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After weeks of rumors that the Niantic mobile technology company She was approaching a deal for her prominent gamesIncluding the go -to -go Pokemon, Selling $ 3.5 billion in year It includes news of artificial intelligence.
Niantic and Scopely, a mobile game company owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with its headquarters in Colver, California, I reached a deal To bring Pokemon Go, Monster Hunger Now and Pikmin Bloom to Scoply with the entire development teams.
In a post on the deal, Niantic said it is selling three “Forever Games” for $ 3.5 billion and will include $ 350 million of its money distributed to the shareholders.
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NIANTIC, which was launched from Google in 2015, will continue as an applicable and games on the site led by Google and Google Earth Pioneer John Hanke, but it will do It revolves around Niantic SpatialA new spatial geographic company Leaded by Hank. Niantic will invest $ 200 million in Spinoff, and Scopely will invest $ 50 million.
Hank said in a LinkedIn post“The current maps of people have been built for reading and mobility, but now there is a need for a new type of map that makes the world clear for machines, for everything from smart glasses to human robots, so that they can understand the material world and move in it … Niantec builds the models that will help AI to move to the screen and in the real world.”
Niantic did not mention other site games that he still owns, including Peridot and Ingress Prime.
Pokemon GO, Ed Wu, Fans confirmed The game will develop in the shadow of Scopely, as it was always, but it was confident that it would improve with the entire team.
“I will not say that Pokemon Go will remain the same because it has always been a continuous work,” Wu wrote. “But how do we create and develop it will remain unchanged, and I hope we can make the experience better for you all.”
Hoping new changes to the game
Antonio Pavlinovic, a program developer running Pokemon Go Fan Pokemon Go HubI crossed optimism about the sale.
“We believe that Scopely will bring breaths from the fresh air in the game, which has been missing in the past few years,” CNET told CNET. “Niantic has done a great job over the first ten years with Go, but he always felt as” the match side “in Pokemon Go was placed by Niantic’s AR and Geospaniaals. The fact that they brought the entire development team as well.”
Pavilinovic said that players should not expect immediate changes, but “we expect changes in the future, especially as the restrictions of the chimneys reduce remotely, allowing the shadow raids to be distant, and raising some of the restrictions that Niantic was imposing in following their vision of the game.”