Information appearing today in the U.S. press advances a transaction that could be announced as early as today.
The gaming industry is in the midst of a consolidation process, with major gaming companies expanding their control with Embracer, PlayStation, Tencent and Xbox. as protagonists of most of the operations. But in the last hours, a report talks about a strong interest from Amazon for becoming a key player in the sector. Specifically, there is talk of an imminent announcement of a takeover of EA.
As published, the announcement of the acquisition of Electronic Arts by the company founded by Jeff Bezos. could come as soon as today. At the moment no details of the operation have been revealed, although it is to be expected that we are talking about very high figures considering the business that EA moves every year, with successful franchises such as FIFA (EA Sports FC), Apex Legends and a long etcetera.
In a matter of minutes, and before April Wall Street, EA shares have soaredThe news has been advanced by GLHF.gg, a news agency focused on video game content, and although it has not been corroborated by other prestigious media, it has been shared by national newspapers in the United States such as USA Today, and other important media in the video game industry. In addition, and as a sign of confidence in the veracity of the news, EA’s stock price has soared by 18.20%. hours before the start of trading on Wall Street.
However, rumors started months before this “scoop”.. In this regard, in May we learned that EA almost merged with NBCUniversal in the spring, a frustrated deal that did not deter Electronic Arts top management from looking for other big companies, among them Amazon itself was already mentioned.
For the moment we can only wait. If GLHF.gg is right in a few hours we will have a statement from Amazon that joins other major purchases announced this year. Thus, earlier this year we learned of the purchase of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft pending closing, while PlayStation has already taken the reins of Bungie to cite only the two most prominent operations.
