There are many ordinary racing fans like George and Kevin, like Sampus all over the world, and this game satisfies racing fans all over the world who want to participate in the Dakar Rally, but are not qualified to participate.

The Dakar Rally is a warrior's challenge, a men's game, and a money-burning race.

The investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars is not affordable for everyone, and the vast majority of cash-strapped racing fans can only opt for the game to enjoy it, and most of them are looking forward to the next version, because the next version will support cockpit simulators, which will make them more immersive.

A racing game cockpit costs only a few thousand dollars, which is not enough to buy four Michelin tires, and a few thousand dollars of tires will be scrapped for a random 100-kilometer rally, compared to gaming, which is the most affordable way to exercise!

At the same time, the Dakar Rally Organizing Committee officially announced that this game is the best carrier for fans around the world to understand Dakar, experience the cruelty of the race, or use the game as a pre-race warm-up.

This news came out, more determined the authority and professionalism of Longteng game, this is a very good means of publicity, Longteng earns money, master the core technology, the organizing committee gets a greater reputation, greater influence in the world, Longteng and the organizing committee win-win.

In contrast, some of their peers are not in a better situation, and this time it is those two famous racing games that are implicated.

"Need for Speed is just a racing fairy tale that takes place in the city! The Ferrari and Lamborghini cars are two cars that can make other low-end cars a nose to the dust, although they are also very real, and even the game and even the engine are the same as in the Dakar Rally. But the huge advantage of the vehicle still makes it much less playable! Able to drive a Lamborghini. Who wants to drive a Mazda? If you have money, you can run the fastest! - Commented the professional game review magazine "Video Game World".

"When I played the Dakar Rally, I looked at Ridge Racing on PlayStation. Suddenly I feel that this game from Sony is so pale and weak. It's filled with a lot of model overflow, floating vehicles, monotonous gameplay, simple graphics, and all sorts of vulgar content, it's hard to imagine that I would have held it so highly regarded a year ago! It's really a comparison to know who the loser is! -- The famous automobile magazine "Car-and-Driver" published a letter from a reader, and the words were sharp and vicious.

Another authoritative automotive magazine, AutoMobile, unceremoniously commented on the three games: "The Dakar Rally is the best in terms of professionalism and authenticity." "Need for Speed" is second, and "Ridge Racing" on the PS platform, its storage is to pass the boring time of the year's TV racing game gap, and now it is not worth mentioning! Hi Long, why don't you work with us and develop a WRC game together? ”

Finally, the American automotive magazine "Road &Track", which cooperated with KTT to develop Need for Speed, officially made an ambiguous statement: "In terms of professionalism, Need for Speed is indeed inferior to "Dakar Rally". But Need for Speed should be selling on all kinds of cool supercars. But in the next version, Need for Speed will learn from the experience and make a better game! Hats off to the makers of the Dakar Rally! ”

Authoritative car magazines and game magazines in the United States have spoken, causing other media to follow suit and express their own positions. Players show their support with actual purchases.

"Ridge Racing" was released for a year, and according to Namco's statistical report, it is known that 1.28 million copies were sold worldwide.

Need for Speed sold 1.44 million copies on PC, but with the continuous improvement of computer hardware. Over the next year or two, players will continue to update their old PCs. This number will continue to increase.

And the "Dakar Rally", which has just been launched, because of the high market share of the SS game console. In just half a month, it easily sold 1.3 million copies, breaking the one-year sales record of the PS TV game "Ridge Racing".

This statistic was passed on to Hayao Nakayama in Japan, who sent a New Year's card to Namco and Sony Corporation, each with the word "LeDakar" printed on the cover and a wild rally car design.

In addition, the contrast between the two numbers of 1,300,000/Month and 1,280,000/Year is very eye-catching, and the specially marked Month and Year in red can be said to be glaring, and the text content in the greeting card is the same, full of mockery.

"Thank you for Ridge Racing's contribution to the video game racing genre this year, you guys have worked so hard and it's time for Sega to take over the task! Happy New Year! -- Hayabusa Nakayama. ”

Receiving this greeting card, Ken Kutaragi felt deeply disgusted!

This greeting card is disgusting too!

This New Year, he can't be happy at all!

