Not lengthy after finishing their acquisition of Bungie final week, Sony has now acquired one other firm – this time within the type of an esports platform referred to as Repeat.gg.
Repeat.gg is a leaderboard host that’s designed to make esports extra assessible. It tracks how gamers are doing in video games and doesn’t require all these competing to be on-line on the similar time. The corporate has hosted over 100,000 tournaments with greater than 2.3 million individuals.
Steven Roberts, vp of worldwide aggressive gaming at Sony, defined the reasoning for this transfer, “At PlayStation, our imaginative and prescient for esports has all the time been about breaking down obstacles for players to compete in any respect ranges.”
CEO of Repeat.gg additionally gave an announcement, saying “Repeat.gg was designed to allow new match codecs which are straightforward to enter and scalable to hundreds of thousands of gamers. We’re thrilled to affix the PlayStation workforce and work collectively to boost the number of match experiences players can get pleasure from, no matter their ability degree.”
This transfer is the newest in terms of Sony making purchases into the esports sphere. The corporate additionally personal EVO, the most important skilled preventing recreation group. Extra not too long ago they’ve additionally gone on report as wanting to focus on the esports group and changing into the “Nike of gaming gear”.