It is in the era of time. For a few years now, redemptions in video games have multiplied. Alliances are created and industries mix. Video games, cinema, television and streaming services are now one body, the union still being strength. While Activision-Blizzard has found refuge at Microsoft (for almost 70 billion dollars, let’s remember), Ubisoft is inclined to be bitten by a bigger one, Sony is buying studios with a vengeance, now ‘we learn that Electronic Arts would also seek to find a big partner so that the future is brighter.
This is the Puck website who released the information during a paper devoted to Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast. The latter explains that since the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft, things have accelerated, and that the lawyers and other bankers of Electronic Arts have been seen talking with entertainment giants like Disney, Amazon and Apple. .
But it is actually with Comcast that things have really moved forward, since according to Brian Roberts, a proposal has even been made. The latter has indeed proposed a merger with the subsidiary NBC Universal, with a total control of Electronic Arts. Thing obviously that Andrew Wilson, the current CEO of EA, does not seem favorable, the latter wishing to keep control of its activities. It must be said that Electronic Arts is doing quite well with positive growth and that there is no reason for Andrew Wilson to give up his place as CEO. So, according to Puck’s article, talks between EA and Comcast were unsuccessful. Moreover, neither of the two actors wish to comment on this subject …