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« on: October 19, 2007, 07:20:11 PM »
EA has done just fine with Madden alone for the past 15 years, but as soon as Wii overtakes the 360 here comes the begging for a monopoly?
"We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five which are not compatible,"
Microsoft will first ask nicely via EA, then it will go straight to congress. After 6 years it is tired of having to compete like a normal business.
Nintendo should say F- no to any sort of merger deal, and recognize this as a last gasp of desperation from a crumbling empire.
And I'm not sure EA could maintain its own console. For one, it thrives off the creativity of others, and license fees from movie tie-ins and sports franchises might rise if they were valuable enough to appear on only one system, but I'm not sure on that one. And as Spak said the other console makers would quickly divert resources into their own sports games. Why would EA want the headache of spending extra R&D time and money, and have to decline the moneyhats that would inevitably try and talk them out of it? Then again, maybe that is the perfect extortion.
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