10-K

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-K

þ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016

OR

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                    to                    

Commission File No. 000-17948

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	94-2838567
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
209 Redwood Shores Parkway	94065
Redwood City, California	(Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(650) 628-1500

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class	Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, $0.01 par value	NASDAQ Global Select Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.  Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes ¨        No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.    þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer    þ	Accelerated filer    ¨	Non-accelerated filer    ¨	Smaller reporting company    ¨
	(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).     Yes ¨        No þ

The aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock, $0.01 par value, held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of October 2, 2015, the last business day of our second fiscal quarter, was $20,088 million.

As of May 23, 2016, there were 301,609,583 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $0.01 par value, outstanding.

Documents Incorporated by Reference

Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement for its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2016 Proxy”) are incorporated by reference into Part III hereof. The 2016 Proxy is expected to be filed not later than 120 days after the registrant’s fiscal year end.

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

2016 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT

Table of Contents

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	PART I
Item 1	Business	3
Item 1A	Risk Factors	9
Item 1B	Unresolved Staff Comments	18
Item 2	Properties	18
Item 3	Legal Proceedings	18
Item 4	Mine Safety Disclosures	18
	PART II
Item 5	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	19
Item 6	Selected Financial Data	22
Item 7	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	23
Item 7A	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	39
Item 8	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	42
Item 9	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	82
Item 9A	Controls and Procedures	82
Item 9B	Other Information	82
	PART III
Item 10	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	83
Item 11	Executive Compensation	83
Item 12	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	83
Item 13	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	83
Item 14	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	83
	PART IV
Item 15	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	83
Signatures		84
Exhibit Index		86

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CAUTIONARY NOTE ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, made in this Report are forward looking. Examples of forward-looking statements include statements related to industry prospects, our future economic performance including anticipated revenues and expenditures, results of operations or financial position, and other financial items, our business plans and objectives, including our intended product releases, and may include certain assumptions that underlie the forward-looking statements. We use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate” (and the negative of any of these terms), “future” and similar expressions to help identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to business and economic risk and reflect management’s current expectations, and involve subjects that are inherently uncertain and difficult to predict. Our actual results could differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. We will not necessarily update information if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate. Risks and uncertainties that may affect our future results include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors,” beginning on page 9.

PART I

Item 1:    Business

Overview

We are a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. We develop, market, publish and distribute games, content and services that can be played by consumers on a variety of platforms, which include consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets.

We were incorporated originally in California in 1982. In September 1991, we were reincorporated under the laws of Delaware. Our principal executive offices are located at 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, Redwood City, California 94065 and our telephone number is (650) 628-1500.

Our Strategy

We have three core strategies:

•Players First

•Commitment to Digital

•One EA

Players First

Players are the foundation of our success, and we are committed to thinking about players first in everything we do. Our goal is to build deep, on-going relationships with our players. We aim to build these relationships by creating amazing games and services that deliver long-lasting fun and enduring value.

Our games and services are based on a portfolio of intellectual property that includes established brands such as FIFA, Madden NFL, Star Wars, Battlefield, the Sims and Need for Speed. We were the number one publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles and the number four publisher on mobile in the Western World for calendar year 2015 based on available sources and EA estimates. We achieved this result by delivering popular and award-winning games to our players, including FIFA 16, Madden NFL 16, Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefield: Hardline.

Commitment to Digital

Players increasingly are buying and playing games digitally rather than purchasing disc-based games from retailers. In addition, players are engaging with those games for longer periods of time, as they purchase additional content and services that we provide digitally. For example, features such as the Ultimate Team mode in our FIFA, Madden NFL and NHL games and digitally delivered expansion packs for our Star Wars, Battlefield and Sims franchises have extended the life of those games by engaging players over longer periods of time. This digital transformation also is creating opportunities in platforms, content models and modalities of play. For example, we have leveraged franchises historically associated with consoles and traditional

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PC gaming, such as FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, SimCity, and Star Wars, to create mobile and PC free-to-download games that are monetized through a business model in which we sell incremental content and/or features in discrete transactions.

Our digital transformation also gives us the opportunity to strengthen our player network. We are investing in a technology foundation to enable us to build player relationships that can last for years instead of for days or weeks by connecting our players to us and to each other. This connection allows us to market and deliver content and services for popular franchises like FIFA, Battlefield and Star Wars to our players more efficiently. That same foundation also enables new player-centric ways to discover and try new experiences, such as our subscription-based EA Access and Origin Access services.

We believe that our digital revenue, which generally has a higher gross margin relative to packaged goods sales revenue, will continue to increase during fiscal year 2017 relative to packaged goods revenue and in absolute terms as we continue to focus on developing and monetizing products and services that can be delivered digitally.

One EA

The pursuit of our goals requires that we operate as one team that is faster, more focused and constantly evolving, and we have undertaken a cultural shift across our organization in order to become more flexible. We have changed how we develop our games, engaging players through alphas, betas and other programs to seek out more feedback earlier in the game development process. We have also changed the makeup and skill set of our workforce, and combined the art of game-making with the science of managing dynamic live services and marketing those games and services. These changes have enabled us to increase our operational speed and organizational flexibility while improving our fiscal discipline.

Our Games and Services

We develop games and services for consoles, PCs, mobile phones and tablets, and we market and sell our games and services through retail channels and through digital distribution channels. We believe that flexibility across platforms and distribution channels is critical to maintaining and growing our overall consumer base, which continues to evolve in response to the introduction of new platforms and business models. New gaming platforms, engagement models and business models are expected to continue to emerge in the future, and we intend to evaluate these new platform, engagement and business model opportunities on a case-by-case basis.

Digitally, our console games, additional content and online services can be purchased through Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Store. Our PC games and additional content can be downloaded directly through our Origin online platform, as well as through third-party online download stores. Our mobile, tablet and PC free-to-download games and additional content are available through third-party application storefronts such as the Apple App Store and Google Play. Our massively multi-player online service, Star Wars: The Old Republic, is available both as a free-to-download and as a subscription basis, and certain casual games such as card, puzzle and word games are available through our Pogo online service.

Our packaged goods games are sold in mass market retailers (such as Walmart), electronics specialty stores (such as Best Buy) and game software specialty stores (such as GameStop). Our direct sales to GameStop Corp. represented approximately 11 percent and 13 percent of total net revenue in fiscal years 2015, and 2014, respectively. We sell our games to GameStop Corp. pursuant to numerous and frequent individual purchase orders, which contain delivery and pricing terms. There are no minimum sales or purchase commitments between us and GameStop.

In our games, we utilize established brands that we either wholly own (such as Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, The Sims and Plants v. Zombies) or license from others (such as FIFA, Madden NFL and Star Wars). From time to time, we contract with external game developers, such as Respawn Entertainment, to develop our games or to publish and distribute their games. We also partner with third parties to publish our mobile and PC games in certain Asian territories, such as our partnerships with Tencent Holdings Limited and Nexon Co. Ltd. for FIFA Online 3 in China and Korea, respectively. We believe that leveraging established brands across a diverse range of genres and platforms enables us to build long-term relationships with a wide variety of players. In fiscal year 2016, revenue from sales of FIFA 16 represented approximately 16 percent of our total net revenue; in fiscal year 2015, revenue from sales of FIFA 15 represented approximately 15 percent of our total net revenue; and in fiscal year 2014, revenue from sales of FIFA 14 represented approximately 15 percent of our total net revenue.

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We also are investing in a number of long-term initiatives that we believe will allow us to better serve and deepen our engagement with our players, such as our EA Competitive Gaming Division through which we will focus our efforts in competitive gaming and eSports.

Significant Relationships

Sony & Microsoft. Under the terms of agreements we have entered into with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its affiliates and with Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates, we are authorized to develop and distribute disc-based and digitally-delivered software products and services compatible with PlayStation 3 and 4 and the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, respectively. As of the date of this filing, we have not entered into a licensed publisher agreement with Sony for PlayStation 4, and the parties currently operate under the terms of existing agreements subject to a new pricing structure with respect to PlayStation 4.

Under the agreements with Sony and Microsoft, we are provided with the non-exclusive right to use, for a fixed term and in a designated territory, technology that is owned or licensed by them to publish our games on their respective platform. Our transactions for disc-based products are made pursuant to individual purchase orders, which are accepted on a case-by case basis by Sony or Microsoft (or their designated replicators), as the case may be. For packaged goods products, we pay the console manufacturers a per-unit royalty for each unit manufactured. With respect to digitally-delivered products, other online content and services sold by the console manufacturers, the console manufacturers pay us either a wholesale price or a percentage royalty on the revenue they derive from their sales. Many key commercial terms of our relationships with Sony and Microsoft - such as manufacturing terms, delivery times, platform policies and approval conditions - are determined unilaterally, and are subject to change by the console manufacturers. Our direct sales to Sony represented approximately 16 percent of total net revenue in fiscal years 2016. Our direct sales to Microsoft represented approximately 14 percent and 10 percent of total net revenue in fiscal years 2016 and 2015 respectively.

The platform license agreements also require us to indemnify the console manufacturers for any loss, liability and expense resulting from any claim against the console manufacturer regarding our games and services, including any claims for patent, copyright or trademark infringement brought against the console manufacturer. Each platform license may be terminated by the console manufacturer if a breach or default by us is not cured after we receive written notice from the console manufacturer, or if we become insolvent. The console manufacturers are not obligated to enter into platform license agreements with us for any future consoles, products or services.

Apple, Google and Other App Stores. We have agreements to distribute our mobile applications and additional content through distribution partners worldwide, including Apple and Google. Consumers download our applications for their mobile devices from third party-application storefronts. The distributor charges the consumers a one-time fee if there is a cost to download the application. If the application is a “free-to-download” application, the distributor may still charge the consumer for additional content that is purchased by the consumer within the application. Our distribution agreements establish the fees to be retained by the distributor and the amounts passed through to us for distributing our applications and additional content. These arrangements are typically terminable on short notice. The agreements generally do not obligate the distributors to market or distribute any of our applications.

Publishing Partners in Asia. We have entered into agreements whereby we partner with certain companies, including Tencent Holdings Limited and Nexon Co., Ltd. or their respective affiliates, pursuant to which these companies publish our mobile and PC free-to-download games in certain Asian territories, including China and Korea. Our players download games from the publishers’ platforms, and are charged for additional content purchased within our game environment. The agreements generally establish the amounts that are retained by the publishers, and the amounts that are passed through to us.

Competition

The market for interactive entertainment is intensely competitive and changes rapidly as new products and platforms are introduced. We also face competition for the right to use certain intellectual property included in our products. We face significant competition, primarily from the following:

• Companies that are focused on developing and publishing games that operate on consoles and on PCs, such as Activision Blizzard, Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft, as well as diversified media companies such as Warner Bros. and Sony and Microsoft, each of which develops and publishes software for its respective console platform;

• Companies that develop and publish mobile game applications; and

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• Companies that develop and publish PC free-to-download online gaming services.

More broadly, we compete against providers of different sources of entertainment, such as motion pictures, television, social networking, online casual entertainment and music that our players could enjoy in their free time. Important competitive factors include game quality and ease of use, compatibility of products with certain platforms, brand recognition, price, marketing, and quality of customer service.

Intellectual Property

To establish and protect our intellectual property, we rely on a combination of copyrights, trademarks, patents, patent applications, trade secrets, know-how, license agreements, confidentiality provisions and procedures and other contractual provisions. We actively engage in enforcement and other activities to protect our intellectual property. In addition, we engage in activities designed to limit the impact of abuse of our digital products and services, including monitoring our games for evidence of exploitation and re-balancing our game environments in the event that such abuse is discovered.

Governmental Regulation

We are subject to a number of foreign and domestic laws and regulations that affect companies conducting business on the Internet. In addition, laws and regulations that may have an impact on our business relating to user privacy, data collection and retention, content, advertising and information security have been adopted or are being considered for adoption by many countries throughout the world.

Seasonality

We have historically experienced the highest percentage of our sales in our third fiscal quarter due to seasonal holiday demand; however, there can be no assurance that this will continue. In addition, we defer the recognition of a significant amount of net revenue related to our online-enabled games over an extended period of time. As a result, the quarter in which we generate the highest sales volume may be different from the quarter in which we recognize the highest amount of net revenue.

Employees

As of March 31, 2016, we had approximately 8,500 regular, full-time employees, over 5,200 of whom were outside the United States. We believe that our ability to attract and retain qualified employees is a critical factor in the successful development of our products and that our future success will depend, in large measure, on our ability to continue to attract and retain qualified employees. Approximately 8 percent of our employees, all of whom work for DICE, our Swedish development studio, are represented by a union.

Investor Information

Our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended, are available free of charge on the Investor Relations section of our website at http://ir.ea.com as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Except as expressly set forth in this Form 10-K annual report, the contents of our website are not incorporated into, or otherwise to be regarded as part of this report

Information about Geographic Areas and Research & Development Expense

Information regarding financial data by geographic area is set forth in Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Note 18, “Segment Information”. Information regarding financial data is set forth in Part II, Item 6 of this Form 10-K under the heading “Selected Financial Data,” and information regarding certain risks attendant to our foreign operations is set forth in Part II, Item 7 of this Form 10-K under the heading “Financial Results” and “Trends in Our Business” For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, research and development expenses were $1,109 million, $1,094 million and $1,125 million, respectively.

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Executive Officers

The following table sets forth information regarding our executive officers as of May 26, 2016:

Name	Age	Position
Andrew Wilson	41	Chief Executive Officer
Blake Jorgensen	56	Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Peter R. Moore	61	Executive Vice President, Chief Competition Officer
Patrick Söderlund	42	Executive Vice President, EA Studios
Laura Miele	46	Executive Vice President, Global Publishing
Kenneth Moss	50	Chief Technology Officer
Christopher Bruzzo	46	Chief Marketing Officer
Joel Linzner	64	Executive Vice President, Worldwide Business Affairs
Gabrielle Toledano	49	Executive Vice President, Chief Talent Officer
Samantha Smith	47	Senior Vice President, EA Mobile and Maxis
Kenneth A. Barker	49	Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
Jacob J. Schatz	47	Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Mr. Wilson has served as EA’s Chief Executive Officer and as a director of EA since September 2013. Prior to his appointment as our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Wilson held several positions within the Company since joining EA in May 2000, including Executive Vice President, EA SPORTS from August 2011 to September 2013 and Senior Vice President, EA SPORTS from March 2010 to August 2011. Mr. Wilson serves on the Board of Directors of the World Surf League.

Mr. Jorgensen has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since September 2012. Prior to joining EA, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. from July 2009 to August 2012. From June 2007 to June 2009, Mr. Jorgensen served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! Inc. Mr. Jorgensen earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and his Economics degree from Stanford University.

Mr. Moore has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Competition Officer since December 2015. Previously, he served as EA’s Chief Operating Officer from August 2011 until March 2016 and as President, EA SPORTS from September 2007 to August 2011. From January 2003 until he joined EA in 2007, Mr. Moore was with Microsoft where he served as head of Xbox marketing and was later named as Corporate Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business, Entertainment and Devices Division, a position in which he led both the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses. Mr. Moore holds a bachelor's degree from Keele University, United Kingdom, and a Master's degree from California State University, Long Beach.

Mr. Söderlund has served as Executive Vice President, EA Studios since September 2013. Prior to that time, he served as Executive Vice President, EA Games Label from August 2011 to September 2013. From December 2010 to July 2011, he served as Executive Vice President, Group General Manager - FPS/Driving. Mr. Söderlund joined EA in October 2006 when EA purchased DICE studios where he was the Chief Executive Officer.

Laura Miele has served as Executive Vice President, Global Studios since April 2016. Ms. Miele joined the Company in March 1996 and has held several positions at the Company, including Senior Vice President, Americas Publishing, General Manager of the Company’s Star Wars business, Senior Vice President of Games Label Marketing and Group Vice President of Games Label Marketing. Ms. Miele serves on the board of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Mr. Moss has served as Chief Technology Officer since July 2014. Prior to joining EA, he served as Vice President of Market Places Technology, Science and Data at eBay Inc. since November 2011. Prior to joining eBay, he co-founded CrowdEye, Inc. in September 2008 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Moss graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Molecular Biology.

Mr. Bruzzo has served as Chief Marketing Officer since September 2014. Prior to joining EA, he served as Senior Vice President at Starbucks Corporation from June 2011 to August 2014 and Vice President from June 2008 to June 2011. Mr. Bruzzo is currently a director of Blue Nile, Inc. Mr. Bruzzo graduated from Whitworth University with a B.A. in Political Studies.

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Mr. Linzner has served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Business Affairs since April 2016. From March 2005 until April 2016, Mr. Linzner was EA's Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs. Prior to joining EA in July 1999, Mr. Linzner served as outside litigation counsel to EA and several other companies in the video game industry. Mr. Linzner earned his J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, after graduating from Brandeis University. He is a member of the Bar of the State of California and is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and several United States District Courts.

Ms. Toledano has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer since April 2007. Ms. Toledano was Senior Vice President, Human Resources at EA from February 2006 to March 2007. Ms. Toledano also serves on the Board of Directors of Jive Software, Inc., TalentSky, Inc. and Visier, Inc., privately-held companies. Ms. Toledano earned both her undergraduate degree in Humanities and her graduate degree in Education from Stanford University.

Ms. Smith joined EA in March 2015 as Senior Vice President and Group GM. She took over leadership of EA Mobile in July 2015 and Maxis in September 2015. Prior to joining EA, she served as Senior Vice President, Production & Development at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since February 2007. Ms. Smith graduated from Ashland University with a B.A. in Broadcasting.

Mr. Barker has served as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer since April 2006. From February 2012 to August 2012, he also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer. From June 2003 to April 2006, Mr. Barker held the position of Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining EA, Mr. Barker was employed at Sun Microsystems, Inc., as Vice President and Corporate Controller from October 2002 to June 2003 and Assistant Corporate Controller from April 2000 to September 2002. Prior to that, he was an audit partner at Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Barker serves on the Board of Directors of Corsair Components, Inc., the Audit Committee of Community Gatepath, a non-profit organization and on the Accounting Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Barker graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. degree in Accounting.

Mr. Schatz has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since June 2014. Mr. Schatz joined EA in 1999 and prior to his current role, he served as Deputy General Counsel and as Vice President since 2006. Mr. Schatz earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and received his B.A. in Government from Pomona College. Mr. Schatz is a member of the Bar of the State of California and is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and several United States District Courts.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

Our business is subject to many risks and uncertainties, which may affect our future financial performance. If any of the events or circumstances described below occurs, our business or financial performance could be harmed, our actual results could differ materially from our expectations and the market value of our stock could decline. The risks and uncertainties discussed below are not the only ones we face. There may be additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently do not believe could be material that may harm our business or financial performance.

Our business is intensely competitive and “hit” driven. If we do not deliver “hit” products and services, or if consumers prefer our competitors’ products or services over our own, our operating results could suffer.

Competition in our industry is intense. Many new products and services are regularly introduced in each major industry segment (console, mobile and PC free-to-download), but only a relatively small number of “hit” titles account for a significant portion of total revenue in each segment. Our competitors range from large established companies to emerging start-ups, and we expect new competitors to continue to emerge throughout the world. If our competitors develop and market more successful products or services, offer competitive products or services at lower price points, or if we do not continue to develop consistently high-quality and well-received products and services, our revenue, margins, and profitability will decline.

We maintain a relatively limited product portfolio in an effort to focus on developing high-quality products with the potential to become “hits”. High-quality titles, even if highly-reviewed, may not turn into “hit” products. Many “hit” products within our industry are iterations of prior hit products with large established consumer bases and significant brand recognition, which makes competing in certain product categories challenging. In addition, hit products or services of our competitors may take a larger share of consumer spending than we anticipate, which could cause our products and services to underperform relative to revenue expectations. Publishing a relatively small number of major titles each year also concentrates risk in those titles and means each major title has greater associated risk. The increased importance of extra content and live services revenue to our business heightens this risk as extra content and live services for poorly-received or underperforming games may generate lower than expected sales. A significant portion of our revenue has historically been derived from games and services based on a few popular franchises. For example, in fiscal year 2016, net revenue generated from the sale of products and services associated with our three largest franchises accounted for approximately 55 percent of our net revenue. The underperformance of a single major title and the associated extra content may have a large adverse impact on our financial results.

Our operating results will be adversely affected if we do not consistently meet our product development schedules or if key events, sports seasons or movies that we tie our product release schedules to are delayed, cancelled or poorly received.

Our ability to meet product development schedules is affected by a number of factors both within and outside our control, including feedback from our players, the creative processes involved, the coordination of large and sometimes geographically dispersed development teams, the complexity of our products and the platforms for which they are developed, the need to fine-tune our products prior to their release, and, in certain cases, approvals from third parties. We have experienced development delays for our products in the past, which caused us to delay or cancel release dates. We also seek to release certain products in conjunction with key events, such as the beginning of a sports season, major sporting event, or the release of a related movie. If such a key event were delayed, cancelled or poorly received, our sales would likely suffer materially. Any failure to meet anticipated production or release schedules would likely result in a delay of revenue and/or possibly a significant shortfall in our revenue, increase our development and/or marketing expenses, harm our profitability, and cause our operating results to be materially different than anticipated.

Our business is highly seasonal with the highest percentage of our sales occurring in the quarter ending in December. While our sales generally follow this seasonal trend, there can be no assurance that this trend will continue. If we miss key selling periods for products, for any reason, including product delays, product cancellations, or delayed introduction of a new platform for which we have developed products, our sales are likely to suffer significantly. Additionally, macroeconomic conditions or the occurrence of unforeseen events that negatively impact retailer or consumer buying patterns during the quarter ending in December are likely to harm our financial performance disproportionately.

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Our business is dependent on the success and availability of platforms developed by third parties, as well as our ability to develop commercially successful products and services for these platforms.

The success of our business is driven in part by the commercial success and adequate supply of platforms developed by third parties. Our success also depends on our ability to accurately predict which platforms will be successful in the marketplace, our ability to develop commercially successful products and services for these platforms and our ability to effectively manage the transition from current generation platforms to next generation platforms. We must make product development decisions and commit significant resources well in advance of anticipated platform release dates and may incur significant expense to adjust our product portfolio and development efforts in response to changing consumer platform preferences. Additionally, we may enter into certain exclusive licensing arrangements that affect our ability to deliver or market products or services on certain platforms. A platform for which we are developing products and services may not succeed as expected or new platforms may take market share and game software consumers away from platforms for which we have devoted significant resources. If consumer demand for the platforms for which we are developing products and services is lower than our expectations, we may be unable to fully recover the investments we have made in developing our products and services, and our financial performance will be harmed. Alternatively, a platform for which we have not devoted significant resources could be more successful than we had initially anticipated, causing us to not be able to take advantage of meaningful revenue opportunities.

Technology changes rapidly in our business and if we fail to anticipate or successfully implement new technologies in our games or adopt new business strategies, distribution technologies or methods, the quality, timeliness and competitiveness of our products and services may suffer.

Rapid technology changes in our industry require us to anticipate, sometimes years in advance, which technologies we must implement and take advantage of in order to make our products and services competitive in the market. We have invested, and in the future may invest, in new business strategies, technologies, products, and services. Such endeavors may involve significant risks and uncertainties, and no assurance can be given that the technology we choose to adopt and the products and services that we pursue will be successful and will not materially adversely affect our reputation, financial condition, and operating results. We also may miss opportunities to adopt technology, or develop products and services that become popular with consumers, which could adversely affect our revenues. It may take significant time and resources to shift our focus to such technologies, putting us at a competitive disadvantage.

Our product development usually starts with particular platforms and distribution methods in mind, and a range of technical development and game feature goals that we hope to be able to achieve. We may not be able to achieve these goals, or our competition may be able to achieve them more quickly and effectively than we can. In either case, our products and services may be technologically inferior to our competitors’, less appealing to consumers, or both. If we cannot achieve our technology goals within the original development schedule for our products and services, then we may delay their release until these goals can be achieved, which may delay or reduce revenue and increase our development expenses. Alternatively, we may increase the resources employed in research and development in an attempt to accelerate our development of new technologies, either to preserve our product or service launch schedule or to keep up with our competition, which would increase our development expenses.

Security breaches and cyber threats could harm our reputation and adversely affect our business.

As our digital business grows, we continually face cyber risks and threats that seek to damage, disrupt or gain access to our networks, our products and services, and supporting infrastructure.  Our business partners, including our channel partners, also are subject to these risks.  Such cyber risks and threats may be difficult to detect. Any failure to prevent or mitigate security breaches or cyber risk could result in interruptions to the services we provide, degrade the user experience, cause our users to lose confidence in our products, as well as significant legal and financial exposure.  This could harm our business and reputation, disrupt our relationships with partners and diminish our competitive position.

Successful exploitation of our systems can have other negative effects upon the products, services and user experience we offer.  In particular, the virtual economies that we have established in many of our games are subject to abuse, exploitation and other forms of fraudulent activity that can negatively impact our business.  Virtual economies involve the use of virtual currency and/or virtual assets that can be redeemed by a player within a particular game or game service.  The abuse or exploitation of our virtual economies include the illegitimate generation and sale of virtual items in black markets. Our online services have been impacted by in-game exploits and the use of automated processes to generate virtual currency illegitimately in the past, which were traded in black markets.  These kinds of activities and the steps that we take to address these issues may result in a loss of anticipated revenue, interfere with players’ enjoyment of a balanced game environment and cause reputational harm.

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We may experience outages and disruptions of our online services that may harm our business.

We are investing and expect to continue to invest in technology, hardware and software to support the online functionality of our portfolio of products and services. Launching and operating games and services with online features, developing related technologies and implementing online business initiatives is expensive and complex. Execution of these initiatives could result in operational failures and other issues impacting the technical stability of our products and services. In addition, having the necessary infrastructure to support the online functionality of our products and services is vital to our growth and success. Our products and services could be adversely impacted by outages, disruptions and failures in our network and related infrastructure, as well as in the online platforms or services of key business partners who offer or support our products and services.

Our business is subject to currency fluctuations.

International sales are a fundamental part of our business. For our fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, international net revenue comprised 57 percent of our total net revenue, and we expect international sales to continue to account for a significant portion of our total net revenue. As a result of our international sales, and also the denomination of our foreign investments and our cash and cash equivalents in foreign currencies, we are exposed to the effects of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Strengthening of the U.S. dollar, particularly relative to the Euro, British pound sterling, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and South Korean won, has a negative impact on our reported international net revenue but a positive impact on our reported international operating expenses (particularly when the U.S. dollar strengthens against the Swedish krona and the Canadian dollar) because these amounts are translated at lower rates. For example, during our fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, our reported international revenue would have been $266 million higher and our operating expenses would have been $113 million higher on a constant currency basis. We use foreign currency hedging contracts to mitigate some foreign currency risk. However, these activities are limited in the protection they provide us from foreign currency fluctuations and can themselves result in losses.

Declines or fluctuations in the recurring portion of our business may have a negative impact on our financial and operating results.

Our business model includes revenue that we deem recurring in nature, such as revenue from our annualized titles (e.g., FIFA and Madden NFL), and associated services, and ongoing mobile businesses.  While we are confident in our ability to forecast the revenue from these areas of our business with greater certainty than for new offerings, we cannot provide assurances that consumers will purchase these games and services on a consistent basis. Furthermore, we may cease to offer games and services that we previously had deemed to be recurring in nature. Consumer purchases of our games and services may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our games and services, our ability to improve and innovate our annualized titles, our ability to adapt our games and services to new platforms, outages and disruptions of our online services, the games and services offered by our competitors, our marketing and advertising efforts or declines in consumer activity generally as a result of economic downturns, among others. Any decline or fluctuation in the recurring portion of our business may have a negative impact on our financial and operating results.

Our adoption of new business models could fail to produce our desired financial returns.

From time to time we seek to establish and implement new business models. Forecasting our revenues and profitability for any new business models is inherently uncertain and volatile. Our actual revenue and profit for these businesses may be significantly greater or less than our forecasts. Additionally, these new business models could fail, resulting in the loss of our investment in the development and infrastructure needed to support these new business models, as well as the opportunity cost of diverting management and financial resources away from more successful and established businesses.

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If we are unable to maintain or acquire licenses to include intellectual property owned by others in our games, or to maintain or acquire the rights to publish or distribute games developed by others, our business may be harmed.

Many of our products and services are based on or incorporate intellectual property owned by others. For example, our EA SPORTS products include rights licensed from major sports leagues and players’ associations and our Star Wars products include rights licensed from Disney. Competition for these licenses and rights is intense. If we are unable to maintain these licenses and rights or obtain additional licenses or rights with significant commercial value, our revenue, profitability and cash flows may decline significantly. Competition for these licenses also may increase the amounts that we must pay to licensors and developers, through higher minimum guarantees or royalty rates, which could significantly increase our costs and reduce our profitability.

If external game developers fail to meet product development schedules or are unable to honor their obligations to us, our financial results may be harmed.

We may contract with external game developers to develop our games or to publish or distribute their games.  While we maintain contractual protections, we have less control over the product development schedules of these games developed by external game developers, and we depend on their ability to meet product development schedules.  If these developers cannot meet product development schedules, acquire certain approvals or are otherwise unable to honor their obligations to us, we may delay or cancel previously announced games, which could result in a delay or significant shortfall in anticipated revenue, harm our profitability and reputation, and cause our financial results to be materially affected.

Our business could be adversely affected if our consumer protection, data privacy and security practices are not adequate, or perceived as being inadequate, to prevent data breaches, or by the application of consumer protection and data privacy and security laws generally.

In the course of our business, we collect, process, store and use consumer and other information, including personal information, passwords and credit card information. Although we take measures to protect this information from unauthorized access, acquisition, disclosure and misuse, our security controls, policies and practices may not be able to prevent the improper or unauthorized access, acquisition or disclosure of such information. In addition, third party vendors and business partners which in the course of our business receive access to information that we collect also may not prevent data security breaches with respect to the information we provide them or fully enforce our policies, contractual obligations and disclosures regarding the collection, use, storage, transfer and retention of personal data. The unauthorized access, acquisition or disclosure of this information could significantly harm our reputation, compel us to comply with disparate breach notification laws and otherwise subject us to proceedings by governmental entities or others and substantial legal liability. A perception that we do not adequately secure consumer and other information could result in a loss of current or potential consumers and business partners, as well as a loss of anticipated revenues. Our key business partners also face these risks with respect to information they collect and data security breaches with respect to such information could cause reputational harm to them and negatively impact our ability to offer our products and services through their platforms.

We are also subject to payment card association rules and obligations pursuant to contracts with payment card processors. Under these rules and obligations, if information is compromised, we could be liable to payment card issuers for the cost of associated expenses and penalties. In addition, if we fail to follow payment card industry security standards, even if no consumer information is compromised, we could incur significant fines or experience a significant increase in payment card transaction costs.

In addition, data privacy, security and consumer-protection laws are evolving, and the interpretation and application of these laws in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often uncertain, contradictory and changing. It is possible that these laws may be interpreted or applied in a manner that is adverse to us or otherwise inconsistent with our practices, which could result in litigation, regulatory investigations and potential legal liability or require us to change our practices in a manner adverse to our business. As a result, our reputation may be harmed, we could incur substantial costs, and we could lose both consumers and revenue.

Negative player perceptions about our brands, products, services and/or business practices may damage our business and the costs incurred in addressing player concerns may increase our operating expenses.

Player expectations regarding the quality, performance and integrity of our products and services are high. Players may be critical of our brands, products, services and/or business practices for a wide variety of reasons. These negative player reactions may not be foreseeable or within our control to manage effectively, including perceptions about gameplay fairness, negative

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player reactions to game content, components and services, or objections to certain of our business practices.  In the past, we have taken actions, including delaying the release of our games and discontinuing services for our games, after taking into consideration, among other things, feedback from the player community even if those decisions negatively impacted our operating results in the short term. We expect to continue to take actions to address concerns as appropriate, including actions that may result in additional expenditures and the loss of revenue. Negative player sentiment about our business practices also can lead to investigations from regulatory agencies and consumer groups, as well as litigation, which, regardless of their outcome, may be costly, damaging to our reputation and harm our business.

If we release defective products or services, our operating results could suffer.

Our products and services are extremely complex software programs, and are difficult to develop and distribute. We have quality controls in place to detect defects in our products and services before they are released. Nonetheless, these quality controls are subject to human error, overriding, and reasonable resource or technical constraints. Therefore, these quality controls and preventative measures may not be effective in detecting all defects in our products and services before they have been released into the marketplace. In such an event, we could be required to or may find it necessary to offer a refund for the product or service, suspend the availability or sale of the product or service or expend significant resources to cure the defect, each of which could significantly harm our business and operating results.

During console system transition periods, our operating results have been volatile. Any inability to offset declining sales from legacy generation consoles could negatively impact our operating results.

Historically, new video game console systems have been developed and released every few years, which has caused the video game software market to be cyclical as well. In these periods of transition, sales of software for legacy generation console systems typically slow or decline in response to the anticipated and actual introduction of new consoles and new generation software sales typically stabilize after new consoles are widely established with the consumer base.

In November 2013 Sony released the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft released the Xbox One. Consistent with previous periods of console transition, we have seen consumers purchase fewer products and services for legacy generation consoles (i.e., the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively) as the current generation consoles have gained consumer acceptance. During our 2016 fiscal year, sales associated with these legacy generation consoles declined significantly, and we expect these declines to continue, or possible accelerate, during our 2017 fiscal year. Any inability to offset declining sales from legacy generation consoles could negatively impact our operating results.

Our business is subject to regulation and the adoption of proposed legislation we oppose could negatively impact our business.

We are subject to a number of foreign and domestic laws and regulations that affect companies conducting business on the Internet. In addition, laws and regulations relating to user privacy, data collection, retention, electronic commerce, virtual items and currency, consumer protection, content, advertising, localization, and information security have been adopted or are being considered for adoption by many countries throughout the world. These laws could harm our business by limiting the products we are able to offer to our consumers or the manner in which we offer these products. The costs of compliance with these laws may increase in the future as a result of changes in interpretation. Furthermore, any failure on our part to comply with these laws or the application of these laws in an unanticipated manner may harm our business and result in penalties or significant legal liability.

We are subject to laws in certain foreign countries, and adhere to industry standards in the United States, that mandate rating requirements or set other restrictions on the advertisement or distribution of interactive entertainment software based on content. In addition, certain foreign countries allow government censorship of interactive entertainment software products. Adoption of ratings systems, censorship or restrictions on distribution of interactive entertainment software based on content could harm our business by limiting the products we are able to offer to our customers. In addition, compliance with new and possibly inconsistent regulations for different territories could be costly, delay or prevent the release of our products in those territories.

In addition, we may include additional competitive modes in our games and manage competitions based on our games and services. Although we structure and operate these skill based competitions with applicable laws in mind, our skill based competitions in the future could become subject to evolving rules and regulations and expose us to significant liability, penalties and reputational harm.

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If we do not continue to attract and retain key personnel, we will be unable to effectively conduct our business.

The market for technical, creative, marketing and other personnel essential to the development and marketing of our products and services and management of our businesses is extremely competitive. Our leading position within the interactive entertainment industry makes us a prime target for recruiting our executives as well as key creative and technical talent. If we cannot successfully recruit and retain the employees we need, or replace key employees following their departure, our ability to develop and manage our business will be impaired.

If our marketing and advertising efforts fail to resonate with our customers, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

Our products and services are marketed worldwide through a diverse spectrum of advertising and promotional programs such as online and mobile advertising, television advertising, retail merchandising, website development, event sponsorship and direct communications with our consumers including via email. Our ability to sell our products and services is dependent in part upon the success of these programs. If the marketing for our products and services fails to resonate with our customers, particularly during the critical holiday season or during other key selling periods, or if advertising rates or other media placement costs increase, these factors could have a material adverse impact on our business and operating results.

A significant portion of our sales are made to a relatively small number of customers, and disruptions to sales through these customers could negatively impact our business.

We derive a significant percentage of our net revenue through sales to our top customers. The concentration of a significant percentage of our sales through one, or a few, large customers could lead to a short-term disruption to our business if certain of these customers significantly reduced their purchases or ceased to carry our products. We also could be more vulnerable to collection risk if one or more of these large customers became unable to pay for our products or declared bankruptcy. Additionally, receivables from our customers generally increase in our December fiscal quarter as sales of our games and services generally increase in anticipation of the holiday season. Having a significant portion of our net revenue concentrated in sales through a few customers could reduce our negotiating leverage with these customers. If one or more of our key customers experience deterioration in their business, or become unable to obtain sufficient financing to maintain their operations, our business could be harmed.

Our channel partners have significant influence over the products and services that we offer on their platforms.

Our agreements with our channel partners typically give them significant control over the approval, manufacturing and distribution of the products and services that we develop for their platform. In particular, our arrangements with Sony and Microsoft could, in certain circumstances, leave us unable to get our products and services approved, manufactured and distributed to customers. For our digital products and services delivered via digital channels such as Sony’s PlayStation Network, Microsoft’s Xbox Store, Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store, each respective channel partner has policies and guidelines that control the promotion and distribution of these titles and the features and functionalities that we are permitted to offer through the channel. Moreover, certain of our channel partners can determine and change unilaterally certain key terms and conditions, including the ability to change their user and developer policies and guidelines. In many cases our channel partners also set the rates that we must pay to provide our games and services through their online channels, and retain flexibility to change their fee structures or adopt different fee structures for their online channels, which could adversely impact our costs, profitability and margins. If our channel partners establish terms that restrict our offerings through their channels, or significantly impact the financial terms on which these products or services are offered to our customers, our business could be harmed.

Our business is subject to risks generally associated with the entertainment industry, any of which could significantly harm our operating results.

Our business is subject to risks that are generally associated with the entertainment industry, many of which are beyond our control. These risks could negatively impact our operating results and include: the popularity, price and timing of our games; economic conditions that adversely affect discretionary consumer spending; changes in consumer demographics; the availability and popularity of other forms of entertainment; and critical reviews and public tastes and preferences, which may change rapidly and cannot necessarily be predicted.

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We rely on business partners in many areas of our business and our business may be harmed if they are unable to honor their obligations to us or their actions may put us at risk.

We rely on various business partners, including third-party service providers, vendors, licensing partners, development partners, and licensees in many areas of our business. In addition, we may have disputes with our business partners that may impact our business and/or financial results. Their actions may put our business and our reputation at risk. In many cases, our business partners may be given access to sensitive and proprietary information in order to provide services and support to our teams, and they may misappropriate our information and engage in unauthorized use of it. In addition, the failure of these third parties to provide adequate services and technologies, or the failure of the third parties to adequately maintain or update their services and technologies, could result in a disruption to our business operations. Further, disruptions in the financial markets, economic downturns, poor business decisions, or reputational harm may adversely affect our business partners and they may not be able to continue honoring their obligations to us or we may cease our arrangements with them. Alternative arrangements and services may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms or we may experience business interruptions upon a transition to an alternative partner or vendor. If we lose one or more significant business partners, our business could be harmed.

We may be subject to claims of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights, which could harm our business.

From time to time, third parties may claim that we have infringed their intellectual property rights. For example, patent holding companies may assert patent claims against us in which they seek to monetize patents they have purchased or otherwise obtained. Although we take steps to avoid knowingly violating the intellectual property rights of others, it is possible that third parties still may claim infringement. In addition, our products often utilize complex, cutting-edge technology that may be subject to intellectual property claims.

Existing or future infringement claims against us, whether valid or not, may be time consuming and expensive to defend. Such claims or litigations could require us to pay damages and other costs, stop selling the affected products, redesign those products to avoid infringement, or obtain a license, all of which could be costly and harm our business. In addition, many patents have been issued that may apply to potential new modes of delivering, playing or monetizing game software products and services, such as those that we produce or would like to offer in the future. We may discover that future opportunities to provide new and innovative modes of game play and game delivery to consumers may be precluded by existing patents that we are unable to license on reasonable terms.

From time to time we may become involved in other legal proceedings, which could adversely affect us.

We are currently, and from time to time in the future may become, subject to legal proceedings, claims, litigation and government investigations or inquiries, which could be expensive, lengthy, and disruptive to normal business operations. In addition, the outcome of any legal proceedings, claims, litigation, investigations or inquiries may be difficult to predict and could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, or financial condition.

Acquisitions, investments, divestitures and other strategic transactions could result in operating difficulties and other negative consequences.

We may make acquisitions or enter into other strategic transactions including (1) acquisitions of companies, businesses, intellectual properties, and other assets, (2) minority investments in strategic partners, and (3) investments in new interactive entertainment businesses as part of our long-term business strategy. These transactions involve significant challenges and risks including that the transaction does not advance our business strategy, that we do not realize a satisfactory return on our investment, that we acquire unknown liabilities, diversion of management’s attention from our other businesses, the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or amortization expenses, write-offs of goodwill, intangibles, or acquired in-process technology, or other increased cash and non-cash expenses. In addition, we may not integrate these businesses successfully, including experiencing difficulty in the integration of business systems and technologies, the integration and retention of new employees, or in the maintenance of key business and customer relationships. These events could harm our operating results or financial condition. We also may divest or sell assets or a business and we may have difficulty selling such assets or business on acceptable terms in a timely manner. This could result in a delay in the achievement of our strategic objectives, cause us to incur additional expense, or the sale of such assets or business at a price or on terms that are less favorable than we anticipated.

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Our products and brands are subject to the threat of piracy, unauthorized copying and other forms of intellectual property infringement.

We regard our products and brands as proprietary and take measures to protect our products, brands and other confidential information from infringement. We are aware that some unauthorized copying of our products and brands occurs, and if a significantly greater amount were to occur, it could negatively impact our business.

Piracy and other forms of unauthorized copying and use of our content and brands are persistent problems for us, and policing is difficult. Further, the laws of some countries in which our products are or may be distributed either do not protect our products and intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, or are poorly enforced. Legal protection of our rights may be ineffective in such countries. In addition, although we take steps to enforce and police our rights, factors such as the proliferation of technology designed to circumvent the protection measures used in our products, the availability of broadband access to the Internet, the refusal of Internet service providers or platform holders to remove infringing content in certain instances, and the proliferation of online channels through which infringing product is distributed all have contributed to an expansion in unauthorized copying of our products and brands.

We may experience outages and disruptions of our infrastructure that may harm our business.

We may be subject to outrages or disruptions of our infrastructure, including information technology system failures and network disruptions. These may be caused by natural disasters, cyber-incidents, weather events, power disruptions, telecommunications failures, acts of terrorism or other events. System redundancy may be ineffective or inadequate, and the Company’s disaster recovery planning may not be sufficient for all eventualities. Such failures or disruptions could prevent access to our products, services or online stores selling our products and services.  Our corporate headquarters in Redwood City, CA and our studio in Burnaby, British Columbia are located in seismically active regions, and certain of our game development activities and other essential business operations are conducted at these locations. An event that results in the disruption of any of our critical business or IT systems could harm our ability to conduct normal business operations.

We utilize debt financing and such indebtedness could adversely impact our business and financial condition.

We have $1 billion in senior unsecured notes (the “Senior Notes”) and $163 million in convertible senior notes (the “Convertible Notes”) outstanding as of March 31, 2016. We expect to settle $27 million of the Convertible Notes during the quarter ended June 30, 2016 as a result of conversions prior to maturity by the holders thereof. Any Convertible Notes that are not converted prior to maturity will mature in July 2016. We also have an unsecured committed $500 million revolving credit facility. While the facility is currently undrawn, we may use the proceeds of any future borrowings for general corporate purposes. We may enter into other financial instruments in the future.

Our indebtedness could affect our financial condition and future financial results by, among other things:

• Requiring the dedication of a substantial portion of any cash flow from operations to the payment of principal of, and interest on, our indebtedness, thereby reducing the availability of such cash flow to fund our growth strategy, working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes;

• Utilizing funds that are domiciled in foreign tax jurisdictions in order to make the cash payments upon any redemption of the Senior Notes. If we were to choose to use such funds, we would be required to accrue any additional taxes on any portion of the repatriation where no United States income tax had been previously provided; and

• Limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and our industry.

The agreements governing our indebtedness impose restrictions on us and require us to maintain compliance with specified covenants. In particular, the revolving credit facility includes a maximum capitalization ratio and minimum liquidity requirements. Our ability to comply with these covenants may be affected by events beyond our control. If we breach any of these covenants and do not obtain a waiver from the lenders or noteholders, then, subject to applicable cure periods, our outstanding indebtedness may be declared immediately due and payable. In addition, changes by any rating agency to our credit rating may negatively impact the value and liquidity of both our debt and equity securities, as well as the potential costs associated with any potential refinancing our indebtedness. Downgrades in our credit rating could also restrict our ability to obtain additional financing in the future and could affect the terms of any such financing.

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In connection with the offering of the Convertible Notes, we entered into certain privately-negotiated transactions to reduce the potential dilution with respect to our common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes. We also entered into separate, privately-negotiated warrant transactions whereby we sold warrants to independent third parties. The effect of these activities could have an effect on the market price of our common stock and the trading price of the Notes. In addition, the counterparties to these agreements are financial institutions and we are subject to the risk that one or more of these counterparties might default on the transactions.

Changes in our tax rates or exposure to additional tax liabilities could adversely affect our earnings and financial condition.

We are subject to taxes in the United States and in various foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide income tax provision, tax assets, and accruals for other taxes, and there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Our effective income tax rate could be adversely affected by our profit levels, by changes in our business, reorganization of our business and operating structure, changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the elections we make, changes in applicable tax laws, or changes in the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets, as well as other factors. We are also required to pay taxes other than income taxes, such as payroll, sales, use, value-added, net worth, property and goods and services taxes, in both the United States and foreign jurisdictions. Furthermore, we are regularly subject to audit by tax authorities with respect to both income and such other non-income taxes. Adverse changes in our effective income tax rate, unfavorable audit results or tax rulings, or other changes resulting in significant additional tax liabilities could have material adverse effects upon our earnings, cash flows, and financial condition.

Our reported financial results could be adversely affected by changes infinancial accounting standards.

Our reported financial results are impacted by the accounting standards promulgated by the SEC and national accounting standards bodies and the methods, estimates, and judgments that we use in applying our accounting policies. For example, accounting standards affecting software revenue recognition have affected and could continue to significantly affect the way we account for revenue and costs related to our products and services. We recognize all of the revenue from bundled sales (i.e., online-enabled games that include updates on a when-and-if-available basis or a matchmaking service) on a deferred basis over an estimated offering period. The related costs of revenues are expensed as incurred instead of deferred and recognized ratably. In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which will replace existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. While we have not yet determined the effect of the new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements, we believe the new standard may require us to materially change the way we account for revenue by requiring us to recognize more revenue upon delivery of the primary product than we currently do under current accounting standards. The new standard may also require us to materially change the way we account for related costs by requiring us to capitalize and amortize certain costs over the period the related assets are transferred to the customer.

As we enhance, expand and diversify our business and product offerings, the application of existing or future financial accounting standards, particularly those relating to the way we account for revenue, costs and taxes, could have a significant adverse effect on our reported results although not necessarily on our cash flows.

Our stock price has been volatile and may continue to fluctuate significantly.

The market price of our common stock historically has been, and we expect will continue to be, subject to significant fluctuations. These fluctuations may be due to factors specific to us (including those discussed in the risk factors above, as well as others not currently known to us or that we currently do not believe are material), to changes in securities analysts’ earnings estimates or ratings, to our results or future financial guidance falling below our expectations and analysts’ and investors’ expectations, to factors affecting the entertainment, computer, software, Internet, media or electronics industries, to our ability to successfully integrate any acquisitions we may make, or to national or international economic conditions. In particular, economic downturns may contribute to the public stock markets experiencing extreme price and trading volume volatility. These broad market fluctuations have and could continue to adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

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Item 1B:     Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 2:     Properties

We own our 660,000-square-foot Redwood Shores headquarters facilities located in Redwood City, California, which includes a product development studio and administrative and sales functions. We also own a 418,000-square-foot product development studio facility in Burnaby, Canada. In addition to the properties we own, we lease approximately 1.1 million square feet in North America and 929,000 square feet in Europe and Asia at various research and development, sales and administration and distribution facilities, including leases for our development studios in Orlando, Florida and Stockholm, Sweden.

While we continually evaluate our facility requirements, we believe that suitable additional or substitute space will be available as needed to accommodate our future needs. For information regarding our lease commitments, see Note 13 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included in Item 8 in this report. For information on long-lived assets by geography, see Note 18 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included in Item 8 in this report.

Item 3:     Legal Proceedings

On July 29, 2010, Michael Davis, a former NFL running back, filed a putative class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Company, alleging that certain past versions of Madden NFL included the images of certain retired NFL players without their permission. In March 2012, the trial court denied the Company’s request to dismiss the complaint on First Amendment grounds. In January 2015, that trial court decision was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the case was remanded back to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, where the case is pending.

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 Consolidated Financial Statements.

Item 4:     Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

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PART II

Item 5: Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “EA”. The following table sets forth the quarterly high and low closing sales price per share of our common stock from April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2016.

	Prices
	High		Low
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2015:
First Quarter	$	37.15	$	26.67
Second Quarter	38.42		33.31
Third Quarter	48.33		32.62
Fourth Quarter	58.24		45.96
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2016:
First Quarter	68.00		56.03
Second Quarter	75.16		63.43
Third Quarter	76.77		65.04
Fourth Quarter	70.83		55.50

Holders

There were approximately 1,305 holders of record of our common stock as of May 23, 2016, and the closing price of our common stock was $73.24 per share as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market. In addition, a significant number of beneficial owners of our common stock hold their shares in street name.

