EA Reportedly Pursuing Sale Or Merger - Nintendo Life

Has apparently spoken to Comcast, Disney, Apple and Amazon.

Microsoft's recent acquisitions of video game companies like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard has sent the entire industry into a frenzy - with companies like Sony pulling out its wallet to acquire the Halo and Destiny developer Bungie.

According to the report (via Kotaku), the Battlefield and FIFA maker has supposedly already held talks with companies like Disney, Apple and Amazon?

When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games.

I guess it’s not that big of a loss if EA merges.

I know people are concerned about the gaming industry becoming monopolized by rich conglomerates buying up all the most notable players, but frankly...so far it's been the companies with the crappiest track records in terms of both customer satisfaction and ethical workplace management, so I'm all for it.

@StarPoint It'd be interesting to see what Disney could do with it.

They've had their hand in gaming since pretty much the beginning, greenlighting critically-acclaimed projects on the NES like DuckTales, the very profitable Disney Infinity series, and--of course--the beloved Kingdom Hearts games.

I'd say they have one of the best track records when it comes to multimedia companies signing off on licensed games developed using their properties.

They certainly have more experience in the industry than Google and Amazon, who only just started releasing their own gaming platforms and unironically believe cloud gaming is what the people want.

Please don't let Comcast try to become a game company.?

it's bad enough their local monopoly where I live forces me to sit through random internet outages which kick me off the games I already have?

We'd at least probably get a good Simcity game out of it, and it's probably the best chance we'd ever have at getting a third Boom Blox game, since that could work perfectly as a PSVR exclusive.

Microsoft could be interesting, I guess, since they'd at least be willing to put their games on other platforms.

It would honestly be better if EA just stopped existing.

Just imagine you’re the head of Disney or Amazon and you buy EA for 80bn, and then you notice none of the IP’s are included in the price because you have to buy those separately for 1bn each, and you don’t know which one you’ll get each time because they’re blind random purchases.

Iast game I bought was Metroid Dread and before that it was Links Awakening.

Disney doesn't own everything yet??.

@Orokosaki I've walked away from the hobby multiple times in the past three decades and all that's happened is that I've missed out on some truly wonderful platforms, games and eras in gaming which I still regret not being "there for" when they were current

@Moistnado maybe it’s because I’m getting older ( 47 ) or because gaming simply isn’t as good as it used to be

@HollowSpectre maybe it’s because of our age but we always go back to the older games, maybe it’s because they actually are better as they’ve stood the test of time or maybe it’s just that terrible disease called nostalgia

has maybe spoiled us or maybe I’m just looking at it through the rose tinted glasses of youth

Don't like 99% of their games but all these large mergers are only bad for the industry and over all society becoming more monologist

Sony dont have the money, Microsoft wouldn't be allowed by FTC so soon after activision and Microsoft probably won't allow the xbox division to spend another 50-70 billion so soon either, and nintendo just wouldn't

So yeah I think it's down to Disney, Amazon, NBC or Apple this time which would be good as they would still be multi platform on consoles

@Orokosaki I'm entering my late 30s, and games have never been better

We're in an era where game styles are mashed up into something brand new

An era where if you see a game that interests you, you can play it within minutes if you want

And when people say games were better back then, I have no idea what they're talking about

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