After weeks of rumors that the mobile technology company Niantic approached an agreement for its high -level gamesIncluding Pokemon Go, the sale of $ 3.5 billion is public and includes the news of an AI spin-off.
Niantic and Scopely, a mobile game company belonging to Saudi Arabia with ass at Culver City, California, achieves an agreement To bring Pokemon Go, Monster Hunger now and Pikmin Bloom to Scopey with all their development teams.
In an article on the agreement, Niantic said that he sold three of his “games forever” for $ 3.5 billion and would include $ 350 million from his species distributed to shares.
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Niantic, which destroyed Google in 2015 as an application and games company based on the location led by Google Maps and Google Earth Pioneer John Hanke, will continue but Spin off niantic spaceA new geospatial AI company led by Hanke. Niantic will invest $ 200 million in the benefits and will invest in $ 50 million.
Hanke said in a Linkedin Post“Existing cards have been designed so that people can read and navigate, but there is now a need for a new type of card that makes the world intelligible for machines, for everything, smart glasses with humanoid robots, so that they can understand and sail in the physical world … Niantic builds models that will help AI pass beyond the real screen and world.”
Niantic did not mention other location games that he probably still has, notably Peridot and Ingress Prime.
Pokemon Go team leader, Ed Wu, assured fans That the game would evolve under Scopey, as he always did, but he was convinced that he would improve with the whole team.
“I will not say that Pokemon Go will remain the same because it has always been a work in progress,” wrote Wu. “But the way we create and evolve, this will remain unchanged, and I hope that we can make the experience even better for all of you.”
Hoping for new changes to the game
Antonio Pavlinovic, a software developer that manages the Pokemon Go fan site Pokémon Go Hubexpressed its optimism as to the sale.
“We believe that Scoply will bring a breath of fresh air in the game, which has been missing in recent years,” he told Cnet. “Niantic has done an excellent job in the first 10 years with Go, but he has always had the impression that the” game side “of Pokemon Go was retained by the Arc and Geospatial ambitions of Niantic. The fact that they brought the whole development team is also reassuring.”
Pavlinovic said that players should not expect immediate changes, but “we expect changes in the future, in particular with the softening of raid limitations, to allow the shadow raids to be at a distance and to raise some of the limits that Niantic imposed in the pursuit of their vision of the game.”
