Sony has acquired the esports platform Repeat.gg, a website that hosts leaderboard tournaments and tracks participant efficiency.
In a press release to GamesIndustry.biz, Steven Roberts, Sony vice chairman of world aggressive gaming stated: “At PlayStation, our imaginative and prescient for esports has at all times been about breaking down limitations for avid gamers to compete in any respect ranges.”
“Repeat.gg was designed to allow new match codecs which are simple to enter and scalable to thousands and thousands of gamers,” added Repeat.gg CEO Aaron Fletcher. “We’re thrilled to hitch the PlayStation workforce and work collectively to boost the number of match experiences avid gamers can get pleasure from, no matter their ability stage.”
Repeat is happy to announce we at the moment are part of the Sony Interactive Leisure household, the house of @PlayStation and plenty of wonderful sport studios.
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— Repeat.gg – Tournaments (@Repeatgg) July 18, 2022
Jeff Shull, digital advertising and marketing and progress supervisor at Repeat.gg, stated that becoming a member of PlayStation will give the platform entry to extra assets, sport titles, and know-how, thus permitting it to develop additional. He clarifies that the platform is not going to be restricted to solely supporting PlayStation and that the gaming group comes first.
“We’ll proceed to assist PC, cell, and different consoles alongside PlayStation,” says Shull in a press release. “This contains the addition of the most well-liked aggressive sport titles, no matter what platform they’re obtainable on.”
Whereas largely recognized for its intensive single-player unique titles these days, PlayStation has been extra lively within the esports trade lately. The corporate acquired Evo, the combating sport match, final March.
Along with that strategic push, Sony has dedicated to launching not less than 10 dwell service titles by 2026. It acquired Bungie and Haven this yr, with the latter’s first sport to be a dwell service one. Sony’s funding in these dwell providers synergizes nicely with its enterprise into the esports area.
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