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EA Tries To Continue World Domination With a $2 Billion Offer For Take Two

Submitted by on February 24, 2008 – 7:39 pmOne Comment

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As of late, the entire gaming industry has been undergoing a huge consolidation of production houses. Activision and Vivendi Games merged, Bioware and Pandemic were bought by Electronic Arts and now, it looks as if Take Two Games has come under the purchase microscope, with Electronic Arts looking through the lens.

Electronic Arts extended a $2 Billion cash buyout offer to Take Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto and Bioshock franchises, as well as numerous other titles. Electronic Arts seemed to think that this was a good time for the offer to be made as work on Grand Theft Auto IV should have been completed, thereby minimizing operational disruptions. Take Two rejected the offer, with Strauss Zelnick, chairman of Take Two Interactive stating, “Electronic Arts’ proposal provides insufficient value to our shareholders and comes at absolutely the wrong time.” He also stated that the offer was meant to try and capitalize on the upcoming Grand Theft Auto release.

EA’s Offer to Take Two, and Take Two’s Response

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  • billm

    I hope take-two doesn’t go for this. they said they will sit down and talk with EA on April 30th which is the day after GTA4 drops. Hopefully, it’s just a formality and take-two will realize that they don’t need EA’s money. With bioshock, GTA4, and 2k sports getting better and better, take-two will become ( if they are not already ) a huge power house in the world of gaming.

    Consolidation is not a good thing, I use to work in radio and I’ve seen this happen to radio…and the state of radio is very very bad right now. Clear channel went around and bought up as many station as the law would allow. by consolidating they laid off tons of people. IE if they bought 4 stations in a market, they would fire 3 GM’s, 3 production directors, 3 promotion heads, etc, and leave just 1 for each position to run all the stations…yet they wouldn’t up the pay at all. Right now, it’s really hard to work in radio and make money, and the stations themselves are losing money because they are all just cookie cutters of themselves and no one listens anymore.

    I hope this doesn’t happen, I hope take-two rejects any future bids and stays a competitor. Competition is good for the market and good for us, the consumers.