Chapter 214: Crazy Xbox
"At the E3 exhibition yesterday, the launch of four new games from Huaxia Mythology Group shocked the audience. The four are two fighting games, the online game King of Fighting and the console game DLG, an FPS shooter game (FPS is the abbreviation of first-person shooter game) Jingyuan Century 2, and MMORGP large-scale role-playing game The Legend of Xishan Swordsman. These four are all accompanied by a CG short film, the CG of Jingyuan Century 2 makes people's blood boil, and the CG of the King of Fighting is moving, especially the oriental woman named Qingqiong, even I was moved by it. In particular, it is worth mentioning that the picture of each of these four CG short films is very exquisite, not even less than a high-definition movie, I really don't know how much money the Ludao Mythology Group spent on shooting these four CG short films. ”
On the second day of the E3 exhibition, the Los Angeles Times in the United States introduced the E3 exhibition at a large number of pages, especially mentioning the Mythical Group, but the newspaper focused on mentioning the high quality of the four CG videos of the Mythical Group, and did not mention much about the game itself.
The Wall Street Journal of the United States also mentioned the Mythical Group, which published a short newsletter on the eighth page of the same day, writing: "The rapid expansion of the Huaxia Mythical Group in the past two years has surprised everyone, and what is particularly curious is the mythical studio behind the Huaxia Mythical Group, this mysterious studio with more than half of the shares of the Mythical Group has never appeared in the world, but now no one in the major game companies in the world will look down on this mysterious studio." The mysterious game studio has only produced two mobile games so far, a browser game and a role-playing game and a fighting game in the works, King of Fighters, which is a small number, but there is no denying that each game is a masterpiece. The previous role-playing game has been exported to twenty or thirty countries and regions in the world, including the United States, I don't know if the king of fighting can create miracles, let's wait and see. ”
In China, many game media, led by the multi-game network, also sent the news of the E3 exhibition back to China for the first time, and in addition to introducing the game masterpieces with high attention, they focused most of their attention on the Huaxia games that came to E3 to participate in the exhibition.
Mythical Group's new game press conference yesterday is naturally their top priority, especially the multi-game network, the major shareholder of the parent company Huanju Times is the chairman of Mythical Group, how dare they have the slightest slackness. Besides, since getting the help of the Mythical Group, the second child of the multi-game network has surpassed 17173 in one fell swoop from the previous two years to become the leading boss of the domestic game information media in China, even if there is no such relationship, they will try their best to please Lu's Mythical Group.
"Yesterday, Huaxia Mythology Group held a new game conference at the E3 venue, attracting a total of nearly 6,000 European and American players and dozens of European and American media to participate. They are the online games King of Fighting and The Legend of the Swordsman of the West Mountain, the console game DLG, and the first-person shooter game Crystal Origin Century 2. These four games can be said to be the representative works of the four major game studios of the Mythical Group, and the game production strength of the Mythic Group has become more and more prominent, and it has become a mainstay in the game industry in China. We can see from the photos that there are a lot of European and American players queuing up to try these four games, we randomly interviewed more than a dozen European and American players who are queuing, and they basically agree that these four new games released by Myth Group are all very good games, and most of them will go back to play if they are released in Europe and the United States. ”
This report of Duo Game Network has aroused a very big response among Chinese netizens, and there is also a live video released along with the report, which shows the popularity of the exhibition area of Mythical Group. The reporter of the multi-game game network also intentionally or unintentionally filmed the deserted exhibition area of Tencent Games for a while, which formed a sharp contrast with the crowded exhibition area of the mythical group.
But Li Haoyu didn't bother to pay attention to all this, he was busy with another matter, he just received a call from Li Yayan early this morning, she and Lin Zhendong had come to Los Angeles in the United States, Li Haoyu took Xiao Yuqing and Chen Qingmei over to see Li Yayan, who had not seen her for a long time.
"Sister, when did you and Brother Dong come to the United States, you didn't tell me." In the café of a Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, Li Haoyu sat on one side with Xiao Yuqing and Chen Qingmei, and sitting opposite was Li Yayan and Lin Zhendong, who had already gone to Europe for their honeymoon in advance.
Li Yayan stroked her hair and said with a smile: "Haoyu, what's the matter, don't you want me to come over?" ”
Li Haoyu hurriedly said: "How is this possible, I wish you would come back soon, sister, it's just ...... It's just that your belly ......" Li Yayan's lower abdomen has risen slightly, which is obviously a sign of pregnancy.
