Platinum Games receives capital investment from Tencent Holdings to expand into self-publishing

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Leynos said:

JRPGfan said:

The article doesnt list how many % they own, but they make it clear tencent does own apart of platinum now.
Otherwise they wouldnt have used the world "partnership" imo.

"it could be money", that usually implys buying stakes in a company, and as they rise, you either get a pay out or sell them.

"it doe snot mean tencent is buying them"

^ this we agree on, tencent isnt trying to get 60%+ ownage of the company to controll it.
They ll probably stop 20-48% margin or so.

Stil if you buy into platinum for that much, you expect to have a say in how they do bussiness.
Tencent doesnt just go around handing out money and expecting nothing done with it, or no input in how its done.

The partnership has no effect on the independence of Platinum Games, which will continue operations under its current corporate structure.

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/01/platinum-games-receives-capital-investment-from-tencent-holdings-to-expand-into-self-publishing

Look up what a CI is, please. Ten owns nothing of PG. Nothing. Nadda. 0. Zilch. Cero. 零

That is very different sounding than let's say when SEGA bought Atlus but let Atlus keep doing what they do. PG is still fully independent but now has essentially a loan to self publish some games. It's not a Gungho situation with Grasshopper or Kadakowa with From Software or anything like that. PG is still 100% privately owned.

With a CI they do not have to own the company to make thing go their way,some deals can be closed by contract in order for them to give the capital investment so without owning the company they could still have a say in the direction it takes.

Making a big capital investment without being able to steer things slightly in the direction you want it to be sounds too riskfull for investors like Tencent.