| Munkeh111 said: Yeah, it is a good point that they have no reason to accept Is the UE 3 the most widely used engine? |
By a landslide to my knowledge... and they make 6-7 figures on every game... there were something like 30-40+ UE games being made last i saw a list if memory serves.
Those guys gotta be mega rich.
| PhalanxCO said: Not that I want this to happen, but if it does, they should have them make a Wii game, just to piss off Mark Rein. |
I don't think you understand the financials behind such a purchase.
If it did happen Mark Rein would have enough cash to do what he wants afterward and pretty much would be able to decide what he does if he decided to stay with EA..( in business term we call this "F**K YOU" money lol...)
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
Ail said:
I don't think you understand the financials behind such a purchase. If it did happen Mark Rein would have enough cash to do what he wants afterward and pretty much would be able to decide what he does if he decided to stay with EA..( in business term we call this "F**K YOU" money lol...) |
I realize that. I just found it an amusing thought.
Starting to see the larger devs eat the smaller ones. This trend is going to continue in the west. Not going to happen so much in the east although Tecmo/KOEI merger was pretty and goes along with their culture, but in the West you could seriously see the American devs narrow down to about 4-5 big ones and that be it. Kinda scary actually. Tis why I think the Wii is such a blessing to the market considering it allows smaller devs to create a big time game and have success without needing a huge publisher. If Wii had been like PS360 or no DS then this process probably would be happening faster.
Epic wont sale out. Like Valve they will listen to offers but decline them all. Unless EA plans on offering Epic $30+ billion they are not going to even make them consider it.
I don't think these guys are hurting for money. Funny story is that last week I was driving down the highway near the studio and got passed by a 911 with the license plate Epic FTW. Kinda laughed when I saw it.
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EA is such a fucking whore.
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| ssj12 said: Epic wont sale out. Like Valve they will listen to offers but decline them all. Unless EA plans on offering Epic $30+ billion they are not going to even make them consider it. |
I seem to recall Mark Rein mentioning a $2 billion figure at some point.
| xman said: Didnt EA try this before when they bought out the Quake engine, and thats when epics unreal engine took off. All thre other publishers didnt want to lease there engine from EA? Its a bad idea for me for Epic to team up with EA. EA puts out shoddy work in my opinion |
No, that was Criterion and their Renderware engine, which was quite popular last gen before the buy out.
Buying out the creators of a popular (or THE popular) engine certainly isn't out of the ordinary for EA.
Ya know, this right here is the problem with Microsoft's focus on third party publishing contracts. If the third parties disappear...
Hell, they've already let BioWare and Bizarre slip through their fingers.
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