But Kutaragi Ken is no longer the impulsive character he used to be, he won't immediately pick up the phone and call back, and scold Hayao Nakayama, these are all in vain, he believes that after dialing over, he will only hear the other party's smug laughter, which is self-inflicted.

After experiencing some major things, he finally saw through Longteng's approach, in his opinion, Longteng Company is a mad dog, catching whoever bites whom.

And the whole company is a mad dog, the president of Longteng is arrogant and unreasonable, and the president of Sega is an old mad dog who has been roaring for decades, the president of Fengyun Game Software Company is not only crazy but also black-hearted and vicious, everyone in Longteng does not play cards according to common sense, how crazy to do.

If Yang Yun knew that Kutara Mujian thought so, he would only sneer and say, "Hey, do you know what wolf pack tactics are?" In Longteng, everyone is an independent warrior, full of desire to fight! We're hunting wolves, not you lions and tigers! ”

Longteng and Huawei are actually the same kind of companies, in the early stage of growth, they are mainly aggressive, and in the offensive aspect (wolf nature) is particularly prominent, they are not like most companies that are immersed in game development (sheep nature), and the aggressive Longteng cannot get along with his peers in the game industry.

Yang Yun wants to preemptively acquire or crack down on other uncontrolled classic game companies, and has to resort to various combat moves in order to seize the market, which is the wolf culture.

Of course, Yang Yun is clear that wolf culture is also a double-edged sword, in the early stage of entrepreneurship, Longteng R&D Center can work overtime in three shifts during the Spring Festival, just to catch up with the task and release the game first.

In the past few years, the period of steady development has gradually become 8 hours a day, and the rest of the time is free to arrange overtime.

In the next few years, after the achievement of hegemony, Longteng will inevitably become 8 hours a day, no overtime, with two weekends a week, and a long vacation every year.

But it is not yet the time to reap the fruits and retire for the rest of his life, so Yang Yun, the wolf king, must take many extremely aggressive wolves and tear apart all the enemies who dare to stand in front of him!

Don't forget, he's the boss of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and he's been a wolf for a long time!

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Yang Yun has been going back and forth between Minnesota and Orlando, Florida when leading the global promotion of "LeDakar" led by Jiang Shaoyun, and his trip to the United States is a bit special, this time his purpose is very clear, personally preparing for NBALive96.

But the establishment of this NBA game project once again went through various tribulations, and once quarreled in front of NBA commissioner David Ernst.

This conflict began when Yang Yun came to Los Angeles.

After he came to the United States, he didn't leave the airport at all, handed over the publicity of the Dakar Rally game to Jiang Shaoyun, and flew to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the Timberwolves are located.

But when he was transferring at the airport, he was recognized, and a sales manager of EA was waiting for the plane, recognized Yang Yun who was sitting in a café chatting with Jiang Shaoyun, and then quickly reported the matter to EA headquarters.

Robert, the executive vice president who replaced Larry, has been the new president of EA for half a year, and he has summarized the experience and advice left by Larry, conducted an in-depth analysis of Longteng, and finally determined a fact - there is definitely collusion between KTT and Longteng!

But Robert suffers from the lack of evidence, so he can only fight his spirit, and deal with these two companies at the same time, which is also regarded as a big enemy.

Yang Yun's flight destination was quickly identified, and it looked like it was supposed to be a team visit in Minnesota, and Robert raised his vigilance and asked the team and person in charge of NBA games at EA to be vigilant and report Yang Yun's purpose at all times.

Two days later, Robert finally struggled to find out some clues, and it seemed that Dragon Teng was ready to develop an NBA basketball game!

For NBA games, EA is determined to win, and after reclaiming the EA-Sports brand from Yang Yun, they reintegrated with the EA-Athletics brand and returned to EA-Sports, which includes all the content of the four major leagues in the United States.

Although the NBA is far less well-known than NFL football and MLB baseball, EA is not willing to give a piece of this small cake.

They know that if Longteng makes NBA games, it will definitely take more than one bite, and it will inevitably occupy an absolute position, and if this opening is released, it will be almost impossible to drive Longteng out of the NBA game market in the future.

Coming to Minnesota, Yang Yun handed over Bart to Alexey, and then exchanged ideas with the star Kevin Garnett, who flew to Orlando, Florida on the third day after watching the Timberwolves play a regular season game.

Not for anyone else, it's for Shaquille O'Neal of the Orlando Magic. (To be continued......)