If someone other than Epic took care of bring Fortnite to China, it was clear that it would be Tencent. The tech giant has a high percentage of epic Games and, after the announcement a few days ago of the landing of Fortnite in China, it was clear that Tencent would be involved.
In addition to a large percentage of Epic Games, Tencent is the company that is responsible for the mobile versions of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and, in addition, has its own battle royale in development (Europe) and three of the most important esports today (Clash Royale, Arena of Valor and League of Legends). With this move, the company would control practically all the fashion games on the market in the Chinese territory.
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As we can read in Engadget, Tencent It will not be limited to taking the game to that territory, but will give the opportunity, for a limited time, to players who have already enjoyed the original version by any other means to transfer their data to the new version. In addition, they will invest about 15 million dollars for Fortnite to become an esport. According to the DoNews medium, Tencent would be developing an application that will allow to watch streams and share content in a simple way to promote virality.
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On Tencent's intentions with esports and Fortnite, we don't have too much news yet, but it is clear that if the Asian giant has set out to convert Fortnite in a sport, you will have to keep track of their movements.
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