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Can't be too many players around to play in the $1B range. In the US from gaming industry: EA (7.5B market cap) Activision (13B market cap) Microsoft Sony
by ohashi 15y ago
Can't be too many players around to play in the $1B range. In the US from gaming industry:
EA (7.5B market cap)
Activision (13B market cap)
Microsoft
Sony
Valve (I somehow think they couldn't afford it)
Tech / Social:
Zynga
Google
Facebook
Foreign? No idea here.
- jacoblyles 15y agoGree - $5B DeNA - $6B Tencent - $50B
- InclinedPlane 15y agoWhy do you think Valve couldn't afford it? They are a private company and so don't have to release revenue figures, but they make billions in revenue a year.
- sitkack 15y agoIf Valve bought PopCap then it would be like a Reese's Pieces. Two already great tastes coming together. PopCap is the perfect cultural infusion that could get Steam opened up to a larger (non asian 17 year old male) market.
- coryl 15y agoI would rule out: - Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Sony, Valve Just doesn't fit the acquisition profile for those companies IMO. The Popcap guys are smart, and for a billion dollar valuation, the acquire'er would have to have some sizable synergistic advantages afterwards.
- citricsquid 15y agoNot Valve? I dunno, it seems possible to me, but I think it's probably one of the companies trying to move into casual games, which PopCap are great at, I assume EA.
- jmcqk6 15y agoValve would be able to make this purchase, but I don't see why they would. There is nothing for them to gain by it at all.
- Steko 15y agoDid you miss where Microsoft just paid double what Skype was worth? Exclusives for WP7, makes sense and reminds me of exactly what they did with Bungie to build X-Box.
- esrauch 15y agoPart of the reason that they were willing to pay so much was because they have a lot of international money that they couldn't easily bring back into the US. Popcap is in the US so they don't fall under the same issue.
- Steko 15y agoGood point which I should have qualified. Still excluding the tax savings they still overpaid by all accounts, have a long history of wildly good and bad acquisitions and need to give wp7 every advantage they can. There's no way you can rule Microsoft out at this point they've got to be one of the front runners.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoThey already seem to have a good WP7 relationship (Bejeweled Live is actually written by them, as opposed to EA Mobile [moderately rare for small platforms], and PvZ just came out last week). Make of that what you will.
- snprbob86 15y agoDisney?
- replicatorblog 15y agoInteresting idea, but they've picked up Playdom already and if you listen to their analyst calls you'll hear that the investment community isn't sold on them owning game/tech assets vs. licensing them.
- CamperBob 15y agoValve could afford to buy the Vatican, and that was before they shipped a single game.
- sitkack 15y agoHalf-Life Catacombs. Portal to Purgatory.
- sitkack 15y agoSistine Chapplaquiddick - Some sort of first person drunk angel flight sim
- patrickgzill 15y agoNo, I don't think so. The value of just the artwork alone would eclipse Valve's value.
- CamperBob 15y agoBut remember that assets are only half the balance sheet...
- Aetius 15y agoDisney, Viacom, Newscorp