What strategy is Tencent pursuing by buying studios and investing heavily in so many giant developers? One of them, of course, holds the rights to the mobile game adaptation if these franchises decide to move to the platform with billions of users. Being one of their biggest sources of money, Tencent currently handles so many popular mobile games based on games that are popular on consoles and PC. However, this strategy is likely to change slightly in 2024. Changes that even made one of their highly anticipated games reportedly end up being postponed to next year.
Reported by the Reuters site, Tencent is reportedly prioritizing the development process of their newest game, Fall Guys – Dreamstar, which reportedly involves the process of moving hundreds of workers from another game project – Assassin's Creed Jade. As a result, Assassin's Creed Jade is said to be pushing its release to 2025 after being planned for release in 2024. This change in priority was also taken by Tencent because mobile game projects based on third party franchises such as Assassin's Creed Jade usually have much smaller profit margins than their games. itself, in this case – DreamStar.
Focusing more on Dreamstar, Tencent will reportedly postpone the release of Assassin's Creed Jade to 2025.
Tencent itself has not provided any official comments regarding the information released by Reuters. This Chinese company was also reported to have canceled a mobile game project based on the NieR franchise because it failed to find the right monetization format. How about you? Including gamers who will be disappointed if Assassin's Creed Jade ends up being postponed to 2025?
Source: Reuters