Chapter 305: The End of Wayward Heaven
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Countless game manufacturers have fallen victim to and completely disappeared from the public's eyes.
Even Japan's well-known game manufacturers, such as Willful Heaven and Sony, are facing a dilemma.
The news of the illness of the president of Willful Heaven caused a shock in the entire game industry, although Yamauchi Pu blocked the news within the company, but unfortunately it was revealed by a small nurse who examined him.
On the other hand, Huaxia, represented by Aurora Games, took a year to grow from a crack into a big tree, and became a model for other Asian countries and even European and American counterparts to worship and imitate.
The willful Paradise camp collapsed across the board, the Wayward Paradise Six Tigers, which were once the most valued by Yamauchi Pu, Taidong Company could not break free from the whirlpool of independent research and development of the main engine, Konami became a second-rate company, and Capcom was suddenly acquired by Aurora Games when it declared bankruptcy and became Capcom's largest shareholder.
Among the several new allies added by Yamauchi, Sony has done the biggest, but his life is not easy, and even before he has always been a competitor, it is impossible to put all his hopes on him, and Sony is not bad if he does not yin himself at a critical moment.
The news that Yamauchi Pu was terminally ill for a short time caused a sigh from the high-level people inside Wayward Heaven, but after the sigh, almost half of the people began to make small calculations, thinking about what to do next, whether to directly engage in power struggle.
As a result, the wayward heaven began to mess up from within.
The current wayward heaven in the outside world has all been cut off, everyone has betrayed their relatives, and Yamauchi has become a loner!
The previous dominant games of Wayward Heaven were nothing more than a handful of games such as Pokemon, Super Mario, Fire Emblem, etc., but now these games, although carrying the memories of generations of players, are quite easy on a global scale.
But now they are not applauded! Those who praise them might as well change their performance.
It's true that almost every player recognizes these classics that can be recorded in the history of games, but recognition alone can't do it, and players run to play mobile games after they approve it, which can be described as quite a slap in the face!
Take a look at the Aurora game, "Angry Birds", "Fruit Ninja", "Fishing Master", "Honkai Academy", "Hungry Sharks: Evolution", "CrossFire", "NBA2017", "StarCraft", "Runaway Kart", "Plants vs. Zombies", ...... And so on, and a whole bunch of games in the Aurora game lobby and web game center on SGP, and who knows if he's making other new games in private......
The number of classic games under Aurora Games is not less than that of its own, and compared to the handheld games that players can play for more than ten or twenty years, mobile games and terminal games seem to be much more novel and convenient.
In this way, in the first half a year when Ye Le first appeared, he insisted on not doing mobile games and terminal games, and he had to slap himself in the face, and turned his head and rushed to these two fields like a flurry head.
As a result, nothing came out, and the failure was complete.
It's no wonder that it collapsed so quickly, and it's not an exaggeration to describe it as a thousand miles.
The trees fell and the macaques scattered, the walls fell and everyone pushed them, except for a few core backbone members who were still around him, Yamauchi Pu couldn't find anyone to use!
But there have been physical problems recently, who knows if these cores will privately watch their position as president, in fact, they can't live for two years, and this position will definitely be vacated after they die, and now there is no benefit to the company at all in the power struggle.
Yamauchi Pu thinks so, but it is inevitable that some people will be anxious!
"Why is this happening? Is it that the foundation I have worked so hard for most of my life is going to be ruined like this, is it necessary to return all the glory I have obtained?" Yamauchi muttered to himself, his voice trembling
"Why didn't it completely strangle it in the cradle before. Why is it that the two major fields of mobile games and desktop games have become the Waterloo of my wayward paradise?"
No one can answer this question, and he really can't figure out what kind of magic the Aurora game has, so that the controversial game can be set off by Huaxia to set off a big reform.
I still remember the group of self-righteous shareholders who joined Wayward Paradise, and they were shocked to hear that Aurora Games has accumulated hundreds of millions of players around the world in just one year.
What kind of concept is that, their wayward heaven is only about 70 million players at most, and they have all relied on so many years of continuous efforts to accomplish it.
It's no wonder that Sony would describe Aurora Games as an "upstart".
The speed of the rise is too fast, too amazing, this is something that everyone thinks is impossible, but it was done by Aurora Games.......
It is conceivable that in the next two to three years, mobile games and desktop games will become the most popular and popular games on all platforms if there is no game console that can compete with them.
It's just that now it's not easy to design and develop a game console that can calm the scene in a short period of time, which takes a lot of effort, and the time and money consumed is not a little bit.
Compared with the launch of new game consoles, those mobile games and terminal games have a shorter production cycle, and there is no need to wait for the new game consoles to come out like them, and they have to struggle with how to develop games to match them.
All kinds of problems are left to the willful heaven to solve, and Yamauchi Pu likes to do things himself, so it's no wonder that he was emaciated during this time.
Compared with Ye Le, who is far away in China, Yamauchi Pu's life is not easy.
He's been a long time and hasn't really rested.
Traveling back and forth between home, the hospital and the company every day is quite difficult for him at the age of 80.
The body is already old, and the spirit is not as good as before, and now he has this disease again, and there is no possibility of healing in the advanced stage, and the suffering in his heart is only known to himself.
"Do we have any way to deal with it? I don't want to fall in willful heaven in my lifetime, even if I become second. Yamauchi was finally at a loss for help, and he had to turn to these loyal subordinates for help.
His subordinates have tried their best, and they are also desperately speeding up the development of new game consoles, and porting Super Mario and Pokemon on PC and mobile platforms, but they still can't stop the offensive of Aurora games.
"Maybe this is fate......." Yamauchi Pu looked at his subordinates' indifferent appearance, and the last glimmer of hope in his body was completely emptied.