PlatinumGames has formed a Capital Alliance with Tencent
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The closest they had was the Monster Hunter Online deal, but Capcom negged on that license last year, right after World became their most successful game.
MHO closed a week ago.
I don't know a lot about foreign affairs, but something bothers me about Tencent's growing control over global media.
I felt weird watching the Mr. Rogers movie was a Tencent production with chinese executive producers. Mr. Fucking Rogers.
I felt weird watching the Mr. Rogers movie was a Tencent production with chinese executive producers. Mr. Fucking Rogers.
Glab Platinum Games has secured some funding to do what they want to do. Can't wait.
Unrelated but, I had no idea World was that successful. Never got into MH, but very happy to hear it as I've really enjoyed a crap ton of what Capcom has put out over the past 20ish years.
Unrelated but, I had no idea World was that successful. Never got into MH, but very happy to hear it as I've really enjoyed a crap ton of what Capcom has put out over the past 20ish years.
The same guy who was also an Ex-Platinum games creative director? Pretty sure he knows what is he talking about lmao
Disregarding his opinion because he is MaddenNFL UT producer is classic ERA
Not sure how to feel about this.
On the one hand it's great that they have received such funding but on the other I'm not sure I'd trust Tencent to do right by a company like PG.
We'll see I guess, as long as I get to play their games (the kind that I would normally expect from PG) on PC or PS5 I'll be happy.
On the one hand it's great that they have received such funding but on the other I'm not sure I'd trust Tencent to do right by a company like PG.
We'll see I guess, as long as I get to play their games (the kind that I would normally expect from PG) on PC or PS5 I'll be happy.
Now they can self-publish W101 on Switch! (realistically it'd be a very smart move in order to return immediately part of the investment from Tencent). Since Platinum already published one mobile game I'd assume this could also be related to their future mobile projects, not only their independent publishing ambitions
Good for them. I've kept an eye out for companies that have seen Tencent buy major stakes of, so far I haven't seen anything sinster.
If that's what starts happening to the company then I wouldn't be surprised if more of their staff returned to Capcom, to join those that have already left.
Yep
Folks already bounced for capcom?
Yeah, iirc a new company has been formed within Capcom.
They are working on Remake 3.
M-two is a new indipendent studio, PG ex-CEO is leading with former devs from PG.
Fully backed by Capcom and they are working on RE3.
Is this one of those things companies do in order to operate in China? Or is there something more deeper going on?
have you? people in the [REDACTED] thread talk about their favorite company buying platinum almost weekly. people have mostly accepted that nintendo isn't interested in acquisitions.
They have money to publish their own games now.
No need to always rely on Nintendo, Square etc. for funding.
Theoretically now that Platinum can self-publish games they can re-release pretty much any SEGA game since SEGA has proven to not care at all as long as they get paid, from what we heard the same goes for Nintendo games, with the difference they would have to stay Nintendo exclusives of course. To me the most interesting re-release would be Metal Gear Rising, if they somehow manage to get Konami to let them self-publish it I could see Platinum pursuing a remaster for the launch of next-gen consoles
isn't tencent just investing in PG? some posts are acting like PG is now a subsidiary of tencent.
W101 port finally happening?
W101 port finally happening?
With Tencent? TEN-fucking-CENT?
Good luck, and get ready to be censored Platinum. As for people saying they will stay independent.... nothing that touches Communist money can stay independent. Just you see.
I mean, I know in general that the US has a really big bone to pick with China, what with how they keep finding success and beating every big american company at the their own game and all, but maybe actually show some evidence of Tencent being a producer of spyware and such before accusing them of so?
Platinum gets more funding to make great games and remain their own boss. This is awesome. Tencent puts their money in so many things it's inevitable we'll all contribute to their growth in some way. They're gigantic.
Definitely not the ongoing brutal oppression and genocide, nope...
This news is essentially pointless without knowing how much they purchased or at what cost. Most likely thing we can say is that they can now seek greater independence; all this baseless talk of control is silly. For all we know they're in for something like 10% or whatever.
Sponsored by Tencent? I mean, I don't see people suspicious of US based developers due to state-sponsored violence, and let's not forget that the US kinda sorta almost started WWIII last week.
exactly. i'm inclined to believe the press release saying they will maintain independence. this is mostly good news if it allows them to self-publish their own games. for how many years they've been active and how many amazing games they've made, it must suck for them that they don't have full ownership over any of those games, and are always at the mercy of SE or nintendo or whoever to fund and publish a game.
Lol great whataboutism. Tencent works at the behest of the Chinese government and has aided them in monitoring it's citizens, thus directly being involved in the ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs. But please let's compare a killing a man who has been killing innocents for years to that of an ethnic minority being wiped out. I don't blame anyone who is nervous about Tencent.
Like I said, it'd be interesting to have actual evidence of Tencent being involved in wrongdoing, otherwise you shouldn't be complaining about 'whataboutism'.
The problem i see with them wanting to self publish is their games tends to bomb.
When Publishers gives them money at least they have their money back.
When Publishers gives them money at least they have their money back.
Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent
The social media giant is a growing global force, and it does Beijing's bidding.
www.japantimes.co.jp
Tencent is legitimately up to no good, often working hand in hand with the Chinese government to ends of censorship and monitoring, but again, this is meaningless unless we have further info on how much was invested and to what end.
They might have gone in for 5%, 10%, 40%, 51%, 70%, 100%; they might want to have a non-controlling interest and dip into the money Platinum makes, they may want to dictate operations (although given their history sans an acquisition announcement, seems unlikely), they may want to just sit on the investment until Platinum gets bought, it might even just be a debt-esque product of some kind. There is absolutely no basis for panic without knowing more about the agreement. As I said above, the most likely takeaway from this is "greater independence for Platinum".
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In addition to what the other user said, this article mentions their chat service being used specifically.
Yeah pretty much. It sounds like this isn't that big, which is good.
I kind of get the theoretical difference between a publisher and an investor.. but practically, I don't. Tencent may be a hands-off partner, but that doesn't mean they don't expect to get their cut of the money back. So.. unless the terms are such that P* gets to keep most of this money after finding success, this isn't really necessarily self-publishing as much as just publishing.. (with an extra layer of abstraction).
Or do I misunderstand?
Or do I misunderstand?