The DeanBeat: Acquisitions will be a game of trillions, not billions
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here!
In 2021, the total number of closed and announced deals in games reached $80.4 billion in value, according to a new report by InvestGame. And in just one month in January, we have already exceeded that with more than $85 billion in announced deals.
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, Take-Two Interactive’s $12.7 billion purchase of Zynga, and Sony’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie will inspire even more deals to come, InvestGame predicted. And Drake Star Partners estimates we’ll cross $150 billion in deals in 2022. And that will mean something shocking for both gamers and game developers: change is coming.
That’s one of the themes we’ll examine at our GamesBeat Summit 2022 event on April 26 (in Los Angeles) and April 27 to April 28 (online only). And when we look into the future, I think we’ll find this is a game of trillions, not billions.
The volume of deals means that the core of the industry is going to change. That means disruption. It means both pain and opportunity. GamesBeat Summit is designed to bring the thought leaders together to understand and explain that change. We will have the speakers and the right people to address the changes, tech-based or otherwise, that are rapidly changing the status quo. The old game industry you knew — it’s never going to be the same.
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