Because I’m happy for a change Sony is getting their asses kicked, it’s long overdue. So I’m just gonna be honest, I hope they calm down if anything. 
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Sony will try get publisher but we don’t know which publisher they are aiming for, i’m kinda curious here.
i expect news this year or next year.
I’m not too sure about it. He said this same thing last year too. He sometimes has those takes. But I wonder if Sony would even be wise to spend so much money when their guaranteed annual money maker will be anything but a guarantee starting from 2024. So wont it be a super risky thing to do I wonder, when they have these debts too?
On a real - if Sony bought EA - it would be equal in terms of impact as ActiBliz for the casual “bro” gamers because FIFA alone.
It would be the big CoD console vs FIFA console war and tbh those two games are what sells consoles the most, even if you dislike them you could see the impact they would have.
The $50+ billion itd take to get it done. There are publishers that are within Sony’s range, these are pushing it.
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If Sony bought EA all the sports games would still be multi or they’d lose the license.
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Sony already know a thing or two about that 
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That’s the thing, some of his takes are spectacularly stupid, even if you look at them in the broadest way.
He admits he drunk / sleep deprived tweets sometimes so
Most of EAs value is from the sports titles but they’d all be multiplat so doesnt do much for them
It would get them Battlefield which is currently a mess and Titanfall which is dead
Apex would remain multiplat
It would get them Respawn and a bunch of Star Wars games going forward (probably)
Doesn’t sound like it would be worth it at all when it would likely cost them at least a quarter of their current market cap
As for Take2, that would be even more expensive
It would balance a couple games TonyHawk vs Skate, Battlefield vs CoD. Personally I would welcome exclusivity on ea sports titles to PS5. I miss the days when consoles had varied unique sports games. Bring back NFL Fever!
How do they pay for this? Are T2 or EA even willing to be purchased? This is different than Zenimax or Activision and would be more like Vivendi and Ubisoft.
Capcom is probably more reasonable with regards to market capitalization. They have good fundamentals but their stock took a hit so maybe shareholders would be ok? Idk
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If you’re looking it at a very basic level of shooter vs shooter or whatever genre you pick
But its never going to compare to what MS have bought with ABK
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Late to the party but Capcom, Konami & SE huh? and he is not even “a fan of these big companies buying everyone”. Just imagine what he would’ve proposed if he was “a fan”.
I understand SE and Capcom but why do people keep saying Konami?
Is it the attachment to MGS?
Buying Konami gets them a few great IPs with zero studios to make them, one of which (MGS) is tied to it’s creator who doesnt even want to work on it anymore
They think Sony should spend billions upon billions for a few dead IPs? 
It’s about what the fans wanted. Like Twisted Metal. Actually, I don’t know how many people really care about it. I don’t feel the hype even if it’s only from reports. Oddly enough, I feel more hype on projects for Xbox like IO and recently Certain Affinity. Perhaps it’s because I want a new world and challenge or maybe TM is more like the style at the time. But we’ll see.
To be fair, it was the opinion of those “sweaty nerds on Twitter and Reddit faking outrage” that made the Xbox One bomb so hard. Casuals wouldn’t have given a shit, and anyone actually paying attention to what Microsoft was saying didn’t give a shit, but the vocal minority made a big stink about it, which meant the casuals heard about it, which caused the casuals to switch to Playstation because that’s what the articles said everyone else was going to do.
We pretend that a large segment of the gaming population are like us, but by the very virtue of being on a video game forum you’re suddenly putting yourself into a much smaller group of gamers.
With all of that said, I think the hit to the Xbox image they’d take for making Call of Duty exclusive is worth it.
I’m still betting on Square. It seems like a weird choice because Sony already pays to make most of their games exclusive in some way, but because of that it would be a massive blow to Sony if Microsoft bought them first. Can you imagine the salt if the last part of the FF7 Remake ended up being an Xbox exclusive? Fanboys would be committing suicide.
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Hello friends! Me again in search of articles, news, opinions…etc that will help us understand more of this process, here’s the latest I could find that does not repeat the same thing we have seen again and again (it is a paid article though, so I will share the most interesting parts):
Microsoft is making a big wager with its record-setting proposal to buy videogame giant Activision Blizzard, but fears that the $69 billion deal will be spiked by regulators are probably overblown.
Those fears have kept Activision’s stock at a significant discount to the deal price since the proposed transaction was announced last week. The shares closed Wednesday at $78.78—17% below the $95 cash price Microsoft is offering. That is even steeper than the 13% discount reflected in Activision’s closing price the day the deal was announced.
From what I’ve gathered around the internet, the above is expected as we have to remember the day the acquisition was announced, the FTC also said they were preparing some changes to M&A of any kind (though they targeted specifically Amazon, META, Apple and google)
There is risk, of course. Washington is on heightened alert for Big Tech deals and, at more than three times the size of the Nuance deal, the Activision transaction will undoubtedly draw more scrutiny. But regulators would have a hard time making the case that the combination would give Microsoft disproportionate control of the videogame market.
I have found the same sentiment in every article I examined, they all agree that this gaming “lake” is but a mere fraction of the ocean out there that is the videogame world (not that it couldn’t happen or it couldn’t change, but the more I search, the less evidence I found that someone could come with an argument like MooNopOly!!! against this deal)
Microsoft itself noted that the combined company would rank only third in the market, behind China’s Tencent and Japan’s Sony Group. That itself is a clever bit of posturing, given the current focus among U.S. lawmakers on boosting domestic tech companies against foreign rivals.
The company also has enjoyed the luxury of not being lumped in with the many political controversies of its big tech rivals of late. The fact that the deal will ultimately bring a management change to Activision, which has been reeling from reports of its hostile workplace problems, could score some additional bonus points.
The article ends by citing Jason Bazinet and Mark Moerdler (don’t know if you can see their profiles on LinkedIn, if not, I invite you to google their names, these gentlemen are well versed in this stuff) both stating that eventhoug this acquisition will have “lengthy antitrust review given heightened scrutiny on big tech firms" it is “extremely likely to occur," given Microsoft’s strong relationships in Washington.
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Will be interesting what happens to EAs soccer franchise as they declined to renew the FIFA license so they cannot make future FIFA games or any tie ins with FIFA, so will it have been made with EA Sports at the helm be enough?
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