They weren't surprised.

Because before that, they never thought that they could develop any reliable games in that wild land of games.

Although Fu Zan is very valued by Jester, he is also Fu Zan alone.

Developing a game is never something that can be done by one person, a few years ago it may have been, but now these large-scale games require at least a dozen people to set up a project, otherwise, it will take too much time and the gain will outweigh the loss.

Players are very recognized by the quality of "Sword and Sword", and even lined up in a long queue second only to "Quake 4" on the E3 trial, and when they accepted the survey feedback arranged by Mars Entertainment, the two most popular questions they asked were, when will this game be released, and the second is whether Diablo 2 is better than this game?

Diablo 2 has to be even better than this game, and it has to surpass it across the board.

This is Bill. Rogge made the decision after trying out "Sword and Sword", because they can't afford to lose this person, and they can't always be expected by players to be at the level of Diablo 2, which is not as high as this copycat.

So, some of the settings that were originally intended to be used in the expansion, such as rune words and the like, were all filled in the development process.

Jester hasn't developed a game in the past few years, so neither GDC nor VGA award nominations have anything to do with him, although it's only half past this year, but it's estimated that he won't have any games coming out this year, so these two awards this year probably have nothing to do with him.

Last year's Lifetime Achievement Award asked him for his opinion.

For example, when you nominate a candidate, you will be asked for your opinion, and if you agree to accept the award, the organizer will nominate you. Otherwise, if you don't accept this award in the end, then the organizer will lose face.

In the past few years, Jester agreed, because he knew that what he could get at that time was not very big, purely a role to accompany the prince to study, but since last year, it is not necessarily, and there is no longer a person who can be qualified to win the Lifetime Achievement Award before him. In other words, since last year, he has been a very promising person to win the award.

But Jester thinks about this problem, first of all, because he is too young, and this is not the main problem.

The main problem is that he hasn't had any games in the past few years, and in his own opinion, he is not suitable for this award. He felt that the best time for him to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award was to sweep the GDC after the release of his 'Era'. And then at the same time those lifetime achievement awards, that is majestic enough.

So, Jester explained his situation, saying that he was before the release of 'Era'. I won't accept any awards, of course, with the excuse that I don't want to be distracted by other things.

It's ninety-four years now. Major hardware manufacturers have also begun to leak information about their new hardware intermittently, whether it is Sega or Sony, they are competing with Mars Entertainment in this regard.

Akari, it must be all kinds of advertisements, various product presentations, and various press conferences.

Secretly, they are co-opting those third-party manufacturers.

When the World Electronics Association was established at that time, it gave those third-party manufacturers enough choice, they could choose any of the three hardware vendors, or all of them for game development, that is, there were no restrictions on the development platform of the game, of course, the game development is not something you can sell if you want to.

It is still necessary to pass the inspection on the guò host and reach the quality level they require.

In order to compete on the new host, the competition between the two sides for the third party has entered a white heat, Mars Entertainment is a little worse, but Sega or Sony, they have put a lot of conditions on the third-party developers they want to win over, and they can't refuse at all, and even, they can't do it, to the point of not making money.

This is something that Mars Entertainment can't do.

Jester's business philosophy is similar to Nintendo's original decision that Yamauchi would never sell hardware at a loss, and he also stipulated that.

This is the lesson of blood that Nintendo has learned.

Therefore, although the conditions offered by Mars Entertainment are somewhat advantageous compared to the previous Dreambox2 era, they are not competitive at all compared to the jumping price conditions of Sega and Sony.

The most important thing is that the host generation is a thing, and a generation depends on the things of a generation.

For any platform, the beginning of a new generation is starting from scratch, and the achievements of the previous platform are likely to disappear.

Don't look at the previous dominance of a host's share.

It is very likely that the new generation will be surpassed soon, so this is also the reason why these third-party manufacturers are willing to follow Sega or Sony, because the advantages of Dreambox2 are difficult to accumulate on Dreambox3.

And, the most important reason, there is also that Sega and Sony, have come up with their new consoles, and even Sony has announced the name of their next-generation game console half a year ago, called PS2, and it also demonstrates the 3D effect on PS2, which is very good, completely above the current era.

Although it is still a bit worse than the video released by the previous 'era'.

However, after all, the announcement of 'Era' is CG, not a demonstration of the actual machine, so it is natural that there is a gap between the two.

"Obviously, we need to confirm the meaning of Capcom's companies." Jester rubbed his aching head at the high-level meeting and spoke.

His words have also been recognized by many people.

The relationship between some second-rate Japanese game companies and Sega or Sony can be said to be inextricably linked, which is also a characteristic of some Japanese companies, that is, the internal relationship is close, but this relationship is not without loopholes.

For example, since 84, the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment has been operating in Japan for ten years, at least in the game industry, and it also has a pivotal position.

However, Mars Entertainment is unwilling. (To be continued......)