The NIANTIC has a purchase interest for its game division: the company Scopaly, behind which Saudi Arabia’s State Fund stands, “Pokémon Go”, “Pickmin Bloom”, “Monster Hunter Now” and their teams want to develop for $ 3.5 billion. However, antitrust officials still have to approve the acquisition. He gives NIANTIC known in a messageThe previous promoted reality and AI Development Department has been closed as Niantic spatial. Here Scoply is investing $ 50 million.
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There were reports on the upcoming acquisition by Scopaly in February. The Crown Jewel of the deal is “Pokémon Go”, which triggered a global promotion for release in 2016. In the following years, Niatic developed comparable Ar-Handypiele in abundance, but he could not build the mainstream success of “Pokémon Go”.
“For Games”
According to NIANTIC, your own games in a year are played by 100 million people. “Our game team has exciting long -Term Road Maps that are further created as part of the scopaly, writing Ninetic. “This partnership ensures that our sports have long -term support to be ‘for rooms’.”
According to NIANTIC, scopesly investment games alive. They should also be developed further by similar teams. “I am strongly convinced that ‘Pokémon Go’ will be blooming not only in its second decade, but also for many more years,” in one, the chief developer Ed Wu writes in one. blog entry. “The same people who have been running and developing the game for years, they will continue to do what we love.”
In addition to “Pokémon Go” and “Pickmin Bloom”, the package also includes applications such as camp fire and wafer. While most Niantic games switch to the scopaly as part of the takeover, the NIANTIC spatial title keeps the “ingres prime” and “peridot”.
Scopaly is a developer of the mobile game that was established in Los Angeles in 2011. In 2023, the Savi Games Group bought the company for $ 4.9 billion. The lover sports group was established from the Saudi State Fund and, among other things, was held in Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Capakom.
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