An Invest game site report revealed that the purchase and sale of studios and game publishers moved, only between the first and third quarter of 2022, $37 billion. According to the portal, 246 type transactions occurred throughout the year, including private investments and public offerings, which shows that industry has been, year by year, marked by such acquisitions.
The biggest purchase of the year took place in January 2022. Earlier this year, Take-Two Interactive, owner of Rock star, spent $12.7 billion to acquire Zynga, a game developer responsible for the Farmville franchise.
Secondly, the purchase of Bungee, Destiny studio, by Sony. In all, the PlayStation consoles manufacturer disbursed $3.6 billion in the transaction. Closing the top 3, Emace Group acquired the Model studio for exactly $3 billion.
It is worth remembering that in May this year, Saudi Arabia's public investment fund bought 5% of Nintendo's shares for $2.7 billion, and this was the fourth-largest transaction of the year in the acquisition, albeit partial, studios and game publishers.
In addition, although Microsoft, owner of the Xbox and, has bought Activision Blizzard in January 2022 for $68.7 billion, the acquisition is still under analysis by most of the world's regulatory agencies, so it was not accounted for In the Invest game report.
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