Kdad
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Apple is in talks to buy EA
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
EA is a big buy. However, Apple is known for doing only things that benefit Apple products, so an Apple console must be coming.
Astral Dog
Member
Any one of those 3 companies buying EA would be fucking hilarious
Complistic
Member
Watching EA destroy itself the last 10 years has been a real treat.
DonJuanSchlong
Banned
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.
reinking
Gold Member
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
a lot of people will be in for a shock if apple is making moves to enter the gaming industry. they won't stop at EA. They can buy anyone. They are a multi trillion dollar company. In terms of finances only Microsoft would have a chance of competing with them and they just made a $70 billion acquisition. Expect Apple to be spending similar or even more.
If this is really happening it'll be interesting to see what the next 5-10 years in gaming will look like. It could be 1994-2001 all over again. The fall of SEGA and the rise of Sony/Microsoft. There is no doubt if Apple enter the market they will quickly become a huge player. Is there enough room for Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Nintendo? Someone might need to make some space.
If this is really happening it'll be interesting to see what the next 5-10 years in gaming will look like. It could be 1994-2001 all over again. The fall of SEGA and the rise of Sony/Microsoft. There is no doubt if Apple enter the market they will quickly become a huge player. Is there enough room for Sony, Microsoft, Apple, and Nintendo? Someone might need to make some space.
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Pallas
Gold Member
I hope Comcast stays away.
yurinka
Member
I don't care about who buys them, I think the last EA games I bought were Dead Space and Mirror's Edge.
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.
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.
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It feels so surreal that these huge gaming corporations can just be bought by even larger corporations like it's nothing.
Now, I don't care about Apple, and I've only bought one EA game in the past 10 years, so I don't really care about this specific news per se, but still... I miss the days when there were dozens upon dozens of midsized publishers, instead of only a handful.
Japan seems to be the last bastion for independent studio's.
Now, I don't care about Apple, and I've only bought one EA game in the past 10 years, so I don't really care about this specific news per se, but still... I miss the days when there were dozens upon dozens of midsized publishers, instead of only a handful.
Japan seems to be the last bastion for independent studio's.
Shmunter
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AdjudicatorHead
Member
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)
I’d argue that Apple have more consumer friendly policies than many gaming publishers do today. Look at other comparable services:
1) Apple TV+ | Quality over quantity approach; big budget shows with talented creative teams, closer to HBO than Netflix
2) Apple Arcade | A cheap, flat subscription service for mobile games which have no microtransactions, so none of the game is locked behind a paywall beyond your subscription payment (which can be family shared).
If anything, I’d expect them to operate closer to Sony’s model of high quality AAA budget focus rather than NFT and MTX crap if they entered the gaming market.
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Pejo
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Do any of you guys stop and ask yourselves why these huge (profitable) 3rd party publishers are courting someone to purchase them suddenly?
To me it seems like they expect a crash or a recession and are liquidating to not be sitting on a pile of stuff that people can't afford when the shit hits the fan. That and the union thing probably scares the shit out of them.
It just seems very suspicious that this is going on within the past 12 months.
To me it seems like they expect a crash or a recession and are liquidating to not be sitting on a pile of stuff that people can't afford when the shit hits the fan. That and the union thing probably scares the shit out of them.
It just seems very suspicious that this is going on within the past 12 months.
tommib
Member
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.
Jibran#one
Member
Apple has literally unlimited money , best case scenario apple buys ea and just disbands it
Von Hugh
Member
Ah, yes, better throw away the multi billion dollar investment you just made.
Redefine07
Member
I only care for Respawn , rest of EA teams are meh....DICE / Bioware went to oblivion.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
The share holders wont think that - they'll want fucking returns big time.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
To all of you cheering the even further consolidation of game studios and publishers:
This so hard.
why
speedomodel
Member
All I care about is Vince and Respawn at this point.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
and Fantasian
SoraNoKuni
Member
Hopefully they never enter the gaming space, but that seems... improbable.
I just hate apple's mentality and I really don't want them to force the market to have "premium" gaming consoles and "premium" anything.
I just hate apple's mentality and I really don't want them to force the market to have "premium" gaming consoles and "premium" anything.
Kerotan
Member
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.
Badlucktroll
Member
Apple is likely looking to buy an “in”. Then all EA sports titles are only on Apple’s console.
Stuart360
Member
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.
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?
Stuart360
Member
Fifa is their cash cow, i'm sure they are worried about losing the license.
Imo i think its abuit ridiiculous as the vast majority of Fifa players will understand that the new football game is Fifa in all but name, but thats what happens with companies sometimes, they concentrate of the worst case scenario.
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
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
GAF's Resident Saturn Omnibus
This would be huge if it occurs. EA is a giant in the viseogame world. Seeing a planet-eating Transformer being devoured by an even bigger planet-eater is quite the sight. That said, I have no idea what would happen if Apple owned EA. Would everything become exclusive to Apple’s platforms? Would Apple attempt to release a dedicated games console against Nintendo, Sony & Microsoft? Would multi-platform publishing continue?
yurinka
Member
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.
It has differences with Sony's cloud gaming (now less once the new PS+ gets released) but definetively is way more similar to Sony and competes for the same audience (console and PC gamers interested on a catalog of hundreds of AAA and indies) than it is compared to Amazon Luna, Apple Arcade or Google Stadia.
And not only that, Stadia and Luna pretty likely have a small userbase because in addition to having a way smaller catalog and no exclusives Luna is in alpha only available in USA, Stadia scaled down and is almost out of the business so they must be a way smaller and less important competition than Sony game subs.
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.
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yurinka
Member
It's only unjustified nonsensical drama. EA or the other publishers aren't in a hurry begging to sell their companies.
EA and the other ones are in a great finantial shape, in a growing trend and nothing points that it would change during the next years.
They have no reason to buy, I think these stories are total bullshit.
yurinka
Member
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.
coffinbirth
Member
Some very interesting takes here, lol.