For this year's E3, Mars Entertainment's press conference is scheduled for the afternoon of the pre-show press conference, which is almost dinner time.

Generally speaking, this is also the tradition of game manufacturers before the press conference.

After breakfast, lunch or dinner, the organizer will hold a buffet-like dinner to entertain the reporters or selected players who attend the pre-show conference.

The three major hosts,Occupy the time point of the best press conference in the three time periods,In the morning the superstar is Sony's press conference,Sure enough,This time Sony brought a lot of new works,Especially in terms of 3D games,The new video they showed can be seen,It's much stronger than the last time they came to E3 more than a year ago,The ones shown。

Of course, Sony did not deny that they learned a lot from Mars Entertainment's games, especially in 3D games, although they also thought that the 3D game era would bring, but they thought that they would lead this era, but now Mars Entertainment has gone ahead of them, despite this, Kutaragi Ken still spoke his Japanese-accented English at the press conference and kept emphasizing.

The development of 3D games will be a long process.

It may maintain two console generations or even three console generations, and it will definitely not end with one console generation.

Therefore, although Sony is behind its opponents at the beginning, it does not mean that Sony will not have a chance to overtake in the future, and Ken Kutaragi also admits that especially in terms of function, there is a certain gap between their PS2 and Mars Entertainment's Dreambox3, and there have always been some great game ideas, which Mars Entertainment's designers can easily do, and they are very difficult.

Although Ken Kutaragi did not admit or announce that the PS3 is in development. But it's basically no secret in the industry, and after the pre-show press conference, a reporter who is familiar with Kento Kutaragi asked the same question.

This time, Ken Kutaragi did not directly deny the issue as he did before.

Instead, they talked about when they would come out with a new host.

"This question really depends on the feedback from our third-party developers as well as our first-party studios, and when they feel that they don't have enough power to do what they want to do, and they want to do this and that, and the PS2 can't do it, then there's no doubt that we're going to make the PS3 – but here's the thing. Not any other company is as good as Mars Entertainment and can produce so many incredible games. ”

Although this answer of Kutaragi Ken has a little bit of a vague negative.

But he still admits that if the game developers feel that the current PS2 is not enough, then a new console will arrive.

However, the lack of functionality of the PS2 has become a reality, and a very simple way to tell the difference is that a game can be developed on Dreambox 3, but not on PS2 - if you have to do it on PS2, then you have to reduce the graphics quality and so on, which developers are not willing to do, to reduce the quality of the game.

With Sony's press conference. Unlike the availability of new consoles and the lack of functionality of the old consoles, Sega's press conference was much more serious, and as usual, Sega announced some of their arcade portes.

This is also Sega's killer feature.

Their arcade works are particularly popular in Europe and the United States. Since Mars Entertainment entered the 3D era, it has consciously gradually reduced its investment from the arcade market.

At present, Sega's market share in the European and American arcade market has exceeded 50.

Of course, in terms of fighting games, Mars Entertainment continues to invest in research and development.

However, it is said that there is news from the Japanese game media, during an interview with sulfuric acid face Itagaki companion letter. Itagaki inadvertently revealed a message that has not yet been disclosed within Mars Entertainment, that is, the next generation of "Tekken" will not have an arcade version. Instead, it comes directly from home consoles, and it seems that Mars Entertainment has begun to look at the decline of the arcade market.

On the contrary, Sega continues to increase its investment in the arcade market.

In particular, the "VR Warrior" series, the next generation of Sega's most iconic fighting game at the moment, was first released to arcades before being ported to consoles.

Of course, Sega also mentioned their strategic mistakes at the press conference.

It is to underestimate the impact of 3D games on the entire game industry, and they also admitted at the press conference that they also thought that 3D represents the future, but it is only the future, in a short period of time, 3D will not become the mainstream, because in terms of exquisite graphics, 3D is far inferior to the 2D picture that has developed to the peak.

However, I didn't expect that both Mars Entertainment and Sony have developed special processing chips specifically for 3D graphics.

Then, the 3D picture turned out to be so good.

This took them by surprise.

By the time they woke up, it was already too late - the Sega Saturn had already been released, but Sega admitted that players didn't have to wait, and that Sega's powerful 3D console would be available in the near future - and they were the first of the three consoles to admit that they were working on a new console.

Of course, in addition, Yuya Suzuki took the stage to announce his new plan, and he admitted that he had the honor to participate in the development of Jester's "Heroes", which did have a great impact on him, and it was also during this period of time that he first came into contact with how the world's top game development team conducts game development, and how teams of hundreds of people work together like arms and arms without looking bloated at all.

