148. The current state of the game industry (2)

In addition, there is another game production company that Jiang Yu feels is more conscientious, which is Activision Blizzard, which has always had the reputation of "making CG with heart and making games with feet".

In Jiang Yu's impression, this seems to be the only game developer who has independently developed a number of popular works. From the Warcraft series to the Dark series, followed by StarCraft. Even the almost capricious scrapping of a major game project, Titan, and the use of its scraps to make Overwatch can be regarded as a hit.

Of course, this may also be the only game company that can get many players to shout "Blizzard Dad" and then willingly pay for it. Although, the company's favorite thing to do is ignore the opinions of players and rise above the gaming community, commonly known as "Blizzard dad teaches you to play games".

The only difference is that "World of Warcraft", which is the culmination of MMORPG, seems to have a longer vitality than Jiang Yu's previous life, which leads to Blizzard, which has always earned a lot of money, and does not seem to have launched the linkage project "Hearthstone".

Seeing this, Jiang Yu couldn't help but pout, Blizzard actually didn't make the most profitable game in the future? God knows why a trading card game that plays cards all by skill can make so much money. At the same time, there was an enduring struggle between players and designers.

In this way, the entire game industry is not much different from Jiang Yu's impression, at most it is different in the works, the same or similar works and the core of the works, similar stories between different characters.

So, what about the gaming scene in the island nation? Naturally, Jiang Yu's eyes fell on the environment he was in now.

So, just as he was about to inquire about the situation of the game industry in the island country, a controller was handed to him. Jiang Yu was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and in front of him was the face of Tuma muttering and expressing his dissatisfaction.

Glancing at the screen with his peripheral vision, the game was naturally finished reading a long time ago. Even if it is a game console with a slow disk reading speed, it is impossible for Jiang Yu to finish reading it after reading a brief history of the development of Chinese games and the introduction of European and American game manufacturers.

Putting down the phone a little embarrassed, Jiang Yu took the gamepad and prepared to play the game with his sister. Although until just now, he didn't pay attention to which game was opened in the earth. All the attention was completely off track after seeing the familiar Capcom LOGO.

Shaking his head, Jiang Yu focused his attention on the TV screen in front of him, and then he was surprised to find that this seemed to be a work similar to Capcom's masterpiece "Resident Evil" in his previous life. Perhaps due to Gaia's voluntary correction (Koumu), the names of the characters in the entire game plot have changed more or less in similar game modes.

In general, it is a simple work of sudden zombies in the background of the apocalypse, which is very similar to the series of works after "Resident Evil 4" in the previous life, weakening the horror element and strengthening the action element. Although the "Resident Evil 7" in the previous life began to pick up the original concept of the series "survival horror" again, I don't know if Capcom here will make such changes to his signature work.

Well...... It's an action game anyway, right? I'm a master at this! Stupid zombies, feel the horrors of the 820 salary king!

In this way, Jiang Yu casually began this journey of survival in the apocalypse. Subsequently...... Crazy suffering. Even though a lot of action elements are added, it's still a shooting work as the main mode of combat...... Jiang Yu said that without the mouse and keyboard, he couldn't play FPS at all.

The 820 level of salary king we said is faint! Jiang Yu had no choice but to cry without tears and play a pseudo-survival action shooter with an awkward feel.

So until the two of them had their stomachs growling, Jiang Yu kept suffering in the complaints and ridicule of his sister, all relying on the god-level player to bury himself with this oil bottle, and rely on his own strength to attack the game.

……

During the short break after eating, Jiang Yu naturally remembered his interrupted train of thought again, and began to inquire about the information of the island game company.

As expected, the entire island game industry is basically still those familiar names. Such as Sony, Nintendo, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Koei and many more.

The representative works of various game companies are also similar to the situation in the previous life, such as Nintendo's Mario series and Zelda series; Capcom's Resident Evil-like series, Devil May Cry series; Glorious perseverance in the Three Kingdoms series and so on.

Sony is still the same as in its previous life, and its own independently developed games have gradually decreased, and the focus has shifted to other aspects, but it has signed many exclusive studios for its own PS platform. For example, whether it is the last world or this world, it can be regarded as a well-known "Uncharted".

Occasionally, he came across an unfamiliar name, and after copying and pasting it for searching, Jiang Yu found that it was just a work that was not much different from the well-known games in his memory.

In this way, the world's island gaming community, especially on consoles, still has a huge advantage around the world. In contrast, the current declining ACG circle is really pitiful.

And perhaps because the island country was one of the earliest places where home game consoles emerged, even today, the share of the game market is still the console platform > the PC platform. Of course, mobile platforms are still the number one platform, accounting for more than 50% of the market share.

This is one of the three largest game markets in the world. In comparison, the game market in China is generally centered on the PC side; The European and American game markets have a relatively small gap in the proportion of various sub-platforms.

However, what puzzled Jiang Yu the most was that after he went through all the well-known Japanese game works, he didn't see the hardcore ARPG masterpiece he loved quite a lot in his previous life-the soul series.

Whether it's the original Demon's Souls, the later famous Dark Souls, or the PS4-exclusive Bloodborne series, you won't even see similar games with high difficulty to learn, sinister level design, and novel online mechanics.

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help but feel an imbalance in his heart...... Ahem, responsibility! It's okay that the players in this world haven't felt the love from the old void, but they haven't even felt the malice of Hidetaka Miyazaki, which is really unfortunate!

So immediately afterwards, Jiang Yu fell into the reverie of launching his Souls series, swearing from players all over the world, winning countless game awards, and breaking one sales record after another, until he ......

"Brother, it's started, huh? Today, Xiao Bury must finish the process of this game! ”

“…… Be. ”

In the high tone full of interest in the earth and Jiang Yu's weak response, the brother and sister once again embarked on the journey of survival in the apocalypse.