Pachter: EA will raise Take-Two bid, it'll get rejected, merger will still happen

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I hope that was sarcasm lol.

Pachter's one of the more reliable analysts, but he's wrong more often than he's right.

Actually he's right more often than he's wrong:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/18/how-accurate-are-your-favorite-video-game-analysts/

Thing is though, I think we all know this is going to happen sooner or later, Pachter's just up to his classic act of stating the bleeding obvious. Shareholders invest in a company to make money, with GTAIV having come and gone with little efect on stock price (it was already buoyed on expectations) they're going to be looking at cashing in on the investment.

Personally I'd imagine they'll wait around until they see some dividends from the sales of GTA and then cash in their shares because their going to be looking to maximise their gains from this.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want this to happen, I think it'll be an awful moment for gaming when it does but I can't see anythin getting in the way of it in the long run.

Besides, at least it's not Activision!

Activision is worse than EA??? At least Activision makes good games (GH and CoD). EA just makes crap. Either way I would like T2 to stay by themselves. Damn industry is consolidating too much.

It's in the mail.

Oh sure, Pachter's job is sooooo easy anybody could do it. Tell ya what, go for it: be an analyst. Do you know how to read the stock market? Do you have access to FTC reports? Well, you COULD get on a conference call with John Riccitiello and/or Strauss Zelnick... if you had their phone numbers, but you don't.

So, do you know what's involved in a hostile takeover? Do you know what's going through the minds of the CEOs and investors on both sides? What have been the roadblocks preventing this takeover from occurring sooner? The fact is, if you're able answer any of these questions it's only because the information was GIVEN to you by a blog, and that information was given to them by another blog, who recieved the information from an analyst. An analyst like Michael Pachter.

YOU didn't do any research, HE did. You didn't talk to people in the industry to obtain information weeks or months before it became public knowledge. No, all you did was read this story and you think you know everything, but you don't know anything. Leave it up to the professionals.

You take things too seriously.

I've been letting that one build up for a while. It's directed partially at your comment, but mostly it's for all the other internet matlocks out there who think Pachter is just some idiot who makes stuff up. I mean, there IS actual research going on here, it's not just guess-work.

your an idiot!

He is right more than 50% of the time ... His word is better than a coinflip

If your company wants to partake in that giant cash pool available to public corporations (i.e. issuing stock), then your company opens itself to being taken over, especially if you issue more than 50% to the public. If you don't want to be taken over, stay private and forgo the cash.

That being said, most companies have no problems with being taken over at the right price--it's all about money, as the article says.

Sega? yeah they have some good IPs but the majority of their studios are piss poor. Buying a company of Sega's size purely for it's IPs makes no financial sense at all.

For the amount of money it would take to buy Sega they could create reams of new games and franchises and probably be a lot more successful with them.

No, I think it is necessary. EA will never step down and support T2 as an independent company. Hillary has done so with Barack. Take your 'reminders' elsewhere.

bid d just bitched slapped nick the retard

It was a joke. Don't be an ass.