I did not read the article - that's actually exactly what ought to be done with a paper tiger at this point - investors are just brutally quick to extract all t

I did not read the article - that's actually exactly what ought to be done with a paper tiger at this point - investors are just brutally quick to extract all the assets, value, wealth and leave bad, broken stuff and mountains of debt - thats business 101 almost. It's a $50 Billion dollar company only bc we aren't over it yet - it's just seasonally refreshing the same games, for almost 20 years. Microsoft will swoop in and buy ALL the valuable titles and leave the rest - Microsoft already has a giant staff, so it doesn't need all the people from EA - prolly less than 1/3 would come along... What is EA going to do? Haha, release a revolutionarily familiar form of Madden that they think (pretend) the whole world will buy all the micros of?? Buckle up for Battlefield 7!!! Yay!!! FR - smh for EA's bs all these years. It's not the only "giant" like this either. Most of these companies coughSonycough - depends on the gaming world being independently competing walled garden platforms with a dedicated player base - Sony requires that. So does Nintendo. Microsoft thought that too - before all devices could be an Xbox. They jumped on that despite being the very last to the mobile market - the company will now just envelop all of it. Why buy a switch or PS5 - why buy any console? Everything has to move about - we can do that now. If Microsoft advantage is that the Xbox platform is all PCs, Phones, TVs, etc - its in the Company interest to make the world a game - AR/VR, so more like Sword Art movie, Ordinal Scale than OG Sword Art - if you consider the almost universal business market penetration for many Microsoft products, the Company wins if we do more stuff like Pokemon go, etc. I don't know how great it will be for gaming but I'm spelling this all out for a reason. It's obvious - hence EA's fate. What does Sony do? If Sony was Samsung w/Galaxy and PlayStation - that would be a bit better of a position but... This will be like Windows - we will all think of playing games as something done on Game Pass or Xbox - (the rebranding will be later) except for the small % of holdouts that eventually carve out a niche for their failed platform as "it's purposely superior thing" so tp be all smug. I'll stop now.