Dividends

We have not paid any cash dividends and do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

In May 2015, our Board of Directors authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of our common stock. This stock repurchase program expires on May 31, 2017. Under the May 2015 program, we may purchase stock in the open market or through privately-negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws, including pursuant to pre-arranged stock trading plans. The timing and actual amount of the stock repurchases will depend on several factors including price, capital availability, regulatory requirements, alternative investment opportunities and other market conditions. We are not obligated to repurchase any specific number of shares under this program and it may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. We repurchased approximately 2.1 million shares for approximately $134 million under this program during the three months ended March 31, 2016. We repurchased approximately 6.9 million shares for approximately $461 million during fiscal year 2016 under the May 2015 program. We continue to actively repurchase shares.

In February 2016, we announced a new $500 million stock repurchase program. This new program was incremental to the existing two-year $1 billion stock repurchase program announced in May 2015 and had an expiration date of May 31, 2016. We completed repurchases under the February 2016 program during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. We repurchased approximately 7.8 million shares for approximately $500 million under this new program.

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The following table summarizes the number of shares repurchased in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

Fiscal Month	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as part of Publicly Announced Programs	Maximum Dollar Value that May Still Be Purchased Under the Programs (in millions)
January 3 - January 30, 2016	577,061	$	66.52	577,061	$	634
January 31 - February 27, 2016	1,989,912	$	60.36	1,989,912	$	1,013
February 28 - April 2, 2016	7,374,038	$	64.38	7,374,038	$	539
	9,941,011	$	63.70	9,941,011

Transactions Related to our Convertible Notes and Convertible Note Hedge

During the quarter ended March 31, 2016, we issued, in the aggregate, 2,752,672 shares of our common stock to holders of

our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 (the “Convertible Notes”) that converted such Convertible Notes prior to the quarter ended March 31, 2016 pursuant to their terms. These shares of common stock were issued on multiple dates in January, February and March 2016 in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) of The Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

During the quarter ending June 30, 2016, we expect to settle $27 million in cash and a number of shares of our

common stock equal in value to the excess conversion value. For example, based on the closing stock price of our common

stock of $65.92 at the end of the quarter ended March 31, 2016, approximately 0.4 million shares of our common stock would

be issuable to converting holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon conversion will be determined based upon the

market price of our common stock during an observation period following any conversion. For more information regarding the

Convertible Notes and the conversion terms thereof, please see “Note 12 - Financing Arrangement” to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K.

In connection with the conversions of the Convertible Notes that were settled during the quarter ended December 31, 2015, we exercised our option under privately negotiated convertible note hedge transactions (the “Convertible Note Hedge”) to acquire 2,752,679 shares of our common stock. The counterparties to the Convertible Note Hedge may be deemed “affiliated purchasers” and may have purchased the shares of our common stock deliverable to us upon exercise of our option during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. Subsequent to March 31, 2016, we expect to receive a number of shares of our common stock under the Convertible Note Hedge substantially equal to the number of shares of our common stock to be issued in connection with any conversions of the Convertible Notes. For more information regarding the Convertible Note Hedge, please see “Note 12 - Financing Arrangement” to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K.

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Stock Performance Graph

The following information shall not be deemed to be “filed” with the SEC nor shall this information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the extent that we specifically incorporate it by reference into a filing.

The following graph shows a five-year comparison of cumulative total returns during the period from March 31, 2011 through March 31, 2016, for our common stock, the S&P 500 Index (to which EA was added in July 2002), the NASDAQ Composite Index, and the RDG Technology Composite Index, each of which assumes an initial value of $100. Each measurement point is as of the end of each fiscal year. The performance of our stock depicted in the following graph is not necessarily indicative of the future performance of our stock.

COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*

Among Electronic Arts Inc., the S&P 500 Index, the NASDAQ Composite Index,

and the RDG Technology Composite Index

* Based on $100 invested on March 31, 2011 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends.

	March 31,
	2011		2012		2013		2014		2015		2016
Electronic Arts Inc.	$	100	$	84	$	91	$	149	$	301	$	339
S&P 500 Index	100		109		124		151		170		173
NASDAQ Composite Index	100		114		122		160		187		187
RDG Technology Composite Index	100		117		117		151		174		178

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Item 6:     Selected Financial Data

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

SELECTED FIVE-YEAR CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

(In millions, except per share data)

	Year Ended March 31,
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS DATA	2016				2015				2014			2013			2012
Net revenue	$	4,396			$	4,515			$	3,575		$	3,797		$	4,143
Cost of revenue	1,354				1,429				1,347			1,388			1,598
Gross profit	3,042				3,086				2,228			2,409			2,545
Total operating expenses	2,144				2,138				2,195			2,288			2,510
Operating income	898				948				33			121			35
Gains on strategic investments, net	—				—				—			39			—
Interest and other income (expense), net	(21		)		(23		)		(26		)	(21		)	(17		)
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	877				925				7			139			18
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes	(279		)		50				(1		)	41			(58		)
Net income	$	1,156			$	875			$	8		$	98		$	76
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	3.73			$	2.81			$	0.03		$	0.32		$	0.23
Diluted	$	3.50			$	2.69			$	0.03		$	0.31		$	0.23
Number of shares used in computation:
Basic	310				311				308			310			331
Diluted	330				325				316			313			336
	As of March 31,
BALANCE SHEETS DATA	2016				2015				2014			2013			2012
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,493			$	2,068			$	1,782		$	1,292		$	1,293
Short-term investments	1,341				953				583			388			437
Marketable equity securities	—				—				—			—			119
Working capital	1,936			(a)	973			(a)	748			408			489
Total assets	7,050				6,147				5,716			5,070			5,491
0.75% convertible senior notes due 2016, net	163			(a)	633			(a)	580			559			539
Senior notes, net	989			(b)	—				—			—			—
Other long-term liabilities	245				333				324			327			374
Total liabilities	3,652				3,080				3,294			2,803			3,033
Total stockholders’ equity	3,396			(a)	3,036			(a)	2,422			2,267			2,458

(a) The Convertible Notes are currently convertible at the option of the holder through July 13, 2016, and the carrying value of the Convertible Notes was reclassified as a current liability and the excess of the principal amount over the carrying value of the Convertible Notes was reclassified from permanent equity to temporary equity in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2016 and March 31, 2015. See Note 12 - Financing Arrangements to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to the Convertible Notes, the convertibility of the Convertible Notes, and the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 6.

(b) In February 2016, we issued $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.70% Senior Notes due March 1, 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2026 (the “2026 Notes,” and together with the 2021 Notes, the “Senior Notes”). See Note 12 - Financing Arrangements to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to our Senior Notes, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 6.

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Item 7:     Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

OVERVIEW

The following overview is a high-level discussion of our operating results, as well as some of the trends and drivers that affect our business. Management believes that an understanding of these trends and drivers provides important context for our results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, as well as our future prospects. This summary is not intended to be exhaustive, nor is it intended to be a substitute for the detailed discussion and analysis provided elsewhere in this Form 10-K, including in the “Business” section and the “Risk Factors” above, the remainder of this “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”)”, and the Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes.

About Electronic Arts

We are a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. We develop, market, publish and distribute games, content and services that can be played by consumers on a variety of platforms, which include consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony, and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. Some of our games are based on our wholly-owned intellectual property (e.g., Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, The Sims and Plants vs. Zombies), and some of our games leverage content that we license from others (e.g., FIFA, Madden NFL and Star Wars). We also publish and distribute games developed by third parties (e.g., Titanfall). Our products and services may be purchased through multiple distribution channels, including physical and online retailers, platform providers such as console manufacturers, providers of free-to-download PC games, mobile carriers and directly through Origin, our own digital distribution platform.

Financial Results

Our key financial results for our fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 were as follows:

• Total net revenue was $4,396 million, down 3 percent year-over-year. Excluding the negative impact of foreign currency exchange rates, we estimate that total net revenue would have been $4,662 million, up 3 percent year over year.

• Digital revenue was $2,409 million, up10 percent year-over-year.

• International net revenue was $2,489 million, down3 percent year-over-year.

• Gross margin was 69.2 percent.

• Operating expenses were $2,144 million.

• Net income was $1,156 million, with diluted earnings per share of $3.50.

• Operating cash flow was $1,223 million.

• Cash and cash equivalents were $2,493 million and short-term investments were $1,341 million.

Trends in Our Business

Digital Transformation. Our business continues to transform from a traditional packaged goods business model to one in which our games and services are sold and delivered digitally, with additional content, features and services helping to extend the life of our packaged goods and digital games. For example, the Ultimate Team mode incorporated into iterations of our FIFA, Madden NFL and NHL franchises and expansion packs available digitally for our Star Wars, Battlefield and Sims franchises have kept many of our players engaged with those games for longer periods of time. Our digital transformation is also creating opportunities in platforms, content models and modalities of play. For example, we have leveraged franchises typically associated with consoles and traditional PC gaming, such as FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, SimCity and Star Wars, to create mobile and PC free-to-download games that are monetized through a business model through which we sell incremental content and/or features in discrete transactions. We also provide our EA Access service for the Xbox One and Origin Access service on PC, which offer players access to a selection of EA games and other benefits for a monthly or annual fee.

Our digital transformation also gives us the opportunity to strengthen our player network. We are investing in a technology foundation to enable us to build player relationships that can last for years instead of for days or weeks by connecting our players to us and to each other. This connection allows us to market and deliver content and services for popular franchises like FIFA, Battlefield and Star Wars to our players more efficiently. That same foundation also enables new player-centric ways to discover and try new experiences, such as our subscription-based EA Access and Origin Access services.

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We significantly increased our digital net revenue from $1,833 million in fiscal year 2014 to $2,199 million in fiscal year 2015 and $2,409 million during fiscal year 2016. We expect this portion of our business to continue to grow through fiscal year 2017 and beyond as we continue to focus on developing and monetizing products and services that can be delivered digitally.

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates. International sales are a fundamental part of our business, and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar (particularly relative to the Euro, British pound sterling, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and South Korean won) has a negative impact on our reported international net revenue, but a positive impact on our reported international operating expenses (particularly the Swedish krona and Canadian dollar) because these amounts are translated at lower rates as compared to periods in which the U.S. Dollar is weaker. While we use foreign currency hedging contracts to mitigate some foreign currency exchange risk, these activities are limited in the protection that they provide us and can themselves result in losses. We estimate that foreign currency exchange rates had a negative impact of $266 million on our reported net revenue during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015, but the strengthening of the U.S. dollar had a positive impact of $113 million on our reported operating expenses as a significant portion of those expenses are incurred outside the United States.

Mobile and PC Free-to-Download Games. The proliferation of mobile phones and tablets has significantly increased the consumer base for mobile games. The broad consumer acceptance of business models which allow consumers to try new games with no up-front cost and pay for additional content or in-game items, has led to growth in the mobile gaming industry. Likewise, the mass introduction and wide consumer acceptance of free-to-download, micro-transaction-based PC games played over the Internet has also broadened our consumer base. We expect revenue generated from mobile and PC free-to-download games to remain an important part of our business.

We track an estimate of monthly active users (“MAUs”) for our mobile business, which we believe is a useful indicator of player engagement trends for that business. For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, we had average MAUs of over 160 million. MAUs are the aggregate number of individuals who accessed a particular game on a particular device in the last 30 days as of the measurement date. For our calculation, an individual who either plays two of our games on a single device, or the same game on two devices in the relevant period, would be counted as two users. Average MAUs for a particular period is the average of the MAUs at each month-end during that period. MAUs are calculated using internal company data based on tracking the activity of user accounts. We also include in this calculation data provided by our third party publishing partners for certain games that we develop but we exclude information from third party titles that we publish. From time to time, we adjust the calculation for user activity that is inconsistent with our methodology. We believe that the numbers are reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement; however, factors relating to user activity may impact these numbers. Our methodology for calculating MAUs may differ from the methodology used by other companies to calculate this metric.

Concentration of Sales Among the Most Popular Games. In all major segments of our industry, we see a large portion of games sales concentrated on the most popular titles, and many of those titles are sequels of prior games. Similarly, a significant portion of our revenue historically has been derived from games and services based on a few popular franchises, several of which we have released on an annual or bi-annual basis. For example, in fiscal year 2016, net revenue generated from the sale of products and services associated with our three largest franchises accounted for approximately 55 percent of our net revenue. We expect this trend to continue.

Recurring Revenue Sources.  Our business model includes revenue that we deem recurring in nature, such as revenue from our annualized titles (such as FIFA and Madden NFL) and associated services, our ongoing mobile business and subscription programs. We have greater confidence in our ability to forecast revenue from these areas of our business than for new offerings.  As we continue to leverage the digital transformation in our industry and incorporate new content models and modalities of play into our games, our goal is to continue to look for opportunities to expand the recurring portion of our business.

Recent Developments

Stock Repurchase Program. In May 2015, our Board of Directors authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of our common stock. This stock repurchase program expires on May 31, 2017. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, we repurchased approximately 6.9 million shares for approximately $461 million under the May 2015 program. We continue to actively repurchase shares under this program.

On February 3, 2016, our Board of Directors authorized a new program to repurchase up to $500 million of EA’s common stock. This program was incremental to the May 2015 program. We have completed repurchases under the February 2016 program, repurchasing 7.8 million shares for approximately $500 million.

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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES

Our Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of these Consolidated Financial Statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, contingent assets and liabilities, and revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. The policies discussed below are considered by management to be critical because they are not only important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations, but also because application and interpretation of these policies requires both management judgment and estimates of matters that are inherently uncertain and unknown. As a result, actual results may differ materially from our estimates.

Revenue Recognition, Sales Returns and Allowances, and Bad Debt Reserves

We derive revenue principally from sales of interactive software games, and related content (e.g., micro-transactions) and services on consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. We evaluate revenue recognition based on the criteria set forth in FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605, Revenue Recognition and ASC 985-605, Software: Revenue Recognition. We classify our revenue as either product revenue or service and other revenue.

Product revenue. Our product revenue includes revenue associated with the sale of software games or related content, whether delivered via a physical disc (e.g., packaged goods) or delivered digitally (e.g., full-game downloads, extra-content), and licensing of game software to third-parties. Product revenue also includes revenue from mobile full-game downloads that do not require our hosting support (e.g., premium mobile games) in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e. can be played with or without an Internet connection), and sales of tangible products such as hardware, peripherals, or collectors’ items.

Service and other revenue. Our service revenue includes revenue recognized from time-based subscriptions and games or related content that requires our hosting support in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e., can only be played with an Internet connection). This includes (1) entitlements to content that are accessed through hosting services (e.g., micro-transactions for Internet-based, social network and free-to-download mobile games), (2) massively multi-player online (“MMO”) games (both software game and subscription sales), (3) subscriptions for our Battlefield Premium, EA Access, and Pogo-branded online game services, and (4) allocated service revenue from sales of software games with an online service element (i.e., “matchmaking” service). Our other revenue includes advertising and non-software licensing revenue.

With respect to the allocated service revenue from sales of software games with a matchmaking service mentioned above, our allocation of proceeds between product and service revenue for presentation purposes is based on management’s best estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service with the residual value allocated to product revenue. Our estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service is comprised of several factors including, but not limited to, prior selling prices for the matchmaking service, prices charged separately by other third-party vendors for similar service offerings, and a cost-plus-margin approach. We review the estimated selling price of the online matchmaking service on a regular basis and use this methodology consistently to allocate revenue between product and service for software game sales with a matchmaking service.

We evaluate and recognize revenue when all four of the following criteria are met:

• Evidence of an arrangement. Evidence of an agreement with the customer that reflects the terms and conditions to deliver the related products or services must be present.

• Fixed or determinable fee. If a portion of the arrangement fee is not fixed or determinable, we recognize revenue as the amount becomes fixed or determinable.

• Collection is deemed probable. Collection is deemed probable if we expect the customer to be able to pay amounts under the arrangement as those amounts become due. If we determine that collection is not probable as the amounts become due, we generally conclude that collection becomes probable upon cash collection.

• Delivery. For packaged goods, delivery is considered to occur when a product is shipped and the risk of loss and rewards of ownership have transferred to the customer. For digital downloads, delivery is considered to occur when the software is made available to the customer for download. For services and other, delivery is generally considered to occur as the service is delivered, which is determined based on the underlying service obligation. If there is significant uncertainty of acceptance, revenue is recognized once acceptance is reasonably assured.

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Online-Enabled Games

The majority of our software games and related content have online connectivity whereby a consumer may be able to download unspecified content or updates on a when-and-if-available basis (“unspecified updates”) for use with the original game software. In addition, we may also offer an online matchmaking service that permits consumers to play against each other via the Internet without a separate fee. U.S. GAAP requires us to account for the consumer’s right to receive unspecified updates or the matchmaking service for no additional fee as a “bundled” sale, or multiple-element arrangement.

We have an established historical pattern of providing unspecified updates (e.g., player roster updates to Madden NFL 16) to online-enabled games and related content at no additional charge to the consumer. We do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for these unspecified updates, and thus, as required by U.S. GAAP, we recognize revenue from the sale of these online-enabled games and related content over the period we expect to offer the unspecified updates to the consumer (“estimated offering period”).

Estimated Offering Period

Because the offering period is not an explicitly defined period, we must make an estimate of the offering period. Determining the estimated offering period is inherently subjective and is subject to regular revision based on historical online usage. For example, in determining the estimated offering period for unspecified updates associated with our online-enabled games, we consider the period of time consumers are online as online connectivity is required. On an annual basis, we review consumers’ online gameplay of all online-enabled games that have been released 12 to 24 months prior to the evaluation date. For example, if our evaluation date is April 1, 2015, we evaluate all online-enabled games released between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014. Based on this population of games, for all players that register the game online within the first six months of release of the game to the general public, we compute the weighted-average number of days for each online-enabled game, based on when a player initially registers the game online to when that player last plays the game online. We then compute the weighted-average number of days for all online-enabled games by multiplying the weighted-average number of days for each online-enabled game by its relative percentage of total units sold from these online-enabled games (i.e., a game with more units sold will have a higher weighting to the overall computation than a game with fewer units sold). Under a similar computation, we also consider the estimated period of time between the date a game unit is sold to a reseller and the date the reseller sells the game unit to an end consumer (i.e., time in channel). Based on these two calculations we then consider the method of distribution. For example, physical software games sold at retail would have a composite offering period equal to the online gameplay plus time in channel as opposed to digitally distributed software games which are delivered immediately via digital download and thus have no concept of channel. Additionally, we consider results from prior analyses, known and expected online gameplay trends, as well as disclosed service periods for competitors’ games in determining the estimated offering period for future sales.

While we consistently apply this methodology, inherent assumptions used in this methodology include which online-enabled games to sample, whether to use only units that have registered online, whether to weight the number of days for each game, whether to weight the days based on the units sold of each game, determining the period of time between the date of sale to reseller and the date of sale to the consumer and assessing online gameplay trends.

Other Multiple-Element Arrangements

In some of our multiple-element arrangements, we sell tangible products with software and/or software-related offerings. These tangible products are generally either peripherals or ancillary collectors’ items, such as figurines and comic books. Revenue for these arrangements is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each deliverable using the relative selling prices of each deliverable in the arrangement based on the selling price hierarchy described below. If the arrangement contains more than one software deliverable, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the software deliverables as a group and then allocated to each software deliverable.

We determine the selling price for a tangible product deliverable based on the following selling price hierarchy: VSOE (i.e., the price we charge when the tangible product is sold separately) if available, third-party evidence (“TPE”) of fair value (i.e., the price charged by others for similar tangible products) if VSOE is not available, or our best estimate of selling price (“BESP”) if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. Determining the BESP is a subjective process that is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, recent selling prices and related discounts, market conditions, customer classes, sales channels and other factors. Provided the other three revenue recognition criteria other than delivery have been met, we recognize revenue upon delivery to the customer as we have no further obligations.

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We must make assumptions and judgments in order to (1) determine whether and when each element is delivered, (2) determine whether VSOE exists for each undelivered element, and (3) allocate the total price among the various elements, as applicable. Changes to any of these assumptions and judgments, or changes to the elements in the arrangement, could cause a material increase or decrease in the amount of revenue that we report in a particular period.

Principal Agent Considerations

We evaluate sales of our interactive software games via third party storefronts, including digital storefronts such as Microsoft’s Xbox Games Store, Sony PSN, Apple App Store, and Google Play, in order to determine whether or not we are acting as the primary obligor in the sale to the end consumer, which we consider in determining if revenue should be reported gross or net of fees retained by the storefront. Key indicators that we evaluate in determining gross versus net treatment include but are not limited to the following:

• The party responsible for delivery/fulfillment of the product or service to the end consumer

• The party responsible for the billing, collection of fees and refunds to the end consumer

• The storefront and Terms of Sale that govern the end consumer’s purchase of the product or service

• The party that sets the pricing with the end consumer and has credit risk

Based on evaluation of the above indicators, we have determined that generally the third party is considered the primary obligor to end consumers for the sale of our interactive software games. We therefore report revenue related to these arrangements net of the fees retained by the storefront.

Sales Returns and Allowances and Bad Debt Reserves

We reduce revenue for estimated future returns and price protection which may occur with our distributors and retailers (“channel partners”). Price protection represents our practice to provide our channel partners with a credit allowance to lower their wholesale price on a particular product that they have not resold to end consumers. The amount of the price protection is generally the difference between the old wholesale price and the new reduced wholesale price. In certain countries for our PC and console packaged goods software products, we also have a practice of allowing channel partners to return older software products in the channel in exchange for a credit allowance. As a general practice, we do not give cash refunds.

When evaluating the adequacy of sales returns and price protection allowances, we analyze the following: historical credit allowances, current sell-through of our channel partners’ inventory of our software products, current trends in retail and the video game industry, changes in customer demand, acceptance of our software products, and other related factors. In addition, we monitor the volume of sales to our channel partners and their inventories, as substantial overstocking in the distribution channel could result in high returns or higher price protection in subsequent periods.

In the future, actual returns and price protections may materially exceed our estimates as unsold software products in the distribution channels are exposed to rapid changes in consumer preferences, market conditions or technological obsolescence due to new platforms, product updates or competing software products. While we believe we can make reliable estimates regarding these matters, these estimates are inherently subjective. Accordingly, if our estimates change, our returns and price protection allowances would change and would impact the total net revenue, accounts receivable and deferred net revenue that we report.

We determine our allowance for doubtful accounts by evaluating the following: customer creditworthiness, current economic trends, historical experience, age of current accounts receivable balances, and changes in financial condition or payment terms of our customers. Significant management judgment is required to estimate our allowance for doubtful accounts in any accounting period. The amount and timing of our bad debt expense and cash collection could change significantly as a result of a change in any of the evaluation factors mentioned above.

Royalties and Licenses

Our royalty expenses consist of payments to (1) content licensors, (2) independent software developers, and (3) co-publishing and distribution affiliates. License royalties consist of payments made to celebrities, professional sports organizations, movie studios and other organizations for our use of their trademarks, copyrights, personal publicity rights, content and/or other intellectual property. Royalty payments to independent software developers are payments for the development of intellectual property related to our games. Co-publishing and distribution royalties are payments made to third parties for the delivery of products.

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Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue generally at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums. Significant judgment is required to estimate the effective royalty rate for a particular contract. Because the computation of effective royalty rates requires us to project future revenue, it is inherently subjective as our future revenue projections must anticipate a number of factors, including (1) the total number of titles subject to the contract, (2) the timing of the release of these titles, (3) the number of software units and amount of extra content that we expect to sell, which can be impacted by a number of variables, including product quality, number of platforms we release on, the timing of the title’s release and competition, and (4) future pricing. Determining the effective royalty rate for our titles is particularly challenging due to the inherent difficulty in predicting the popularity of entertainment products. Furthermore, if we conclude that we are unable to make a reasonably reliable forecast of projected net revenue, we recognize royalty expense at the greater of contract rate or on a straight-line basis over the term of the contract. Accordingly, if our future revenue projections change, our effective royalty rates would change, which could impact the amount and timing of royalty expense we recognize.

Prepayments made to thinly capitalized independent software developers and co-publishing affiliates are generally made in connection with the development of a particular product, and therefore, we are generally subject to development risk prior to the release of the product. Accordingly, payments that are due prior to completion of a product are generally expensed to research and development over the development period as the services are incurred. Payments due after completion of the product (primarily royalty-based in nature) are generally expensed as cost of revenue.

Our contracts with some licensors include minimum guaranteed royalty payments, which are initially recorded as an asset and as a liability at the contractual amount when no performance remains with the licensor. When performance remains with the licensor, we record guarantee payments as an asset when actually paid and as a liability when incurred, rather than recording the asset and liability upon execution of the contract. Royalty liabilities are classified as current liabilities to the extent such royalty payments are contractually due within the next 12 months.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

Income Taxes

We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for both (1) the expected impact of differences between the financial statement amount and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and (2) the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax losses and tax credit carryforwards. We record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets when it is considered more likely than not that all or a portion of our deferred tax assets will not be realized. In making this determination, we are required to give significant weight to evidence that can be objectively verified. It is generally difficult to conclude that a valuation allowance is not needed when there is significant negative evidence, such as cumulative losses in recent years. Forecasts of future taxable income are considered to be less objective than past results. Therefore, cumulative losses weigh heavily in the overall assessment.

In addition to considering forecasts of future taxable income, we are also required to evaluate and quantify other possible sources of taxable income in order to assess the realization of our deferred tax assets, namely the reversal of existing deferred tax liabilities, the carry back of losses and credits as allowed under current tax law, and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Evaluating and quantifying these amounts involves significant judgments. Each source of income must be evaluated based on all positive and negative evidence; this evaluation involves assumptions about future activity. Certain taxable temporary differences that are not expected to reverse during the carry forward periods permitted by tax law cannot be considered as a source of future taxable income that may be available to realize the benefit of deferred tax assets.

From the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 to the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, we maintained a 100% valuation allowance against most of our U.S. deferred tax assets because there was insufficient positive evidence to overcome the existing negative evidence such that it was not more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. While we reported U.S. pre-tax income in fiscal year 2015, because we reported U.S. pre-tax losses during the previous seven fiscal years, as well as in the

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second and third quarters of fiscal year 2016, we continued to maintain the 100% valuation allowance through the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we realized significant U.S. pre-tax income for both the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. As of March 31, 2016, we had reported positive operating performance in the U.S. for two consecutive fiscal years and had also reported a cumulative three-year U.S. pre-tax profit. In addition, during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we completed our financial plan for fiscal year 2017 and expect continued positive operating performance in the U.S. We also considered forecasts of future taxable income and evaluated the utilization of tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration. After considering these factors, we determined that the positive evidence overcame any negative evidence and concluded that it was more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. As a result, we released the valuation allowance against all of the U.S. federal deferred tax assets and a portion of the U.S. state deferred tax assets during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. Accordingly, we recorded a $453 million income tax benefit in fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

As of March 31, 2016, we maintained a valuation allowance of $114 million, primarily related to specific U.S. state deferred tax assets and foreign capital loss carryovers, due to uncertainty about the future realization of these assets. In determining the amount of deferred tax assets that are more likely than not to be realized, we evaluated the potential to realize the assets through the utilization of tax loss and credit carrybacks, the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, future taxable income exclusive of the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, and certain tax planning strategies.

In the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the tax law and ultimate tax determination is uncertain. As part of the process of preparing our Consolidated Financial Statements, we are required to estimate our income taxes in each jurisdiction in which we operate prior to the completion and filing of tax returns for such periods. This process requires estimating both our geographic mix of income and our uncertain tax positions in each jurisdiction where we operate. These estimates involve complex issues and require us to make judgments about the likely application of the tax law to our situation, as well as with respect to other matters, such as anticipating the positions that we will take on tax returns prior to our actually preparing the returns and the outcomes of disputes with tax authorities. The ultimate resolution of these issues may take extended periods of time due to examinations by tax authorities and statutes of limitations. In addition, changes in our business, including acquisitions, changes in our international corporate structure, changes in the geographic location of business functions or assets, changes in the geographic mix and amount of income, as well as changes in our agreements with tax authorities, valuation allowances, applicable accounting rules, applicable tax laws and regulations, rulings and interpretations thereof, developments in tax audit and other matters, and variations in the estimated and actual level of annual pre-tax income can affect the overall effective income tax rate.

Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Topic 350-40). The amendments of this ASU will help entities evaluate the accounting for fees paid by a customer in a cloud computing arrangement by providing guidance as to whether an arrangement includes the sale or license of software. The requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendment may be adopted either prospectively to all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date or retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, related to simplifications of employee share-based payment accounting. This pronouncement eliminates the APIC pool concept and requires that excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement when awards are settled. The pronouncement also addresses simplifications related to statement of cash flows classification, accounting for forfeitures, and minimum statutory tax withholding requirements. The pronouncement is effective for annual periods (and for interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2016. We are currently evaluating the timing and the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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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 amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. This new revenue standard, as amended by ASU 2015-14, is effective in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard on assessing whether an entity is a principal or agent in a revenue transaction. This conclusion impacts whether an entity reports revenue on a gross or net basis. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard regarding an entity’s identification of its performance obligations in a contract, as well as an entity’s evaluation of the nature of its promise to grant a license of intellectual property and whether or not that revenue is recognized over time or at a point in time. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients, which amends the guidance in the new revenue standard on collectibility, noncash consideration, presentation of sales tax, and transition. The amendments are intended to address implementation issues that were raised by stakeholders and provide additional practical expedients to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the new revenue standard. These pronouncements have the same effective date as the new revenue standard. While we are currently evaluating the method of adoption and the impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures, we believe the adoption of the new standard may have a significant impact on the accounting for certain transactions with multiple elements or “bundled” arrangements (for example, sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified future updates) because the requirement to have VSOE for undelivered elements under current accounting standards is eliminated under the new standard. Accordingly, we may be required to recognize as revenue a portion of the sales price upon delivery of the software, as compared to the current requirement of recognizing the entire sales price ratably over an estimated offering period. While we are still evaluating the total impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, we believe adoption of this new standard will have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The FASB issued this update to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Our fiscal year is reported on a 52- or 53-week period that ends on the Saturday nearest March 31. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 contained 53 weeks and ended on April 2, 2016. Our results of operations for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 each contained 52 weeks and ended on March 28, 2015 and March 29, 2014, respectively. For simplicity of disclosure, all fiscal periods are referred to as ending on a calendar month-end.

Net Revenue

Net revenue consists of sales generated from (1) video games sold as packaged goods or as digital downloads and designed for play on consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft) and PCs, (2) video games for mobile phones and tablets, (3) separate software products and content and online game services associated with these products, (4) licensing our game software to third parties, (5) allowing other companies to manufacture and sell our products in conjunction with other products, and (6) advertisements on our online web pages and in our games.

Comparison of Fiscal Year 2016 to Fiscal Year 2015

Net Revenue

For fiscal year 2016, net revenue was $4,396 million and decreased$119 million, or 3 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2015. This decrease was driven by a $757 million decrease in revenue primarily from Titanfall, and the Battlefield and FIFA World Cup franchises. This decrease was partially offset by a $638 million increase in revenue primarily from theStar Wars, Madden NFL and SimCity franchises.

Net Revenue by Product Revenue and Service and Other Revenue

Our net revenue by product revenue and service and other revenue for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 was as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		$ Change			% Change
Net revenue:
Product	$	2,497	$	2,568	$	(71	)	(3	)%
Service and other	1,899		1,947		(48		)	(2	)%
Total net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	(119	)	(3	)%

Product Revenue

For fiscal year 2016, product revenue was $2,497 million, primarily driven by FIFA 16, FIFA 15 and Star WarsBattlefront. Product revenue decreased$71 million, as compared to fiscal year 2015. This decrease was driven by a $434 million decrease primarily from the Need for Speed, Battlefield and FIFA World Cup franchises. This decrease was partially offset by a $363 million increase primarily from Star Wars Battlefront and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Service and Other Revenue

For fiscal year 2016, service and other revenue was $1,899 million, primarily driven by FIFA Ultimate Team and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Service and other revenue for fiscal year 2016decreased$48 million, or 2 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2015. This decrease was driven by a $421 million decrease primarily from Titanfall and Battlefield 4 Premium. This decrease was partially offset by a $373 million increase primarily from the Madden NFL franchise, Need for Speed 2015 and SimCity BuildIt.

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Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 was as follows (in millions):

	March 31, 2016		% of Related  Net Revenue		March 31, 2015		% of Related  Net Revenue		% Change		Change as a % of Related Net Revenue
Cost of revenue:
Product	$	938	37.6	%	$	1,028	40.0	%	(8.8	)%	(2.4	)%
Service and other	416		21.9	%	401		20.6	%	3.7	%	1.3	%
Total cost of revenue	$	1,354	30.8	%	$	1,429	31.7	%	(5.2	)%	(0.9	)%

Cost of Product Revenue

Cost of product revenue consists of (1) inventory costs, (2) certain royalty expenses for celebrities, professional sports, movie studios and other organizations, and independent software developers, (3) manufacturing royalties, net of volume discounts and other vendor reimbursements, (4) expenses for defective products, (5) write-offs of post launch prepaid royalty costs and losses on previously unrecognized licensed intellectual property commitments, (6) amortization of certain intangible assets,

(7) personnel-related costs, and (8) warehousing and distribution costs. We generally recognize volume discounts when they are

earned from the manufacturer (typically in connection with the achievement of unit-based milestones); whereas other vendor

reimbursements are generally recognized as the related revenue is recognized.

Cost of product revenue decreased by $90 million, or 8.8 percent in fiscal year 2016, as compared to fiscal year 2015. Cost of product revenue decreased primarily due to a loss of $122 million on previously unrecognized licensed intellectual property commitment recognized during fiscal year 2015. Excluding the impact of the $122 million loss, cost of product revenue increased $32 million, or 4 percent, primarily due to an increase in royalty costs driven by Star Wars Battlefront, which was launched during the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, with no comparable royalty-bearing title launched during fiscal year 2015.

Cost of Service and Other Revenue

Cost of service and other revenue consists primarily of (1) royalty costs, (2) data center, bandwidth and server costs associated

with hosting our online games and websites, (3) inventory costs, (4) platform processing fees from operating our website-based

games on third party platforms, and (5) credit card fees associated with our service revenue.

Cost of service and other revenue increased by $15 million, or 3.7 percent in fiscal year 2016, as compared to fiscal year 2015. The increase was primarily due to an increase in inventory costs due to the launch of Need for Speed 2015 during fiscal year 2016, offset by a decrease in inventory costs due to Titanfall, launchedfor the Xbox 360 during fiscal year 2015.

Total Cost of Revenue as a Percentage of Total Net Revenue

During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, total cost of revenue as a percentage of total net revenue remained relatively consistent as compared to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015.

Research and Development

Research and development expenses consist of expenses incurred by our production studios for personnel-related costs, related overhead costs, contracted services, depreciation and any impairment of prepaid royalties for pre-launch products. Research and development expenses for our online products include expenses incurred by our studios consisting of direct development and related overhead costs in connection with the development and production of our online games. Research and development expenses also include expenses associated with our digital platform, software licenses and maintenance, and management overhead.

Research and development expenses for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2016		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		$ Change		% Change
$	1,109	25	%	$	1,094	24	%	$	15	1	%

Research and development expenses increased by $15 million, or 1 percent, in fiscal year 2016, as compared to fiscal year 2015. Excluding the estimated $70 million positive impact of foreign currency exchange rates, we estimate that research and development would have increased by $85 million. This $85 million increase on a constant currency basis was primarily due to

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(1) a $44 million increase in personnel-related costs primarily resulting from higher payroll taxes, the fiscal year 2016 containing 53 weeks as compared to 52 weeks in fiscal year 2015, and annual salary increases, (2) a $22 million increase in contracted services, primarily related to the Titanfall and UFC franchises, and Unravel, during fiscal year 2016,as compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year, and (3) a $21 million increase in stock-based compensation.

Marketing and Sales

Marketing and sales expenses consist of personnel-related costs, related overhead costs, advertising, marketing and promotional expenses, net of qualified advertising cost reimbursements from third parties.

Marketing and sales expenses for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2016		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		$ Change			% Change
$	622	14	%	$	647	14	%	$	(25	)	(4	)%

Marketing and sales expenses decreased by $25 million, or 4 percent, in fiscal year 2016, as compared to fiscal year 2015. Excluding the estimated $25 million positive impact of foreign currency exchange rates, marketing and sales expense remained consistent during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses consist of personnel and related expenses of executive and administrative staff, corporate functions such as finance, legal, human resources, and information technology (“IT”), related overhead costs, fees for professional services such as legal and accounting, and allowances for doubtful accounts.

General and administrative expenses for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2016		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		$ Change		% Change
$	406	9	%	$	386	9	%	$	20	5	%

General and administrative expenses increased by $20 million, or 5 percent, in fiscal year 2016, as compared to fiscal year 2015. Excluding the estimated $19 million positive impact of foreign currency exchange rates, general and administrative expenses would have increased by $39 million. This $39 million increase on a constant currency basis was primarily due to (1) a $18 million increase in facilities-related expenses, (2) a $18 million increase in personnel-related costs primarily resulting from higher payroll taxes, the fiscal year 2016 containing 53 weeks as compared to 52 weeks in fiscal year 2015, and annual salary increases, (3) a $10 million increase in stock-based compensation. This was partially offset by a $6 million decrease in litigation matters during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015.

Income Taxes

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes for fiscal years 2016 and 2015 was as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2016			Effective Tax Rate		March 31, 2015		Effective Tax Rate
$	(279	)	(31.8	)%	$	50	5.4	%

From the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 to the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, we maintained a 100% valuation allowance against most of our U.S. deferred tax assets because there was insufficient positive evidence to overcome the existing negative evidence such that it was not more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. While we reported U.S. pre-tax income in fiscal year 2015, because we reported U.S. pre-tax losses during the previous seven fiscal years, as well as in the second and third quarters of fiscal year 2016, we continued to maintain the 100% valuation allowance through the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we realized significant U.S. pre-tax income for both the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. As of March 31, 2016, we had reported positive operating performance in the U.S. for two consecutive fiscal years and had also reported a cumulative three-year U.S. pre-tax profit. In addition, during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we completed our financial plan for fiscal year 2017 and expect continued positive operating performance in the U.S. We also considered forecasts of future taxable income and evaluated the utilization of tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration. After considering these factors, we determined that the positive evidence overcame any negative evidence and concluded that it was more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. As a result, we released the valuation allowance against all of the U.S. federal deferred tax assets and a portion of the U.S. state deferred tax assets during

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the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. Accordingly, we recorded a $453 million income tax benefit in fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

Our effective tax rate for fiscal year 2016 was a tax benefit of 31.8 percent, primarily due to the reversal of the U.S. deferred tax valuation allowance. Excluding the impact of the reversal of the valuation allowance, our effective tax rate for fiscal year 2016 would have been 19.8 percent, which differs from the statutory rate of 35.0 percent primarily due to non-U.S. profits subject to a reduced or zero tax rates.

Our effective tax rate for the fiscal year 2015 differs from the statutory rate of 35.0 percent as a result of the utilization of U.S. deferred tax assets subject to a valuation allowance and tax benefits related to the expiration of statutes of limitations and the resolution of examinations by taxing authorities.

Prior to fiscal year 2016, our effective income tax rates have been significantly affected by the U.S. valuation allowance. As a result of the release of the valuation allowance in fiscal year 2016, we do not anticipate that our effective income tax rates for fiscal year 2017 and future periods will be as significantly affected by changes in our deferred tax valuation allowance as they were prior to fiscal year 2017. Our effective income tax rates for fiscal year 2017 and future periods will continue to depend on a variety of factors, including changes in the deferred tax valuation allowance, changes in our business such as acquisitions and intercompany transactions, changes in our international structure, changes in the geographic location of business functions or assets, changes in the geographic mix of income, changes in or termination of our agreements with tax authorities, applicable accounting rules, applicable tax laws and regulations, rulings and interpretations thereof, developments in tax audit and other matters, and variations in our annual pre-tax income or loss. We incur certain tax expenses that do not decline proportionately with declines in our pre-tax consolidated income or loss. As a result, in absolute dollar terms, our tax expense will have a greater influence on our effective tax rate at lower levels of pre-tax income or loss than at higher levels. In addition, at lower levels of pre-tax income or loss, our effective tax rate will be more volatile.

Historically, we have considered all undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries to be indefinitely reinvested outside of the United States and, accordingly, no U.S. taxes have been provided thereon. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we issued the Senior Notes and announced a $500 million stock repurchase program. In light of these future obligations, we reevaluated our intent to indefinitely reinvest all earnings of foreign subsidiary companies, and concluded that a portion of earnings of certain subsidiaries will no longer be considered to be indefinitely reinvested. As a result, we have recognized a deferred tax liability of $43 million for U.S. income taxes with respect to such earnings. We currently intend to continue to indefinitely reinvest a substantial majority of the undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries outside of the United States.

Comparison of Fiscal Year 2015 to Fiscal Year 2014

Net Revenue

For fiscal year 2015, net revenue was $4,515 million and increased $940 million, or 26 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2014. This increase was driven by a $1,481 million increase in revenue primarily from the FIFA and Madden NFL franchises, and Titanfall. This increase was partially offset by a $541 million decrease in revenue primarily from the SimCity, Crysis, Dead Space, and NCAA Football franchises, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Net Revenue by Product Revenue and Service and Other Revenue

Our net revenue by product revenue and service and other revenue for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 was as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2015		2014		$ Change		% Change
Net revenue:
Product	$	2,568	$	2,134	$	434	20	%
Service and other	1,947		1,441		506		35	%
Total net revenue	$	4,515	$	3,575	$	940	26	%

Product Revenue

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For fiscal year 2015, product revenue was $2,568 million, primarily driven by FIFA 15, FIFA 14 and Battlefield 4. Product revenue increased $434 million, or 20 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2014. This increase was driven by an $837 million increase primarily from the FIFA, Madden NFL and Dragon Age franchises. This increase was partially offset by a $403 million decrease primarily from the Crysis, Dead Space, NCAA Football, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Army of Two franchises.

Service and Other Revenue

For fiscal year 2015, service and other revenue was $1,947 million, primarily driven by FIFA Ultimate Team, Titanfall, and Battlefield 4 Premium. Service and other revenue for fiscal year 2015 increased $506 million, or 35 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2014. This increase was driven by a $660 million increase primarily from Titanfall and the FIFA and Plants vs Zombies franchises. This increase was partially offset by a $154 million decrease primarily from SimCity franchise, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Pogo-branded online games services.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 was as follows (in millions):

	March 31, 2015		% of Related  Net Revenue		March 31, 2014		% of Related  Net Revenue		% Change		Change as a % of Related Net Revenue
Cost of revenue:
Product	$	1,028	40.0	%	$	1,032	48.4	%	(0.4	)%	(8.4	)%
Service and other	401		20.6	%	315		21.9	%	27.3	%	(1.3	)%
Total cost of revenue	$	1,429	31.7	%	$	1,347	37.7	%	6.1	%	(6.0	)%

Cost of Product Revenue

Cost of product revenue decreased by $4 million, or 0.4 percent in fiscal year 2015, as compared to fiscal year 2014. Cost of product revenue decreased primarily due to an increase of digital product offerings (which have a lower average cost than our packaged goods and other product net revenue) during fiscal year 2015, as compared to the fiscal year 2014, partially offset by a loss of $122 million on a previously unrecognized licensed intellectual property commitment recognized during the three months ended June 30, 2014.

Cost of Service and Other Revenue

Cost of service and other revenue increased by $86 million, or 27.3 percent in fiscal year 2015, as compared to fiscal year 2014. The increase was primarily due to an increase in royalty-related costs due to FIFA Ultimate Team, Madden Ultimate Team, and Titanfall.

Total Cost of Revenue as a Percentage of Total Net Revenue

During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015, total cost of revenue as a percentage of total net revenue decreased by 6.0 percent as compared to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014. Excluding the loss of $122 million on previously unrecognized license intellectual property recognized during three months ended June 30, 2014, total cost of revenue as a percentage of total net revenue decreased 8.8 percent as a result of an increase in our digital products and services that generally have a lower cost than our packaged goods and other products.

Research and Development

Research and development expenses for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2014		% of Net Revenue		$ Change			% Change
$	1,094	24	%	$	1,125	31	%	$	(31	)	(3	)%

Research and development expenses decreased by $31 million, or 3 percent, in fiscal year 2015, as compared to fiscal year 2014. Excluding the $20 million positive impact of foreign currency exchange rates due to translation and related cash flow hedging activities, we estimate that research and development would have decreased by $11 million. This $11 million decrease was primarily due to a $15 million decrease in personnel-related costs resulting from a reduction in headcount and a $17

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million decrease in contracted services as a result of higher development contracted services in fiscal year 2014 due to Titanfall, Battlefield 4, and EA SportsUFC as compared to the current fiscal year. These decreases were partially offset by a $21 million increase in facility-related costs primarily due to $6 million in operating costs for new office expansions and $5 million in certain facility closures.

Marketing and Sales

Marketing and sales expenses for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2014		% of Net Revenue		$ Change			% Change
$	647	14	%	$	680	19	%	$	(33	)	(5	)%

Marketing and sales expenses decreased by $33 million, or 5 percent, in fiscal year 2015, as compared to fiscal year 2014. The decrease was primarily due to (1) a $9 million decrease in personnel-related costs, (2) a $10 million decrease in facility-related costs, and (3) a $9 million decrease in contracted services due to fewer frontline title releases during fiscal year 2015 than during fiscal year 2014.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2014		% of Net Revenue		$ Change			% Change
$	386	9	%	$	410	11	%	$	(24	)	(6	)%

General and administrative expenses decreased by $24 million, or 6 percent, in fiscal year 2015, as compared to fiscal year 2014, primarily due to a $30 million expense related to the settlement of a litigation matter during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014 and an $23 million decrease in costs incurred on a license, both related to our college football franchise. This was partially offset by an $11 million increase primarily related to other litigation matters and a $16 million increase in personnel-related costs during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015.

Acquisition-Related Contingent Consideration

Acquisition-related contingent consideration for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2015		% of Net Revenue		March 31, 2014		% of Net Revenue		$ Change		% Change
(3	)	—	%	(35	)	(1	)%	$	32	91	%

During fiscal year 2015, acquisition-related contingent consideration credits decreased by $32 million, or 91 percent, as compared to fiscal year 2014, primarily resulting from changes in the fair market value of the acquisition-related contingent consideration of our PopCap acquisition during fiscal year 2014. The PopCap earn-out expired on December 31, 2013. No payments were made under this earn-out.

Income Taxes

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 was as follows (in millions):

March 31, 2015		Effective Tax Rate		March 31, 2014			Effective Tax Rate
$	50	5.4	%	$	(1	)	(14.3	)%

Our effective tax rate for fiscal year 2015 was a tax expense of 5.4 percent. The fiscal year 2015 effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate of 35.0 percent primarily due to the utilization of U.S. deferred tax assets, which were subject to a valuation allowance, excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation deductions allocated directly to contributed capital, and non-U.S. profits subject to a reduced or zero tax rates. The provision for income taxes for fiscal year 2015 differs from the benefit from income taxes for fiscal year 2014 primarily due to benefits related to the expiration of statutes of limitations and the resolution of examinations by taxing authorities recorded in fiscal year 2014.

Our effective tax rate for the fiscal year 2014 differs from the statutory rate of 35.0 percent as a result of the utilization of U.S. deferred tax assets subject to a valuation allowance and tax benefits related to the expiration of statutes of limitations and the resolution of examinations by taxing authorities.

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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

	As of March 31,						Increase
(In millions)	2016			2015
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,493		$	2,068		$	425
Short-term investments	1,341			953			388
Total	$	3,834		$	3,021		$	813
Percentage of total assets	54		%	49		%
	Year Ended March 31,						Change
(In millions)	2016			2015
Cash provided by operating activities	$	1,223		$	1,067		$	156
Cash used in investing activities	(484		)	(470		)	(14		)
Cash used in financing activities	(306		)	(255		)	(51		)
Effect of foreign exchange on cash and cash equivalents	(8		)	(56		)	48
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	$	425		$	286		$	139

Changes in Cash Flow

Operating Activities. Cash provided by operating activities increased $156 million during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015. The increase was driven by a $281 million increase in net income, partially offset by the settlement of noncurrent operating obligations.

Investing Activities. Cash used in investing activities increased $14 million during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015 primarily driven by a $230 million increase in purchases of short-term investments. This was partially offset by a $214 million increase in proceeds from the sales and maturities of short-term investment during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 as compared to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015.

Financing Activities. Cash used in financing activities increased $51 million during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015 due to a $681 million increase in repurchases of shares of our common stock mainly driven by the repurchase program authorized in February 2016, and $470 million of repayments of our Convertible Notes in connection with conversions of the Convertible Notes prior to maturity. This was offset by (1) $989 million net proceeds from the issuance of Senior Notes during February 2016, (2) a $64 million increase in excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation recognized, and (3) a $47 million increase in proceeds from the exercise of stock options and ESPP.

