Chapter 256: Soni's Invitation

The full name of SCEI is Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, and the Chinese name is Sony Computer Entertainment, which has not been changed to Soni Interactive Entertainment at this time.

This is Sony's subsidiary specializing in game development and sales, with its own subordinate studios around the world, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

After receiving the letter from Activision, the three major hosts have now been added to their list of partners after internal negotiation and review. One of the most refreshing is actually Ren Jile, but also, the third-party developers of the ii platform themselves are fewer than the other two, and more often they can only let the first-party games of Ren Jile support the scene, and this situation will become more and more intense on the next generation of iiU consoles.

Giant Hard and Soni have about the same reaction time, but Giant Hard is indispensable and businesslike, while Soni is still discussing other issues.

Although SCE has not yet established a subsidiary in China at this time, they have actually been paying attention to the Chinese market, which is a large part of the future territory of the game market that most people are optimistic about. Since August, they have known about the popularity of the game "Survival" in China, and at that time they actually wanted to get in touch with Qingyu Network, but they were not sure whether the company had the ability to develop a console platform.

After all, the company has always been famous for online games.

In China, they actually have partners, such as Lesheng Technology in Beijing, which has also been engaged in the development of multi-platform games, and has so far developed two games for them on PS2 consoles, "Hello Kitty Friendship Wars" and "Holy Demon Wars Chronicles" in 05, as well as a "Star Wars Mercenary" on PSP, and even "Hello Kitty Friendship Wars" won the "Best Game of the Year for Children 6-9 Years Old" voted by Disney's website in the United States that year.

Although there are not many such companies in China, it is also an old thing, but there are still some, Soni also has experience working with domestic teams, and their development documents are also in Chinese.

So after seeing the "Origin of Everything" information transmitted by Activision, I felt a little right in the middle of it, and the herring fish network actually planned to enter the console platform itself.

The publishing team at SCEI's Tokyo headquarters sent an email to the Blue Fish Network inviting them to develop a PS3 version of the Survival project.

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The herring fish network has previously announced the content of the next big DLC of "Survival", which has caused an uproar among players.

The new additions are secondary, mainly because it's a paid DLC. Free ontology, paid follow-up downloadable additional content, Chinese players have come into contact with such routines for the first time.

Of course, many players are not happy, they have been playing for free for so long, and now they have to pay for the follow-up content, hehe.

Even if the Qingyu Network revealed that the price of this DLC in China will be between 10 and 20 yuan.

But it's not a matter of more money and less money, the key is why do you collect money.

In China, the blue fish network seems to have more black fans overnight, and the situation has changed abruptly, and denunciations have begun to emerge from various forums.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu both knew that some of these people were players, and there were also some sailors hired by people with ulterior motives, and they were also tracking down the source.

For those players' abuse, what "the biggest is forgotten." "From then on, the herring fish will be black all his life." "In the end, you are still virtuous with other manufacturers, and I think you have a conscience." and so on, in fact, it is not so easy to accept, Xia Qingyu is even more funny and angry, mainly angry.

The price of more than ten yuan is the first attempt of Qingyu Network to charge in the stand-alone game market, and they have been cautious at this point.

The big hit to test the waters.,The popular game "Survival" with a fairly player base.,And it's free.,You can still play it even if you don't spend money.,It's just that you can't experience the latest additions.。

The content of the update is also very conscientious, with a new ocean map, a coastline similar to Hawaii, a variety of islands and caves worth exploring, layers of the underworld, the remains of the lost last civilization are better preserved underground, and players will also encounter the same human survivor NPCs, intersect with them, and have some stories. There's plenty to do with ocean and subterranean creatures, new weapons and items, and ships to get through.

Fortunately, there are still a large number of players who are sure of the approach of the herring fish network, which can be regarded as a little comfort.

The two factions of fish black and fish meal also began to start a scolding war on the Internet......

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Soni wants to port the integrated DLC version to PS3, adding some PS3-specific features as a selling point to attract players, and the estimated price is the same as "The Origin of Everything", which is also $25, which is a small game on PS3.

And put forward an exclusive request, on the console platform, it will only appear on PS3, or on the Soni platform, because it is not ruled out that a PSP version may be launched in the future.

After South Korea, the herring network has established its own branches in the United States and the United Kingdom, and people around the world who have studied and paid attention to the game industry know that they have two trump cards to spread their influence, one is "Eternal War", and the other is the FG platform.

The former Soni has nothing to do with it, and the latter, it is obvious that it will promote the FG platform to the world, Soni can not only authorize her own games to be distributed to the FG platform, but also now can establish a partnership with the herring network, well, it has become a third-party manufacturer for their PS3 game development.

The general view in the industry at this time is that there are two types, the first is that compared to its opponents steem and Villefort, both FG and Qingyu platforms are still too young, and they have been online for 5 years, and Welfort also has a palace-level game town.

There is also another view that based on the history of the company Qingyu Network, it must not be judged by common sense. And as far as the experience of the FG platform itself is concerned, except for the network congestion caused by servers in China, it itself is much more advanced than steem. And the problem of servers, after the blue fish network began to assume its own servers in Europe and the United States, will it still be a problem?

The game "Survival" was not released in Europe and the United States at this time, but it has now accumulated a considerable number of players, according to their own incomplete survey statistics, the current FG platform should be between 200,000 and 300,000 daily active players in non-mainland areas.

It's certainly not Survival, but there are a few other indie games.

There are even some non-Chinese independent game developers who have passed the review of Qingyu Network and released their own games on the FG platform.

Among them, the daily active users of "Survival" should be around 100,000, which is already a pretty impressive number, this game has not been promoted at all outside of China, and after the release of server management tools by Qingyu Network, more and more players have begun to set up their own servers, which will not be affected by the delay of the Chinese network at all.

It is conceivable how many players will be ushered in if the FG platform really starts to be promoted in Europe and the United States? And what kind of influence will "Survival" have?

It's a partner that can be united at an early stage of development.

Kazuo Hirai, head of Soni's PS platform game publishing business and president and CEO of Soni Computer Entertainment, prefers the latter. He approved the proposal of the distribution department, and the SCEI issued such an invitation.

In order to achieve exclusivity, Soni is willing to pay a "benefit fee" of $2 million to the herring fish network.