office space resulting from our reorganization activities of approximately $7 million due in the future under non-cancelable sub-leases.

(b) In addition to the interest payments reflected in the table above, we will be obligated to pay the $632.5 million principal amount of the 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 and any excess conversion value in shares of our common stock upon redemption after the maturity of the Notes on July 15, 2016 or earlier. See Note 12 for additional information related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016.

The amounts represented in the table above reflect our unrecognized minimum cash obligations for the respective fiscal years, but do not necessarily represent the periods in which they will be recognized and expensed in our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, the amounts in the table above are presented based on the dates the amounts are contractually due; however, certain payment obligations may be accelerated depending on the performance of our operating results.

In addition to what is included in the table above, as of December 31, 2011, we had a liability for unrecognized tax benefits and an accrual for the payment of related interest totaling $236 million, for which we are unable to make a reasonably reliable estimate of when cash settlement with a taxing authority will occur.

In addition to what is included in the table above as of December 31, 2011, primarily in connection with our PopCap, Playfish, KlickNation, and Chillingo acquisitions, we may be required to pay an additional $672 million of cash consideration based upon the achievement of certain performance milestones through March 31, 2014. As of December 31, 2011, we have accrued $159 million of contingent consideration on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet representing the estimated fair value of the contingent consideration, of which $50 million relates to performance milestones earned through December 31, 2011 in connection with the Playfish acquisition and for which we expect to settle in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012.

Legal Proceedings

In June 2008, Geoffrey Pecover filed an antitrust class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that EA obtained an illegal monopoly in a discreet antitrust market that consists of "league-branded football simulation video games" by bidding for, and winning, exclusive licenses with the NFL, Collegiate Licensing Company and Arena Football League. In December 20, 2010, the district court granted the plaintiffs' request to certify a class of plaintiffs consisting of all consumers who purchased EA's Madden NFL, NCAA Football or Arena Football videogames after 2005. The parties are in the midst of fact discovery. The court has set a trial date for October 2012. The complaint seeks unspecified compensatory damages. We have not accrued any loss related to this matter. We believe the claims asserted are without merit and intend to vigorously defend against them.

We are also subject to claims and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business. We do not believe that any liability from any reasonably foreseeable disposition of such claims and litigation, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.