Tencent is reportedly raising several $ billion to buy a U.S. or Korean gaming company

[Uzupedro]

Will Hershey
@maybebullish

Tencent is reportedly raising several $ billion to buy a U.S. or Korean gaming company. Any guesses as to potential target?

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@roundhill

Tencent Considering Debt Financing For Possible Gaming Deal
Tencent is looking at a potential acquisition of a gaming business according to TMT Finance.
The target has not been identified but it is expected to be a gaming company in the U.S. or South Korea.

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Daniel Ahmad/ZhugeEX corroborates the report and maybe knows the target of the acquisition.

Daniel Ahmad
@ZhugeEX
I have a good guess

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Any guesses?

 

[Deleted member 31092]

Xbox

 

[Dest]

Activision.

 

[BY2K]

Activision or EA.

 

[Oregano]

Are they going to buy the PUBG people?

 

[Revolver Oshawott]

Blizzard

 

[gunlovefiction]

Retro Studios

 

[Deleted member 23158]

Well Bluehole is planning an IPO, maybe they want to buy them before they go public.

 

[ArmGunar]

It will never be a US public company, so I would say Bungie (NetEase, a Chinese company, already invested $100M)

 

[Jarrod38]

They are going to buy Sega.

 

[Imitatio]

Are they going to buy the PUBG people?

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Seems like a good guess to me.

 

[Sargerus]

Are they going to buy the PUBG people?

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They already own a considerable part of Bluehole IIRC.

 

[Deleted member 1839]

Bluepoint.

 

[Cosmic Voyager]

Oh for fuck's sake

 

[RRW]

Valve

 

[EduBRK]

Nexon

 

[The Real Napsta]

MS needs to swallow up everything they can to prevent this.

 

[Typhoon20]

I bet 99% it's a company that starts with the letter B.

Either way, bad news.

 

[Dimple]

Smilegate or Pearl Abyss for Korean Dev, Take Two or maybe even someone like Bungie for a western dev?

 

[Schlorgan]

Activision or EA.

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Those would be more than several billion dollars.

 

[Relix]

Nintendo is doomed

 

[trashbandit]

They own NCSoft yet?

 

[Flame Lord]

Well I hope it's one I don't care about...

 

[PeskyToaster]

why would u write "I have a good guess" and not the actual guess.

 

[Keyser S]

I do think Ubi will be bought this year. I was thinking by Amazon or Google.. But maybe TenCent

 

[Kolx]

Several billions so not a small independent developer nor a massive publisher like EA or Activision. The only thing I can think of that fits the bill is Bungie.

Pubg corp.

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They're going for an IPO soon that could be valued as high as 27B. Not them.

 

[FGLS1992]

Pubg corp.

 

[fiendcode]

T3

 

[RPGamer2]

Take Two is the cheapest US based company at 22 billion, which would in the range of a large acquistion. EA at 40B+ and Blizzard at 70B+ are too large for this type of capital raise.

Or they are going to by the rest of the 60% of Epic games they don't already own.

 

[Matush]

MS needs to swallow up everything they can to prevent this.

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Is this some sort of meme?

 

[cw_sasuke]

Maybe Smilegate ?
Doubt it's gonna be one of the big 4 western publishers.

 

[808s & Villainy]

I do think Ubi will be bought this year. I was thinking by Amazon or Google.. But maybe TenCent

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Ubisoft isn't an American or Korean gaming company

 

[Schlorgan]

It'll be Devolver Digital.

 

[Inugami]

why would u write "I have a good guess" and not the actual guess.

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New to ZhugeEx eh?

 

[Deleted member 5596]

CDProjectRed

 

[Theorry]

Smilegate.

 

[Strakt]

Bungie

 

[Raigor]

Activision or EA.

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Activision is $73b
EA is $41b

 

[Vic Damone Jr.]

MS needs to swallow up everything they can to prevent this.

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Go sit down somewhere.

 

[Acidote]

Bluehole. PUBG people.

 

[Inugami]

This thread is really showing how little people know which companies are US or Korean based...

 

[SirShorse]

Why are so many people saying Bungie, didn't Bungie do everything in their power to get away from Activision not too long ago? What would make them want to sell again?

 

[Schlorgan]

 

[Bus-TEE]

EA and Activision would probably be too expensive (market caps of $40b+ and $70b+ respectively) for TenCent at this moment in time.

I could see them taking a run at Take-Two (with a market cap of $20b +) or even SEGA if they are thinking further afield.

 

[IDreamOfHime]

Ubisoft. They already have their foot in the door.

Although not American I guess

 

[Kromeo]

Not sure what state Bungie's finances are in but I'm not sure why they would go to the effort of escaping Activision just to sell to Tencent

 

[Neoxon]

Blizzard

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They're already merged with Activision, which would probably be too expensive. I do get the joke, though.

 

[orochi91]

Sounds good to me.

At least the games will remain multiplatform.

 

[Aerial51]

I hate the future

 

[headspawn]

"several billion"

and you guys are throwing those guesses?