It was reported a few days agoActively seeking to sell, and in talks with Disney, Apple, Amazon, and other companiesLater, EA CEO Andrew Wilson responded when announcing the first quarter financial report for fiscal year 2023, stating that EA will continue to operate as an independent company, but also revealed that if the acquisition makes more sense for the company's development, it will support the acquisition.
When Microsoft announced its $687 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, some analysts suggested that Sony acquire EA as a counter-measure. Subsequent reports indicated that Comcast intended to merge its NBCUniversal and EA into a new company, led by EA's current CEO Andrew Wilson. However, the two parties ultimately did not reach an agreement, but EA stated that it would not respond to any market rumors or speculation.
As for Andrew Wilson's explanation, he emphasized that EA still plays an important role in the game market and will also become the world's largest independent developer and publisher. It has a large number of game team talents and connects an economic system of more than 6 million players. It is expected to create an economic scale of more than 10 billion players in the future. Therefore, he believes that EA's future development will remain stable.
However, Andrew Wilson also said that if the acquisition would give the company better development opportunities, he would support the acquisition, which seemed to indirectly confirm the news that EA was also seeking to sell it externally.
