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Tencent to create mobile versions of famous Japanese games such as Street Fighter, Metal Slug
- At its annual game conference on Saturday, Tencent announced new mobile games based on Japanese game franchises Street Fighter, Metal Slug and Dynasty Warriors
- The Chinese gaming market is dominated by titles based on existing content such as already-successful video game franchises or books
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At Tencent Holding’s annual game conference on Saturday, the Chinese company announced more than 40 new or updated games – but many of them were titles already familiar to seasoned gamers.
On the cards are new mobile games based on famous Japanese game franchises Street Fighter, Metal Slug and Dynasty Warriors, all big names that already have vast followings worldwide for their PC and console versions.
The reveal comes just days after the Chinese company announced a mobile game called Pokémon Unite in partnership with another Japanese gaming heavyweight, The Pokémon Company.
“The game industry is standing at the edge of an era full of possibility,” said Tencent senior vice-president Steven Ma at the event. “Globally, the popularity of new technologies is accelerating, the innovation cycle of gameplay is shortening [and] the creation of story intellectual property (IP) is becoming more abundant.”
Tencent’s success in mobile gaming has long hinged on buying the rights to existing storylines and adapting popular PC and console games for mobile platforms. PUBG Mobile, the company’s mobile adaptation of South Korean battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, raked in a record US$226 million in May along with its Chinese version, Peacekeeper Elite.
Call of Duty: Mobile, created by Tencent’s TiMi Studios under a license from American video game company Activision-Blizzard, also recently surpassed 250 million in downloads.
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