Company Sony decided to invest $ 250 million in publishing Epic games. This is stated in the official press release.
Both companies have been working closely for a long time. So game Days gone based on Unreal engine 4, in Playstation network actively advancing Fortnite, and the capabilities of the new graphics engine Unreal engine 5 demonstrated on Playstation 5. In addition, a PC port Horizon: Zero Dawn can buy at Epic Games Store.
As noted in Epic games, the publisher managed to attract about $ 1.58 billion over three rounds of funding. So, in 2012, the company Tencent invested $ 330 million, in exchange for a 40% stake in Fortnite, which was valued at $ 825 million.
The company continued to grow, so for $ 250 million Sony will receive only about 1.4% of the shares. At the same time, the cost of Epic Games is now $ 17.86 billion.
Presumably, the investment should allow Sony to work more closely with Epic Games technical specialists and strengthen its position in the console war. At the same time, the creators of Fornite will still be able to continue to release their projects on other systems, and crossplay will not go anywhere.
Note that Microsoft also actively collaborates with Epic Games. As you can see, most of the projects from internal studios of the platform holder were created on UE4, two games on UE5 are also in development. Does not disdain developments from Epic Games and Nintendowho released two games on Unreal Engine 4.
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