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Because of the consolidation in the industry already, there might be some legal issues of an EA/Take-Two merger. With so few publishers out there right now, EA buying Take-Two might end up killing the industry.
Who is left out there right now? Atari is pretty much gone, you have Vivendi which hasn't released anything good in ages(Blizzard has it's followers, but I am not impressed by their releases over the past 8 years), and you have Take-Two. Any merger between two of these big players would put the industry in a really bad situation. The fact that EA scooped up Bioware may hurt a lot too.
Who is left out there right now? Atari is pretty much gone, you have Vivendi which hasn't released anything good in ages(Blizzard has it's followers, but I am not impressed by their releases over the past 8 years), and you have Take-Two. Any merger between two of these big players would put the industry in a really bad situation. The fact that EA scooped up Bioware may hurt a lot too.
Originally posted by Locutus
Atari is either going out of business of will be bought up by someone else in 2008, so everything's wide open there
However, Colonization was bought back by Firaxis already (see our news archive), along with most of Sid Meier's other older titles (including Pirates, which is why that's now published by 2K and not Atari anymore). So far Firaxis has shown little interest in doing anything with most of those titles, but of course that could always change
Edit: As a side note, it's far from inconceivable that EA will buy up Take-Two in the not too distant future (though I see that more as a 2009 or 2010 thing, not so much anything that's imminent), many analysts are predicting this. So I guess everything's possible there for you SMAC fans. But if EA believed a SMAC sequel has commercial potential they would've made one years ago, it's not like the fact that it wouldn't be by the original team would stop them
So even if Firaxis does end up being a subsidiary of EA I wouldn't get your hopes up too high, anything that sells under a million probably doesn't interest that company (and the original SMAC fell well short of that mark).
Atari is either going out of business of will be bought up by someone else in 2008, so everything's wide open there
However, Colonization was bought back by Firaxis already (see our news archive), along with most of Sid Meier's other older titles (including Pirates, which is why that's now published by 2K and not Atari anymore). So far Firaxis has shown little interest in doing anything with most of those titles, but of course that could always change
Edit: As a side note, it's far from inconceivable that EA will buy up Take-Two in the not too distant future (though I see that more as a 2009 or 2010 thing, not so much anything that's imminent), many analysts are predicting this. So I guess everything's possible there for you SMAC fans. But if EA believed a SMAC sequel has commercial potential they would've made one years ago, it's not like the fact that it wouldn't be by the original team would stop them
So even if Firaxis does end up being a subsidiary of EA I wouldn't get your hopes up too high, anything that sells under a million probably doesn't interest that company (and the original SMAC fell well short of that mark).
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