In fact, there are several producers like Satoshi Iwata who can stand out from various masterpieces in the first release of their games in Dreambox 3, and there are several in the huge studio system of Mars Entertainment.

It's just that they're not as famous as Satoshi Iwata.

They also have their own games to participate in the launch of Dreambox3 this time, and they are both looking forward to and a little worried about the debut day that is getting closer and closer, looking forward to the success of their games, and also worried that their games will not be cared for, but at least from the previous game promotion, "Kirby of the Stars" is not the kind that no one cares about, and there are still many people who are interested in this cute style of game.

But compared to those masterpieces, it's not so hot.

After all, although Mars Entertainment has a lot of money for promotion and publicity, it is completely different to allocate it to various projects, for Dreambox3 itself, as well as those games that are extremely optimistic about the company, it is natural to invest a lot of financial resources in promotion, and for games like "Star Kirby", if it is usual, it may increase publicity.

After all, this game is also worth promoting.

But at this time, it can only be that there are not many promotion resources, who calls this time to make a big fuss.

Moreover, when Dreambox3 was just released, it was actually not conducive to the release of this traditional 2D game, because this time the selling point of Dreambox3 was its powerful 3D processing power, which completely wanted to be an era of PS2, and in terms of 2D image processing, he was not as strong as Sega Saturn, of course, after all, it was a 32-bit game console, and the 2D image was still much stronger than when it was a 16-bit console.

As the Dreambox 3 release date draws closer, there are many predictions about the future fate of this console. There was a sudden silence.

It is true that although the Dreambox3 publicity was huge and overwhelming, coupled with the suffocating starting game lineup, there are still a lot of people who are not optimistic about the fate of the new console of Mars Entertainment this time, not for anything else, just because they are released a full year later than their opponents, and this is also the key to the success or failure of a product.

Truly. The Dreambox 3 is more powerful than the Sega Saturn and PS2, but this kind of performance is outstanding, and it does not achieve the crushing effect, at most half a generation higher than their opponents.

This kind of gap, in the eyes of many players, is acceptable.

Coupled with the fact that the Dreambox 3 is almost fifty dollars more expensive than their two rivals, this will inevitably make gamers hesitate when choosing a console, especially for some light gamers who are new to video games, since they are all 'almost' consoles. Why don't I buy the cheap one and buy the expensive one?

Moreover, Sony's products, among these people, still have an extremely strong appeal.

Including Mars Entertainment and Jester, their most important and optimistic first-party games. In fact, judging from the promotional videos of the various debut games that Mars Entertainment has continuously released one after another, this time they are once again ahead of everyone, especially Jester's game. Of course, the same is true for other games.

However, neither Sega nor so. It doesn't matter if it's Sony, although their R&D lineup is not as strong as Mars Entertainment, they don't have a character like Jester who can touch ~ the pulse of the times.

Although at the beginning of the game, you have to fall behind each other.

However, these people are also first-class roles in the industry, and their learning ability is definitely not to be underestimated.

It is foreseeable that after a short period of time, it may be three months, it may be half a year, and the longest will not be more than a year, they will absorb enough nutrients from Mars Entertainment and Jester's games, and then develop a game that is not inferior to theirs at all, as they have done before, and see how these people did it in the Dreambox and Dreambox 2 era.

You can know.

The opponents of Mars Entertainment are not NPCs who are unaware of progress.

The most important thing is that Dreambox3 can really complete the reversal of sales and market share before Sega or Sony catches up in games?

A lot of people aren't optimistic about that.

Of course, the number of supporters is also quite large, which is completely a blind trust in the invincible performance of Mars Entertainment in the industry since it began to save video games from the quagmire of the Atari shock, and Jester's ability to do anything in game development.

In the past few months, they have fought again and again with whether they think that Mars Entertainment can reverse people on the Internet in terms of sales, but neither side can convince anyone.

In fact, for Jester, as the release date gets closer and closer, he has become a little more relaxed.

A few months ago, when he first announced Dreambox3, he really had a little worry about Dreambox3, but as time went on, as his first-party game camp got ready to go, this worry became less and less, and now, he almost didn't worry about the fate of Dreambox3 at all.

Isn't it just five or six million units behind the sales?

At the beginning, Sony's generation of god machine PS2 sold five million units a month when it was the craziest, and even if I couldn't do the things that were originally in history PS2, but it was not a big problem to defeat my two opponents.

In fact, the good selling of a game console is nothing more than the highlight that Jester said before, the first point is that the function must be strong, so the biggest advantage is not only that the first-party game can be as good as possible, but also that the third party can develop the same game in a better way.

First-party games, because only you have them, there is no way to compare them with other consoles.

But that's not the case with third-party games at all.

