honestly it won't affect me. I don't play Madden so no.

I get my NBA w/ 2k and MLB with the show. Both are the best sim sports in the business.

That's just on the sports side though...

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.

1) It isn't true. Microsoft debunked it.

2) If it was, hypothetically, why would they put games on Wii? I highly doubt they would spend all of that money JUST to spite Sony. They might as well spite Nintendo while they're at it.

EDIT: Actually, if Microsoft did buy EA, they'd probably continue to make games on all three platforms. Cancelling the PS3 version of every game in development would be wasting large amounts of money. Madden couldn't legally become exclusive, Sims would stay on PC, NFS is hardly that big now (though Shift was a return to form) and Mass Effect is 360 exclusive, Old Republic Online is PC exclusive, and only Dragon Age is multiplat.

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.

i would give sony 50euro to help them buyout activion

What if Microsoft bought Disney and they fused together into one uber conglomerate? What if said super company crated a plethora of toys and action figures based off Xbox games? Stuff like a Fable plushy dog and a halo GI JOE. What if said toys came to life and started killing everything? What if at the end of the giant toy/human battle, we found out that Rosie o'donnell was behind it all. And that she needed all the little toy minions to bake a giant cake so that she could be a lie.

What if Bill Gates didn't name Microsoft after his penis?

Oh wait, all those are false. So let us speak of them no more.

hey thats MY statement in the OP!!!!  (I posted it in the what happens if EA makes a new console thread)......atleast mention its from me lol

I'm claiming copyright on that!

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If M$ did happen to buy EA I don't think very many things would change for the consumer. There would be so much money to lose if they decided to shut down PS3/Wii/Ps2 development that it wouldn't be economically feasable. But I wouldn't be suprised if some of the games would be very poorly ported over. This would piss off a lot of people.

Long term (next gen) they may decide to go exclusive but at that point the big sports games would have competition. Because the NFL, Fifa, and MLB etc... will not let their license fall to only one console.

its allready been denied by a microsoft representative, source: G4TV.com