Should the 'Microsoft Buying E.A' rumors become true, what is the effect on Nintendo

[Pyro as Bill]

Ka-pi96 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

EA has a contract with FIFA that forces them to release a FIFA game at least once on every platform. If, by the start of the 9th gen, the PS5 gets a single FIFA at launch and the XBox Two gets the yearly FIFAs as usual, that can hurt the PS platform heavily.

You got a source for that? I guess that would explain why the PSP/Vita/DS etc had FIFA games, but still I'd like to see an official source.

I really don't think it would hurt PS though. Probably the single important difference between the popularity of FIFA and PES is the amount of licences each game has. If FIFA's suddenly selling to a much smaller potential audience you'd expect the leagues/clubs to only be willing to give them shared licences (if not taking them away completely) and then all of a sudden PES isn't at a huge disadvantage anymore.

Not only that, but Sony could also counter by resurrecting their This is Football series. I played one of those on the PS2 and it was great fun so I'm sure there'd be no shortage of people that would jump on that if Sony were to start it up again.

Seriously? What would be bigger than losing FIFA?