Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

November 3, 2008

Turnabout, as they say, is fair play.

While Electronic Arts spent the better part of 2008 in a futile bid to acquire Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive, the Wall Street Journal suggests that EA itself has the makings of a tasty takeover morsel.

Word comes via Barron's that the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) proposed on Saturday that Disney acquire EA:

In a bold call in Saturday’s Heard On The Street column, the Wall Street Journal proposed that Disney (DIS) ought to buy Electronic Arts (ERTS). The piece note that the timing is right, after a significant earnings miss last week knocked down the video game publisher’s stock 18% on Friday. The piece concludes that “Disney would be gutsy to step up during the current economic uncertainty. But it might be better than waiting for better times and paying top dollar.”

...EA does have a lucrative sports franchise that includes the Madden football games; Disney owns ESPN. It’s an interesting theory. But I would note that it appears simply to be a theory, not something that the Journal believes is happening right now.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by TaoJeannes on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 10:07.

Great... the company that sold its soul buys the company that never had one.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by The-Adder on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 16:41.

God I hope this doesn't come to pass. EA owned Disney = the end of Kingdom Hearts.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Nocturne on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:05.

Dead Space the Animated Series Saturdays at 8am

Each Week Isaac foils the evil Necromorphs with the assistance of a group of teens and their talking robotic dog.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by HitlersGaybar on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 10:08.

Ach, ze thought iz too much, ze angst center in mein brain iz melting!

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Paulrus on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 22:06.

From a business perspective, it would be a great thing. From the consumer's perspective, it would be a bad nightmare.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 22:42.

Let me fix that for you...

...From a consumer's perspective, it would be a nightmare of monumentally EPIC proportions!

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Anthrax on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 21:20.

Putting two huge monsters together will only make one huger monster. Bad idea.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Tony on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 20:05.

The combined organisation can be called Cthulhu Corp.

"Cthulhu for President, why vote for thelesser of two evils?"

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Jonathan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 19:41.

One word: No.

I hate Disney for all the retarded shit they've been making for the past several years, espeically those moronic bands they've been pushing out.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Aliasalpha on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 19:39.

So Dead Space 2 will have boss fights resolved by talking about feelings and the spectacular quicktime event finishing move will be a group hug...

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Father Time on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 18:52.

I think Micheal Eisner is content with his evil empire.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by HarmlessBunny on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 01:06.

I thought they ousted Eisner years ago...

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by gameman9 on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 18:44.

Oh Hell NO!!!

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by King of Fiji on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 18:03.

Disney died to me the day Mr Toad's Wild Ride in the Magic Kingdom was replaced with Winnie the Pooh. A loveable character he be but I'm sorry that ride was reaking of awsomeness.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by CyberSkull on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:47.

Disney + EA: Now with more bland!

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Wolvenmoon on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:35.

Maybe if they did buy them out we could do the entire anti monopoly procedings against them and shatter them once and for all.

lol@disney's daycare center raid.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by the1jeffy on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:25.

EA and Disney have much in common. Two princess peas in a pod.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Thomas McKenna on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:05.

People are talking about how evil the company would be....hasn't anyone thought how it'd hurt game development? Imagine all those straight to dvd sequel releases Disney does. Now image that with every game they make. They make a game that gets luke warm reviews? Expect a sequel made with 1/5th the budget and no quality control! Now think how this would effect the few good games EA makes.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by tallimar on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 21:51.

huh? EA has good games? between the rehash grinder (madden anyone?), the DRM issues (go spore!), and the current pricing of games (can anyone even remember when new games were under $45?)... ive yet to find an EA title that would coerce me to pay in to riccitiello's overinflated salary.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Harry Miste on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:58.

EA is already evil enough, just by being swallowed in by Disney would create something worse. Something... horrible. It would be an aberration to society.
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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:28.

Hmmmm... likely other industry suitors would be ActiBliz and Microsoft. On the outside Amazon or Apple would be interesting to be sure. Moreover I would love for Google to toss its hat in. The ultimate irony would of course be Sony. Then it could guarantee SuckRom for the world.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by axiomatic on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:23.

Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Only if you want to ensure I never buy another product of EA's ever again. Hell I'm already boycotting certain DRM'd products of EA's already.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:28.

Man-up and boycott them all.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by VideolandHero on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:12.

If Disney bought EA, I'd like to see more Kingdom Hearts style of games.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Anto103 on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:52.

But if Disney did by everything won't they just coat everything with sugar and a lot of sugar at that?

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Doomsong on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:34.

Disney + EA....

Hmmmmm..... Dead Space Mountain anyone?

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Papa Shango on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 18:42.

I can see it now: Dead Space Mountain...banned in 5 countries!!!! maybe.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by MaJeStIc_12_x on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 18:06.

I'm sorry, but little Johnny got a little to close to that necromorph over there. You might want to keep him restrained and quarantined, but other than that, he's fine.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by E. Zachary Knight on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:06.

The only problem with another game company trying to buy EA, is that no other company has enough capital to buy them. That is why this article is looking at outside media conglomerates.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:51.

I'm of the opinion that EA stock will burn another 10% or so by the end of the week and if we can get enough momentum going to generate main stream media publicity with the DRM protests on its new releases I think it will be a near certainty. That would bring it within range another game company such as ActiBliz (I hate that name) or better yet a coalition as I suggested to move in. I like to think of it as GoD done right - if the companies I suggested are key players.

