Asus and razer seek to team up with tencent to create a gaming smartphone

As reported by Digitimes sources, ASUS has been in talks with Chinese-based mobile games distributor Tencent to launch a 'gaming' smartphone with Tencent's support and support, although it has encountered competition from Razer, who also seeks to have an alliance with the popular Asian distributor.

ASUS and Razer are in talks with Tencent

ASUS launched a plan to transform its mobile phone business in December 2018 and has spent $ 6.3 billion to cover its inventory losses, royalty amortization, and reorganization. The company has also laid off some 800 employees. The goal of ASUS is to stop developing phones for general users, and move to manufacturing phones focused entirely on the gaming sector.

ASUS ' new second-generation ZenFone Max Pro, released this February 14, will be the company's latest consumer phone. ASUS is set to launch a new ZenFone before mid-2019 and is looking to form a partnership with Tencent for a ROG-branded gaming phone.

This partnership with Tencent seems vital to ASUS 'new approach to focus on mobile phone players. Tencent is Asia's largest mobile game distributor, an agreement like this would promote its phone to hundreds of millions of players.

Razer wants to ruin ASUS plans

According to the source, Razer also contacted Tencent with a similar plan for their Razer Phone 2, but Tencent has so far not made a decision on who it will cooperate with, so the bid from both manufacturers must be getting quite fierce at the moment..

Tencent currently has games like Fortnite and PUBG on mobile, and other titles like Arena of Valor, Clash Royale, Clash of Clans and Candy Crush Saga, among many others, being one of the most famous games on the mobile platform.

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