Short-term Investments

Due to our mix of fixed and variable rate securities, our short-term investment portfolio is susceptible to changes in short-term interest rates. As of March 31, 2016, our short-term investments had gross unrealized gains of $2 million, or less than 1 percent of the total in short-term investments, and gross unrealized losses of less than $1 million, or less than 1 percent of the total in short-term investments. From time to time, we may liquidate some or all of our short-term investments to fund operational needs or other activities, such as capital expenditures, business acquisitions or stock repurchase programs. Depending on which short-term investments we liquidate to fund these activities, we could recognize a portion, or all, of the gross unrealized gains or losses.

Convertible Notes and Convertible Note Hedge

In July 2011, we issued $632.5 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 (the “Convertible Notes”), of which $163 million aggregate principal amount remained outstanding as of March 31, 2016. The Convertible Notes will mature on July 15, 2016, unless purchased earlier or converted in accordance with their terms prior to such date.

The Convertible Notes are convertible at the option of the holder through July 13, 2016. During fiscal year 2016, approximately $497 million principal value of the Convertible Notes were converted by holders thereof. During fiscal year 2016, we repaid $470 million principal balance of the Convertible Notes and issued approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock to noteholders with a fair value of $518 million, resulting in a loss on extinguishment of $10 million. We also received and cancelled approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock from the exercise of the Convertible Note Hedge during fiscal year 2016.

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Subsequent to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 and through May 23, 2016, we received an immaterial amount of conversion requests for the Convertible Notes. During the quarter ending June 30, 2016, we expect to settle conversion requests with $27 million in cash and a number of shares of our common stock equal in value to the excess conversion value. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 0.4 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to converting holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon conversion will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during an observation period following any conversion.

Warrants

We have outstanding Warrants with independent third parties to acquire up to 19.9 million shares of our common stock (which is also equal to the number of shares of our common stock that notionally underlie the Convertible Notes), with a strike price of $41.14. The Warrants have a dilutive effect with respect to our common stock to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds $41.14 on or prior to the expiration date of the Warrants. The Warrants automatically exercises over a 60 trading day period beginning on October 17, 2016. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 7.5 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to Warrant holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon exercise will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during the 60 day trading period beginning on October 17, 2016.

See Note 12 - Financing Arrangements to the Consolidated Financial Statements as it relates to the Convertibles Notes, the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.

Senior Notes

In February 2016, we issued $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.70% Senior Notes due March 1, 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2026 (the “2026 Notes,” and together with the 2021 Notes, the “Senior Notes”). We used the net proceeds of $989 million for general corporate purposes, including the payment of amounts due upon conversion of our Convertible Notes and the repurchase of our common stock, including under the $500 million stock repurchase program approved in February 2016. The effective interest rate was 3.94% for the 2021 Notes and 4.97% for the 2026 Notes. Interest is payable semiannually in arrears, on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2016. See Note 12 - Financing Arrangements to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to our Senior Notes, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.

Credit Facility

In March 19, 2015, we entered into a $500 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of banks. As of March 31, 2016, no amounts were outstanding under the credit facility. See Note 12 - Financing Arrangements to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to our credit facility, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.

Financial Condition

We believe that our cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments, cash generated from operations and available financing facilities will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements for at least the next 12 months, including working capital requirements, capital expenditures, debt repayment obligations, and potentially, future acquisitions, stock repurchases, or strategic investments. We may choose at any time to raise additional capital to repay debt, strengthen our financial position, facilitate expansion, repurchase our stock, pursue strategic acquisitions and investments, and/or to take advantage of business opportunities as they arise. There can be no assurance, however, that such additional capital will be available to us on favorable terms, if at all, or that it will not result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders.

As of March 31, 2016, approximately $2 billion of our cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments were domiciled in foreign tax jurisdictions. While we have no plans to repatriate these funds to the United States in the short term, if we choose to do so, we may be required to accrue and pay additional taxes on any portion of the repatriation where no United States income tax had been previously provided.

In May 2014, a special committee of our Board of Directors, on behalf of the full Board of Directors, authorized a two-year program to repurchase up to $750 million of our common stock. Since inception, we repurchased approximately 9.2 million shares for approximately $394 million under this program.

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In May 2015, our Board of Directors authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of our common stock. This stock repurchase program, which expires on May 31, 2017, supersedes and replaces the stock repurchase authorization approved in May 2014. Under the May 2015 program, we may purchase stock in the open market or through privately-negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws, including pursuant to pre-arranged stock trading plans. The timing and actual amount of the stock repurchases will depend on several factors including price, capital availability, regulatory requirements, alternative investment opportunities and other market conditions. We are not obligated to repurchase any specific number of shares under this program and it may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time.

During fiscal year 2016, we repurchased approximately 1.0 million shares for approximately $57 million under the May 2014 program and we repurchased approximately 6.9 million shares for approximately $461 million under the May 2015 program. We continue to actively repurchase shares under the May 2015 program.

In February 2016, we announced a new $500 million stock repurchase program. This new program was incremental to the existing two-year $1 billion stock repurchase program announced in May 2015. We completed repurchases under the February 2016 program during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. We repurchased approximately 7.8 million shares for approximately $500 million under this new program.

We have a “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 on file with the SEC. This shelf registration statement, which includes a base prospectus, allows us at any time to offer any combination of securities described in the prospectus in one or more offerings. Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement accompanying the base prospectus, we would use the net proceeds from the sale of any securities offered pursuant to the shelf registration statement for general corporate purposes, including for working capital, financing capital expenditures, research and development, marketing and distribution efforts, and if opportunities arise, for acquisitions or strategic alliances. Pending such uses, we may invest the net proceeds in interest-bearing securities. In addition, we may conduct concurrent or other financings at any time.

Our ability to maintain sufficient liquidity could be affected by various risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, those related to customer demand and acceptance of our products, our ability to collect our accounts receivable as they become due, successfully achieving our product release schedules and attaining our forecasted sales objectives, the impact of acquisitions and other strategic transactions in which we may engage, the impact of competition, economic conditions in the United States and abroad, the seasonal and cyclical nature of our business and operating results, risks of product returns and the other risks described in the “Risk Factors” section, included in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to our contractual obligations and commercial commitments is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.

OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS

As of March 31, 2016, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC, that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues and expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, or capital resources that are material to investors.

INFLATION

We believe the impact of inflation on our results of operations has not been significant in any of the past three fiscal years.

Item 7A:     Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

MARKET RISK

We are exposed to various market risks, including changes in foreign currency exchange rates, interest rates and market prices, which have experienced significant volatility. Market risk is the potential loss arising from changes in market rates and market prices. We employ established policies and practices to manage these risks. Foreign currency forward contracts are used to hedge anticipated exposures or mitigate some existing exposures subject to foreign exchange risk as discussed below. While we do not hedge our short-term investment portfolio, we protect our short-term investment portfolio against different market risks, including interest rate risk as discussed below. Our cash and cash equivalents portfolio consists of highly liquid investments

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with insignificant interest rate risk and original or remaining maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase. We do not enter into derivatives or other financial instruments for speculative trading purposes and do not hedge our market price risk relating to marketable equity securities, if any.

Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates. International sales are a fundamental part of our business, and the strengthening of the U.S dollar (particularly relative to the Euro, British pound sterling, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and South Korea won) has a negative impact on our reported international net revenue, but a positive impact on our reported international operating expenses (particularly the Swedish krona and Canadian dollar) because these amounts are translated at lower rates as compared to periods in which the U.S. dollar is weaker. While we use foreign currency hedging contracts to mitigate some foreign currency exchange risk, these activities are limited in the protection that they provide us and can themselves result in losses. Foreign currency exchange rates had a negative impact on our reported net revenue during fiscal year 2016 as compared to fiscal year 2015, but the strengthening of the U.S. dollar had a positive impact on our reported operating expenses as a significant portion of those expenses are incurred outside the United States.

Cash Flow Hedging Activities. From time to time, we hedge a portion of our foreign currency risk related to forecasted foreign-currency-denominated sales and expense transactions by purchasing foreign currency forward contracts that generally have maturities of 18 months or less. These transactions are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges. Our hedging programs are designed to reduce, but do not entirely eliminate, the impact of currency exchange rate movements in net revenue and research and development expenses.

Balance Sheet Hedging Activities. We use foreign currency forward contracts to mitigate foreign currency risk associated with foreign-currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities, primarily intercompany receivables and payables. The foreign currency forward contracts generally have a contractual term of three months or less and are transacted near month-end.

We believe the counterparties to our foreign currency forward contracts are creditworthy multinational commercial banks. While we believe the risk of counterparty nonperformance is not material, a sustained decline in the financial stability of financial institutions as a result of disruption in the financial markets could affect our ability to secure creditworthy counterparties for our foreign currency hedging programs.

Notwithstanding our efforts to mitigate some foreign currency exchange rate risks, there can be no assurance that our hedging activities will adequately protect us against the risks associated with foreign currency fluctuations. As of March 31, 2016, a hypothetical adverse foreign currency exchange rate movement of 10 percent or 20 percent would have resulted in potential declines in the fair value on our foreign currency forward contracts used in cash flow hedging of $83 million and $167 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2016, a hypothetical adverse foreign currency exchange rate movement of 10 percent or 20 percent would have resulted in potential losses on our foreign currency forward contracts used in balance sheet hedging of $27 million and $53 million, respectively. This sensitivity analysis assumes an adverse shift of all foreign currency exchange rates; however, all foreign currency exchange rates do not always move in such manner and actual results may differ materially. See Note 4 - Derivative Financial Instruments to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K as it relates to our derivative financial instruments, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 7A.

Interest Rate Risk

Our exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to our short-term investment portfolio. We manage our interest rate risk by maintaining an investment portfolio generally consisting of debt instruments of high credit quality and relatively short maturities. However, because short-term investments mature relatively quickly and are required to be reinvested at the then-current market rates, interest income on a portfolio consisting of short-term investments is more subject to market fluctuations than a portfolio of longer term investments. Additionally, the contractual terms of the investments do not permit the issuer to call, prepay or otherwise settle the investments at prices less than the stated par value. Our investments are held for purposes other than trading. Also, we do not use derivative financial instruments in our short-term investment portfolio.

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As of March 31, 2016, our short-term investments were classified as available-for-sale securities and, consequently, were recorded at fair value with unrealized gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, in stockholders’ equity.

Notwithstanding our efforts to manage interest rate risks, there can be no assurance that we will be adequately protected against risks associated with interest rate fluctuations. At any time, a sharp change in interest rates could have a significant impact on the fair value of our investment portfolio. The following table presents the hypothetical changes in the fair value of our short-term investment portfolio as of March 31, 2016, arising from potential changes in interest rates. The modeling technique estimates the change in fair value from immediate hypothetical parallel shifts in the yield curve of plus or minus 50 basis points (“BPS”), 100 BPS, and 150 BPS.

(In millions)	Valuation of Securities Given an Interest Rate Decrease of X Basis Points						Fair Value as of March 31, 2016		Valuation of Securities Given an Interest Rate Increase of X Basis Points
	(150 BPS)		(100 BPS)		(50 BPS)				50 BPS		100 BPS		150 BPS
Corporate bonds	$	744	$	741	$	737	$	734	$	730	$	726	$	723
U.S. Treasury securities	399		395		392		390		386		383		380
U.S. agency securities	171		170		169		167		167		166		165
Commercial paper	50		50		50		50		50		50		50
Total short-term investments	$	1,364	$	1,356	$	1,348	$	1,341	$	1,333	$	1,325	$	1,318

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Item 8:     Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

	Page
Consolidated Financial Statements of Electronic Arts Inc. and Subsidiaries:
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2016 and 2015	43
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended March 31, 2016, 2015, and 2014	44
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the Years Ended March 31, 2016, 2015, 2014	45
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the Years Ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014	46
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014	47
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements	48
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm	81
Financial Statement Schedule:
The following financial statement schedule of Electronic Arts Inc. and Subsidiaries for the years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is filed as part of this report and should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements of Electronic Arts Inc. and Subsidiaries:
Schedule II — Valuation and Qualifying Accounts	85

Other financial statement schedules have been omitted because the information called for in them is not required or has already been included in either the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In millions, except par value data)	March 31, 2016			March 31, 2015
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,493		$	2,068
Short-term investments	1,341			953
Receivables, net of allowances of $159 and $140, respectively	233			362
Inventories	33			36
Deferred income taxes, net	—			54
Other current assets	254			247
Total current assets	4,354			3,720
Property and equipment, net	439			459
Goodwill	1,710			1,713
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	57			111
Deferred income taxes, net	387			13
Other assets	103			131
TOTAL ASSETS	$	7,050		$	6,147
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	89		$	68
Accrued and other current liabilities	710			794
0.75% convertible senior notes due 2016, net	161			602
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	1,458			1,283
Total current liabilities	2,418			2,747
Senior notes, net	989			—
Income tax obligations	80			70
Deferred income taxes, net	2			80
Other liabilities	163			183
Total liabilities	3,652			3,080
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 13)
0.75% convertible senior notes due 2016 (See Note 12)	2			31
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value. 10 shares authorized	—			—
Common stock, $0.01 par value. 1,000 shares authorized; 301 and 310 shares issued and outstanding, respectively	3			3
Additional paid-in capital	1,349			2,127
Retained earnings	2,060			904
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	(16		)	2
Total stockholders’ equity	3,396			3,036
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY	$	7,050		$	6,147

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions, except per share data)	2016			2015			2014
Net revenue:
Product	$	2,497		$	2,568		$	2,134
Service and other	1,899			1,947			1,441
Total net revenue	4,396			4,515			3,575
Cost of revenue:
Product	938			1,028			1,032
Service and other	416			401			315
Total cost of revenue	1,354			1,429			1,347
Gross profit	3,042			3,086			2,228
Operating expenses:
Research and development	1,109			1,094			1,125
Marketing and sales	622			647			680
General and administrative	406			386			410
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—			(3		)	(35		)
Amortization of intangibles	7			14			16
Restructuring and other charges	—			—			(1		)
Total operating expenses	2,144			2,138			2,195
Operating income	898			948			33
Interest and other income (expense), net	(21		)	(23		)	(26		)
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	877			925			7
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes	(279		)	50			(1		)
Net income	$	1,156		$	875		$	8
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	3.73		$	2.81		$	0.03
Diluted	$	3.50		$	2.69		$	0.03
Number of shares used in computation:
Basic	310			311			308
Diluted	330			325			316

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions)	2016			2015			2014
Net income	$	1,156		$	875		$	8
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Change in unrealized net gains and losses on available-for-sale securities	4			1			—
Reclassification adjustment for net realized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities	—			—			—
Change in unrealized net gains and losses on derivative instruments	5			20			(19		)
Reclassification adjustment for net realized gains and losses on derivative instruments	(12		)	11			9
Foreign currency translation adjustments	(15		)	(67		)	(22		)
Total other comprehensive loss, net of tax	(18		)	(35		)	(32		)
Total comprehensive income (loss)	$	1,138		$	840		$	(24	)

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(In millions, share data in thousands)

	Common Stock				Additional Paid-in Capital			Retained Earnings		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)			Total Stockholders’ Equity
	Shares		Amount
Balances as of March 31, 2013	302,164		$	3	$	2,174		$	21	$	69		$	2,267
Total comprehensive income (loss)	—		—		—			8		(32		)	(24		)
Issuance of common stock	9,278		—		16			—		—			16
Stock-based compensation	—		—		150			—		—			150
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	—		—		13			—		—			13
Balances as of March 31, 2014	311,442		3		2,353			29		37			2,422
Total comprehensive income (loss)	—		—		—			875		(35		)	840
Issuance of common stock	6,508		—		(24		)	—		—			(24		)
Reclassification of equity component of convertible notes	—		—		(31		)	—		—			(31		)
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	(8,269	)	—		(337		)	—		—			(337		)
Stock-based compensation	—		—		144			—		—			144
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	—		—		22			—		—			22
Balances as of March 31, 2015	309,681		3		2,127			904		2			3,036
Total comprehensive income (loss)	—		—		—			1,156		(18		)	1,138
Issuance of common stock	6,645		—		(49		)	—		—			(49		)
Reclassification of equity component of convertible notes	—		—		29			—		—			29
Settlement of convertible notes	7,823		—		(1		)	—		—			(1		)
Exercise of convertible note hedge	(7,823	)	—		—			—		—			—
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	(15,724	)	—		(1,018		)	—		—			(1,018		)
Stock-based compensation	—		—		178			—		—			178
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	—		—		83			—		—			83
Balances as of March 31, 2016	300,602		$	3	$	1,349		$	2,060	$	(16	)	$	3,396

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions)	2016			2015			2014
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net income	$	1,156		$	875		$	8
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization and accretion	197			220			227
Loss on conversion of convertible notes	10			—			—
Stock-based compensation	178			144			150
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—			(3		)	(35		)
Net losses on investments	—			—			2
Change in assets and liabilities:
Receivables, net	127			(54		)	(12		)
Inventories	3			19			(13		)
Other assets	19			87			(56		)
Accounts payable	13			(46		)	(18		)
Accrued and other liabilities	(252		)	31			(3		)
Deferred income taxes, net	(403		)	1			16
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	175			(207		)	446
Net cash provided by operating activities	1,223			1,067			712
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital expenditures	(93		)	(95		)	(97		)
Proceeds from maturities and sales of short-term investments	941			727			401
Purchase of short-term investments	(1,332		)	(1,102		)	(600		)
Acquisition of subsidiaries, net of cash acquired	—			—			(5		)
Net cash used in investing activities	(484		)	(470		)	(301		)
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from issuance of senior notes, net of issuance costs	989			—			—
Payment of convertible notes	(470		)	—			—
Proceeds from issuance of common stock	107			60			77
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation	86			22			13
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	(1,018		)	(337		)	—
Acquisition-related contingent consideration payment	—			—			(1		)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	(306		)	(255		)	89
Effect of foreign exchange on cash and cash equivalents	(8		)	(56		)	(10		)
Increase in cash and cash equivalents	425			286			490
Beginning cash and cash equivalents	2,068			1,782			1,292
Ending cash and cash equivalents	$	2,493		$	2,068		$	1,782
Supplemental cash flow information:
Cash paid during the year for income taxes, net	$	35		$	2		$	29
Cash paid during the year for interest	$	4		$	6		$	6

See accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1)  DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

We are a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. We develop, market, publish and distribute games, content and services that can be played by consumers on a variety of platforms, which include consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony, and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. Some of our games are based on our wholly-owned intellectual property (e.g., Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, The Sims and Plants vs. Zombies), and some of our games leverage content that we license from others (e.g., FIFA, Madden NFL and Star Wars). We also publish and distribute games developed by third parties (e.g., Titanfall). Our products and services may be purchased through multiple distribution channels, including physical and online retailers, platform providers such as console manufacturers, providers of free-to-download PC games, mobile carriers and directly through Origin, our own digital distribution platform.

A summary of our significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements follows:

Consolidation

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Electronic Arts Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Fiscal Year

Our fiscal year is reported on a 52- or 53-week period that ends on the Saturday nearest March 31. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 contained 53 weeks and ended on April 2, 2016. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 contained 52 weeks each and ended on March 28, 2015 and March 29, 2014, respectively. For simplicity of disclosure, all fiscal periods are referred to as ending on a calendar month end.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Such estimates include sales returns and allowances, provisions for doubtful accounts, accrued liabilities, offering periods for deferred net revenue, multiple-element arrangements, income taxes, losses on royalty commitments, estimates regarding the recoverability of prepaid royalties, inventories, long-lived assets, assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations, certain estimates related to the measurement and recognition of costs resulting from our stock-based payment awards, deferred income tax assets and associated valuation allowances, as well as estimates used in our goodwill, intangibles and short-term investment impairment tests. These estimates generally involve complex issues and require us to make judgments, involve analysis of historical and future trends, can require extended periods of time to resolve, and are subject to change from period to period. In all cases, actual results could differ materially from our estimates.

Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments

Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with insignificant interest rate risk and original or remaining maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase.

Short-term investments consist of securities with original or remaining maturities of greater than three months at the time of purchase, are accounted for as available-for-sale securities and are recorded at fair value. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are available for use in current operations or other activities such as capital expenditures, business combinations and share repurchases.

Unrealized gains and losses on our short-term investments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity, net of tax, until either (1) the security is sold, (2) the security has matured, or (3) we determine that the fair value of the security has declined below its adjusted cost basis and the decline is other-than-temporary. Realized gains and losses on our short-term investments are calculated based on the specific identification method and are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest and other income (expense), net, or gains on strategic investments, net. Determining whether a decline in fair value is other-than-temporary requires management judgment based on the specific facts and circumstances of each security. The ultimate value realized on these securities is subject to market price volatility until they are sold.

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Our short-term investments are evaluated for impairment quarterly. We consider various factors in determining whether we should recognize an impairment charge, including the credit quality of the issuer, the duration that the fair value has been less than the adjusted cost basis, severity of the impairment, reason for the decline in value and potential recovery period, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investees, our intent to sell and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value, and any contractual terms impacting the prepayment or settlement process. If we conclude that an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired, we recognize an impairment charge at that time in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Based on our evaluation, we did not consider any of our investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired as of March 31, 2016 and 2015.

Inventories

Inventories consist of materials (including manufacturing royalties paid to console manufacturers), labor and freight-in and are stated at the lower of cost (using the weighted average costing method) or net realizable value. We regularly review inventory quantities on-hand. We write down inventory based on excess or obsolete inventories determined primarily by future anticipated demand for our products. Inventory write-downs are measured as the difference between the cost of the inventory and market value, based upon assumptions about future demand that are inherently difficult to assess. At the point of a loss recognition, a new, lower cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established basis.

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net, are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the following useful lives:

Buildings	20 to 25 years
Computer equipment and software	3 to 6 years
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	3 to 5 years
Leasehold improvements	Lesser of the lease term or the estimated useful lives of the improvements, generally 1 to 10 years

We capitalize costs associated with internal-use software development once a project has reached the application development stage. Such capitalized costs include external direct costs utilized in developing or obtaining the software, and payroll and payroll-related expenses for employees who are directly associated with the development of the software. Capitalization of such costs begins when the preliminary project stage is complete and ceases at the point in which the project is substantially complete and is ready for its intended purpose. The net book value of capitalized costs associated with internal-use software was $55 million and $62 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Once the internal-use software is ready for its intended use, the assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over each asset’s estimated useful life, which is generally three years.

Acquisition-Related Intangibles and Other Long-Lived Assets

We record acquisition-related intangible assets, such as developed and core technology, in connection with business combinations. We amortize the cost of acquisition-related intangible assets that have finite useful lives on a straight-line basis over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or the agreement terms, typically from two to fourteen years. We evaluate acquisition-related intangibles and other long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset group. This includes assumptions about future prospects for the business that the asset relates to and typically involves computations of the estimated future cash flows to be generated by these businesses. Based on these judgments and assumptions, we determine whether we need to take an impairment charge to reduce the value of the asset stated on our Consolidated Balance Sheets to reflect its estimated fair value. When we consider such assets to be impaired, the amount of impairment we recognize is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value. There were no material impairments in fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014.

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Goodwill

In assessing impairment on our goodwill, we first analyze qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test. The qualitative factors we assess include long-term prospects of our performance, share price trends and market capitalization, and Company specific events. If we conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, we do not need to perform the two-step impairment test. If based on that assessment, we believe it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, a two-step goodwill impairment test will be performed. The first step measures for impairment by applying fair value-based tests at the reporting unit level. The second step (if necessary) measures the amount of impairment by applying fair value-based tests to the individual assets and liabilities within each reporting unit. Reporting units are determined by the components of operating segments that constitute a business for which (1) discrete financial information is available, (2) segment management regularly reviews the operating results of that component, and (3) whether the component has dissimilar economic characteristics to other components. We determined that it was more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount and, as such, we did not need to perform the two-step impairment test.

During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, we completed our annual goodwill impairment testing in the fourth quarter of each year and did not recognize any impairment charges.

Revenue Recognition, Sales Returns and Allowances, and Bad Debt Reserves

We derive revenue principally from sales of interactive software games, and related content (e.g., micro-transactions) and services on consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. We evaluate revenue recognition based on the criteria set forth in FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605, Revenue Recognition and ASC 985-605, Software: Revenue Recognition. We classify our revenue as either product revenue or service and other revenue.

Product revenue. Our product revenue includes revenue associated with the sale of software games or related content, whether delivered via a physical disc (e.g., packaged goods) or delivered digitally (e.g., full-game downloads, extra-content), and licensing of game software to third-parties. Product revenue also includes revenue from mobile full game downloads that do not require our hosting support (e.g., premium mobile games) in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e. can be played with or without an Internet connection), and sales of tangible products such as hardware, peripherals, or collectors’ items.

Service and other revenue. Our service revenue includes revenue recognized from time-based subscriptions and games or related content that requires our hosting support in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e., can only be played with an Internet connection). This includes (1) entitlements to content that are accessed through hosting services (e.g., micro-transactions for Internet-based, social network and free-to-download mobile games), (2) massively multi-player online (“MMO”) games (both software game and subscription sales), (3) subscriptions for our Battlefield Premium, EA Access, and Pogo-branded online game services, and (4) allocated service revenue from sales of software games with an online service element (i.e., “matchmaking” service). Our other revenue includes advertising and non-software licensing revenue.

With respect to the allocated service revenue from sales of software games with a matchmaking service mentioned above, our allocation of proceeds between product and service revenue for presentation purposes is based on management’s best estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service with the residual value allocated to product revenue. Our estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service is comprised of several factors including, but not limited to, prior selling prices for the matchmaking service, prices charged separately by other third-party vendors for similar service offerings, and a cost-plus-margin approach. We review the estimated selling price of the online matchmaking service on a regular basis and use this methodology consistently to allocate revenue between product and service for software game sales with a matchmaking service.

We evaluate and recognize revenue when all four of the following criteria are met:

• Evidence of an arrangement. Evidence of an agreement with the customer that reflects the terms and conditions to deliver the related products or services must be present.

• Fixed or determinable fee. If a portion of the arrangement fee is not fixed or determinable, we recognize revenue as the amount becomes fixed or determinable.

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• Collection is deemed probable. Collection is deemed probable if we expect the customer to be able to pay amounts under the arrangement as those amounts become due. If we determine that collection is not probable as the amounts become due, we generally conclude that collection becomes probable upon cash collection.

• Delivery. For packaged goods, delivery is considered to occur when a product is shipped and the risk of loss and rewards of ownership have transferred to the customer. For digital downloads, delivery is considered to occur when the software is made available to the customer for download. For services and other, delivery is generally considered to occur as the service is delivered, which is determined based on the underlying service obligation. If there is significant uncertainty of acceptance, revenue is recognized once acceptance is reasonably assured.

Online-Enabled Games

The majority of our software games and related content have online connectivity whereby a consumer may be able to download unspecified content or updates on a when-and-if-available basis (“unspecified updates”) for use with the original game software. In addition, we may also offer an online matchmaking service that permits consumers to play against each other via the Internet without a separate fee. U.S. GAAP requires us to account for the consumer’s right to receive unspecified updates or the matchmaking service for no additional fee as a “bundled” sale, or multiple-element arrangement.

We have an established historical pattern of providing unspecified updates (e.g., player roster updates to Madden NFL 16) to online-enabled games and related content at no additional charge to the consumer. We do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for these unspecified updates, and thus, as required by U.S. GAAP, we recognize revenue from the sale of these online-enabled games and related content over the period we expect to offer the unspecified updates to the consumer (“estimated offering period”).

Other Multiple-Element Arrangements

In some of our multiple-element arrangements, we sell tangible products with software and/or software-related offerings. These tangible products are generally either peripherals or ancillary collectors’ items, such as figurines and comic books. Revenue for these arrangements is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each deliverable using the relative selling prices of each deliverable in the arrangement based on the selling price hierarchy described below. If the arrangement contains more than one software deliverable, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the software deliverables as a group and then allocated to each software deliverable.

We determine the selling price for a tangible product deliverable based on the following selling price hierarchy: VSOE (i.e., the price we charge when the tangible product is sold separately) if available, third-party evidence (“TPE”) of fair value (i.e., the price charged by others for similar tangible products) if VSOE is not available, or our best estimate of selling price (“BESP”) if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. Determining the BESP is a subjective process that is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, recent selling prices and related discounts, market conditions, customer classes, sales channels and other factors. Provided the other three revenue recognition criteria other than delivery have been met, we recognize revenue upon delivery to the customer as we have no further obligations.

Principal Agent Considerations

We evaluate sales of our interactive software games via third party storefronts, including digital storefronts such as Microsoft’s Xbox Games Store, Sony PSN, Apple App Store, and Google Play, in order to determine whether or not we are acting as the primary obligor in the sale to the end consumer, which we consider in determining if revenue should be reported gross or net of fees retained by the storefront. Key indicators that we evaluate in determining gross versus net treatment include but are not limited to the following:

• The party responsible for delivery/fulfillment of the product or service to the end consumer

• The party responsible for the billing, collection of fees and refunds to the consumer

• The storefront and Terms of Sale that govern the consumer’s purchase of the product or service

• The party that sets the pricing with the consumer and has credit risk

Based on evaluation of the above indicators, we have determined that generally the third party is considered the primary obligor to end consumers for the sale of our interactive software games. We therefore report revenue related to these arrangements net of the fees retained by the storefront.

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Sales Returns and Allowances and Bad Debt Reserves

We reduce revenue for estimated future returns and price protection which may occur with our distributors and retailers (“channel partners”). Price protection represents our practice to provide our channel partners with a credit allowance to lower their wholesale price on a particular product that they have not resold to end consumers. The amount of the price protection is generally the difference between the old wholesale price and the new reduced wholesale price. In certain countries for our PC and console packaged goods software products, we also have a practice of allowing channel partners to return older software products in the channel in exchange for a credit allowance. As a general practice, we do not give cash refunds.

Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities

Taxes assessed by a government authority that are both imposed on and concurrent with specific revenue transactions between us and our customers are presented on a net basis in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Concentration of Credit Risk, Significant Customers, Franchises and Channel Partners

We extend credit to various retailers and channel partners. Collection of trade receivables may be affected by changes in economic or other industry conditions and may, accordingly, impact our overall credit risk. Although we generally do not require collateral, we perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers and maintain reserves for potential credit losses. Invoices are aged based on contractual terms with our customers. The provision for doubtful accounts is recorded as a charge to general and administrative expense when a potential loss is identified. Losses are written off against the allowance when the receivable is determined to be uncollectible. At March 31, 2016, we had two customers who accounted for approximately 26 percent and 24 percent of our consolidated gross receivables. At March 31, 2015, we had two customers who accounted for 26 percent and 10 percent of our consolidated gross receivables.

A majority of our sales are made to major retailers, distributors, and digital resellers. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 62 percent of our net revenue was derived from our top ten customers. Though our products and services are available to consumers through a variety of retailers and directly through us, the concentration of our sales in one, or a few, large customers could lead to a short-term disruption in our sales if one or more retailers or distributors significantly reduced their purchases or ceased to carry our products and services, and could make us more vulnerable to collection risk if one or more of these large customers became unable to pay for our products or declared bankruptcy.

A significant portion of our revenue has historically been derived from games and services based on a few popular franchises. For example, in fiscal year 2016, net revenue generated from the sale of products and services associated with our three largest franchises accounted for approximately 55 percent of our net revenue.

Currently, a majority of our revenue is derived through sales of products and services on hardware consoles from Sony and Microsoft. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, our net revenue for products and services on Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and One consoles (combined across all four platforms) was 67 percent, 66 percent, and 55 percent, respectively. These platform partners have significant influence over the products and services that we offer on their platforms. Our agreements with Sony and Microsoft typically give significant control to them over the approval, manufacturing and distribution of our products and services, which could, in certain circumstances, leave us unable to get our products and services approved, manufactured and provided to customers.

Short-term investments are placed with high quality financial institutions or in short-duration, investment-grade securities. We limit the amount of credit exposure in any one financial institution or type of investment instrument.

Royalties and Licenses

Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue generally at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and

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therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

Advertising Costs

We generally expense advertising costs as incurred, except for production costs associated with media campaigns, which are recognized as prepaid assets (to the extent paid in advance) and expensed at the first run of the advertisement. Cooperative advertising costs are recognized when incurred and are included in marketing and sales expense if there is a separate identifiable benefit for which we can reasonably estimate the fair value of the benefit identified. Otherwise, they are recognized as a reduction of revenue and are generally accrued when revenue is recognized. We then reimburse the channel partner when qualifying claims are submitted.

We are also reimbursed by our vendors for certain advertising costs incurred by us that benefit our vendors. Such amounts are recognized as a reduction of marketing and sales expense if the advertising (1) is specific to the vendor, (2) represents an identifiable benefit to us, and (3) represents an incremental cost to us. Otherwise, vendor reimbursements are recognized as a reduction of the cost incurred with the same vendor. Vendor reimbursements of advertising costs of $51 million, $43 million, and $66 million reduced marketing and sales expense for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, advertising expense, net of vendor reimbursements, totaled approximately $240 million, $228 million, and $217 million, respectively.

Software Development Costs

Research and development costs, which consist primarily of software development costs, are expensed as incurred. We are required to capitalize software development costs incurred for computer software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed after technological feasibility of the software is established or for development costs that have alternative future uses. Under our current practice of developing new games, the technological feasibility of the underlying software is not established until substantially all product development and testing is complete, which generally includes the development of a working model. The software development costs that have been capitalized to date have been insignificant.

Foreign Currency Translation

For each of our foreign operating subsidiaries, the functional currency is generally its local currency. Assets and liabilities of foreign operations are translated into U.S. dollars using month-end exchange rates, and revenue and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars using average exchange rates. The effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity.

Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are a result of the effect of exchange rate changes on transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency. Net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of $(14) million, $(62) million, and $4 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively, are included in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. These net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) are partially offset by net gains (losses) on our foreign currency forward contracts of $15 million, $59 million, and $(5) million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. See Note 4 for additional information on our foreign currency forward contracts.

Income Taxes

We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for both the expected impact of differences between the financial statement amount and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and for the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax losses and tax credit carryforwards. We record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets when it is considered more likely than not that all or a portion of our deferred tax assets will not be realized. In making this determination, we are required to give significant weight to evidence that can be objectively verified. It is generally difficult to conclude that a valuation allowance is not needed when there is significant negative evidence, such as cumulative losses in recent years. Forecasts of future taxable income are considered to be less objective than past results. Therefore, cumulative losses weigh heavily in the overall assessment.

In addition to considering forecasts of future taxable income, we are also required to evaluate and quantify other possible sources of taxable income in order to assess the realization of our deferred tax assets, namely the reversal of existing deferred tax liabilities, the carry back of losses and credits as allowed under current tax law, and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Evaluating and quantifying these amounts involves significant judgments. Each source of income must be evaluated based on all positive and negative evidence; this evaluation involves assumptions about future activity. Certain taxable

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temporary differences that are not expected to reverse during the carry forward periods permitted by tax law cannot be considered as a source of future taxable income that may be available to realize the benefit of deferred tax assets.

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Topic 835-30), which requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by this ASU. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-15, which clarified that debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements could continue to be presented as an asset and be subsequently amortized over the term of the line-of-credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings on the arrangement. We early adopted ASU 2015-03 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and reclassified $9 million of debt issuance costs as a contra-liability at March 31, 2016. We assessed the impact on prior periods in accordance with the retrospective application requirement and determined that debt issuance costs were immaterial at March 31, 2015, thus no adjustments were made to March 31, 2015 balance sheet.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, Inventory (Topic 330), which requires entities to measure inventory at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Current guidance requires inventory to be measured at the lower of cost or market, with market defined as replacement cost, net realizable value, or net realizable value less a normal profit margin. This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventory by replacing the lower of cost or market test with a lower of cost or net realizable value test. We early adopted ASU 2015-11 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. The adoption did not have an impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740). The amendments in this ASU require that all deferred income tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in a classified statement of financial position. We early adopted ASU 2015-07 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and elected prospective application. As a result of the adoption, we reclassified $53 million of deferred tax assets from current to noncurrent at March 31, 2016. As this ASU only impacted presentation, it did not have an impact on our net financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Topic 350-40). The amendments of this ASU will help entities evaluate the accounting for fees paid by a customer in a cloud computing arrangement by providing guidance as to whether an arrangement includes the sale or license of software. The requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendment may be adopted either prospectively to all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date or retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, related to simplifications of employee share-based payment accounting. This pronouncement eliminates the APIC pool concept and requires that excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement when awards are settled. The pronouncement also addresses simplifications related to statement of cash flows classification, accounting for forfeitures, and minimum statutory tax withholding requirements. The pronouncement is effective for annual periods (and for interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2016. We are currently evaluating the timing and the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently

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evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. This new revenue standard, as amended by ASU 2015-14, is effective in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard on assessing whether an entity is a principal or an agent in a revenue transaction. This conclusion impacts whether an entity reports revenue on a gross or net basis. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard regarding an entity’s identification of its performance obligations in a contract, as well as an entity’s evaluation of the nature of its promise to grant a license of intellectual property and whether or not that revenue is recognized over time or at a point in time. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. which amends the guidance in the new revenue standard on collectibility, noncash consideration, presentation of sales tax, and transition. The amendments are intended to address implementation issues that were raised by stakeholders and provide additional practical expedients to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the new revenue standard. These amendments have the same effective date as the new revenue standard. While we are currently evaluating the method of adoption and the impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures, we believe the adoption of the new standard may have a significant impact on the accounting for certain transactions with multiple elements or “bundled” arrangements (for example, sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified future updates) because the requirement to have VSOE for undelivered elements under current accounting standards is eliminated under the new standard. Accordingly, we may be required to recognize as revenue a portion of the sales price upon delivery of the software, as compared to the current requirement of recognizing the entire sales price ratably over an estimated offering period. While we are still evaluating the total impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, we believe adoption of this new standard will have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The FASB issued this update to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

(2)  FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

There are various valuation techniques used to estimate fair value, the primary one being the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and consider assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability. We measure certain financial and nonfinancial assets and liabilities at fair value on a recurring and nonrecurring basis.

Fair Value Hierarchy

The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

• Level 1. Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

• Level 2. Observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets), or model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable or can be derived principally from or corroborated with observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

• Level 3. Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of assets or liabilities.

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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, our assets and liabilities that were measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis were as follows (in millions):

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2016		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	345	$	345	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	143		143		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	745		—		745		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	407		407		—		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. agency securities	170		—		170		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	81		—		81		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	16		—		16		—		Other current assets and other assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	8		8		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,915	$	903	$	1,012	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	10		—		10		—		Accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	19	$	9	$	10	$	—

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2015		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	175	$	175	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	7		7		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	468		—		468		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	214		214		—		—		Short-term investments
U.S. agency securities	180		—		180		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	140		—		140		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	18		—		18		—		Other current assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	9		9		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,211	$	405	$	806	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	9		—		9		—		Accrued and other current liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	18	$	9	$	9	$	—

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(a) The Deferred Compensation Plan assets consist of various mutual funds. See Note 15 for additional information regarding our Deferred Compensation Plan.

(3)  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Cash and Cash Equivalents

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, our cash and cash equivalents were $2,493 million and $2,068 million, respectively. Cash equivalents were valued at their carrying amounts as they approximate fair value due to the short maturities of these financial instruments.

Short-Term Investments

Short-term investments consisted of the following as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016								As of March 31, 2015
	Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value		Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value
			Gains		Losses						Gains		Losses
Corporate bonds	$	733	$	1	$	—	$	734	$	467	$	—	$	—	$	467
U.S. Treasury securities	389		1		—		390		214		—		—		214
U.S. agency securities	167		—		—		167		161		1		—		162
Commercial paper	50		—		—		50		110		—		—		110
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	2	$	—	$	1,341	$	952	$	1	$	—	$	953

The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of our short-term investments, classified by stated maturity as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016				As of March 31, 2015
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
Short-term investments
Due in 1 year or less	$	571	$	571	$	417	$	417
Due in 1-2 years	461		462		281		281
Due in 2-3 years	295		296		244		245
Due in 3-4 years	12		12		10		10
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	1,341	$	952	$	953

(4)  DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The assets or liabilities associated with our derivative instruments and hedging activities are recorded at fair value in other current assets/other assets, or accrued and other current liabilities/other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. As discussed below, the accounting for gains and losses resulting from changes in fair value depends on the use of the derivative instrument and whether it is designated and qualifies for hedge accounting.

We transact business in various foreign currencies and have significant international sales and expenses denominated in foreign currencies, subjecting us to foreign currency risk. We purchase foreign currency forward contracts, generally with maturities of 18 months or less, to reduce the volatility of cash flows primarily related to forecasted revenue and expenses denominated in certain foreign currencies. Our cash flow risks are primarily related to fluctuations in the Euro, British pound sterling, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and South Korean won. In addition, we utilize foreign currency forward contracts to mitigate foreign exchange rate risk associated with foreign-currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities, primarily intercompany receivables and payables. The foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments generally have a contractual term of approximately 3 months or less and are transacted near month-end. We do not use foreign currency forward contracts for speculative trading purposes.

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Cash Flow Hedging Activities

Certain of our forward contracts are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges. The effectiveness of the cash flow hedge contracts, including time value, is assessed monthly using regression analysis, as well as other timing and probability criteria. To qualify for hedge accounting treatment, all hedging relationships are formally documented at the inception of the hedges and must be highly effective in offsetting changes to future cash flows on hedged transactions. The derivative assets or liabilities associated with our hedging activities are recorded at fair value in other current assets/other assets, or accrued and other current liabilities/other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The effective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in the fair value of these hedges is initially reported, net of tax, as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity. The gross amount of the effective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in the fair value of these hedges is subsequently reclassified into net revenue or research and development expenses, as appropriate, in the period when the forecasted transaction is recognized in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. In the event that the gains or losses in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) are deemed to be ineffective, the ineffective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value, if any, is reclassified to interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. In the event that the underlying forecasted transactions do not occur, or it becomes remote that they will occur, within the defined hedge period, the gains or losses on the related cash flow hedges are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives with cash flow hedge accounting designation are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	148	$	5	$	1	$	108	$	—	$	8
Forward contracts to sell	$	685	$	11	$	9	$	508	$	18	$	1

The net impact of the effective portion of gains and losses from our cash flow hedging activities in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 was a gain of $12 million and a loss of $11 million and $9 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

During fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, we reclassified an immaterial amount of the ineffective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value into interest and other income (expense), net.

The amount excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness during fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 and recognized in interest and other income (expense), net, was immaterial.

Balance Sheet Hedging Activities

Our foreign currency forward contracts that are not designated as hedging instruments are accounted for as derivatives whereby the fair value of the contracts are reported as other current assets or accrued and other current liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, and gains and losses resulting from changes in the fair value are reported in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The gains and losses on these foreign currency forward contracts generally offset the gains and losses in the underlying foreign-currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities, which are also reported in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The fair value of our foreign currency forward contracts was measured using Level 2 inputs.

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives that are not designated as hedging instruments are accounted for as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	108	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	—
Forward contracts to sell	$	159	$	—	$	—	$	173	$	—	$	—

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The effect of foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, was as follows (in millions):

	Statement of Operations Classification	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Statement of Operations
		Year Ended March 31,
		2016		2015		2014
Foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments	Interest and other  income (expense), net	$	16	$	58	$	(5	)

(5) ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

The changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component, net of tax, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Available-for-Sale Securities			Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments			Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	(4	)	$	—		$	73		$	69
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	—			(19		)	(22		)	(41		)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	—			9			—			9
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	—			(10		)	(22		)	(32		)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	(4	)	$	(10	)	$	51		$	37
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	1		$	20		$	(67	)	$	(46	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			11			—			11
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	1			31			(67		)	(35		)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	(3		)	21			(16		)	2
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	4		$	5		$	(15	)	$	(6	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			(12		)	—			(12		)
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	4			(7		)	(15		)	(18		)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	1			14			(31		)	(16		)

The effects on net income of amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

Statement of Operations Classification	Amount Reclassified From Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
(Gains) losses on cash flow hedges from forward contracts
Net revenue	(23		)	(2		)	7
Research and development	11			13			2
Total amount reclassified, net of tax	$	(12	)	$	11		$	9

(6)  BUSINESS COMBINATIONS

There were no acquisitions during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016 and 2015. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, we completed one acquisition that did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

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(7) GOODWILL AND ACQUISITION-RELATED INTANGIBLES, NET

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2015			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2016
Goodwill	$	2,081		$	—	$	(3	)	$	2,078
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,713		$	—	$	(3	)	$	1,710

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2014			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2015
Goodwill	$	2,091		$	—	$	(10	)	$	2,081
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,723		$	—	$	(10	)	$	1,713

Acquisition-related intangibles, consisted of the following (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016							As of March 31, 2015
	Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net
Developed and core technology	$	412	$	(368	)	$	44	$	531	$	(439	)	$	92
Trade names and trademarks	106		(93		)	13		130		(111		)	19
Registered user base and other intangibles	5		(5		)	—		87		(87		)	—
Carrier contracts and related	85		(85		)	—		85		(85		)	—
Total	$	608	$	(551	)	$	57	$	833	$	(722	)	$	111

During fiscal year 2016, we retired $225 million gross carrying amount of fully-amortized intangible assets. Amortization of intangibles for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are classified in the Consolidated Statement of Operations as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of service and other	$	33	$	36	$	27
Cost of product	14		16		33
Operating expenses	7		14		16
Total	$	54	$	66	$	76

Acquisition-related intangible assets are amortized using the straight-line method over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or the agreement terms, typically from 2 to 14 years. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, the weighted-average remaining useful life for acquisition-related intangible assets was approximately 1.6 years and 2.8 years for each period, respectively.

As of March 31, 2016, future amortization of acquisition-related intangibles that will be recorded in the Consolidated Statement of Operations is estimated as follows (in millions):

Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
2017	38
2018	17
2019	2
Total	$	57

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(8) RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES

Restructuring and other restructuring plan-related information as of March 31, 2016 was as follows (in millions):

	Fiscal  2011 Restructuring			Other Restructurings and Reorganization
	Other			Facilities- related			Other			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	57		$	4		$	1		$	62
Charges to operations	(2		)	1			—			$	(1	)
Charges settled in cash	(8		)	(3		)	—			$	(11	)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	47		$	2		$	1		$	50
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(36		)	(1		)	(1		)	$	(38	)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	$	11		$	1		$	—		$	12
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(11		)	(1		)	—			$	(12	)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—

Fiscal 2011 Restructuring

In fiscal year 2011, we announced a plan focused on the restructuring of certain licensing and developer agreements in an effort to improve the long-term profitability of our packaged goods business. Under this plan, we amended certain licensing and developer agreements. To a much lesser extent, as part of this restructuring, we had workforce reductions and facilities closures through March 31, 2011. Substantially all of these exit activities were completed by March 31, 2011.

Since the inception of the fiscal 2011 restructuring plan through March 31, 2015, we have incurred charges of $172 million, consisting of (1) $129 million related to the amendment of certain licensing agreements and other intangible asset impairment costs, (2) $31 million related to the amendment of certain developer agreements, and (3) $12 million in employee-related expenses. We do not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges under this plan. As of March 31, 2016, we have settled all accruals under this restructuring plan.

Other Restructurings and Reorganization

We also engaged in various other restructurings and a reorganization based on management decisions made in fiscal years 2013 and 2009. We do not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges under these plans. Substantially all of the accruals under these restructuring plans have been settled by March 31, 2016.

(9) ROYALTIES AND LICENSES

Our royalty expenses consist of payments to (1) content licensors, (2) independent software developers, and (3) co-publishing and distribution affiliates. License royalties consist of payments made to celebrities, professional sports organizations, movie studios and other organizations for our use of their trademarks, copyrights, personal publicity rights, content and/or other intellectual property. Royalty payments to independent software developers are payments for the development of intellectual property related to our games. Co-publishing and distribution royalties are payments made to third parties for the delivery of products.

Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums. Prepayments made to thinly capitalized independent software developers and co-publishing affiliates are generally made in connection with the development of a particular product, and therefore, we are generally subject to development risk prior to the release of the product. Accordingly, payments that are due prior to completion of a product are generally expensed to research and development over the development period as the services are incurred. Payments due after completion of the product (primarily royalty-based in nature) are generally expensed as cost of revenue.

Our contracts with some licensors include minimum guaranteed royalty payments, which are initially recorded as an asset and as a liability at the contractual amount when no performance remains with the licensor. When performance remains with the licensor, we record guarantee payments as an asset when actually paid and as a liability when incurred, rather than recording the asset and liability upon execution of the contract. Prepaid royalties are classified as current assets to the extent that such

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amounts will be recognized in our Consolidated Statements of Operations within the next 12 months. Royalty liabilities are classified as current liabilities to the extent such royalty payments are contractually due within the next 12 months.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

During fiscal year 2016, we did not recognize any losses or impairment charges on royalty-based commitments. During the fiscal year 2015, we recognized a loss of $122 million on a previously unrecognized licensed intellectual property commitment. The $122 million loss related to the termination of certain rights we previously had to use a licensor’s intellectual property. In addition, because the loss will be paid in installments through March 2022, our accrued loss was computed using the effective interest method. We currently estimate recognizing in future periods through March 2022, approximately $22 million for the accretion of interest expense related to this obligation. This interest expense will be included in cost of revenue in our Consolidated Statement of Operations.

