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Disney could help EA to improve by buying them
- Thread starter fireflame
- Start date
The last Assimilation.
More realistic approach would be EA being bought by Nintendo or Microsoft with EA sports sold to 2K.
To be honest I've often wished that Disney would be, or continue to be, in game dev. I feel like they would be able to spend the money and resources to make some great licensed and original games, kinda like a better LucasArts. But clearly they don't want to be in it, and I'm still annoyed that they closed DIS and LucasArts, so whatever.
It makes no sense given their business strategy.
Iger says that they are comfortable licensing out their IPs, because they are not good at games. Let's not do this.
Having worked for a Disney game studio, let me emphasize the above as clearly as possible. This not an area where Disney sees itself in. Better to partner with existing studios.
The more I just read the OP alone the more I get a good chuckle out of this thread. Of all companies Disney is supposed to be the one to save gaming. lmao
Lmao, a quick google of this fucking blowhard immediately leads to such hits like "we should wholesale privatize orphanages, it would rule" and "the 80s were great because of low taxes also debt is awesome".
Thank you for the laugh that Fantastapotamus requested.
Disney have previously said they don't really want to go into that area in the foreseeable future. They can do partnerships, i.e., with Square for Kingdom Hearts, but buying up a videogames giant is nowhere near part of their plans at the moment.
Agreed, no. This timeline doesn't deserve such a karmic comeuppance.
If things don't turn a profit immediately or if they make a stupid move based on assumption, they'll just shut it down. The demise of Black Rock Studios, the cutback of Disney Interactive Studios, and killing the Disney Infinty franchise is enough proof Disney doesn't care about having their own workforce right now, which is why they're outsourcing to other publishers.
Iger literally said they have no interest in developing games and prefer to publish. And it makes sense for their business strategy. Disney's main revenue comes from there Theme Parks and TV, film comes in at a low third. Licensing, video games, and all other bullshit make up such a tiny percent of their revenue that it makes no sense for Disney to invest heavily in them. Disney cares about bolstering their Theme Parks and TV presence, this is why Disney+ is such a big deal and why you see Star Wars and Marvel coming to them with all the big stars.
I never thought I'd miss the days of the Marvel acquisition where people actually thought Disney would ruin Marvel by making it "kiddie". Now people actually root for these things.
They'll have to sell most of them (the regional Fox Sports and in some countries like Brazil and Mexico), but I think the ESPN/Madden/FIFA synergy is a Disney board member wet dream.
Yeah, no. This would be awful. There are a lot more good games being made with Disney properties now that they're licensing IP instead of actually producing products. Spider-Man and Kingdom Hearts wouldn't be as good in their hands because they don't understand what makes them work. Plus, MUA3 and Jedi: Fallen order look to be shaping up to be pretty good as well. Where they are in games is fine. EA is just a bad licensing partner.
Disney answers to shareholders as well, much like EA does. EA isn't strapped for cash or limited by it (regardless of what people think when they shut studios down). They're one of the biggest publishers in gaming.
Disney makes terrible products too, their live action remakes have been more bad than good, Pixar and Marvel have been left to kind of just do their own thing, their other film studios have been much worse than those two. The MCU success is really masking a lot of other stuff they've done that isn't good.
You're 100% right having worked there during the Infinity bloodbath...4 was finally going to give people what they wanted and they pulled the plug in the middle of development almost out of nowhere, the previous games sold well but the idiots running the toy biz part didn't know what the fuck they were doing and made too many unpopular figures due to brand marketing infighting whims. Picture Marvel forcing 50,000 units of Yondu pre-Mary Poppins Y'all meme and getting butt hurt that PIXAR wanted to produce more of their previous gen digs that sold better....and those fucks still had jobs at the end of it through no fault of Johnny V.
No thanks. I haven't been addicted to an EA game in quite some time, but this would be even worse.
That woukd be nice, hahahh. Not looking forward to paying Swedish taxes, though, everytime stocks vest, salary for that month is 0 due to taxes. :D
Let's stop wanting multibillion dollar companies to get bigger-er pls
It's honestly incredible how consumerism teaches people to want things regardless of whatever the fuck happens to their environment
It's honestly incredible how consumerism teaches people to want things regardless of whatever the fuck happens to their environment
What poetic justice: EA getting the EA treatment.
Bob Iger wants no parts of the video game business as an owner. Nor the current stink around EA as a company in the public eye.
Disney should do their own game studios. They just need the right guy to lead the project, their IPs have the potential to make millions.
Yeah, this. I hate the way speculation and conversation about this has infected the whole forum in the last 18 months or so.
If anything the sports are what make EA appealing. ESPN is still very important to Disney. They are also expanding into esports on ESPN. This would make sense from that perspective more then Nintendo.
There has been rumours of Apple buying Sony (movie studio instead of the whole lot, but would make sense either way).
How is that a bad thing? I made a deal with one devil to kill another
