In a boon to the way forward for PlayStation esports, Sony has acquired a expertise platform known as Repeat.gg. The corporate is thought for internet hosting esports tournaments that don’t require direct competitors, monitoring participant efficiency with out gamers needing to be on-line concurrently. Repeat.gg boasts over 2.3 million customers in over 100,000 tournaments, and presently options common multiplayer video games equivalent to Fortnite, League of Legends, Dota 2, PUBG, and Name of Obligation: Warzone.
Why Sony acquired Repeat.gg for PlayStation esports
Repeat is happy to announce we at the moment are part of the Sony Interactive Leisure household, the house of @PlayStation and plenty of wonderful recreation studios.
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— Repeat.gg – Tournaments (@Repeatgg) July 18, 2022
Steven Roberts, president of world aggressive gaming at Sony Interactive Leisure, believes that this buy of Repeat.gg will assist broaden what aggressive gaming can imply for gamers, in an announcement to GamesIndustry.biz. He says:
At PlayStation, our imaginative and prescient for esports has at all times been about breaking down boundaries for players to compete in any respect ranges. Along with the gifted Repeat.gg workforce, we’re excited to discover extra methods for gamers to have interaction in aggressive gaming and broaden the breadth of our esports choices. That is simply the beginning of our journey and we stay up for sharing extra updates with our group sooner or later.
Repeat.gg CEO Aaron Fletcher explains that the platform is supposed “to allow new event codecs which might be straightforward to enter and scalable to million of gamers” and open to all players “no matter their ability degree.” The platform will proceed to help PC, cell, and different consoles exterior of PlayStation.
On its web site, Repeat.gg gives each free and paid-entry tournaments. All customers have to do is join their recreation accounts to their Repeat profile, in order that the platform can observe their efficiency robotically. Gamers accumulate cash relying on their placement in tournaments and may spend them on all kinds of reward playing cards, together with these for PSN, Steam, Nintendo, Xbox Dwell, and Amazon. It’s unclear if or how this platform will combine with PlayStation platforms, however we will think about the way it may pair nicely with the newly-announced PlayStation Stars loyalty program.
This acquisition marks PlayStation’s continued funding in eSports, following Sony’s acquisition of preventing recreation event EVO in 2021 and its continued help of PlayStation Tournaments which introduced esports to the PS5 earlier this 12 months.
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