Rumor: Apple could be thinking about buying EA and sony
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good god noo...
apple.please stay the fuck away from EA (a.k.a. bioware) and sony. i dont need you making the ipsp for 1200 dollars and i dont need you fucking everything up and making every game locked down with zero modability and all DLC worth the price of a new game.
your itouch's are nice, but besides that, fuck off.
apple.please stay the fuck away from EA (a.k.a. bioware) and sony. i dont need you making the ipsp for 1200 dollars and i dont need you fucking everything up and making every game locked down with zero modability and all DLC worth the price of a new game.
your itouch's are nice, but besides that, fuck off.
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Honestly? Severely doubt Apple has enough spare money to buy out Sony wholesale. EA is a possibility, but I doubt it.
Oh man, why couldn't they buy Activision instead?
Although I doubt this. Gamers often think Sony is a small company because they tend to think of it as a competitor to Microsoft and Nintendo. But Sony is a huge electronics manufacturer, I think it's the largest electronics company in Japan. I never had a Sony console but I played them on Sony TVs for most of my life, and though I don't any more I now use a Sony Ericsson cell phone.
My point is Sony is too large to be bought by anything smaller than Nike. If it was going to join up with Apple it'd be a merge, not a purchase.
Although I doubt this. Gamers often think Sony is a small company because they tend to think of it as a competitor to Microsoft and Nintendo. But Sony is a huge electronics manufacturer, I think it's the largest electronics company in Japan. I never had a Sony console but I played them on Sony TVs for most of my life, and though I don't any more I now use a Sony Ericsson cell phone.
My point is Sony is too large to be bought by anything smaller than Nike. If it was going to join up with Apple it'd be a merge, not a purchase.
Haha, I'm sorry, what? Disney is one of the top 6 entertainment companies in the world. Apple is a petulant, greedy child in comparison to Disney's massive, virulent mountain man.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
I don't think the SEC and other governing bodies dealing with industry, along with the multitude of anti-monopoly acts and laws in the US and other countries, could possibly let this happen.
Are you kidding me? The Walt Disney corporation is literally one of the most powerful companies in the world. I'd put about as much stock into Apple being able to buy out the Disney corporation as, say, Apple buying out Microsoft. It won't happen any time soon.Eclectic Dreck said:
I really hope this is bullshit. Imagine the shitstorm that would hit if Apple ran a video game company like they run their own company. Way overpriced gimmicks that look sexy but bring nothing new, and Apple fanboys would buy it up regardless. I really wish for my Mac loving friend's sakes that Apple would get more into gaming, but this would be the wrong way to do it. I really don't see this acquisition happening, but I still shudder to think what would happen if it did.
Apple has the money to attempt the buyout but it doesn't make sense.
Sony is enormous and hard to keep profitable, Apple is already dominant in the sectors it competes with Sony in and Apple doesn't need Sony's technology for any foreseeable projects. Sony has a lot of problems atm, the Playstation's market share cannot carry it this era, it's R&D is costly, it's losing to Samsung in it's traditional areas of dominance and even relies on Samsung as a supplier. The company is large but directionless.
EA has halved in value over the decade, it's tried sinking money into new IP and lost, blamed piracy and tried DRM and lost, it can't stop it's annual franchises declining or afford exclusive sports licenses anymore.
I don't see Apple putting itself in a hole to try and turn these companies around.
Sony is enormous and hard to keep profitable, Apple is already dominant in the sectors it competes with Sony in and Apple doesn't need Sony's technology for any foreseeable projects. Sony has a lot of problems atm, the Playstation's market share cannot carry it this era, it's R&D is costly, it's losing to Samsung in it's traditional areas of dominance and even relies on Samsung as a supplier. The company is large but directionless.
EA has halved in value over the decade, it's tried sinking money into new IP and lost, blamed piracy and tried DRM and lost, it can't stop it's annual franchises declining or afford exclusive sports licenses anymore.
I don't see Apple putting itself in a hole to try and turn these companies around.
I know I feel it aswell, like a looming cloud kinda feeling. I dont like it.Wayward Man said:
Besides how could an aquisition of this magnitude be legal (not the right word), a competition commision of some type should have a say in this deal. Just think of the massive amount of Market Share Apple could accumulate with this deal, pfffft I dont think it is real Apple cant have that much money.
