Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company that owns PlayStation, is buying esports tournament platform Repeat.gg. Following its acquisition, the esports technology platform Repeat will continue to provide tournaments for games across multiple platforms and boost Sonys PC gaming market numbers. Esports platform Repeat will continue to host games across platforms beyond the PlayStations ecosystem, including other consoles, PC, and mobile. Repeat will continue to work on PC and mobile, in addition to the other consoles.
It will pursue its established model of supporting online, competitive PC and console games. Repeat.gg is one of the largest esports tournament platforms in the world, helping users to compete for prize money in a wide range of online games. Moreover, it holds asynchronous esports tournaments which allow players to compete in games, even when they are not online at the same time. A tech platform called Repeat.gg is known to run esports tournaments that do not require head-to-head competition, tracking players’ performances without players having to be online simultaneously.
Repeat.gg is capable of tracking players’ performance stats in-game automatically, and rewarding them according to how well they perform. In a win for PlayStation esports going forward, Sony has acquired the tech platform called Repeat. Steven Roberts, president of PlayStations Global Competitive Gaming Division, believes the acquisition of Repeat will help expand the scope of what competitive gaming can mean for players, he said in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz. Sony Interactive Entertainment has expanded its investments into the Esports sector by purchasing an online tournament organizer which was confirmed in a blog post shared on its website.
The acquisition is yet another step in esports gaming for Sony Interactive Entertainment and follows its purchase of Evolution Championship Series, the largest fighting game tournament in the world. Sony purchased the prestigious eSports tournament, Evo, in a partnership with RTS last year. With growing interest in esports, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced its acquisition of one of the largest esports tournament platforms in the world Repeat.
Aaron Fletcher, CEO of Repeat.gg, said that the acquisition would strengthen Repeat and enable Sony Interactive Entertainment to provide players with different tournament experiences. PlayStation is set to acquire Repeat.gg for a previously undisclosed amount. The esports tech platform, Repeat allows users to participate in tournaments with both free and paid entries in popular games such as Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone, League of Legends, PUBG, and Dota 2. Repeat is also excited by the acquisition, as it now has more resources and is able to leverage Sonys tech.
