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Topic	Microsoft looking to acquire Electronic Arts
heroicmario 01/29/18 10:26:05 PM #26:	iiicon posted... both microsoft and ea are shifting their games businesses to subscription and service based models. you don't have success with that, particularly not the level of success to justify a $40-50B purchase, in a closed ecosystem that only does well in one territory, and even in that one territory will be running in third place not before long. microsoft has already seen how well something like minecraft does when it's on every platform imaginable. it would be suicide to purchase fifa and keep it on xboxes I 100% agree with this. If Microsoft purchases EA, it would be a shift in their business toward software services/publishing, not doubling down on pushing the Xbox exclusivity. <cite>heroicmario posted [p:895076125] in Microsoft ... [t:76258547]...</cite> <quote><cite>iiicon posted...</cite> <quote>both microsoft and ea are shifting their games businesses to subscription and service based models. you don't have success with that, particularly not the level of success to justify a $40-50B purchase, in a closed ecosystem that only does well in one territory, and even in that one territory will be running in third place not before long. microsoft has already seen how well something like minecraft does when it's on every platform imaginable. it would be suicide to purchase fifa and keep it on xboxes</quote> I 100% agree with this. If Microsoft purchases EA, it would be a shift in their business toward software services/publishing, not doubling down on pushing the Xbox exclusivity.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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