Could M$ buy EA?

If EA was for sale then yes, MS could probably afford it.

But even if EA was on the market, I highly doubt MS (or any other company) would pony up the billionsneeded to make the sale. It would be one hell of an investment, one that would be incredibly difficult to justify.

Buying EA would be extremely expensive, and making EA 360 exclusive would cut into a lot of their profits.bballm10

No. That would be like Mcdonalds buying out Buger King. i.e not gonna happen. I dont think MS could really buy as many companys as they want at the same time either. they dont got THAT much moeny.

Yes and it would cost them about 20B.pins_basic

higher :shock:

first dont put the $ in microsoft that is old and annoying.

but staying on topic yea they could there total revenue for last year totaled 15 billion so yes they could

but they wont i mean it would cost over 20 billion thats an entire years profit and more for microsoft.

Wow, just, wow

No they don't have the money to. Take Accounting 101. Just because a company has or is worth a certain amount of money doesnt mean they can spend it.

EA is the worst video game publisher there is why in the heck would anyone want to buy them?Firelore29

[QUOTE="JayPee89"]MS could buy EA, Sony, Actiblizzion,and Nintendo on the same day if they wanted to.Makari

not allowed to most likely, due to the massive ammount of properties EA holds

Wow, just, wow

No they don't have the money to. Take Accounting 101. Just because a company has or is worth a certain amount of money doesnt mean they can spend it.

thageneral3

Take it yourself. You can spend it rather nicely. You can use dozens of methods, one of which would be using stocks - if you give enough stocks to own a smaller company, you will need a smaller bit of the parent company. In the case of MS, you only need 2.6% of MS stock to acquire full uncontested control of EA, and around 5% to fully own EA.

Basically, you're trading full ownership of EA to MS in exchange of minuscule ownership of microsoft.

They couldn't buy EA. It's illegal.
lordxymor

I'm not sure Antitrust law would apply in this case. Then again, it's not my field of expertise, so it might.