Chiba Games' new handheld game console,In addition to the professional impression of the game industry,The rest of the multimedia functions,The impression left on people,All are general but not refined。

Even, Suomud, a company engaged in high-fidelity music, also ridiculed the new handheld of Chiba Games. No one would listen to music on a machine that even has a noise when listening to music. Only the music playback device with mud lock is the best and is what the user wants the most.

However, reality slapped Suomud's face hard. Because, there are still quite a few people who listen to music on this machine. The reason for this is not because of anything else. Even, not many people care about the sound quality of music playback. Because, they are not music enthusiasts, but sometimes they listen to music because they are interested. And that's just the feature on game consoles.

There are only a very few people who care about the quality of music playback, but most of them just listen to it. For example, the Chiba game handheld, such a machine with a variety of functions, in the eyes of many people, is indeed a very cost-effective machine.

If you want to read a book, you can read a book, you can listen to music if you want to listen to music, you can listen to music while reading a book, and you can play games.

The most important thing is that this machine can import music with the new super red and white machine or personal computer at will. As long as you have a disc, you can import music into it without spending any more money. In the eyes of many people, this is also very happy.

Of course, they don't know that Chiba Games is planning to launch an online music store. After all, with the online payment of Chiba games, more and more people are using it. How to use this online payment platform to make more profits is also a question that has to be raised.

The unexpected success of the game Stone Age. One of the questions that has drawn many people's attention is how much the Internet will change for video games.

Once. Some people thought it wouldn't change much. After all, the former video game league. I have also done satellite on-demand services. That is, if you buy a game over the phone, within a certain period of time, the video game alliance will disseminate the code of the game through satellite communication, and then provide download services.

However, the business was cancelled after less than half a year. Because, it can't be profitable. One is that it is too cumbersome to use. There is a time when the user makes a phone call and waits for the satellite to deliver the data. Basically, I went out to the store and came back from buying the game, and I was able to play for a while. The second is that this is a one-way channel. It's like TV shows and radio. Interaction is not possible.

However, the Internet is different, and the Internet seems to be more scientific than other things. Because, it can be interactive, that is. It can create communication between people.

Previously, it was thought that the advent of the Internet would have little impact on games. Mainly because, the price of the internet is too expensive.

However, the Chiba game takes a tricky approach. in their labs. Instead of the advent of lower Internet network laying technology, they adopted the existing cable television network, as well as the modification of the telephone network.

In fact. The most potential, and the most widespread, is the power grid. But. Carrier communication on the grid is not an easy task.

Because of the transformer. It's a natural filter. It's hard to get information through the transformer. Therefore, this plan was abandoned.

However, telephone lines and cable networks, it is already fine. Dramatically reduced costs. Although on the backbone line, it is often necessary to expand the capacity. However, on the feeder line, the facilities are now basically sufficient.

However, this has also led to the fact that the Internet, which is dependent on the telephone network and the cable television network, is severely constrained by companies in these two areas.

Companies from both sides can enter the field of Internet operators. You know, the most profitable is always the ridge-break. Although Chiba Games is the dominant player in this regard. However, because of the involvement of the other two industries, he will not be able to complete the monopoly.

Of course, you can still retain a certain right to speak.

Since Chiba Games has a large number of patents related to the Internet, it has recently begun to license other manufacturers to start making routers.

Generally, Internet operators will give away routers in the form of gifts. Of course, in fact, this is because the cost of the router is not high. After all, with the improvement of the integration of electronic components, the production cost of routers is already very low.

Chiba Games not only applied for a bunch of Internet patents by the way, but they also came up with a patent for PHS mobile phones by the way. This series of mobile phone networks is also expanded from the fixed-line network. Compared to Motorola's virtual network, it needs to be laid out from scratch. The cost is much lower.

So, it quickly became popular. And Chiba Games itself doesn't make mobile phones, so it sells the license. After all, Chiba Games is so big and has so much energy. It is impossible to be strong in so many ways.

Lin Yan was actually a little surprised by the birth of these patents at first, but later he was indifferent. After all, although he didn't understand these things, what the principles were. However, he has already come up with an idea for these technologies at the level of application.

This group of technicians can be developed, and it is a matter of course.

The recent "Warcraft" and "StarCraft" competitions have attracted the attention of many people, and the sequels to the two battles have basically been completed. Probably after this World Finals, it will be launched.

And "Counter-Strike Online Edition" is also well promoted, because it has a relatively high viewing value, so this game is from the college league, as a breakthrough in promotion.

After all, young people are creatures that are most likely to be stimulated to hemorrhage. It is also the easiest to get on impulsively. So, it's easy to promote the game among them.

Of course, these games and console games are not the same paths. They are not looking for a better picture because the hardware of the PC is not uniform. Try to take care of low-level computers.

Moreover, there is almost no single-player plot, and the main emphasis is on online interaction. For these reasons. Console gamers, soon targeting these online gamers. Emotions of contempt were raised.

The chain of contempt on video games, and thus it was formed.

And because of the growing maturity of the Internet community. So the war of words also has a platform. Therefore, the probability of spraying is greater.

