Gaming News Quantic Dream: The price of the takeover by NetEase is known! A good sign for Star Wars Eclipse?
Founded in 1997, the studio Quantic Dream made its name with the game The Nomad Soul. Released on PC and Dreamcast, this avant-garde work left an indelible impression and many have not forgotten the collaboration with the legendary David Bowie. Subsequently, David Cage’s company increasingly turned to the narrative experience and became one of the pioneers of this type of production. While the studio is working on Star Wars Eclipse, we only learned the cost of the acquisition through 2022 a few months ago. And they are substantial!
Very well informed, the site Insider-gaming.com has just announced that the cost of the acquisition of Quantic Dream by the Chinese company NetEase is flirting with… 100 million dollars. W hile this amount has been the subject of much speculation, the figure given allows one to estimate the magnitude of this transaction. Quantic Dream has maintained a trusting relationship with Sony for years, and the Japanese publisher was able to draw on several major titles such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls or, more recently, Detroit: Become Human. Plagued by a series of problems, the studio finally decided to change direction and go under the Chinese flag. In this case, the ones from NetEase.
Sources revealed that NetEase bought Quantic Dream for around $100 million. In fact, to obtain this figure, the interested parties made a simple deduction based on the Pacte law. The latter was introduced in 2019 and allows the creation of a retirement plan as a replacement for the old retirement products previously offered. As a result, Quantic Dream employees got back shares. With regard to the total sum of these actions, various sources have stated that the sum fluctuated between 50,000 and 100,000 dollars. Based on this, they calculated that the company went under the NetEase flag for almost $100 million. At the same time, they estimated that David Cage’s 51% stake in Quantic Dream is worth around $50 million.
In the twilight of Star Wars Eclipse?
Rumor has it that the development of Star Wars Eclipse will not be easy. According to insiders, the studio’s engine would not be suitable for the scale of such a production and a lot of fuss is currently being made to fix the problem.
The other problem, which is not easy to solve, is that the recruitment rate is lower than Quantic Dream’s needs. To give you an idea, there are currently almost… 90 vacancies in Paris. The various cases that have tarnished the studio’s reputation may not have been in vain, but hopefully those positions will be filled soon and Star Wars Eclipse will live up to such a license. In that sense, NetEase support could well be paramount.
