After Pokémon GoDev was sold to Monopoly Go for $3.5 billion, reassure the players! The company has confirmed

Niantic Inc. has confirmed the sale of Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now and its development team and its development team to the manufacturer of Saudi-Ined Monopoly Go! $3.5 billion.

As part of the transaction, an additional $350 million in cash will be distributed from Niantic, providing approximately $3.85 billion in total value to Niantic Equity holders.

exist Pressed notesSpopely, owned by Saudi Investment Company Savvy Games, said that the Niantic Games business has more than 30 million monthly active players, more than 20 million weekly active players, and more than 1 billion in revenue in 2024. Pokémon GO is the royal jewel, which has been ranked in the top 1 billion mobile game every year for more than 202244 billion year-on-year champions.

Niantic said its gaming team has an “exciting long-term roadmap that they will continue to grow in a huge part.”

“This partnership ensures that our games have long-term support must be 'forever', which will last for generations to come,” Niantic said in a blog post.

“Players can expect them to know and love games, applications, services and events that will continue to gain a steady investment, driven by the same teams that have always created these experiences.”

exist Separate Blog PostsPokémon Go chief Ed Wu moved to a confident player Who has expressed concern about the fate of the game If you want to sell it.

“It’s always important for me and the entire game team, and our community is excited about the long-term vision of this game, so I want to share why I believe the partnership with Scopely is a positive step for you and the future of the game, Wu is the original engineer on Pokémon Go Codebase and released Pokémon Go posebase in 2016.

“Spopely expresses deep admiration for this community and our team. I have any belief that, whether in the second decade, is about to thrive in the next few years, Pokémon Go will flourish further, the mission of discovering Pokémon in the real world and inspiring people to explore together,” Wu continued.

“Our new partnership and our long-term partnership with Pokémon, which means we can maintain this long-term focus. Spopely fully believes in our mission and ongoing goal of creating the best Pokémon experience. Their focus is to support our team and provide resources to continue to provide gameplay that everyone knows and loves.

“The entire Pokémon GO team has been kept together through this partnership. People who have coached and built the game for many years will continue to do what we love. We have been constantly increasing the game – Raid Battles, Friends, GO Fight League, Routes, Dynamax/Gigantamax, and of course, Pokémon GoFest and our live events – I look forward to many years to come. Spopely empowers their game teams as autonomous groups to pursue their inspired roadmap, which each team thinks is the best for the player’s experience. This approach is very appealing to us on Niantic Games. I’ve spoken with many of the game leaders at Scopely, who gave me confidence in how the company can make each game grow independently and grow creatively.

“We will join a wider organization dedicated to gaming. I believe Pokémon Go can continue to thrive with Scopely’s exclusive and long-term focus on game production. Spopely’s status as a private company also means we can prioritize the best for you, our trainers in the long term. We believe that prioritizing short-term gains at the expense of our long-term missions would be counterproductive and self-deception. Every interaction I have with outstanding leaders reinforces what we fully agree on, lifespan, longevity and most importantly, the real-world community that Pokémon makes truly unique. We are united.

“With Spopely’s full commitment, experience and resources, we will make Pokémon the best option – an incredible battle for thousands of trainers at one time and a new way to build with your friends and community while always focusing on the excitement and experience of discovering Pokémon in the real world. We have invested in empowering thousands of community leaders and ambassadors who lead millions of trainers to compete together in the real world, and a huge agreement with this much-attractive plan will be a priority for investing simultaneously. The real world community that loves Pokémon Go will continue with everything we do.

“Our partners at Pokémon have always been at the heart of how we can build this game together, starting with the physics of our first Poké BallThrow that we’re hand-aligned. I’m so grateful for their daily wisdom, guidance and careful management of the shared vision of discovering Pokémon in the real world, and I’m excited that our partnership with Pokémon Company will continue over the past decade.

“I wouldn’t say Pokémon Go will stay the same because it’s always been a work in progress. But how we create and evolve it will stay the same and I hope we can make the experience better for everyone.

“I’ve been very grateful for the incredible joy of serving hundreds of millions of trainers in the real world for our real world community over the past nine years, and I really believe the best is yet to come.”

Elsewhere, Niantic says it's spinning Its controversial geospatial AI business Niantic Spatial Inc. enters a new company, “enable it to accelerate and scale faster.” Spopely is a $50 million investor in the new venture, which also owns $200 million for Niantic itself.

Niantic Space will continue to own and operate its other real-world AR games, Intress Prime and Peridot.

Wesley is the UK news editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter via @wyp100. You can reach Wesley via [email protected] or secretly visit [email protected].