Console gamers say that online games are garbage, and online gamers say that console gamers are poor. I don't have the money to play any console games.

They completely ignore that most of these games are launched by a single company. That's Chiba games.

Chiba games also have times when they lie down for no reason. However, it is not completely innocent. After all, online console games, and the Internet community. Chiba games are all ruthless.

Therefore, this is said to be a cocoon. It's not completely unfounded nonsense.

Lin Yan's game, called "Evolution", has also begun the development stage. The number of developers in the Fifth Development Department has actually increased a lot over the years.

From more than 100 people in the past, to nearly 300 people now. It is the development department with the largest number of people among the five development departments.

No matter how Lin Yan chose it at the beginning, but, after all, he was here, and he always enjoyed more resources than other places.

Lin Yan likes to play video games. Therefore, he is much stricter about the quality of video games than other people who are just for work.

So, the fifth development department. It is also often the development group that works the most overtime. After all, Lin Yan always has so many wonderful ideas. There has been almost no break in game development.

However, even game development is stressful. People who came to the Fifth Development Department. Still flocking to it. Because, although the work is hard here. But the growth of capabilities is also visible to the naked eye.

Don't say anything else. Let's just talk about such high-intensity training. Even if it's a newcomer who has just entered game production, not long after graduating from school.

Almost 110 hours a week and 5,720 hours a year. Basically, a person becomes a skilled player in game work during this time.

Even if he really quits, in Japan, a country that does not advocate job hopping, he can get a higher salary in other companies than his peers with the same education and the same number of years of work. Even, higher levels are very likely. When someone else is just a minion, he may be a master programmer, or a master artist.

Of course, there are also things like master planning, so I won't go into details.

The process of making this game is quite fast, and the development time is basically controlled in less than nine months. Over the course of nine months, more than 300 people worked hard to develop such a game.

In fact, the development cost can be said to be relatively high.

You know, the fifth development department doesn't always develop only one game. Maybe ten people develop this, fifty people develop that, and a hundred people develop that and that.

What, ten people can develop a game. Yes, there is also outsourcing. Those low-end labor, just let it be outsourced.

Of course, the outsourcing industry is also relatively dark. Any subcontracting and the like are considered good, and things like cheating are also repeatedly banned.

However, because Chiba Games is the relationship between the industry leaders, these messy things. And Chiba games,It's still relatively far away.。

What Lin Yan does every day is to co-ordinate there and play other games.

For example, he's been brushing up on it these days, Diablo, a game that's really fun and has an indescribable magic. You don't know why you're brushing, but you can't stop.

Lin Yan asked several main planners to liberate themselves from the heavy production and have a good time playing "Diablo", hoping that there would be a better guiding role for them to make "Evolution".

Of course, when Lin Yan played "Diablo", the sales of this game in North America alone had exceeded one million.

It can be said that this game has put the rioters on the altar among American game companies. Because, the previous American game companies were all petty fights.

It's basically garage companies and the like, even if it's a former gaming giant like Atari. However, he was about to be played to death by himself.

Now it's just a matter of relieving a nostalgic collection of games every year to cheat a little money and use your past prestige to make some money.

Although "Diablo" did not sell much. This is because they take personal computers. There is a pirated relationship.

The console version is expected to be available within a week. At that time, it is estimated that the sales volume will be able to go up to a new level.

Because of such good sales, Blast has already decided to make Diablo II. And the northern storm, the people who used to be called Vulture Studios.

They didn't expect such success at all, and they felt admiration for the comrades in the southern ice storm, wondering if they were a bit of a golden hand.

After all, this game is in their hands, and it almost becomes a stop-motion clay game. If it weren't for Southern Ice's suggestion, the game might not have looked like this at all.

Similarly, I am glad that I joined the ice and became a member of the ice.

So, they started the preparatory work for "Diablo II".

However, before they could start their official work, they ushered in a massive personnel transfer. Arrangements from the Southern Storm.

The whole transfer can be said to be very sudden and nonsensical, and many businesses have come to a halt because of it, and the "Diablo II" of Southern Storm has almost come to a halt because of this.

And Southern Storm, for fans to explain, "Diablo II" is in production, however, due to the high requirements for the level, the project is not progressing fast, please wait slowly.

On the Northern Storm side, a small and a half core developers have gone, that is, the main force of the previous generation of Diablo, who find the behavior of Southern Storm incomprehensible.

Slowly, the project began to restart, but it was slow due to the lack of many people. Newcomers, on the other hand, need to be trained before they can really start to do valuable work.

Therefore, it can't be fast, and it will even slow down the current work progress.

This matter is not a secret in the industry, and Lin Yan smiled when he knew about it. After all, such a thing, he had heard about it a long, long time ago.

No company is perfect. In that case, the company would be the strongest in the industry.

It's like a Chiba game. Such a company that has hardly made mistakes is an extremely small minority in this world.

Lin Yan was wondering if he should gather all the members of the Northern Storm Ice who had left the Blaster. He is still very optimistic about the abilities of these people. (To be continued.) )