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Hit Saudi developer behind the mobile game Go to Monopoly!has signed a $ 3.5 billion contract to obtain Pokémon go And a handful of niantic niantic based on niantic niantic based on and manifest the artificial intelligence.
Pokémon go When launched in 2016, it was a censing that started as one of the most popular and profitable mobile games, at the same time, a new kind of “Expanded Reality” application on digital characters on digital symbols when a smartphone was seen by the camera window.
Today remains one of the highest mobile games, 30 million monthly players spend more than $ 1 billion in the work of Nianik games last year.
The deal was taken by a group of $ 4.9 billion in 2023 to $ 4.9 billion, with a total audience of more than 500 mn players Go to Monopoly! Application, App Store researcher AppMagic’s app workers with $ 2.2 billion was the second highest mobile game according to AppMagic appMagic.
“We have been inspired by the” Niantic) team, which endured an extensive global audience, “Niantic), who endured a wide global audience,” said the team, who endured a large global audience. “The world has conveyed the scale and longevity of the world Pokémon goReaching more than 100 million players last year. “
In 2015, San Francisco-based Nianty, which is found in Google Mapping section and valuable In 2021, $ 9 billion, 9 billion dollars, a new unit of “GeoSpatial AI” is sold in the same time by developing the world’s “next generation map”.
Niantic’s founder and CEO John Hanke, a new company named Niantic Spatial, said that “the world is working on the maps to the revealed” robots “.” The Niantic is building models that will help the AI transfer to the screen and the real world, “he said.
Scopely, as part of an investment of $ 50 million in the Niantic space, it will continue to combine some player information, which will be capitalized from 200 million euros from the former parent’s balance sheet.
Niantic’s existing investors – Nintendo, Google, Coate and IVP, $ 3.5 billion from sales, as well as 350 million in the company’s balance sheet.
For Savvy, the transaction is the last step by the crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to make Saudi Arabia a global center for the game. When the government presents the government’s national game and essports strategy in 2022, the government was instructed to remove this goal of this purpose with the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom.
The State Investment Fund for creating 250 gaming companies in Saudi Arabia and create 39,000 jobs and create a local industry by 2030. Nintendo followed a number of deals, including electronic art, activation blizzards and two interactive shares.
Great video game tournaments have also been held in the country in recent years. The end of these events, last summer came when the ESports of the Esports of more than 500 teams for more than 500 teams of Riyadh.
The Kingdom is expected to be pushed in the video game, the Kingdom is expected to host the first Olympic Escan games in 2027, and in 2027, the International Olympic Committee signed a 12-year contract.
