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Activision says Take-Two isn't worth buying

Category: Industry, Posted: 02/29/2008 at 04:47PM CST by Frank Ling, Content Contributor

activisionWe all know about Take-Two's rejection of EA's advances to try to buy them out for $2 billion. But there's more to the story.

In an investment symposium sponsored by Goldman Sachs, Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision said bluntly that Take-Two simply wasn't worth even looking at for purchase by his company.

He said that Activision would only consider merging with another company if it had, "a history of profitability, good management, proprietary technology or a franchise history of multi-million unit sellers."

Kotick drove the point firmly home when he said, "Take-Two didn't fulfill those requirements. Maybe it does over the long-term for EA, but it doesn't for us."

Activision is presently in the midst of forming a merger with Vivendi Games to form the new Activision Blizzard game company.

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Posted by YukoAsho on 02/29/2008 at 04:54PM

Activision is absolutely right. Until Bioshock, GTA and NBA2K has been the only high-profit series for T2. The only reason EA wants them is to secure a monopoly on Sports games.

Posted by Brendon on 02/29/2008 at 05:23PM

EA wanting a sports game monopoly?! That's absurd! Surely EA encourages other people to make sports games in order to compete and make their own products better!

Oh wait...

Posted by Brother None on 03/01/2008 at 10:29AM

Hell, as far as I know Take Two has been posting losses ever since that one profitable quarter when they published Oblivion.

Not exactly an attractive company.

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