Kdad
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Atari 2600 was right all alongDo you think they'll require that games only use one button?
Atari 2600 was right all alongDo you think they'll require that games only use one button?
This is why Ms started buying stuff... it's due to companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. But honestly EA is...just there for me. I wouldn't care much
Please let them get a really shitty acquisition. Please, please! I don't want a shit company like Apple to make games, exclusive. I don't care for any of EA stuff, but please take a less shittier company, so that games don't become synonymous with Apple. They will single handedly fuck up the gaming industry, if they choose to do so.Apple should definitely use their cash on a nice acquisition but I don’t think EA is the right target.
Industry on a death spiral.
I hope Comcast stays away.Go Apple!
I hope Sony, MS and Tencent stay away.
This is why Ms started buying stuff... it's due to companies like Apple, Amazon and Google. But honestly EA is...just there for me. I wouldn't care much
Sounds like the race is heating up.
Quite funny saying they will single handedly fuck up the gaming industry when we’ve arguably had the pioneers of MTX, battle passes and NFTs already do that for years and years now (Epic, EA, Ubisoft etc with more on the way… looking at you Square Enix NFTs)Please let them get a really shitty acquisition. Please, please! I don't want a shit company like Apple to make games, exclusive. I don't care for any of EA stuff, but please take a less shittier company, so that games don't become synonymous with Apple. They will single handedly fuck up the gaming industry, if they choose to do so.
Not sure about this. It’s a way to introduce Apple to AAA gaming/gamers. You start your EA game in your console and immediately get an Apple logo. Like watching CODA on a film theatre. It’s brand management and brand expansion. They don’t need to develop a console.EA is a big buy. However, Apple is known for doing only things that benefit Apple products, so an Apple console must be coming.
Apple has literally unlimited money , best case scenario apple buys ea and just disbands it
The share holders wont think that - they'll want fucking returns big time.Apple has literally unlimited money , best case scenario apple buys ea and just disbands it
To all of you cheering the even further consolidation of game studios and publishers:
whyHopefully. Way better then MS buying another. I'd take Amazon also.
and FantasianAll new EA games exclusively on Apple Arcade.
Where games go to die, like Clap Hanz Golf.
Because MS are more likely to keep certain games off PlayStation like they did with Bethesda. They've bought enough. Lazy company that thinks it can buy success.
Apple is likely looking to buy an “in”. Then all EA sports titles are only on Apple’s console.Maybe this is part of Apple's fetish for entering the game console market.
Imagine how awful an EA console would be?
No. The interview where Phil said that was a XCloud interview, and he was talking about streaming.That MS quote of Apple Amazon and Google being their competitors and not Sony or Nintendo was only an excuse to move away the attention away from the fact that MS is behind Sony and Nintendo.
There is no point for them to worry about Apple Arcade, Amazon Luna or Stadia. They should worry about PS5, Switch, the new PS+, which is their direct competition.
I was wondering the same thing in the other thread. Their quarterly was positive. Why are they so desperate for a merger or acquisition. Are big publishers predicting a crash?"EA seems to be in a hurry to finalize a deal"
are they in debt or something? Why are they in a hurry.
Fifa is their cash cow, i'm sure they are worried about losing the license.I was wondering the same thing in the other thread. Their quarterly was positive. Why are they so desperate for a merger or acquisition. Are big publishers predicting a crash?
MS would happily allow their games on PS if Sony allowed gamepass on their systemBecause MS are more likely to keep certain games off PlayStation like they did with Bethesda. They've bought enough. Lazy company that thinks it can buy success.
Even if he was only talking about xCloud the same applies: xCloud and GP was basically their own implementation of the long term vision of PS Now announced many years before, with the main difference being MS is more focused on day one games and including all their games there day one.No. The interview where Phil said that was a XCloud interview, and he was talking about streaming.
Its been explained many times on here, even with the video being posted, but people just love to carry on this nonsense.
It makes sense to want to put their services and products in as much places as possible to get more revenue. But also seems they also want to publish on non MS platforms (both GP and I assume their own digital store) without paying the 30% to their platform holders, which I also understand why they want this, but obviously I also understand why Apple, Google, Nintendo or Sony won't allow it.MS would happily allow their games on PS if Sony allowed gamepass on their system
Trust me, MS wants gp on every device with a screen if they could
It's only unjustified nonsensical drama. EA or the other publishers aren't in a hurry begging to sell their companies."EA seems to be in a hurry to finalize a deal"
are they in debt or something? Why are they in a hurry.
EA is pretty smaller than ABK in both PC, console and mobile, so would be less important. ABK acquisition doesn't have any impact on the gaming market since who bought won't be market leaders.'Been in talks' so might be over or might still be ongoing
I think this acquisition would raise more concerns than the ABK one personally.