Amazon could sign today one of the most expensive purchases of the year in the video game industry.
If the big purchases that we have experienced this year in the video game industry seemed crazy, be it the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, that of Bungie by PlayStation or the sale of Square Enix’s western studios and IPs to Embracer Group , could not be the last bomazo before the end of the year. The latest rumors say that Amazon would be interested in buying EA.
It has always been feared that, apart from Microsoft, they will enter the world of video games multi-million dollar companies like Amazon, Disney or Apple, although all of them have their ties to gaming in one way or another. Without a doubt, to buy EA would be to enter like an elephant in a china shop by Amazon, but business is what they have.
This rumor comes from GLHF (via USAToday), which ensures that Amazon to announce purchase of Electronic Arts today, without hesitation. Recall that Amazon currently has the cloud gaming service amazon moon, although it does not finish taking off. EA’s machinery and licenses could be an important boost, apart from everything that comes with acquiring one of the largest and most important American companies in the sector, of course.
At the moment no specific figure is speculated with which Amazon has convinced EA investors, but the bar is very high after the disbursement of almost 70 billion dollars what Microsoft will do for Activision Blizzard when the deal closes next year. We will see if Amazon would also face them regulatory bodies than Microsoft in case the rumors were true and it took over EA.
For now, the only thing left is to wait to see if this operation is actually confirmed in the next few hours, as GLHF advances. It could be the first or second largest purchase of the year, depending on where the amount to be paid stays, and take more than a year to become effective. As in the case of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard, which has already received the first approval.