Niantic already signed a deal with Savvy Games last year to bring Pokémon Go to the Middle East, which is no doubt when the idea of buying the company was first floated.
Yet another games company is being swallowed up by a larger competitor, as the maker of Pokémon Go is reported to be in talks with the publisher of Monopoly Go.
How they might feel about the other games is less obvious though, as Bloomberg notes that repeated attempts to mirror the success of Pokémon Go have led to a number of cancelled titles over the years, including Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in 2021.
It may not make quite as many headlines as it used to, when it first launched almost nine years ago, but Pokémon Go is still hugely popular, with a recent increase in popularity bringing in over 100 million monthly players.
None of the other games have ever been anywhere near as popular but Niantic is not thought to be in any kind of financial trouble and yet reports suggest they’re in talks to sell off their game business to the Saudi-owned mobile publisher Scopely, for a cool $3.5 billion.