Li Yayan smiled and said: "Haoyu, it is natural for a woman to be pregnant, and Yuqing will experience this after she marries you in the future." ”
Xiao Yuqing looked at Li Yayan's bulging lower abdomen curiously, and said with a slightly red face: "Sister Yayan, what does it feel like to be pregnant?" Chen Qingmei and Li Yayan are not very familiar, but this is a question that every woman wants to know, especially those girls who are in the spring, and she also pricked up her ears on the side.
"There's no special feeling, Yuqing, you better marry Haoyu earlier, you can experience this feeling yourself." Li Yayan looked at Xiao Yuqing playfully and blinked.
Xiao Yuqing's face flushed, and she said, "The matter between me and Haoyu will wait until Sister Ya Yan and Brother Dong's affairs are done, I'm not in a hurry." ”
Li Yayan smiled and said, "You're not in a hurry, I think Haoyu is in a hurry." ”
Li Haoyu was drinking coffee, and when he heard this, he almost squirted out the coffee he drank in his mouth, coughed twice, and changed the topic: "Sister, you are pregnant and just go back to China directly, why do you still come to the United States?" ”
Li Yayan said: "In addition to coming to see the performance of our Mythical Group in E3, I am here to tell you a piece of news. ”
"Sister, what news is worth your coming to the United States in person?" Li Haoyu asked curiously.
Li Yayan didn't answer and asked: "Haoyu, is the console game of our Mythical Group's Eight-Foot Mirror Studio about to be completed, and what platform do you plan to use to release it?" ”
Li Haoyu thought for a while and said: "If nothing else, it should be on sale on the Sony PS4 platform, after all, Capcom has always cooperated with Sony, and it shouldn't be a big problem for the games of the eight-foot mirror studio to be sold on this platform, and yesterday Sony and Nintendo people have come to me to want DLG to be released on their platforms." ”
"Haoyu, I don't know if you haven't thought about releasing this game on Microsoft's Xbox platform?" Li Yayan asked.
Li Haoyu scratched his head, "Sister, what do you mean?" ”
"As far as I know, Microsoft is interested in selling the Xbox gaming division recently. ”
"What?!" Li Haoyu's eyes widened: "Microsoft is going to sell the Xbox business?!" ”
Xiao Yuqing and Chen Qingmei also looked incredible, they are all really Microsoft's Xbox, which is one of the three major console platforms in the world! The global sales of Xbox360 alone are close to 80 million units, and the sales of Xboxone are also more than 20 million units.
"Sister Yayan, are you telling the truth?" Chen Qingmei asked curiously.
Li Yayan doesn't have much of a good impression of Chen Qingmei to be honest, her favorite brother-in-law has always been Xiao Yuqing, Chen Qingmei, a woman, made her instinctively perceive her threat to Xiao Yuqing's status, but over the years, Li Yayan has already developed the ability to be moody and angry, and said with the same expression: "Of course, could it be that I will still lie to you?" In fact, there have been rumors that Microsoft is going to sell the Xbox business for several years, and before Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella took office, there was media speculation that the leader, who had never been in charge of the game business, was not interested in games and was likely to sell it. Some shareholders, including co-founder Paul Allen's investment group, have also suggested that Microsoft sell its Xbox business to boost its own profitability. ”
Li Haoyu pondered, and after a while, he said: "Sister, then how much money do you think Microsoft's Xbox business will need to buy?" ”
Chen Qingmei looked at Li Haoyu in surprise, this Xbox business does not have two or three billion US dollars, don't even think about taking it from Microsoft, although the current Mythical Group is developing rapidly and has strong profitability, but most of the profits in the past two years should be used for the construction of the headquarters building of the Mythical Group, how do you see Li Haoyu's appearance is really interested in buying Microsoft's Xbox business?
Could it be that the mythical group is being used as collateral to borrow money in the bank?
However, none of the banks in Huaxia should be able to lend so much money at once, which is close to 20 billion yuan when converted into RMB!
"It shouldn't be too expensive, and it's estimated that you can win the Xbox business for about $1.5 billion." Li Yayan took a sip of coffee and said.
"So cheap?" Li Haoyu asked in disbelief: "When did Xbox become so worthless?" ”
Li Yayan smiled and said, "Haoyu, did you see Microsoft release their latest generation of Xbox at this year's E3?" ”
Xiao Yuqing said: "Sister Yayan, it shouldn't be so fast, I remember that Microsoft only released the latest Xboxone in 13 years, even if it was updated, it wasn't so fast, the previous Xbox360 was used for many years." ”
"Sony's PS4 was released in November '13, and Nintendo's WiiU was released in November '12, but did you see them launch their successors at this year's E3?" Li Yayan asked.