In more Clash of Clans developer Supercell news, the company has announced today that it has sold 51% of the company to SoftBank and GungHo Entertainment for the ridiculous amount of $1.5 billion making this one of the biggest mobile game studio purchases to date. It isn’t like either company didn’t have the money to spare, especially after GungHo Entertainment’s release of Puzzle and Dragons which makes them a staggering amount of money by itself.
Supercall has done pretty good for itself as well in terms of profit, reportedly pulling in about $500,000 a day from Clash of Clans and Hay Day. That is just with those two games being on iOS and with the recent release of Clash of Clans for Android tablets last week, this number will surely be quick to rise. That makes this buyout of 51% a potentially very profitable purchase for Soft Bank and GungHo Entertainment.
We tried to catch up with someone from Supercell to talk to them about the buyout but as you can see in the picture above, they were a bit busy at that time. CEO of Supercell Ilkka Paananen did however make a blog post regarding the sale and an explaination of why the company decided to go this route.
At Supercell, one of our greatest aspirations is to become the first truly global games company, one that has a strong foothold in both the West and the East, including Japan, Korea and China. We want to build a company that people all over the globe will look back in 30 years and talk about all the great games that we developed and the impact they had on people’s lives. The same way I personally feel about Nintendo, for example
For those of you interested in reading the entire post, you can find it over on Supercell’s official blog. Congrats to Supercell.
Website Referenced: GameIndustry
