{"id":115217,"date":"2020-07-09T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/sonys_investment_in_fortnite_creator_epic_wont_impact_its_titles_on_other_systems"},"modified":"2020-07-09T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:15:00","slug":"sonys-investment-in-fortnite-creator-epic-wont-impact-its-titles-on-other-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/sonys-investment-in-fortnite-creator-epic-wont-impact-its-titles-on-other-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s Investment In Fortnite Creator Epic Won&#8217;t Impact Its Titles On Other Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/17d1fc5a6b8a1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/17d1fc5a6b8a1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Fortnite\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/17d1fc5a6b8a1\/fortnite.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/17d1fc5a6b8a1\/fortnite.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Fortnite\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Epic Games<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In case you missed it, Sony just pumped a whopping $250 million into Epic Games, the company behind <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> and the popular Unreal Engine. Sony is acquiring a 1.4% stake in Epic, to be precise, which means the deal values Epic at $17.86 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The move makes Sony a minority shareholder in the firm, which also had investment from Chinese tech giant Tencent back in 2012. The deal means that the pair will \u201cwork together to advance the state of the art in technology, entertainment, and socially connected online services,\u201d but Epic&#8217;s properties and technologies will thankfully continue to be present on rival platforms, including Switch. <em>Phew<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the investment means that Sony\u2019s own portfolio will be used by Epic \u201ccreate unique experiences for consumers and creators&#8221; \u2013 which could lead to some interesting developments \u2013 for PlayStation owners, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Epic Games In case you missed it, Sony just pumped a whopping $250 million into Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and the popular Unreal Engine. Sony is acquiring a 1.4% stake in Epic, to be precise, which means the deal values Epic at $17.86 billion. The move makes Sony a minority shareholder in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}