But their sports alone will do a big favor.
MS can really buy anyone. They have trees that grow money all the time.
Rumor: MS is looking into acquiring EA
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MS can really buy anyone. They have trees that grow money all the time.
Yep and EA has very few exclusive titles based on non licensed IP, other than Battlefield and the Bioware games what do they have that MS doesn't already have something similar to? Maybe they just want to get a bigger chunk of other peoples sales, maybe they realize they'll never have total global appeal and this is a way to make money even if it's not coming from their console directly, still though a company like EA just seems too big and expensive to make worth it.
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I could maybe see them trying to see if EA would part with BioWare (and I'm not even sure about that, to be honest). The days where KOTOR and Jade Empire and Mass Effect were games you had to play on Xbox until they came to PC would give some rationale behind it, and I could well see EA being willing to step away after having had to deal with all the ME:Andromeda backlash. But EA is just way too big and if they were turning them into an exclusive developer only, they'd be spending full price for a company who will be giving up easily two thirds of their revenue.
On the other hand, SW:TOR coming to X1 would not suck.
On the other hand, SW:TOR coming to X1 would not suck.
Their sports titles will likely lose any exclusive licenses they have if they go exclusive to one console, they likely have provisions in all of the contracts plus sales goals that need to be met and that'll never happen on one platform. They could still have madden as an exclusive but other companies would be able to make NFL games too and a lot of people would welcome another choice.
Yeah buying a developer from them or an IP would make more sense than trying to take over the whole company.
I know that, I dont want it to be on one console. I am sure MS dont want that as well after how they go into the SONY base with Minecraft.
I personally think it would we awesome and would make things more competitive.
I think Microsoft needs something like this, whereas Sony wouldnt really miss EA very much.
The big negative would be exclusivity on Madden and Fifa.
I think Microsoft needs something like this, whereas Sony wouldnt really miss EA very much.
The big negative would be exclusivity on Madden and Fifa.
I just don't get what MS would do with them? They haven't done a good job at creating new IP's on their own and it's not like EA has made many lately worth a damn either, it seems like they would just taking on a huge company with many of the same problems. Once you take EA's exclusive licenses away they basically have Battlefield, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and NFS, would they really be worth acquiring for those games? Mass Effect is going to be dead for a while and MS doesn't need another racing franchise. Maybe they can try buying DICE and Battlefield from EA but it just seems like a huge undertaking with very little upside to try to get the whole company.
Those Ip's plus the studios. Certainly worth it imo. They would have an instant portfolio and studio talent that they currently dont have.
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1) Leverage it to drive whatever endgame XGP is heading towards.
2) Win.
3) Phil Spencer. They say he's less than a God. But more a man.
Just keep the licenses too.
If Switch is missing out on Star Wars, Madden and UFC then there are no 'support all platforms' caveats. So you should expect them to be eventually be phased out of the PlayStation ecosystem.
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If there is no caveat that the licensed titles need to be multiplat and MS acquire EA, Xbox’s market share will skyrocket. No FIFA and Madden on PlayStation alone would make Xbox by far the number one selling console in North America UK and Europe. This is monstrously huge if true.
I don't really think you need to say if true because I am sure its true they have explored it to some extent. They probably have explored buying everyone. I mean Valve is mentioned too and nobody is talking about that for some reason.
But even they can make them exclusive you are losing a lot of what makes EA valuable and even if they eventually phase out PS they are doing so with licenses they aren't guaranteed to keep. And if that was how they wanted to handle things Minecraft wouldn't be on every system.
I don't think they really need go to all the way to having EA to be competitive
Lot of hay being made over a rumor based on something one unnamed guy said MS was considering (along with a bunch of other stuff). 2700+ posts at Resetera. Slow news day or something. I'm sure MS considers a lot of things, including going into the pizza delivery business. Wake me when it happens (EA I mean, not Phil's pizza emporium).
If this is true then I say let it happen, what wrong can happen from this, besides fan boys weeping?
No cause they have tried buying certain companies and were denied.
NFL alone wouldn't allow Madden to be exclusive but if it and other sports games were exclusive... that be huge.
It would certainly make Xbox a must buy console for tens of millions of gamers. There’s just so many games in the EA catalogue that are must buy for so many gamers. For instance if I could only buy Battlefield on one console then I’ve got to buy that console, same goes for the sports titles for tens of millions of gamers. I really don’t think they’d lose half the sales if these games wasn’t on PlayStation, I just think the majority of those gamers would have no choice but to buy an Xbox.
It could well turn out to be a baseless rumour but slow news day or not, this is going to be a huge talking point and rightly so unless it’s confirmed by MS that it’s not happening. It’s absolutely massive news if true.
It could well turn out to be a baseless rumour but slow news day or not, this is going to be a huge talking point and rightly so unless it’s confirmed by MS that it’s not happening. It’s absolutely massive news if true.
Sounds like 2009 all over again. lol. MS buying EA has come up a few times. Here's 2009.
https://kotaku.com/5366233/ea-stock-soars-on-microsoft-buyout-rumors
EA Stock Soars On Microsoft Buyout Rumors
Mike Fahey
9/23/09 5:40pm
https://kotaku.com/5366233/ea-stock-soars-on-microsoft-buyout-rumors
EA Stock Soars On Microsoft Buyout Rumors
Mike Fahey
9/23/09 5:40pm
No but it would be a solution to making money for the Xbox division. If you have no desire to open more studios or creating new IP’s you acquire EA and make up that money by collecting on
Battlefield
Starwars
Madden
FIFA
Titanfall
Sales on other platforms. Having ALL the IP under the Microsoft umbrella allows them to be front and center of doing a Netflix type of service across all platforms.
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Hmm, this really makes the Game Pass thing much more interesting. It really makes your mind wander to the fact that if they get Madden and FIFA, they could actually put pressure on Sony to also support the Game Pass, with Sony getting some sort of cut for usage on their system or something.
Then again, this could be bullsh!t. They'd be better off buying studios... but the Sports and Star Wars connections are undeniably attractive for them.
Then again, this could be bullsh!t. They'd be better off buying studios... but the Sports and Star Wars connections are undeniably attractive for them.
MS doesn't comment on rumors, so we shouldn't expect them to disconfirm anything.
Spend billions to get battlefield and Dragon Age? that doesn't seem like a smart move, they'd be much better off financially trying to come up with new IP's that fill the voids they currently have, it'd be cheaper to try a bunch of new IP's that mostly fail than buy EA and succeed. They already have two shooters with Halo and Gears so I don't see Battlefield as a need even though it's a different style, they have two racers so they don't need NFS, the last Dragon Age was good but they are already reviving fable (supposedly) so that's an open world fantasy RPG already in their library.
If they were to work it out they'd end up laying off a ton of people too unless they kept things going business as usual and kept everything multiplatform. The things that make EA money like the NFL exclusivity would be gone, it just doesn't seem like on the surface it would benefit MS to take over one of the biggest companies in the industry with the worst PR. They'd be much better off trying to go after take two if they are looking to spend big money, GTA , RDR and other IP's would be much better gets than anything EA has IMO.
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That could work, as an option to PS, truly giving power to the players to decide if they want to get the newest multiplayer EA game without the worry of having to walk to GameStop to trade it in for credit. And it would allow them, EA, to stay exclusive and focus on Xbox hardware.
And most def, they should include other free agent devs, like playground, sumo digital and square