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Report says SoftBank considering sale of Supercell at $5B-plus valuation

Supercell is as close to being the Pixar of mobile games as any other company. Japan’s SoftBank Group knows this, and so it may not be surprising to hear that it is considering selling its stake in Supercell for a very large pile of money.

Bloomberg reported today that SoftBank may sell its stake in the Finnish mobile game maker for a price that values the whole company at $5 billion. And for anyone who knows Supercell’s games, the high value for a company that only has about 180 employees isn’t surprising. Separately, we heard that the rumor has been going around for more than a year. We have not been able to independently verify Bloomberg’s story.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.