It is known in recent months Electronic Arts negotiated with several companies on a possible acquisition. the same, or more precisely, some type of merger that allows the full or partial retention of its current board of directors. Thus, as Kotaku revealed, several negotiations have already taken place in this regard, although it is true that these negotiations have so far reached a dead end in two of the cases that have taken place.

Disney was the first company to consider buying Electronic Arts. The choice does not seem random, as Electronic Arts has already brought several titles based on one of the group’s franchises to the field of video games. However, and according to these reports, Disney would eventually back down. It is not known, yes, the reason for the withdrawal from the media giant.

then Electronic Arts directors would meet those from the NBCUniversal group, which would also be interested in taking over EA. In this case, the reason for not reaching an agreement seems to be related to what was indicated at the beginning, ie the interest of the current CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson, to remain in the management of the company. once the merge is complete.

The most striking attempt, however, is the attempt to Apple, which according to these reports also came to the table to negotiate a possible acquisition. In this case, yes, it seems even more unlikely that Wilson would be able to maintain his current position, and even more so that those of Cupertino would agree to a merger in which the identities of the two companies would merge and create a new entity. And it is so that, despite its opponents, the image of the Apple brand is perhaps one of the most valuable in the technology sector.

However, and unlike what happened to Disney and NBCUniversal, there is no evidence that the talks ended, so we can understand that the possibility is still open in this case. And if that’s confirmed, if Apple finally took over Electronic Arts, we’d be in the face of the first big move by Cupertino’s people in the video game sector.

And this is his biggest movement to date in that sense launch Apple Arcade, its game subscription service for the brand ‘s equipment, a very interesting proposal, in which, however, we find nothing that would even remotely resemble a title with a triple A, which is exactly a specialty of Electronic Arts with many of its franchises. Some titles do, with a very, very small presence in macOS.

That is obvious at Apple are very proud of the performance that Apple Silicon provides, so you may think it’s time to take the gaming experience a step further on macOS and potentially on the iPad. The problem, of course, is that the offer is very limited in this regard. We can now take it for granted that if Apple takes over Electronic Arts, this could change significantly in the medium term.

The big question, of course, is how the GPU integrated into the Apple M1 SoC would cope with the triple A requirements, which is an extremely difficult challenge.

This rumor is coming a particularly hectic moment in this sectorwhile Microsoft is trying to take over Activision Blizzard, Sony after Bungie, Haven Studios and FromSoftware and just today with the completion of the integration of Take-Two with Zynga, as we see in tweet published by the company.