Microsoft wants to buy Discord for more than 10 billion dollars
Original note from: MuyComputer
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After the recent approval and the green light to close the acquisition of Zenimax, the mother company of some important video game developers such as Bethesda, it seems that Microsoft has already set its eyes on another of the most relevant companies in the current gaming scene: Discord.
And it is that as reported today from Bloomberg, it seems that the Redmond giant would already be in talks to acquire the famous voice chat platform, with a first offer of no less than 10 billion dollars. Although it seems that this is not the only company interested, since Discord would be speaking with several potential buyers, in addition to having had conversations with Epic Games and Amazon in the past.
So, as analyst Matthew Kanterman explains, Microsoft could be considering the acquisition of Discord for implementation within its ecosystem, “The possibility of Microsoft acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more towards software and services. There is a great opportunity to bundle the premium offering of Discord Nitro into the Xbox Game Pass service to generate more subscriptions from the last 18 million reported.
Although it is worth mentioning that although Discord began and continues as a communication platform aimed at bringing players closer to each other, today it has become a meeting point for many communities within and outside the sector, being one of the most easy from which to speak by voice, share videos, text and any type of document, with a totally free basic plan (in addition to some subscription options and payment improvement).
Something that has made this platform a recent success in the workplace, even competing with some services such as, coincidentally, Microsoft Teams. And is that currently Discord already has more than 250 million registered users, and figures of up to 140 million monthly active users.
Which translated into revenue figures, as pointed out by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, only in 2020 Discord would have generated a total of 130 million dollars, with a notable growth compared to the almost 45 million it achieved in 2019, and that we may see even more increased in 2021.