It doesn't matter if the game production company is good or not, whether the game production company will go bankrupt or not. Anyway, entering the new era of 3D games, players feel a great sense of satisfaction.

The game form of video games is inherently limited by the level of hardware, and once there is a breakthrough in hardware, there will be a large number of new forms of video games.

It's just that unlike a decade ago, there are fewer people who go to other people's homes to watch other people play games. Most of the players' communication about the game has become air-to-air during small talk.

Akihabara, an electric town, has been the most affected in more than a decade.

With the popularity of anime and video games, Akihabara has gradually become an area dominated by games, manga, and anime secondary cultural products.

Whether it's a teenager or a teenager in their thirties, Akihabara is a mecca for gamers.

It's still a little cold in Akihabara in March, so Mie Mori, dressed in slightly heavy clothes, walks through the streets of Akihabara.

Video games have been popular for 20 years, and in the beginning, they were played by almost exclusively young men. But after more than 20 years of development, both men and women, young and old, more or less have a favorite game in this book.

Mie Mori isn't a traditional console gamer, and she has clumsy hands that don't allow her to play games that require non-stop action.

The game she is good at and likes is the kind of beautiful boy game that almost does not require operation, only needs to click with the mouse.

That's right, it's those beautiful boys who are drawn by painters, who look very cute and have a very docile personality.

Although it's not a bad hobby, she still doesn't have a fan in school, even if every time she comes out to find a game, she comes out by herself.

It seems normal for boys to play beautiful girl games, but it seems weird for girls like her to play beautiful girl games.

Mie Mori exhaled and continued walking down the street.

Even though it's not even eight o'clock in the morning, you can already see a lot of people walking around in Akihabara. Today is a day off, so many people who love anime, manga, and games are sure to come to Akihabara for some shopping. And Maori Mie wants to successfully buy a beautiful boy game retreat before she sees someone she knows.

Turning around, Mori Mie entered a cramped path.

Shonen America games are not as good as those console games that sell a lot of money, they sell much less, and there are no big companies that like to do it.

The games played by Maori Mie are basically made by small groups of individuals.

It can be said that almost 9.9 out of every 10 American boy games are made by these small groups of individuals.

Games made by these small groups that have not been reviewed by the Ethics Review Committee will naturally not be allowed to appear in stores.

Therefore, if you want to buy these games, you can only go to these rental houses and use them as game stores.

"Knock, knock, knock. "Knock on the door three times in a rhythmic way.

"Zila. The door opened.

Inside the door was a boy who looked to be in his thirties, slightly vicissitudes, but relatively thin, with long hair and a gray long sleeve.

The boy pushed his glasses and said a little awkwardly, "You're here, there are a few new games, I don't know if you will like it." ”

With that, he turned sideways and let Mori Mie walk to the entrance and closed the door.

Although the room inside the door is not large, only the size of twenty or thirty tatami mats, but it has a unique hole, and from the beginning of entering the entrance, the walls are either hung with brand new games or posters of games.

Since the year before, these beautiful boy games running on the computer seem to have suddenly changed from floppy disks to optical discs.

While the price has dropped a bit, it has actually increased the reliability of the game carrier.

Both optical discs and floppy disks are storage media with a limited number of reads and writes, although it is not necessarily said that they will be broken after a few times. However, the failure probability of floppy disks is much greater than that of optical disks.

Because the structure of the floppy disk is more complex, there are built-in motors, transmission mechanisms, and all kinds of bits and pieces inside the floppy disk.

And the disc is just a plate coated with a thin metal film. It doesn't have that many parts, and the reliability is relatively high.

What if it affects reliability?

Basically, the head that reads the data or something scratches the metal film.

The reason why the beautiful boy game changed from a floppy disk to a disc is mainly because the optical drive has become popular, and the cost of the disc is lower than that of a floppy disk.

Of course, while the cost of discs is lower, the price of games has not decreased.

Compared to the price of a few thousand yen for a typical console game, the cost of the Shonen game is lower, but the price is higher.

Seven or eight thousand yen beautiful boy games, it can be regarded as the cheapest level.

The price of the beautiful boy games with souvenirs with the words "First Round" limited to the first round ranges from 10,000 yen to 20,000 yen.

Why are games so expensive?

It's because the market for beautiful boy games is small, and the people who buy it are just a small circle. The best-selling beautiful boy game can only sell two or three thousand copies.

For those small teams who are just starting to make Shonen games, even the first shipment of a game will not exceed 100 copies.

In such a market that is not large-scale and standardized, what kind of price a game sets has less to do with its own quality, but more important is the sales of the game.

More sales may be cheaper, and sales will be stimulated.

Less sales may be more expensive, so that the profit of a single product is higher.

However, Mori Mie has never heard of anyone making a beautiful boy game at a loss.

Because the beautiful boy game is almost a no-cost business.

In this day and age, there are very few types of games that can be made by four people, including one artist, one music, one script, and one program.

Even art, music, scripting, and programming can be done by one person.

Add a few months to it, and a beautiful boy game comes out.

The difficulty is not high at all.

And there is no publicity fee, how can this kind of game be lost?

"I want this, this, this. Mie Mori chose three new games and handed the package to a thin middle-aged man.

"It's twenty-one thousand dollars. The emaciated man said.

Mori Mie took out two 10,000 sheets from her wallet and handed one to the man, carried a small bag by herself, walked back to the entrance door, and just opened the door to get out, but saw her classmate Ryota Miyamoto.

"You...... Hello...... Are you going to buy the game too?" A little embarrassed, Mie Mori said.