Chapter 573 - Sky-high price graphics card
"Resident Evil 1" developed by the descendants of the New Venture Electronics Group is similar to the later Capcom's game of the same name in terms of selling points, but there are certain differences in plot design.
The plot of this game, at the beginning, adopts the plot of the later movie version of "Resident Evil", which is mainly based on Alice's perspective.
Through Alice's point of view, the tension and rhythm of the plot are stronger than the original game version. Of course, the core selling point is the terrifying zombies and fierce battles. This game, along with the later movie of the same name, can be described as the pinnacle of the zombie apocalypse genre.
In terms of the design of the battle, this game also refers to a large number of action movies and invites film directors and martial arts instructors to make the game's fights extremely cool and very operational.
Of course, in order to take care of some of the hard work, the operation of the game is also divided into easy, medium, high difficulty and so on. Simple,Not only a lot of operations,The computer can be done automatically,The user only needs to click the mouse to automatically fight monsters、Take medicine、Change weapons、Medium difficulty,It is to cancel some fool operations,Users need to use the mouse keyboard or use the handle to operate independently。 The high difficulty is that even the monsters have become more cunning and difficult to fight, not to mention the blood thickness, and the AI is also more flexible.
This kind of consideration for players at different levels also shows that the newly entrepreneurial game team has a very good understanding of the player market. It's impossible to launch a game that players find extremely difficult to play. After all, masochistic players are a minority. Most players use easy and medium difficulty modes to find joy in the game.
All in all, this game takes RPGs to the next level. Moreover, it is still a realistic painting style, so that some players, who are psychologically fragile, are scared enough just by watching a few zombie pictures and drinking the camera.
Quite a few players would not dare to play this kind of game alone at night. Even if you play with multiple people, you will often be afraid of your companions, what if you become a zombie and other strange thoughts.
But here's the problem, this game is very addictive to the graphics card, even if the game locks the picture at 24 fps to avoid too high a frame rate, the graphics card does not move.
But even so, it is beyond the hardware configuration of the average player in this era.
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"I've played Resident Evil 1, it's so fun! The 3D graphics are even better than Counter-Strike!"
"This game is too much of a graphics card, and the default configuration of Pangu V can't bring this game, so you need to buy a higher-end discrete graphics card. ”
"I hope that Pangu Computer will be official and produce a matching high-end graphics card!"
Many players, because of the problem of the graphics card, were persuaded to quit by such a big production.
New Venture Electronics is also prepared, and when "Resident Evil 1" was developed, the graphics card company under the New Venture Electronics Group was ready.
Players of the new game "Biochemical" have complained that the graphics card does not move. The graphics card company under the New Venture Electronics Group quickly announced the launch of the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card, with 30MB of video memory, with the most powerful 3D acceleration performance in the field of personal computers. Even the new game of "Resident Evil 1", which is currently recognized as the most graphics card, can stabilize at 24 frames if you upgrade to the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card!
However, the price of the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card is also sky-high - $1598 a piece!
After the price of up to $1598 was released, it attracted a lot of objections, and this price is even more expensive than the Pangu 5th generation computer.
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Nintendo breathed a sigh of relief!
At present, due to the protests of the Soviet Union, quite a number of countries, considering the attitude of the Soviet Union, have not approved the listing of "Red Alert". Moreover, games like "Red Alert", which Nintendo did not expect in the past, can now be imitated and launch some real-time strategy games on its own platform.
But for a masterpiece like "Biohazard", Nintendo admits that it can't make a game of this magnitude anyway. However, the game was so ahead of its time that few players of the Pangu platform could afford to play it.
Now, the new venture electronics group, although it highlights the supporting graphics card, but the price of a graphics card is $1598, which is simply out of mind!
"It's crazy to start a new business, it's crazy to think about money, $1598 is just to buy a high-end graphics card to accelerate the 3D display performance of games, when players are really willing to buy $1598 hardware for a $30 game!"
Yamauchi Pu was very happy, and when he saw the pricing of the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card, he knew that he had won! Not a technical victory, but a cost-effective victory!
As a perennial survival relying on cost performance, the current Nintendo, for the superstition of cost performance, to the extreme. Yamauchi believes that as long as the price is lower, a product that originally did not have much market will definitely have a market! If it still does not sell well, it can only mean that the price is not low enough!
He is definitely not optimistic about the sales of a high-end graphics card that is more expensive than the Pangu computer!
"Wow, I'm going to eat soil this month, the new entrepreneurship of, the Lin Qi, this price is life-threatening. ”
"It's too difficult to do, to buy or not to buy, that's a question. ”
"Forget it, buy it now, you won't need to upgrade it in the future, in a short time, there will definitely be no new graphics cards, then again, this game is too perverted. ”
"It's better to buy it, buy it early and enjoy it early!"
Since the launch of the new generation of graphics cards, everyone can be described as love and hate, and many players are shouting that they can't afford it.
However, there are policies and countermeasures, and the new start-up graphics card companies quickly made adjustments. Consumers of Magic Painting 1 graphics cards can get free high-end games such as "Counter-Strike", "Resident Evil", "Court of Avalon" and other graphics cards.
Under this kind of stimulation and concession, a small number of players, gritting their teeth, bought the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card!
Of course, even so, the game "Resident Evil 1" has a surprisingly good reputation among players, but the sales are difficult to compare with other games. The main reason is that to play this game, the current Pangu computer is not enough, and it needs to be paired with a higher-end graphics card.
Therefore, many players who know Moore's Law are still thinking that after a few years and the price of hardware drops, it is not too late to spend less money to buy a console with a higher-configuration graphics card, and play "Resident Evil 1" a few years later.
Of course, the world's newly emerging Internet cafes and computer labs are still willing to purchase high-end graphics cards to attract gamers to play high-end games that can't be brought by a computer at home.
To some extent, "Resident Evil 1" is the same as the original "Counter-Strike", mainly in Internet cafes. Instead of household users, they purchase more.
In contrast, "Red Alert" is much simpler, and it can be used in stand-alone mode and online battles in a local area network. The requirements for game configuration are not high, and Pangu 3 can bring this new game.
By the end of February, "Red Alert" had sold 1 million copies.
The performance of "Resident Evil 1" was quite strong, selling 300,000 units, and 100,000 units were also sold because of the "Magic Painting 1" graphics card that was launched.
For this result, Lin Qi is quite satisfied.
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Is that possible?
Why?
Why are they so expensive that they can sell sky-high graphics cards and games?
This is a true portrayal of Yamauchi's heart, he is angry, but there is no way.
If he can sell at a high price, he will definitely not take the cost-effective route. Because, in the current situation, the Pangu platform is the mainstream platform for gamers, and a second-milk machine like Super Nintendo, if the price is too expensive, no one will buy it at all, after all, the game resources of this machine cannot be compared with the Pangu console.
This is similar to the later generations of Apple, which can sell machines with hardware costs of 2,000 yuan to 4,000, 5,000, 8,000, and 10,000 yuan. Earn money on hardware with your ability, why not make it?
And the other Android camp of the emperor, some hardware configurations even exceed Apple, selling more than 4000, and are also disliked by users. Therefore, I had to sell the 2000 cost machine emperor configuration for 2999 or even 2699 yuan to please users.
If it can be sold more expensively, it is naturally impossible for merchants to find it in conscience to lower the price.
The key is, take the cost-effective route, the top chip on the market, the machine with a performance score that has reached the top of the pyramid, if it is sold for 2699 yuan, it looks like a loss, but there is still a profit and market for mass sales.