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Wild speculation: Disney to buy EA in 2009

by Jason Dobson on Jan 8th 2009 8:30AM

Electronic Arts' dwindling stock could soon be trading in Disney Dollars. Just as the Wall Street Journal advised back in November, a new Variety report suggests that Disney may be interested in purchasing EA in 2009 in order to "jumpstart itself to a lead position" in the video game market. It's a small world after all.

While like EA, Disney stock has recently taken a trip south, the report speculates that such a move would help spur revenue growth at the animation giant in the face of waning DVD purchases and slow-to-start Blu-ray and digital download sales. Of course, the cash flow from EA-themed stuffed animals, snowglobes and keychains hocked at the Disney Store couldn't hurt either.

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Tags: disney, ea, electronic-arts, electronicarts, takeover, walt-disney, waltdisney

Reader Comments (42)

Wow. The economy is really screwed up right now huh? Usually it's EA wanting to buy everyone out.

a taste of their own medicin imo. I dont if this is a good move for gaming as a whole but it sure feels nice to see EA get theirs.

Challenge EVERYTHING.

...What?

Somehow I just can't see things like Dead Space being published by Disney.

Disney owns Miramax and Dimension. Nuff said.

You forgot Touchstone and ABC as well!

Funny, in an alternate timeline where Take-Two is gobbled up after all, Disney could be the one to publish further installments of GTA. Crazy, isn't it?

Bonus points: Mickey Mouse Manhunt

Maybe Disney will actually pay people more than slave wages....

Uh, you do realize you're talking about the company where the animators nicknamed their department "Mauschwitz" right?

Dave Chappelle said:

"You can't buy weed and pussy with Disney dollars"

I think EA should think about that before they do anything stupid.

I will be ok with this only if it means I can buy a Necromorph plushie.

damn you beat me to it

:D A slasher to cuddle with.

I like it!

Disney buying EA would make for interesting future Kingdom Hearts games I guess.

The slight possibility of Kingdom Hearts being yanked from Square and handed to EA makes my stomach sink.

I think the Kingdom Hearts series would die, rather than go to EA. Square owns part of it, too, if I'm not mistaken.

And here I was just thinking the addition of new worlds to explore and possible characters to meet. Way to act as buzz kill! I think it would be cute if you entered into a world where a green gem appeared over your head.

or all three could combine!!

sora, daffy, and john madden...best game ever

Wow...the potential for movie/game co-releases will become even more staggering. Maybe Disney will ruin everything.

"low-to-start Blu-ray" - Blu-Ray has grown faster than DVD. More people own stand-alone Blu-Ray players today than people owned stand-alone DVD players at the equivalent time in DVD's history.

Just to confirm:

http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/01/06/blu-rays-first-two-years-outpaces-dvds/

Well, you may be right, but most people that owned a PS2, Xbox 360, or a PC with the capability of playing DVDs had no need to dish out more money to buy a stand-alone DVD player.

...But then again, I know people that bought a PS3 ONLY to play Blu-ray movies.

So, The number of people that use it as a Blu-ray player could be even greater.

So we can expect;

Mickey '09

Mickey '10 Basicaly the same but with improved graphics and mingames

Mickey '11 Return of Donald

*server support for Mickey '09 has now ended*

Mickey '12 Taking yo money one mo time!

All I can say at this point is that it would be an awesome year for internet humor.

Disney's Battlefield 1688 : Carribean the Musical
The Lion King 3: Apocalypse
MyPooh for Kids

I'm already loving this :p

Now I cant decide if this was a move to hedge against the buyout, or insider trading.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/05/riccitiello-blows-1-million-on-ea-stock/

hell I'm Game........

Pixar + EA= Interactive Movies.........

No Complaints from me.......

special editions of Madden & NBA Live on the Wii with Disney Characters......lol.......HILARIOUS

or they could just end up being shit games based on the movies like they are now

hey I'm trying to be positive here.......lol

I can see it now, Mirror's Edge 2:Secrets of the Magic Kingdom

If we get some XBLA/WiiWare/PSN sequels to those Mickey games on Genesis, AWESOME.

Seriously, they were great games.

EA: Dead Space
EA Disney: Duck Space

Special characters in madden: Micky, Donald and Goofy!

Everybody's forgetting these great future titles:

Need For Speed: Hannah Montana Goes To The Races!
Fight Night: Sister (v) Sister

and everybody's favorite: Nascar Vs. Mickey Kart Racing!

I sure hope this doesn't mean Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers DLC for Rock Band!

OMG!!! Please dont let that happen!! Dont let that happen!!!!! Dont let Rock Band be Disney Rock Band!

@gravewolf:

There's already some crap from Nickelodeon, so I wouldn't be surprised.

I wouldn't mind riding "Mirror's Edge" at Disneyland...

Weird. Who has more money?

I think this is great news because the Disney company has said they wanted to bring out more Mature stuff and EA has some nice games. Plus then may be the next Turok might be pretty good.

Plus for people that says Disney is only for little kids Maybe the parks are but there still is fun stuff to do if you are older. Disney owns lots of companys ABC,ESPN plus a lot of other company's too. Plus EA working with Pixar might bring out some really cool games. I also got to say this would allow better movie games.

Apple big time into gaming, not so far off if Disney buy's EA

The following are some quick reasons why I think Apple will rule gaming in the coming next generation wars.

1. Jobs is the single largest shareholder of disney since the pixar acquisition by disney.
2. Jobs is currently experiencing a mass amount of hype in the iphone gaming platform.
3. Apple is pushing the iphone and ipod touch as gaming devices.

If this happens I really believe you will see a HI DEF full-on Apple gaming console, and with this marriage you will see Apple controlling the majority of the gaming industries hottest IP's.
This might put a fairly large dent in Sony and Microsoft's gaming marketplace future.

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