Elden Rings Not only was it a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s popular hardcore action RPG genre. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced they have acquired 30% soulShares of developer -series, divided by Tencent. FromSoftware expects to raise $260 million from the deal.
Of today announcement from FromSoft’s parent company Kadokawa revealed that Sony and Tencent are acquiring 14.09% and 16.25% shares of FromSoft, respectively. The statement indicated that Kadokawa wanted FromSoftware to be able to expand its development efforts; Kadokawa finds that “enhancing capacity to create, develop, and deploy [FromSoft] IP game is one of [Kadokawa] The Group’s highest priority. “
One of the purposes is to provide FromSoft with the necessary resources to grow up Elden Rings become a franchise Not just video games.
Elden Rings is a long time coming, building on the foundation first laid out in FromSoftware’s pioneering 2009 PS3 game the soul of the devil. A spiritual sequel trilogy in the form of Dark souls trilogy, as well as two other similar titles (Bloodborne and Sekiro), has certainly expanded the audience for these puzzling and confusing action RPGs. But none reach critical mass quite like Elden Ringswhich Household names sell better alike Call of Duty and lead to Spread streaming feeling and hype that only will not died.
Tencent, a conglomerate based in Shanghai, has continued the trend of investments and acquisitions. It own 5% of the Assassin’s Creed and Cry away Ubisoft publisher, complete an acquisition of the League of Legends‘developers Riot Games, own 40% of Epic Gamesand have shares in much, much, much, much other game companies. Like Polygon Noteit also owns 5% of Activision Blizzard, which will be transferred to Microsoft if megacorp remarkable effort to get Call of Duty clear publisher regulatory screening.
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Sony has also been on a spending spree too, though it looks a bit more modest compared to Tencent. Perhaps most notably, Sony has acquired Bungie which used to be a Microsoft affiliate for $3.6 billion in January. The house of PlayStation is also made a move to get Bluepoint, the studio has made a name for itself with critically acclaimed remakes. Sony too invested a billion dollars in Epic Games back in April.
Anyway, maybe FromSoft can use the new money to one more easy mode so I can finally get the damn things done.
