As a part of Disney’s newest earnings briefing, the corporate mentioned a few of its plans for gaming. The corporate’s executive summary touches on Disney’s take care of Epic Video games to create content material for Fortnite, with Disney saying the corporate hopes to ship “transformational” new video games.
“We’re reaching shoppers in progressive new ways–such as working with Epic Video games to deliver collectively Disney’s beloved manufacturers and franchises with the vastly in style Fortnite in a transformational new video games and leisure universe,” the corporate stated.
Disney went on to assert that its enterprise for licensed video video games is the “largest on this planet.” Its take care of Epic Video games is one other instance of this, it stated. As for why Disney is investing a lot into video video games, the corporate stated it is attempting to capitalize on a “transformative industry-wide shift towards converged gaming ecosystems.”
In February, Disney invested a further $1.5 billion into Epic Games to create a “new persistent universe” for Disney followers to “play, watch, store, and have interaction with” characters and content material from its Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Avatar manufacturers, amongst others. Disney and Epic additionally touted the power for followers to “create their very own tales and experiences” and share content material with one another as a part of this.
Disney and Epic have but to formally unveil any particular initiatives in Fortnite tied to Disney, however many are hoping to see some type of “digital Disney World.” Fortnite, in fact, is now not only one game–instead, it is extra akin to a platform nowadays. Along with the principle battle royale sport, Fortnite hosts video games like Rocket Racing, Fortnite Competition, and Lego Fortnite, together with numerous different user-created video games and experiences on the platform. No matter Epic and Disney is likely to be cooking up may very well be simply the most recent sport to exist on the Fortnite platform.
Disney will reveal what’s subsequent for the corporate throughout the board at D23 this coming weekend in Anaheim, and whereas we do not know for certain if Disney will focus on its Fortnite plans, it is definitely doable.
When it comes to Disney’s commentary round being the “largest” participant in gaming for licensed video games, that is doubtless a reference to the quite a few offers Disney has made with exterior studios to create content material. Whereas Disney used to develop video games in-house through its personal Disney Interactive Studios, the corporate subsequently shut this down and as a substitute works with exterior groups as a part of licensing preparations.
And Disney has been busy on this regard. There are quite a few licensed Disney video games within the works from exterior groups at present, together with Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle from Microsoft, Star Wars Outlaws from Ubisoft, Star Wars Hunters from Zynga, Epic Mickey Rebrushed from Purple Lamp, and Disney Pixel RPG from GungHo On-line, simply to call just a few.