Microsoft CEO meets with leaders of SK and NCSoft to discuss future cooperation
November 16 news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft CEO (CEO) Satya Nadella visited South Korea again after 4 years. During his visit to South Korea, he met with the heads of South Korea's second largest enterprise group SK Group and South Korean game giant NCSoft to discuss future cooperation.
South Korean media reported that the meeting between Nadella and SK leaders was a sign of continued cooperation between the two sides. In 2019, Park, then CEO of SK Telecom, signed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to cooperate in artificial intelligence, cloud, gaming, Internet of things and other fields.
According to foreign media reports, SK Telecom and Microsoft have signed an agreement to introduce Xbox games into the cloud.
A spokesman for NCSoft confirmed that the company's CEO Kim Taek-jin had met with Nadella. As for Nadella's meeting with NCSoft CEO, industry insiders said that because NCSoft is considering launching new games, the two may have discussed the console game business.
According to reports, NCSoft is currently developing a new game, Thrones and Freedom (Throne and Liberty), which is scheduled to be released next year. Because Microsoft owns the Xbox console platform and is responsible for game sales, some analysts believe that the two CEO discussed cooperation in bringing NCSoft's new games to the global market.
Microsoft itself is a game publisher, but it has been actively expanding in recent years. The company announced plans to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in January last year and recently invested 21 billion won ($15.9 million) in South Korean game publisher Wemade.