The current and long-term portions of prepaid royalties and minimum guaranteed royalty-related assets, included in other current assets and other assets, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other current assets	$	54	$	70
Other assets	63		59
Royalty-related assets	$	117	$	129

At any given time, depending on the timing of our payments to our co-publishing and/or distribution affiliates, content licensors, and/or independent software developers, we classify any recognized unpaid royalty amounts due to these parties as accrued liabilities. The current and long-term portions of accrued royalties, included in accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Accrued royalties	$	159	$	119
Other liabilities	118		131
Royalty-related liabilities	$	277	$	250

As of March 31, 2016, we were committed to pay approximately $1,460 million to content licensors, independent software developers, and co-publishing and/or distribution affiliates, but performance remained with the counterparty (i.e., delivery of the product or content or other factors) and such commitments were therefore not recorded in our Consolidated Financial Statements. See Note 13 for further information on our developer and licensor commitments.

(10)  BALANCE SHEET DETAILS

Inventories

Inventories as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Finished goods	$	32	$	35
Raw materials and work in process	1		1
Inventories	$	33	$	36

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Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Computer equipment and software	$	684		$	655
Buildings	313			315
Leasehold improvements	129			126
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	80			73
Land	61			62
Construction in progress	15			7
	1,282			1,238
Less: accumulated depreciation	(843		)	(779		)
Property and equipment, net	$	439		$	459

Depreciation expense associated with property and equipment was $119 million, $126 million and $126 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Accrued and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued and other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other accrued expenses	$	218	$	298
Accrued compensation and benefits	256		263
Accrued royalties	159		119
Deferred net revenue (other)	77		114
Accrued and other current liabilities	$	710	$	794

Deferred net revenue (other) includes the deferral of subscription revenue, deferrals related to our Switzerland distribution business, advertising revenue, licensing arrangements, and other revenue for which revenue recognition criteria has not been met.

Deferred Net Revenue (Online-Enabled Games)

Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games) was $1,458 million and $1,283 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games) generally includes the unrecognized revenue from bundled sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for the obligation to provide unspecified updates. We recognize revenue from the sale of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for the unspecified updates on a straight-line basis, generally over an estimated nine-month period beginning in the month after shipment for physical games sold through retail and an estimated six-month period for digitally-distributed games. However, we expense the cost of revenue related to these transactions during the period in which the product is delivered (rather than on a deferred basis).

(11)  INCOME TAXES

The components of our income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Domestic	$	133	$	232	$	(146	)
Foreign	744		693		153
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$	877	$	925	$	7

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Provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Current			Deferred			Total
Year Ended March 31, 2016
Federal	$	69		$	(376	)	$	(307	)
State	5			(14		)	(9		)
Foreign	36			1			37
	$	110		$	(389	)	$	(279	)
Year Ended March 31, 2015
Federal	$	10		$	17		$	27
State	—			—			—
Foreign	21			2			23
	$	31		$	19		$	50
Year Ended March 31, 2014
Federal	$	(2	)	$	(9	)	$	(11	)
State	1			(2		)	(1		)
Foreign	8			3			11
	$	7		$	(8	)	$	(1	)

On July 27, 2015, the United States Tax Court, in an opinion in Altera Corp v. Commissioner, invalidated the portion of the Treasury regulations issued under Internal Revenue Code Section 482 requiring related-party participants in a cost sharing arrangement to share stock-based compensation costs. The U.S. Tax Court issued the final decision on December 28, 2015. On February 19, 2016, the government filed a notice of appeal of the Tax Court decision. At this time, the U.S. Treasury has not withdrawn its regulations that require including stock-based compensation in a cost sharing arrangement. We have evaluated the opinion and have recorded a $41 million tax benefit related to fiscal year 2016 stock-based compensation deductions that will not be subject to reimbursement through cost share payments if the Tax Court’s opinion is sustained. We will continue to monitor developments related to the case and the potential impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation deductions are allocated to contributed capital before historical net operating losses are utilized to reduce tax expense. The income tax provision includes tax benefits allocated directly to contributed capital of $83 million, $21 million and $12 million for fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

The differences between the statutory tax expense rate and our effective tax expense (benefit) rate, expressed as a percentage of income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows:

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Statutory federal tax expense rate	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%
State taxes, net of federal benefit	0.5	%	0.1	%	(242.9	)%
Differences between statutory rate and foreign effective tax rate	(22.1	)%	(22.3	)%	(142.9	)%
Valuation allowance	(51.7	)%	(9.2	)%	936.5	%
Research and development credits	(0.6	)%	(1.1	)%	(128.6	)%
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	4.9	%	—		—	%
Resolution of tax matters with authorities	—	%	(0.5	)%	(657.1	)%
Non-deductible stock-based compensation	3.1	%	3.5	%	385.7	%
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—	%	(0.2	)%	(185.7	)%
Other	(0.9	)%	0.1	%	(14.3	)%
Effective tax expense (benefit) rate	(31.8	)%	5.4	%	(14.3	)%

We generated income in lower tax jurisdictions primarily related to our European and Asia Pacific businesses that are headquartered in Switzerland.

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Historically, we have considered all undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries to be indefinitely reinvested outside of the United States and, accordingly, no U.S. taxes have been provided thereon. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we issued the Senior Notes and we announced a $500 million stock repurchase program. In light of these future obligations, we reevaluated our intent to indefinitely reinvest all earnings of foreign subsidiary companies, and concluded that a portion of earnings of certain subsidiaries will no longer be considered to be indefinitely reinvested. As a result, we have recognized a deferred tax liability of $43 million for U.S. income taxes with respect to such earnings.

Undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries that are considered to be indefinitely reinvested are $1,241 million as of March 31, 2016. As we currently have no plans to repatriate those earnings, no U.S. income taxes have been provided thereon. Upon distribution of those earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise, we would be subject to both U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits) and withholding taxes payable to various foreign countries. As we do not know the time or manner in which we would repatriate those funds, it is not practicable to determine the impact of local taxes, withholding taxes and foreign tax credits associated with the future repatriation of such earnings and therefore we cannot quantify the tax liability.

The components of net deferred tax assets, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals, reserves and other expenses	$	171		$	189
Tax credit carryforwards	334			312
Stock-based compensation	39			35
Net operating loss & capital loss carryforwards	28			41
Total	572			577
Valuation allowance	(114		)	(555		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance	458			22
Deferred tax liabilities:
Amortization and Depreciation	(27		)	(32		)
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	(43		)	—
Prepaids and other liabilities	(3		)	(8		)
Total	(73		)	(40		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance and deferred tax liabilities	$	385		$	(18	)

From the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 to the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, we maintained a 100% valuation allowance against most of our U.S. deferred tax assets because there was insufficient positive evidence to overcome the existing negative evidence such that it was not more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. While we reported U.S. pre-tax income in fiscal year 2015, because we reported U.S. pre-tax losses during the previous seven fiscal years, as well as in the second and third quarters of fiscal year 2016, we continued to maintain the 100% valuation allowance through the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we realized significant U.S. pre-tax income for both the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. As of March 31, 2016, we had reported positive operating performance in the U.S. for two consecutive fiscal years and had also reported a cumulative three-year U.S. pre-tax profit. In addition, during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we completed our financial plan for fiscal year 2017 and expect continued positive operating performance in the U.S. We also considered forecasts of future taxable income and evaluated the utilization of tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration. After considering these factors, we determined that the positive evidence overcame any negative evidence and concluded that it was more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. As a result, we released the valuation allowance against all of the U.S. federal deferred tax assets and a portion of the U.S. state deferred tax assets during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016.

The valuation allowance decreased by $441 million in fiscal year 2016, primarily due to the release of the valuation allowance on U.S. deferred tax assets. As of March 31, 2016, we maintained a valuation allowance of $114 million, primarily related to certain U.S. state deferred tax assets and foreign capital loss carryovers, due to uncertainty about the future realization of these assets. In determining the amount of deferred tax assets that are more likely than not to be realized, we evaluated the potential to realize the assets through the utilization of tax loss and credit carrybacks, the reversal of existing taxable temporary

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differences, future taxable income exclusive of the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, and certain tax planning strategies.

As of March 31, 2016, we have state net operating loss carry forwards of approximately $1,016 million of which approximately $130 million is attributable to various acquired companies. These carryforwards, if not fully realized, will begin to expire in 2017. We also have U.S. federal, California and Canada tax credit carryforwards of $373 million, $93 million and $8 million, respectively. The U.S. federal tax credit carryforwards will begin to expire in 2024. The California and Canada tax credit carryforwards can be carried forward indefinitely.

The total unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were $331 million, $254 million and $232 million, respectively. A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balance of unrecognized tax benefits is summarized as follows (in millions):

Balance as of March 31, 2013	$	297
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	10
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(79		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	44
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(29		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(9		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(2		)
Balance as of March 31, 2014	232
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	9
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(14		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	50
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(6		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(7		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(10		)
Balance as of March 31, 2015	254
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	33
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(4		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	63
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(10		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(4		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(1		)
Balance as of March 31, 2016	$	331

A portion of our unrecognized tax benefits will affect our effective tax rate if they are recognized upon favorable resolution of the uncertain tax positions. As of March 31, 2016, approximately $305 million of the unrecognized tax benefits would affect our effective tax rate and approximately $26 million would result in adjustments to the deferred tax valuation allowance.

Interest and penalties related to estimated obligations for tax positions taken in our tax returns are recognized in income tax expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The combined amount of accrued interest and penalties related to tax positions taken on our tax returns and included in non-current other liabilities was approximately $15 million as of March 31, 2016 and $16 million as of March 31, 2015. There was approximately $1 million decrease in in accrued interest and penalties during fiscal year 2016.

We file income tax returns in the United States, including various state and local jurisdictions. Our subsidiaries file tax returns in various foreign jurisdictions, including Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The IRS is currently examining our returns for fiscal years 2009 through 2011, and we remain subject to income tax examination by the IRS for fiscal years after 2012.

We are also currently under income tax examination in the United Kingdom for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. We remain subject to income tax examination for several other jurisdictions including in France and Germany for fiscal years after 2012, in the United Kingdom for fiscal years after 2014, and in Canada and Switzerland for fiscal years after 2007.

The timing of the resolution of income tax examinations is highly uncertain, and the amounts ultimately paid, if any, upon resolution of the issues raised by the taxing authorities may differ materially from the amounts accrued for each year. Although

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potential resolution of uncertain tax positions involve multiple tax periods and jurisdictions, it is reasonably possible that a reduction of up to $50 million of unrecognized tax benefits may occur within the next 12 months, some of which, depending on the nature of the settlement or expiration of statutes of limitations, may affect the Company’s income tax provision and therefore benefit the resulting effective tax rate. The actual amount could vary significantly depending on the ultimate timing and nature of any settlements.

(12)  FINANCING ARRANGEMENT

0.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2016

In July 2011, we issued $632.5 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations which pay interest semiannually in arrears at a rate of 0.75% per annum on January 15 and July 15 of each year, and will mature on July 15, 2016, unless purchased earlier or converted in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equally with all our other existing and future unsubordinated obligations and any indebtedness that we may incur from time to time under our Credit Facility.

We separately account for the liability and equity components of the Convertible Notes. The initial carrying amount of the equity component representing the conversion option is equal to the fair value of the Convertible Note Hedge, as described below, which is a substantially identical instrument and was purchased on the same day as the Convertible Notes. The initial carrying amount of the liability component was determined by deducting the fair value of the equity component from the par value of the Convertible Notes as a whole, and represents the fair value of a similar liability that does not have an associated convertible feature. A liability of $525 million as of the initial date of issuance was recognized for the principal amount of the Convertible Notes representing the present value of the Convertible Notes’ cash flows using a discount rate of 4.54 percent. The excess of the principal amount of the liability component over its carrying amount is amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes using the effective interest method. The equity component on the date of issuance was $107 million.

In accounting for $15 million of issuance costs paid in July 2011 related to the Convertible Notes issuance, we allocated $13 million to the liability component and $2 million to the equity component. Debt issuance costs attributable to the liability component are being amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes, and issuance costs attributable to the equity component were netted with the equity component in additional paid-in capital.

The Convertible Notes are convertible into cash and shares of our common stock based on an initial conversion value of 31.5075 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $31.74 per share). Upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, holders will receive cash up to the principal amount of each Convertible Note, and any excess conversion value will be delivered in shares of our common stock. A holder may convert any of its Convertible Notes at any time prior to the close of business on July 13, 2016. The conversion rate is subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments (for example, certain dividend distributions or tender or exchange offer of our common stock), but will not be adjusted for any accrued and unpaid interest. The Convertible Notes are not redeemable prior to maturity except for specified corporate transactions and events of default, and no sinking fund is provided for the Convertible Notes. The Convertible Notes do not contain any financial covenants.

The carrying value of the Convertible Notes continued to be classified as a current liability and the excess of the principal amount over the carrying value of the Convertible Notes continued to be classified in temporary equity in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2016.

Upon conversion of any Convertible Notes, we deliver cash up to the principal amount of the Convertible Notes and any excess conversion value is delivered in shares of our common stock. During fiscal year 2016, approximately $497 million principal value of the Convertible Notes were converted by holders thereof. During fiscal year 2016, we repaid $470 million principal balance of the Convertible Notes and issued approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock to noteholders with a fair value of $518 million, resulting in a loss on extinguishment of $10 million. We also received and cancelled approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock from the exercise of the Convertible Note Hedge during fiscal year 2016. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, the if-converted value of our Convertible Notes outstanding in aggregate exceeded their principal amount by $175 million.

Subsequent to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 and through May 23, 2016, we received conversion requests for an immaterial principal value of the Convertible Notes. During the quarter ending June 30, 2016, we expect to settle conversion requests with $27 million in cash and a number of shares of our common stock equal in value to the excess conversion value.

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Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 0.4 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to converting holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon conversion will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during an observation period following any conversion.

The carrying and fair values of the Convertible Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016			As of March 31, 2015
Principal amount of Convertible Notes	$	163		$	633
Unamortized debt discount of the liability component	(2		)	(31		)
Net carrying value of Convertible Notes	$	161		$	602
Fair value of Convertible Notes (Level 2)	$	338		$	1,158

As of March 31, 2016, the remaining life of the Convertible Notes is approximately 3.5 months.

Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants Issuance

In July 2011, we entered into the Convertible Note Hedge to reduce the potential dilution with respect to our common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes. We paid $107 million for the Convertible Note Hedge, which was recorded as an equity transaction. The Convertible Note Hedge, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, provides us with the option to acquire, on a net settlement basis, approximately 19.9 million shares of our common stock equal to the number of shares of our common stock that notionally underlie the Convertible Notes at a strike price of $31.74, which corresponds to the conversion price of the Convertible Notes. As of March 31, 2016, we received 7.8 million shares of our common stock under the Convertible Note Hedge. Subsequent to March 31, 2016, we expect to receive a number of shares under the Convertible Note Hedge substantially equal to the number of shares of common stock to be issued in connection with any conversions of the Convertible Notes.

Separately, in July 2011 we also entered into privately negotiated warrant transactions with certain counterparties whereby we sold to independent third parties warrants (the “Warrants”) to acquire, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments that are substantially the same as the anti-dilution provisions contained in the Convertible Notes, up to 19.9 million shares of our common stock (which is also equal to the number of shares of our common stock that notionally underlie the Convertible Notes), with a strike price of $41.14. The Warrants have a dilutive effect with respect to our common stock to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds $41.14 on or prior to the expiration date of the Warrants. The Warrants automatically exercise over a 60 trading day period beginning on October 17, 2016. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 7.5 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to Warrant holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon exercise will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during the 60 day trading period beginning on October 17, 2016. We received proceeds of $65 million from the sale of the Warrants in fiscal year 2012.

Effect of conversion on earning per share (“EPS”)

The Convertible Notes have no impact on diluted EPS for periods where the average quarterly price of our common stock is below the conversion price of $31.74 per share. Prior to conversion, we include the effect of the additional shares that may be issued if our common stock price exceeds $31.74 per share using the treasury stock method. If the average price of our common stock exceeds $41.14 per share for a quarterly period, we also include the effect of the additional potential shares that may be issued related to the Warrants using the treasury stock method. Prior to conversion, the Convertible Note Hedge is not considered for purposes of the EPS calculation, as its effect would be anti-dilutive. Upon conversion, the Convertible Note Hedge is expected to offset the dilutive effect of the Notes when the stock price is above $31.74 per share. See Note 17 for additional information related to our EPS.

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Senior Notes

In February 2016, we issued $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.70% Senior Notes due March 1, 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2026 (the “2026 Notes,” and together with the 2021 Notes, the “Senior Notes”). Our proceeds were $989 million, net of discount of $2 million and issuance costs of $9 million. Both the discount and issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense over the respective terms of the 2021 Notes and the 2026 Notes using the effective interest rate method. The effective interest rate was 3.94% for the 2021 Notes and 4.97% for the 2026 Notes. Interest is payable semiannually in arrears, on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2016.

The carrying and fair values of the Senior Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016
Senior Notes:
3.70% Senior Notes due 2021	$	600
4.80% Senior Notes due 2026	400
Total principal amount	$	1,000
Unaccreted discount	(2		)
Unamortized debt issuance costs	(9		)
Net carrying value of Senior Notes	$	989
Fair value of Senior Notes (Level 2)	$	1,039

As of March 31, 2016, the remaining life of the 2021 Notes and 2026 Notes is approximately 4.9 years and 9.9 years, respectively.

The Senior Notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equally with all our other existing and future unsubordinated obligations, including our Convertible Notes, and any indebtedness that we may incur from time to time under our Credit Facility.

The 2021 Notes and the 2026 Notes are redeemable at our option at any time prior to February 1, 2021 or December 1, 2025, respectively, subject to a make-whole premium. Within one and three months of maturity, we may redeem the 2021 Notes or the 2026 Notes, respectively, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest. In addition, upon the occurrence of a change of control repurchase event, the holders of the Senior Notes may require us to repurchase all or a portion of the Senior Notes, at a price equal to 101% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase. The Senior Notes also include covenants that limit our ability to incur liens on assets and to enter into sale and leaseback transactions, subject to certain allowances.

Credit Facility

In March 2015, we entered into a $500 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility (“Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of banks. The Credit Facility terminates on March 19, 2020. The Credit Facility contains an option to arrange with existing lenders and/or new lenders for them to provide up to an aggregate of $250 million in additional commitments for revolving loans. Proceeds of loans made under the Credit Facility may be used for general corporate purposes.

The loans bear interest, at our option, at the base rate plus an applicable spread or an adjusted LIBOR rate plus an applicable spread, in each case with such spread being determined based on our consolidated leverage ratio for the preceding fiscal quarter. We are also obligated to pay other customary fees for a credit facility of this size and type. Interest is due and payable in arrears quarterly for loans bearing interest at the base rate and at the end of an interest period (or at each three month interval in the case of loans with interest periods greater than three months) in the case of loans bearing interest at the adjusted LIBOR rate. Principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is due and payable on March 19, 2020.

The credit agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict our ability to, among other things, incur subsidiary indebtedness, grant liens, dispose of all or substantially all assets and pay dividends or make distributions, in each case subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. We are also required to maintain compliance with a capitalization ratio and maintain a minimum level of total liquidity.

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The credit agreement contains customary events of default, including among others, non-payment defaults, covenant defaults, cross-defaults to material indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency defaults, material judgment of defaults and a change of control default, in each case, subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the acceleration of the obligations under the credit facility, an obligation by any guarantors to repay the obligations in full and an increase in the applicable interest rate.   

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, no amounts were outstanding under the Credit Facility. $2 million of debt issuance costs that were paid in connection with obtaining this credit facility are being amortized to interest expense over the 5 year term of the Credit Facility.   

Interest Expense

The following table summarizes our interest expense recognized for fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 that is included in interest and other income (expense), net on our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Amortization of debt discount	(17		)	(22		)	(21		)
Amortization of debt issuance costs	(3		)	(3		)	(3		)
Coupon interest expense	(7		)	(5		)	(5		)
Other interest expense	(1		)	(1		)	(1		)
Total interest expense	$	(28	)	$	(31	)	$	(30	)

(13)  COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Lease Commitments

As of March 31, 2016, we leased certain 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, but are not limited to: FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), FIFPRO Foundation, FAPL (Football Association Premier League Limited), and DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (German Soccer League) (professional soccer); Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Ferrari S.p.A. (Need For Speed and Real Racing games); National Basketball Association (professional basketball); PGA TOUR (professional golf); National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association (professional hockey); National Football League Properties, PLAYERS Inc., and Red Bear Inc. (professional football); Zuffa, LLC (Ultimate Fighting Championship); ESPN (content in EA SPORTS games); Disney Interactive (Star Wars); Fox Digital Entertainment, Inc. (The Simpsons); Universal Studios Inc. (Minions); and Respawn. 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.

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The following table summarizes our minimum contractual obligations as of March 31, 2016 (in millions):

			Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
	Total		2017		2018		2019		2020		2021		Thereafter
Unrecognized commitments
Developer/licensor commitments	$	1,460	$	211	$	299	$	277	$	243	$	189	$	241
Marketing commitments	371		61		50		81		64		67		48
Operating leases	219		36		32		28		27		24		72
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 interest (a)	1		1		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes interest	300		38		41		41		41		41		98
Other purchase obligations	81		29		8		7		6		5		26
Total unrecognized commitments	2,432		376		430		434		381		326		485
Recognized commitments
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 principal and interest (a)	163		163		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes principal and interest	1,004		4		—		—		—		600		400
Licensing and lease obligations (b)	147		22		23		24		25		26		27
Total recognized commitments	1,314		189		23		24		25		626		427
Total Commitments	$	3,746	$	565	$	453	$	458	$	406	$	952	$	912

(a) We will be obligated to pay the remaining $163 million principal amount of the Convertible Notes in cash and deliver any excess conversion value in shares of our common stock upon redemption of the Convertible Notes at maturity on July 15, 2016, or upon earlier conversion. See Note 12 for additional information regarding our Convertible Notes.

(b) Lease commitments have not been reduced for approximately $2 million due in the future from third parties under non-cancelable sub-leases. See Note 9 for additional information regarding recognized obligations from our licensing-related commitments.

The unrecognized amounts represented in the table above reflect our 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 Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, the amounts in the table above are presented based on the dates the amounts are contractually due as of March 31, 2016; however, certain payment obligations may be accelerated depending on the performance of our operating results. Up to $32 million of the unrecognized amounts in the table above may be payable, at the licensor’s election, in shares of our common stock, subject to a $10 million maximum during any fiscal year. The number of shares to be issued will be based on fair market value at the time of issuance.

In addition to what is included in the table above, as of March 31, 2016, we had a liability for unrecognized tax benefits and an accrual for the payment of related interest totaling $80 million, of which we are unable to make a reasonably reliable estimate of when cash settlement with a taxing authority will occur.

Total rent expense for our operating leases was $89 million, $97 million and $97 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Legal Proceedings

On July 29, 2010, Michael Davis, a former NFL running back, filed a putative class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Company, alleging that certain past versions of Madden NFL included the images of certain retired NFL players without their permission. In March 2012, the trial court denied the Company’s request to dismiss the complaint on First Amendment grounds. In January 2015, that trial court decision was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the case was remanded back to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, where the case is pending.

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 Consolidated Financial Statements.

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(14)  PREFERRED STOCK

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, we had 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized but unissued. The rights, preferences, and restrictions of the preferred stock may be designated by our Board of Directors without further action by our stockholders.

(15)  STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Valuation Assumptions

We estimate the fair value of stock-based awards on the date of grant. We recognize compensation costs for stock-based awards to employees based on the grant-date fair value using a straight-line approach over the service period for which such awards are expected to vest.

The determination of the fair value of market-based restricted stock units, stock options and ESPP is affected by assumptions regarding subjective and complex variables. Generally, our assumptions are based on historical information and judgment is required to determine if historical trends may be indicators of future outcomes. We determine the fair value of our stock-based awards as follows:

• Restricted Stock Units. The fair value of restricted stock units is determined based on the quoted market price of our common stock on the date of grant.

• Market-Based Restricted Stock Units. Market-based restricted stock units consist of grants of performance-based restricted stock units to certain members of executive management that vest contingent upon the achievement of pre-determined market and service conditions (referred to herein as “market-based restricted stock units”). The fair value of our market-based restricted stock units is determined using a Monte-Carlo simulation model. Key assumptions for the Monte-Carlo simulation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected dividends and correlation coefficient.

• Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The fair value of stock options and stock purchase rights granted pursuant to our equity incentive plans and our 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (“ESPP”), respectively, is determined using the Black-Scholes valuation model based on the multiple-award valuation method. Key assumptions of the Black-Scholes valuation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected term and expected dividends. The risk-free interest rate is based on U.S. Treasury yields in effect at the time of grant for the expected term of the option. Expected volatility is based on a combination of historical stock price volatility and implied volatility of publicly-traded options on our common stock. Expected term is determined based on historical exercise behavior, post-vesting termination patterns, options outstanding and future expected exercise behavior.

There were an insignificant number of stock options granted during fiscal year 2016.

The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes valuation model to value our stock option grants and ESPP were as follows:

	Stock Option Grants				ESPP
	Year Ended March 31,				Year Ended March 31,
	2015		2014		2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.1 -1.9%		1.6%		0.3 - 0.6%		0.04 - 0.2%		0.1	%
Expected volatility	36 - 40%		37 - 42%		32 - 36%		30 - 35%		36 - 38%
Weighted-average volatility	38	%	37	%	33	%	34	%	38	%
Expected term	4.5 years		4.5 years		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months
Expected dividends	None		None		None		None		None

The assumptions used in the Monte-Carlo simulation model to value our market-based restricted stock units were as follows: 

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.0	%	0.9	%	0.4	%
Expected volatility	14 - 53%		16 - 79%		16 - 58%
Weighted-average volatility	26	%	30	%	31	%
Expected dividends	None		None		None

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Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Employee stock-based compensation expense recognized during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 was calculated based on awards ultimately expected to vest and has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. In subsequent periods, if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates, an adjustment to stock-based compensation expense will be recognized at that time.

The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense resulting from stock options, restricted stock units, market-based restricted stock units, and the ESPP included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of revenue	$	2	$	2	$	2
Research and development	103		82		90
Marketing and sales	24		21		26
General and administrative	49		39		32
Stock-based compensation expense	$	178	$	144	$	150

During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016 we recognized a $38 million deferred income tax benefit related to our stock-based compensation expense. During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, we did not recognize any benefit from income taxes related to our stock-based compensation expense.

As of March 31, 2016, our total unrecognized compensation cost related to restricted stock and restricted stock units (collectively referred to as “restricted stock rights”) was $243 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average service period of 1.3 years. Of the $243 million of unrecognized compensation cost, $26 million relates to market-based restricted stock units. As of March 31, 2016, our total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options was $9 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average service period of 1.4 years.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, we recognized $83 million of income tax benefit from the exercise of stock-based compensation, net of $3 million of deferred tax write-offs; of this amount $86 million of excess tax benefit related to stock-based compensation deductions was reported in the financing activities on our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. For fiscal years ended fiscal years ended 2015 and 2014, we recognized $22 million and $13 million, respectively, of excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation deductions; this amount is reported in the financing activities on our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.

Summary of Plans and Plan Activity

Equity Incentive Plans

Our 2000 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, (the “Equity Plan”) allows us to grant options to purchase our common stock and to grant restricted stock, restricted stock units and stock appreciation rights to our employees, officers, and directors. Pursuant to the Equity Plan, incentive stock options may be granted to employees and officers and non-qualified options may be granted to employees, officers, and directors, at not less than 100 percent of the fair market value on the date of grant.

A total of 15.2 million options or 10.7 million restricted stock units were available for grant under our Equity Plan as of March 31, 2016.

Stock Options

Options granted under the Equity Plan generally expire ten years from the date of grant and generally vest according to one of the following schedules:

• 35 month vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting after 11, 23 and 35 months or;

• 50 month vesting with 24% of the shares cliff vesting after 12 months and the ratably over the following 38 months.

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The following table summarizes our stock option activity for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Options (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in millions)
Outstanding as of March 31, 2015	4,920		$	37.44
Granted	6		66.08
Exercised	(1,594	)	42.43
Forfeited, cancelled or expired	(54	)	35.61
Outstanding as of March 31, 2016	3,278		$	35.09	5.61	$	101
Vested and expected to vest	3,163		$	35.22	5.53	$	97
Exercisable as of March 31, 2016	2,206		$	36.55	4.46	$	65

The aggregate intrinsic value represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value based on our closing stock price as of March 31, 2016, which would have been received by the option holders had all the option holders exercised their options as of that date. The weighted-average grant date fair values of stock options granted during fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were $12.01 and $8.61, respectively. The total intrinsic values of stock options exercised during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $38 million, $22 million and $16 million, respectively. We issue new common stock from our authorized shares upon the exercise of stock options.

The following table summarizes outstanding and exercisable stock options as of March 31, 2016:

	Options Outstanding						Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices	Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution		Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution
$11.53 - $23.83	317	3.39	$	19.10	0.1	%	313	$	19.18	0.1	%
26.25 - 26.25	1,000	7.58	26.25		0.3	%	580	26.25		0.2	%
27.49 - 35.70	853	8.21	35.50		0.3	%	343	35.21		0.1	%
36.00 - 59.63	1,108	2.47	47.33		0.4	%	970	48.78		0.3	%
$11.53 - $59.63	3,278	5.61	$	35.09	1.1	%	2,206	$	36.55	0.7	%

Potential dilution is computed by dividing the options in the related range of exercise prices by 301 million shares of common stock, which were issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2016.

Restricted Stock Rights

We grant restricted stock rights under our Equity Plan to employees worldwide. Restricted stock units are unfunded, unsecured rights to receive common stock upon the satisfaction of certain vesting criteria. Upon vesting, a number of shares of common stock equivalent the number of restricted stock units is typically issued net of required tax withholding requirements, if any. Restricted stock is issued and outstanding upon grant; however, restricted stock award holders are restricted from selling the shares until they vest. Upon granting or vesting of restricted stock, as the case may be, we will typically withhold shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements. Restricted stock rights are subject to forfeiture and transfer restrictions. Vesting for restricted stock rights is based on the holders’ continued employment with us through each applicable vest date. If the vesting conditions are not met, unvested restricted stock rights will be forfeited.

Generally, our restricted stock rights vest according to one of the following vesting schedules:

• One-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of one year;

• 35 month vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting after 11, 23 and 35 months;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• Three-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of year three;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/2 cliff vesting after 18 and 36 months;

• Three-year vesting with ²/3 and ¹/3 vesting cliff vesting after 24 and 36 months;

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• Three-year vesting with  ¹/4, ⁷/20, ¹/5,  and  ¹/5 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the first 6 months, 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd years;

• 40 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 16, 28, and 40 months;

• 41 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 17, 29 and 41 months;

• Four-year vesting with  ¹/4 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• 51 month vesting with 1/10, 3/10, 3/10, 3/10 of the shares cliff vesting respectively after 15, 27, 39 and 51 months or;

• Five-year vesting with  ¹/9,  ²/9,  ³/9,  ²/9 and  ¹/9 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th years.

Each restricted stock right granted reduces the number of shares available for grant by 1.43 shares under our Equity Plan. The following table summarizes our restricted stock rights activity, excluding market-based restricted stock unit activity which is discussed below, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Restricted Stock Rights (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Values
Balance as of March 31, 2015	10,855		$	26.20
Granted	3,035		64.40
Vested	(5,809	)	22.65
Forfeited or cancelled	(924	)	35.78
Balance as of March 31, 2016	7,157		$	44.04

The grant date fair value of restricted stock rights is based on the quoted market price of our common stock on the date of grant. The weighted-average grant date fair values of restricted stock rights granted during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $64.40, $37.22 and $23.01 respectively. The fair values of restricted stock rights that vested during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $372 million, $209 million and $163 million, respectively.

Market-Based Restricted Stock Units

Our market-based restricted stock units vest contingent upon the achievement of pre-determined market and service conditions. If these market conditions are not met but service conditions are met, the market-based restricted stock units will not vest; however, any compensation expense we have recognized to date will not be reversed. The number of shares of common stock to be received at vesting will range from zero percent to 200 percent of the target number of market-based restricted stock units based on our total stockholder return (“TSR”) relative to the performance of companies in the NASDAQ-100 Index for each measurement period, generally over a one-year, two-year cumulative and three-year cumulative period. In the table below, we present shares granted at 100 percent of target of the number of market-based restricted stock units that may potentially vest. The maximum number of shares of common stock that could vest is approximately 0.8 million for market-based restricted stock units granted during the fiscal year 2016. As of March 31, 2016, the maximum number of shares that could vest is approximately 1.3 million for market-based restricted stock units outstanding.

The following table summarizes our market-based restricted stock unit activity for the year ended March 31, 2016:

	Market-Based Restricted  Stock Units (in thousands)		Weighted- Average  Grant Date Fair Value
Balance as of March 31, 2015	663		$	31.82
Granted	395		79.81
Vested	(742	)	25.77
Vested above target	371		25.77
Forfeited or cancelled	(51	)	40.10
Balance as of March 31, 2016	636		$	64.49

The weighted-average grant date fair values of market-based restricted stock units granted during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $79.81, $48.14, and $30.18, respectively. The fair values of market-based restricted stock units that vested during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $47 million, $23 million, and $7 million, respectively.

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ESPP

Pursuant to our ESPP, eligible employees may authorize payroll deductions of between 2 percent and 10 percent of their compensation to purchase shares of common stock at 85 percent of the lower of the market price of our common stock on the date of commencement of the applicable offering period or on the last day of each six-month purchase period.

During fiscal year 2016, we issued approximately 0.9 million shares under the ESPP with purchase prices ranging from $32.16 to $54.78. During fiscal year 2015, we issued approximately 1.4 million shares under the ESPP with exercise prices for purchase rights ranging from $22.64 to $32.16. During fiscal year 2014, we issued approximately 2.2 million shares under the ESPP with exercise prices for purchase rights ranging from $11.33 to $22.64. During fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, the estimated weighted-average fair values of purchase rights were $12.97, $8.26 and $4.67, respectively. The fair values were estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes valuation model. We issue new common stock out of the ESPP’s pool of authorized shares. As of March 31, 2016, 5.2 million shares were available for grant under our ESPP.

Deferred Compensation Plan

We have a Deferred Compensation Plan (“DCP”) for the benefit of a select group of management or highly compensated employees and directors, which is unfunded and intended to be a plan that is not qualified within the meaning of section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The DCP permits the deferral of the annual base salary and/or director cash compensation up to a maximum amount. The deferrals are held in a separate trust, which has been established by us to administer the DCP. The trust is a grantor trust and the specific terms of the trust agreement provide that the assets of the trust are available to satisfy the claims of general creditors in the event of our insolvency. The assets held by the trust are classified as trading securities and are held at fair value on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The assets and liabilities of the DCP are presented in other assets and other liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, respectively, with changes in the fair value of the assets and in the deferred compensation liability recognized as compensation expense. The estimated fair value of the assets was $8 million and $9 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, $8 million and $9 million were recorded, respectively, to recognize undistributed deferred compensation due to employees.

401(k) Plan, Registered Retirement Savings Plan and ITP Plan

We have a 401(k) plan covering substantially all of our U.S. employees, a Registered Retirement Savings Plan covering substantially all of our Canadian employees, and an ITP pension plan covering substantially all our Swedish employees. These plans permit us to make discretionary contributions to employees’ accounts based on our financial performance. We contributed an aggregate of $27 million, $27 million and $16 million to these plans in fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

Stock Repurchase Program

In May 2014, a special committee of our Board of Directors, on behalf of the full Board of Directors, authorized a two-year program to repurchase up to $750 million of our common stock. Since inception, we repurchased approximately 9.2 million shares for approximately $394 million under this program.

In May 2015, our Board of Directors authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of our common stock. This stock repurchase program, which expires on May 31, 2017, supersedes and replaces the stock repurchase authorization approved in May 2014. Under this program, we may purchase stock in the open market or through privately-negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws, including pursuant to pre-arranged stock trading plans. The timing and actual amount of the stock repurchases will depend on several factors including price, capital availability, regulatory requirements, alternative investment opportunities and other market conditions. We are not obligated to repurchase any specific number of shares under this program and it may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. We repurchased approximately 6.9 million shares for approximately $461 million under this program during fiscal year 2016. We continue to actively repurchase shares.

In February 2016, we announced a new $500 million stock repurchase program. This new program was incremental to the existing two-year $1 billion stock repurchase program announced in May 2015. We completed repurchases under the February 2016 program during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. We repurchased approximately 7.8 million shares for approximately $500 million under this new program.

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The following table summarizes total shares repurchased during fiscal years 2016 and 2015:

	May 2014 Program			May 2015 Program			February 2016 Program			Total
(In millions)	Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount
Fiscal Year 2015	8.2	$	337	—	$	—	—	$	—	8.2	$	337
Fiscal Year 2016	1.0	$	57	6.9	$	461	7.8	$	500	15.7	$	1,018

During fiscal year 2014, we did not repurchase any shares of our common stock.

(16)  INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE), NET

Interest and other income (expense), net, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Loss on conversion of Convertible Notes	$	(10	)	$	—		$	—
Interest expense	(28		)	(31		)	(30		)
Interest income	15			10			5
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency transactions	(14		)	(62		)	4
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts	15			59			(5		)
Other income, net	1			1			—
Interest and other income (expense), net	$	(21	)	$	(23	)	$	(26	)

(17)  EARNINGS PER SHARE

The following table summarizes the computations of basic earnings per share (“Basic EPS”) and diluted earnings per share (“Diluted EPS”). Basic EPS is computed as net income divided by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur from common shares issuable through stock-based compensation plans including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, common stock through our ESPP, warrants, and other convertible securities using the treasury stock method.

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions, except per share amounts)	2016		2015		2014
Net income	$	1,156	$	875	$	8
Shares used to compute earnings per share:
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — basic	310		311		308
Dilutive potential common shares related to stock award plans and from assumed exercise of stock options	6		9		8
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Convertible Notes	6		4		—
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Warrants	8		1		—
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — diluted	330		325		316
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	3.73	$	2.81	$	0.03
Diluted	$	3.50	$	2.69	$	0.03

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, an immaterial amount of options to purchase, restricted stock units and

restricted stock to be released were excluded from the treasury stock method computation of diluted shares as their inclusion

would have had an antidilutive effect.

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For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, stock options to purchase, restricted stock units and restricted stock to be released in the amount of 3 million shares and 4 million shares, respectively, were excluded from the treasury stock method computation of diluted shares as their inclusion would have had an antidilutive effect.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, potentially dilutive shares of common stock related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 issued during the fiscal year 2012, which have a conversion price of $31.74 per share and the associated Warrants, which have a conversion price of $41.14 per share, were excluded from the computation of Diluted EPS as their inclusion would have had an antidilutive effect resulting from the conversion price. The associated Convertible Note Hedge was excluded from the computation of diluted shares as the impact is always considered antidilutive. See Note 12 for additional information related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 and related Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants.

(18)  SEGMENT INFORMATION

Our reporting segment is based upon: our internal organizational structure; the manner in which our operations are managed; the criteria used by our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), to evaluate segment performance; the availability of separate financial information; and overall materiality considerations. Our CODM currently reviews total company operating results to assess overall performance and allocate resources.

The following table summarizes the financial performance of our current segment operating profit and a reconciliation to our consolidated operating income for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Segment:
Net revenue before revenue deferral	$	4,566		$	4,319		$	4,021
Depreciation	(119		)	(126		)	(126		)
Other expenses	(3,147		)	(3,117		)	(3,178		)
Segment operating profit	1,300			1,076			717
Reconciliation to consolidated operating income:
Other:
Revenue deferral	(3,783		)	(3,536		)	(3,350		)
Recognition of revenue deferral	3,613			3,732			2,904
Amortization of intangibles	(54		)	(66		)	(76		)
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—			3			35
Restructuring and other charges	—			—			1
Stock-based compensation	(178		)	(144		)	(150		)
Loss on licensed intellectual property commitment				(122		)	—
Other expenses	—			5			(48		)
Consolidated operating income	$	898		$	948		$	33

Our segment profit differs from consolidated operating income primarily due to the exclusion of (1) the deferral of net revenue related to online-enabled games (see Note 10 for additional information regarding deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)), (2) certain non-cash costs such as stock-based compensation, (3) acquisition-related expenses such as amortization of intangibles and acquisition-related contingent consideration, and (4) other significant non-recurring costs that may not be indicative of the company’s core business, operating results or future outlook. Our CODM reviews assets on a consolidated basis and not on a segment basis.

Net revenue before revenue deferral is used internally to evaluate our operating performance, when planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods, and when assessing the performance of our management team. Net revenue before revenue deferral excludes the impact of revenue deferral and the recognition of revenue deferral on net revenue related to sales of online-enabled games and content.

Revenue deferral generally relates to sales of online-enabled games and content for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified updates to be delivered after the initial sale or for which we have a continuing service obligation. Fluctuations in the revenue deferral are largely dependent upon the amounts of products that we sell with the online features and services previously discussed, while the recognition of revenue deferral for a period is also dependent upon (1) the amount deferred, (2) the period of time the software-related offerings and service obligations are to be provided, and (3) the timing of the sale. Our

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sales are generally deferred and recognized over an estimated nine-month period beginning in the month after shipment for physical games sold through retail and an estimated six-month period for digitally delivered games and content, and therefore, the related revenue recognized during any fiscal quarter is primarily due to sales that occurred during the preceding six-month period for digitally delivered games and content, and the preceding nine-month period for physical games sold through retail.

Information about our total net revenue by revenue composition and by platform for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Packaged goods and other	$	1,987	$	2,316	$	1,742
Digital	2,409		2,199		1,833
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Packaged goods revenue includes sales of software that is distributed physically. This includes (1) sales of our internally-developed and co-published game software distributed physically through traditional channels such as brick and mortar retailers, (2) our software licensing revenue from third parties (for example, makers of console platforms, personal computers or computer accessories) who include certain of our products for sale with their products (“OEM bundles”), and (3) sales through our Switzerland distribution business. Other revenue includes our non-software licensing revenue.

Digital revenue includes full-game downloads, extra content, subscriptions, advertising and other, and mobile revenue. Digital revenue includes internally-developed and co-published game software distributed through our direct-to-consumer platform Origin, distributed wirelessly through mobile carriers, or licensed to our third-party publishing partners who distribute our games digitally.

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Platform net revenue
Xbox One, PlayStation 4	$	2,183	$	1,505	$	196
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3	752		1,485		1,779
Other consoles	7		21		30
Total consoles	2,942		3,011		2,005
PC / Browser	814		878		1,020
Mobile	548		504		400
Other	92		122		150
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Information about our operations in North America and internationally as of and for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Net revenue from unaffiliated customers
North America	$	1,907	$	1,956	$	1,510
International	2,489		2,559		2,065
Total	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Long-lived assets
North America	$	1,727	$	1,809
International	479		474
Total	$	2,206	$	2,283

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We attribute net revenue from external customers to individual countries based on the location of the legal entity that sells the products and/or services. Note that revenue attributed to the legal entity that makes the sale is often not the country where the consumer resides. For example, revenue generated by our Swiss legal entities includes digital revenue from consumers who reside outside of Switzerland, including consumers who reside outside of Europe. Revenue generated by our Swiss legal entities during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 represents $1,643 million, $1,462 million and $1,171 million or 37 percent, 32 percent and 33 percent of our total net revenue, respectively. Revenue generated in the United States represents over 99 percent of our total North America net revenue. There were no other countries with net revenue greater than 10 percent.

In fiscal year 2016, our direct sales to Sony and Microsoft represented approximately 16 percent and 14 percent of total net revenue, respectively. In fiscal year 2015, our direct sales to Microsoft represented approximately 10 percent of total net revenue. Our direct sales to GameStop Corp. represented approximately 11 percent, and 13 percent of total net revenue in fiscal years 2015 and 2014, respectively.

(19)  QUARTERLY FINANCIAL AND MARKET INFORMATION (UNAUDITED)

	Quarter Ended											Year Ended
(In millions, except per share data)	June 30		September 30			December 31			March 31
Fiscal 2016 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,203	$	815		$	1,070		$	1,308		$	4,396
Gross profit	1,030		406			524			1,082			3,042
Operating income (loss)	512		(119		)	(31		)	536			898
Net income (loss)	442		(140		)	(45		)	899		(a)	1,156
Common Stock
Earnings (loss) per share — Basic	$	1.42	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.93		$	3.73
Earnings (loss) per share — Diluted	$	1.32	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.79		$	3.50
Common stock price per share
High	$	68.00	$	75.16		$	76.77		$	70.83		$	76.77
Low	$	56.03	$	63.43		$	65.04		$	55.50		$	55.50
Fiscal 2015 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,214	$	990		$	1,126		$	1,185		$	4,515
Gross profit	847		563			725			951			3,086
Operating income	362		24			162			400			948
Net income	335		3			142			395			875
Common Stock
Earnings per share — Basic	$	1.07	$	0.01		$	0.46		$	1.27		$	2.81
Earnings per share — Diluted	$	1.04	$	0.01		$	0.44		$	1.19		$	2.69
Common stock price per share
High	$	37.15	$	38.42		$	48.33		$	58.24		$	58.24
Low	$	26.67	$	33.31		$	32.62		$	45.96		$	26.67

(a) Net income includes an income tax benefit recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “EA”. The prices for the common stock in the table above represent the high and low closing sales prices as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Electronic Arts Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Electronic Arts Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of April 2, 2016 and March 28, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 2, 2016. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the related financial statement schedule. We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 2, 2016, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Electronic Arts Inc. and subsidiaries as of April 2, 2016 and March 28, 2015, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 2, 2016, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. Also in our opinion, Electronic Arts Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of April 2, 2016, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Santa Clara, California

May 26, 2016

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Item 9:     Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

Not applicable.

Item 9A:     Controls and Procedures

Definition and Limitations of Disclosure Controls

Our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures are also designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our management evaluates these controls and procedures on an ongoing basis.

There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures. These limitations include the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures and reasonable resource constraints. In addition, because we have designed our system of controls based on certain assumptions, which we believe are reasonable, about the likelihood of future events, our system of controls may not achieve its desired purpose under all possible future conditions. Accordingly, our disclosure controls and procedures provide reasonable assurance, but not absolute assurance, of achieving their objectives.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, after evaluating the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, believe that as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in providing the requisite reasonable assurance that material information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding the required disclosure.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act.

Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of internal control over financial reporting. These limitations include the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of the system and reasonable resource constraints. Because of its inherent limitations, our internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risks that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with our policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of our most recently completed fiscal year. In making its assessment, management used the criteria set forth in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013), issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this assessment, our management believes that, as of the end of our most recently completed fiscal year, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.

KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an auditors’ report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. That report appears on page 81.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There has been no change in our internal controls over financial reporting identified in connection with our evaluation that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2016 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B:     Other Information

None.

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PART III

Item 10:     Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

The information required by Item 10, other than the information regarding executive officers, which is included in Item 1 of this report, is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in our 2016 Proxy under the heading “Board of Directors & Corporate Governance.” The information regarding Section 16 compliance is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in the Proxy Statement under the heading “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance.”

Item 11:     Executive Compensation

The information required by Item 11 is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in the 2016 Proxy, under the headings “Compensation of Directors,” “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” “Committee Report on Executive Compensation” and “Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation.”

Item 12:     Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

The information required by Item 12 is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in the 2016 Proxy under the headings “Equity Compensation Plan Information” and “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.”

Item 13:     Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

The information required by Item 13 is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in the 2016 Proxy under the headings “Director Independence,” and “Certain Relationships and Related Person Transactions.”

Item 14:     Principal Accounting Fees and Services

The information required by Item 14 is incorporated herein by reference to the information to be included in the 2016 Proxy under the subheading “Fees of Independent Auditors.”

PART IV

Item 15:     Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules

(a) Documents filed as part of this report

1.   Financial Statements: See Index to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 on Page 42 of this report.

2.   Financial Statement Schedule: See Schedule II on Page 85 of this report.

3.   Exhibits: The exhibits listed in the accompanying index to exhibits on Page 86 are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
By:	/s/    Andrew Wilson
	Andrew Wilson
	Chief Executive Officer
	Date: May 26, 2016

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated and on the 26^th of May 2016.

Name	Title
/s/    Andrew Wilson	Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Wilson
/s/ Blake Jorgensen	Executive Vice President,
Blake Jorgensen	Chief Financial Officer
/s/    Kenneth A. Barker	Senior Vice President,
Kenneth A. Barker	Chief Accounting Officer
	(Principal Accounting Officer)
Directors:
/s/    Lawrence F. Probst III	Chairman of the Board
Lawrence F. Probst III
/s/ Leonard S. Coleman	Director
Leonard S. Coleman
/s/    Jay C. Hoag	Director
Jay C. Hoag
/s/    Jeffrey T. Huber	Director
Jeffrey T. Huber
/s/    Vivek Paul	Director
Vivek Paul
/s/    Richard A. Simonson	Director
Richard A. Simonson
/s/    Luis A. Ubiñas	Director
Luis A. Ubiñas
/s/ Denise F. Warren	Director
Denise F. Warren
/s/    Andrew Wilson	Director
Andrew Wilson

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ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

SCHEDULE II

VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS

Years Ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014

(In millions)

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, Price Protection and Returns	Balance at Beginning of Period		Charged to Revenue, Costs and Expenses	Charged (Credited) to Other Accounts(a)		Deductions(b)		Balance at End of Period
Year Ended March 31, 2016	$	140	269	11		(261	)	$	159
Year Ended March 31, 2015	$	186	361	(66	)	(341	)	$	140
Year Ended March 31, 2014	$	200	321	37		(372	)	$	186

(a) Primarily other reclassification adjustments and the translation effect of using the average exchange rate for expense items and the year-end exchange rate for the balance sheet item (allowance account).

