Sony to bring Discord to PlayStation
A Sony announced on Monday (3) a partnership with communication platform Discord, promising to integrate it into the PlayStation brand. Furthermore, this partnership is also expected to yield a minority ownership of Sony over Discord as part of a round of investments.
It is not yet known exactly what the “integration” should bring, since for Sony, this could mean the creation of a dedicated Discord app on PlayStation consoles, or else some platform chat API being integrated into group conversations. of online matches from the thousands of games that run on the Japanese company's brand.
Sony announced a partnership that could lead Discord to be integrated into the PlayStation platform, although details of that work are still a secret.
With its participation in the investment round, however, Sony ends up establishing itself as a minority shareholder in Discord, with the two companies saying that they are "working hard to connect Discord to their social and gaming experience on PlayStation Network".
The situation bury Discord conversations in the past once and for all, who pointed out that the platform would be acquired by Microsoft for a purchase price of US $ 10 billion (R $ 54,08 billion in direct conversion), but company said it preferred to maintain its status as an independent agent.
Discord is one of the most popular platforms on the world gaming market. According to its own disclosure, in December 2020, the company reached the mark of 140 million active users, and its independently created servers include channels managed by streamers, professional players, marketing departments of several companies in the sector and journalists.