I love that “innovation” with big US companies always means acquiring another company. Not like EA is a big innovator either.
Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s from Bojack Horseman
Ooohhhh, please don’t suggest anyone buy Trader Joe’s. That would F Up my world.
Trader Joe’s is privately owned, but it is owned by Aldi.
More specifically, by the heirs of Theo Albrecht, one of the two brothers that founded the two Aldi companies.
Hrrrrmm, TIL. As long as they keep it running the same, that’s OK.
Verizon Chipotle exon, Proud to be one of America’s 4 companies.
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But why? Disney has made several attempts before to break into gaming, none of which have worked out well. The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
Also, Disney doesn’t have the cash to buy EA, so buying EA would involve them going deeply into debt. With today’s interest rates, that would be too risky.
The big publishers’ moneymaking franchises have plateaued or declined without anything to replace them, and they’re looking to sell their companies before those franchises stop making money. EA and Disney have a partnership via Star Wars that could work out toward making an acquisition or merger more affordable. Disney would probably have a hard time growing by acquiring more television or movie studios, but video games are in a different industry. Disney might see acquiring a giant like EA to be acquiring “experts” at how to actually run a video game business compared to Disney’s failed past efforts.
Those are the reasons I can think of. EA was rumored to have hit up every enormous company like this to buy them out, including Apple and Amazon, so it doesn’t surprise me that Disney was on that list.
The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
That’s why they’re going to want to buy those studios.
They can’t buy Square Enix or Capcom; Japan has laws protecting certain Japanese companies from being bought out by foreign companies.
@OfficialThunderbolt @Jinxyface it’s ashamed more countries & gov’t are to fiscally driven to legally prevent monopolies when they’ve been known to be destructive
Video games aren’t in danger of becoming a monopoly, but that kind of measure seems more aimed at preventing foreigners from having too much influence.
Video games aren’t in danger of becoming a monopoly,
Microsoft, a trillion dollar tech conglomerate, has just purchased multiple of the entire video game’s largest publishers. It is entirely in danger of becoming a monopoly
How many games came out in 2023? How many of those do Microsoft own? How much do you think that second number changes over the next 10 years? There are so, so, so many video game companies out there that Microsoft doesn’t own.
It’s not about how many Microsoft owns. It’s how large the ones they own are. Microsoft has essentially made long time huge third party developers/publishers part of their company now, that’s corporate consolidation and should never be defended or justified in any way.
Microsoft has trillions of dollars. They have the capital, workforce, and time to build up their own studios. If the only way a trillion dollar company can “compete” in a space is to consolidate that space by applying anti consumer tactics like buying out longstanding publishers, that’s stupid and a lie.
If they buy EA I’ll only have to boycott one company, instead of two.
Bonus if Alphabet also Buys M$, Bytedance and Disney.
Alphabet has half the market cap of Microsoft. Microsoft is so unbelievably big, it’s not even funny.
Microsoft would be the one buying all three of Alphabet, Bytedance, and Disney and barely scoff at it.
I, for one, am curious as to what products I could purchase from Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico
Nuclear powered, Heat seeking High fructose syringes, now with flamin hot flavor you can feel in your bones!
Depleted uranium enriched Funions. I mean, even more so than they currently are.
Sure, because it did wonders for Fox and Marvel.
(And casually ruined Marvel vs Capcom Infinite).
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Well they can’t make EA any worse, right? Right??
Mouse couldn’t run EA worse than EA is run now. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
Rule 2 of the videogame industry: if you think something can’t get worse, it absolutely fucking will within a month or two
Which shall happen regardless of which megalithic corpo whore is calling the shots.
See also: Unity
I dunno but I do love those last couple of Jedi games… love that shit, and I don’t really like star wars
If they remake Jedi Knight II and III, I’m in.
So I’m not in, basically.
Souls-like, but not as difficult.
hmmm, sounds like the work of a giant gamer
