Tencent and Guillemot Family Eye New Venture for Ubisoft Assets

Tencent and Ubisoft's Guillemot family are exploring a venture to manage select Ubisoft assets, aiming to boost the gaming giant’s value. Learn more about the potential deal.

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1/15/20252 min read

Tencent and Guillemot Family Consider New Ubisoft Asset Venture

As reported, gaming giants Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s founders, Guillemot family are considering the formation of a new company that would control a certain number of Ubisoft’s assets. This kind of cooperation may increase Ubisoft’s value greatly and extend Tencent’s scope of operation in world game industry.

What’s Behind This Venture?

In the Bloomberg, it says that firms are currently struggling to decide which property to include in the new firm and the worth of the same property. Before this, talks are still ongoing, the cited deal will permission Tencent to seize ownership in a few of Ubisoft’s new games IPs or intellectual properties.

Key motivations include:

  • For Tencent: To diversify into other parts of the world, depending on other countries & to consolidate and making a better position in the given world’s market.

  • For the Guillemot Family: To increase its stability through the normalisation of its income and operations after experiencing fluctuations in its share market index recently.

  • Other Existing Positive and Negative Social and Economic Implications for Ubisoft its Future Operations

This venture could introduce significant changes to Ubisoft’s operations and game development priorities:

  1. Asset Consolidation: The Motley Fool’s analysis of Ubisoft has suggested that the publisher’s most valuable franchises could experience an upgrade to their development cycles.

  2. Global Expansion: With Tencent being involved it could help to bring Ubisoft titles into Asians a much larger extent.

  3. Increased Stability: This partnership may help to resurrect from recent market adversities with the financial and strategic support required.

What’s Next?

Despite the fact that no definitive decisions have been made yet, the discussions under way evidence a line of action that may prove equally transformative for Tencent and Ubisoft alike. Many insiders are observing if this approach can impact other Ubisoft future projects and expand the company’s international presence.

Key Takeaways

  • Tencent and Guillemot family are in discussion for establishing a new hub for some Ubisoft IP’s.

  • The deal could increase Uber’s market capitalization and also help Tencent diversify its gaming division.

  • There are currents as to the open talks, with no realities settled to this timeframe declared.

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