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EA's stock hits its highest ever value, company worth $45.5 billion
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Not really. Sony is the ideal company for any of the big 4 or 5 tech giants to acquire if they want to diversify their entertainment portfolio. Assuming they are able to overcome any antitrust hurdles.
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Unbelievable, are they absorbing people's negativity and turning it into money or something? Maybe if we start saying nice things about EA their stock will start dropping?
I'm just joking, while I wouldn't say ''congrats'' I'm somewhat happy to see this news, it means we will get more Battlefield, BioWare game and maybe even Mirror's Edge and Dead Space in the future.
I'm just joking, while I wouldn't say ''congrats'' I'm somewhat happy to see this news, it means we will get more Battlefield, BioWare game and maybe even Mirror's Edge and Dead Space in the future.
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Their businesses are better than what they once were, but a lot of Sony is still a collection of sort of ho-hum businesses, whereas Activision Blizzard nigh entirely consists of huge profit businesses.
People can be dumb. Microsoft's real competitors are companies like Apple and Google.
That said, I bet if you took a valuation of just the Xbox division it would be worth less than Playstation or Nintendo. The difference is that Playstation is probably half or more of Sony's $66 billion market cap and Nintendo is just a gaming company. Xbox is such a small portion of Microsoft as a company, which means it's of lesser importance to the company's strategy and less likely to stick around. But Microsoft hasn't shown any signs of leaving the gaming space, and they really dont need to.
Basically, Microsoft doesnt need Xbox the way Sony needs Playstation. But they also are a way stronger, more stable company overall than Sony is. I think Sony could survive solely as a gaming company though, much like Nintendo does.
Do you think we will see a wave of M&As occurring in the coming years?
What's the biggest moneymaker for Activision? They've got a fairly significant chunk over EA. COD? Blizzard's output?
Blizzard would be the main reason, in terms of what sets them apart from EA. CoD is huge but so is FIFA, but Origin is nothing compared to Battlenet.
The short answer, Blizzard and King.
https://investor.activision.com/static-files/d001c4af-e7dd-46f5-884b-f6ac0927854b
Subscription, licensing and other revenues saw a massive spike after they acquired King. They added $2+ billion annually in revenue since that acquisition.
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It's pretty even between the divisions.
Mind, this year was unusually good for the Activision Branch because they had a mainline Destiny release while Blizzard had nothing.
You want the third and fourth rows for the full 2017 results.
King
COD/Destiny
WoW/Heartstone/OW
Blizzard has over 5.5k employees, Activision over 4k and King 2k. Acti-Blizzard has more manpower than EA. However, if it was all about manpower, Ubisoft would take the number one spot.
The stock of Konami is mostly because of their console/mobile division, even if their other division also impact it. Pachinko isn't really a factor, even more because it's not big in their financials like mobile/console with a significant difference in earnings between it and the main division. Pachinko is actually the last division, which is why the meme about it is so stupid when it earns so few compared to the console/mobile and the other two
Wow. Activision and EAs market cap bigger than Nintendo's? Also Activisions market cap is almost as much as Sony's?
by making money. just another example of a vocal minority not necessarily being an accurate reflection of something
Several large segments of the gaming population aren't typically proportionally represented on more console-focused enthusiast sites. Sports / mobile / most of the PC market etc etc.
Thanks. Also if Xbox wasnt part of Microsoft and was just it's own company it would still be big and still be a relatively healthy company. No one is bowing out of the console market any time soon. It took a series of big failures to kill Sega's hardware business, and they were never as successful as Xbox is now. Plus they never truly died either, they are still one of the biggest Japanese gaming companies.
99% of the public enjoys EA games more than resetera lol - which is why we're getting this news and why EA and Activision are bigger than any of the publishers/devs endlessly hyped on about here.
That's not how any of this works. EA for good or bad makes products that people want. In the grand scheme of things the market cap is simply the demand for EA's stock. It doesn't mean EA has that money and it doesn't directly impact EA only the investors.
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Get better jokes. This is the type of stupid shit someone would easily say unironically, especially on ERA. So you cannot claim it is a joke. If you want to tell jokes it has to be outrageous enough for people to pick up on the joke or you can just do the easy /s. Either tell better jokes or just do the cheap /s.
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Woaaah, aren't you fucking uptight... Good lord!... Wow!
This thread is even more embarrassing in hindsight.
There may be nothing your average Era shitposter understands less than the stock market.
There may be nothing your average Era shitposter understands less than the stock market.
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Dude you are trying too hard. Save the jokes for Dane Cook. He might be unfunny but his shows are only mediocre.
To everyone else sorry for the derail.
People were going ape shit over Nintendo's stocks dropping but according to this their still top 3 with a huuuuuge gap between them and the next company. Could you imagine how much they would be worth if they added bullshit micro transaction and stuff into all their games?
If anything Capcom is way higher than they have ever been , they usually float around the 1Bn range. Its Sega that is doing pretty bad , they used to be bigger than Bamco,Konami and SE. Around the 5Bn mark. But SE and Bamco moved up a lot in recent years , with succesful service games.
It's sad when a poster can't even post a simple joke in an Era thread without some rapacious idiot jumping down their throat and trying to redefine what qualifies as a joke and what doesn't based on some ludicrous arbitrary metric.
You, good sir, need to learn to lighten up. Your hostility and passive-aggression is completely unwarranted.
If they are publicly traded, just look up their stock ticker. The Mkt Cap is listed on there.
Okay so
From an economics perspective, EA is just an extremely annoying company that provides little value.
They buy exclusive licenses from monopolies or near monopolies and make a product with no competitors.
So if you like soccer or American football, you have no options but EA.
Meanwhile, EA makes sure to make the prices of these games as high as possible with the pay to win Ultimate Team stuff.
EA has become a successful business, but they're probably the most actively anti-free market game publisher out there and they're just really annoying and bad as a whole.
From an economics perspective, EA is just an extremely annoying company that provides little value.
They buy exclusive licenses from monopolies or near monopolies and make a product with no competitors.
So if you like soccer or American football, you have no options but EA.
Meanwhile, EA makes sure to make the prices of these games as high as possible with the pay to win Ultimate Team stuff.
EA has become a successful business, but they're probably the most actively anti-free market game publisher out there and they're just really annoying and bad as a whole.
