Roundtable #27 - PlayStation Spartacus, Tencent <3 Supercell & The Game Awards

In this Metacast episode, Aaron Bush, Yonatan Raz-Fridman and Miikka Ahonen join your host Nicolas Vereecke to discuss;

#1: PlayStation Spartacus

Sony is (allegedly) planning a new subscription service to compete with Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass. The service will allow PlayStation owners to pay a monthly fee for access to a catalog of modern and classic games.

Launch expected in spring, the service will merge Sony’s two existing subscription plans, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now.

#2: Tencent to Increase Supercell Stake

Supercell has seen revenue fall nearly every year since Tencent’s acquisition of a majority stake in 2016. The Information now reports that the Chinese internet giant is to boost that stake in Supercell at a valuation of roughly 11b. This is 10% higher than the valuation in 2016.

It will do that by buying some of the shares held by the partners that bought in back in 2016.

Note - our recording happened minutes before this went live.

#3: The Game Awards

The Game Awards is an award show honoring the best video games of the year. It was held in LA on Thursday last week, and was live streamed globally. I Takes Two won Game Of The Year, but we feel that the awards are very niche and too focused on AAA console/PC games. Aaron now plans to launch the Naavik Games Industry Awards Show.

And as this week’s bonus segment, we are predicting what will be the most successful game of 2022.

If you would like us to discuss any another gaming-related topics, do reach out at nicolas@naavik.co. We’d love to hear your general thoughts and feedback too!

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