SNK Playmore acquired by Chinese company Leyou Technology
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This is a few weeks old, but nobody mentioned it so...
Leyou Technology, a Chinese company, has finalized a deal to acquire SNK Playmore. It plans to branch SNK Playmore’s games into other media following the “Marvel formula,” such as comics, movies, and television (thanks DreamCancel).
Apparently, the appeal of acquiring SNK Playmore was the large number of game IPs and all the tie-ins they’re involved with. This means that in due time you could see The King of Fighters, Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, and any other SNK Playmore game get the multimedia treatment.
As to the details of the deal itself, apparently two different companies, Oriental Securities and Shunrong Sanqi (a Chinese online gaming giant), that entered a joint venture to invest in Ledo Millennium, which is a subsidiary of Leyou Technology. And so, through Ledo Millennium, they will pay 63.5 million USD to acquire 81.25% of SNK Playmore’s shares directly from SNK Playmore’s former CEO Eikichi Kawasaki and his wife Natsuyo Kawasaki.
The CEO of Oriental Securities, Zheng Jianhui, said that he looks forward to collaborating with other Chinese companies to games, anime, manga, television shows, and movies based on SNK Playmore’s games.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/06/chinese-company-plans-to-turn-snk-playmores-games-into-anime-movies-television-shows/
Leyou Technology, a Chinese company, has finalized a deal to acquire SNK Playmore. It plans to branch SNK Playmore’s games into other media following the “Marvel formula,” such as comics, movies, and television (thanks DreamCancel).
Apparently, the appeal of acquiring SNK Playmore was the large number of game IPs and all the tie-ins they’re involved with. This means that in due time you could see The King of Fighters, Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, and any other SNK Playmore game get the multimedia treatment.
As to the details of the deal itself, apparently two different companies, Oriental Securities and Shunrong Sanqi (a Chinese online gaming giant), that entered a joint venture to invest in Ledo Millennium, which is a subsidiary of Leyou Technology. And so, through Ledo Millennium, they will pay 63.5 million USD to acquire 81.25% of SNK Playmore’s shares directly from SNK Playmore’s former CEO Eikichi Kawasaki and his wife Natsuyo Kawasaki.
The CEO of Oriental Securities, Zheng Jianhui, said that he looks forward to collaborating with other Chinese companies to games, anime, manga, television shows, and movies based on SNK Playmore’s games.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/06/chinese-company-plans-to-turn-snk-playmores-games-into-anime-movies-television-shows/
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Whats worse is that they said their trying to get fighting game fans to play pachinko. So Snk is dead yet again.
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genocidecutter wrote: »Whats worse is that they said their trying to get fighting game fans to play pachinko. So Snk is dead yet again.
The next game in the series was supposed to be a dream match too. Guess we will have to wait and see, but KOF XIII might be the series swan song. -
these ? stay getting passed around
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I wouldn't mind seeing a brand new Capcom Vs SNK
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[Trillmatic] wrote: »I wouldn't mind seeing a brand new Capcom Vs SNK
Capcom vs SNK 2 was the GOAT -
China got massive studio/developer potential though, hope they will come with their version Bandai Namco, Bethesda, From Software, Ubisoft etc etc
? , hopefully their 'bioware' can make a Jade Empire type rpg lol -
With the money they got, hopefully they will release an awesome FF/KoF again...imagine the possibilities of the old snk playmore studio when theyre backed by money...
theyve been broke, in debt, on the verge of bankruptcy etc since the damn Dreamcast days lmao and smh.
lets hope them Chinese mofos dont forget to make a damn console game, not just anime and online games etc.
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