Fortnite is so fashionable, even Disney needs to get in on the motion.
The large leisure firm introduced at present that it’s investing $1.5 billion “to amass an fairness stake” in Fortnite writer Epic Video games in an effort to create a Fortnite-style universe for its personal IP.
“Our thrilling new relationship with Epic Video games will carry collectively Disney’s beloved manufacturers and franchises with the massively fashionable Fortnite in a transformational new video games and leisure universe,” stated Robert A. Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Firm. “This marks Disney’s largest entry ever into the world of video games and affords vital alternatives for progress and enlargement. We are able to’t anticipate followers to expertise the Disney tales and worlds they love in groundbreaking new methods.”
Disney stated its “new, persistent universe” will supply shoppers an opportunity to “play, watch, store and interact with content material, characters and tales from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar and extra.”
“Disney was one of many first firms to consider within the potential of bringing their worlds along with ours in Fortnite, and so they use Unreal Engine throughout their portfolio,” stated Tim Sweeney, CEO and founding father of Epic Video games. “Now we’re collaborating on one thing completely new to construct a persistent, open and interoperable ecosystem that may carry collectively the Disney and Fortnite communities.”
All of this might be powered by Unreal Engine, the identical Epic engine that powers Fortnite, which has already labored with Disney quite a few instances to incorporate experiences like these with characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and plenty of different Disney-owned properties.
“It will allow us to carry collectively our unimaginable assortment of tales and experiences from throughout the corporate for a broad viewers in methods now we have solely dreamed of earlier than,” stated Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences. “Epic Video games’ industry-leading expertise and Fortnite’s open ecosystem will assist us attain shoppers the place they’re to allow them to have interaction with Disney within the methods which can be most related to them.”
Disney touted its successes within the online game {industry} akin to Marvel’s Spider-Man on PlayStation, the best-selling superhero recreation of all time, and 1.5 billion international installs of Disney video games on cell, which incorporates over $1 billion in gross sales.
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