Pokemon Go, Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom Sold to Monopoly Go Owner Scopely
After weeks of rumors, mobile technology company niantic Arriving in agreement with its highly-anticipated gameincluding Pokemon GO, $3.5 billion in sales are public And include information about AI derivatives.
Niantic and Scopely is a Saudi-owned mobile gaming company headquartered in Culver, California Agree To bring Pokemon, now Monster Hunger and Pikmin Bloom are doing it steadily with the entire development team.
Niantic said in a post about the deal that it sold three “games forever” for $3.5 billion, including $350 million in cash allocated to stockholders.
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Niantic broke away from Google in 2015, a location-based apps and gaming company led by Google Maps and Google Earth Pioneer John Hanke, but will continue Rotating niantic spacea new geospatial AI company Leaded by Hanke. Niantic will invest $200 million in derivatives, while Scopely will invest $50 million.
Hank is LinkedIn Posts“The existing maps are for people to read and navigate, but now a new map is needed to make machines understand the world of machines, from smart glasses to humanoid robots so that they can understand and browse the physical world… Niantic is building models that can help AI move to the screen beyond the screen and the real world.”
Niantic doesn’t mention other location games that it may still have, including Peridot and Infress Prime.
Ed Wu, head of Pokemon GO team, Guaranteed fans The game will develop in a steady state as usual, but he believes it will improve with the team as the whole team improves.
“I won’t say Pokemon Go will stay the same because that’s going on,” Wu wrote. “But how we create and develop it will stay the same, and I hope we can make the experience better for everyone.”
Hope to make new changes to the game
Antonio Pavlinovic Pokemon GO Hubexpressed optimism about sales.
“We think the ephemeral situation will bring a breath of fresh air to the game, which is missing in the last few years,” he told CNET. “Niantic did a great job in GO’s first decade, but it always felt like Pokemon GO’s ‘Gamey Side’ was blocked by Niantic’s AR and geospatial ambitions. The fact that they brought the entire development team was reassuring, too.”
Players should not expect immediate changes, but “we do want changes in the future, especially with the limitations of ranged raids that make shadow raids move far and increase some of Niantic’s limitations impose mandatory on the vision of pursuing the game.”
