EA Bids on NBA

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• that would be one of those things that would be too funny to be true... : ElQue
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  EA is way too expensive even for MS. Not to mention MS just dumped a good share of their cash reserves wi... : Holesinswiss
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    Surely you jest. Do you have any idea how big MS's slush fund is? : Anti_dentite
    • Cash on hand isn't the whole story (and like I said, they have much less of it than they did a few scant : Holesinswiss
• Not out of the realm of possibility, but not very likely to happen soon. Mabye when they get a larger mar... : Dan 101
• hehe, that would be funny. microsoft reigns the earth! : lonestar3

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  No shame in that. : Karnov
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    great...another"I hate cats" person : VegasX
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      I like cats....deepfried with some rice and broccoli. I kid, please don't hate me. : hbalce1
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        You better be kidding. Cats taste much better with a nice sweet and sour sauce. : acheron
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          you guys are fucking offensive, putting all that shit on the cat, or even cookin git. I eat that shit ra... : dilutedq
          • PO-TA-TOES! : djustifier
    • On the internet, "Killing kittens" is a euphemism for masturbating. : Karnov
• It really is one of the best headline additives evar. Evar. : geedeck

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• traitor, quick some one trace his IP!! : Dan 101
• I don't want to toil in their underground sugar caves. : deadhorse

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• hehehe I liked this one. Also: EA... ASSIMILATE EVERYTHING : Downforce

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  My money's on the USDL: http://www.usdodgeball.com/ : sonicstorm
  • haha, I was flipping through channels over the weekend and they were showing that on the gameshow network... : ariakaz
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  Baseball will be next, then Hockey. Oh yea, how about Nascar as well.Those bastards : jonin
  • NASCAR is already exclusive to EA. : dmiller
  • Hockey won't exist after 2004. : stonedonkey
• Valve Corporation ;P : xenoeye
• MicroSUX!! : ShadowRam
• walmart : jayares
• Japan : Overbyte
• WW2 : stump
• Governments : losimagic
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  NHL exclusive rights : Dan 101
  • oh, and also Jesus. : Dan 101
• Iraq : rorshack
• Hello Kitty : Dungeonbuster
• The Shack!! : djustifier
• Vietnam! oh...all those games have already been done : spiney

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• The perfect console to market towards the casual gamers who like rap, football, nascar and gta. A console... : jayares
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  it'd make more sense if they entered the hardware market earlier because only their console would have NB... : phobium
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    I think that would be a very bad decision. With 3 consoles already out there, that already have a foothol... : Dan 101
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      if the ubisoft thing goes through they'd have tom clancy also ;p : phobium
      • not to mention EA's own library of games, exclusive to PC and their console : phobium
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  Guess they've changed their tune over the years since Trip Hawkins left. He wanted them to go into hardw... : o0JediBeavis0o
  • Trip Hawkins also said, shortly after the console crash of 1983, that EA would never develop a game for c... : hangingChad
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    It wasn't. See: 3DO. : Dungeonbuster
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      I'm sure EA wouldn't have come to market with the 3DO necessarily. Also support woul dhave been differ... : FuryVII
      • Answered in reference to JediBeavis' post of EA saying it was a bad idea going into hardware despite Trip... : Dungeonbuster
• I think EA missed the boat for console making when it was just Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft came in and f... : Dan 101
• Infinium's Phantom gaming console might be ready to be bought by EA by 2010. www.whereisphantom.com : spiney

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• i'll buy that for a dolla! : ElQue
• With free rap album included! : GhostEvo

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• +100o pts for Mr. Show reference. : eskimo spy
• Wow, I just watched that episode today. : BrodieMan
• hahaha. He's got more personality in that taint than in his entire face. : edgewise
• Think of what they save on overtime though. : Ben Barker

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• Exclusivity is worth more than any money they generated by sub-leasing the license out. Plus, any other N... : edgewise

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• /me turns off the Internet : rorshack

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• The hell? Sega's sports games have killed EA's games at every opportunity! Someone works for EA me thin : critch
• Funny, I thought it was EA's sub-par games with flashy presentation : rigidnips
• http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920177.asp http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920674.asp htt... : filtersweep
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  yeah, great first post there buddy, way to miss the mark EA games are getting worse all the time, and ... : losimagic
  • for example Sega Sports hockey games have been superior to EA's crapfest nhl's since 2001. : Kolzig73
• MLB2K4 was significantly underwhelming, but this year's version should be awesome. Visual Creations is d... : Waverider
• The fuck? WSB is the only good game left standing, since All-Star left us when Acclaim went under. : Kryn
• Talk about a troll. EA is singlehandedly killing good gaming. They are the largest licenser, the vast... : fraeone
• You are trying to hard to troll.. there is no way anyone has this kind of logic. : ovrlrd

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  True but the NFL don't care and EA care enough pay them a lot of money for exclusive rights to make up fo... : xenoeye
  • In the short term, the NFL will make more money with the EA deal. But in the long term, it might be detri... : hangingChad
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  To be quite honest, I really dont think it was. Even though it can be argued that ESPN is a better game,... : emocore
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    Yes Madden outsold ESPN but by far less than last year and the year before. The trend was that ESPN was s... : derelict515
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      More like everyone realized ESPN was only $20 : TheSerpentMage
      • Only $20 and equally good if not better. : TreMetal

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• iawtp : Jonny Be Good

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• One publisher to rule them all.... : Priest77
• It's easy to outsell the competition when there is none. : hunterkiller
• why not? it's business. I'm just glad the NBA is smart enough (or conversely, that EA didn't have a persu... : edgewise
• Probably in anticipation for the next consoles as well. : Overbyte
• They're a corporation trying to make money for its shareholders. The suits only answer to stock quotes. A... : Dungeonbuster

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  Steve's just trying to cover up that shacknews has been bought out by EA. : edgewise
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    You mean Valve? : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • lol... love your dilligence on this.. too funny.. : dextius

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• http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/webquote.dll?iPage=lqd&Symbol=ERTS : Holesinswiss

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• more like they hired someone who knows what to do with their moneyhats and how to maximize their utiliy : rookieone