Chapter Eighty-Nine: Enhancing the Chip
Sending Xiaopandun home, Lin Yan didn't have anything more to say to him. His help to Chubby Dun is to solve the problems of ideas he encounters. As for helping him make games with his own hands, Lin Yan will definitely not do it.
Making games, like anything, is a light-hearted thing to look at. Don't look at Lin Yan who has written so many tutorials for the red and white machine, but when he really developed the game on the red and white machine. Even if you follow all the above specifications, you will inevitably encounter problems.
The world of code is so magical, code that looks at it alone and has no problems, and when combined, you will encounter all kinds of problems.
At this time, someone needs to check the program code to find out what is wrong with the code.
It's a delicate job, to what extent. In this day and age, the process of clearing code errors can take longer than writing an entire game.
This is also the reason why Lin Yan was able to leave such a deep impression on those who made games in the Video Game Alliance.
Except for him, no one present at the time would have Lin Yan's ability. The kind of code that can be written, without checking, can be passed in one go, and the game can run normally.
In fact, what Lin Yan did in the video game alliance was still more helpful to the video game alliance. The first is the arcade platform.
The relationship between the arcade platform and its game is somewhat similar to the relationship between the red and white machine and the game cartridge. It's about separating the hardware from the software, so you don't have to design the hardware specifically to develop a game.
In this case, even if you look at it as a single machine, it does not reduce the cost. But, as with everything else in this industrialized society. As long as the more games developed on this platform, the lower the unit cost of this platform.
To put it simply, what Lin Yan left to the video game alliance is standardization and modularization.
It is this model that is detached from the handicraft workshop that allows them to do this in front of their eyes. If your game is at a disadvantage and is not very popular with players, you can still make a profit.
Of course, no one in the video game league can recognize this now. Although it is said that Katsukuro Yano was depressed for a while because of his failure in "Simulation Racing", he was sent to the logistics department as a porter.
However, due to the video game league, there is not a good training system. There is also no textbook for cultivating one's own gamers. So, after being hidden in the snow for two months, Katsukuro Yano was appointed again.
The Video Game League, while trying to maintain its dominance in arcade games, is also working hard to develop games for home consoles.
Although they also worked hard, they did not have an accurate judgment of the current situation. their gaming consoles. Although it looks like the graphics are a little more detailed than the red and white machine, it can't support reels from the hardware level. In addition, because the materials are solid. The unit price can't go down, and the sales volume is not too good. Except for die-hard players in the video game league, or a maverick-like minority, this home console has not been accepted by the public at all.
Regardless of the actual sales volume, strategically. The Video Game League, the investment in this home console, has been considered a waste.
Lin Yan also has a home console of the Video Game League at home, and even all the video game League cassettes are available. He has a collection.
For this kind of home game console that can not provide the current mainstream game experience very well, and does not have a cheap price, Lin Yan does not regard it as a very serious opponent.
However, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles. Lin Yan still bought this home machine, as well as all the games it produced.
Although Lin Yan looked down on this home machine a little, he knew that he would not be able to become a big climate. However, he didn't really think that on such a machine, there would be no good games.
On the contrary, he felt that as long as he gave this game arcade machine, enough people would provide the game. There will definitely be high-quality games. After all, everything in this world, if you say it to death, is a matter of probability.
In "The Onion Universe", a group of monkeys can still write Shakespeare's works, in the real world, why can't a group of people make a good game.
Although in the choice of home game console camp, there is a bit of an either/or flavor. However, Lin Yan didn't care much about this matter. What he wants is to be able to cultivate enough game talent to promote the development of the industry forever. In the end, he worked together to make the game he wanted, and as for the gains and losses of the temporary red and white machine, he really didn't care too much.
Of course, this is also because the red and white machine is the best-selling home game console on the market now.
The current red and white machine has allowed Lin Yan to have the present, and with the present, Lin Yan can talk about the future.
At this stage, he is like the winner of a console war, able to laugh at all enemies as much as he can. However, as for whether the enemies were willing to ridicule him, Lin Yan would not care about that.
Lin Yan returned home and looked at the wall that had fallen out in his bedroom, in a slight daze.
This wall is specially prepared for him to store game cartridges and game consoles. It's kind of a video game display wall. And the things that were in it, such as miscellaneous decorations, were piled up by him in the warehouse.
Now, if a future game fan enters his room, he will almost certainly think that he is a game dead house.
As for whether Lin Yan is a game dead house, he feels that he is not. I'm optimistic, I'm not cheerful, what's going on with that kind of dead house.
He was dedicating himself to the game of his reign, not to being a slave to the video game.
Lin Yan has also thought a little about whether he should make a new game these days. After thinking about it, he gave up.
Because, with the current level of hardware, it is almost impossible to support him to release a new game. If he wanted to make a new game and get them to market, he would have to work on a set of enhancements on the cartridge.
Of course, while this set of enhancements will improve performance, the consequences are obvious. If the cost increases, it means that the price will increase.
Lin Yan didn't want the price of the game cartridge to rise so quickly, so his thoughts could only be suppressed. As for whether other manufacturers will launch this kind of enhancement chip, Lin Yan himself welcomes it.
However, these people who developed enhanced chips can already give up if they want to use him to make super profits.
Within a year, the price of the cassette is absolutely not allowed to be raised.
After a year, the cost of the cassette will fall, and even if there is an enhancement chip, it will not necessarily be expensive. (To be continued......)