(b) Primarily the utilization of returns allowance and price protection reserves.

85

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

2016 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT

EXHIBIT INDEX

		Incorporated by Reference			Filed Herewith
Number	Exhibit Title	Form	File No.	Filing Date
3.01	Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation	10-Q	000-17948	11/3/2004
3.02	Amended and Restated Bylaws	8-K	000-17948	5/23/2016
4.01	Specimen Certificate of Registrant’s Common Stock	10-K	000-17948	5/22/2009
4.02	Indenture (including form of Notes) with respect to EA’s 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 dated as of July 20, 2011 by and between Electronic Arts Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee	8-K	000-17948	7/20/2011
4.03	Indenture, dated as of February 24, 2016 by and between Electronic Arts Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee	8-K	000-17948	2/24/2016
4.04	First Supplemental Indenture (including form of Notes) with respect to EA’s 3.700% Senior Notes due 2021 and 4.800% Senior Notes due 2026, dated as of February 24, 2016 by and between Electronic Arts Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee	8-K	000-17948	2/24/2016
10.01*	Form of Indemnity Agreement with Directors	10-K	000-17948	6/4/2004
10.02*	Electronic Arts Inc. Executive Bonus Plan	8-K	000-17948	7/27/2012
10.03*	Electronic Arts Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan	10-Q	000-17948	8/6/2007
10.04*	Electronic Arts Inc. Key Employee Continuity Plan	10-Q	000-17948	2/5/2013
10.05*	First Amendment to the Electronic Arts Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated	10-K	000-17948	5/22/2009
10.06*	EA Bonus Plan	8-K	000-17948	5/22/2015
10.07*	EA Bonus Plan Fiscal Year 2016 Addendum	8-K	000-17948	5/22/2015
10.08*	Form of 2014 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Agreement	10-K	000-17948	5/21/2014
10.09*	Form of 2015 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Agreement	8-K	000-17948	5/22/2015
10.10*	Form of 2016 Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Agreement	8-K	000-17948	5/23/2016
10.11*	2000 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, and related documents	8-K	000-17948	8/1/2013
10.12*	2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended	8-K	000-17948	8/1/2013
10.13*	Offer Letter for Employment at Electronic Arts Inc. to Andrew Wilson, dated September 15, 2013	8-K	000-17948	9/17/2013
10.14*	Offer Letter for Employment at Electronic Arts Inc. to Blake Jorgensen, dated July 25, 2012	8-K	000-17948	7/31/2012
10.15*	Offer Letter for Employment at Electronic Arts Inc. to Ken Moss, dated June 6, 2014	10-Q	000-17948	8/5/2014

86

		Incorporated by Reference			Filed Herewith
Number	Exhibit Title	Form	File No.	Filing Date
10.16*	Offer Letter for Employment at Electronic Arts Inc. to Chris Bruzzo, dated July 21, 2014	10-Q	000-17948	11/4/2014
10.17*	Employment Agreement for Patrick Söderlund, dated September 17, 2013	10-Q	000-17948	11/5/2013
10.18*	Transition Agreement for Lucy Bradshaw, dated September 22, 2015	10-Q	000-17948	11/10/2015
10.19	Lease agreement between ASP WT, L.L.C. and Tiburon Entertainment, Inc. for space at Summit Park I, dated June 15, 2004	10-Q	000-17948	8/3/2004
10.20	First amendment to lease, dated December 13, 2005, by and between Liberty Property Limited Partnership, a Pennsylvania limited partnership and Electronic Arts - Tiburon, a Florida corporation f/k/a Tiburon Entertainment, Inc.	10-Q	000-17948	2/8/2006
10.21	Second amendment to Lease, dated May 8, 2009, by and between Liberty Property Limited Partnership, a Pennsylvania limited partnership and Electronic Arts - Tiburon, a Florida corporation f/k/a Tiburon Entertainment, Inc.	10-Q	000-17948	8/10/2009
10.22	Third amendment to lease, dated December 24, 2009, by and between Liberty Property Limited Partnership, a Pennsylvania limited partnership and Electronic Arts - Tiburon, a Florida corporation f/k/a Tiburon Entertainment, Inc.	10-Q	000-17948	2/9/2010
10.23	Fourth Amendment to lease, dated May 16, 2014, by and between Liberty Property Limited Partnership, a Pennsylvania limited partnership and Electronic Arts - Tiburon, a Florida corporation f/k/a Tiburon Entertainment, Inc.	10-K	000-17948	5/21/2014
10.24**	First Amended North American Territory Rider to the Global PlayStation®3 Format Licensed Publisher Agreement, dated September 11, 2008, by and between the Electronic Arts Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.	10-Q	000-17948	11/10/2009
10.25**	Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited Regional Rider to the Global PlayStation®3 Format Licensed Publisher Agreement, dated December 17, 2008, by and between EA International (Studio and Publishing) Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited	10-Q	000-17948	11/10/2009
10.26**	Global PlayStation®3 Format Licensed Publisher Agreement, dated September 11, 2008, by and between the Electronic Arts Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.	10-Q/A	000-17948	4/30/2010
10.27**	Global PlayStation®3 Format Licensed Publisher Agreement, dated December 17, 2008, by and between EA International (Studio and Publishing) Limited and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited	10-Q/A	000-17948	4/30/2010
10.28**	Xbox2 Publisher License Agreement, dated May 15, 2005, by and among Electronic Arts Inc., Electronic Arts C.V. and Microsoft Licensing, GP	10-Q/A	000-17948	4/30/2010
10.29**	Durango Publisher License Agreement, dated June 29, 2012, by and among Electronic Arts Inc., EA International (Studio & Publishing) Ltd., Microsoft Licensing, GP and Microsoft Corporation	10-K	000-17948	5/21/2014
10.30	Form of Call Option Agreement dated as of July 14, 2011 between EA and each Option Counterparty	8-K	000-17948	7/20/2011

87

		Incorporated by Reference			Filed Herewith
Number	Exhibit Title	Form	File No.	Filing Date
10.31	Form of Warrant Agreement dated July 14, 2011 between EA and each Option Counterparty	8-K	000-17948	7/20/2011
10.32	Form of Additional Call Option Agreement dated July 18, 2011 between EA and each Option Counterparty	8-K	000-17948	7/20/2011
10.33	Form of Additional Warrant Agreement dated as of July 18, 2011 between EA and each Option Counterparty	8-K	000-17948	7/20/2011
10.34	Credit Agreement, dated March 19, 2015, by and among Electronic Arts Inc., the lenders from time to time party thereto, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	8-K	000-17948	3/20/2015
12.1	Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges				X
21.1	Subsidiaries of the Registrant				X
23.1	Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm				X
31.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002				X
31.2	Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002				X
Additional exhibits furnished with this report:
32.1	Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002				X
32.2	Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002				X
101.INS†	XBRL Instance Document				X
101.SCH†	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document				X
101.CAL†	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document				X
101.DEF†	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document				X
101.LAB†	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document				X
101.PRE†	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document				X

*	Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
**	Confidential portions of these documents have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to a request for confidential treatment that was granted in accordance with Exchange Act Rule 24b-2.
†	Attached as Exhibit 101 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2016 are the following formatted in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”): (1) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (2) Consolidated Statements of Operations, (3) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss), (4) Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity, (5) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (6) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

88

EX-12.1

Exhibit 12.1

EX-21.1

SUBSIDIARIES OF THE REGISTRANT		Exhibit 21.1
Name in		Jurisdiction
Corporate Articles	Doing Business As	of Incorporation
Electronic Arts Belgium	Electronic Arts Belgium	Belgium
EA Bermuda Partnership	EA Bermuda Partnership	Bermuda
EA General Partner Limited	EA General Partner Limited	Bermuda
EA International (Studio and Publishing) Ltd.	EA International (Studio and Publishing) Ltd.	Bermuda
Electronic Arts Limitada	Electronic Arts Ltda.	Brazil
BioWare ULC	BioWare ULC	Canada
Electronic Arts (Canada), Inc.	Electronic Arts (Canada), Inc.	Canada
The Capture Lab Inc	The Capture Lab Inc	Canada
EA Mobile (Canada) ULC	EA Mobile (Canada) ULC	Canada
Beijing Playfish Game Technology Limited	Beijing Playfish Game Technology Limited	China
Electronic Arts Computer Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.	Electronic Arts Computer Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.	China
Shanghai PopCap Software Co. Ltd.	Shanghai PopCap Software Co. Ltd.	China
Electronic Arts Proprietary Limited	Electronic Arts Proprietary Limited	Commonwealth of Australia
EA Delaware LLC	EA Delaware LLC	Delaware
EA Entertainment, Inc.	EA Entertainment, Inc.	Delaware
EA Mobile (Canada Holdings) Inc.	EA Mobile (Canada Holdings) Inc.	Delaware
Electronic Arts Productions Inc.	Crocodile Productions	Delaware
Electronic Arts Redwood LLC	Electronic Arts Redwood LLC	Delaware
Electronic Arts Transfer Company	Electronic Arts Transfer Company	Delaware
Electronic Arts US Co.	Electronic Arts US Co.	Delaware
MPP Holdings, Inc.	MPP Holdings, Inc.	Delaware
PopCap Games, LLC	PopCap Games, LLC	Delaware
Electronic Arts Denmark A.p.S.	EA Denmark	Denmark
Electronic Arts Finland OY	Electronic Arts Finland OY	Finland
Electronic Arts - Tiburon, A Florida Corporation	Tiburon	Florida
Electronic Arts Publishing SARL	Electronic Arts Publishing SARL	France
Electronic Arts GmbH	Electronic Arts GmbH	Germany
Electronic Arts HK Limited	Electronic Arts HK Limited	Hong Kong
PopCap Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited	PopCap Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited	Hong Kong
Electronic Arts Games (India) Private Limited	Electronic Arts Games (India) Private Limited	India
Electronic Arts Ireland Limited	Electronic Arts Ireland Limited	Ireland
PopCap Games International Limited	PopCap Games International Limited	Ireland
Carpetville Limited	Carpetville Limited	Ireland
Electronic Arts Italia s.r.l.	EA Italy	Italy
Electronic Arts K.K.	Electronic Arts K.K.	Japan
Electronic Arts Korea LLC	Electronic Arts Korea LLC	South Korea
Electronic Arts (India Holdings) Inc.	Electronic Arts (India Holdings) Inc.	Mauritius
EA México S. de R.L. de C.V.	EA México S. de R.L. de C.V.	Mexico
Electronic Arts Norway AS	Electronic Arts Norway	Norway
Electronic Arts Polska Sp. Z.O.O.	EA Poland	Poland

Name in		Jurisdiction
Corporate Articles	Doing Business As	of Incorporation
S.C. Electronic Arts Romania SRL	S.C. Electronic Arts Romania SRL	Romania
Electronic Arts OOO	Electronic Arts OOO	Russia
Electronic Arts Asia Pacific Pte Ltd	Electronic Arts Asia Pacific Pte Ltd	Singapore
EA Software South Africa (Proprietary) Ltd.	EA Software South Africa (Proprietary) Ltd.	South Africa
Electronic Arts Software S.L.	Electronic Arts Software S.L.	Spain
Digital Illusions CE AB	Digital Illusion CE AB	Sweden
EA Digital Illusions CE AB	EA Digital Illusions CE AB	Sweden
Electronic Arts Sweden AB	EA Sweden	Sweden
ESN Social Software AB	ESN Social Software AB	Sweden
JOOSEO Capital Operations Uppsala	JOOSEO Capital Operations Uppsala	Sweden
ABC Distribution and Retail Solutions GmbH	ABC Distribution and Retail Solutions GmbH	Switzerland
EA Swiss Sarl	EA Swiss Sarl	Switzerland
Bioware Austin LLC	Bioware Austin LLC	Texas
Electronic Arts C.V.	Electronic Arts C.V.	The Netherlands
Electronic Arts Nederland B.V.	Electronic Arts B.V.	The Netherlands
Playfish Limited	Playfish Limited	United Kingdom
Chillingo Limited	Chillingo Limited	United Kingdom
Click Gamer Technologies Limited	Click Gamer Technologies Limited	United Kingdom
Criterion Software Limited	Criterion Software Limited	United Kingdom
Electronic Arts Limited	Electronic Arts Limited	United Kingdom

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors

Electronic Arts Inc.:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements on Form S-8 (Nos. 333-39432, 333-44222, 333-67430, 333-99525, 333-107710, 333-117990, 333-127156, 333-138532, 333-145182, 333-148596, 333-152757, 333-161229, 333-168680, 333-176181, 333-183077, and 333-190355) and Form S-3 (No. 333-199995) of Electronic Arts Inc. (the Company) of our report dated May 26, 2016, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of Electronic Arts Inc. as of April 2, 2016 and March 28, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 2, 2016, and the related financial statement schedule, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of April 2, 2016, which report appears in the April 2, 2016 annual report on Form 10-K of the Company.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Santa Clara, California

May 26, 2016

EX-31.1

Exhibit 31.1

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

Certification of Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act

As Adopted Pursuant to

Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, Andrew Wilson, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Electronic Arts Inc.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: May 26, 2016	By:	/s/ Andrew Wilson
		Andrew Wilson
		Chief Executive Officer

EX-31.2

Exhibit 31.2

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

Certification of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act

As Adopted Pursuant to

Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, Blake Jorgensen, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Electronic Arts Inc.;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

d. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: May 26, 2016	By:	/s/ Blake Jorgensen
		Blake Jorgensen
		Executive Vice President,
		Chief Financial Officer

EX-32.1

Exhibit 32.1

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

Certification of Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350

As Adopted Pursuant to

Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

In connection with the Annual Report of Electronic Arts Inc. on Form 10-K for the period ended March 31, 2016 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Andrew Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts Inc., certify, pursuant to 18 USC Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 906”), that to my knowledge:

1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Electronic Arts Inc. for the periods presented therein.

/s/ Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson

Chief Executive Officer

Electronic Arts Inc.

May 26, 2016

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906, or other document authenticating, acknowledging, or otherwise adopting the signature that appears in typed form within the electronic version of this written statement required by Section 906, has been provided to Electronic Arts and will be retained by Electronic Arts and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

EX-32.2

Exhibit 32.2

ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

Certification of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350

As Adopted Pursuant to

Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

In connection with the Annual Report of Electronic Arts Inc. on Form 10-K for the period ended March 31, 2016 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Blake Jorgensen, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts Inc., certify, pursuant to 18 USC Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 906”), that to my knowledge:

1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of Electronic Arts Inc. for the periods presented therein.

/s/ Blake Jorgensen

Blake Jorgensen

Executive Vice President,

Chief Financial Officer

Electronic Arts Inc.

May 26, 2016

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906, or other document authenticating, acknowledging, or otherwise adopting the signature that appears in typed form within the electronic version of this written statement required by Section 906, has been provided to Electronic Arts and will be retained by Electronic Arts and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

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	Mar. 31, 2016	May. 23, 2016	Oct. 02, 2015
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Consolidated Balance Sheets - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
ASSETS:
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 2,493	$ 2,068
Short-term investments	1,341	953
Receivables, net of allowances of $159 and $140, respectively	233	362
Inventories	33	36
Deferred income taxes, net	0	54
Other current assets	254	247
Total current assets	4,354	3,720
Property and equipment, net	439	459
Goodwill	1,710	1,713
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	57	111
Deferred income taxes, net	387	13
Other assets	103	131
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LIABILITIES:
Accounts payable	89	68
Accrued and other current liabilities	710	794
0.75% Convertible notes due 2016, net	161	602
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	1,458	1,283
Total current liabilities	2,418	2,747
senior notes, noncurrent	989	0
Income tax obligations	80	70
Deferred income taxes, net	2	80
Other liabilities	163	183
Total liabilities	$ 3,652	$ 3,080
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 13)
0.75% convertible senior notes due 2016 (See Note 12)	$ 2	$ 31
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value. 10 shares authorized	0	0
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Retained earnings	2,060	904
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Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) - USD ($) shares in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Receivables, allowances	$ 159	$ 140
Preferred stock, par value	$ 0.01	$ 0.01
Preferred stock, shares authorized	10	10
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Consolidated Statements Of Operations - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Net revenue:
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Service and other	1,899	1,947	1,441
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Product	938	1,028	1,032
Service and other	416	401	315
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Research and development	1,109	1,094	1,125
Marketing and sales	622	647	680
General and administrative	406	386	410
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	0	(3)	(35)
Amortization of intangibles	7	14	16
Restructuring and other charges	0	0	(1)
Total operating expenses	2,144	2,138	2,195
Operating income	898	948	33
Interest and other income (expense), net	(21)	(23)	(26)
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	877	925	7
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes	(279)	50	(1)
Net income	$ 1,156	$ 875	$ 8
Net income per share:
Basic	$ 3.73	$ 2.81	$ 0.03
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Basic	310	311	308
Diluted	330	325	316

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Consolidated Statements of Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Net income	$ 1,156	$ 875	$ 8
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Change in unrealized net gains and losses on available-for-sale securities	4	1	0
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Reclassification Adjustment from AOCI for Sale of Securities, Net of Tax	0	0	0
Change in unrealized net gains and losses on derivative instruments	5	20	(19)
Reclassification adjustment for net realized gains and losses on derivative instruments	(12)	11	9
Foreign currency translation adjustments	(15)	(67)	(22)
Total other comprehensive loss, net of tax	(18)	(35)	(32)
Total comprehensive income (loss)	$ 1,138	$ 840	$ (24)

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Consolidated Statements Of Stockholders' Equity - USD ($) shares in Thousands, $ in Millions	Total	Common stock	Additional paid-in capital	Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit)	Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	Repurchase program, total
Balance at Mar. 31, 2013	$ 2,267	$ 3	$ 2,174	$ 21	$ 69
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2013		302,164
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Total comprehensive income (loss)	(24)			8	(32)
Issuance of common stock	16		16
Issuance of common stock (in shares)		9,278
Stock-based compensation	150		150
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	13		13
Balance at Mar. 31, 2014	2,422	$ 3	2,353	29	37
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2014		311,442
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Total comprehensive income (loss)	840			875	(35)
Issuance of common stock	(24)		(24)
Issuance of common stock (in shares)		6,508
Reclassification of equity component of convertible notes	(31)		(31)
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	(337)		(337)			$ (337)
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares		(8,269)				8,200
Stock-based compensation	144		144
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	22		22
Balance at Mar. 31, 2015	$ 3,036	$ 3	2,127	904	2
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2015	310,000	309,681
Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward]
Total comprehensive income (loss)	$ 1,138			1,156	(18)
Issuance of common stock	(49)		(49)
Issuance of common stock (in shares)		6,645
Reclassification of equity component of convertible notes	29		29
Settlement of convertible notes	$ (1)		(1)
Settlement of Convertible Notes	7,823	7,823
Exercise of convertible note hedge	(7,823)	(7,823)
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	$ (1,018)		(1,018)			$ (1,018)
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares		(15,724)				15,700
Stock-based compensation	178		178
Tax benefit from stock-based compensation	83		83
Balance at Mar. 31, 2016	$ 3,396	$ 3	$ 1,349	$ 2,060	$ (16)
Balance (in shares) at Mar. 31, 2016	301,000	300,602

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Consolidated Statements Of Cash Flows - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net income	$ 1,156	$ 875	$ 8
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization and accretion	197	220	227
Loss on Conversion of Convertible Notes	10	0	0
Stock-based compensation	178	144	150
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	0	(3)	(35)
Net losses (gains) on investments	0	0	(2)
Change in assets and liabilities:
Receivables, net	127	(54)	(12)
Inventories	3	19	(13)
Other assets	19	87	(56)
Accounts payable	13	(46)	(18)
Accrued and other liabilities	(252)	31	(3)
Deferred income taxes, net	(403)	1	16
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	175	(207)	446
Net cash provided by operating activities	1,223	1,067	712
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Capital expenditures	(93)	(95)	(97)
Proceeds from maturities and sales of short-term investments	941	727	401
Purchase of short-term investments	(1,332)	(1,102)	(600)
Acquisition of subsidiaries, net of cash acquired	0	0	(5)
Net cash used in investing activities	(484)	(470)	(301)
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from issuance of senior notes, net of issuance costs	989	0	0
Payment of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016	(470)	0	0
Proceeds from issuance of common stock	107	60	77
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation	86	22	13
Repurchase and retirement of common stock	(1,018)	(337)	0
Acquisition-related contingent consideration payment	0	0	(1)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	(306)	(255)	89
Effect of foreign exchange on cash and cash equivalents	(8)	(56)	(10)
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	425	286	490
Beginning cash and cash equivalents	2,068	1,782	1,292
Ending cash and cash equivalents	2,493	2,068	1,782
Supplemental cash flow information:
Cash paid during the year for income taxes, net	35	2	29
Cash paid during the year for interest	$ 4	$ 6	$ 6

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Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies

(1)  DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

We are a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. We develop, market, publish and distribute games, content and services that can be played by consumers on a variety of platforms, which include consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony, and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. Some of our games are based on our wholly-owned intellectual property (e.g., Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, The Sims and Plants vs. Zombies), and some of our games leverage content that we license from others (e.g., FIFA, Madden NFL and Star Wars). We also publish and distribute games developed by third parties (e.g., Titanfall). Our products and services may be purchased through multiple distribution channels, including physical and online retailers, platform providers such as console manufacturers, providers of free-to-download PC games, mobile carriers and directly through Origin, our own digital distribution platform.

A summary of our significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements follows:

Consolidation

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Electronic Arts Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Fiscal Year

Our fiscal year is reported on a 52- or 53-week period that ends on the Saturday nearest March 31. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 contained 53 weeks and ended on April 2, 2016. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 contained 52 weeks each and ended on March 28, 2015 and March 29, 2014, respectively. For simplicity of disclosure, all fiscal periods are referred to as ending on a calendar month end.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Such estimates include sales returns and allowances, provisions for doubtful accounts, accrued liabilities, offering periods for deferred net revenue, multiple-element arrangements, income taxes, losses on royalty commitments, estimates regarding the recoverability of prepaid royalties, inventories, long-lived assets, assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations, certain estimates related to the measurement and recognition of costs resulting from our stock-based payment awards, deferred income tax assets and associated valuation allowances, as well as estimates used in our goodwill, intangibles and short-term investment impairment tests. These estimates generally involve complex issues and require us to make judgments, involve analysis of historical and future trends, can require extended periods of time to resolve, and are subject to change from period to period. In all cases, actual results could differ materially from our estimates.

Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments

Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with insignificant interest rate risk and original or remaining maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase.

Short-term investments consist of securities with original or remaining maturities of greater than three months at the time of purchase, are accounted for as available-for-sale securities and are recorded at fair value. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are available for use in current operations or other activities such as capital expenditures, business combinations and share repurchases.

Unrealized gains and losses on our short-term investments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity, net of tax, until either (1) the security is sold, (2) the security has matured, or (3) we determine that the fair value of the security has declined below its adjusted cost basis and the decline is other-than-temporary. Realized gains and losses on our short-term investments are calculated based on the specific identification method and are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest and other income (expense), net, or gains on strategic investments, net. Determining whether a decline in fair value is other-than-temporary requires management judgment based on the specific facts and circumstances of each security. The ultimate value realized on these securities is subject to market price volatility until they are sold.

Our short-term investments are evaluated for impairment quarterly. We consider various factors in determining whether we should recognize an impairment charge, including the credit quality of the issuer, the duration that the fair value has been less than the adjusted cost basis, severity of the impairment, reason for the decline in value and potential recovery period, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investees, our intent to sell and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value, and any contractual terms impacting the prepayment or settlement process. If we conclude that an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired, we recognize an impairment charge at that time in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Based on our evaluation, we did not consider any of our investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired as of March 31, 2016 and 2015.

Inventories

Inventories consist of materials (including manufacturing royalties paid to console manufacturers), labor and freight-in and are stated at the lower of cost (using the weighted average costing method) or net realizable value. We regularly review inventory quantities on-hand. We write down inventory based on excess or obsolete inventories determined primarily by future anticipated demand for our products. Inventory write-downs are measured as the difference between the cost of the inventory and market value, based upon assumptions about future demand that are inherently difficult to assess. At the point of a loss recognition, a new, lower cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established basis.

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net, are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the following useful lives:

Buildings	20 to 25 years
Computer equipment and software	3 to 6 years
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	3 to 5 years
Leasehold improvements	Lesser of the lease term or the estimated useful lives of the improvements, generally 1 to 10 years

We capitalize costs associated with internal-use software development once a project has reached the application development stage. Such capitalized costs include external direct costs utilized in developing or obtaining the software, and payroll and payroll-related expenses for employees who are directly associated with the development of the software. Capitalization of such costs begins when the preliminary project stage is complete and ceases at the point in which the project is substantially complete and is ready for its intended purpose. The net book value of capitalized costs associated with internal-use software was $55 million and $62 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Once the internal-use software is ready for its intended use, the assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over each asset’s estimated useful life, which is generally three years.

Acquisition-Related Intangibles and Other Long-Lived Assets

We record acquisition-related intangible assets, such as developed and core technology, in connection with business combinations. We amortize the cost of acquisition-related intangible assets that have finite useful lives on a straight-line basis over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or the agreement terms, typically from two to fourteen years. We evaluate acquisition-related intangibles and other long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset group. This includes assumptions about future prospects for the business that the asset relates to and typically involves computations of the estimated future cash flows to be generated by these businesses. Based on these judgments and assumptions, we determine whether we need to take an impairment charge to reduce the value of the asset stated on our Consolidated Balance Sheets to reflect its estimated fair value. When we consider such assets to be impaired, the amount of impairment we recognize is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value. There were no material impairments in fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014.

Goodwill

In assessing impairment on our goodwill, we first analyze qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test. The qualitative factors we assess include long-term prospects of our performance, share price trends and market capitalization, and Company specific events. If we conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, we do not need to perform the two-step impairment test. If based on that assessment, we believe it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, a two-step goodwill impairment test will be performed. The first step measures for impairment by applying fair value-based tests at the reporting unit level. The second step (if necessary) measures the amount of impairment by applying fair value-based tests to the individual assets and liabilities within each reporting unit. Reporting units are determined by the components of operating segments that constitute a business for which (1) discrete financial information is available, (2) segment management regularly reviews the operating results of that component, and (3) whether the component has dissimilar economic characteristics to other components. We determined that it was more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount and, as such, we did not need to perform the two-step impairment test.

During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, we completed our annual goodwill impairment testing in the fourth quarter of each year and did not recognize any impairment charges.

Revenue Recognition, Sales Returns and Allowances, and Bad Debt Reserves

We derive revenue principally from sales of interactive software games, and related content (e.g., micro-transactions) and services on consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. We evaluate revenue recognition based on the criteria set forth in FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605, Revenue Recognition and ASC 985-605, Software: Revenue Recognition. We classify our revenue as either product revenue or service and other revenue.

Product revenue. Our product revenue includes revenue associated with the sale of software games or related content, whether delivered via a physical disc (e.g., packaged goods) or delivered digitally (e.g., full-game downloads, extra-content), and licensing of game software to third-parties. Product revenue also includes revenue from mobile full game downloads that do not require our hosting support (e.g., premium mobile games) in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e. can be played with or without an Internet connection), and sales of tangible products such as hardware, peripherals, or collectors’ items.

Service and other revenue. Our service revenue includes revenue recognized from time-based subscriptions and games or related content that requires our hosting support in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e., can only be played with an Internet connection). This includes (1) entitlements to content that are accessed through hosting services (e.g., micro-transactions for Internet-based, social network and free-to-download mobile games), (2) massively multi-player online (“MMO”) games (both software game and subscription sales), (3) subscriptions for our Battlefield Premium, EA Access, and Pogo-branded online game services, and (4) allocated service revenue from sales of software games with an online service element (i.e., “matchmaking” service). Our other revenue includes advertising and non-software licensing revenue.

With respect to the allocated service revenue from sales of software games with a matchmaking service mentioned above, our allocation of proceeds between product and service revenue for presentation purposes is based on management’s best estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service with the residual value allocated to product revenue. Our estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service is comprised of several factors including, but not limited to, prior selling prices for the matchmaking service, prices charged separately by other third-party vendors for similar service offerings, and a cost-plus-margin approach. We review the estimated selling price of the online matchmaking service on a regular basis and use this methodology consistently to allocate revenue between product and service for software game sales with a matchmaking service.

We evaluate and recognize revenue when all four of the following criteria are met:

• Evidence of an arrangement. Evidence of an agreement with the customer that reflects the terms and conditions to deliver the related products or services must be present.

• Fixed or determinable fee. If a portion of the arrangement fee is not fixed or determinable, we recognize revenue as the amount becomes fixed or determinable.

• Collection is deemed probable. Collection is deemed probable if we expect the customer to be able to pay amounts under the arrangement as those amounts become due. If we determine that collection is not probable as the amounts become due, we generally conclude that collection becomes probable upon cash collection.

• Delivery. For packaged goods, delivery is considered to occur when a product is shipped and the risk of loss and rewards of ownership have transferred to the customer. For digital downloads, delivery is considered to occur when the software is made available to the customer for download. For services and other, delivery is generally considered to occur as the service is delivered, which is determined based on the underlying service obligation. If there is significant uncertainty of acceptance, revenue is recognized once acceptance is reasonably assured.

Online-Enabled Games

The majority of our software games and related content have online connectivity whereby a consumer may be able to download unspecified content or updates on a when-and-if-available basis (“unspecified updates”) for use with the original game software. In addition, we may also offer an online matchmaking service that permits consumers to play against each other via the Internet without a separate fee. U.S. GAAP requires us to account for the consumer’s right to receive unspecified updates or the matchmaking service for no additional fee as a “bundled” sale, or multiple-element arrangement.

We have an established historical pattern of providing unspecified updates (e.g., player roster updates to Madden NFL 16) to online-enabled games and related content at no additional charge to the consumer. We do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for these unspecified updates, and thus, as required by U.S. GAAP, we recognize revenue from the sale of these online-enabled games and related content over the period we expect to offer the unspecified updates to the consumer (“estimated offering period”).

Other Multiple-Element Arrangements

In some of our multiple-element arrangements, we sell tangible products with software and/or software-related offerings. These tangible products are generally either peripherals or ancillary collectors’ items, such as figurines and comic books. Revenue for these arrangements is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each deliverable using the relative selling prices of each deliverable in the arrangement based on the selling price hierarchy described below. If the arrangement contains more than one software deliverable, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the software deliverables as a group and then allocated to each software deliverable.

We determine the selling price for a tangible product deliverable based on the following selling price hierarchy: VSOE (i.e., the price we charge when the tangible product is sold separately) if available, third-party evidence (“TPE”) of fair value (i.e., the price charged by others for similar tangible products) if VSOE is not available, or our best estimate of selling price (“BESP”) if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. Determining the BESP is a subjective process that is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, recent selling prices and related discounts, market conditions, customer classes, sales channels and other factors. Provided the other three revenue recognition criteria other than delivery have been met, we recognize revenue upon delivery to the customer as we have no further obligations.

Principal Agent Considerations

We evaluate sales of our interactive software games via third party storefronts, including digital storefronts such as Microsoft’s Xbox Games Store, Sony PSN, Apple App Store, and Google Play, in order to determine whether or not we are acting as the primary obligor in the sale to the end consumer, which we consider in determining if revenue should be reported gross or net of fees retained by the storefront. Key indicators that we evaluate in determining gross versus net treatment include but are not limited to the following:

• The party responsible for delivery/fulfillment of the product or service to the end consumer

• The party responsible for the billing, collection of fees and refunds to the consumer

• The storefront and Terms of Sale that govern the consumer’s purchase of the product or service

• The party that sets the pricing with the consumer and has credit risk

Based on evaluation of the above indicators, we have determined that generally the third party is considered the primary obligor to end consumers for the sale of our interactive software games. We therefore report revenue related to these arrangements net of the fees retained by the storefront.

Sales Returns and Allowances and Bad Debt Reserves

We reduce revenue for estimated future returns and price protection which may occur with our distributors and retailers (“channel partners”). Price protection represents our practice to provide our channel partners with a credit allowance to lower their wholesale price on a particular product that they have not resold to end consumers. The amount of the price protection is generally the difference between the old wholesale price and the new reduced wholesale price. In certain countries for our PC and console packaged goods software products, we also have a practice of allowing channel partners to return older software products in the channel in exchange for a credit allowance. As a general practice, we do not give cash refunds.

Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities

Taxes assessed by a government authority that are both imposed on and concurrent with specific revenue transactions between us and our customers are presented on a net basis in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Concentration of Credit Risk, Significant Customers, Franchises and Channel Partners

We extend credit to various retailers and channel partners. Collection of trade receivables may be affected by changes in economic or other industry conditions and may, accordingly, impact our overall credit risk. Although we generally do not require collateral, we perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers and maintain reserves for potential credit losses. Invoices are aged based on contractual terms with our customers. The provision for doubtful accounts is recorded as a charge to general and administrative expense when a potential loss is identified. Losses are written off against the allowance when the receivable is determined to be uncollectible. At March 31, 2016, we had two customers who accounted for approximately 26 percent and 24 percent of our consolidated gross receivables. At March 31, 2015, we had two customers who accounted for 26 percent and 10 percent of our consolidated gross receivables.

A majority of our sales are made to major retailers, distributors, and digital resellers. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 62 percent of our net revenue was derived from our top ten customers. Though our products and services are available to consumers through a variety of retailers and directly through us, the concentration of our sales in one, or a few, large customers could lead to a short-term disruption in our sales if one or more retailers or distributors significantly reduced their purchases or ceased to carry our products and services, and could make us more vulnerable to collection risk if one or more of these large customers became unable to pay for our products or declared bankruptcy.

A significant portion of our revenue has historically been derived from games and services based on a few popular franchises. For example, in fiscal year 2016, net revenue generated from the sale of products and services associated with our three largest franchises accounted for approximately 55 percent of our net revenue.

Currently, a majority of our revenue is derived through sales of products and services on hardware consoles from Sony and Microsoft. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, our net revenue for products and services on Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and One consoles (combined across all four platforms) was 67 percent, 66 percent, and 55 percent, respectively. These platform partners have significant influence over the products and services that we offer on their platforms. Our agreements with Sony and Microsoft typically give significant control to them over the approval, manufacturing and distribution of our products and services, which could, in certain circumstances, leave us unable to get our products and services approved, manufactured and provided to customers.

Short-term investments are placed with high quality financial institutions or in short-duration, investment-grade securities. We limit the amount of credit exposure in any one financial institution or type of investment instrument.

Royalties and Licenses

Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue generally at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

Advertising Costs

We generally expense advertising costs as incurred, except for production costs associated with media campaigns, which are recognized as prepaid assets (to the extent paid in advance) and expensed at the first run of the advertisement. Cooperative advertising costs are recognized when incurred and are included in marketing and sales expense if there is a separate identifiable benefit for which we can reasonably estimate the fair value of the benefit identified. Otherwise, they are recognized as a reduction of revenue and are generally accrued when revenue is recognized. We then reimburse the channel partner when qualifying claims are submitted.

We are also reimbursed by our vendors for certain advertising costs incurred by us that benefit our vendors. Such amounts are recognized as a reduction of marketing and sales expense if the advertising (1) is specific to the vendor, (2) represents an identifiable benefit to us, and (3) represents an incremental cost to us. Otherwise, vendor reimbursements are recognized as a reduction of the cost incurred with the same vendor. Vendor reimbursements of advertising costs of $51 million, $43 million, and $66 million reduced marketing and sales expense for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, advertising expense, net of vendor reimbursements, totaled approximately $240 million, $228 million, and $217 million, respectively.

Software Development Costs

Research and development costs, which consist primarily of software development costs, are expensed as incurred. We are required to capitalize software development costs incurred for computer software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed after technological feasibility of the software is established or for development costs that have alternative future uses. Under our current practice of developing new games, the technological feasibility of the underlying software is not established until substantially all product development and testing is complete, which generally includes the development of a working model. The software development costs that have been capitalized to date have been insignificant.

Foreign Currency Translation

For each of our foreign operating subsidiaries, the functional currency is generally its local currency. Assets and liabilities of foreign operations are translated into U.S. dollars using month-end exchange rates, and revenue and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars using average exchange rates. The effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity.

Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are a result of the effect of exchange rate changes on transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency. Net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of $(14) million, $(62) million, and $4 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively, are included in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. These net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) are partially offset by net gains (losses) on our foreign currency forward contracts of $15 million, $59 million, and $(5) million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. See Note 4 for additional information on our foreign currency forward contracts.

Income Taxes

We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for both the expected impact of differences between the financial statement amount and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and for the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax losses and tax credit carryforwards. We record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets when it is considered more likely than not that all or a portion of our deferred tax assets will not be realized. In making this determination, we are required to give significant weight to evidence that can be objectively verified. It is generally difficult to conclude that a valuation allowance is not needed when there is significant negative evidence, such as cumulative losses in recent years. Forecasts of future taxable income are considered to be less objective than past results. Therefore, cumulative losses weigh heavily in the overall assessment.

In addition to considering forecasts of future taxable income, we are also required to evaluate and quantify other possible sources of taxable income in order to assess the realization of our deferred tax assets, namely the reversal of existing deferred tax liabilities, the carry back of losses and credits as allowed under current tax law, and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Evaluating and quantifying these amounts involves significant judgments. Each source of income must be evaluated based on all positive and negative evidence; this evaluation involves assumptions about future activity. Certain taxable temporary differences that are not expected to reverse during the carry forward periods permitted by tax law cannot be considered as a source of future taxable income that may be available to realize the benefit of deferred tax assets.

Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Topic 835-30), which requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by this ASU. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-15, which clarified that debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements could continue to be presented as an asset and be subsequently amortized over the term of the line-of-credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings on the arrangement. We early adopted ASU 2015-03 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and reclassified $9 million of debt issuance costs as a contra-liability at March 31, 2016. We assessed the impact on prior periods in accordance with the retrospective application requirement and determined that debt issuance costs were immaterial at March 31, 2015, thus no adjustments were made to March 31, 2015 balance sheet.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, Inventory (Topic 330), which requires entities to measure inventory at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Current guidance requires inventory to be measured at the lower of cost or market, with market defined as replacement cost, net realizable value, or net realizable value less a normal profit margin. This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventory by replacing the lower of cost or market test with a lower of cost or net realizable value test. We early adopted ASU 2015-11 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. The adoption did not have an impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740). The amendments in this ASU require that all deferred income tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in a classified statement of financial position. We early adopted ASU 2015-07 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and elected prospective application. As a result of the adoption, we reclassified $53 million of deferred tax assets from current to noncurrent at March 31, 2016. As this ASU only impacted presentation, it did not have an impact on our net financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Topic 350-40). The amendments of this ASU will help entities evaluate the accounting for fees paid by a customer in a cloud computing arrangement by providing guidance as to whether an arrangement includes the sale or license of software. The requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendment may be adopted either prospectively to all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date or retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, related to simplifications of employee share-based payment accounting. This pronouncement eliminates the APIC pool concept and requires that excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement when awards are settled. The pronouncement also addresses simplifications related to statement of cash flows classification, accounting for forfeitures, and minimum statutory tax withholding requirements. The pronouncement is effective for annual periods (and for interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2016. We are currently evaluating the timing and the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. This new revenue standard, as amended by ASU 2015-14, is effective in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard on assessing whether an entity is a principal or an agent in a revenue transaction. This conclusion impacts whether an entity reports revenue on a gross or net basis. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard regarding an entity’s identification of its performance obligations in a contract, as well as an entity’s evaluation of the nature of its promise to grant a license of intellectual property and whether or not that revenue is recognized over time or at a point in time. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. which amends the guidance in the new revenue standard on collectibility, noncash consideration, presentation of sales tax, and transition. The amendments are intended to address implementation issues that were raised by stakeholders and provide additional practical expedients to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the new revenue standard. These amendments have the same effective date as the new revenue standard. While we are currently evaluating the method of adoption and the impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures, we believe the adoption of the new standard may have a significant impact on the accounting for certain transactions with multiple elements or “bundled” arrangements (for example, sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified future updates) because the requirement to have VSOE for undelivered elements under current accounting standards is eliminated under the new standard. Accordingly, we may be required to recognize as revenue a portion of the sales price upon delivery of the software, as compared to the current requirement of recognizing the entire sales price ratably over an estimated offering period. While we are still evaluating the total impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, we believe adoption of this new standard will have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The FASB issued this update to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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Fair Value Measurements

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]

Fair Value Measurements

2)  FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

There are various valuation techniques used to estimate fair value, the primary one being the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and consider assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability. We measure certain financial and nonfinancial assets and liabilities at fair value on a recurring and nonrecurring basis.

Fair Value Hierarchy

The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are as follows:

• Level 1. Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

• Level 2. Observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets), or model-derived valuations in which all significant inputs are observable or can be derived principally from or corroborated with observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

• Level 3. Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of assets or liabilities.

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, our assets and liabilities that were measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis were as follows (in millions):

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2016		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	345	$	345	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	143		143		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	745		—		745		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	407		407		—		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. agency securities	170		—		170		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	81		—		81		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	16		—		16		—		Other current assets and other assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	8		8		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,915	$	903	$	1,012	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	10		—		10		—		Accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	19	$	9	$	10	$	—

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2015		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	175	$	175	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	7		7		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	468		—		468		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	214		214		—		—		Short-term investments
U.S. agency securities	180		—		180		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	140		—		140		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	18		—		18		—		Other current assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	9		9		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,211	$	405	$	806	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	9		—		9		—		Accrued and other current liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	18	$	9	$	9	$	—

(a) The Deferred Compensation Plan assets consist of various mutual funds. See Note 15 for additional information regarding our Deferred Compensation Plan.

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Financial Instruments

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Financial Instruments

(3)  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

Cash and Cash Equivalents

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, our cash and cash equivalents were $2,493 million and $2,068 million, respectively. Cash equivalents were valued at their carrying amounts as they approximate fair value due to the short maturities of these financial instruments.

Short-Term Investments

Short-term investments consisted of the following as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016								As of March 31, 2015
	Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value		Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value
			Gains		Losses						Gains		Losses
Corporate bonds	$	733	$	1	$	—	$	734	$	467	$	—	$	—	$	467
U.S. Treasury securities	389		1		—		390		214		—		—		214
U.S. agency securities	167		—		—		167		161		1		—		162
Commercial paper	50		—		—		50		110		—		—		110
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	2	$	—	$	1,341	$	952	$	1	$	—	$	953

The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of our short-term investments, classified by stated maturity as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016				As of March 31, 2015
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
Short-term investments
Due in 1 year or less	$	571	$	571	$	417	$	417
Due in 1-2 years	461		462		281		281
Due in 2-3 years	295		296		244		245
Due in 3-4 years	12		12		10		10
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	1,341	$	952	$	953

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Derivative Financial Instruments

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Derivative Financial Instruments

(4)  DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The assets or liabilities associated with our derivative instruments and hedging activities are recorded at fair value in other current assets/other assets, or accrued and other current liabilities/other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. As discussed below, the accounting for gains and losses resulting from changes in fair value depends on the use of the derivative instrument and whether it is designated and qualifies for hedge accounting.

We transact business in various foreign currencies and have significant international sales and expenses denominated in foreign currencies, subjecting us to foreign currency risk. We purchase foreign currency forward contracts, generally with maturities of 18 months or less, to reduce the volatility of cash flows primarily related to forecasted revenue and expenses denominated in certain foreign currencies. Our cash flow risks are primarily related to fluctuations in the Euro, British pound sterling, Canadian dollar, Swedish krona, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and South Korean won. In addition, we utilize foreign currency forward contracts to mitigate foreign exchange rate risk associated with foreign-currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities, primarily intercompany receivables and payables. The foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments generally have a contractual term of approximately 3 months or less and are transacted near month-end. We do not use foreign currency forward contracts for speculative trading purposes.

Cash Flow Hedging Activities

Certain of our forward contracts are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges. The effectiveness of the cash flow hedge contracts, including time value, is assessed monthly using regression analysis, as well as other timing and probability criteria. To qualify for hedge accounting treatment, all hedging relationships are formally documented at the inception of the hedges and must be highly effective in offsetting changes to future cash flows on hedged transactions. The derivative assets or liabilities associated with our hedging activities are recorded at fair value in other current assets/other assets, or accrued and other current liabilities/other liabilities, respectively, on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The effective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in the fair value of these hedges is initially reported, net of tax, as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity. The gross amount of the effective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in the fair value of these hedges is subsequently reclassified into net revenue or research and development expenses, as appropriate, in the period when the forecasted transaction is recognized in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. In the event that the gains or losses in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) are deemed to be ineffective, the ineffective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value, if any, is reclassified to interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. In the event that the underlying forecasted transactions do not occur, or it becomes remote that they will occur, within the defined hedge period, the gains or losses on the related cash flow hedges are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives with cash flow hedge accounting designation are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	148	$	5	$	1	$	108	$	—	$	8
Forward contracts to sell	$	685	$	11	$	9	$	508	$	18	$	1

The net impact of the effective portion of gains and losses from our cash flow hedging activities in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 was a gain of $12 million and a loss of $11 million and $9 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

During fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, we reclassified an immaterial amount of the ineffective portion of gains or losses resulting from changes in fair value into interest and other income (expense), net.

The amount excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness during fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 and recognized in interest and other income (expense), net, was immaterial.

Balance Sheet Hedging Activities

Our foreign currency forward contracts that are not designated as hedging instruments are accounted for as derivatives whereby the fair value of the contracts are reported as other current assets or accrued and other current liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, and gains and losses resulting from changes in the fair value are reported in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The gains and losses on these foreign currency forward contracts generally offset the gains and losses in the underlying foreign-currency-denominated monetary assets and liabilities, which are also reported in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The fair value of our foreign currency forward contracts was measured using Level 2 inputs.

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives that are not designated as hedging instruments are accounted for as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	108	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	—
Forward contracts to sell	$	159	$	—	$	—	$	173	$	—	$	—

The effect of foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, was as follows (in millions):

	Statement of Operations Classification	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Statement of Operations
		Year Ended March 31,
		2016		2015		2014
Foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments	Interest and other  income (expense), net	$	16	$	58	$	(5	)

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax [Abstract]

Comprehensive Income (Loss)

(5) ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

The changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) by component, net of tax, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Available-for-Sale Securities			Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments			Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	(4	)	$	—		$	73		$	69
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	—			(19		)	(22		)	(41		)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	—			9			—			9
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	—			(10		)	(22		)	(32		)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	(4	)	$	(10	)	$	51		$	37
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	1		$	20		$	(67	)	$	(46	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			11			—			11
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	1			31			(67		)	(35		)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	(3		)	21			(16		)	2
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	4		$	5		$	(15	)	$	(6	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			(12		)	—			(12		)
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	4			(7		)	(15		)	(18		)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	1			14			(31		)	(16		)

The effects on net income of amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

Statement of Operations Classification	Amount Reclassified From Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
(Gains) losses on cash flow hedges from forward contracts
Net revenue	(23		)	(2		)	7
Research and development	11			13			2
Total amount reclassified, net of tax	$	(12	)	$	11		$	9

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Business Combinations

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Business Combinations

(6)  BUSINESS COMBINATIONS

There were no acquisitions during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016 and 2015. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, we completed one acquisition that did not have a significant impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net

(7) GOODWILL AND ACQUISITION-RELATED INTANGIBLES, NET

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2015			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2016
Goodwill	$	2,081		$	—	$	(3	)	$	2,078
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,713		$	—	$	(3	)	$	1,710

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2014			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2015
Goodwill	$	2,091		$	—	$	(10	)	$	2,081
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,723		$	—	$	(10	)	$	1,713

Acquisition-related intangibles, consisted of the following (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016							As of March 31, 2015
	Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net
Developed and core technology	$	412	$	(368	)	$	44	$	531	$	(439	)	$	92
Trade names and trademarks	106		(93		)	13		130		(111		)	19
Registered user base and other intangibles	5		(5		)	—		87		(87		)	—
Carrier contracts and related	85		(85		)	—		85		(85		)	—
Total	$	608	$	(551	)	$	57	$	833	$	(722	)	$	111

During fiscal year 2016, we retired $225 million gross carrying amount of fully-amortized intangible assets. Amortization of intangibles for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are classified in the Consolidated Statement of Operations as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of service and other	$	33	$	36	$	27
Cost of product	14		16		33
Operating expenses	7		14		16
Total	$	54	$	66	$	76

Acquisition-related intangible assets are amortized using the straight-line method over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or the agreement terms, typically from 2 to 14 years. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, the weighted-average remaining useful life for acquisition-related intangible assets was approximately 1.6 years and 2.8 years for each period, respectively.

