A video game, not only the "PONG" of ancient times, but also a three-dimensional game of the current generation, the size of the program code of the game itself is actually far from large.

In the era of red and white machines, a huge amount of storage space was already used to store the game's textures.

Of course, there weren't any textures at the time.

In today's generation, the proportion of storage space occupied by stickers is higher, such as Wanhu's "Endless Fantasy 9", and the size of the space occupied by stickers is 700 trillion.

This is also because of technical limitations, there is a strict limit on the number of polygons on the same screen, only the characters can use relatively few polygons, and the background cannot use polygons at all.

Although the clarity of the textures is not particularly high, the graphics of Endless Fantasy 9 look much better than those of 3D games of the same period.

The mystery here lies in the fact that Wanhu uses normal maps.

The so-called normal map is to pre-make a complex polygon scene and then use RGB channels to record the normal direction.

In this way, a surface that is originally smooth will show different bump depths.

The effect displayed in the game is a bit like a painting that originally had no shadows, but suddenly added shadows to make it appear more three-dimensional.

For this technology, which has a wide range of applicability in the future, Wanhu has registered a patent as early as two years ago.

After all, this technology has been applied in the production of special effects in Wanhu.

Because it is protected by patents, this technology cannot be used freely by other manufacturers.

Even, except for the big manufacturers, the small manufacturers have not even realized that this technology has been born.

Wanhu will not refuse to grant this technology like the lens patent of Konano in another world. As soon as the authorization is granted, the lion opens his mouth.

But at this point in time, it is impossible to authorize, not even with more money.

Just like Sony wants to make players feel that their technology is the best, at the beginning of the three-dimensional game of this console, Wanhu also wants to make players feel that Wanhu's 3D game technology is the best.

Of course, this technology is actually an algorithm.

If other manufacturers have the energy to study, they may not be able to bypass it.

However, at the end of 1996, only 10,000 games adopted this technology.

At the beginning of 1997, it was still in the middle of winter vacation.

Countless families are watching TV around the kotatsu.

On a day like this, the TV suddenly showed a brand new game commercial.

At the very beginning of the advertisement, the logo of Wanhu flashed, followed by the logo of the PS game console, and then entered the screen demonstration of the game.

In the lower right corner of the advertisement, the words "Endless Fantasy 9" are clearly written.

Although the "Endless Fantasy" series of games is also a game series with a long history, the popularity of the book is now not as good as the "Dragon Quest" and "Final Fantasy" series.

The reason is simple, Sega's console has never sold more than 10 million units in the company.

Although "Endless Fantasy" is already the best role-playing game sold on Sega consoles, compared to the red and white machines that have sold more than 30 million units in China, and the super red and white machines that have sold more than 20 million units, the audience is still too small.

In many cases, the sales of a game are not only determined by the quality of the game, but also by the platform on which the game is played.

In the modern commercial society, it can be said that the material is extremely rich, and in such an era of abundant spiritual entertainment, no matter how fun video games are, they are afraid of the deep alleys of wine.

Even if Wanhu has the mouthpiece of "Player's Heart", he can boast of his own game.

However, in order for players to buy their own games, the cost of players is too high unless they are true love.

After all, Sega's platform can be called a very fun game, probably only Wanhu's game, as well as Sega's own "Sonic" series and "Sakura Wars" series.

Other games, either not exclusive, or gameplay needs to be discussed.

And the game "Endless Fantasy 9" can be said to be the return of the "Endless Fantasy" series after several years away from the mainstream platform.

The sales of the PS console, although now it is slightly inferior to the N64.

However, with Sony as the backing, countless manufacturers are very confident in PS.

Square Enix, for example, completely broke with Nintendo and chose to make games for Sony.

And manufacturers such as Capcom, although there are also some double-faced, but they are also doing their best to make games for PS.

This is mainly due to the fact that the conditions given by PS are extremely generous, and the amount of royalties is negligible compared to Nintendo.

The most important thing is the production of the game's discs, which can also be made first and paid later.

Coupled with the cheap price of discs, this alone can completely allow third parties to complete the production and distribution of games without borrowing from loan sharks.

That's right, except for the super-first-class game manufacturers, almost all Nintendo's third-party published games have to go through such a link as loan sharking.

Even Nintendo eventually developed a related enterprise to specialize in such usury work for third parties.

It can be said that for a third party, Nintendo is simply not human, and for a third party, it is a bone and marrow.

The collective backlash of the third parties, on the one hand, is of course because of Sony's strength that convinces them, and on the other hand, the main reason is that the psychological shadow caused by Nintendo is too great.

Of course, two or five boys like Capcom have checks and balances in mind.

If it can help Sony's PS develop, break Nintendo's monopoly in the home console market.

It is very likely that Nintendo will give in and let Nintendo come out of its small abacus.

If that's the case, being able to sell games on both platforms will definitely make more money than selling games on just one.

It's ridiculous to say that a manufacturer like Square Enix, which was still a small workshop at the beginning, was able to rise thanks to Nintendo's support, but the manufacturer that was supported by Nintendo completely broke with Nintendo.

And manufacturers such as Capcom and Bandai Namco, which began to make arcade games in the old era of red and white consoles, feel that they are equal to Nintendo.

Therefore, they did not break completely, but wanted checks and balances.

When "Endless Fantasy 9" was about to go on sale, Nintendo suddenly broke the news that Junhei Yokoi, who was a veteran of Nintendo, left in early 1997.

This news immediately pushed Nintendo to the top of public opinion.