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Strengths
Epic Games intends to deliver real-time gaming services for players, focusing on implementing and managing large-scale, transformational digital solutions.
Epic Games is keen on developing digital applications to enhance the gaming environment.
a. Epic Games acquired Sketchable to accelerate web-based gaming applications through 3D animation technology.
b. Epic Games introduced anti-cheat services to provide a secure experience for players while playing online games.
Epic Games, Inc. is keen on creating persistent multiplayer games that are multiplatform, nonviolent, and encourage social interaction.
Opportunities
The Consumer Software, Media & Entertainment industry focuses on AR, VR, eSports Broadcasting, Gaming Boost, AI, and Music Streaming Services.
a. Epic Games, Inc. focuses on creating musical activities and gameplay for Fortnite, supporting current games like Rock Band 4, and making 3D, AR, and VR content more widely available and accessible, essential for an open and interconnected world.
Epic Games, Inc. focuses on improving business or strategic decision-making by accessing the latest information on Epic Games.
Epic Games, Inc. focuses on developing projects with innovative features and realistic interactive experiences.
Weaknesses
Epic Games continues to adapt emerging technologies, such as VR/AR-based game streaming, and business models, such as subscription-based access to a portfolio of interactive content, to stay competitive.
Epic Games uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Epic Games’ online infrastructure that allows malicious hackers to take over individual accounts in Fortnite.
This vulnerability enables hackers to access a user’s account and personal information and purchase virtual in-game currency using payment card details.
Threats
New rapid, significant technological changes, frequent new product and service introductions and enhancements, and evolving industry standards adopted by a few competitors within the Consumer Software, Media & Entertainment industry pretend to be a menace to Epic Games.
a. Riot Games has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to rethink how Riot’s esports content is generated and shared in the cloud; this may impact Epic Games, Inc.’s Cloud technology.
b. Ubisoft launched The Division Battle Royale Game to extraordinarily high sales figures, and it immediately became the company’s best-selling game which would influence Epic Games, Inc.’s Gaming technology.
Startup Spotlight
Company – Shine Interview Total Funding – USD 2.22 Mn About: Shine Interview is a fully customizable, highly secure, enterprise-level video-based recruitment platform that facilitates a remote-first end-to-end recruitment process for enterprises, SMEs, and recruitment firms. They aim to make the recruitment process easier while improving the candidate and client journey and the platform has been proven to cut the time and cost of hiring by up to 70%. Read More>>
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