Rumour USA Today - Amazon set to buy Electronic Arts, announcement coming today (UPDATE: maybe not? see threadmarks)

[mazi]

Reports refute rumors of Amazon buying Electronic Arts

Though it’s been rumored Amazon will announce today that it’s put in a formal offer to acquire Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher behind Apex Legends, FIFA, Madden, and more, it’…

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According to GLHF sources, Amazon will announce today that it has put in a formal offer to acquire Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher behind Apex Legends, FIFA, Madden, and more.

Rumors have been circling online for a few weeks about a potential EA buyout, with Apple, Disney, and Amazon listed as potential buyers. As per our sources, Amazon has finally made an offer.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

Unyeah but as I said when the ABK purchase happened: The floodgates have been opened.

 

[mazi]

Unyeah but as I said when the ABK purchase happened: The floodgates have been opened.

next up, nintendo buying arzest

 

[Ahmed]

The big trillion dollar companies just can't piss off, can't they? MS, Amazon... Google or Apple will probably follow.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

next up, nintendo buying arzest

$50m just Arzest
$2,4b with the Balan IP

 

[shoptroll]

Unyeah but as I said when the ABK purchase happened: The floodgates have been opened.

1. I hope Andrew Wilson is shown the door as part of this
2. I agree it was only a matter of time before “the big boys” show up with bigger buckets of cash than MS
3. Fuck this timeline but honestly EA has been in rough shape for a while now
4. I doubt Amazon is going to care about EA’s back catalog so there go all my hopes for GOG releases of The Sims 1 and Sims 2, etc

 

[Ojoloco]

Now, FIFA in amazon prime

 

[Lucyfer]

Sometimes I wish antitrust laws were stricter

 

[Maronic03]

Unrelated but I intend to buy some milk today.

 

[Bonejack]

Well, at least it's not one of the console makers? It's something.jpg

 

[MisterSpo]

Uhhh at least this doesn't mean much directly for the Switch... but this is exactly what I worried would happen after Microsoft pounced on Activision-Blizzard: other huge tech corporations bouncing along to snap up large publishers.

 

[Red Monster]

Wow ok, so this is definitely happening. Not as big of a WTF moment as when MS bought Actiblizz, but still, this is huge

 

[The Giant]

Nintendo to buy the gaming side of Konami. Announced in the next direct. Plan to revive Hudson Soft as a studio and the first game from the buyout
will be a new Goemon game.

 

[Bonejack]

Uhhh at least this doesn't mean much directly for the Switch... but this is exactly what I worried would happen after Microsoft pounced on Activision-Blizzard: other huge tech corporations bouncing along to snap up large publishers.

Actually it might mean more EA games on Switch as Amazon only cares about profit increase and not the whatever reasons EA had for ignoring a highly viable source of income.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

1. I hope Andrew Wilson is shown the door as part of this
2. I agree it was only a matter of time before “the big boys” show up with bigger buckets of cash than MS
3. Fuck this timeline but honestly EA has been in rough shape for a while now
4. I doubt Amazon is going to care about EA’s back catalog so there go all my hopes for GOG releases of The Sims 1 and Sims 2, etc

Looking at past events Wilson is gonna get a nice golden parachute and join Riccitiello and Moore at Unity :^)

 

[Red Monster]

What even are EA’s big franchises now? Madden, not-FIFA, F1, Jedi and Mass Effect?

And not even Mass Effect really

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

What even are EA’s big franchises now? Madden, not-FIFA, F1, Jedi and Mass Effect?

Apex is definitely one
Sims 4 still makes them money
Last Dragon Age was quite successful
Battlefield if they manage to get it back on track

 

[WestEgg]

Unrelated but I intend to buy some milk today.

That milk may be proportionally more expensive to you than EA is to Amazon.

 

[Imitatio]

OMG noooo

Spoiler

 

[Legion of Primes]

Will this mean their games are exclusive to Amazon Luna?