As of March 31, 2016, future amortization of acquisition-related intangibles that will be recorded in the Consolidated Statement of Operations is estimated as follows (in millions):

Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
2017	38
2018	17
2019	2
Total	$	57

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Restructuring And Other Charges

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Restructuring Charges [Abstract]

Restructuring And Other Charges

(8) RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER CHARGES

Restructuring and other restructuring plan-related information as of March 31, 2016 was as follows (in millions):

	Fiscal  2011 Restructuring			Other Restructurings and Reorganization
	Other			Facilities- related			Other			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	57		$	4		$	1		$	62
Charges to operations	(2		)	1			—			$	(1	)
Charges settled in cash	(8		)	(3		)	—			$	(11	)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	47		$	2		$	1		$	50
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(36		)	(1		)	(1		)	$	(38	)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	$	11		$	1		$	—		$	12
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(11		)	(1		)	—			$	(12	)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—

Fiscal 2011 Restructuring

In fiscal year 2011, we announced a plan focused on the restructuring of certain licensing and developer agreements in an effort to improve the long-term profitability of our packaged goods business. Under this plan, we amended certain licensing and developer agreements. To a much lesser extent, as part of this restructuring, we had workforce reductions and facilities closures through March 31, 2011. Substantially all of these exit activities were completed by March 31, 2011.

Since the inception of the fiscal 2011 restructuring plan through March 31, 2015, we have incurred charges of $172 million, consisting of (1) $129 million related to the amendment of certain licensing agreements and other intangible asset impairment costs, (2) $31 million related to the amendment of certain developer agreements, and (3) $12 million in employee-related expenses. We do not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges under this plan. As of March 31, 2016, we have settled all accruals under this restructuring plan.

Other Restructurings and Reorganization

We also engaged in various other restructurings and a reorganization based on management decisions made in fiscal years 2013 and 2009. We do not expect to incur any additional restructuring charges under these plans. Substantially all of the accruals under these restructuring plans have been settled by March 31, 2016.

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Royalties And Licenses

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Royalties And Licenses [Abstract]

Royalties And Licenses

(9) ROYALTIES AND LICENSES

Our royalty expenses consist of payments to (1) content licensors, (2) independent software developers, and (3) co-publishing and distribution affiliates. License royalties consist of payments made to celebrities, professional sports organizations, movie studios and other organizations for our use of their trademarks, copyrights, personal publicity rights, content and/or other intellectual property. Royalty payments to independent software developers are payments for the development of intellectual property related to our games. Co-publishing and distribution royalties are payments made to third parties for the delivery of products.

Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums. Prepayments made to thinly capitalized independent software developers and co-publishing affiliates are generally made in connection with the development of a particular product, and therefore, we are generally subject to development risk prior to the release of the product. Accordingly, payments that are due prior to completion of a product are generally expensed to research and development over the development period as the services are incurred. Payments due after completion of the product (primarily royalty-based in nature) are generally expensed as cost of revenue.

Our contracts with some licensors include minimum guaranteed royalty payments, which are initially recorded as an asset and as a liability at the contractual amount when no performance remains with the licensor. When performance remains with the licensor, we record guarantee payments as an asset when actually paid and as a liability when incurred, rather than recording the asset and liability upon execution of the contract. Prepaid royalties are classified as current assets to the extent that such amounts will be recognized in our Consolidated Statements of Operations within the next 12 months. Royalty liabilities are classified as current liabilities to the extent such royalty payments are contractually due within the next 12 months.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

During fiscal year 2016, we did not recognize any losses or impairment charges on royalty-based commitments. During the fiscal year 2015, we recognized a loss of $122 million on a previously unrecognized licensed intellectual property commitment. The $122 million loss related to the termination of certain rights we previously had to use a licensor’s intellectual property. In addition, because the loss will be paid in installments through March 2022, our accrued loss was computed using the effective interest method. We currently estimate recognizing in future periods through March 2022, approximately $22 million for the accretion of interest expense related to this obligation. This interest expense will be included in cost of revenue in our Consolidated Statement of Operations.

The current and long-term portions of prepaid royalties and minimum guaranteed royalty-related assets, included in other current assets and other assets, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other current assets	$	54	$	70
Other assets	63		59
Royalty-related assets	$	117	$	129

At any given time, depending on the timing of our payments to our co-publishing and/or distribution affiliates, content licensors, and/or independent software developers, we classify any recognized unpaid royalty amounts due to these parties as accrued liabilities. The current and long-term portions of accrued royalties, included in accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Accrued royalties	$	159	$	119
Other liabilities	118		131
Royalty-related liabilities	$	277	$	250

As of March 31, 2016, we were committed to pay approximately $1,460 million to content licensors, independent software developers, and co-publishing and/or distribution affiliates, but performance remained with the counterparty (i.e., delivery of the product or content or other factors) and such commitments were therefore not recorded in our Consolidated Financial Statements. See Note 13 for further information on our developer and licensor commitments.

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Balance Sheet Details

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]

Balance Sheet Details

(10)  BALANCE SHEET DETAILS

Inventories

Inventories as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Finished goods	$	32	$	35
Raw materials and work in process	1		1
Inventories	$	33	$	36

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Computer equipment and software	$	684		$	655
Buildings	313			315
Leasehold improvements	129			126
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	80			73
Land	61			62
Construction in progress	15			7
	1,282			1,238
Less: accumulated depreciation	(843		)	(779		)
Property and equipment, net	$	439		$	459

Depreciation expense associated with property and equipment was $119 million, $126 million and $126 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Accrued and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued and other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other accrued expenses	$	218	$	298
Accrued compensation and benefits	256		263
Accrued royalties	159		119
Deferred net revenue (other)	77		114
Accrued and other current liabilities	$	710	$	794

Deferred net revenue (other) includes the deferral of subscription revenue, deferrals related to our Switzerland distribution business, advertising revenue, licensing arrangements, and other revenue for which revenue recognition criteria has not been met.

Deferred Net Revenue (Online-Enabled Games)

Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games) was $1,458 million and $1,283 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games) generally includes the unrecognized revenue from bundled sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for the obligation to provide unspecified updates. We recognize revenue from the sale of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for the unspecified updates on a straight-line basis, generally over an estimated nine-month period beginning in the month after shipment for physical games sold through retail and an estimated six-month period for digitally-distributed games. However, we expense the cost of revenue related to these transactions during the period in which the product is delivered (rather than on a deferred basis).

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Income Taxes

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

(11)  INCOME TAXES

The components of our income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Domestic	$	133	$	232	$	(146	)
Foreign	744		693		153
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$	877	$	925	$	7

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Current			Deferred			Total
Year Ended March 31, 2016
Federal	$	69		$	(376	)	$	(307	)
State	5			(14		)	(9		)
Foreign	36			1			37
	$	110		$	(389	)	$	(279	)
Year Ended March 31, 2015
Federal	$	10		$	17		$	27
State	—			—			—
Foreign	21			2			23
	$	31		$	19		$	50
Year Ended March 31, 2014
Federal	$	(2	)	$	(9	)	$	(11	)
State	1			(2		)	(1		)
Foreign	8			3			11
	$	7		$	(8	)	$	(1	)

On July 27, 2015, the United States Tax Court, in an opinion in Altera Corp v. Commissioner, invalidated the portion of the Treasury regulations issued under Internal Revenue Code Section 482 requiring related-party participants in a cost sharing arrangement to share stock-based compensation costs. The U.S. Tax Court issued the final decision on December 28, 2015. On February 19, 2016, the government filed a notice of appeal of the Tax Court decision. At this time, the U.S. Treasury has not withdrawn its regulations that require including stock-based compensation in a cost sharing arrangement. We have evaluated the opinion and have recorded a $41 million tax benefit related to fiscal year 2016 stock-based compensation deductions that will not be subject to reimbursement through cost share payments if the Tax Court’s opinion is sustained. We will continue to monitor developments related to the case and the potential impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation deductions are allocated to contributed capital before historical net operating losses are utilized to reduce tax expense. The income tax provision includes tax benefits allocated directly to contributed capital of $83 million, $21 million and $12 million for fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

The differences between the statutory tax expense rate and our effective tax expense (benefit) rate, expressed as a percentage of income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows:

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Statutory federal tax expense rate	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%
State taxes, net of federal benefit	0.5	%	0.1	%	(242.9	)%
Differences between statutory rate and foreign effective tax rate	(22.1	)%	(22.3	)%	(142.9	)%
Valuation allowance	(51.7	)%	(9.2	)%	936.5	%
Research and development credits	(0.6	)%	(1.1	)%	(128.6	)%
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	4.9	%	—		—	%
Resolution of tax matters with authorities	—	%	(0.5	)%	(657.1	)%
Non-deductible stock-based compensation	3.1	%	3.5	%	385.7	%
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—	%	(0.2	)%	(185.7	)%
Other	(0.9	)%	0.1	%	(14.3	)%
Effective tax expense (benefit) rate	(31.8	)%	5.4	%	(14.3	)%

We generated income in lower tax jurisdictions primarily related to our European and Asia Pacific businesses that are headquartered in Switzerland.

Historically, we have considered all undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries to be indefinitely reinvested outside of the United States and, accordingly, no U.S. taxes have been provided thereon. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we issued the Senior Notes and we announced a $500 million stock repurchase program. In light of these future obligations, we reevaluated our intent to indefinitely reinvest all earnings of foreign subsidiary companies, and concluded that a portion of earnings of certain subsidiaries will no longer be considered to be indefinitely reinvested. As a result, we have recognized a deferred tax liability of $43 million for U.S. income taxes with respect to such earnings.

Undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries that are considered to be indefinitely reinvested are $1,241 million as of March 31, 2016. As we currently have no plans to repatriate those earnings, no U.S. income taxes have been provided thereon. Upon distribution of those earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise, we would be subject to both U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits) and withholding taxes payable to various foreign countries. As we do not know the time or manner in which we would repatriate those funds, it is not practicable to determine the impact of local taxes, withholding taxes and foreign tax credits associated with the future repatriation of such earnings and therefore we cannot quantify the tax liability.

The components of net deferred tax assets, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals, reserves and other expenses	$	171		$	189
Tax credit carryforwards	334			312
Stock-based compensation	39			35
Net operating loss & capital loss carryforwards	28			41
Total	572			577
Valuation allowance	(114		)	(555		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance	458			22
Deferred tax liabilities:
Amortization and Depreciation	(27		)	(32		)
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	(43		)	—
Prepaids and other liabilities	(3		)	(8		)
Total	(73		)	(40		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance and deferred tax liabilities	$	385		$	(18	)

From the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 to the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, we maintained a 100% valuation allowance against most of our U.S. deferred tax assets because there was insufficient positive evidence to overcome the existing negative evidence such that it was not more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. While we reported U.S. pre-tax income in fiscal year 2015, because we reported U.S. pre-tax losses during the previous seven fiscal years, as well as in the second and third quarters of fiscal year 2016, we continued to maintain the 100% valuation allowance through the third quarter of fiscal year 2016.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we realized significant U.S. pre-tax income for both the fourth quarter and the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. As of March 31, 2016, we had reported positive operating performance in the U.S. for two consecutive fiscal years and had also reported a cumulative three-year U.S. pre-tax profit. In addition, during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, we completed our financial plan for fiscal year 2017 and expect continued positive operating performance in the U.S. We also considered forecasts of future taxable income and evaluated the utilization of tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration. After considering these factors, we determined that the positive evidence overcame any negative evidence and concluded that it was more likely than not that the U.S. deferred tax assets were realizable. As a result, we released the valuation allowance against all of the U.S. federal deferred tax assets and a portion of the U.S. state deferred tax assets during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016.

The valuation allowance decreased by $441 million in fiscal year 2016, primarily due to the release of the valuation allowance on U.S. deferred tax assets. As of March 31, 2016, we maintained a valuation allowance of $114 million, primarily related to certain U.S. state deferred tax assets and foreign capital loss carryovers, due to uncertainty about the future realization of these assets. In determining the amount of deferred tax assets that are more likely than not to be realized, we evaluated the potential to realize the assets through the utilization of tax loss and credit carrybacks, the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, future taxable income exclusive of the reversal of existing taxable temporary differences, and certain tax planning strategies.

As of March 31, 2016, we have state net operating loss carry forwards of approximately $1,016 million of which approximately $130 million is attributable to various acquired companies. These carryforwards, if not fully realized, will begin to expire in 2017. We also have U.S. federal, California and Canada tax credit carryforwards of $373 million, $93 million and $8 million, respectively. The U.S. federal tax credit carryforwards will begin to expire in 2024. The California and Canada tax credit carryforwards can be carried forward indefinitely.

The total unrecognized tax benefits as of March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were $331 million, $254 million and $232 million, respectively. A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balance of unrecognized tax benefits is summarized as follows (in millions):

Balance as of March 31, 2013	$	297
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	10
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(79		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	44
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(29		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(9		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(2		)
Balance as of March 31, 2014	232
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	9
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(14		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	50
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(6		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(7		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(10		)
Balance as of March 31, 2015	254
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	33
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(4		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	63
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(10		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(4		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(1		)
Balance as of March 31, 2016	$	331

A portion of our unrecognized tax benefits will affect our effective tax rate if they are recognized upon favorable resolution of the uncertain tax positions. As of March 31, 2016, approximately $305 million of the unrecognized tax benefits would affect our effective tax rate and approximately $26 million would result in adjustments to the deferred tax valuation allowance.

Interest and penalties related to estimated obligations for tax positions taken in our tax returns are recognized in income tax expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. The combined amount of accrued interest and penalties related to tax positions taken on our tax returns and included in non-current other liabilities was approximately $15 million as of March 31, 2016 and $16 million as of March 31, 2015. There was approximately $1 million decrease in in accrued interest and penalties during fiscal year 2016.

We file income tax returns in the United States, including various state and local jurisdictions. Our subsidiaries file tax returns in various foreign jurisdictions, including Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The IRS is currently examining our returns for fiscal years 2009 through 2011, and we remain subject to income tax examination by the IRS for fiscal years after 2012.

We are also currently under income tax examination in the United Kingdom for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. We remain subject to income tax examination for several other jurisdictions including in France and Germany for fiscal years after 2012, in the United Kingdom for fiscal years after 2014, and in Canada and Switzerland for fiscal years after 2007.

The timing of the resolution of income tax examinations is highly uncertain, and the amounts ultimately paid, if any, upon resolution of the issues raised by the taxing authorities may differ materially from the amounts accrued for each year. Although potential resolution of uncertain tax positions involve multiple tax periods and jurisdictions, it is reasonably possible that a reduction of up to $50 million of unrecognized tax benefits may occur within the next 12 months, some of which, depending on the nature of the settlement or expiration of statutes of limitations, may affect the Company’s income tax provision and therefore benefit the resulting effective tax rate. The actual amount could vary significantly depending on the ultimate timing and nature of any settlements.

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Financing Arrangement

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Debt Instruments [Abstract]

Financing Arrangement

(12)  FINANCING ARRANGEMENT

0.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2016

In July 2011, we issued $632.5 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations which pay interest semiannually in arrears at a rate of 0.75% per annum on January 15 and July 15 of each year, and will mature on July 15, 2016, unless purchased earlier or converted in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equally with all our other existing and future unsubordinated obligations and any indebtedness that we may incur from time to time under our Credit Facility.

We separately account for the liability and equity components of the Convertible Notes. The initial carrying amount of the equity component representing the conversion option is equal to the fair value of the Convertible Note Hedge, as described below, which is a substantially identical instrument and was purchased on the same day as the Convertible Notes. The initial carrying amount of the liability component was determined by deducting the fair value of the equity component from the par value of the Convertible Notes as a whole, and represents the fair value of a similar liability that does not have an associated convertible feature. A liability of $525 million as of the initial date of issuance was recognized for the principal amount of the Convertible Notes representing the present value of the Convertible Notes’ cash flows using a discount rate of 4.54 percent. The excess of the principal amount of the liability component over its carrying amount is amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes using the effective interest method. The equity component on the date of issuance was $107 million.

In accounting for $15 million of issuance costs paid in July 2011 related to the Convertible Notes issuance, we allocated $13 million to the liability component and $2 million to the equity component. Debt issuance costs attributable to the liability component are being amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes, and issuance costs attributable to the equity component were netted with the equity component in additional paid-in capital.

The Convertible Notes are convertible into cash and shares of our common stock based on an initial conversion value of 31.5075 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $31.74 per share). Upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, holders will receive cash up to the principal amount of each Convertible Note, and any excess conversion value will be delivered in shares of our common stock. A holder may convert any of its Convertible Notes at any time prior to the close of business on July 13, 2016. The conversion rate is subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments (for example, certain dividend distributions or tender or exchange offer of our common stock), but will not be adjusted for any accrued and unpaid interest. The Convertible Notes are not redeemable prior to maturity except for specified corporate transactions and events of default, and no sinking fund is provided for the Convertible Notes. The Convertible Notes do not contain any financial covenants.

The carrying value of the Convertible Notes continued to be classified as a current liability and the excess of the principal amount over the carrying value of the Convertible Notes continued to be classified in temporary equity in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2016.

Upon conversion of any Convertible Notes, we deliver cash up to the principal amount of the Convertible Notes and any excess conversion value is delivered in shares of our common stock. During fiscal year 2016, approximately $497 million principal value of the Convertible Notes were converted by holders thereof. During fiscal year 2016, we repaid $470 million principal balance of the Convertible Notes and issued approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock to noteholders with a fair value of $518 million, resulting in a loss on extinguishment of $10 million. We also received and cancelled approximately 7.8 million shares of common stock from the exercise of the Convertible Note Hedge during fiscal year 2016. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, the if-converted value of our Convertible Notes outstanding in aggregate exceeded their principal amount by $175 million.

Subsequent to the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 and through May 23, 2016, we received conversion requests for an immaterial principal value of the Convertible Notes. During the quarter ending June 30, 2016, we expect to settle conversion requests with $27 million in cash and a number of shares of our common stock equal in value to the excess conversion value. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 0.4 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to converting holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon conversion will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during an observation period following any conversion.

The carrying and fair values of the Convertible Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016			As of March 31, 2015
Principal amount of Convertible Notes	$	163		$	633
Unamortized debt discount of the liability component	(2		)	(31		)
Net carrying value of Convertible Notes	$	161		$	602
Fair value of Convertible Notes (Level 2)	$	338		$	1,158

As of March 31, 2016, the remaining life of the Convertible Notes is approximately 3.5 months.

Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants Issuance

In July 2011, we entered into the Convertible Note Hedge to reduce the potential dilution with respect to our common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes. We paid $107 million for the Convertible Note Hedge, which was recorded as an equity transaction. The Convertible Note Hedge, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, provides us with the option to acquire, on a net settlement basis, approximately 19.9 million shares of our common stock equal to the number of shares of our common stock that notionally underlie the Convertible Notes at a strike price of $31.74, which corresponds to the conversion price of the Convertible Notes. As of March 31, 2016, we received 7.8 million shares of our common stock under the Convertible Note Hedge. Subsequent to March 31, 2016, we expect to receive a number of shares under the Convertible Note Hedge substantially equal to the number of shares of common stock to be issued in connection with any conversions of the Convertible Notes.

Separately, in July 2011 we also entered into privately negotiated warrant transactions with certain counterparties whereby we sold to independent third parties warrants (the “Warrants”) to acquire, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments that are substantially the same as the anti-dilution provisions contained in the Convertible Notes, up to 19.9 million shares of our common stock (which is also equal to the number of shares of our common stock that notionally underlie the Convertible Notes), with a strike price of $41.14. The Warrants have a dilutive effect with respect to our common stock to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds $41.14 on or prior to the expiration date of the Warrants. The Warrants automatically exercise over a 60 trading day period beginning on October 17, 2016. Based on the closing price of our common stock of $65.92 at the end of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 7.5 million shares of our common stock would be issuable to Warrant holders. The actual amount of shares issuable upon exercise will be determined based upon the market price of our common stock during the 60 day trading period beginning on October 17, 2016. We received proceeds of $65 million from the sale of the Warrants in fiscal year 2012.

Effect of conversion on earning per share (“EPS”)

The Convertible Notes have no impact on diluted EPS for periods where the average quarterly price of our common stock is below the conversion price of $31.74 per share. Prior to conversion, we include the effect of the additional shares that may be issued if our common stock price exceeds $31.74 per share using the treasury stock method. If the average price of our common stock exceeds $41.14 per share for a quarterly period, we also include the effect of the additional potential shares that may be issued related to the Warrants using the treasury stock method. Prior to conversion, the Convertible Note Hedge is not considered for purposes of the EPS calculation, as its effect would be anti-dilutive. Upon conversion, the Convertible Note Hedge is expected to offset the dilutive effect of the Notes when the stock price is above $31.74 per share. See Note 17 for additional information related to our EPS.

Senior Notes

In February 2016, we issued $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.70% Senior Notes due March 1, 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2026 (the “2026 Notes,” and together with the 2021 Notes, the “Senior Notes”). Our proceeds were $989 million, net of discount of $2 million and issuance costs of $9 million. Both the discount and issuance costs are being amortized to interest expense over the respective terms of the 2021 Notes and the 2026 Notes using the effective interest rate method. The effective interest rate was 3.94% for the 2021 Notes and 4.97% for the 2026 Notes. Interest is payable semiannually in arrears, on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2016.

The carrying and fair values of the Senior Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016
Senior Notes:
3.70% Senior Notes due 2021	$	600
4.80% Senior Notes due 2026	400
Total principal amount	$	1,000
Unaccreted discount	(2		)
Unamortized debt issuance costs	(9		)
Net carrying value of Senior Notes	$	989
Fair value of Senior Notes (Level 2)	$	1,039

As of March 31, 2016, the remaining life of the 2021 Notes and 2026 Notes is approximately 4.9 years and 9.9 years, respectively.

The Senior Notes are senior unsecured obligations and rank equally with all our other existing and future unsubordinated obligations, including our Convertible Notes, and any indebtedness that we may incur from time to time under our Credit Facility.

The 2021 Notes and the 2026 Notes are redeemable at our option at any time prior to February 1, 2021 or December 1, 2025, respectively, subject to a make-whole premium. Within one and three months of maturity, we may redeem the 2021 Notes or the 2026 Notes, respectively, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest. In addition, upon the occurrence of a change of control repurchase event, the holders of the Senior Notes may require us to repurchase all or a portion of the Senior Notes, at a price equal to 101% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of repurchase. The Senior Notes also include covenants that limit our ability to incur liens on assets and to enter into sale and leaseback transactions, subject to certain allowances.

Credit Facility

In March 2015, we entered into a $500 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility (“Credit Facility”) with a syndicate of banks. The Credit Facility terminates on March 19, 2020. The Credit Facility contains an option to arrange with existing lenders and/or new lenders for them to provide up to an aggregate of $250 million in additional commitments for revolving loans. Proceeds of loans made under the Credit Facility may be used for general corporate purposes.

The loans bear interest, at our option, at the base rate plus an applicable spread or an adjusted LIBOR rate plus an applicable spread, in each case with such spread being determined based on our consolidated leverage ratio for the preceding fiscal quarter. We are also obligated to pay other customary fees for a credit facility of this size and type. Interest is due and payable in arrears quarterly for loans bearing interest at the base rate and at the end of an interest period (or at each three month interval in the case of loans with interest periods greater than three months) in the case of loans bearing interest at the adjusted LIBOR rate. Principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is due and payable on March 19, 2020.

The credit agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict our ability to, among other things, incur subsidiary indebtedness, grant liens, dispose of all or substantially all assets and pay dividends or make distributions, in each case subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. We are also required to maintain compliance with a capitalization ratio and maintain a minimum level of total liquidity.

The credit agreement contains customary events of default, including among others, non-payment defaults, covenant defaults, cross-defaults to material indebtedness, bankruptcy and insolvency defaults, material judgment of defaults and a change of control default, in each case, subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the acceleration of the obligations under the credit facility, an obligation by any guarantors to repay the obligations in full and an increase in the applicable interest rate.   

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, no amounts were outstanding under the Credit Facility. $2 million of debt issuance costs that were paid in connection with obtaining this credit facility are being amortized to interest expense over the 5 year term of the Credit Facility.   

Interest Expense

The following table summarizes our interest expense recognized for fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 that is included in interest and other income (expense), net on our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Amortization of debt discount	(17		)	(22		)	(21		)
Amortization of debt issuance costs	(3		)	(3		)	(3		)
Coupon interest expense	(7		)	(5		)	(5		)
Other interest expense	(1		)	(1		)	(1		)
Total interest expense	$	(28	)	$	(31	)	$	(30	)

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12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments And Contingencies

(13)  COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Lease Commitments

As of March 31, 2016, we leased certain 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, but are not limited to: FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), FIFPRO Foundation, FAPL (Football Association Premier League Limited), and DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH (German Soccer League) (professional soccer); Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Ferrari S.p.A. (Need For Speed and Real Racing games); National Basketball Association (professional basketball); PGA TOUR (professional golf); National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association (professional hockey); National Football League Properties, PLAYERS Inc., and Red Bear Inc. (professional football); Zuffa, LLC (Ultimate Fighting Championship); ESPN (content in EA SPORTS games); Disney Interactive (Star Wars); Fox Digital Entertainment, Inc. (The Simpsons); Universal Studios Inc. (Minions); and Respawn. 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 minimum contractual obligations as of March 31, 2016 (in millions):

			Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
	Total		2017		2018		2019		2020		2021		Thereafter
Unrecognized commitments
Developer/licensor commitments	$	1,460	$	211	$	299	$	277	$	243	$	189	$	241
Marketing commitments	371		61		50		81		64		67		48
Operating leases	219		36		32		28		27		24		72
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 interest (a)	1		1		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes interest	300		38		41		41		41		41		98
Other purchase obligations	81		29		8		7		6		5		26
Total unrecognized commitments	2,432		376		430		434		381		326		485
Recognized commitments
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 principal and interest (a)	163		163		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes principal and interest	1,004		4		—		—		—		600		400
Licensing and lease obligations (b)	147		22		23		24		25		26		27
Total recognized commitments	1,314		189		23		24		25		626		427
Total Commitments	$	3,746	$	565	$	453	$	458	$	406	$	952	$	912

(a) We will be obligated to pay the remaining $163 million principal amount of the Convertible Notes in cash and deliver any excess conversion value in shares of our common stock upon redemption of the Convertible Notes at maturity on July 15, 2016, or upon earlier conversion. See Note 12 for additional information regarding our Convertible Notes.

(b) Lease commitments have not been reduced for approximately $2 million due in the future from third parties under non-cancelable sub-leases. See Note 9 for additional information regarding recognized obligations from our licensing-related commitments.

The unrecognized amounts represented in the table above reflect our 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 Consolidated Financial Statements. In addition, the amounts in the table above are presented based on the dates the amounts are contractually due as of March 31, 2016; however, certain payment obligations may be accelerated depending on the performance of our operating results. Up to $32 million of the unrecognized amounts in the table above may be payable, at the licensor’s election, in shares of our common stock, subject to a $10 million maximum during any fiscal year. The number of shares to be issued will be based on fair market value at the time of issuance.

In addition to what is included in the table above, as of March 31, 2016, we had a liability for unrecognized tax benefits and an accrual for the payment of related interest totaling $80 million, of which we are unable to make a reasonably reliable estimate of when cash settlement with a taxing authority will occur.

Total rent expense for our operating leases was $89 million, $97 million and $97 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Legal Proceedings

On July 29, 2010, Michael Davis, a former NFL running back, filed a putative class action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against the Company, alleging that certain past versions of Madden NFL included the images of certain retired NFL players without their permission. In March 2012, the trial court denied the Company’s request to dismiss the complaint on First Amendment grounds. In January 2015, that trial court decision was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the case was remanded back to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, where the case is pending.

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 Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Preferred Stock

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Mar. 31, 2016

Preferred Stock, Number of Shares, Par Value and Other Disclosures [Abstract]

Preferred Stock

(14)  PREFERRED STOCK

As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, we had 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized but unissued. The rights, preferences, and restrictions of the preferred stock may be designated by our Board of Directors without further action by our stockholders.

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Stock-Based Compensation

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Mar. 31, 2016

Share-based Compensation [Abstract]

Stock-Based Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans

(15)  STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Valuation Assumptions

We estimate the fair value of stock-based awards on the date of grant. We recognize compensation costs for stock-based awards to employees based on the grant-date fair value using a straight-line approach over the service period for which such awards are expected to vest.

The determination of the fair value of market-based restricted stock units, stock options and ESPP is affected by assumptions regarding subjective and complex variables. Generally, our assumptions are based on historical information and judgment is required to determine if historical trends may be indicators of future outcomes. We determine the fair value of our stock-based awards as follows:

• Restricted Stock Units. The fair value of restricted stock units is determined based on the quoted market price of our common stock on the date of grant.

• Market-Based Restricted Stock Units. Market-based restricted stock units consist of grants of performance-based restricted stock units to certain members of executive management that vest contingent upon the achievement of pre-determined market and service conditions (referred to herein as “market-based restricted stock units”). The fair value of our market-based restricted stock units is determined using a Monte-Carlo simulation model. Key assumptions for the Monte-Carlo simulation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected dividends and correlation coefficient.

• Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. The fair value of stock options and stock purchase rights granted pursuant to our equity incentive plans and our 2000 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (“ESPP”), respectively, is determined using the Black-Scholes valuation model based on the multiple-award valuation method. Key assumptions of the Black-Scholes valuation model are the risk-free interest rate, expected volatility, expected term and expected dividends. The risk-free interest rate is based on U.S. Treasury yields in effect at the time of grant for the expected term of the option. Expected volatility is based on a combination of historical stock price volatility and implied volatility of publicly-traded options on our common stock. Expected term is determined based on historical exercise behavior, post-vesting termination patterns, options outstanding and future expected exercise behavior.

There were an insignificant number of stock options granted during fiscal year 2016.

The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes valuation model to value our stock option grants and ESPP were as follows:

	Stock Option Grants				ESPP
	Year Ended March 31,				Year Ended March 31,
	2015		2014		2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.1 -1.9%		1.6%		0.3 - 0.6%		0.04 - 0.2%		0.1	%
Expected volatility	36 - 40%		37 - 42%		32 - 36%		30 - 35%		36 - 38%
Weighted-average volatility	38	%	37	%	33	%	34	%	38	%
Expected term	4.5 years		4.5 years		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months
Expected dividends	None		None		None		None		None

The assumptions used in the Monte-Carlo simulation model to value our market-based restricted stock units were as follows: 

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.0	%	0.9	%	0.4	%
Expected volatility	14 - 53%		16 - 79%		16 - 58%
Weighted-average volatility	26	%	30	%	31	%
Expected dividends	None		None		None

Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Employee stock-based compensation expense recognized during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 was calculated based on awards ultimately expected to vest and has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. In subsequent periods, if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates, an adjustment to stock-based compensation expense will be recognized at that time.

The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense resulting from stock options, restricted stock units, market-based restricted stock units, and the ESPP included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of revenue	$	2	$	2	$	2
Research and development	103		82		90
Marketing and sales	24		21		26
General and administrative	49		39		32
Stock-based compensation expense	$	178	$	144	$	150

During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016 we recognized a $38 million deferred income tax benefit related to our stock-based compensation expense. During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, we did not recognize any benefit from income taxes related to our stock-based compensation expense.

As of March 31, 2016, our total unrecognized compensation cost related to restricted stock and restricted stock units (collectively referred to as “restricted stock rights”) was $243 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average service period of 1.3 years. Of the $243 million of unrecognized compensation cost, $26 million relates to market-based restricted stock units. As of March 31, 2016, our total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options was $9 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average service period of 1.4 years.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, we recognized $83 million of income tax benefit from the exercise of stock-based compensation, net of $3 million of deferred tax write-offs; of this amount $86 million of excess tax benefit related to stock-based compensation deductions was reported in the financing activities on our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. For fiscal years ended fiscal years ended 2015 and 2014, we recognized $22 million and $13 million, respectively, of excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation deductions; this amount is reported in the financing activities on our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.

Summary of Plans and Plan Activity

Equity Incentive Plans

Our 2000 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, (the “Equity Plan”) allows us to grant options to purchase our common stock and to grant restricted stock, restricted stock units and stock appreciation rights to our employees, officers, and directors. Pursuant to the Equity Plan, incentive stock options may be granted to employees and officers and non-qualified options may be granted to employees, officers, and directors, at not less than 100 percent of the fair market value on the date of grant.

A total of 15.2 million options or 10.7 million restricted stock units were available for grant under our Equity Plan as of March 31, 2016.

Stock Options

Options granted under the Equity Plan generally expire ten years from the date of grant and generally vest according to one of the following schedules:

• 35 month vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting after 11, 23 and 35 months or;

• 50 month vesting with 24% of the shares cliff vesting after 12 months and the ratably over the following 38 months.

The following table summarizes our stock option activity for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Options (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in millions)
Outstanding as of March 31, 2015	4,920		$	37.44
Granted	6		66.08
Exercised	(1,594	)	42.43
Forfeited, cancelled or expired	(54	)	35.61
Outstanding as of March 31, 2016	3,278		$	35.09	5.61	$	101
Vested and expected to vest	3,163		$	35.22	5.53	$	97
Exercisable as of March 31, 2016	2,206		$	36.55	4.46	$	65

The aggregate intrinsic value represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value based on our closing stock price as of March 31, 2016, which would have been received by the option holders had all the option holders exercised their options as of that date. The weighted-average grant date fair values of stock options granted during fiscal years 2015 and 2014 were $12.01 and $8.61, respectively. The total intrinsic values of stock options exercised during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $38 million, $22 million and $16 million, respectively. We issue new common stock from our authorized shares upon the exercise of stock options.

The following table summarizes outstanding and exercisable stock options as of March 31, 2016:

	Options Outstanding						Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices	Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution		Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution
$11.53 - $23.83	317	3.39	$	19.10	0.1	%	313	$	19.18	0.1	%
26.25 - 26.25	1,000	7.58	26.25		0.3	%	580	26.25		0.2	%
27.49 - 35.70	853	8.21	35.50		0.3	%	343	35.21		0.1	%
36.00 - 59.63	1,108	2.47	47.33		0.4	%	970	48.78		0.3	%
$11.53 - $59.63	3,278	5.61	$	35.09	1.1	%	2,206	$	36.55	0.7	%

Potential dilution is computed by dividing the options in the related range of exercise prices by 301 million shares of common stock, which were issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2016.

Restricted Stock Rights

We grant restricted stock rights under our Equity Plan to employees worldwide. Restricted stock units are unfunded, unsecured rights to receive common stock upon the satisfaction of certain vesting criteria. Upon vesting, a number of shares of common stock equivalent the number of restricted stock units is typically issued net of required tax withholding requirements, if any. Restricted stock is issued and outstanding upon grant; however, restricted stock award holders are restricted from selling the shares until they vest. Upon granting or vesting of restricted stock, as the case may be, we will typically withhold shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements. Restricted stock rights are subject to forfeiture and transfer restrictions. Vesting for restricted stock rights is based on the holders’ continued employment with us through each applicable vest date. If the vesting conditions are not met, unvested restricted stock rights will be forfeited.

Generally, our restricted stock rights vest according to one of the following vesting schedules:

• One-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of one year;

• 35 month vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting after 11, 23 and 35 months;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• Three-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of year three;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/2 cliff vesting after 18 and 36 months;

• Three-year vesting with ²/3 and ¹/3 vesting cliff vesting after 24 and 36 months;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/4, ⁷/20, ¹/5,  and  ¹/5 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the first 6 months, 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd years;

• 40 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 16, 28, and 40 months;

• 41 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 17, 29 and 41 months;

• Four-year vesting with  ¹/4 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• 51 month vesting with 1/10, 3/10, 3/10, 3/10 of the shares cliff vesting respectively after 15, 27, 39 and 51 months or;

• Five-year vesting with  ¹/9,  ²/9,  ³/9,  ²/9 and  ¹/9 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th years.

Each restricted stock right granted reduces the number of shares available for grant by 1.43 shares under our Equity Plan. The following table summarizes our restricted stock rights activity, excluding market-based restricted stock unit activity which is discussed below, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Restricted Stock Rights (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Values
Balance as of March 31, 2015	10,855		$	26.20
Granted	3,035		64.40
Vested	(5,809	)	22.65
Forfeited or cancelled	(924	)	35.78
Balance as of March 31, 2016	7,157		$	44.04

The grant date fair value of restricted stock rights is based on the quoted market price of our common stock on the date of grant. The weighted-average grant date fair values of restricted stock rights granted during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $64.40, $37.22 and $23.01 respectively. The fair values of restricted stock rights that vested during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $372 million, $209 million and $163 million, respectively.

Market-Based Restricted Stock Units

Our market-based restricted stock units vest contingent upon the achievement of pre-determined market and service conditions. If these market conditions are not met but service conditions are met, the market-based restricted stock units will not vest; however, any compensation expense we have recognized to date will not be reversed. The number of shares of common stock to be received at vesting will range from zero percent to 200 percent of the target number of market-based restricted stock units based on our total stockholder return (“TSR”) relative to the performance of companies in the NASDAQ-100 Index for each measurement period, generally over a one-year, two-year cumulative and three-year cumulative period. In the table below, we present shares granted at 100 percent of target of the number of market-based restricted stock units that may potentially vest. The maximum number of shares of common stock that could vest is approximately 0.8 million for market-based restricted stock units granted during the fiscal year 2016. As of March 31, 2016, the maximum number of shares that could vest is approximately 1.3 million for market-based restricted stock units outstanding.

The following table summarizes our market-based restricted stock unit activity for the year ended March 31, 2016:

	Market-Based Restricted  Stock Units (in thousands)		Weighted- Average  Grant Date Fair Value
Balance as of March 31, 2015	663		$	31.82
Granted	395		79.81
Vested	(742	)	25.77
Vested above target	371		25.77
Forfeited or cancelled	(51	)	40.10
Balance as of March 31, 2016	636		$	64.49

The weighted-average grant date fair values of market-based restricted stock units granted during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $79.81, $48.14, and $30.18, respectively. The fair values of market-based restricted stock units that vested during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 were $47 million, $23 million, and $7 million, respectively.

ESPP

Pursuant to our ESPP, eligible employees may authorize payroll deductions of between 2 percent and 10 percent of their compensation to purchase shares of common stock at 85 percent of the lower of the market price of our common stock on the date of commencement of the applicable offering period or on the last day of each six-month purchase period.

During fiscal year 2016, we issued approximately 0.9 million shares under the ESPP with purchase prices ranging from $32.16 to $54.78. During fiscal year 2015, we issued approximately 1.4 million shares under the ESPP with exercise prices for purchase rights ranging from $22.64 to $32.16. During fiscal year 2014, we issued approximately 2.2 million shares under the ESPP with exercise prices for purchase rights ranging from $11.33 to $22.64. During fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, the estimated weighted-average fair values of purchase rights were $12.97, $8.26 and $4.67, respectively. The fair values were estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes valuation model. We issue new common stock out of the ESPP’s pool of authorized shares. As of March 31, 2016, 5.2 million shares were available for grant under our ESPP.

Deferred Compensation Plan

We have a Deferred Compensation Plan (“DCP”) for the benefit of a select group of management or highly compensated employees and directors, which is unfunded and intended to be a plan that is not qualified within the meaning of section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The DCP permits the deferral of the annual base salary and/or director cash compensation up to a maximum amount. The deferrals are held in a separate trust, which has been established by us to administer the DCP. The trust is a grantor trust and the specific terms of the trust agreement provide that the assets of the trust are available to satisfy the claims of general creditors in the event of our insolvency. The assets held by the trust are classified as trading securities and are held at fair value on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The assets and liabilities of the DCP are presented in other assets and other liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, respectively, with changes in the fair value of the assets and in the deferred compensation liability recognized as compensation expense. The estimated fair value of the assets was $8 million and $9 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. As of March 31, 2016 and 2015, $8 million and $9 million were recorded, respectively, to recognize undistributed deferred compensation due to employees.

401(k) Plan, Registered Retirement Savings Plan and ITP Plan

We have a 401(k) plan covering substantially all of our U.S. employees, a Registered Retirement Savings Plan covering substantially all of our Canadian employees, and an ITP pension plan covering substantially all our Swedish employees. These plans permit us to make discretionary contributions to employees’ accounts based on our financial performance. We contributed an aggregate of $27 million, $27 million and $16 million to these plans in fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014, respectively.

Stock Repurchase Program

In May 2014, a special committee of our Board of Directors, on behalf of the full Board of Directors, authorized a two-year program to repurchase up to $750 million of our common stock. Since inception, we repurchased approximately 9.2 million shares for approximately $394 million under this program.

In May 2015, our Board of Directors authorized a program to repurchase up to $1 billion of our common stock. This stock repurchase program, which expires on May 31, 2017, supersedes and replaces the stock repurchase authorization approved in May 2014. Under this program, we may purchase stock in the open market or through privately-negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws, including pursuant to pre-arranged stock trading plans. The timing and actual amount of the stock repurchases will depend on several factors including price, capital availability, regulatory requirements, alternative investment opportunities and other market conditions. We are not obligated to repurchase any specific number of shares under this program and it may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time. We repurchased approximately 6.9 million shares for approximately $461 million under this program during fiscal year 2016. We continue to actively repurchase shares.

In February 2016, we announced a new $500 million stock repurchase program. This new program was incremental to the existing two-year $1 billion stock repurchase program announced in May 2015. We completed repurchases under the February 2016 program during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. We repurchased approximately 7.8 million shares for approximately $500 million under this new program.

The following table summarizes total shares repurchased during fiscal years 2016 and 2015:

	May 2014 Program			May 2015 Program			February 2016 Program			Total
(In millions)	Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount
Fiscal Year 2015	8.2	$	337	—	$	—	—	$	—	8.2	$	337
Fiscal Year 2016	1.0	$	57	6.9	$	461	7.8	$	500	15.7	$	1,018

During fiscal year 2014, we did not repurchase any shares of our common stock.

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Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Interest and Other Income [Abstract]

Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net

(16)  INTEREST AND OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE), NET

Interest and other income (expense), net, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Loss on conversion of Convertible Notes	$	(10	)	$	—		$	—
Interest expense	(28		)	(31		)	(30		)
Interest income	15			10			5
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency transactions	(14		)	(62		)	4
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts	15			59			(5		)
Other income, net	1			1			—
Interest and other income (expense), net	$	(21	)	$	(23	)	$	(26	)

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Earnings Per Share

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Mar. 31, 2016

Earnings Per Share Reconciliation [Abstract]

Earnings Per Share

(17)  EARNINGS PER SHARE

The following table summarizes the computations of basic earnings per share (“Basic EPS”) and diluted earnings per share (“Diluted EPS”). Basic EPS is computed as net income divided by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur from common shares issuable through stock-based compensation plans including stock options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, common stock through our ESPP, warrants, and other convertible securities using the treasury stock method.

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions, except per share amounts)	2016		2015		2014
Net income	$	1,156	$	875	$	8
Shares used to compute earnings per share:
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — basic	310		311		308
Dilutive potential common shares related to stock award plans and from assumed exercise of stock options	6		9		8
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Convertible Notes	6		4		—
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Warrants	8		1		—
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — diluted	330		325		316
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	3.73	$	2.81	$	0.03
Diluted	$	3.50	$	2.69	$	0.03

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, an immaterial amount of options to purchase, restricted stock units and

restricted stock to be released were excluded from the treasury stock method computation of diluted shares as their inclusion

would have had an antidilutive effect.

For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, stock options to purchase, restricted stock units and restricted stock to be released in the amount of 3 million shares and 4 million shares, respectively, were excluded from the treasury stock method computation of diluted shares as their inclusion would have had an antidilutive effect.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014, potentially dilutive shares of common stock related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 issued during the fiscal year 2012, which have a conversion price of $31.74 per share and the associated Warrants, which have a conversion price of $41.14 per share, were excluded from the computation of Diluted EPS as their inclusion would have had an antidilutive effect resulting from the conversion price. The associated Convertible Note Hedge was excluded from the computation of diluted shares as the impact is always considered antidilutive. See Note 12 for additional information related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 and related Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants.

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Segment Information

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Mar. 31, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

(18)  SEGMENT INFORMATION

Our reporting segment is based upon: our internal organizational structure; the manner in which our operations are managed; the criteria used by our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), to evaluate segment performance; the availability of separate financial information; and overall materiality considerations. Our CODM currently reviews total company operating results to assess overall performance and allocate resources.

The following table summarizes the financial performance of our current segment operating profit and a reconciliation to our consolidated operating income for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Segment:
Net revenue before revenue deferral	$	4,566		$	4,319		$	4,021
Depreciation	(119		)	(126		)	(126		)
Other expenses	(3,147		)	(3,117		)	(3,178		)
Segment operating profit	1,300			1,076			717
Reconciliation to consolidated operating income:
Other:
Revenue deferral	(3,783		)	(3,536		)	(3,350		)
Recognition of revenue deferral	3,613			3,732			2,904
Amortization of intangibles	(54		)	(66		)	(76		)
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—			3			35
Restructuring and other charges	—			—			1
Stock-based compensation	(178		)	(144		)	(150		)
Loss on licensed intellectual property commitment				(122		)	—
Other expenses	—			5			(48		)
Consolidated operating income	$	898		$	948		$	33

Our segment profit differs from consolidated operating income primarily due to the exclusion of (1) the deferral of net revenue related to online-enabled games (see Note 10 for additional information regarding deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)), (2) certain non-cash costs such as stock-based compensation, (3) acquisition-related expenses such as amortization of intangibles and acquisition-related contingent consideration, and (4) other significant non-recurring costs that may not be indicative of the company’s core business, operating results or future outlook. Our CODM reviews assets on a consolidated basis and not on a segment basis.

Net revenue before revenue deferral is used internally to evaluate our operating performance, when planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods, and when assessing the performance of our management team. Net revenue before revenue deferral excludes the impact of revenue deferral and the recognition of revenue deferral on net revenue related to sales of online-enabled games and content.

Revenue deferral generally relates to sales of online-enabled games and content for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified updates to be delivered after the initial sale or for which we have a continuing service obligation. Fluctuations in the revenue deferral are largely dependent upon the amounts of products that we sell with the online features and services previously discussed, while the recognition of revenue deferral for a period is also dependent upon (1) the amount deferred, (2) the period of time the software-related offerings and service obligations are to be provided, and (3) the timing of the sale. Our sales are generally deferred and recognized over an estimated nine-month period beginning in the month after shipment for physical games sold through retail and an estimated six-month period for digitally delivered games and content, and therefore, the related revenue recognized during any fiscal quarter is primarily due to sales that occurred during the preceding six-month period for digitally delivered games and content, and the preceding nine-month period for physical games sold through retail.

Information about our total net revenue by revenue composition and by platform for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Packaged goods and other	$	1,987	$	2,316	$	1,742
Digital	2,409		2,199		1,833
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Packaged goods revenue includes sales of software that is distributed physically. This includes (1) sales of our internally-developed and co-published game software distributed physically through traditional channels such as brick and mortar retailers, (2) our software licensing revenue from third parties (for example, makers of console platforms, personal computers or computer accessories) who include certain of our products for sale with their products (“OEM bundles”), and (3) sales through our Switzerland distribution business. Other revenue includes our non-software licensing revenue.

Digital revenue includes full-game downloads, extra content, subscriptions, advertising and other, and mobile revenue. Digital revenue includes internally-developed and co-published game software distributed through our direct-to-consumer platform Origin, distributed wirelessly through mobile carriers, or licensed to our third-party publishing partners who distribute our games digitally.

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Platform net revenue
Xbox One, PlayStation 4	$	2,183	$	1,505	$	196
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3	752		1,485		1,779
Other consoles	7		21		30
Total consoles	2,942		3,011		2,005
PC / Browser	814		878		1,020
Mobile	548		504		400
Other	92		122		150
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Information about our operations in North America and internationally as of and for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Net revenue from unaffiliated customers
North America	$	1,907	$	1,956	$	1,510
International	2,489		2,559		2,065
Total	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Long-lived assets
North America	$	1,727	$	1,809
International	479		474
Total	$	2,206	$	2,283

We attribute net revenue from external customers to individual countries based on the location of the legal entity that sells the products and/or services. Note that revenue attributed to the legal entity that makes the sale is often not the country where the consumer resides. For example, revenue generated by our Swiss legal entities includes digital revenue from consumers who reside outside of Switzerland, including consumers who reside outside of Europe. Revenue generated by our Swiss legal entities during fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 represents $1,643 million, $1,462 million and $1,171 million or 37 percent, 32 percent and 33 percent of our total net revenue, respectively. Revenue generated in the United States represents over 99 percent of our total North America net revenue. There were no other countries with net revenue greater than 10 percent.

In fiscal year 2016, our direct sales to Sony and Microsoft represented approximately 16 percent and 14 percent of total net revenue, respectively. In fiscal year 2015, our direct sales to Microsoft represented approximately 10 percent of total net revenue. Our direct sales to GameStop Corp. represented approximately 11 percent, and 13 percent of total net revenue in fiscal years 2015 and 2014, respectively.

