Corporation Sony interested in buying a Hong Kong holding Leyou, which owns several gaming studios at once, including Digital extremes and Splash damage. This is reported by an authoritative publication. Bloomberg.
According to journalists, now the Japanese are fighting for a holding company iDreamSky. The latter was previously ready to pay about $ 1.23 billion for Leyou (Leyou’s market capitalization is $ 1.1 billion), but Sony allegedly wants to make the owners a more generous offer. The specific amount is not called.
Leyou shareholders intend to sell the holding before the end of July.
Leyou is best known for creating shareware games for PCs and consoles, but its units are also involved in traditional ones. For example, she owns a publishing house. Athlon games, who will be responsible for the distribution of the long-awaited adventure game The Wolf Among Us 2.
Bloomberg notes that a possible purchase of Leyou will allow Sony to expand its gaming portfolio. For example, the position of the Japanese company is weak in the field of online games – on Playstation she practically doesn’t let them out, and from a focus on PC units Sony Online Entertainment I got rid of it a long time ago. Leyou owns the aforementioned Digital Extremes, which created and continues to develop the highly popular universe Warframe. The holding also owns the teams Kingmaker, Radiance Games and Splash Damage. The latter recently released a tactical action movie Gears tactics in partnership with The Coalition.
Leyou also owns a 20% stake in Certain Affinity, which was involved in the creation of many parts of Halo and Call of Duty. After 2023, Leyou planned to completely buy out Certain Affinity.
Officially, Sony has not yet commented on the information.
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