Sony announces 380 million dollar takeover of US cloud gaming company Gaikai

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time July 2, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) company announced in Monday that they have reached a final agreement with the US Interactive cloud gaming company Gaikai , and plans to buy the latter with 380 million dollars.

SCE said they reached a final agreement with Gaikai on June 30 (Japan time). With this acquisition, SCE will build a new cloud service to ensure that it continues to provide users with truly innovative, immersive interactive entertainment experiences.

"By combining Gaikai resources, including technical advantages and engineering talents, with the knowledge and experience of a broad range of SCE gaming platforms, SCE will provide a unique cloud entertainment experience for users," said Andrew House, chairman and CEO of SCE Andrew Hause. SCE will provide world-class cloud-streaming media services that allow users to instantly enjoy rich content from immersive core games to casual games at any time, on a variety of Internet connection devices. ”

"SCE has built a great brand through PlayStation and has earned the respect of millions of gamers in the world," said David Perry, Gaikai's CEO David Parry. "It is a great honor for us to help SCE enhance the interactive cloud strength and continue to enhance its ecosystem, Give developers new features, dramatically improve coverage of outstanding content, and bring exciting new experiences to global users. ”

Gaikai was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Arisovieho, California (Aliso Viejo). The company has developed high-quality, the world's fastest interactive cloud-streaming media platform to ensure that a variety of devices through the Internet to run the quality of the game. Through this acquisition, SCE will take full advantage of the Gaikai revolutionary technology, including services in dozens of countries of the data center infrastructure, as well as the world's leading partners to build cloud services, and expand the network business.

The transaction requires approval by a particular regulatory authority and the fulfilment of general transaction conditions.

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