Ea has a market cap of 6.4 billion dollars, to obtain 50.1% of the public shares it would probably cost them in the multiple billions of dollars. So I don't think that would happen. They could, but they wouldn't
And their ceo lost his job because of it, Msoft offered way too much for the stock, he lead a revolt to stop it, then the shares dumped big time and he lost his job for losing stockholders billions of dollars, so it wasn't microsofts fault. Jerry Chang I think his name was.
Ea's market cap is 6.4 billion, that is the price of all their shares, Micro would only have to come up with 50.1% of those said shares, they would have to pay a higher ammount from the price it actually trades for so I think 5 billiion would cover it, of course not worht it in my opinion but for those that think its not possible financially, sorry it is.
I wouldn't want them to make this deal, it would cost way too much. Now for the nimrods thinking that Micro can't afford it, ummmm yeah they can, with billions, thats right billions in liquid cash in reserves it would not be that hard. Would it strap them a bit, yes, would the financing be crazy, yes, but trust me they could do it. Now would they do it, probably not. Not much of a chance of it getting by competition laws in the U.S. But please do your research before making a statement l...
What is it about N4G that draws fanboys into articles that shouldn't even concern them. I don't go into articles about the Iphone, cuz I don't own one, and probably won't buy one. So why, since you said you would never buy a 360 or play odst, are you in here. Ps3 fans flood 360 only articles with negative posts. 360 fans flood PS3 only articles with negative posts. Better yet, why do I even bother bantering with a pack of mindless drones? It started out comical, now its just sad. Wait ...
I think any idiot who feels that this game isn't a major player in the GOTY conversation is just an idiot xbox fanboy. I was once an idiot fanboy, I admit it, until maybe an hour into uncharted after I bought the 499 bundle. I realized that 1. ps3 is way more advanced and 2. I have the best of both worlds. My fav xbox franchises and now all the incredible ps3 games.9.5 is an incredible score. I wont judge until I play it.
My local best buy in Billings Mt, had 12 of them in stock today. They also had 5 fats also. They of course had tons of 360's.
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Please don't pm me anymore people, you won't change my mind, just as I won't change yours. Mine is better, no mine is better, no my country is better, no my country is better, you really don't solve anything this way, and obviously this has gotten way out of wack. You bee happy with yours, I will be happy with mine, don't disparage me for liking my system , mInt since yo...
Well if your healthcare is so good, then why, since my dad is a doctor at the Cleveland clinic, are 50% of his patients from either canada or the Uk, if socialized medicine is so great why are the death rates of people with cancer so much higher in the UK? Please don't try and act like you know what is going on in America. The President wants socialized medicine, Bill Clinton tried it also. We don't want it here. We don't want to wait 7 hours in a clinic like they do inn Canada, I know be...
You wait for so long to get a lot of the games, not even new releases, some of them are over a year old. Then theres the problem I had with Force unleashed. 3 xbox 360 versions, and 2 ps3 versions until I got one that worked, and it takes 2-5 days to get the game so it was over a month until I got one that worked. This service sucks and isn't even in the same class as netflix. Stay away from this service unless you want to wait weeks for the game you want. Not worth the price at all, if ...
Why do you troll in xbox articles? We all know you are a ps3 fanboy. Theres nothing wrong with loving the ps3, I do as well, but I don't troll in 360 articles and contridict myself. Oh thats cuz you were in the B/C article about the ps3 and said you have no problem paying for games you already own if they have better graphics and trophy's. This game is different than halo3, get it. Well you won't so just stay in the ps3 articles please, there are enough trolls on both sides already. And ...
Unfortunately its all fanboys that do this. Ps3 fanboys cry whenever you say anything bad about an exlusive, just as any 360 fanboy crys whenever you talk about rrod or anything else bad about there fav. system. The fact that you made a good observation about this game, from your opinion, and you get that many disagrees and hatred tells you that you hit a nerve. Personally I didn't like KZ2. Now you will see tons of disagree's and I will prob. lose bubles, but I didn't like it. I love m...
I have a 16mb per sec cable broadband, that I check regularly with speedtest.net, and for whatever reason it takes forever to download a simple 384 mb update for resistance 2. I have had this prob with sony since I bought it in january. I love the system, by far the best gaming console I have ever owned, but my updates on live are twice the speed as the ones on psn, don't know why. Maybe its just my machine, but it sure is slow.
If you pay attention every week and add them up you see they are close, before any corrections happen. Hey I don't know anything about who runs the site, how many people they employe, my point was that as far as NPD numbers, they are close, they even show there numbers compared to npd before any corrections smart guy. Why is it that poeple get so upset about this one simple web site, its not the word of God. I am just asking a question why people hate it so much, I don't remember so much h...
They made it sound like the gameplay was incredible. I can't wait to play it.
I work in the retail world, and we don't call every company we sell and let them know what we sold. We wouldn't have the time, that is my point, it is a sampling.
there is no way it compares to the value of the ps3, hands down the PS3 is the best value in a game system ever, blu ray, wifi, ability to change out for cheap huge hard drive, incredible 1st party titles, the list goes on and on. But I do love my 360 as well.
There america numbers are usually pretty close to npd numbers, not exact mind you but from what I have seen, pretty close, as far as the rest of the world, I don't know, but geez, for a site most poeple say is run by some kid in his parents basement, he must be making a killing on ad revenue, so I think he can buy his own house. I don[t know if the numbers are dead on, but my God, there is some hate for that site on here.
Of course developers are talking about posibilities. I doubt much will come of it though. maybe, who knows.