EA Splits "EA Entertainment" And "EA Sports" In Massive Company Restructure

So glad there's a Nintendo Direct tomorrow so that y'all will have something exciting to report on 😂

So, now they are two terrible companies instead of just a really terrible one?

The lack of FIFA’s money is already wreaking havoc.

Great now I have two companies to avoid purchasing from instead of just one.

So which one is the lesser of two evils?

@Greatluigi Which one? In my opinion

(Just replace good with bad in your head)

Still one CEO so still one company, right?

Just a bit of shuffling around with management.

Is this truly noteworthy?

@Friendly it will be noteworthy when they attempt to sell one division off. Which is what I think the point of this is. MS is drastically overpaying for Activision. EA heads who have been collecting stock options for years want that.

Sell EA sports - your family is rich for generations.

So can we get new MySims games on modern consoles?

@Cashews Exactly, despite having shares, there is still a family that controls 51% who need an exit strategy. (so everyone has to work harder and harder for YoY growth to appease shareholders while the family just rubs their hands together...)

@Savage_Joe just to clarify: there is no FIFA money. On the contrary, EA paid an exorbitant amount of money to FIFA. The break up has basically ensured that EA increases profits over the next 4 years

Let hope we will have a decent FIFA game on Switch

Still remember all the great EA games from Sega Genesis. Once a highly respected company…. don’t remember purchasing an EA products in many years… what happened?? (Corporate greed, poor management?)

I remember back in my youth, they were two separate companies, or at least two different brandings. Heck, there was even 3 at one time: EA Games, EA Sports and EA Sports BIG (for their motor sports games)

@Carck Not the money from Fifa themselves, the money they get from the branding recognition. I do wonder if it'll hurt things with people who only buy Fifa and Call of Duty missing that EA Football is the same thing.

@Anti-Matter Heck, I'd settle for a remake of the first three games that didn't have loading times that would embarrass a Commodore 64.

Can we get a new SimCity now?!

@Guybrush20X6 anyone even remotely interested in playing Fifa is well aware that the next game won’t be called Fifa at this point. Even football clubs themselves are spreading the information.
People don’t buy Fifa because it says so on the box. They enjoy the game, and can immediately tell what it is just by looking at it play. No one mistook Fifa for PES, no need to look at the box

Personally I’m very happy the Fifa license will go elsewhere. Over the years EA’s FIFA had become turgid both in gameplay and new ideas and it only sold gangbusters every year because people wanted that seasons’ player roster and it was “uncool” playing last years game. I’m looking forward to hopefully a talented dev freshening up the game up. Make it more fun! More arcadey!

How far EA has fallen from when Canada/Blackbox were some of the best devs on the block.

Now bring back NBA Live! Haven't played an NBA game since Live 19 as the current 2K's have been awful.

I want to play some Madden Football, please come to the Nintendo Switch 🙏😁😁😁

When I think of EA, evolution is the last word thst comes to mind.

@RupeeClock I recall FIFA Ultimate Team alone was funding like 30% of EA's entire revenue. Not even including the game sales of FIFA which woukd be quite significant too.

I think if EA Sports goes down it'll take EA Entertainment with it.

@Ashfan2020 that would be awsome! Madden 2024 on Switch running on the Xbox 360 and PS3 engine from 2008.

Uh huh, yeah ok, EA. Do you.

EA don't make Nintendo games. Except for FIFA the Remake.