Chinese Internet giant Tencent announced Tuesday the acquisition of the Japanese Softbank Supercell Oy, the Finnish developer of video games for smartphones creator of “Clash of Clans” for $ 8.6 billion (7.5 billion euros).
Start-up founded in 2010 and has recorded its first sales in 2012, Supercell was partially redeemed in October 2013 by the Japanese operator SoftBank telecommunications and society GungHo games (Puzzle game developer & amp; Dragons). Both had spent € 1.1 billion to acquire almost 51%, and SoftBank had then bought the shares initially taken by GungHo.
Supercell was only two immensely popular titles Clash of Clans , strategy game where the player builds his village by fighting against the others, and Hay Day , where he manages a farm. Since then were added Boom Beach , another game of strategy and conquest, and Clash Royale , a multiplayer first title heading derivative.
in June 2015, SoftBank announced the acquisition of additional shares of Supercell, bringing the total held 73.2%.
Tencent said the buyback would be three times, adding that retain Supercell its operational independence and that its headquarters would remain in Finland.
Despite the willingness of the Japanese operator to embrace a wide range of activities in the field of information and communication technologies, it prioritizes and regularly reviews its priorities.
SoftBank took it three years ago control of the US cellular operator Sprint, with the ambition to straighten, a task that is complicated, even if the boss SoftBank expressed guaranteed to succeed.
in addition, SoftBank would tend to favor investments in emerging countries and in the field in vogue artificial intelligence and robotics.
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