Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, Apple, and Amazon

Posted by astlouis44 on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:37PM
from the ign.com dept.

https://www.ign.com/articles/nbc-universal-electronic-arts-merger

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Re:Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, A... by astlouis44 on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:01PM (#31453618)

Think this makes the most sense for Amazon, out of any potential acquirer. They get IP they can use for TV/movies on Prime Video, and they get their foot in the door of the gaming industry. Useful for the coming metaverse too.

Not to mention they get a huge client in EA moving over to AWS, if they weren't using it already.

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Re:Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, A... by thenewweb44 on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:39PM (#31453415)

Interesting that they didn't approach Sony.

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Re:Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, A... by MBCook on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:05PM (#31453649)

Since Sony is also a game company, it’s possible they worried that wouldn’t be possible due to anti-trust regulation or FTC approval issues.

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Re:Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, A... by bozhark on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:45PM (#31454579)

Look around. FTC really doesn’t care about anti-trust currently.

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Re:Electronic Arts held merger talks with Comcast, Disney, A... by alwaysal44 on Friday May 20, 2022 @06:39PM (#31453417)

Wow

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