Microsoft says EA purchase rumor is FALSE.

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Smashed said:

LordMatrix said:
That's a shame really. Microsoft could really use a nice chunk of good exclusive franchises and buying EA would have given them many awesome ones. Like Dante's Inferno, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Road Rash, Madden and so on. Sure it would hurt Sony and Nintendo but what buyout doesn't? Sony and Nintendo both have a huge number of great exclusive franchises. Microsoft would just be evening out the playing field a bit more.

That is NOT a shame.

This is excellent for EA, if MS bought them, their profit would be cut in half... Hello, all the EA multiplats out there?

That would be MS's baby to deal with from that point.