Apparently Electronic Arts held talks with giant companies like Disney, Amazon and Apple so that they buy and absorb the company? Read the details here!
Times of change draw near Electronic Arts. The legendary video game company announced that it intends to put itself up for sale within the market in order to be part of another giant, a situation similar to the one it experienced Activision-Blizzard with microsoft.
According to information obtained by the foreign media puck, EA held talks with major companies such as amazon, Manzana, NBCUniversal Y Disney. Despite the “Long talks between lawyers from both parties”, no agreement could be reached with the Robert familyconglomerate partners Comcast, who manage NBC, one of the interested
The conditions of the disagreement would have been given by a “surcharge” that brian roberts (CEO from Comcast) found in the value of the company that has a Andrew Wilson in front. Wilson was seen with good eyes to continue with his position, which he has held since 2013, and is important for the management of EA. And it is that yesAccording to the report presented, the main intention of the company is to “seek to merge with another company that maintains Andrew as direct executive.
When asking directly Electronic Arts about the current situation they are going through, they said: “We do not comment on rumors or speculation related to mergers or acquisitions. We are proud to be able to operate from a position of strength and growth…”.
The closest antecedent we have about a giant company that buys a company specialized in video games was that of microsoft with Activision–Blizzard. The company created by Bill Gates bought the business merger by $68 billion at the beginning of the year 2022. What do you think is the true intention of Electronic Arts with these measurements? Will the rupture of the agreement with FIFA in the decision?