 

[Red Monster]

Apex is definitely one
Sims 4 still makes them money
Last Dragon Age was quite successful
Battlefield if they manage to get it back on track

lol Battlefield, the latest one was such a huge screwup that I completely forgot it existed

 

[Koren Lesthe]

next up, nintendo buying arzest

Super Mario Wonderworld !
A game by Shigheru Miyamoto, Yuji Naka and that person who got erased from a photo.

 

[Marce-chan]

Jesus Christ
Marketing consolidation and monopolies keep getting more and more bizarre.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

As shitty as this is I don't think this will have any tangible effects... for a while. Amazon Luna is a non-factor and if they're smart they're going to let the current leadership continue doing what they've been doing (just, better, you know).

In the long-term though...

edit: and obviously this is gonna send some ripples through the industry. Looking at Ubisoft now.

 

[zumaddy]

Two money grubbing companies, a match made in heaven.

 

[Brock Reiher]

wonder if this will mess up EA on gamepass

 

[Mandos]

Yikea

 

[Ray00101]

Great evil buys great evil.

 

[Bonejack]

Ooooor maybe not?

 

[IamPeacock]

Normally such acquisitions disgust me, but it's EA...

I know Amazon is evil, but i hate EA even more. Maybe EA will get better overtime, no?

PS: as long as no one touches Nintendo or Sony, it's good to me

 

[Marce-chan]

Two money grubbing companies, a match made in heaven.

I thought exactly the same thing.

 

[Weebos]

Not great news, but it's also hard for EA to get worse, so there's a silver lining I suppose.

 

[Marce-chan]

Normally such acquisitions disgust me, but it's EA...

I know Amazon is evil, but i hate EA rven more. Maybe EA will get better overtime, no?

PS: as long as no one touches Nintendo or Sony, it's good to me

Being owned by Amazon they can get EVEN worse than they already are!!

 

[xghost777]

Well that was a weird hour or whatever. Seems like a false alarm.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

Direct CNBC source denying it

 

[ngpdrew]

Prime is fixing to get some unique content from Josef Fares!

 

[Marce-chan]

USA Today: "AMAZON IS BUYING EA!!!"
CNBC NOW: " no, they are not"
Amazon Tonight: "actually we are "
EA tomorrow: "hey y'all..."

 

[Red Monster]

Direct CNBC source denying it

 

[Jahranimo]

This is weird AF

 

[Skittzo]

Direct CNBC source denying it

This is the kind of thing that could just wind up being garden variety stock manipulation.

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

This is the kind of thing that could just wind up being garden variety stock manipulation.

It's also possible that CNBC knows about someone else buying EA

 

[Skittzo]

It's also possible that CNBC knows about someone else buying EA

It's me.

 

[Tentacle-tropes]

This is the kind of thing that could just wind up being garden variety stock manipulation.

The Elon Musk classic

 

[Josh5890]

So many plot twists and I still haven't had my breakfast

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

We're still getting some acquisition news today

 

[shoptroll]

We're still getting some acquisition news today

And TinyBuild acquired some IPs today too

Surgeon Simulator and other Bossa Studios IP bought by TinyBuild for £3m

Bossa Studios' various gaming franchises has been acquired by publisher TinyBuild for $3m. Those franchises include Sur…

www.eurogamer.net

 

[Dardan Sandiego]

I wonder who USA Today "confirmed" this with (they cite their own sources). Kinda crazy to run such a big story and get it this wrong. Unless CNBC is wrong, which I doubt.

Either way someone is gonna end up with a massive L.

 

[shoptroll]

I wonder who USA Today "confirmed" this with (they cite their own sources). Kinda crazy to run such a big story and get it this wrong. Unless CNBC is wrong, which I doubt.

Either way someone is gonna end up with a massive L.

Smells like stock manipulation

 

[Skittzo]

I wonder who USA Today "confirmed" this with (they cite their own sources). Kinda crazy to run such a big story and get it this wrong. Unless CNBC is wrong, which I doubt.

Either way someone is gonna end up with a massive L.

Massive L, or massive $, or depending on how/if it's investigated a massive fine.

 

[EvilChameleon]

Is “GLHF” USA Today’s gaming arm?