Niantic, a developer Pokémon Go, is supposedly in talks about selling his division of Scoply video games with Saudi for $ 3.5 billion.
As he reports for the first time BloombergSales would probably include Pokémon Go, a hit mobile mobile game that sends players to the real world to collect Pokémon.
The source talking to Bloomberg under the promise of anonymity said that although the contract was by no means completed, if it was approved, it can be confirmed within a few weeks.
Neither Niantic, Scoply, nor a group of games with an experienced owner were prepared for public commenting on the acquired acquisition.
The Savvy Games Group purchased Scoply in April 2023 in an agreement worth $ 4.9 billion, which took place after The Saudi Arabian government said he wanted to buy a “leading game publisher”. Scoply publishes a number of mobile hits, in particular The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, Stumble, Marvel Strike Force and Monopoly Go.
Savvy Gaming Group also bought the two largest E -sports companies in the world, ESL and Faceit, A total of $ 1.5 billion in 2022.
“Savvy Games Group is part of our ambitious strategy, whose goal is to make Saudi Arabia the best global center for the IE -Sports Sector until 2030.” – said the Saudi prince Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz at that time.
“We use unused potential in the E -sports and games sector to diversify our economy, drive innovations in the sector and further scale the offers of entertainment competition IE -Sports throughout the kingdom.”
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