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mibuokami on 24 September 2009
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dorbin2009 said:
Mr Khan said:

EA has more to lose from the deal than they would gain, i think. As it

 

would definitely break the back of some of their exclusive licensing deals.

 

 

In short, EA would have everything to gain by being bought by Microsoft.

 

1. Economic Stability.

2. Economic Stability.

3. Economic Stability

Microsoft also wouldn't be retarded and take the sports games off the Multiplatform format. Remember that MS is a business, and above all else, keeping Madden and other games multi-platform would make them more money.

Also they would have to re-negotiate with the major sports leagues, and I'm fairly sure EA would lose their NFL exclusiveness by saying "yeah about making games for the playstation....yeah"

Like I've said before, what you would probably see is a timed exclusive deal for the 360, where they get the game a few weeks before everyone else.

Everything to gain?

Do you realize how massive the revenue lost would be if EA stopped making games for PS3 and Wii? I know dipshit about economic and even I realize that the market will view this as a massive negative and punish them by dropping the stock value of EA like nobody's business. Setting aside all anti-trust issues, EA has everthing to lose by being intergrated into MS. This is not a merger of 2 third party publisher, we're moving in an entirely different ball game.