Electronic Arts is particularly overvalued. Thus they are not a prime candidate for acquisition by Microsoft. The recent acquisition spree will drive down dividends, and year to year the company is actually becoming less profitable for share holders. There is no reason to expect that this trend will abate this year or within the next five years. Electronic Arts is actually succumbing to the competition.
Electronic Arts actually generated three billion dollars in profit last year. To the best of my knowledge the company is valued at over twenty billion dollars. That means realistically Microsoft would not generate profits from the venture for ten years. While it most assuredly would win them the high definition console war in short order the short term losses would be substantial.
Electronic Arts may be big but it is not substantially healthy. Further more the multiple platform doctrine while it is the companies strength on one side of the issue is also its weakness on the other. You could never refit this company into a console specific developers. Without incurring massive losses.
While the concept is amusing it is highly unlikely.
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