Because it's an all-platform game. So a game will have three console versions, and your console is better in performance, then the third party can develop better, better graphics, higher frame rates and stability, etc., etc., in short, this can make players feel, such as "The Witcher 3", his effect on the PC, the smoothness is completely beyond the console.

It is because the configuration of the high-end machine of the PC is much stronger than the performance of the host.

After all. A 970 graphics card is enough to catch up with a game console.

In addition to "The Witcher 3", in fact, the test was carried out at the end of the year and attracted 900W people to participate in CETA's "Star Wars: Battlefront" designer Alan . Ketez said about it, and the situation at the time was the same game "Star Wars: Battlefront", but why is the screen on XBO only 720P, and the lack on PS4 is as high as 900P?

At the time, Alain didn't save face for Microsoft when he explained, and the designer unceremoniously said: "It's because XBO is too far behind the PS4 in terms of technology, and they will always be behind in this generation." This is irreversible because his hardware is not as strong and as good as that of the PS4. ”

And when asked, Microsoft has been touting whether the DX12 can close this gap. Whether this new API can change the current situation.

Alain said bluntly: "I don't think so, it can't close the gap that much." The trust of users alone is not enough to change reality, and the hardware strength of Xbox One is lagging behind. ”

These explanations, though unpleasant, sounded to Jester. It's all true.

In fact, this PS4 and XBO situation is very similar to the situation of XBO360 and PS3 at the beginning of the previous generation.

THE PS3 IS INDEED EXTREMELY POWERFUL, AND SONY ONCE CLAIMED THAT ITS IBM'S CELL PROCESSOR COULD EMULATE THE WORLD. As a result,CELL architecture is too weird,At the time of development,The designers simply had no way to perfectly play the performance of this too powerful host,As a result, at the beginning of the host war,Their performance is actually lagging behind360,To be honest,If it weren't for the 360 The three red problems at the beginning were really serious,The repair rate at that time was as high as 50%,That may be in the last generation,PS3 will be a complete rout。

Of course, after the functions of PS3 were eaten up in the later period, with the increasingly powerful first-party exclusive games, PS3 still completed a reversal of 360 in the final sales.

But XBO does not have this possibility, they are all PS4 with the same X86 architecture.

And this backwardness is irreversible.

So, after having so many examples for reference, Jester is not too worried about his Dreambox3, in the case of leading function and leading game lineup, in Jester's view, it is basically a sure thing to complete the counterattack in terms of sales, and now the only question is, how much time do you have to spend on Sega Saturn and PS2 in terms of sales?

By the time of December, Jester was completely relaxed.

He was still refining the two games he had from time to time, "Monster Hunter" was something he planned to start developing after GDC, and he hadn't decided whether to start developing another ship-like work or not.

The review of "Monster Hunter" did not run into any trouble as Jester thought, in their eyes, their boss's plan for this game this time was also very large, but it was still within their acceptable range, and the development funds and developers needed were not too outrageous, although a development team of 100 people is rare in the world.

However, within Mars Entertainment, there is already a development team of 100 people.

No matter how much Dorjest's this time, it's not a big deal.

As long as it's not like "Heroes", there were more than 300 people who turned to developers at its peak, and besides, the investment of five million dollars is really nothing compared to "Heroes", and besides, this hunting game designed by their boss is indeed very new to them.

Moreover, just from the text description of their boss, it gives them a very strong sense of substitution.

The release time of Dreambox3 is the first weekend of December, and after entering December, the entire game industry seems to have suddenly fallen silent, and Sony and Sega, which were inseparable from Mars Entertainment, have also died down, and the players who had quarreled before have also stopped arguing, and it seems that they are all waiting for the release date to come.

However, Jester took advantage of the time to attend an Apple board meeting.

After spending nearly a billion dollars on the acquisition of Apple's shares for most of the previous year, he controls nearly one-third of Apple's shares, and as Apple's largest shareholder, he is certainly qualified to hold a board meeting.

In fact, for many Apple shareholders, Apple's market value is only more than $4 billion, and no matter how low it is, it will not go anywhere, and let Jobs come back, no matter how bad it is, it will not be bad.

The entire board meeting was uneventful, and Jobs, with the full support of Jester, once again became the CEO of Apple, and Jester became the chairman of Apple's board of directors~.

And after the end of this board meeting, a short press conference was issued to announce the news.

Immediately, this news caused an uproar ~ wave, Apple's stock price was hit by this positive impact, and it rose by five percent, but there are also many people who do not understand Jester's behavior, because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current Apple is basically at the end of the road, why does Jester spend a billion dollars to invest in Apple?

And the first thing after investing in Apple is to recall Jobs, is it in Jester's eyes, Jobs is worth a billion dollars?

What's more, Jester suddenly announced this matter when Dreambox 3 was about to be released, does it mean anything? Or is Jester not optimistic about Dreambox3 this time and is ready to leave a way back for himself? (To be continued......)