I'm going to call this one a phony rumor, and a wishful dream at best for now, but many Mac Sites, along with the WSJ are reporting that Apple is eyeing EA for a takeover. Now there are several reasons why this would be incredibly stupid on EA's side of the deal.
1. EA Makes hardly any money off of Mac Software
2. EA Makes tons of money off of the PC, and Consoles
3. EA doesn't do many Mac Games
Now on Apple's side things are better, but i don't see this as a really possible rumor, but then again a rumor is a rumor.
Apple Eyeing Electronic Arts Takeover? [Kotaku]
Apparently the EA store is working well for EA. A while back we saw the Sims 2 series pop up on Direct2Drive, along with spore, now it seems that EA is putting spore also up on Steam another digital distribution competitor to the EA store. Why is this odd? Well because Spore would be the first EA first party game to go up on steam. Will The Sims series follow suit? I can only hope.
I know this comes as just, well an intresting peice of news. The Wall street journal is reporting that Disney (The Famous Movie Company, yes THAT Disney) should purchase EA. It states that time time is right since EA's stock is currently down due to a bad last quarter, and since they have started up some new properties. Will we soon be seeing Princesses in our Sims games? Or maybe a Princess stuff pack? Only time will tell!
