The world of esports has seen a significant growth over the years with the emergence of franchised leagues and competitivegaming organizations partnering up with huge brandsto create insane collaborations. Sony sees the value in the competitive gaming scene, and in an early afternoon announcement, it has been announced that esports platform Repeat.gg will be joining the PlayStation family.Repeat.gg is a platform that hosts a bevy of tournaments in titles such asFortnite,League of LegendsandCall of Duty: Warzone. Alongside plenty of free or paid entry tournaments, Repeat also contains “automated result tracking” for an easier method of tracking player stats in said tournaments. Sony has been working hard to grow the competitive gaming scene on thePlayStation platform by hosting weekly tournamentsacross similar titles which points to why this acquisition took place.RELATED:PlayStation’s Acquisition of Bungie is Now CompletePer the official announcement, Repeat spoke on how important this partnership is to the team. With this acquisition, both parties can continue focusing on the goal of providing “Esports for Everyone.” Joining the PlayStation family allows Repeat to increase the scale of the tournaments hosted that was previously unable to be done without Sony’s help, with plenty of new titles set to receive plenty of support in the future. The team at Repeat also mentions that this will not impact the tournaments hosted for PC titles such asLeague of Legendsas it will continue to expand in the future.
An interesting note in the announcement was mentioned at the beginning where it was stated that this has been in the works for “for some time now.” While it’s not directly stated how long it’s been, this follows Sony’s trend of looking to the growing esports scene. Early last year, Sony announced the purchase of well-knownfighting game tournament EVO.
Of course, this hasn’t been Sony’s only acquisition. Over the past few months, Sony has added Jade Raymond’s Haven Studios andDestinycreator Bungie to the PlayStation family with a hinted focus on the live-service market. While it’s not true for every competitive title, titles likeLeague of LegendsandFortniteare free-to-play with booming esports scenes. With Bungie working on live-service titles and Haven reportedly working ona live-service game for the PS5, Repeat joining PlayStation could be a potential sign of Sony looking to heavily invest in the competitive market to expand outside of the realm of solely creating blockbuster single-player experiences.
