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It's kind of weird how I got all excited that my EA stock might have actually made some money, then realized that this rumored acquisition was definitely not something I'd particularly want to happen.
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The industry can only grow with competition striving for creativity.
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As for Deilgyre... That's possibly the most foolish comment that I have had the misfortune of reading. Ever. N64 era Rare versus avatars and Viva Pinata (the rest of the games you named were all pretty bad excluding possibly the new Banjo.) I'm guessing that you either never had a 64 or you are totally in the pocket of MS... And are you entirely delusional? Peter Moore was brought in to head the Sports Division of EA. John Riccitiello is the head of EA. _<
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As a ps3 owner who loves that series this rumor scare the hell out of me, real or not.
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I call this rumor a big lie.
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Aside from Sony and Nintendo being screwed, and Activision becoming more powerful that ever to Sony and Nintendo, customer's will be siphoned in choices, and its almost certain that any PC games that manages to end up on the PC will be out of Steam and other stores, mac ports which EA was really getting on board of supporting, will be limited, if non existent, and these games will almost certainly have to use Windows Live.
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Sony would suffer way more then Nintendo. And even when the NFL exclusivity ends, you really think they aren't going to enter right back into a new one with EA?
Buying EA would be Microsoft's most effective way of dealing a near-death blow to Sony and make back any of the money spent on it within a few years. Nintendo is not Microsoft's primary target, Sony is.
The market has grown enough that Nintendo and Microsoft would get along just fine. Remember it used to be only Nintendo and Sega and the market was nowhere near the size it is now. Microsoft's final goal has always been a set top media box. Nothing's changed.
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I hope it's not true...just when EA is just getting their act together, to be swallowed up by MS..
I sense the Negaverse is behind this..
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Are these people under 10 years old? Sony is a huge company outside of their gaming division too. And yeah, they also "love money". So does Nintendo. That's what companies do, they make money.
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The mind-blow here, though is if this goes thru, MS would be able to pull the rug out from under Sony BIG time. Like, scary, big time. EA has so many cross-platform games that would suddenly become MS-owned and Xbox exclusive... it's a pretty low blow but a smart business move.
If it even happens.
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Microsoft was born to make money.
Sony's main focus is to make money.
Nintendo needs to please his shareholders by making money.
Oh and that just comes in:
We have reports that EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Atari and all other publishers and developers are still in business since they focus their products that are making profits.
Now that everybody's know the truth about business in general, maybe we can stop accusing all company of making profits. And in a recession time like this one, people should remember that cold hard profits are worthing something at the end of the day in comparison to speculation (I'm looking at you Wall Street).
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And you need to remember, the NFL cheerfully and willingly entered into that agreement with EA. EA didn't drag them into back alley and beat them till they handed over the rights.
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@yodaddy:
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Microsoft doesn't even have enough cash to cover EA's market cap (according to MS's most recent balance sheet).
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Just cos MS make a lot of money, doesn't mean they HAVE a lot of money.
Their expendable cash funds isn't that high, and for MS building up monopolies is expensive in the daily fines.
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I say they should offer SE about 5 or 6 billion and buy them out too.
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Just back in spring 08 Microsoft offered the small amount of $47,500,000,000 which seems they have plenty of budget for a hostile take-over of EA...
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But it doesnt matter because this rumor is obviously false. Why would MS WANT EA? they already get every EA title on the 360 anyway. And why would EA want ot limit themselves to one console?
This is bogus, bet on it.
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Even if Microsoft kept EA on Multiple consoles, Imagine the money they would make, collecting from the Wii and PS3. alot of people think EA is a evil company, but face the facts, they sell millions over most the competition, and if MS is making around $20 per title sold (rough guess), MS would clear the cost of EA in like 5 yrs off of the transition(again rough estimate) then all profit from there.
Ea has lately been on the open edge of gaming for the last couple years wheter they're publishing another 3rd party, funding developing or developing a game within with games like Mirrors Edge, Dead Space, the recent Burnout's, Brutal Legend(i know,Activisiion 1st blah, Skate Franchise, Spore, The Saboteur, Battlefield ME,L4D. EA imo has made a pretty good turn around on being fairly open to new game genre's, and experimentatuion in my opinion.
If this buyout proves true and MS gets all the companies attached to EA, The console generation is going to get turn upside down, wheter or not its good we'd soon find out.
P.S.Im not going to proof read this giant, just cause no one will probably read it lol, if any stars do, and enjoy it or find it revelant, please feel free to to post it, thank you
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