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Krafton has more in store for its battle royale shooting game PUBG , its enceinte peregrine championship , according to Goldman Sachs .
The South Korean house is plot “ incremental updates ” to its scheme to get and expand PUBG , Goldman Sachs said in a note Wednesday and seen by TechCrunch .
The game publisher is plan to franchise its IP by launching a diverse genre , platform and play mode , the investing bank said . A major graphics upgrade is also in the whole caboodle , Goldman Sachs say , adding that Krafton plans to habituate Unreal Engine 5 for a PUBG 2.0 revamp .
The current version of PUBG habituate a customise edition of Unreal Engine 4 . Epic Games’latest iteration of the omnipresent Unreal Engineoffers developers important advancements in achieving heightened realism and ducking at reduced performance costs . Unreal Engine 5 provides flowing pecker to produce state - of - the - art ocular effects and sounds while optimizing workflow across gaming and other app program – pave the agency for more dynamical and detailed next - contemporaries experiences , according to industry experts .
Krafton confirm to TechCrunch in a statement that it is look at “ various attempts ” include the program of Unreal Engine 5 for the “ sustainable growth of the PUBG : Battlegrounds IP . ”
The phenomenal rise of PUBG in recent years has taken the gaming world by storm . This on-line multiplayer battle royale secret plan pits up to 100 player against each other in a fight to the expiry across Brobdingnagian function riddle with desolate buildings and woodland . Its tense , unpredictable gameplay has attracted tens of millions of users and trigger off a ecumenical craze .
Goldman Sachs projected a positively charged outlook for PUBG ’s PC and mobile apps as well as BGMI , the newIndia - only struggle royale titlelaunched last twelvemonth . PUBG PC arrive at a crown concurrence of 600,000 users post the late update ( Rondo in December 2023 ) .
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“ We observe BGMI maintain its # 1 berth in gross ranking , which we translate as users go to trust in a ‘ full return of BGMI . ’ As Krafton increase investment funds in the local mart ( e.g. , esports event , place promotion ) , we conceive BGMI should retain posting robust tax revenue , and hence we bake in 2023E/24E/25E revenue of W77bn / W152bn / W157bn ( 6%/11%/12 % of mobile revenue ; reflect BGMI unban ) , ” Goldman Sachs add .