"To be honest, if I hadn't been personally involved in the development of this great project, and had held a key position in it, and had known the whole process of developing this game, I would have thought he had burned out his head if someone had told me that a development team of hundreds of people was working together at the same time - hundreds of people working on a game?" So much to develop in one game? And how do hundreds of people work together? It's just playing the piano randomly. ”

In addition to lamenting the excellence of the "Heroes" project, Yuya Suzuki admitted, "Since I returned to Sega and was in charge of playing VR Warrior production, I couldn't be interested in other games at all, and it was as boring as if you were asking someone who had already graduated from high school to go to elementary school, so I applied to Mr. Okawa." ”

"Is it possible for us. Do the same as once. ”

"Mr. Okawa and Mr. Hayao Nakayama took my proposal very seriously, but they didn't answer me right away, and it wasn't until the release of "Hero" that the crazy explosion of console sales brought about by this game was simply phenomenal - this is when Mr. Okawa Ko approached me and asked if you would be interested in developing a game like this."

"I didn't hesitate to tell him that I would be willing at any time."

When Yu Suzuki finished saying this on the stage, the reporters under the stage instantly boiled.

Although there is already a "Hero" in the world, it is such a game back then. For many players, playing only one game must be unfinished, they want to play more, but such a game investment is too big and too big, for any game company, it is worth the loss, even Mars Entertainment, including Jester himself, has also said. In a short period of time, Mars Entertainment will not restart such a huge plan.

After that, Yu Suzuki revealed a little information about Sega's "Heroes".

The time period of the story is put in modern times, and the starting place will be Japan, as for how the story develops. It didn't reveal much, but Yuya Suzuki revealed a little, this is a story he really wants to tell in his mind, and the original protagonist of the story is Yuki Aki, the protagonist of the VR warrior. A master of Bajiquan.

However, this proposal was rejected by himself during internal discussions.

Because Yu Suzuki feels that in such a game, he should have a protagonist of his own. A story of its own - one thing that can be revealed is that the protagonist will also be a person who practices Bajiquan, of course, there is no need to worry about the combat system in this game, because in "Hero", the combat system is in charge of Yu Suzuki and the development team he brought from Sega.

The announcement of this news directly detonated the scene.

After that, all the people in the game industry were excited after hearing the news.

It's even more exciting than when Jester first revealed the development plan for Heroes at E3 - because everyone didn't have a general understanding of the game at the time, and they didn't have a way to shape the actual appearance of a game directly from Jester's textual description.

But it's very different now.

After people already know what Jester is talking about all-visual reactive entertainment, that is, what the famous 'FREE' games really are.

They began to look forward to Sega's, Yu Suzuki's 'Hero'.

When Jester knew the news, he was preparing for his company's pre-show press conference not long after, although listening to the people around him enthusiastically discussing the relevant information about the game that Yu Suzuki had just announced at the press conference of Sega, but Jester still sighed a little secretly, this game, anyway, he from Yu Suzuki's description.

You can see the shadow of "Shenmue" in the original history.

"Could it be that "Shenmue" will also be re-published in this world?" Jester suddenly became a little curious about the fate of this world's "Shenmue", and wanted to see if Yu Suzuki participated in the development of his "Hero", and after learning about the design ideas of some sandbox games in the mature period, this game that had left a strong mark in the original history would still end up in the original history.

"Boss, what do you think of this new game by Yu Suzuki?"

While Jester was thinking alone, someone suddenly asked Jester this, and then waited for Jester's answer with some expectation.

After all, the most qualified person in the world to evaluate Suzuki Yu's new game is the creator of this type of game himself, Jester did not refuse, he first thought about it for a while, and then said: "How to say, Suzuki Yuki is a very good, very good at learning designer, and I can understand how amazing his understanding of games is in my cooperation with him." ”

"However, in this day and age, it is very difficult to develop such a game, a large team, a long development time and a lot of capital investment, he can make a company's chain run as if it is tight, and the slightest carelessness can break it."

"I hope Suzuki can succeed."

A few hours later.

Mars Entertainment's pre-show launch starts at 8 p.m.

You can enter at half past seven, and when it's almost eight o'clock, the venue is basically full, although it was previously revealed that Mars Entertainment will not have any special news this time except for Jester's new game, but Jester's new game itself is the biggest news of this E3 - after all, this is the game of the god of games!

Even Jester had previously revealed that he wouldn't continue to develop like this, and when he felt that his mind was exhausted and he couldn't make a game that would refresh him, he would quit the development industry.

Because his character doesn't like to do the same work.

He likes challenging work that no one else has done, and playing games is about having fun, and making games is the same.

And now with the completion of the refinement of the game type, it will be more and more difficult to innovate, basically, Jester, the game recognized by the game industry as the god of the game, will be a game with one less, maybe a little get up, turn on the computer, go to the game website you often go to to look at the news in the industry, you will see the headline position, there is a news of Jester announcing his retirement.

This is not something strange.

Isn't that the previous FPS game god Carmack?

Because he lost his interest in game development as he did before, he chose to quit, and now it is said that he is cooperating with someone to invest in a company that develops virtual reality equipment.

You must know that although virtual reality has a concept, it is still a long way from coming up with a product.

Just when everyone was waiting for the pre-show press conference of Mars Entertainment and discussing what unexpected news would be at the press conference, the lights of the audience suddenly dimmed, and a beautifully made video began to play on the big screen behind the stage.

As the video played, a figure also walked to the middle of the stage.

None other than Jester. (To be continued......)