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Sony Buys EVO
- Thread starter ManaByte
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Salty Popsicle
Banned
Microsoft gets Zenimax/Bethesda. Sony gets EVO tournaments. Seems fair. I hope both sides are satisfied...
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Iced Arcade
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Not my thing but that's big moves for some
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Bladed Thesis
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It's a joint venture. I think it's a great call, to be honest, as long as they don't remove non-Sony games from the tournament. I think they won't and it'll probably be more of an overseer type of owner interest.
Great Hair
Banned
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Probably bought it for scraps honestly.
As long as all systems can still show up equally, I guess I don't really care.
As long as all systems can still show up equally, I guess I don't really care.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
So they shut down Evolution Studios and Japan Studios only to invest in an esports company called Evo?
THEAP99
Banned
I saw a tweet but can't find it, smash will continue to be in EVO
If Smash ain't in EVO, is it really an EVO?
TKOFromTokyo
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Timberwolf25
Member
lol, I enjoy EVO, but will all the cancel culture warriors return now that it is owned by Sony???
Mr Moose
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Sony Interactive Entertainment and New Esports Venture, RTS, Jointly Acquire the Evolution Championship Series (EVO)
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 18, 2021 – Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (“SIE”) and RTS, a new venture born out of Endeavor’s esports business, announced today that they have acquired the assets and properties of the Evolution Championship Series (“Evo”), the world’s largest fighting game event...
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Saiyan-Rox
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MostScrumptionsYams
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ToadMan
Member
So they shut down Evolution Studios and Japan Studios only to invest in an esports company called Evo?
Unfortunate when people post before doing 30 seconds of googling ...
It’s not even an original gif ...
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Space Runaway
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All the good costumes shall be banned. =P
MiguelItUp
Member
Sure, why not? Lmao.
Now they can showcase PS products there?
Now they can showcase PS products there?
Bruno_Arrais85
Member
Nice to see Sony investing in the FGC. Also the amount of ignorant posts here is staggering.
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FrozenFlame
Member
This has to be for money laundering purposes, right? RIGHT?
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
They've been hosting and sponsoring fighting game tournaments for years.
Sony buying EVO is a mere drop in a bucket compared to buying a new studio. I don't know why anyone would think this would impact their chances of buying a new studio.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I doubt it was that expensive, all things considered.
THEAP99
Banned
Well hopefully u guys are right. I just don't see how this benefits me as a playstation gamer.
Even Jeff Grub is making fun of it
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Probably incredibly cheap; the point being marketing.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Le sigh
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
There exists many gamers with a variety of tastes and interests other than you.
Ass of Can Whooping
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THEAP99
Banned
But what fighting games has playstation even made recently?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Think out of the box.
a multicultural team of v
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I mean, this is potentially absolutely massive for the FGC. It was a big deal when ESPN hosted the SF5 finals a couple years back, that seems like it would be the norm when you have Sony budget and marketing behind it.
Also I enjoy how there are threads saying Sony is totally lost when it comes to multiplayer and esports (here is a good one), and here they are buying an esports company and the response is to ask why? lol
Also I enjoy how there are threads saying Sony is totally lost when it comes to multiplayer and esports (here is a good one), and here they are buying an esports company and the response is to ask why? lol
Cool, it means two things.
Playstation will be the defacto home for fighting games in the future, second the Playstation brand will get tons of marketing exposure among fighting games communities and all the events around those games.
This has nothing to do with acquiring studios, it's not an alternative either, it's about key and strategic brand positioning and for what it is it's very smart.
Playstation will be the defacto home for fighting games in the future, second the Playstation brand will get tons of marketing exposure among fighting games communities and all the events around those games.
This has nothing to do with acquiring studios, it's not an alternative either, it's about key and strategic brand positioning and for what it is it's very smart.
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ethomaz
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Smash not listed lolSony Interactive Entertainment and New Esports Venture, RTS, Jointly Acquire the Evolution Championship Series (EVO)
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 18, 2021 – Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (“SIE”) and RTS, a new venture born out of Endeavor’s esports business, announced today that they have acquired the assets and properties of the Evolution Championship Series (“Evo”), the world’s largest fighting game event...
Perrott
Gold Member
Why would Sony want to acquire a one man studio? You are also not taking into consideration that Kojima may not want to sell his company to anyone, as their independency allows them to work on several other stuff beside just videogames.
It's as if you people are not using your damn heads when it comes to doomposting about Sony and PlayStation.
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