>>14276523
The money their shareholders make.
There is a saying, too big to fail. And people buy dumb shit all the time. Obviously people will buy because of a brand name or memory, or because they're casual players, or have kids who ask for the things that they market.
If an indie makes a bad game, well fuck they sunk a bunch of cash for no return, but if a big company makes a fuckup, or constantly fucks up like EA does, they still have a money cushion to fall on. And they seldom learn from this, or at the very least take a while to learn. Once a company becomes a stable asset of the rich and the stockmen, it becomes sheltered from normal consequences. It's like a poor man unable to pay bail, while the rich man gets out early and murders again because he has a team of lawyers and hands he can grease. Oh, sure, his luck may run out, and one day he'll be taken down, but he'll leave a lot of bodies in his wake.
That's what it means to be "too big to fail".