1,000,000 sets.

5,000,000 sets.

7,000,000 sets.

The Japanese market is so crazy, with the help of Dream Eaters, with the creativity of Sims, the Sims have sold more than 7 million units in the Japanese market alone.

When such a number came out, it simply shocked the whole world.

Whether it is Europe, the United States, or Japan, they are shocked to face the sales record of 7 million units sold in Japan.

That doesn't end there, though.

The outbreak of the Japanese market instantly drove a wave of sales of Sims around the world.

United States, United Kingdom, Germany...... These traditional European game powers, they also bought this work for the first time.

In particular, Europe and the United States have previously recognized Plants vs. Zombies. This time, the Sims were pushed out by Aotin Technology, and invisibly, they also paid more attention to the Sims. And believes that Aotin Technology will definitely become a giant company like Blizzard in the future. No, looking at his popularity now, he's almost the same as Blizzard.

8,000,000 sets.

10 million sets.

20 million sets.

30 million sets.

Records, constantly refreshed, do not stop for a moment.

Staring at the constantly refreshing number, Zhang Ning was excited in his heart.

The game is really a big money-maker.

Counting the funds earned by the two games over this period of time, it has reached about 800 million US dollars.

It's just a pity, the domestic market is very good, and in the domestic market, Plants vs. Zombies and Sims are sold very well.

Of course, this hit the street, not that no one is playing.

In fact, Plants vs. Zombies & Sims don't know how popular they are in domestic Internet cafes.

It's just that there are pirated versions of zài, and both games have only sold hundreds of thousands of copies in China, which is a relatively good result.

It seems that in China, you can only engage in online games. Moreover, Zhang Ning's favorite is also online games.

It's just that the current network speed restrictions in China have made Zhang Ning dare not enter.

However, Zhang Ning knew that the time was getting closer and closer.

At the end of 2000, there was one more day, New Year's Day in 2001.

Zhang Ning is looking forward to this day.

This expectation is not to look forward to the New Year's Day festival, but to look forward to a technology for telecom companies.

History has not changed because of the arrival of Zhang Ning, and on January 1, 2001, China Telecom quietly issued a piece of news.

China Telecom is about to launch ADSL broadband dial-up technology.

China Telecom said that although ADSL broadband dial-up technology also uses telephone lines to dial numbers, it is not the same as traditional modem dialing. Traditional dial-up technology uses guò phones to access the Internet, which is not only very low, but at the same time, you can't answer the phone while you are surfing the Internet. ADSL broadband dial-up technology, using a new type of digital jù transmission technology. At the same time, it does not interfere with telephone calls, and greatly improves the network transmission rate. Theoretically, the ADSL transmission rate will be 100 times that of the original dial-up Internet.

Seeing this news, Zhang Ning finally moved.

Online games, I'm coming.

Zhang Ning's favorite thing has always been online games.

What he likes is the kind of multiplayer online game battle, this kind of human-to-human interaction game, which is the essence of the game. With the launch of ADSL dial-up technology, he will greatly improve the speed of domestic broadband. Moreover, under the premise of increasing the domestic broadband speed, a series of network services will explode rapidly after 2001. Online games are the first varieties of all Internet services.

"Brother Ding, I'm going to enter the online game."

After learning that China Telecom was about to launch ADSL dial-up technology, Zhang Ning came to NetEase and found Ding Lei.

At this time, Ding Lei has put the main focus of his work from the traditional portal business to online games.

At present, the game they operate is Journey to the West.

"Good boy, I'm not interested in online games."

Ding Lei had previously mentioned that he wanted to enter the online game, and he also wanted to call Zhang Ning to go.

However, Zhang Ning refused at that time.

Unexpectedly, after less than a year, Zhang Ning set his sights on this part again.

"Hehe, China Telecom has opened such a powerful ADSL service, if I don't enter it again, I'm afraid that the domestic online game market will not have its own market."

Although Zhang Ningtong's two stand-alone games have made a profit of more than 800 million US dollars, and the two games will still give Zhang Ningchuang a steady stream of profits in the future. However, Zhang Ning has always liked online games. What makes Zhang Ning even more interested is that if all players around the world gather in their own games, this sense of accomplishment is something that all stand-alone games can't experience. Moreover, if he achieves the extreme of online games, the strength of his money is not much more than that of stand-alone games, and even more than in a certain way.

"You kid, you really know how to pick the time. At the beginning, you told me that now you can't make much money when you enter the online game market. At that time, I didn't believe it, but in the past six months, Journey to the West really hasn't made me much money. However, do you really think that China Telecom's broadband service can increase the number of domestic Internet users? ”

"It's not that it can be improved, it's a big improvement, or even an explosive improvement."

Zhang Ning said affirmatively.

It turned out to be dial-up Internet access, but at that time, dial-up Internet access was expensive, and the speed was still very fast.

