During Electronic Arts Q4 2023, its CEO once again re-introduced the idea of the company being bought or being the remaining part of the merger, while acknowledging that Electronic Arts is the top third party software publisher for Xbox.

Electronic Art sended the 2023 Fiscal Year with strong numbers, reporting revenue of $1.946 billion which is viewed as a good start of the year as this is a 23.79% PLUS difference from last year.

Take in count that Apex Legends Mobile failed and this is the first year that EA Sport will carry on with the EA Sport FC as the substitute of EA Sport FIFA soccer franchise as EA and FIFA parted ways last year officially.

Now, an interesting statement from CEO Andrew Wilson regarding on how Electronic Arts sees the Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft:

“This is a question I get asked a lot – I almost am never allowed to answer that question, as it turns out.

What I would say is, I don’t know what’s going to happen with Activision and Microsoft.

Again, we continue to be Microsoft’s biggest partner – I think we’re the number one publisher on their platform – so whether that deal goes through or not is not really material to us broadly.

We think we have the scale [with] our network, our IP and our talent to continue to navigate the future and lead the future of entertainment, and compete in a marketplace regardless of whether that deal goes through or not.”

Taking a cue from this reaction, Wilson once again suggested that Electronic Arts is open to be bought or merged with another gaming company with the preference that EA remains as the “new EA” after the merger.

“Longer term, you know, will there be industry consolidation? Will there be broader entertainment consolidation? If I was predicting the future over the long term I would say that’s an almost certainty at some level.

I would love for us to have the scale to be a meaningful consolidator in that space. I think that we have tremendous assets with respect to the future of entertainment. But as it stands today, I think that we’re indifferent as to whether [Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard] goes through or not.”