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Quarterly Financial And Market Information

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Quarterly Financial Data [Abstract]

Quarterly Financial And Market Information

(19)  QUARTERLY FINANCIAL AND MARKET INFORMATION (UNAUDITED)

	Quarter Ended											Year Ended
(In millions, except per share data)	June 30		September 30			December 31			March 31
Fiscal 2016 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,203	$	815		$	1,070		$	1,308		$	4,396
Gross profit	1,030		406			524			1,082			3,042
Operating income (loss)	512		(119		)	(31		)	536			898
Net income (loss)	442		(140		)	(45		)	899		(a)	1,156
Common Stock
Earnings (loss) per share — Basic	$	1.42	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.93		$	3.73
Earnings (loss) per share — Diluted	$	1.32	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.79		$	3.50
Common stock price per share
High	$	68.00	$	75.16		$	76.77		$	70.83		$	76.77
Low	$	56.03	$	63.43		$	65.04		$	55.50		$	55.50
Fiscal 2015 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,214	$	990		$	1,126		$	1,185		$	4,515
Gross profit	847		563			725			951			3,086
Operating income	362		24			162			400			948
Net income	335		3			142			395			875
Common Stock
Earnings per share — Basic	$	1.07	$	0.01		$	0.46		$	1.27		$	2.81
Earnings per share — Diluted	$	1.04	$	0.01		$	0.44		$	1.19		$	2.69
Common stock price per share
High	$	37.15	$	38.42		$	48.33		$	58.24		$	58.24
Low	$	26.67	$	33.31		$	32.62		$	45.96		$	26.67

(a) Net income includes an income tax benefit recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “EA”. The prices for the common stock in the table above represent the high and low closing sales prices as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.

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Valuation And Qualifying Accounts

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract]

Valuation And Qualifying Accounts

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, Price Protection and Returns	Balance at Beginning of Period		Charged to Revenue, Costs and Expenses	Charged (Credited) to Other Accounts(a)		Deductions(b)		Balance at End of Period
Year Ended March 31, 2016	$	140	269	11		(261	)	$	159
Year Ended March 31, 2015	$	186	361	(66	)	(341	)	$	140
Year Ended March 31, 2014	$	200	321	37		(372	)	$	186

(a) Primarily other reclassification adjustments and the translation effect of using the average exchange rate for expense items and the year-end exchange rate for the balance sheet item (allowance account).

(b) Primarily the utilization of returns allowance and price protection reserves.

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12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Consolidation

Consolidation

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Electronic Arts Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Fiscal Year

Fiscal Year

Our fiscal year is reported on a 52- or 53-week period that ends on the Saturday nearest March 31. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 contained 53 weeks and ended on April 2, 2016. Our results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 contained 52 weeks each and ended on March 28, 2015 and March 29, 2014, respectively. For simplicity of disclosure, all fiscal periods are referred to as ending on a calendar month end.

Use Of Estimates

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. Such estimates include sales returns and allowances, provisions for doubtful accounts, accrued liabilities, offering periods for deferred net revenue, multiple-element arrangements, income taxes, losses on royalty commitments, estimates regarding the recoverability of prepaid royalties, inventories, long-lived assets, assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations, certain estimates related to the measurement and recognition of costs resulting from our stock-based payment awards, deferred income tax assets and associated valuation allowances, as well as estimates used in our goodwill, intangibles and short-term investment impairment tests. These estimates generally involve complex issues and require us to make judgments, involve analysis of historical and future trends, can require extended periods of time to resolve, and are subject to change from period to period. In all cases, actual results could differ materially from our estimates.

Cash, Cash Equivalents, Short-Term Investments And Marketable Equity Securities

Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments

Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with insignificant interest rate risk and original or remaining maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase.

Short-term investments consist of securities with original or remaining maturities of greater than three months at the time of purchase, are accounted for as available-for-sale securities and are recorded at fair value. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are available for use in current operations or other activities such as capital expenditures, business combinations and share repurchases.

Unrealized gains and losses on our short-term investments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity, net of tax, until either (1) the security is sold, (2) the security has matured, or (3) we determine that the fair value of the security has declined below its adjusted cost basis and the decline is other-than-temporary. Realized gains and losses on our short-term investments are calculated based on the specific identification method and are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest and other income (expense), net, or gains on strategic investments, net. Determining whether a decline in fair value is other-than-temporary requires management judgment based on the specific facts and circumstances of each security. The ultimate value realized on these securities is subject to market price volatility until they are sold.

Our short-term investments are evaluated for impairment quarterly. We consider various factors in determining whether we should recognize an impairment charge, including the credit quality of the issuer, the duration that the fair value has been less than the adjusted cost basis, severity of the impairment, reason for the decline in value and potential recovery period, the financial condition and near-term prospects of the investees, our intent to sell and ability to hold the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in market value, and any contractual terms impacting the prepayment or settlement process. If we conclude that an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired, we recognize an impairment charge at that time in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Based on our evaluation, we did not consider any of our investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired as of March 31, 2016 and 2015.

Inventories

Inventories

Inventories consist of materials (including manufacturing royalties paid to console manufacturers), labor and freight-in and are stated at the lower of cost (using the weighted average costing method) or net realizable value. We regularly review inventory quantities on-hand. We write down inventory based on excess or obsolete inventories determined primarily by future anticipated demand for our products. Inventory write-downs are measured as the difference between the cost of the inventory and market value, based upon assumptions about future demand that are inherently difficult to assess. At the point of a loss recognition, a new, lower cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established basis.

Property And Equipment, Net

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net, are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the following useful lives:

Buildings	20 to 25 years
Computer equipment and software	3 to 6 years
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	3 to 5 years
Leasehold improvements	Lesser of the lease term or the estimated useful lives of the improvements, generally 1 to 10 years

We capitalize costs associated with internal-use software development once a project has reached the application development stage. Such capitalized costs include external direct costs utilized in developing or obtaining the software, and payroll and payroll-related expenses for employees who are directly associated with the development of the software. Capitalization of such costs begins when the preliminary project stage is complete and ceases at the point in which the project is substantially complete and is ready for its intended purpose. The net book value of capitalized costs associated with internal-use software was $55 million and $62 million as of March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Once the internal-use software is ready for its intended use, the assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over each asset’s estimated useful life, which is generally three years.

Acquisition-Related Intangibles And Other Long-Lived Assets

Acquisition-Related Intangibles and Other Long-Lived Assets

We record acquisition-related intangible assets, such as developed and core technology, in connection with business combinations. We amortize the cost of acquisition-related intangible assets that have finite useful lives on a straight-line basis over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or the agreement terms, typically from two to fourteen years. We evaluate acquisition-related intangibles and other long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset group. This includes assumptions about future prospects for the business that the asset relates to and typically involves computations of the estimated future cash flows to be generated by these businesses. Based on these judgments and assumptions, we determine whether we need to take an impairment charge to reduce the value of the asset stated on our Consolidated Balance Sheets to reflect its estimated fair value. When we consider such assets to be impaired, the amount of impairment we recognize is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value. There were no material impairments in fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014.

Goodwill

Goodwill

In assessing impairment on our goodwill, we first analyze qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the two-step goodwill impairment test. The qualitative factors we assess include long-term prospects of our performance, share price trends and market capitalization, and Company specific events. If we conclude it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, we do not need to perform the two-step impairment test. If based on that assessment, we believe it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying value, a two-step goodwill impairment test will be performed. The first step measures for impairment by applying fair value-based tests at the reporting unit level. The second step (if necessary) measures the amount of impairment by applying fair value-based tests to the individual assets and liabilities within each reporting unit. Reporting units are determined by the components of operating segments that constitute a business for which (1) discrete financial information is available, (2) segment management regularly reviews the operating results of that component, and (3) whether the component has dissimilar economic characteristics to other components. We determined that it was more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit exceeded its carrying amount and, as such, we did not need to perform the two-step impairment test.

During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, we completed our annual goodwill impairment testing in the fourth quarter of each year and did not recognize any impairment charges.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition, Sales Returns and Allowances, and Bad Debt Reserves

We derive revenue principally from sales of interactive software games, and related content (e.g., micro-transactions) and services on consoles (such as the PlayStation from Sony and the Xbox from Microsoft), PCs, mobile phones and tablets. We evaluate revenue recognition based on the criteria set forth in FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 605, Revenue Recognition and ASC 985-605, Software: Revenue Recognition. We classify our revenue as either product revenue or service and other revenue.

Product revenue. Our product revenue includes revenue associated with the sale of software games or related content, whether delivered via a physical disc (e.g., packaged goods) or delivered digitally (e.g., full-game downloads, extra-content), and licensing of game software to third-parties. Product revenue also includes revenue from mobile full game downloads that do not require our hosting support (e.g., premium mobile games) in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e. can be played with or without an Internet connection), and sales of tangible products such as hardware, peripherals, or collectors’ items.

Service and other revenue. Our service revenue includes revenue recognized from time-based subscriptions and games or related content that requires our hosting support in order to utilize the game or related content (i.e., can only be played with an Internet connection). This includes (1) entitlements to content that are accessed through hosting services (e.g., micro-transactions for Internet-based, social network and free-to-download mobile games), (2) massively multi-player online (“MMO”) games (both software game and subscription sales), (3) subscriptions for our Battlefield Premium, EA Access, and Pogo-branded online game services, and (4) allocated service revenue from sales of software games with an online service element (i.e., “matchmaking” service). Our other revenue includes advertising and non-software licensing revenue.

With respect to the allocated service revenue from sales of software games with a matchmaking service mentioned above, our allocation of proceeds between product and service revenue for presentation purposes is based on management’s best estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service with the residual value allocated to product revenue. Our estimate of the selling price of the matchmaking service is comprised of several factors including, but not limited to, prior selling prices for the matchmaking service, prices charged separately by other third-party vendors for similar service offerings, and a cost-plus-margin approach. We review the estimated selling price of the online matchmaking service on a regular basis and use this methodology consistently to allocate revenue between product and service for software game sales with a matchmaking service.

We evaluate and recognize revenue when all four of the following criteria are met:

• Evidence of an arrangement. Evidence of an agreement with the customer that reflects the terms and conditions to deliver the related products or services must be present.

• Fixed or determinable fee. If a portion of the arrangement fee is not fixed or determinable, we recognize revenue as the amount becomes fixed or determinable.

• Collection is deemed probable. Collection is deemed probable if we expect the customer to be able to pay amounts under the arrangement as those amounts become due. If we determine that collection is not probable as the amounts become due, we generally conclude that collection becomes probable upon cash collection.

• Delivery. For packaged goods, delivery is considered to occur when a product is shipped and the risk of loss and rewards of ownership have transferred to the customer. For digital downloads, delivery is considered to occur when the software is made available to the customer for download. For services and other, delivery is generally considered to occur as the service is delivered, which is determined based on the underlying service obligation. If there is significant uncertainty of acceptance, revenue is recognized once acceptance is reasonably assured.

Online-Enabled Games

The majority of our software games and related content have online connectivity whereby a consumer may be able to download unspecified content or updates on a when-and-if-available basis (“unspecified updates”) for use with the original game software. In addition, we may also offer an online matchmaking service that permits consumers to play against each other via the Internet without a separate fee. U.S. GAAP requires us to account for the consumer’s right to receive unspecified updates or the matchmaking service for no additional fee as a “bundled” sale, or multiple-element arrangement.

We have an established historical pattern of providing unspecified updates (e.g., player roster updates to Madden NFL 16) to online-enabled games and related content at no additional charge to the consumer. We do not have vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”) for these unspecified updates, and thus, as required by U.S. GAAP, we recognize revenue from the sale of these online-enabled games and related content over the period we expect to offer the unspecified updates to the consumer (“estimated offering period”).

Other Multiple-Element Arrangements

In some of our multiple-element arrangements, we sell tangible products with software and/or software-related offerings. These tangible products are generally either peripherals or ancillary collectors’ items, such as figurines and comic books. Revenue for these arrangements is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each deliverable using the relative selling prices of each deliverable in the arrangement based on the selling price hierarchy described below. If the arrangement contains more than one software deliverable, the arrangement consideration is allocated to the software deliverables as a group and then allocated to each software deliverable.

We determine the selling price for a tangible product deliverable based on the following selling price hierarchy: VSOE (i.e., the price we charge when the tangible product is sold separately) if available, third-party evidence (“TPE”) of fair value (i.e., the price charged by others for similar tangible products) if VSOE is not available, or our best estimate of selling price (“BESP”) if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. Determining the BESP is a subjective process that is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, recent selling prices and related discounts, market conditions, customer classes, sales channels and other factors. Provided the other three revenue recognition criteria other than delivery have been met, we recognize revenue upon delivery to the customer as we have no further obligations.

Principal Agent Considerations

We evaluate sales of our interactive software games via third party storefronts, including digital storefronts such as Microsoft’s Xbox Games Store, Sony PSN, Apple App Store, and Google Play, in order to determine whether or not we are acting as the primary obligor in the sale to the end consumer, which we consider in determining if revenue should be reported gross or net of fees retained by the storefront. Key indicators that we evaluate in determining gross versus net treatment include but are not limited to the following:

• The party responsible for delivery/fulfillment of the product or service to the end consumer

• The party responsible for the billing, collection of fees and refunds to the consumer

• The storefront and Terms of Sale that govern the consumer’s purchase of the product or service

• The party that sets the pricing with the consumer and has credit risk

Based on evaluation of the above indicators, we have determined that generally the third party is considered the primary obligor to end consumers for the sale of our interactive software games. We therefore report revenue related to these arrangements net of the fees retained by the storefront.

Sales Returns And Allowances And Bad Debt Reserves

Sales Returns and Allowances and Bad Debt Reserves

We reduce revenue for estimated future returns and price protection which may occur with our distributors and retailers (“channel partners”). Price protection represents our practice to provide our channel partners with a credit allowance to lower their wholesale price on a particular product that they have not resold to end consumers. The amount of the price protection is generally the difference between the old wholesale price and the new reduced wholesale price. In certain countries for our PC and console packaged goods software products, we also have a practice of allowing channel partners to return older software products in the channel in exchange for a credit allowance. As a general practice, we do not give cash refunds.

Taxes Collected From Customers And Remitted To Governmental Authorities

Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities

Taxes assessed by a government authority that are both imposed on and concurrent with specific revenue transactions between us and our customers are presented on a net basis in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Concentration Of Credit Risk

Concentration of Credit Risk, Significant Customers, Franchises and Channel Partners

We extend credit to various retailers and channel partners. Collection of trade receivables may be affected by changes in economic or other industry conditions and may, accordingly, impact our overall credit risk. Although we generally do not require collateral, we perform ongoing credit evaluations of our customers and maintain reserves for potential credit losses. Invoices are aged based on contractual terms with our customers. The provision for doubtful accounts is recorded as a charge to general and administrative expense when a potential loss is identified. Losses are written off against the allowance when the receivable is determined to be uncollectible. At March 31, 2016, we had two customers who accounted for approximately 26 percent and 24 percent of our consolidated gross receivables. At March 31, 2015, we had two customers who accounted for 26 percent and 10 percent of our consolidated gross receivables.

A majority of our sales are made to major retailers, distributors, and digital resellers. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016, approximately 62 percent of our net revenue was derived from our top ten customers. Though our products and services are available to consumers through a variety of retailers and directly through us, the concentration of our sales in one, or a few, large customers could lead to a short-term disruption in our sales if one or more retailers or distributors significantly reduced their purchases or ceased to carry our products and services, and could make us more vulnerable to collection risk if one or more of these large customers became unable to pay for our products or declared bankruptcy.

A significant portion of our revenue has historically been derived from games and services based on a few popular franchises. For example, in fiscal year 2016, net revenue generated from the sale of products and services associated with our three largest franchises accounted for approximately 55 percent of our net revenue.

Currently, a majority of our revenue is derived through sales of products and services on hardware consoles from Sony and Microsoft. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, our net revenue for products and services on Sony’s PlayStation 3 and 4, and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and One consoles (combined across all four platforms) was 67 percent, 66 percent, and 55 percent, respectively. These platform partners have significant influence over the products and services that we offer on their platforms. Our agreements with Sony and Microsoft typically give significant control to them over the approval, manufacturing and distribution of our products and services, which could, in certain circumstances, leave us unable to get our products and services approved, manufactured and provided to customers.

Short-term investments are placed with high quality financial institutions or in short-duration, investment-grade securities. We limit the amount of credit exposure in any one financial institution or type of investment instrument.

Royalties And Licenses

Royalties and Licenses

Royalty-based obligations with content licensors and distribution affiliates are either paid in advance and capitalized as prepaid royalties or are accrued as incurred and subsequently paid. These royalty-based obligations are generally expensed to cost of revenue generally at the greater of the contractual rate or an effective royalty rate based on the total projected net revenue for contracts with guaranteed minimums.

Each quarter, we also evaluate the expected future realization of our royalty-based assets, as well as any unrecognized minimum commitments not yet paid to determine amounts we deem unlikely to be realized through product and service sales. Any impairments or losses determined before the launch of a product are generally charged to research and development expense. Impairments or losses determined post-launch are charged to cost of revenue. We evaluate long-lived royalty-based assets for impairment using undiscounted cash flows when impairment indicators exist. If impairment exists, then the assets are written down to fair value. Unrecognized minimum royalty-based commitments are accounted for as executory contracts, and therefore, any losses on these commitments are recognized when the underlying intellectual property is abandoned (i.e., cease use) or the contractual rights to use the intellectual property are terminated.

Advertising Costs

Advertising Costs

We generally expense advertising costs as incurred, except for production costs associated with media campaigns, which are recognized as prepaid assets (to the extent paid in advance) and expensed at the first run of the advertisement. Cooperative advertising costs are recognized when incurred and are included in marketing and sales expense if there is a separate identifiable benefit for which we can reasonably estimate the fair value of the benefit identified. Otherwise, they are recognized as a reduction of revenue and are generally accrued when revenue is recognized. We then reimburse the channel partner when qualifying claims are submitted.

We are also reimbursed by our vendors for certain advertising costs incurred by us that benefit our vendors. Such amounts are recognized as a reduction of marketing and sales expense if the advertising (1) is specific to the vendor, (2) represents an identifiable benefit to us, and (3) represents an incremental cost to us. Otherwise, vendor reimbursements are recognized as a reduction of the cost incurred with the same vendor. Vendor reimbursements of advertising costs of $51 million, $43 million, and $66 million reduced marketing and sales expense for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, advertising expense, net of vendor reimbursements, totaled approximately $240 million, $228 million, and $217 million, respectively.

Software Development Costs

Software Development Costs

Research and development costs, which consist primarily of software development costs, are expensed as incurred. We are required to capitalize software development costs incurred for computer software to be sold, leased or otherwise marketed after technological feasibility of the software is established or for development costs that have alternative future uses. Under our current practice of developing new games, the technological feasibility of the underlying software is not established until substantially all product development and testing is complete, which generally includes the development of a working model. The software development costs that have been capitalized to date have been insignificant.

Foreign Currency Translation

Foreign Currency Translation

For each of our foreign operating subsidiaries, the functional currency is generally its local currency. Assets and liabilities of foreign operations are translated into U.S. dollars using month-end exchange rates, and revenue and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars using average exchange rates. The effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity.

Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are a result of the effect of exchange rate changes on transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency. Net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) of $(14) million, $(62) million, and $4 million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively, are included in interest and other income (expense), net, in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. These net foreign currency transaction gains (losses) are partially offset by net gains (losses) on our foreign currency forward contracts of $15 million, $59 million, and $(5) million for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. See Note 4 for additional information on our foreign currency forward contracts.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

We recognize deferred tax assets and liabilities for both the expected impact of differences between the financial statement amount and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and for the expected future tax benefit to be derived from tax losses and tax credit carryforwards. We record a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets when it is considered more likely than not that all or a portion of our deferred tax assets will not be realized. In making this determination, we are required to give significant weight to evidence that can be objectively verified. It is generally difficult to conclude that a valuation allowance is not needed when there is significant negative evidence, such as cumulative losses in recent years. Forecasts of future taxable income are considered to be less objective than past results. Therefore, cumulative losses weigh heavily in the overall assessment.

In addition to considering forecasts of future taxable income, we are also required to evaluate and quantify other possible sources of taxable income in order to assess the realization of our deferred tax assets, namely the reversal of existing deferred tax liabilities, the carry back of losses and credits as allowed under current tax law, and the implementation of tax planning strategies. Evaluating and quantifying these amounts involves significant judgments. Each source of income must be evaluated based on all positive and negative evidence; this evaluation involves assumptions about future activity. Certain taxable temporary differences that are not expected to reverse during the carry forward periods permitted by tax law cannot be considered as a source of future taxable income that may be available to realize the benefit of deferred tax assets.

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Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, Interest - Imputation of Interest (Topic 835-30), which requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. The recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs are not affected by this ASU. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-15, which clarified that debt issuance costs related to line-of-credit arrangements could continue to be presented as an asset and be subsequently amortized over the term of the line-of-credit arrangement, regardless of whether there are any outstanding borrowings on the arrangement. We early adopted ASU 2015-03 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and reclassified $9 million of debt issuance costs as a contra-liability at March 31, 2016. We assessed the impact on prior periods in accordance with the retrospective application requirement and determined that debt issuance costs were immaterial at March 31, 2015, thus no adjustments were made to March 31, 2015 balance sheet.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, Inventory (Topic 330), which requires entities to measure inventory at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Current guidance requires inventory to be measured at the lower of cost or market, with market defined as replacement cost, net realizable value, or net realizable value less a normal profit margin. This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventory by replacing the lower of cost or market test with a lower of cost or net realizable value test. We early adopted ASU 2015-11 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016. The adoption did not have an impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740). The amendments in this ASU require that all deferred income tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in a classified statement of financial position. We early adopted ASU 2015-07 in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 and elected prospective application. As a result of the adoption, we reclassified $53 million of deferred tax assets from current to noncurrent at March 31, 2016. As this ASU only impacted presentation, it did not have an impact on our net financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

Impact of recently issued accounting standards

Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Topic 350-40). The amendments of this ASU will help entities evaluate the accounting for fees paid by a customer in a cloud computing arrangement by providing guidance as to whether an arrangement includes the sale or license of software. The requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2015. The amendment may be adopted either prospectively to all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date or retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted. We expect to adopt this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. We do not expect the adoption to have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, related to simplifications of employee share-based payment accounting. This pronouncement eliminates the APIC pool concept and requires that excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement when awards are settled. The pronouncement also addresses simplifications related to statement of cash flows classification, accounting for forfeitures, and minimum statutory tax withholding requirements. The pronouncement is effective for annual periods (and for interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2016. We are currently evaluating the timing and the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 requirements will be effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. We are currently evaluating the impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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 amendments in this ASU are effective for annual periods (and interim periods within those annual periods) beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), which requires an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The ASU will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective. The standard permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. This new revenue standard, as amended by ASU 2015-14, is effective in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net), which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard on assessing whether an entity is a principal or an agent in a revenue transaction. This conclusion impacts whether an entity reports revenue on a gross or net basis. In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing, which clarifies the guidance in the new revenue standard regarding an entity’s identification of its performance obligations in a contract, as well as an entity’s evaluation of the nature of its promise to grant a license of intellectual property and whether or not that revenue is recognized over time or at a point in time. In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients. which amends the guidance in the new revenue standard on collectibility, noncash consideration, presentation of sales tax, and transition. The amendments are intended to address implementation issues that were raised by stakeholders and provide additional practical expedients to reduce the cost and complexity of applying the new revenue standard. These amendments have the same effective date as the new revenue standard. While we are currently evaluating the method of adoption and the impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures, we believe the adoption of the new standard may have a significant impact on the accounting for certain transactions with multiple elements or “bundled” arrangements (for example, sales of online-enabled games for which we do not have VSOE for unspecified future updates) because the requirement to have VSOE for undelivered elements under current accounting standards is eliminated under the new standard. Accordingly, we may be required to recognize as revenue a portion of the sales price upon delivery of the software, as compared to the current requirement of recognizing the entire sales price ratably over an estimated offering period. While we are still evaluating the total impact of the new revenue standard, as amended, we believe adoption of this new standard will have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The FASB issued this update to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The updated guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption of the update is permitted. We are currently evaluating the timing of adoption and impact of this new standard on our Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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Fair Value Measurements (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]

Fair Value Assets And Liabilities Measured On Recurring Basis

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2016		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	345	$	345	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	143		143		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	745		—		745		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	407		407		—		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. agency securities	170		—		170		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	81		—		81		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	16		—		16		—		Other current assets and other assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	8		8		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,915	$	903	$	1,012	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	10		—		10		—		Accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	19	$	9	$	10	$	—

			Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
	As of March 31, 2015		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Financial Instruments		Significant Other Observable Inputs		Significant Unobservable Inputs
			(Level 1)		(Level 2)		(Level 3)		Balance Sheet Classification
Assets
Bank and time deposits	$	175	$	175	$	—	$	—	Cash equivalents
Money market funds	7		7		—		—		Cash equivalents
Available-for-sale securities:
Corporate bonds	468		—		468		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
U.S. Treasury securities	214		214		—		—		Short-term investments
U.S. agency securities	180		—		180		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Commercial paper	140		—		140		—		Short-term investments and cash equivalents
Foreign currency derivatives	18		—		18		—		Other current assets
Deferred compensation plan assets (a)	9		9		—		—		Other assets
Total assets at fair value	$	1,211	$	405	$	806	$	—
Liabilities
Foreign currency derivatives	9		—		9		—		Accrued and other current liabilities
Deferred compensation plan liabilities (a)	9		9		—		—		Other liabilities
Total liabilities at fair value	$	18	$	9	$	9	$	—

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Financial Instruments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Fair Value Of Short-Term Investments

Short-term investments consisted of the following as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016								As of March 31, 2015
	Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value		Cost or Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized				Fair Value
			Gains		Losses						Gains		Losses
Corporate bonds	$	733	$	1	$	—	$	734	$	467	$	—	$	—	$	467
U.S. Treasury securities	389		1		—		390		214		—		—		214
U.S. agency securities	167		—		—		167		161		1		—		162
Commercial paper	50		—		—		50		110		—		—		110
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	2	$	—	$	1,341	$	952	$	1	$	—	$	953

Fair Value Of Short-Term Investments By Stated Maturity Date Schedule

The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of our short-term investments, classified by stated maturity as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016				As of March 31, 2015
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
Short-term investments
Due in 1 year or less	$	571	$	571	$	417	$	417
Due in 1-2 years	461		462		281		281
Due in 2-3 years	295		296		244		245
Due in 3-4 years	12		12		10		10
Short-term investments	$	1,339	$	1,341	$	952	$	953

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Derivative Financial Instruments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Derivative Financial Instruments [Abstract]

Schedule of Notional Amounts of Outstanding Derivative Positions [Table Text Block]

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives with cash flow hedge accounting designation are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	148	$	5	$	1	$	108	$	—	$	8
Forward contracts to sell	$	685	$	11	$	9	$	508	$	18	$	1

Schedule of Other Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments, Statements of Financial Performance and Financial Position, Location [Table Text Block]

Total gross notional amounts and fair values for currency derivatives that are not designated as hedging instruments are accounted for as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016						As of March 31, 2015
	Notional Amount		Fair Value				Notional Amount		Fair Value
			Asset		Liability				Asset		Liability
Forward contracts to purchase	$	108	$	—	$	—	$	99	$	—	$	—
Forward contracts to sell	$	159	$	—	$	—	$	173	$	—	$	—

The effect of foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, was as follows (in millions):

	Statement of Operations Classification	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Statement of Operations
		Year Ended March 31,
		2016		2015		2014
Foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments	Interest and other  income (expense), net	$	16	$	58	$	(5	)

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Accumulated other Comprehensive Income (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax [Abstract]

Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block]

fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Available-for-Sale Securities			Unrealized Net Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments			Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	(4	)	$	—		$	73		$	69
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	—			(19		)	(22		)	(41		)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	—			9			—			9
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	—			(10		)	(22		)	(32		)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	(4	)	$	(10	)	$	51		$	37
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	1		$	20		$	(67	)	$	(46	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			11			—			11
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	1			31			(67		)	(35		)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	(3		)	21			(16		)	2
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	$	4		$	5		$	(15	)	$	(6	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	—			(12		)	—			(12		)
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	4			(7		)	(15		)	(18		)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	1			14			(31		)	(16		)

Reclassification out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Table Text Block]

The effects on net income of amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows (in millions):

Statement of Operations Classification	Amount Reclassified From Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
(Gains) losses on cash flow hedges from forward contracts
Net revenue	(23		)	(2		)	7
Research and development	11			13			2
Total amount reclassified, net of tax	$	(12	)	$	11		$	9

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule Of Changes In The Carrying Amount Of Goodwill

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2015			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2016
Goodwill	$	2,081		$	—	$	(3	)	$	2,078
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,713		$	—	$	(3	)	$	1,710

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2014			Activity		Effects of Foreign Currency Translation			As of March 31, 2015
Goodwill	$	2,091		$	—	$	(10	)	$	2,081
Accumulated impairment	(368		)	—		—			(368		)
Total	$	1,723		$	—	$	(10	)	$	1,713

Schedule Of Acquisition-Related Intangibles

Acquisition-related intangibles, consisted of the following (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016							As of March 31, 2015
	Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization			Acquisition- Related Intangibles, Net
Developed and core technology	$	412	$	(368	)	$	44	$	531	$	(439	)	$	92
Trade names and trademarks	106		(93		)	13		130		(111		)	19
Registered user base and other intangibles	5		(5		)	—		87		(87		)	—
Carrier contracts and related	85		(85		)	—		85		(85		)	—
Total	$	608	$	(551	)	$	57	$	833	$	(722	)	$	111

Schedule Of Amortization Of Intangible Assets

Amortization of intangibles for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are classified in the Consolidated Statement of Operations as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of service and other	$	33	$	36	$	27
Cost of product	14		16		33
Operating expenses	7		14		16
Total	$	54	$	66	$	76

Schedule Of Future Amortization Of Acquisition-Related Intangibles

As of March 31, 2016, future amortization of acquisition-related intangibles that will be recorded in the Consolidated Statement of Operations is estimated as follows (in millions):

Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
2017	38
2018	17
2019	2
Total	$	57

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Restructuring And Other Charges (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Restructuring Charges [Abstract]

Restructuring And Other Restructuring Plan-Related Information

Restructuring and other restructuring plan-related information as of March 31, 2016 was as follows (in millions):

	Fiscal  2011 Restructuring			Other Restructurings and Reorganization
	Other			Facilities- related			Other			Total
Balances as of March 31, 2013	$	57		$	4		$	1		$	62
Charges to operations	(2		)	1			—			$	(1	)
Charges settled in cash	(8		)	(3		)	—			$	(11	)
Balances as of March 31, 2014	$	47		$	2		$	1		$	50
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(36		)	(1		)	(1		)	$	(38	)
Balances as of March 31, 2015	$	11		$	1		$	—		$	12
Charges to operations	—			—			—			$	—
Charges settled in cash	(11		)	(1		)	—			$	(12	)
Balances as of March 31, 2016	$	—		$	—		$	—		$	—

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Royalties And Licenses (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Royalties And Licenses [Abstract]

Schedule Of Royalty-Related Assets

The current and long-term portions of prepaid royalties and minimum guaranteed royalty-related assets, included in other current assets and other assets, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other current assets	$	54	$	70
Other assets	63		59
Royalty-related assets	$	117	$	129

Schedule Of Royalty-Related Liabilities

The current and long-term portions of accrued royalties, included in accrued and other current liabilities and other liabilities, consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Accrued royalties	$	159	$	119
Other liabilities	118		131
Royalty-related liabilities	$	277	$	250

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Balance Sheet Details (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]

Inventories Schedule

Inventories as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Finished goods	$	32	$	35
Raw materials and work in process	1		1
Inventories	$	33	$	36

Property And Equipment, Net Schedule

Property and equipment, net, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Computer equipment and software	$	684		$	655
Buildings	313			315
Leasehold improvements	129			126
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other	80			73
Land	61			62
Construction in progress	15			7
	1,282			1,238
Less: accumulated depreciation	(843		)	(779		)
Property and equipment, net	$	439		$	459

Accrued And Other Current Liabilities Schedule

Accrued and other current liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Other accrued expenses	$	218	$	298
Accrued compensation and benefits	256		263
Accrued royalties	159		119
Deferred net revenue (other)	77		114
Accrued and other current liabilities	$	710	$	794

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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Components Of Income Before Provision For (Benefit From) Income Taxes

The components of our income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 are as follows (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Domestic	$	133	$	232	$	(146	)
Foreign	744		693		153
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$	877	$	925	$	7

Provision For (Benefit From) Income Taxes

Provision for (benefit from) income taxes for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Current			Deferred			Total
Year Ended March 31, 2016
Federal	$	69		$	(376	)	$	(307	)
State	5			(14		)	(9		)
Foreign	36			1			37
	$	110		$	(389	)	$	(279	)
Year Ended March 31, 2015
Federal	$	10		$	17		$	27
State	—			—			—
Foreign	21			2			23
	$	31		$	19		$	50
Year Ended March 31, 2014
Federal	$	(2	)	$	(9	)	$	(11	)
State	1			(2		)	(1		)
Foreign	8			3			11
	$	7		$	(8	)	$	(1	)

Schedule Of Differences Between Statutory Tax Rate And Effective Tax Rate

The differences between the statutory tax expense rate and our effective tax expense (benefit) rate, expressed as a percentage of income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 were as follows:

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Statutory federal tax expense rate	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%
State taxes, net of federal benefit	0.5	%	0.1	%	(242.9	)%
Differences between statutory rate and foreign effective tax rate	(22.1	)%	(22.3	)%	(142.9	)%
Valuation allowance	(51.7	)%	(9.2	)%	936.5	%
Research and development credits	(0.6	)%	(1.1	)%	(128.6	)%
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	4.9	%	—		—	%
Resolution of tax matters with authorities	—	%	(0.5	)%	(657.1	)%
Non-deductible stock-based compensation	3.1	%	3.5	%	385.7	%
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—	%	(0.2	)%	(185.7	)%
Other	(0.9	)%	0.1	%	(14.3	)%
Effective tax expense (benefit) rate	(31.8	)%	5.4	%	(14.3	)%

Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities

The components of net deferred tax assets, as of March 31, 2016 and 2015 consisted of (in millions):

	As of March 31,
	2016			2015
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals, reserves and other expenses	$	171		$	189
Tax credit carryforwards	334			312
Stock-based compensation	39			35
Net operating loss & capital loss carryforwards	28			41
Total	572			577
Valuation allowance	(114		)	(555		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance	458			22
Deferred tax liabilities:
Amortization and Depreciation	(27		)	(32		)
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	(43		)	—
Prepaids and other liabilities	(3		)	(8		)
Total	(73		)	(40		)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance and deferred tax liabilities	$	385		$	(18	)

Schedule Of Unrecognized Tax Benefits

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balance of unrecognized tax benefits is summarized as follows (in millions):

Balance as of March 31, 2013	$	297
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	10
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(79		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	44
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(29		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(9		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(2		)
Balance as of March 31, 2014	232
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	9
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(14		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	50
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(6		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(7		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(10		)
Balance as of March 31, 2015	254
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	33
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(4		)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	63
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to settlements with taxing authorities	(10		)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(4		)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(1		)
Balance as of March 31, 2016	$	331

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Financing Arrangement (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Debt Instruments [Abstract]

Schedule of Carrying Values Of Liability and Equity Components of Senior Notes [Table Text Block]

The carrying and fair values of the Senior Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016
Senior Notes:
3.70% Senior Notes due 2021	$	600
4.80% Senior Notes due 2026	400
Total principal amount	$	1,000
Unaccreted discount	(2		)
Unamortized debt issuance costs	(9		)
Net carrying value of Senior Notes	$	989
Fair value of Senior Notes (Level 2)	$	1,039

Carrying Values Of Liability And Equity Components Of Notes

The carrying and fair values of the Convertible Notes are as follows (in millions):

	As of March 31, 2016			As of March 31, 2015
Principal amount of Convertible Notes	$	163		$	633
Unamortized debt discount of the liability component	(2		)	(31		)
Net carrying value of Convertible Notes	$	161		$	602
Fair value of Convertible Notes (Level 2)	$	338		$	1,158

Schedule Of Interest Expense Related To Notes

The following table summarizes our interest expense recognized for fiscal years 2016, 2015, and 2014 that is included in interest and other income (expense), net on our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Amortization of debt discount	(17		)	(22		)	(21		)
Amortization of debt issuance costs	(3		)	(3		)	(3		)
Coupon interest expense	(7		)	(5		)	(5		)
Other interest expense	(1		)	(1		)	(1		)
Total interest expense	$	(28	)	$	(31	)	$	(30	)

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Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Minimum Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes our minimum contractual obligations as of March 31, 2016 (in millions):

			Fiscal Year Ending March 31,
	Total		2017		2018		2019		2020		2021		Thereafter
Unrecognized commitments
Developer/licensor commitments	$	1,460	$	211	$	299	$	277	$	243	$	189	$	241
Marketing commitments	371		61		50		81		64		67		48
Operating leases	219		36		32		28		27		24		72
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 interest (a)	1		1		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes interest	300		38		41		41		41		41		98
Other purchase obligations	81		29		8		7		6		5		26
Total unrecognized commitments	2,432		376		430		434		381		326		485
Recognized commitments
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 principal and interest (a)	163		163		—		—		—		—		—
Senior Notes principal and interest	1,004		4		—		—		—		600		400
Licensing and lease obligations (b)	147		22		23		24		25		26		27
Total recognized commitments	1,314		189		23		24		25		626		427
Total Commitments	$	3,746	$	565	$	453	$	458	$	406	$	952	$	912

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Stock-Based Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Schedule Of Assumptions Used In The Black-Scholes Valuation Model

	Stock Option Grants				ESPP
	Year Ended March 31,				Year Ended March 31,
	2015		2014		2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.1 -1.9%		1.6%		0.3 - 0.6%		0.04 - 0.2%		0.1	%
Expected volatility	36 - 40%		37 - 42%		32 - 36%		30 - 35%		36 - 38%
Weighted-average volatility	38	%	37	%	33	%	34	%	38	%
Expected term	4.5 years		4.5 years		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months		6 - 12 months
Expected dividends	None		None		None		None		None

Schedule Of Assumptions Used In Monte-Carlo Simulation Model

The assumptions used in the Monte-Carlo simulation model to value our market-based restricted stock units were as follows: 

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Risk-free interest rate	1.0	%	0.9	%	0.4	%
Expected volatility	14 - 53%		16 - 79%		16 - 58%
Weighted-average volatility	26	%	30	%	31	%
Expected dividends	None		None		None

Schedule Of Stock-Based Compensation Expense By Statement Of Operations

The following table summarizes stock-based compensation expense resulting from stock options, restricted stock units, market-based restricted stock units, and the ESPP included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Cost of revenue	$	2	$	2	$	2
Research and development	103		82		90
Marketing and sales	24		21		26
General and administrative	49		39		32
Stock-based compensation expense	$	178	$	144	$	150

Summary Of Outstanding And Exercisable Stock Options

The following table summarizes outstanding and exercisable stock options as of March 31, 2016:

	Options Outstanding						Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices	Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution		Number of Shares (in thousands)	Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Potential Dilution
$11.53 - $23.83	317	3.39	$	19.10	0.1	%	313	$	19.18	0.1	%
26.25 - 26.25	1,000	7.58	26.25		0.3	%	580	26.25		0.2	%
27.49 - 35.70	853	8.21	35.50		0.3	%	343	35.21		0.1	%
36.00 - 59.63	1,108	2.47	47.33		0.4	%	970	48.78		0.3	%
$11.53 - $59.63	3,278	5.61	$	35.09	1.1	%	2,206	$	36.55	0.7	%

Shares Repurchased and Retired

The following table summarizes total shares repurchased during fiscal years 2016 and 2015:

	May 2014 Program			May 2015 Program			February 2016 Program			Total
(In millions)	Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount		Shares	Amount
Fiscal Year 2015	8.2	$	337	—	$	—	—	$	—	8.2	$	337
Fiscal Year 2016	1.0	$	57	6.9	$	461	7.8	$	500	15.7	$	1,018

Employee Stock Option [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Disclosure Of Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements By Stock-Based Payment Award

The following table summarizes our stock option activity for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Options (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Exercise Prices		Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Term  (in years)	Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in millions)
Outstanding as of March 31, 2015	4,920		$	37.44
Granted	6		66.08
Exercised	(1,594	)	42.43
Forfeited, cancelled or expired	(54	)	35.61
Outstanding as of March 31, 2016	3,278		$	35.09	5.61	$	101
Vested and expected to vest	3,163		$	35.22	5.53	$	97
Exercisable as of March 31, 2016	2,206		$	36.55	4.46	$	65

Restricted Stock Rights [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Disclosure Of Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements By Stock-Based Payment Award

Each restricted stock right granted reduces the number of shares available for grant by 1.43 shares under our Equity Plan. The following table summarizes our restricted stock rights activity, excluding market-based restricted stock unit activity which is discussed below, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016:

	Restricted Stock Rights (in thousands)		Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Values
Balance as of March 31, 2015	10,855		$	26.20
Granted	3,035		64.40
Vested	(5,809	)	22.65
Forfeited or cancelled	(924	)	35.78
Balance as of March 31, 2016	7,157		$	44.04

Market Based Restricted Stock Units [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Disclosure Of Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements By Stock-Based Payment Award

The following table summarizes our market-based restricted stock unit activity for the year ended March 31, 2016:

	Market-Based Restricted  Stock Units (in thousands)		Weighted- Average  Grant Date Fair Value
Balance as of March 31, 2015	663		$	31.82
Granted	395		79.81
Vested	(742	)	25.77
Vested above target	371		25.77
Forfeited or cancelled	(51	)	40.10
Balance as of March 31, 2016	636		$	64.49

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Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Interest and Other Income [Abstract]

Schedule Of Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net

Interest and other income (expense), net, for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 consisted of (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Loss on conversion of Convertible Notes	$	(10	)	$	—		$	—
Interest expense	(28		)	(31		)	(30		)
Interest income	15			10			5
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency transactions	(14		)	(62		)	4
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts	15			59			(5		)
Other income, net	1			1			—
Interest and other income (expense), net	$	(21	)	$	(23	)	$	(26	)

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Earnings Per Share (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Earnings Per Share Reconciliation [Abstract]

Computation Of Basic Earnings And Diluted Earnings Per Share

	Year Ended March 31,
(In millions, except per share amounts)	2016		2015		2014
Net income	$	1,156	$	875	$	8
Shares used to compute earnings per share:
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — basic	310		311		308
Dilutive potential common shares related to stock award plans and from assumed exercise of stock options	6		9		8
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Convertible Notes	6		4		—
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Warrants	8		1		—
Weighted-average common stock outstanding — diluted	330		325		316
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	3.73	$	2.81	$	0.03
Diluted	$	3.50	$	2.69	$	0.03

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Segment Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Reconciliation Of Segment Operating Profit To Consolidated Operating Loss

The following table summarizes the financial performance of our current segment operating profit and a reconciliation to our consolidated operating income for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016			2015			2014
Segment:
Net revenue before revenue deferral	$	4,566		$	4,319		$	4,021
Depreciation	(119		)	(126		)	(126		)
Other expenses	(3,147		)	(3,117		)	(3,178		)
Segment operating profit	1,300			1,076			717
Reconciliation to consolidated operating income:
Other:
Revenue deferral	(3,783		)	(3,536		)	(3,350		)
Recognition of revenue deferral	3,613			3,732			2,904
Amortization of intangibles	(54		)	(66		)	(76		)
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	—			3			35
Restructuring and other charges	—			—			1
Stock-based compensation	(178		)	(144		)	(150		)
Loss on licensed intellectual property commitment				(122		)	—
Other expenses	—			5			(48		)
Consolidated operating income	$	898		$	948		$	33

Net Revenue By Revenue Composition

Information about our total net revenue by revenue composition and by platform for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Packaged goods and other	$	1,987	$	2,316	$	1,742
Digital	2,409		2,199		1,833
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Table Text Block]

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Platform net revenue
Xbox One, PlayStation 4	$	2,183	$	1,505	$	196
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3	752		1,485		1,779
Other consoles	7		21		30
Total consoles	2,942		3,011		2,005
PC / Browser	814		878		1,020
Mobile	548		504		400
Other	92		122		150
Net revenue	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Net Revenue By Geographic Area

Information about our operations in North America and internationally as of and for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014 is presented below (in millions):

	Year Ended March 31,
	2016		2015		2014
Net revenue from unaffiliated customers
North America	$	1,907	$	1,956	$	1,510
International	2,489		2,559		2,065
Total	$	4,396	$	4,515	$	3,575

Long-Lived Assets By Geographic Area

	As of March 31,
	2016		2015
Long-lived assets
North America	$	1,727	$	1,809
International	479		474
Total	$	2,206	$	2,283

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Quarterly Financial And Market Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Quarterly Financial Data [Abstract]

Summary Of Quarterly Financial And Market Information

	Quarter Ended											Year Ended
(In millions, except per share data)	June 30		September 30			December 31			March 31
Fiscal 2016 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,203	$	815		$	1,070		$	1,308		$	4,396
Gross profit	1,030		406			524			1,082			3,042
Operating income (loss)	512		(119		)	(31		)	536			898
Net income (loss)	442		(140		)	(45		)	899		(a)	1,156
Common Stock
Earnings (loss) per share — Basic	$	1.42	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.93		$	3.73
Earnings (loss) per share — Diluted	$	1.32	$	(0.45	)	$	(0.14	)	$	2.79		$	3.50
Common stock price per share
High	$	68.00	$	75.16		$	76.77		$	70.83		$	76.77
Low	$	56.03	$	63.43		$	65.04		$	55.50		$	55.50
Fiscal 2015 Consolidated
Net revenue	$	1,214	$	990		$	1,126		$	1,185		$	4,515
Gross profit	847		563			725			951			3,086
Operating income	362		24			162			400			948
Net income	335		3			142			395			875
Common Stock
Earnings per share — Basic	$	1.07	$	0.01		$	0.46		$	1.27		$	2.81
Earnings per share — Diluted	$	1.04	$	0.01		$	0.44		$	1.19		$	2.69
Common stock price per share
High	$	37.15	$	38.42		$	48.33		$	58.24		$	58.24
Low	$	26.67	$	33.31		$	32.62		$	45.96		$	26.67

(a) Net income includes an income tax benefit recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Fiscal Periods) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Current and Prior Years Fiscal Period (in weeks)	53	52	52
Minimum [Member]
Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Fiscal Year (in weeks)	52
Maximum [Member]
Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Fiscal Year (in weeks)	53

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Property Plant and Equipment and Internal Use Software Policy) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Capitalized internal-use software	$ 55	$ 62
Buildings | Minimum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	20 years
Buildings | Maximum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	25 years
Computer equipment and software | Minimum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	3 years
Computer equipment and software | Maximum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	6 years
Equipment, Furniture and Fixtures, and Other [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	3 years
Equipment, Furniture and Fixtures, and Other [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	5 years
Leasehold Improvements [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	1 year
Leasehold Improvements [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, Plant and Equipment, Useful Life	10 years
Computer Software, Intangible Asset [Member]
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Capitalized Internal-use Software, Estimated Useful Life	3 years

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Acquisition-Related Intangibles and Other Long-Lived Assets) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016
Minimum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Finite-Lived Intangible Asset, Useful Life	2 years
Maximum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Finite-Lived Intangible Asset, Useful Life	14 years

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Concentration of Credit Risk, Significant Customers and Channel Partners) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage	62.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] | Franchise Concentration Risk [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage	55.00%
Product Concentration Risk [Member] | Sales Revenue, Product Line [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage	67.00%	66.00%	55.00%
Customer A [Member] | Accounts Receivable [Member] | Credit Concentration Risk [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage	26.00%	26.00%
Customer B [Member] | Accounts Receivable [Member] | Credit Concentration Risk [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Concentration Risk, Percentage	24.00%	10.00%

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Advertising Costs) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Operating Expenses [Abstract]
Vendor reimbursements of advertising costs	$ 51	$ 43	$ 66
Advertising expense, net of vendor reimbursements	$ 240	$ 228	$ 217

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Foreign Currency Translation) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Derivative [Line Items]
Foreign Currency Transaction Gain (Loss), Realized	$ (14)	$ (62)	$ 4
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts	$ 15	$ 59	$ (5)

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Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Recently Adopted Accounting Standards) (Details) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Debt issuance costs reclassified as contra-liability [Member]
Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Debt Issuance Cost	$ 9
Reclassification of deferred tax assets from current to non-current [Member]
Description Of Business And Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Deferred Tax Assets, Net, Noncurrent	$ 53

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Fair Value Measurements (Fair Value of Assets And Liabilities Measured At Fair Value On A Recurring Basis) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Fair Value
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Total assets at fair value	$ 1,915	$ 1,211
Total liabilities at fair value	19	18
Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1)
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Total assets at fair value	903	405
Total liabilities at fair value	9	9
Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Total assets at fair value	1,012	806
Total liabilities at fair value	10	9
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Total assets at fair value	0	0
Total liabilities at fair value	0	0
Short-Term Investments [Member] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | U.S. Treasury Securities [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Available-for-sale of securities		214
Short-Term Investments And Cash Equivalents [Member] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | U.S. Treasury Securities [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Available-for-sale of securities	407
Short-Term Investments And Cash Equivalents [Member] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | Corporate Bonds [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Available-for-sale of securities	745	468
Short-Term Investments And Cash Equivalents [Member] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | US Agencies Securities [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Available-for-sale of securities	170	180
Short-Term Investments And Cash Equivalents [Member] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | Commercial Paper [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Available-for-sale of securities	81	140
Cash Equivalents [Member] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | Bank Time Deposits [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Cash equivalents	345	175
Cash Equivalents [Member] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | Money Market Funds [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Cash equivalents	143	7
Other Current Assets [Member] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | Foreign Currency Derivatives [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Foreign currency derivatives, assets		18
Other Current Assets and Other Assets [Domain] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | Foreign Currency Derivatives [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Foreign currency derivatives, assets	16
Other Assets [Member] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | Deferred compensation plan assets
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Deferred compensation plan assets and liabilities	8	9
Accrued and Other Current Liabilities [Member] | Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2) [Member] | Foreign Currency Derivatives [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Foreign currency derivatives, liabilities	10	9
Other Liabilities [Members] | Quoted Prices In Active Markets For Identical Financial Instruments (Level 1) | Deferred Compensation Plan Liabilities [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Fair value, Deferred compensation plan assets and liabilities	$ 9	$ 9

