"Of course, there are those worries you mentioned, but even if that happens, it won't happen right away, so there's no need to worry too much about it for the time being. My main concern is that if those manufacturers get a sweet taste on the mobile platform, they will shift their focus there. Even if the resources of those traditional big manufacturers are removed, it will be difficult for the so-called smart women to cook without rice, and if there is no money and no one, those old and well-known production teams may not be able to make many good games, right?"

Exactly which companies have done what Kaguya said, Levy, a layman in the game industry, is completely unclear. Although he also knows the names of some game companies, he knows which company produces some famous game series. However, in addition to the super famous masterpieces that he knows, what other games these companies have produced, and even which platform these games focus on, Levi has no idea what kind of games he has, and he can't answer them at all.

"And there are already examples of this kind of thing. You remember the game I played before that was about stealth infiltration, right?"

"Remember, the game looked quite interesting, but it was so difficult that I would have to give up after playing it for a long time. ”

It was also a game in which Levi watched Kaguya go from the beginning to the end. Levi remembers that the graphics were pretty good, and the content and gameplay were very interesting. Levi's design, which encourages the player to sneak into enemy bases in a clever way, despite the fact that they can also be attacked with a variety of weapons, is a great way to remind Levi of his time when he was with Eve.

Although Levi himself was not really a master of stealth infiltration at that time. In many cases, in order to avoid trouble, he will also follow Eve's long drive into a frontal solo ride that does not look like a killer. But even if I have less experience, I have a lot of experience over the years. While watching Kaguya play that game was deeply touched, of course, the impression was even more profound.

"The head of the team that produced the series, the chief producer, had a falling out with the top management of his company some time ago because of a problem with the concept of the game. Now that he has resigned from his original company, even if he goes to another company to pull up a new production team to continue making games, he will not see the continuation of the orthodox game he is responsible for. ”

Kaguya's expression of regret as she spoke was palpable, and it was unpretentious to make it clear at a glance that she was indeed quite disappointed in this matter.

Levi could understand Kaguya's mood. When I watched her play the game, and listened to her talk about a lot of various series of that game, Levi knew that Kaguya was at least a veteran player who had been playing that series. Even if you're not a fan of the producer, Kaguya's love for that game series is clear. A series of works that I particularly liked, suddenly couldn't continue because of an accident. Especially when it seems that the story of the series is not finished...... It's like a student in Levi's class who gritted his teeth at the end of class and scolded the authors who wrote novels on the Internet and disappeared halfway through the book. A wonderful story looks at the beginning and development, but can no longer know the end. This kind of thing will definitely not be acceptable to anyone who likes it. If it is due to force majeure, there is no way to do it. This kind of producer, that is, the 'biological father' of the game series, still wants to continue to do it according to his own ideas, but the people behind it do not support or even openly obstruct it. In the end, the follow-up work was stillborn, imagine a little, you know how uncomfortable those fans must be when they know the news.

"It's a shame to be sure. ”

I didn't know that such a big news had happened in the gaming industry. I don't remember what the name of the well-known producer was, Levi, but in the process of watching Kaguya play the game, I also listened to her enthusiastic science popularization of a lot of the producer's past achievements.

"No way, who makes the game on the smartphone too profitable? The large number of users is the biggest advantage. It is also that various console platforms will never be able to catch up, and it is difficult to even close the gap. In the year-end revenue statistics of major game companies in the past two years, there are often companies that are not usually considered game manufacturers by players like us in the past. Especially those companies that were originally just making social software, they just relied on the huge user base accumulated by their own social software, and randomly launched a few small games that seemed to be quite creative to people who never played games, but in fact most of them just copied other people's ideas, and they could earn far more than those traditional manufacturers who had worked hard and spent a lot of money to make masterpieces for several years. Even the traditional game makers certainly understand why those companies make so much money, but even if they know that they can't copy other people's methods, there are actually many companies that are trying various methods. ”

Kaguya sighed as she spoke, only to realize that her worries about the game industry were far more serious than Levy had thought at first.

"It's okay if those companies try for a while, find out they can't do it, and then come back to the old business. I'm afraid that one of them will succeed if he is not careful. And then, as you said, completely shift the focus to the mini-games on the mobile platform, and never play the old titles that players like us have been waiting for...... What's even more terrifying is that those companies don't give up if they can't make money, and in the end they fail at both ends and drag themselves down. Although this kind of survival of the fittest can be regarded as a natural survival of the fittest, you can say cool things casually when it has nothing to do with you, but when it is closely related to you, who wants to admit that you should be eliminated?"

What does Kaguya mean is that players like her and her friends will be eliminated by the 'users' of the game who are just passing the time for leisure and are not players? Combined with Kaguya's knowledge of various game development that Kaguya has often given himself during this time, Levi feels that this is really not completely impossible.

Hardcore gamers certainly won't be left behind by anyone else. It is said that everyone plays their own games, and it does not affect each other, and there is no intersection at all. However, if the manufacturers who make games have eaten enough sweetness in mobile games, as Kaguya said, it is indeed very likely that they will give up on traditional large-scale game development and focus all their energy on the mobile phone market.