Now that China Telecom has launched the ADSL service, I predict that when they officially launch this service, China Telecom will be split in two, and at that time, our broadband Internet access costs will be greatly reduced. The growth rate of domestic netizens will usher in an explosive growth.

"China Telecom is separated, how do you know?"

"What's so difficult about this, the state has never wanted a monopoly on a single enterprise. Look at post and telecommunications, isn't it also a separate telecommunications? If the telecommunications industry wants to develop, it is impossible for one monopoly to be divided into two, which is also normal. ”

"What you say makes sense, so it seems that we have to do our best to meet this wave of netizens."

"Yes, it's a great opportunity and a big challenge. I believe that in the future, there will be many giant companies that will develop in this China Telecom ADSL broadband dial-up. ”

Zhang Ning said with emotion. Think of the Hereafter, grand, perfect, nine cities...... All of them only broke out after 2001. And, in that era, they seemed to have represented the Internet and become the protagonists of the Internet.

"By the way, Brother Zhang Ning, there has been some news about the 2D game engine you told me before."

A game engine is the main program of a game, and any game needs a game engine. However, because the game engine has been developed for too long, Zhang Ning wants to engage in online games. But in the beginning, he didn't want to develop his own game engine. He wants to buy someone else's engine, and finally add the map, plot, levels, settings, etc. by himself, and that's it.

Therefore, before that, Zhang Ning asked Ding Lei to help him pay attention to whether there was any company in China that would sell game engines.

"Great, Brother Ding, where is it, I'll go buy the 2D game engine back now."

"Haha, it's so urgent, but I heard that they offer a very high price."

"Really?"

Zhang Ning was slightly surprised, but still said, "Money is not a problem. ”

Now it's not as good as before, I didn't have much money before, and I was constrained in everything, but now that I have money, it's much easier to get things done. ”

"Hahaha, I almost forgot, you guy made a fortune recently."

Mizuki University.

According to Ding Lei, Mizuki University has a real room with a 2D engine, and a mature 2D engine has been developed.

At that time, the university developed this 2D engine, which was only academic and practical. But later it turned out that when they developed such a 2D engine, it attracted the attention of many merchants. In addition, a number of merchants have sent them purchase requests.

However, because there were so many purchase intentions, they didn't make a decision so quickly.

Zhang Ning came to Shuida University at this time, also to buy this 2D engine.

"Wow, that's a lot of people."

When Zhang Ning walked through the hall arranged by Shuimu University, at this time, the hall was already full of people.

They sat together in twos and threes, chatting occasionally, and when they heard it, they came to buy a 2D game engine.

"Damn, Ding Lei is really right, there are more than a dozen people who came to buy it, and after a while, it was really going to bleed."

Zhang Ning's eyes rolled, thinking for a while, how much price would they offer?

Think about future generations, 2D game engines, while not cheap, are not particularly expensive either.

5 million sets, it should be the top price.

was thinking about something, at this time, someone on the side seemed to recognize Zhang Ning, "I didn't expect that Mr. Zhang of Penguin Technology also came here?" ”

A person smiled and walked towards Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning looked up, but he didn't recognize who this person was.

"My name is Ji Yufeng."

"Chi Yufeng?"

Hearing this name, Zhang Ning glanced at Chi Yufeng again, and then recognized it slightly, "Isn't this the CEO of Perfect World in the future?" ”

It seems that Perfect World is not established now.

However, looking at this situation, Perfect World is not far from being established.

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Chi."

Zhang Ning shook hands with Chi Yufeng cordially, which made Chi Yufeng a little flattered.

He greeted Zhang Ning just now, just to get close to Zhang Ningtao, after all, Zhang Ning is already the number one person in the IT world.

In particular, although its two stand-alone games are not very good in China, they have become a sensation all over the world.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ning actually shook his hand cordially, as if he had known him for a long time.

Of course, Chi Yufeng was surprised and delighted to get this kind of treatment, and said, "Mr. Zhang, you guys are so popular in stand-alone games, do you also want to enter the online game?" ”

"No, I'm just passing by and looking."

Zhang Ning shook his head.

In this case, Chi Yufeng naturally didn't believe it, but he didn't break it, and said, "I also think that with the two stand-alone games recently developed by Mr. Zhang, where can I see the online game market." ”

Zhang Ning didn't deny it, just sat on the side, waiting for the person in charge of the real room of Mizuki University.

After about half an hour, several people in charge of Mizuki Minoru Yàn walked into the hall.

A rather capable woman dressed in red turned on the electronic display screen in the hall, "Hello everyone, my name is Tong Lei, I believe you also know that our 2D engine is concentrating the most cutting-edge research results of our Mizuki University. In terms of light and shadow effects, physics systems, and collision detection, they are all very good. So, the price of our 2D game engine is set at 10 million sets......"