Sony may be interested in buying Leyou, the company that owns Warframe

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A major, expensive purchase could be on the horizon.

What you need to know

  • Leyou is a holdings corporation that owns several studios, including Digital Extremes, developers of Warframe..
  • According to Bloomberg, Sony is considering a bid to acquire Leyou.
  • Nothing has been finalized yet.

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still set to release in Holiday 2020, Sony may be looking at increasing the number of game development studios it owns. According to a new report from
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, Sony is currently considering a big on Leyou corporation. Leyou is a video game holdings company based out of Hong Kong. It owns Digital Extremes, Splash Damage, Athlon Games, Kingmaker, Radiance Games and a 20% stake in Certain Affinity.

Digital Extremes are the developers of Warframe, a popular free-to-play title. Meanwhile, Splash Damage has done support work on the Gears of War franchise, including leading development on
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. Splash Damage is also working on a
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.

Nothing has been finalized yet and Sony is entering into a bidding war with other contenders, per Bloomberg's report.

Leyou is currently valued at roughly $1.1 billion. Sony
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in 2019 for around $229 million, mostly in cash. If this bid and subsequent acquisition were to go through, it's currently unclear whether these studios would be integrated into
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or would remain separate in some capacity.

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