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### Epic’s PC game store is live now

* Within the span of a week, Epic Games, the developer of the popular battle royale Fortnite, announced and subsequently **launched their own digital game store. Chinese Esports giant Tencent holds a large stake in Epic Games.**

* This places **Epic in direct competition with Valve’s industry-leading games platform Steam** – a battle Epic hopes to win by offering **significantly lower revenue split fees (12% vs Steam’s 30%)** and waiving its 5% royalty fee for all games made using its Unreal Engine. 

* The store will initially focus on indie titles and has currently confirmed 14 titles, two of which are high profile games. 

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### Comments

* Epic’s store is one of the most significant attempts in the last years to challenge Steam’s dominant position in the digital game store space. 

* **This is less because of the cuts to fees – which will surely be attractive to particularity smaller developers – but mostly because Epic’s store is embedded in their game launcher which is already on countless computers due to Epic’s free-to-play offering of Fortnite.** The launch is also very well timed given Steam’s recent faux-pas on lowering its 30% fees to 25%, but only for big games with more than USD10m in sales.

* As a result, we think **Epic has a good chance to carve out a space in the game distribution market.** However, to achieve this Epic will not only have to convince developers to join their platform, but also create a compelling enough offer to convince players to further fragment their game libraries – which is the real challenge in my view.

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### Does cloud computing mean game over for Xbox and PlayStation? 

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* **Cloud gaming describes a currently (mostly) theoretical concept in which gamers with strong enough internet connections could stream (instead of download) high-end games and play them over the web on any device.**

* This has **huge disruptive implications for the console market** as consoles could be rendered irrelevant and ultimately companies such as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu could expand their offering to games. 

* **Successful experiments conducted by Nintendo and Ubisoft** in Japan signal that streaming services are poised to expand. However, slow internet speeds and content-heavy triple A titles are likely to extend the life of consoles, which have absorbed years of threats of rival technologies.

## Conclusion

**Overall, both of these news are VERY positive for the game Publishers such as Ubisoft, EA, Activision or Take Two.** 

**I think they are an investment no-brainer for the long-term because:**

* Thanks to this new competition, they will have more bargaining power and less intermediaries (Steem or Sony/Nintendo…)

* Digital enhance their margins because of the lower borrowing costs and the increasing spending amounts in games

* Emerging Markets such as China have shown that billions of new players will come in the future and are ready to spend a lot of $$$

* The development of eSport is a very positive one as videogames will have an entirely new ecosystem (Advertising, eSportsmen, stadiums, teams…)

*Sources:*
* https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18126139/epic-store-games-pc-ashen-hades-game-awards-2018
* https://www.ft.com/content/0a46b2ac-f70a-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c

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