Not lengthy after finishing their acquisition of Bungie final week, Sony has now acquired one other firm – this time within the type of an esports platform referred to as Repeat.gg.
Repeat.gg is a leaderboard host that’s designed to make esports extra assessible. It tracks how gamers are doing in video games and doesn’t require all these competing to be on-line on the similar time. The corporate has hosted over 100,000 tournaments with greater than 2.3 million contributors.
Steven Roberts, vice chairman of world aggressive gaming at Sony, defined the reasoning for this transfer, “At PlayStation, our imaginative and prescient for esports has at all times been about breaking down obstacles for avid gamers to compete in any respect ranges.”
CEO of Repeat.gg additionally gave an announcement, saying “Repeat.gg was designed to allow new event codecs which might be simple to enter and scalable to hundreds of thousands of gamers. We’re thrilled to hitch the PlayStation workforce and work collectively to boost the number of event experiences avid gamers can get pleasure from, no matter their ability degree.”
This transfer is the most recent on the subject of Sony making purchases into the esports sphere. The corporate additionally personal EVO, the biggest skilled combating sport group. Extra lately they’ve additionally gone on document as wanting to focus on the esports group and turning into the “Nike of gaming gear”.