Chapter 339: The Current Situation of Mobile Games and Andy's Persistence

In 1994, the first mobile game in history, Tetris, was born, but this event did not attract enough attention from the giant Nintendo at the time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the years that followed, mobile phones developed rapidly: in 1997, Nokia launched the 6110 mobile phone with Snake built-in, and in 1998, Siemens launched the world's first color screen mobile phone, the S10. By the time of 1998-2003, PDA mobile phones had quietly emerged.

Microsoft's WM system, Palm system. At the same time, some ordinary mobile phones have also developed intelligent systems in order to make breakthroughs, such as Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry and other systems. These mobile phones are increasingly being collectively referred to as "smartphones".

PHONES WITH SUCH PSEUDO-SMART PROGRAMS CAN ONLY RELY ON JAVA PROGRAMS TO INSTALL SOME JAVA SOFTWARE OR GAMES. FOR EXAMPLE, JAVA READING, JAVA VERSION OF PRINCE PERSIA, RALLY CAR, ETC.

From 1994 to 2006, the company developed smartphones that could rival Sony's PS home consoles, such as Nokia's N-Gage in 2003 and its successor, the N-Gage QD, a year later. It's the same mobile phone as the handheld, and many people still have an impression, or still keep it at home.

By this time, mobile games were already everywhere. The picture quality is also between GBA and PSP. HOWEVER, DUE TO THE LACK OF A UNIFIED SALES STORE, THE QUALITY AND SALES OF MOBILE GAMES ARE STILL FAR FROM BEING ABLE TO COMPETE WITH NINTENDO'S GAME BOY SERIES.

In addition to smartphones, there are also very **DA-style handheld computers that are also trying to enter the handheld market. This type of handheld is generally not allowed to make phone calls, but it has functions that far exceed those of the GBA. In fact, it is the PDA with a layer of cross keys and AB bonds.

For example, the Tapwave Zodiac, a handheld computer based on the Palm operating system, was released in 2003. This handheld machine cannot make phone calls, it is a multimedia handheld computer similar to the PSP. Its final sales were 200,000 units.

Shanda of the Rabbit Country also launched a handheld console in 2006, and the game released at the same time was the famous "Legend". Grab a sum of money in the palm of your hand. It's a pity that in 2006, the network foundation of Rabbit Country was not mature, and it was not popular to play online games in the palm of your hand at that time. Soon the handheld was also withdrawn from the market.

In 2004, the two fiercest rivals in the history of handhelds, NDS and PSP, began a tearing war.

The PSP is like a mini version of the PS2. There are traditional core titles such as God of War, Monster Hunter P3, Ridge Racing, Metal Gear Solid and Parallelist, and Second Robot Wars Z. Of course, PSP can also run PS games perfectly, which can be regarded as moving an era to the palm of your hand.

Andy knows that people now generally think that mobile phones are used to make calls and send text messages, mobile games are just a gimmick, and PDA handheld computers usually cost more than one or two thousand or even three thousand. So if you want to play a real handheld game, you still have to buy a handheld console.

So, he now says that he wants to develop a mobile game that has been beaten by the handheld and can't find the north, and Blair and the rest of the management can agree to have a ghost.

And to be honest, many people are very dismissive of Andy's advocacy of the smartphone era, not a joke, and even Steve Jobs doesn't understand why this young man is more confident than him.

It's not an exaggeration at all, in the face of thousands of games and software applications developed by Microsoft and Nokia that match the system, to be honest, there is no advantage in the crazy love that can only support music playback.

Apple and Steve Jobs were originally really trying to solidify the iPod's position while giving Microsoft and Nokia the starting point for making trouble.

Andy knows that Apple's crazy phone will be successful in the future, and almost all the traditional mobile phone giants will be wiped out, but now he says that no one will believe him if he breaks the sky.

Jobs became a god because he succeeded in loving madness, but some time ago, after the launch of Crazy Love 1, Microsoft laughed, and Nokia laughed. In their opinion, Apple's launch of this product is undoubtedly a suicidal act. You must know that Apple has been losing money for several years because of its early years of love with Microsoft for home computer platform systems. At this time, if you don't work hard to make achievements in the home computer system, but you go to get some iPod, it is really brain-dead + neurotic.

That's the reality in 2007, without exaggerating or belittling anyone, Jobs turned out to be great afterwards, and of course, that's when he succeeded.

But now, Andy Smith, the only one who is at the forefront and has great confidence in smartphones, has all the media propaganda that this humble little kid is like a clown for Nokia and Microsoft.

As a traverser, with eyes to see through the future, but at the same time to bear the pain and depression that others can't understand, Andy also knows how some technology newspapers are ridiculing him, how various IT bosses are laughing at his little kid, of course, what disappointed him the most was the silence and lack of confidence of Steve Jobs and Apple.

Andy knows that Love Crazy is a little dark horse born out of nowhere, and it has a birthmark of a rotten apple on its back, and a few English letters are written underneath it - iphone.

In fact, it's okay, at least Andy Smith has stolen too much of the limelight and halo from Jobs, because after Apple's success, everyone will remember who they were slapped in the face, and Andy Smith and Jobs may be tied up and continue to appear in various reports to lead this era.

Andy's excellence and forward-looking vision will give him a huge say in the future, which is the most important point for him to insist that the real smartphone era has arrived, regardless of being ridiculed and ridiculed.

In the conference room, Andy stood alone in front of the window with his hands in his trouser pockets, watching the sunset, his eyes squinting slightly, and his thoughts didn't know where to fly.

The meeting had long since broken up, and the project team for the mobile game "Fruit Swordsman" was set up under his ducai, and the whole company could only accept the decision of the big boss, Blair tried to persuade again, but Andy's attitude was very resolute.

Andy won't do anything stupid to be a king pioneer, he won't fail, and the future of mobile games is bright. He's thinking about more than just mobile games now.

Some people may ask, why not make mobile phones? Apple is just getting started, why not do it yourself?

But thinking of the old fox he had to face and Jobs, who was known for his greed and miserliness, he really didn't have much confidence to be able to snatch this piece of meat from his mouth, and Jobs's favorite thing to do was to monopolize the market domineeringly, maximize benefits, and basically didn't have any psychological pressure on him to go alone by turning his back on his partner.

There is no doubt that Jobs was a genius, but he was morally deficient and very difficult to get along with.

Knock knock.

Andy heard a knock on the door and didn't look back, still looking out the window.

"Boss, just now... ”

Andy raised his arm to stop Blair from continuing, "You just did what you thought you were supposed to do, it's okay, is there anything wrong?"

Blair finally breathed a sigh of relief, since the end of the meeting, the boss has been staying in the conference room and not going out, he still thinks that the boss is angry because everyone does not support the mobile game project, now it seems that he has thought too much.

"The personnel, equipment and venue of the "Fruit Swordsman" development team have been taken care of. ”

Andy turned his head to look at him, nodded and asked, "Call Apple to make an appointment, just say I want to meet with Jobs to discuss a business, I want him to meet me." After all, I've already greeted him, and he must want to meet me!"

"Is it because of the IOS system? I think, if we add game applications to his system, they will be very welcome, and they should give us the IOS system in advance, after all, based on the software application of this mobile system, we should be the first. "Blair knew that he couldn't change his boss's decision, so he needed to change his mindset and do his job as good as he could.

"IOS system they will use for us in advance, but that's not what I want, hey, it's a headache, Jobs is such a headache!" Andy said with a wry smile, in short, as soon as he says his intentions, Jobs will definitely see the value in it, and whether he will get rid of himself and go it alone, it depends on whether he has confidence in his Apple crazy phone.