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Topic	Microsoft looking to acquire Electronic Arts
Lightning Strikes 01/30/18 3:25:52 PM #27:	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 True, but Microsoft is in a bad spot right now regarding their console business. This could be their one play to get ahead again. Or maybe not. It feels like they're going to go all in on consoles or totally out. --- I just decided to change this sig. Blaaaaaaargh BKSheikah <cite>Lightning Strikes posted [p:895119489] 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> True, but Microsoft is in a bad spot right now regarding their console business. This could be their one play to get ahead again. Or maybe not. It feels like they're going to go all in on consoles or totally out. --- I just decided to change this sig. Blaaaaaaargh BKSheikah</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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