Could EA buy 2K Sports?
Written by Jim Squires   
Sunday, 18 February 2007 04:25
mr_monopoly1.gifPlaystation Universe is reporting that industry analysts are recommending that Take Two Interactive shareholders sell their stock, and that EA should buy it.  For any fans of sports games out there, that's a very scary thought.  EA has done everything short of setting 2K's warehouses on fire to put their sports division out of business, so a move like this doesn't seem that unlikely.

For more info on the recommendation, including who's making it, check out the original post at Playstation Universe.

What scares me most isn't the monopoly this would mean for EA in sports games, but the closer they'd be to having a monopoly on the entire video game industry.  Acquiring Take Two would mean EA would now be responsible for Grand Theft Auto, Civilization, The Elder Scrolls -- the list goes on and on.  What do you think?  Is EA going to eat Take Two?


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written by Liam, February 18, 2007
God dammit. Let's hope not.
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written by Katana, February 18, 2007
Time to start praying to the gaming gods that this doesn't happen.
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written by Case, February 18, 2007
If it happens, someone else has to step to the plate. There's too much money in sports games to let it all go to EA.
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written by B, February 19, 2007
EA isn't going to stop until the government stops them, or until they buy at least 75% of the game developing community. Then they're going to come out with their own console. That will be the end of innovation and the death of videogames. MS and Sony will then have to make games for EA's console because EA will own everyone, but Nintendo will survive due to its 1st party line-up.
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written by Danny M, February 19, 2007
yea, that would (IMO) be the equivalent to the apocolypse
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written by TheBlueFox, February 22, 2007
Hey, didn't the guys who formed 2K sports leave EA before? I think that if Ea bought Take Two, it would suck balls, but the 2K guys would just leave again and get some other company to house them. So, from a sports game point of view, I don't think much would change.

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