EX-99.1 2 dex991.htm TRANSCRIPT OF WARREN C. JENSON Transcript of Warren C. Jenson

Exhibit 99.1

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Responses by Warren C. Jenson, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA”), to questions related to EA’s proposed acquisition of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. at the March 3, 2008 Morgan Stanley Technology Conference held in Dana Point, California.

Unidentified Audience Member

John, I know you can’t talk much about the Take-Two acquisition offer, but I was wondering if you could address your perspective on what you think Take-Two is from a value proposition as a corporation, especially given the fact that many people think that it’s really a bunch of people that are the value end, of which some of them may not be interested in management oversight.

Warren Jenson - Electronic Arts

Let me start with a couple of things, talked about the value we see and I want to start right with that last proposition.

We consider that people at Take-Two and their studios and the IPs is diamonds. These are very strong, creative organizations that have produced some terrific intellectual properties, ranging everywhere from Grand Theft Auto franchise to Max Payne to Civilization to Midnight Club to a great game called BioShock. So from our perspective, we take exactly almost the opposite view; is that we think this is a real opportunity to work with some wonderfully creative people.

Now broadly, if you take a look at Take-Two, Take-Two has the following macro issue. It is a subscale business in a world where scale really matters. So from our perspective, the longer we wait, the greater the risk. What we can do is effectively take these diamonds, as I’ve called them, and the studios and the intellectual properties, and really involve them in an organization that does have global scale and that can help them work to maximize the total effectiveness or the true market horsepower that their title can have in the global marketplace.

Unidentified Audience Member

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Warren Jenson - Electronic Arts

It’s really like any other acquisition for EA. We look at the following. We look at is there intellectual property or technology that we want to buy? Because at the end of the day, we don’t want to buy the right to renegotiate a license. We want a great intellectual property, off which we can build. So is there a great intellectual property or technology. The second thing that we look to is their cultural fit. Do the people fit within our organization? And then the third thing is does it make financial sense?

So when we look any developer arrangement, those are the three criteria that we take a look at. To the extent those are there and there’s a willing buyer and a willing seller, it’s highly likely that we could consider an acquisition just as we did with Criterion, just as we did with Digital Illusions in Sweden, and that would be the same as it was today or two years ago.

The only thing I might take a little bit of issue with is I don’t know that this trend to acquire more developers is any less today than it was — or more today than it was five years ago. We — kind of going back to where we started this conversation a half hour ago — innovation is alive and well in the development community. We want to do everything we can, whether it’s through EA partners and our co-publishing and distribution arrangements, and/or through acquisition to continue to foster that. So I think it’s always going to be an opportunity for us, just as it has been in the past.