Sony's investment in the amount of $250 Million.

Fortnite Epic Games will receive an investment in the amount $250 Million from Sony.

Sony invested $ 250 million in Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite and the Epic Games Store.

According to some reports, the total amount of funds raised by Epic Games was 1.83 billion dollars. The new investment, according to Venture Beat, will allow ” Sony and Epic to expand their collaboration” through current Sony games combined with the existing distribution of the Epic platform.

This follows the reveal of Unreal Engine 5, which was running in real-time on a PlayStation 5, Sony’s upcoming next generation console. At the time, Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney had explain in a GamesBeat interview,

“We’ve been working super-closely with Sony for quite a long time on the storage architecture and other elements. It’s been our primary focus. But Unreal Engine 5 will be on all next-generation platforms, and so will Fortnite.”

Sweeney continued, praising the console and Sony’s architectural decisions,

“Sony has done an awesome job of architecting a great system here. It’s not just a great GPU, and they didn’t just take the latest PC hardware and upgrade to it, following the path of least resistance. The storage architecture in PlayStation 5 is far ahead of anything that you can buy in any PC for any amount of money right now. It’s great to see that sort of innovation. It’s going to help drive future PCs. They’ll see this thing ship and realize, ‘Wow, with two SSDs, we’ll have to catch up.’”

Whether or not this investment will see more Sony first party titles hitting PC remains to be seen. PC has already received Detroit Become Human on the Epic Games Store. Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding releases next week also on Epic Games Store (and Steam), with Horizon Zero Dawn also hitting PC in August on Steam and Epic Ganes Store.

 

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