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Financial Instruments (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2013
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cash and cash equivalents	$ 2,493	$ 2,068	$ 1,782	$ 1,292

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(Fair Value Of Short-Term Investments) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Fair Value	$ 1,341	$ 953
Short-Term Investments [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cost or Amortized Cost	1,339	952
Gross Unrealized Gains	2	1
Gross Unrealized Losses	0	0
Fair Value	1,341	953
Short-Term Investments [Member] | Corporate Bonds [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cost or Amortized Cost	733	467
Gross Unrealized Gains	1	0
Gross Unrealized Losses	0	0
Fair Value	734	467
Short-Term Investments [Member] | U.S. Treasury Securities [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cost or Amortized Cost	389	214
Gross Unrealized Gains	1	0
Gross Unrealized Losses	0
Fair Value	390	214
Short-Term Investments [Member] | U.S. Agency Securities [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cost or Amortized Cost	167	161
Gross Unrealized Gains	0	1
Gross Unrealized Losses	0	0
Fair Value	167	162
Short-Term Investments [Member] | Commercial Paper [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Cost or Amortized Cost	50	110
Gross Unrealized Gains	0	0
Gross Unrealized Losses	0	0
Fair Value	$ 50	$ 110

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(Fair Value Of Short-Term Investments By Stated Maturity Date Schedule) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Short-term investments, Fair Value	$ 1,341	$ 953
Short-Term Investments [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Short-term investments, Amortized Cost	1,339	952
Short-term investments, Fair Value	1,341	953
Due in 1 year or less [Member] | Short-Term Investments [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Due in 1 year or less, Amortized Cost	571	417
Due in 1 year or less, Fair Value	571	417
Due in 1-2 years [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Amortized Cost Basis	461	281
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Fair Value	462	281
Due in 2-3 years [Member] | Short-Term Investments [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Amortized Cost Basis	295	244
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Fair Value	296	245
Due in 3-4 years [Member] | Short-Term Investments [Member]
Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Amortized Cost Basis	12	10
Available-for-sale Securities, Debt Maturities, Year Two Through Five, Fair Value	$ 12	$ 10

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Derivative Financial Instruments (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Derivative [Line Items]
Foreign Currency Forward And Option Contracts Maximum Maturity Period	18 months
Maturity period of foreign currency forward contracts, Maximum	3 months
Cash Flow Hedging [Member]
Derivative [Line Items]
Loss on Foreign Currency Derivatives Recorded in Earnings, Net	$ (12)	$ 11	$ 9

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Derivative Financial Instruments Gross Notional Amounts and Fair Values for Currency Derivatives (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Foreign currency contracts to purchase [Member] | Foreign exchange forward contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Fair value of foreign currency contracts outstanding, Assets	$ 5	$ 0
Fair value of foreign currency contracts outstanding, Liabilities	1	8
Foreign currency contracts to purchase [Member] | Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Foreign exchange forward contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative, Notional amount	148	108
Foreign currency contracts to sell [Member] | Foreign exchange forward contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Fair value of foreign currency contracts outstanding, Assets	11	18
Fair value of foreign currency contracts outstanding, Liabilities	9	1
Foreign currency contracts to sell [Member] | Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] | Foreign exchange forward contracts
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative, Notional amount	685	508
Foreign currency contracts to purchase [Member] | United States Dollar [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member]
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative, Notional amount	108	99
Foreign currency contracts to purchase [Member] | Balance Sheet Hedging [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member]
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative Asset, Current	0	0
Derivative Liability, Current	0	0
Foreign currency contracts to sell [Member] | United States Dollar [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member]
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative, Notional amount	159	173
Foreign currency contracts to sell [Member] | Balance Sheet Hedging [Member] | Not Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member]
Derivative [Line Items]
Derivative Asset, Current	0	0
Derivative Liability, Current	$ 0	$ 0

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Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative, Non-Designated Hedging Instruments (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net [Member]
Derivative Instruments, Gain (Loss) [Line Items]
Foreign currency forward contracts not designated as hedging instruments	$ 16	$ 58	$ (5)

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Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income by Component (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Roll Forward]
Beginning Balance	$ 2	$ 37	$ 69
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	(6)	(46)	(41)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	(12)	11	9
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	(18)	(35)	(32)
Ending balance	(16)	2	37
Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Available-for-Sale Securities [Member]
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Roll Forward]
Beginning Balance	(3)	(4)	(4)
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	4	1	0
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	0	0	0
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	4	1	0
Ending balance	1	(3)	(4)
Accumulated Net Gain (Loss) from Designated or Qualifying Cash Flow Hedges [Member]
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Roll Forward]
Beginning Balance	21	(10)	0
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	5	20	(19)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	(12)	11	9
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	(7)	31	(10)
Ending balance	14	21	(10)
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment [Member]
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Roll Forward]
Beginning Balance	(16)	51	73
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications	(15)	(67)	(22)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income	0	0	0
Net current-period other comprehensive income (loss)	(15)	(67)	(22)
Ending balance	$ (31)	$ (16)	$ 51

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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income Effects on net income of amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Reclassification from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Current Period, Net of Tax	$ (12)	$ 11	$ 9
Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Available-for-Sale Securities
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Reclassification from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Current Period, Net of Tax	0	0	0
Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Reclassification from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Current Period, Net of Tax	(12)	11	9
Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments | Sales Revenue, Net [Member]
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Reclassification from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Current Period, Net of Tax	(23)	(2)	7
Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments | Research and Development
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Line Items]
Reclassification from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, Current Period, Net of Tax	$ 11	$ 13	$ 2

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Business Combinations (Narrative) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of Businesses Acquired	0	0	1

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	$ 608	$ 833
Gross carrying amount, retired [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	$ 225
Minimum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Finite-Lived Intangible Asset, Useful Life	2 years
Maximum [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Finite-Lived Intangible Asset, Useful Life	14 years
Weighted Average
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Acquired Finite-lived Intangible Assets, Weighted Average Useful Life	1 year 7 months	2 years 9 months

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles (Schedule Of Changes In The Carrying Amount Of Goodwill) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Goodwill [Roll Forward]
Goodwill, Gross, Beginning balance	$ 2,081	$ 2,091
Accumulated impairment, beginning balance	(368)	(368)
Goodwill, Net, Beginning balance	1,713	1,723
Goodwill acquired	0	0
Effects of foreign currency translation	(3)	(10)
Goodwill, Gross, Ending balance	2,078	2,081
Accumulated impairment, ending balance	(368)	(368)
Goodwill, Net, Ending balance	$ 1,710	$ 1,713

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net (Schedule Of Acquisition-Related Intangibles) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	$ 608	$ 833
Accumulated amortization	(551)	(722)
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	57	111
Developed And Core Technology
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	412	531
Accumulated amortization	(368)	(439)
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	44	92
Trade Names And Trademarks
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	106	130
Accumulated amortization	(93)	(111)
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	13	19
Registered User Base And Other Intangibles
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	5	87
Accumulated amortization	(5)	(87)
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	0	0
Carrier Contracts And Related
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Gross carrying amount	85	85
Accumulated amortization	(85)	(85)
Acquisition-related intangibles, net	$ 0	$ 0

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net (Schedule Of Amortization Of Intangible Assets) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets Classified by Expense
Amortization of intangibles	$ 7	$ 14	$ 16
Cost of product
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets Classified by Expense
Amortization of intangibles	14	16	33
Cost of service and other
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets Classified by Expense
Amortization of intangibles	33	36	27
Operating expenses
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets Classified by Expense
Amortization of intangibles	7	14	16
Total amortization
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets Classified by Expense
Amortization of intangibles	$ 54	$ 66	$ 76

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Goodwill And Acquisition-Related Intangibles, Net (Schedule Of Future Amortization Of Acquisition-Related Intangibles) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]
2017	$ 38
2018	17
2019	2
Total	$ 57	$ 111

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Restructuring And Other Charges (Narrative) (Details) - Fiscal Two Thousand And Eleven Restructuring [Member] $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($)
Restructuring And Other Charges
Restructuring and Related Cost, Cost Incurred to Date	$ 172
Amended Licensing Agreements And Other Asset Impairment [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Restructuring and Related Cost, Cost Incurred to Date	129
Developer Commitments [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Restructuring and Related Cost, Cost Incurred to Date	31
Employee Severance [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Restructuring and Related Cost, Cost Incurred to Date	$ 12

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(Restructuring And Other Restructuring Plan-Related Information) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Restructuring And Other Charges
Beginning Balance	$ 12	$ 50	$ 62
Charges to operations	0	0	(1)
Charges settled in cash	(12)	(38)	(11)
Ending Balance	0	12	50
Fiscal Two Thousand And Eleven Restructuring [Member] | Other Restructuring Costs [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Beginning Balance	11	47	57
Charges to operations	0	0	(2)
Charges settled in cash	(11)	(36)	(8)
Ending Balance	0	11	47
Other Restructurings And Reorganization Costs [Member] | Facility Closing [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Beginning Balance	1	2	4
Charges to operations	0	0	1
Charges settled in cash	(1)	(1)	(3)
Ending Balance	0	1	2
Other Restructurings and Reorganization [Member] | Other Restructuring Costs [Member]
Restructuring And Other Charges
Beginning Balance	0	1	1
Charges to operations	0	0	0
Charges settled in cash	0	(1)	0
Ending Balance	$ 0	$ 0	$ 1

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Royalties And Licenses (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Royalties And Licenses [Line Items]
Royalty Related Loss And Or Impairment Charges		$ 122	$ 0
Unrecorded unconditional purchase obligation	$ 2,432
Expected accretion expense through March 2022	22
Developer/Licensor Commitments
Royalties And Licenses [Line Items]
Unrecorded unconditional purchase obligation	$ 1,460

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(Schedule Of Royalty-Related Assets) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Royalties And Licenses [Line Items]
Royalty-related assets	$ 117	$ 129
Other Current Assets [Member]
Royalties And Licenses [Line Items]
Royalty-related assets	54	70
Other Assets [Member]
Royalties And Licenses [Line Items]
Royalty-related assets	$ 63	$ 59

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(Schedule Of Royalty-Related Liabilities) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Royalty-Related Liabilities [Line Items]
Royalty-related liabilities	$ 277	$ 250
Accrued royalties
Royalty-Related Liabilities [Line Items]
Royalty-related liabilities	159	119
Other liabilities
Royalty-Related Liabilities [Line Items]
Royalty-related liabilities	$ 118	$ 131

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Balance Sheet Details (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]
Deferred net revenue (online-enabled games)	$ 1,458	$ 1,283
Depreciation expense	$ 119	$ 126	$ 126

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Balance Sheet Details (Inventories Schedule) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]
Finished goods	$ 32	$ 35
Raw materials and work in process	1	1
Inventories	$ 33	$ 36

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Balance Sheet Details (Property And Equipment, Net Schedule) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	$ 1,282	$ 1,238
Less accumulated depreciation	(843)	(779)
Property and equipment, net	439	459
Computer equipment and software
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	684	655
Buildings
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	313	315
Leasehold improvements
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	129	126
Equipment, furniture and fixtures, and other
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	80	73
Land
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	61	62
Construction in progress
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property and equipment, gross	$ 15	$ 7

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Balance Sheet Details (Accrued And Other Current Liabilities Schedule) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]
Other accrued expenses	$ 218	$ 298
Accrued compensation and benefits	256	263
Accrued royalties	159	119
Deferred net revenue (other)	77	114
Accrued and other current liabilities	$ 710	$ 794

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Income Taxes (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]
Other Tax Benefit	$ 41
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance	100.00%
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 1,018	$ 337
Tax Benefits Allocated Directly to Contributed Capital	83	21	$ 12
Valuation allowance decrease		441
Gross unrecognized tax benefits	331	254	$ 232	$ 297
Amount of unrecognized tax benefits that would affect the effective tax rate	305
The total amount of unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would result in adjustments to deferred tax assets with corresponding	26
Combined amount of accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions	15	16
Unrecognized Tax Benefits Income Tax Penalties And Interest Accrued Increase Decrease	1
Amount of unrecognized tax benefits for which it is reasonably possible that there will be a reduction within the next 12 months	50
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	43	0
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance	114	555
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [Member]
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]
Tax credit carry forwards	$ 373
Tax credit carryforward, expiration dates	Jan. 01, 2024
Foreign Country [Member]
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]
Undistributed Earnings of Foreign Subsidiaries	$ 1,241
Tax credit carry forwards	8
State [Member]
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]
Net operating Loss Carryforwards	1,016
Net operating loss attributable to various acquired companies	130
Tax credit carry forwards	93
Fiscal Year 2016 Repurchase Program [Member]
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 500	$ 0

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Income Taxes (Components Of Loss Before Income Taxes) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Domestic	$ 133	$ 232	$ (146)
Foreign	744	693	153
Income before provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$ 877	$ 925	$ 7

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Income Taxes (Provision For (Benefit From) Income Taxes) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Federal, Current	$ 69	$ 10	$ (2)
State, Current	5	0	1
Foreign, Current	36	21	8
Total, Current	110	31	7
Federal, Deferred	(376)	17	(9)
State, Deferred	(14)	0	(2)
Foreign, Deferred	1	2	3
Total, Deferred	(389)	19	(8)
Total, Federal	(307)	27	(11)
Total, State	(9)	0	(1)
Total, Foreign	37	23	11
Total provision for (benefit from) income taxes	$ (279)	$ 50	$ (1)

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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Differences Between Statutory Tax Rate And Effective Tax Rate) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Income Tax Expense Reconciliation [Line Items]
Statutory federal tax expense (benefit) rate	35.00%	35.00%	35.00%
State taxes, net of federal benefit	0.50%	0.10%	(242.90%)
Differences between statutory rate and foreign effective tax rate	(22.10%)	(22.30%)	(142.90%)
Valuation allowance	(51.70%)	(9.20%)	936.50%
Research and development credits	(0.60%)	(1.10%)	(128.60%)
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	4.90%
Resolution of tax matters with authorities	0.00%	(0.50%)	(657.10%)
Non-deductible stock-based compensation	3.10%	3.50%	385.70%
Acquisition-related contingent consideration	0.00%	(0.20%)	(185.70%)
Other	(0.90%)	0.10%	(14.30%)
Effective tax expense (benefit) rate	(31.80%)	5.40%	(14.30%)

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Income Taxes (Deferred Tax Assets And Liabilities) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Accruals, reserves and other expenses	$ 171	$ 189
Tax credit carryforwards	334	312
Stock-based compensation	39	35
Net operating loss & capital loss carryforwards	28	41
Total	572	577
Valuation allowance	(114)	(555)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance	458	22
Amortization and Depreciation	(27)	(32)
Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries	43	0
Prepaids and other liabilities	(3)	(8)
Total	(73)	(40)
Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance and deferred tax liabilities	$ 385	$ (18)

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Income Taxes (Schedule Of Unrecognized Tax Benefits) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]
Unrecognized tax benefits, beginning balance	$ 254	$ 232	$ 297
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	33	9	10
Decreases in unrecognized tax benefits related to prior year tax positions	(4)	(14)	(79)
Increases in unrecognized tax benefits related to current year tax positions	63	50	44
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Decrease Resulting from Settlements with Taxing Authorities	(10)	(6)	(29)
Reductions in unrecognized tax benefits due to lapse of applicable statute of limitations	(4)	(7)	(9)
Changes in unrecognized tax benefits due to foreign currency translation	(1)	(10)	(2)
Unrecognized tax benefits, ending balance	$ 331	$ 254	$ 232

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Financing Arrangement (0.75% Convertible senior notes due 2016) (Details)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2011	Jun. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) shares $ / shares	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Jul. 14, 2011 USD ($) $ / shares
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Shares Received Under Convertible Note Hedge | shares			7,823,000
Temporary equity			$ 2,000,000	$ 31,000,000
Repayments of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016			$ 470,000,000	0	$ 0
Debt Conversion, Converted Instrument, Shares Issued | shares			(7,823,000)
Loss on Conversion of Convertible Notes			$ (10,000,000)	$ 0	$ 0
Convertible Debt
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016, net, Principal						$ 633,000,000
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Carrying Amount of Equity Component			$ 107,000,000
Contractual interest rate of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016						0.75%
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016, Frequency of Periodic Payment	semiannually
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016, Issuance Date	Jul. 14, 2011
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 description	2016
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 maturity date	Jul. 15, 2016
Conversion rate of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016	31.5075
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016, Face Amount						$ 1,000
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Conversion Price | $ / shares						$ 31.74
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016, Call Date, Latest			Jul. 13, 2016
Share Price | $ / shares			$ 65.92
Debt Instrument, Convertible, If-converted Value in Excess of Principal			$ 175,000,000
Repayments of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016			470,000,000
Debt Conversion, Converted Instrument, Amount			$ 518,000,000
Effective interest rate						4.54%
Debt issuance costs						$ 15,000,000
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 remaining discount amortization period (in years)			3 months 15 days
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Number of Equity Instruments | shares			400,000
Debt Conversion, Original Debt, Amount			$ 497,000,000
Convertible Debt | Subsequent Event [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Repayments of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016		$ 27,000,000
Convertible Debt | Liability Component [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
0.75% Convertible senior notes due 2016, net (long-term)						525,000,000
Debt issuance costs						13,000,000
Convertible Debt | Equity Component [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Debt issuance costs						$ 2,000,000

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Financing Arrangement (Carrying Values Of Liability And Equity Components Of Notes) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
0.75% Convertible senior notes due 2016, net (short-term)	$ 161.0	$ 602.0
Convertible Debt
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Principal Amount of Convertible Notes	163.0	633.0
Unamortized debt discount of the liability component	(2.0)	(31.0)
0.75% Convertible senior notes due 2016, net (short-term)	161.0	602.0
Debt Instrument, Fair Value Disclosure	$ 338.0	$ 1,158.0

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Financing Arrangement (Convertible Note Hedge and Warrants Issuance) (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Thousands, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2011 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2016 $ / shares shares	Jul. 14, 2011 $ / shares shares
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Greater Than Or Equal to Trading Days For Automatic Exercise of Warrants		60
Warrants Expiration Date Range Start		Oct. 17, 2016
Exercise of convertible note hedge | shares		7,823
Convertible Note Hedge [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Amount paid for Convertible Note Hedge | $	$ 107
Warrants - Underlying [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Shares covered by warrants issuance | shares			19,900
Warrant [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Strike price of warrants | $ / shares			$ 41.14
Proceeds from Warrants transaction | $	$ 65
Warrants - Estimated [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Shares covered by warrants issuance | shares		7,500
Convertible Debt
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Conversion Price | $ / shares			$ 31.74
Share Price | $ / shares		$ 65.92

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Financing Arrangement (Senior Notes) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 29, 2016	Mar. 31, 2016	Feb. 24, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
senior notes, noncurrent		$ 989		$ 0
2021 Notes
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Effective interest rate			3.94%
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Remaining Discount Amortization Period		4 years 11 months
Long-term Debt			$ 600
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage			3.70%
Debt Instrument, Maturity Date	Mar. 01, 2021
2026 Notes
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Effective interest rate			4.97%
Debt Instrument, Convertible, Remaining Discount Amortization Period		9 years 11 months
Long-term Debt			$ 400
Debt Instrument, Interest Rate, Stated Percentage			4.80%
Debt Instrument, Maturity Date	Mar. 01, 2026
Senior Notes
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, Issuance Date	Feb. 24, 2016
Long-term Debt			$ 1,000
Unaccreted discount		$ (2)
Unamortized debt issuance costs		(9)
Debt Instrument, Fair Value Disclosure		$ 1,039
Senior Notes, Frequency of Periodic Payment	semiannually
Debt Instrument, Redemption Price, Percentage		100.00%
Change of control repurchase event [Member]
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Debt Instrument, Redemption Price, Percentage		101.00%

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Financing Arrangement (Line of Credit Facility) (Details) - Revolving Credit Facility [Member] $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]
Line of Credit Facility, Initiation Date	Mar. 19, 2015
Line of Credit Facility, Maximum Borrowing Capacity	$ 500
Line of Credit Facility, Expiration Date	Mar. 19, 2020
Option To Request Additional Commitments On Credit Facility	$ 250
Debt Instrument, Fee Amount	$ 2
LineofCreditFacilityTerm1	5 years

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Financing Arrangement (Schedule Of Interest Expense Related To Notes) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Financing Arrangement [Line Items]
Amortization of debt discount	$ (17)	$ (22)	$ (21)
Amortization of debt issuance costs	(3)	(3)	(3)
Coupon interest expense	(7)	(5)	(5)
Interest Expense, Other	(1)	(1)	(1)
Total interest expense	$ (28)	$ (31)	$ (30)

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Commitments And Contingencies (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
		Jul. 31, 2011	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation			$ 2,432.0
Operating Leases, Future Minimum Payments Due, Future Minimum Sublease Rentals			2.0
Amount of potential cash payments that could result from unrecognized tax benefits			80.0
Operating Leases, Rent Expense			89.0	$ 97.0	$ 97.0
Convertible Debt
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Remaining principal amount of the Convertible Notes			163.0
Debt Instrument, Maturity Date		Jul. 15, 2016
Convertible Notes Interest [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	[1]		1.0
Maximum [Member] | Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligations Payable in Common Stock Per Year [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation			10.0
Maximum [Member] | Common stock
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation			$ 32.0

[1] (a)We will be obligated to pay the remaining $163 million principal amount of the Convertible Notes in cash and deliver any excess conversion value in shares of our common stock upon redemption of the Convertible Notes at maturity on July 15, 2016, or upon earlier conversion. See Note 12 for additional information regarding our Convertible Notes.

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Commitments And Contingencies (Minimum Contractual Obligations) (Details) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	$ 2,432
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	376
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	430
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	434
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	381
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	326
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	485
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	1,314
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	189
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	23
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	24
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	25
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	626
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	427
TotalUnconditionalPurchaseObligationBalanceSheetAmount	3,746
Total Unconditional Purchase Obligation Balance Sheet Amount Two Years After Fiscal Year End	565
TotalUnconditionalPurchaseObligationBalanceSheetAmountThreeYearsAfterFiscalYearEnd	453
TotalUnconditionalPurchaseObligationBalanceSheetAmountFourYearsAfterFiscalYearEnd	458
Total Unconditional Purchase Obligation Balance Sheet Amount Five Years After Fiscal Year End	406
TotalUnconditionalPurchaseObligationBalanceSheetAmountThereafter	952
TotalUnconditionalPurchaseObligationBalanceSheetAmountThereafter	912
Developer/Licensor
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	1,460
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	211
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	299
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	277
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	243
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	189
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	241
Marketing
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	371
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	61
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	50
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	81
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	64
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	67
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	48
Operating leases
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	219
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	36
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	32
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	28
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	27
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	24
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	72
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 interest
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	1	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	1	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	0	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	0	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	0	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	0	[1]
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	0	[1]
Senior Notes Interest [Member]
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	300
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	38
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	41
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	41
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	41
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	41
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	98
Other Unrecorded Purchase Obligations [Member]
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	81
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	29
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	8
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	7
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	6
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	5
Unrecorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	26
0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016 principle
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	163	[1]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	0	[1]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	0	[1]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	0	[1]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	0	[1]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	0	[1]
Senior Notes
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	1,004
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	4
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	0
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	0
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	0
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	600
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	400
Licensing and lease obligations
Long Term Purchase Commitments
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation	147	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Next Rolling Twelve Months	22	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Two	23	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Three	24	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Four	25	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling Year Five	26	[2]
Recorded Unconditional Purchase Obligation, Due in Rolling after Year Five	$ 27	[2]

[1] (a)We will be obligated to pay the remaining $163 million principal amount of the Convertible Notes in cash and deliver any excess conversion value in shares of our common stock upon redemption of the Convertible Notes at maturity on July 15, 2016, or upon earlier conversion. See Note 12 for additional information regarding our Convertible Notes.

[2] (b)Lease commitments have not been reduced for approximately $2 million due in the future from third parties under non-cancelable sub-leases. See Note 9 for additional information regarding recognized obligations from our licensing-related commitments.

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Preferred Stock (Details) - shares shares in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Preferred Stock, Number of Shares, Par Value and Other Disclosures [Abstract]
Preferred stock authorized	10	10

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(Stock-Based Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended			23 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Deferred Income Tax Expense (Benefit)	$ (389.0)	$ 19.0	$ (8.0)
Adjustment to Additional Paid in Capital, Income Tax Effect from Share-based Compensation, Net	83.0	22.0	13.0
Tax costs from exercise of stock options	$ 86.0	$ 22.0	13.0
Common Stock, Shares, Outstanding	301.0	310.0		301.0
Number of Shares Available for Grant, Employee Stock Purchase Plans	5.2			5.2
Deferred Compensation Plan Assets	$ 8.0	$ 9.0		$ 8.0
Deferred Compensation Liability, Classified, Noncurrent	8.0	9.0		$ 8.0
Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Employer Contribution	27.0	27.0	$ 16.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 1,018.0	$ 337.0
Minimum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage Range Of Shares Received At Vesting Based On Total Stock Return Measurement	0.00%			0.00%
Maximum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage Range Of Shares Received At Vesting Based On Total Stock Return Measurement	200.00%			200.00%
Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized	$ 9.0			$ 9.0
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized, Period for Recognition	1 year 5 months
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant	15.2			15.2
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value		$ 12.01	$ 8.61
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Exercises in Period, Intrinsic Value	$ 38.0	$ 22.0	$ 16.0
Equity Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage Allowed Of Exercise Price Of Stock Options Compared To Fair Market Value On Date Of Grant	100.00%
Employee Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value	$ 12.97	$ 8.26	$ 4.67
Minimum Percentage That Employees Authorized For Payroll Deductions	2.00%
Maximum Percentage That Employees Authorized For Payroll Deductions	10.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Discount from Market Price, Offering Date	85.00%
Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Employee Stock Purchase Plans	0.9
Employee Stock [Member] | Minimum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
ESPP Exercise Price For Shares Issued	$ 32.16	22.64	11.33
Employee Stock [Member] | Maximum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
ESPP Exercise Price For Shares Issued	$ 54.78	32.16	22.64
Restricted Stock Rights [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Reduction In Shares Available Per Grant Of Stock Right	1.43
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized	$ 243.0			$ 243.0
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized, Period for Recognition	1 year 3 months
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant	10.7			10.7
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value	$ 64.40	$ 37.22	$ 23.01
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value	$ 372.0	$ 209.0	$ 163.0
Market Based Restricted Stock Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Cost Not yet Recognized	$ 26.0			$ 26.0
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value	$ 79.81	$ 48.14	$ 30.18
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value	$ 47.0	$ 23.0	$ 7.0
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Equity Instruments Other Than Options Performance Target Maximum, Grants	0.8
Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Equity Instruments Other Than Options Performance Target Maximum, Outstanding	1.3			1.3
Market Based Restricted Stock Units [Member] | Target
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Target percentage of presented shares granted that may potentially vest	100.00%			100.00%
Fiscal Year 2012 Repurchase Program [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 461.0
May 2014 Repurchase Program [Member] [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 57.0	$ 337.0		$ 394.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Shares	1.0	8.0		9.2
Fiscal Year 2015 Repurchase Program [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock Repurchase Program, Authorized Amount	$ 750.0			$ 750.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 461.0	$ 0.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Shares	6.9	0.0
Fiscal Year 2016 Repurchase Program [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock Repurchase Program, Authorized Amount		$ 1,000.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 500.0	$ 0.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Shares	7.8	0.0
Additional paid-in capital
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Adjustment to Additional Paid in Capital, Income Tax Effect from Share-based Compensation, Net	$ 83.0	$ 22.0	$ 13.0
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	1,018.0	$ 337.0
Stock-based compensation expense [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Deferred Income Tax Expense (Benefit)	$ 38.0

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(Schedule Of Assumptions Used In The Black-Scholes Valuation Model) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate, minimum		1.10%	1.60%
Risk-free interest rate, maximum		1.90%	1.60%
Expected volatility, minimum		36.00%	37.00%
Expected volatility, maximum		40.00%	42.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Weighted Average Volatility Rate		38.00%	37.00%
Expected dividends		0.00%	0.00%
Employee Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate, minimum	0.30%	0.04%	0.10%
Risk-free interest rate, maximum	0.60%	0.20%	0.10%
Expected volatility, minimum	32.00%	30.00%	36.00%
Expected volatility, maximum	36.00%	35.00%	38.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Weighted Average Volatility Rate	33.00%	34.00%	38.00%
Expected dividends	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Minimum [Member] | Employee Stock Option [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Term		4 years 6 months	4 years 6 months
Minimum [Member] | Employee Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Term	6 months	6 months	6 months
Maximum [Member] | Employee Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected Term	12 months	12 months	12 months

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(Schedule Of Assumptions Used In Monte-Carlo Simulation Model) (Details) - Market Based Restricted Stock Units [Member]	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rate, minimum	1.00%	0.90%	0.40%
Risk-free interest rate, maximum	1.00%	0.90%	0.40%
Expected volatility, minimum	14.00%	16.00%	16.00%
Expected volatility, maximum	53.00%	79.00%	58.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Weighted Average Volatility Rate	26.00%	30.00%	31.00%
Expected dividends	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

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(Schedule Of Stock-Based Compensation Expense By Statement Of Operations Line Item) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	$ 178	$ 144	$ 150
Cost of revenue [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	2	2	2
Research And Development
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	103	82	90
Marketing and sales
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	24	21	26
General And Administrative [Member]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation expense	$ 49	$ 39	$ 32

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(Schedule Of Stock Option Activity) (Details) $ / shares in Units, shares in Thousands, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) $ / shares shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Outstanding [Roll Forward]
Options, Outstanding, Beginning Balance | shares	4,920
Options, Granted | shares	6
Options, Exercised | shares	(1,594)
Options, forfeited, cancelled or expired | shares	(54)
Options, Outstanding, Ending Balance | shares	3,278
Options, vested and expected to vest | shares	3,163
Options, Exercisable | shares	2,206
Weighted-average exercise price of options outstanding, beginning balance | $ / shares	$ 37.44
Weighted-average exercise price of options granted during period | $ / shares	66.08
Weighted-Average Exercise Prices, Exercised during period | $ / shares	42.43
Weighted-Average Exercise Prices, Forfeited, cancelled or expired during period | $ / shares	35.61
Weighted-average exercise price of options outstanding, ending balance | $ / shares	35.09
Weighted-average exercise price of options vested and expected to vest | $ / shares	35.22
Weighted-average exercise prices of options exercisable | $ / shares	$ 36.55
Weighted-average remaining contractual term of options outstanding	5 years 6 months 41 days
Weighted-average remaining contractual term of options vested and expected to vest	5 years 5 months 40 days
Weighted-average remaining contractual term of options exercisable	4 years 4 months 47 days
Aggregate intrinsic value of options outstanding | $	$ 101
Aggregate intrinsic value of options vested and expected to vest | $	97
Aggregate intrinsic value of options exercisable | $	$ 65

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(Summary Of Outstanding And Exercisable Stock Options) (Details) - $ / shares shares in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	3,278	4,920
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	5 years 6 months 41 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 35.09	$ 37.44
Options exercisable, number of shares	2,206
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 36.55
Eleven Point Five Three To Twenty Three Point Eight Three [Member]
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	317
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	3 years 3 months 50 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 19.10
Options Outstanding, Potential Dilution	0.10%
Options exercisable, number of shares	313
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 19.18
Options Exercisable, Potential Dilution	0.10%
Twenty Six Point Two Five To Twenty Six Point Two Five [Member]
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	1,000
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	7 years 6 months 30 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 26.25
Options Outstanding, Potential Dilution	0.30%
Options exercisable, number of shares	580
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 26.25
Options Exercisable, Potential Dilution	0.20%
Twenty Seven Point Four Nine To Thirty Five Point Seven Zero [Member]
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	853
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	8 years 2 months 15 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 35.50
Options Outstanding, Potential Dilution	0.30%
Options exercisable, number of shares	343
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 35.21
Options Exercisable, Potential Dilution	0.10%
Thirty Six To Fifty Nine Point Six Three [Member]
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	1,108
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	2 years 4 months 50 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 47.33
Options Outstanding, Potential Dilution	0.40%
Options exercisable, number of shares	970
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 48.78
Options Exercisable, Potential Dilution	0.30%
Eleven Point Five Three To Fifty Nine Point Six Three [Member]
Share-based Compensation, Shares Authorized under Stock Option Plans, Exercise Price Range [Line Items]
Options outstanding, number of shares	3,278
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Remaining Contractual Term (in years)	5 years 6 months 40 days
Options Outstanding, Weighted-Average Exercise Prices	$ 35.09
Options Outstanding, Potential Dilution	1.10%
Options exercisable, number of shares	2,206
Options exercisable, weighted-average exercise prices	$ 36.55
Options Exercisable, Potential Dilution	0.70%

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(Restricted Stock Rights) (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)
$ / shares in Units, $ in Millions

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Mar. 31, 2015

Mar. 31, 2014

Restricted Stock Rights Vesting Description

Restricted Stock Rights

We grant restricted stock rights under our Equity Plan to employees worldwide. Restricted stock units are unfunded, unsecured rights to receive common stock upon the satisfaction of certain vesting criteria. Upon vesting, a number of shares of common stock equivalent the number of restricted stock units is typically issued net of required tax withholding requirements, if any. Restricted stock is issued and outstanding upon grant; however, restricted stock award holders are restricted from selling the shares until they vest. Upon granting or vesting of restricted stock, as the case may be, we will typically withhold shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements. Restricted stock rights are subject to forfeiture and transfer restrictions. Vesting for restricted stock rights is based on the holders’ continued employment with us through each applicable vest date. If the vesting conditions are not met, unvested restricted stock rights will be forfeited.

Generally, our restricted stock rights vest according to one of the following vesting schedules:

• One-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of one year;

• 35 month vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting after 11, 23 and 35 months;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/3 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• Three-year vesting with 100% cliff vesting at the end of year three;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/2 cliff vesting after 18 and 36 months;

• Three-year vesting with ²/3 and ¹/3 vesting cliff vesting after 24 and 36 months;

• Three-year vesting with  ¹/4, ⁷/20, ¹/5,  and  ¹/5 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the first 6 months, 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd years;

• 40 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 16, 28, and 40 months;

• 41 month vesting with 1/3 cliff vesting after 17, 29 and 41 months;

• Four-year vesting with  ¹/4 cliff vesting at the end of each year;

• 51 month vesting with 1/10, 3/10, 3/10, 3/10 of the shares cliff vesting respectively after 15, 27, 39 and 51 months or;

• Five-year vesting with  ¹/9,  ²/9,  ³/9,  ²/9 and  ¹/9 of the shares cliff vesting respectively at the end of each of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th years

One Year Vesting With One Hundred Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

1 year

Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

35 months

Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

3 years

Three Year Vesting with One Hundred Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

3 years

Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Period

5 years

Three Year Vesting With Fifty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

3 years

Three Year Vesting With Sixty Seven And Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

3 years

Three Year Vesting With Twenty, Twenty Five, and Thirty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

3 years

Forty Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

40 months

Forty One Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

41 months

Four Year Vesting With Twenty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

4 years

Fifty One Month Vesting With Ten And Thirty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Period

51 months

Vesting 6 Months [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Twenty, Twenty Five, and Thirty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

25.00%

Vesting 6 Months [Member] | Forty Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

16 months

Vesting Year1 [Member] | One Year Vesting With One Hundred Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

100.00%

Vesting Year1 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

11 months

Vesting Year1 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Vesting Year1 [Member] | Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Percentage

11.00%

Vesting Year1 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Twenty, Twenty Five, and Thirty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

35.00%

Vesting Year1 [Member] | Four Year Vesting With Twenty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

25.00%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

23 months

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Percentage

22.00%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Fifty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

50.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

18 months

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Sixty Seven And Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

66.66667%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Twenty, Twenty Five, and Thirty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

20.00%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Forty One Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

17 months

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Four Year Vesting With Twenty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

25.00%

Vesting Year2 [Member] | Fifty One Month Vesting With Ten And Thirty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

10.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

15 months

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

35 months

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting with One Hundred Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

100.00%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.00%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Fifty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

50.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

36 months

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Sixty Seven And Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Twenty, Twenty Five, and Thirty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

20.00%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Forty Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

28 months

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Forty One Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

28 months

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Four Year Vesting With Twenty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

25.00%

Vesting Year3 [Member] | Fifty One Month Vesting With Ten And Thirty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

30.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

27 months

Vesting Year4 [Member] | Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Percentage

22.00%

Vesting Year4 [Member] | Forty Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

40 months

Vesting Year4 [Member] | Forty One Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

33.33333%

Cliff Vesting Period

41 months

Vesting Year4 [Member] | Four Year Vesting With Twenty Five Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

25.00%

Vesting Year4 [Member] | Fifty One Month Vesting With Ten And Thirty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

30.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

39 months

Vesting Year 5 [Member] | Five Year Vesting With Eleven, Twenty Two, and Thirty Three Percent

Cliff Vesting Percentage

11.00%

Vesting Year 5 [Member] | Fifty One Month Vesting With Ten And Thirty Percent [Member]

Cliff Vesting Percentage

30.00%

Cliff Vesting Period

51 months

Restricted Stock Rights [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

$ 64.40

$ 37.22

$ 23.01

Reduction In Shares Available Per Grant Of Stock Right

1.43

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Vested in Period, Fair Value

$ 372

$ 209

$ 163

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(Schedule Of Restricted Stock Rights Activity, Excluding Performance-Based Activity) (Details) - Restricted Stock Rights [Member] - $ / shares shares in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Nonvested, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value [Roll Forward]
Balance as of March 31, 2015	10,855
Granted	3,035
Vested	(5,809)
Forfeited or cancelled	(924)
Balance as of March 31, 2016	7,157	10,855
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Balance as of March 31, 2015	$ 26.20
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Granted	64.40	$ 37.22	$ 23.01
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Vested	22.65
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Forfeited or cancelled	35.78
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Balance as of March 31, 2016	$ 44.04	$ 26.20

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(Schedule Of Market-Based Restricted Stock Unit Activity) (Details) - Market Based Restricted Stock Units [Member] - $ / shares shares in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other than Options, Nonvested, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value [Roll Forward]
Balance as of March 31, 2015	663
Granted	395
Vested	(742)
Vested above target	371
Forfeited or cancelled	(51)
Balance as of March 31, 2016	636	663
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Balance as of March 31, 2015	$ 31.82
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Granted	79.81	$ 48.14	$ 30.18
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Vested	25.77
Share-based compensation Arrangement, Equity instruments other than options, Excess Vesting, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value	25.77
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Forfeited or cancelled	40.10
Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Values, Balance as of March 31, 2016	$ 64.49	$ 31.82

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Stock-Based Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans (Schedule of Share Repurchases) (Details) - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended		23 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2016
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 1,018	$ 337
July 2012 Repurchase Program [Member]
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock Repurchase Program, Authorized Amount	750		$ 750
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 461	$ 0
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares	6.9	0.0
Fiscal Year 2016 Repurchase Program [Member]
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock Repurchase Program, Authorized Amount		$ 1,000
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 500	$ 0
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares	7.8	0.0
Repurchase program, total
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 1,018	$ 337
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares	15.7	8.2
May 2014 Repurchase Program [Member] [Member]
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Stock Repurchased and Retired During Period, Value	$ 57	$ 337	$ 394
Stock repurchased and retired during period, Shares	1.0	8.0	9.2

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Stock-Based Compensation And Employee Benefit Plans (Stock Options Vesting Description) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016
Fifty Month Vesting With Twenty Four Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Period	50 months
Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Period	3 years
Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Period	35 months
Vesting Year4 [Member] | Fifty Month Vesting With Twenty Four Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Cliff Vesting Period	38 months
Vesting Year3 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Vesting Year3 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Cliff Vesting Period	35 months
Vesting Year2 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Vesting Year2 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Cliff Vesting Period	23 months
Vesting Year1 [Member] | Fifty Month Vesting With Twenty Four Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	24.00%
Cliff Vesting Period	12 months
Vesting Year1 [Member] | Three Year Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Vesting Year1 [Member] | Thirty Five Month Vesting With Thirty Three Percent [Member]
Cliff Vesting Percentage	33.33333%
Cliff Vesting Period	11 months

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Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net (Schedule Of Interest And Other Income (Expense), Net) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Interest and Other Income [Abstract]
Loss on Conversion of Convertible Notes	$ (10)	$ 0	$ 0
Interest expense	(28)	(31)	(30)
Interest income	15	10	5
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency transactions	(14)	(62)	4
Net gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts	15	59	(5)
Other income, net	1	1	0
Interest and other income (expense), net	$ (21)	$ (23)	$ (26)

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Earnings Per Share (Narrative) (Details) - $ / shares shares in Millions	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2011	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014	Jul. 14, 2011
Earnings Per Share, Diluted, by Common Class, Including Two Class Method [Line Items]
Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share, Amount		3	4
Convertible Debt
Earnings Per Share, Diluted, by Common Class, Including Two Class Method [Line Items]
Conversion price per share				$ 31.74
Contractual interest rate of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2016				0.75%
Convertible Senior Notes due description	2016
Warrant [Member]
Earnings Per Share, Diluted, by Common Class, Including Two Class Method [Line Items]
Warrants, Conversion price per share				$ 41.14

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Earnings Per Share (Computation Of Basic Earnings And Diluted Earnings Per Share) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended									12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016		Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Earnings Per Share, Diluted, by Common Class, Including Two Class Method [Line Items]
Net income (loss)	$ 899	[1]	$ (45)	$ (140)	$ 442	$ 395	$ 142	$ 3	$ 335	$ 1,156	$ 875	$ 8
Weighted-average common stock outstanding - basic										310	311	308
Dilutive potential common shares related to stock award plans and from assumed exercise of stock options										6	9	8
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Convertible Notes										6	4	0
Dilutive potential common shares related to the Warrants										8	1	0
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Diluted										330	325	316
Basic	$ 2.93		$ (0.14)	$ (0.45)	$ 1.42	$ 1.27	$ 0.46	$ 0.01	$ 1.07	$ 3.73	$ 2.81	$ 0.03
Diluted	$ 2.79		$ (0.14)	$ (0.45)	$ 1.32	$ 1.19	$ 0.44	$ 0.01	$ 1.04	$ 3.50	$ 2.69	$ 0.03

[1] Net income includes an income tax benefit recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

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Segment Information (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Revenue, Net	$ 1,308,000,000	$ 1,070,000,000	$ 815,000,000	$ 1,203,000,000	$ 1,185,000,000	$ 1,126,000,000	$ 990,000,000	$ 1,214,000,000	$ 4,396,000,000	$ 4,515,000,000	$ 3,575,000,000
Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue Did Not Exceed Ten Percent									10.00%
Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Sony [Domain]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue									16.00%
Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | GameStop Corp [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue										11.00%	13.00%
Sales Revenue, Goods, Net [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Microsoft [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Entity Wide Revenue By Major Customer Percent Of Revenue									14.00%	10.00%
United States [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Entity's Country of Domicile									99.00%
Switzerland [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer and Geographic Information [Line Items]
Revenue, Net									$ 1,643,000,000	$ 1,462,000,000	$ 1,171,000,000
Disclosure on Geographic Areas, Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries, Percentage									37.00%	32.00%	33.00%

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Segment Information (Reconciliation Of Segment Profit To Consolidated Operating Income) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]
Depreciation									$ (119)	$ (126)	$ (126)
Acquisition-related contingent consideration									0	3	35
Restructuring and other charges									0	0	1
Stock-based compensation									$ (178)	(144)	(150)
Loss on license intellectual property commitment										(122)	0
Operating income	$ 536	$ (31)	$ (119)	$ 512	$ 400	$ 162	$ 24	$ 362	$ 898	948	33
EA Segment
Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]
Net Revenue before Revenue Deferral									4,566	4,319	4,021
Depreciation									(119)	(126)	(126)
Other expenses									(3,147)	(3,117)	(3,178)
Operating income									1,300	1,076	717
Other Reconciling Items To Consolidated Operating Income (Loss) [Member]
Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item for Operating Profit (Loss) from Segment to Consolidated [Line Items]
Revenue deferral									(3,783)	(3,536)	(3,350)
Recognition of revenue deferral									3,613	3,732	2,904
Amortization of intangibles									(54)	(66)	(76)
Acquisition-related contingent consideration									0	3	35
Restructuring and other charges									0	0	1
Stock-based compensation									(178)	(144)	(150)
Loss on license intellectual property commitment										(122)
Other expenses									0	5	(48)
Operating income									$ 898	$ 948	$ 33

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Segment Information (Net Revenue By Revenue Composition) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Net revenue	$ 1,308	$ 1,070	$ 815	$ 1,203	$ 1,185	$ 1,126	$ 990	$ 1,214	$ 4,396	$ 4,515	$ 3,575
Packaged Goods and other
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Net revenue									1,987	2,316	1,742
Digital [Member]
Segment Reporting, Revenue Reconciling Item [Line Items]
Net revenue									$ 2,409	$ 2,199	$ 1,833

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Segment Information (Net Revenue By Geographic Area) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Net revenue	$ 1,308	$ 1,070	$ 815	$ 1,203	$ 1,185	$ 1,126	$ 990	$ 1,214	$ 4,396	$ 4,515	$ 3,575
North America [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Net revenue from unaffiliated customers									1,907	1,956	1,510
International [Member]
Revenue from External Customer [Line Items]
Net revenue from unaffiliated customers									$ 2,489	$ 2,559	$ 2,065

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Segment Information (Long-Lived Assets By Geographic Area) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Revenues from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets [Line Items]
Long-lived assets	$ 2,206	$ 2,283
North America [Member]
Revenues from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets [Line Items]
Long-lived assets	1,727	1,809
International [Member]
Revenues from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets [Line Items]
Long-lived assets	$ 479	$ 474

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Segment Information Net Revenue by Platform (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue	$ 1,308	$ 1,070	$ 815	$ 1,203	$ 1,185	$ 1,126	$ 990	$ 1,214	$ 4,396	$ 4,515	$ 3,575
Total consoles, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									2,942	3,011	2,005
Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									752	1,485	1,779
Other consoles, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									7	21	30
PC and Browsers, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									814	878	1,020
Mobile, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									548	504	400
Other, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									92	122	150
Xbox One, PLAYSTATION 4, net revenue [Domain]
Schedule of Net Revenue by Platform [Line Items]
Net revenue									$ 2,183	$ 1,505	$ 196

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Quarterly Financial And Market Information (Summary Of Quarterly Financial And Market Information) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended									12 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2016		Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Sep. 30, 2014	Jun. 30, 2014	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Quarterly Financial And Market Information [Line Items]
Net revenue	$ 1,308		$ 1,070	$ 815	$ 1,203	$ 1,185	$ 1,126	$ 990	$ 1,214	$ 4,396	$ 4,515	$ 3,575
Gross profit	1,082		524	406	1,030	951	725	563	847	3,042	3,086	2,228
Operating income (loss)	536		(31)	(119)	512	400	162	24	362	898	948	33
Net income (loss)	$ 899	[1]	$ (45)	$ (140)	$ 442	$ 395	$ 142	$ 3	$ 335	$ 1,156	$ 875	$ 8
Earnings per share - Basic	$ 2.93		$ (0.14)	$ (0.45)	$ 1.42	$ 1.27	$ 0.46	$ 0.01	$ 1.07	$ 3.73	$ 2.81	$ 0.03
Earnings per share - Diluted	2.79		(0.14)	(0.45)	1.32	1.19	0.44	0.01	1.04	3.50	2.69	$ 0.03
High price, Common stock per share	70.83		76.77	75.16	68.00	58.24	48.33	38.42	37.15	76.77	58.24
Low price, Common stock per share	$ 55.50		$ 65.04	$ 63.43	$ 56.03	$ 45.96	$ 32.62	$ 33.31	$ 26.67	$ 55.50	$ 26.67

[1] Net income includes an income tax benefit recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 for the reversal of a significant portion of our deferred tax valuation allowance.

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Valuation And Qualifying Accounts (Details) - Allowance For Doubtful Accounts, Price Protection And Returns [Member] - USD ($) $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
		Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Disclosure [Line Items]
Balance at Beginning of Period		$ 140	$ 186	$ 200
Charged to Revenue, Costs and Expenses		269	361	321
Charged (Credited) to Other Accounts	[1]	11	(66)	37
Deductions	[2]	(261)	(341)	(372)
Balance at End of Period		$ 159	$ 140	$ 186

[1] Primarily other reclassification adjustments and the translation effect of using the average exchange rate for expense items and the year-end exchange rate for the balance sheet item (allowance account).

[2] Primarily the utilization of returns allowance and price protection reserves.