ktay95 on 07 January 2015
| fleischr said: Tencent. Basically a Chinese Yahoo/Google equivalent They already own one of the biggest IPs in gaming : League of Legends (since Tencent owns Riot games). They already own a big piece of Epic games, the group behind the Unreal Engine platform. They're pretty involved in a lot of PC gaming in China. As consoles get more popular there, it wouldn't be surprising if they stepped in. A solid console launch in NA and Europe would give Tencent a foothold in those regions for other services. Tencent is a $100 billion+ company. They have the resources to do it right and have a pretty solid understanding how to do F2P games well. I don't think Apple and Google are anywhere near on the same page. I also wouldn't count out Amazon just yet either. |
Wow Tencent definitely wasnt one I expected to show up here. While I think they do have the capacity to pull it off in China and most of Asia Im not so sure about the rest of the world. Not only that but I cant see it benefiting them. They are doing so well in the PC market that they cant possibly leave it, if consoles really do get popular in China they are better off just making popular games for the consoles then making their own console. To sell their own console they would need exclusives which are likely to sell much, much better elsewhere to the point where I think they would lower the value of a series by making it exclusive to their system instead of making them PC/Console/Mobile games.
