Ubisoft, the developer and publisher of series such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon, may be the new name to be sold in the game world. According to Bloomberg’s report, the company is on the radar of private companies for now.
The past few periods have given place to huge and surprising news for the game world. Microsoft, which bought Bethesda in September 2021, announced that it would buy Activision Blizzard for a record price in January 2022. Microsoft’s acquisition for a total of $68.7 billion it matched. After that, Sony, the second biggest name in the gaming world, counterattacked..
Sony bought Bungie, the name behind series such as Destiny and Halo, a few days after Microsoft’s acquisition news. While the big studios in the game industry continue to be included by companies with pleasure, eyes are on after these news. Translated to Ubisoft and EA. While there is no word from EA about this, today Some news started to come from Ubisoft.
For now, it’s only of interest to private equity firms:
According to the news shared by Bloomberg, Ubisoft has slowly started to enter the radar of some companies. According to the information obtained from industry sources, for the company multiple private equity firms started to compete. For these equity companies, Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co.’s name was mentioned, while the name of any company in the game world was not mentioned.
Bloomberg’s news told the mediaMicrosoft begins talks with Ubisoft‘, Bloomberg reported in his report. did not mention any company other than these two companies. Therefore, we can say that the companies that are after Ubisoft are currently only private equity companies that want to raise big money in the gaming industry. If these companies buy Ubisoft, they will consider reselling the company with the appropriate offer and making a profit. Bloomberg also stated that Ubisoft is not currently in serious talks with any company.
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