Summary
- Chinese Corporation, Tencent, is working on bringing a port of Elden Ring for mobile devices.
- After acquiring 16.75 percent of FromSoftware in August 2022, Tencent has quite a few developers working on a port for Elden Ring.
- However, monetizing Elden Ring and making it require in-app purchases will be hard work for developers at Tencent.
Tencent Gaming, which revolutionized the mobile gaming segment with Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, popularly known as PUBG, aims at another revolution.
According to a Reuters report, Tencent aims to adapt the famous Elden Ring for mobile devices. Licensing has already been acquired as of 2022, and a “couple of dozen” developers are hard at work prototyping the mobile version.
The reports suggest that the developers drew inspiration from HoYoVerse’s choice of developing Genshin Impact for mobile devices. Genshin Impact, while it’s free to play, has a lot of in-app purchases.
These in-app purchases have brought unprecedented financial growth for the developers. However, neither Tencent nor Elden Ring – From Software – developers have released official comments on this front.
This is mainly because the higher-ups at Tencent felt that Tencent’s current pool of games was entirely “aging.” The choice to go for Elden Ring felt natural, given its diverse fan pool, including the billionaire Elon Musk.
Selling about 20 million copies in the first year, Elden Ring marked a successful collaboration between Game of Thrones author George R R Martin and veteran game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki.
One particular hurdle is standing in Tencent’s way. While they want to make it a freemium game model with in-app game purchases, Elden Ring is designed to be a complete experience at the cost of a one-time buy.
As a result, changing it to a freemium model might take quite a bit of tinkering. Tencent is making big moves, as they fear their gaming business, amongst others, is threatened.
An Elden Ring adaptation for the mobile might be a welcome addition. However, given the graphical requirements of the game, it might require the latest generation of processors. Nothing is certain until more is reveled about this venture by Tencent.
About Elden Ring
Elden Ring is a major title released by FromSoftware in 2022, the developers of Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, and the Dark Souls franchise. Set in the ‘Lands Between’, players are on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord.
Shadow of the Erdtree is a full-fledged expansion for Elden Ring added in June 2024. It is a whole new map with new Weapons, Sorceries, Ashes, and Craftables. It is a challenging DLC and as players continue to explore the map, they find surprises and easter eggs left by the developers every day.
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