If the price drops under $20 it should be possible. I think the ultra sweet spot would be $15 per share. I know it is a big dream but given the current market fear factor and public outcry against EA it is possible methinks. However I think if it hits $20 Riccitiello will go on a buy back spree or maybe get canned.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:03.

I would like to see StarDock Entertainment step up and organize a takeover coalition with the following companies:

Paradox Interactive

Gas Powered Games

Ironclad Games

Kerberos Productions

I think the end result would be a truly awesome game development company that really would be focused on delivering the best product possible to gamers and providing outstanding product support.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Parallax Abstraction on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:33.

Such a thing would be very interesting but you could literally quintuple the size of ALL those companies and they still wouldn't even come close to having the capital to buy EA.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 17:19.

Of course. But I'm optimistic that as a unified entity they would find the necessary financial resources to pull it off. This would be especially so if Google would become a white knight and have a talk with Frogboy.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by GTCv Deimos on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:00.

a Disney owned EA would be the most evil entity to have ever existed... seriously... they'd make Third Reich look like Americorp.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by DeepThorn on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:51.

yeah...

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Spartan on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:48.

No doubt.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Vake Xeacons on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:04.

Maybe not Disney then. But EA getting bought out would be sweet just desserts indeed! Hey, why doesn't Take-two buy them out?

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Brokenscope on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:55.

Because T2's stock is hurting just as badly as EA's?

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by DeepThorn on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 16:35.

I wouldnt count a 5 point drop as hurting just as bad as EA, haha. EA is 50% of its earlier value, while T2 is 70% of its earlier true value ignoring the inflation EA caused.

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Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Kris on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:50.

Oh I hope not. EA is evil enough without Disney involved with them as well.

But really...monopolies bite.

If the only reason he can give is that Disney owns ESPN and EA makes football games...well that doesn't sound like a good enough reason to bother.

Re: Wall Street Journal: Disney Should Buy EA

Submitted by Trevor McGee on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:39.

Madden 2010, guest starring the all Disney team the Toontown Titans! Mickey would be the quarterback.

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Andrew Eisen: Well, the Xbox One reveal certainly had an interesting affect on the big 3's stock prices. https://twitter.com/AndrewEisen/status/33705126448977100805/21/2013 - 10:45pm

PHX Corp: http://kotaku.com/so-the-xbox-one-reveal-screwed-up-a-lot-of-peoples-kin-509179256 So The Xbox One Reveal Screwed With Some People's Kinects05/21/2013 - 10:36pm

Zen: On a funny side note...both of my boys have already voted NOT to get the Xbox One as soon as they found out Minecraft won't transfer lol. Some people have priorities damnit! ;)05/21/2013 - 9:27pm

Andrew Eisen: Here's the full quote on EA making Wii U games according to Neogaf: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56112105/21/2013 - 8:19pm

Andrew Eisen: Xbox One may not be always on but that doesn't mean you can use it without an internet connection. http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-50916410905/21/2013 - 7:39pm

Andrew Eisen: Polygon says EA's CFO says it is developing games for Wii U but doesn't provide that quote. http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4351844/ea-developing-wii-u-games05/21/2013 - 7:11pm

Andrew Eisen: Well, I was right. Both Sony and Microsoft's consoles will be out by the year's end and both will be significantly more powerful than the current gen.05/21/2013 - 5:06pm

james_fudge: thnx05/21/2013 - 4:47pm

Zen: Just to let ya know...you called it the "Xbox 260" in the backwards compatibility article lol.05/21/2013 - 4:26pm

Zen: @PHX Awesome, I will hit those up after class tonight. Going back to college finally! :) My kids have had a blast telling ME to do my homework now lol.05/21/2013 - 4:19pm

PHX Corp: @Zen I sent you a friend request on both PSN and XBL, just a heads up05/21/2013 - 4:16pm

Zen: I noticed it with the football players when EA showed off Madden as well.05/21/2013 - 4:11pm

Zen: Is it just me or is call of duty hitting the "uncanny valley" with their nicely modeled faces and dead looking eyes? I found it distracting and seemed actually "less" real to me lol.05/21/2013 - 4:10pm

james_fudge: it sounds like if you have an HD reciever you'll be able to use it with a pass-through cable... not 100 percent sure yet05/21/2013 - 2:41pm

james_fudge: happening now http://majornelson.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-architecture-panel/05/21/2013 - 2:20pm

E. Zachary Knight: Some reading material for Microsoft on its used games blocks. That will hurt the console more than helping. http://ezknight.net/?page_id=20505/21/2013 - 2:18pm

james_fudge: yeah good luck with over the air TV05/21/2013 - 2:12pm

E. Zachary Knight: But what if I want to only watch over the air tv? I don't subscribe to pay tv. I never will. If that is a requirement, then MS wasted 45 minutes telling me how great TV will be.05/21/2013 - 2:08pm

james_fudge: EZK it will depend on your provider, just like HBO Go i'd imagine.05/21/2013 - 2:05pm

PHX Corp: @IanC there's also a chance that those titles might be Xbox one exclusive, but it's too early to tell afaik05/21/2013 - 2:03pm

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