Also, Quantic Dream Is Looking to Go Multi-Platform
NetEase Games, the games division of a Chinese internet company named NetEase, announced on Tuesday that the company has obtained a minority stake in Quantic Dream, the development studio behind 2018’s Detroit: Become Human.
“With a strong focus on in-house development, we are constantly looking for partners that complement us in the development and creation of the next generation [of] games,” said Ethan Wang, the VP of NetEase. “Quantic Dream’s excellence in interactive storytelling and the valuable expertise it has built over the past two decades is exactly what we have been looking for. We are pleased to partner with Quantic Dream and we hope to create incredible game experiences for players all around the globe.”
Quantic Dream CEO David Cage told VentureBeat that this investment from NetEase will allow his studio “to invest in future technologies and games in order to prepare for the next generation of platforms”.
Also, one of the co-founders of Quantic Dream, Guillaume de Fondaumière, said that the studio has plans to develop games for other platforms along with PlayStation.
“We will continue to work on PlayStation, which is a platform we love and that we know very well but we will also consider other platforms as we want to make our creations accessible to as many gamers as possible worldwide, regardless of the platform,” he said to VentureBeat.
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Sources: Press release, VentureBeat