Calculate left and right, this year, the revenue of Wedo Entertainment is actually not as much as last year.

Last year, a "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", plus two other relatively small projects, the company achieved more than one billion in revenue.

And this year, although "Amber" is a big hit, the volume of animation works still can't be compared with TV series, and only 170 million revenue has been earned. However, after all, "Amber" is made in seasons, and this is only the first season, and the days to come are still long.

Although the yield of "Hell Apartment" is very high, the overall box office scale is about three or four hundred million after all, and the income that Wedo Entertainment gets through this work is only about 150 million.

So far this year, the two works that have been launched have brought a total of more than 300 million yuan to 'Dimension Entertainment'. Coupled with the long-term income of past works, the entire calculation will not exceed 350 million.

This number is not as good as last year.

At the same time, relatively speaking, spending money has become more ferocious.

The investment in "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" exceeded one billion; The public investment in the two works of "Amber Sword" and "Hell Apartment" also combined reached 50 million; At present, there is also a "Martial Arts Grandmaster" with an investment of 500 million.

According to public funds, 'Wedo Entertainment' can't make ends meet, and it still relies on 'Wedo Technology' for blood transfusion.

But that's not how it works.

These investments are going to make money in the future.

First of all, let's talk about the film and television drama "Martial Arts Grandmaster". On the basis of "Fantasy of the Three Kingdoms", the quality is guaranteed, and the star lineup has been relatively upgraded by many grades, and the final income of this drama, according to the estimates given by the company's commercial department, the lowest bottom line is 1.5 billion, and the expected value is more than 2 billion.

This project should be relatively stable. In other words, by next year, the marketing of Wedo Entertainment, at least, will more than double compared with last year.

A big investment naturally requires a big return.

Speaking of big investment, 'Dimension Entertainment' also has a project that can be called a big gamble, that is, "Taiwu Picture Volume 2".

In this work, the nominal investment scale given by 'Dimension Entertainment' is 1.2 billion.

In the future, "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" will inevitably be launched on multiple platforms such as PS, XB, PC, etc., and Ye Jiayi is already doing related work. Its global pricing will inevitably look like a 3A masterpiece, which is about 60 for the standard edition, 80 for the special edition, and 100 for the ultimate edition.

The pricing here is in US dollars.

In China, the price may be slightly lower, but the standard version should be at least more than 200 yuan.

Calculated as a whole, "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" has to sell at least four million sets, which can probably reach the profit and loss point, if you count the distribution commissions and publicity investment of major platforms, this profit and loss point may be doubled, and if you want to have a more ideal profit, you may need to sell tens of millions of sets.

It's actually quite stressful.

The reason why it is said to be a big gamble is because the current business department within the company has no bottom on what kind of results "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" will achieve in the end.

What are the tens of millions of sets of concepts? The game sales can exceed 10 million, and it is also a very rare work in the entire world game industry.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, GTA, Need for Speed, Call of Duty, Fallout......

All of them are famous.

And for example, "Taiwu Picture Scroll" has sold more than one million, which seems good, but you must know that the volume of this game is completely incomparable with the 3A masterpiece, how much does it cost? Sixty yuan only. Which 3A, don't sell for two or three hundred?

The sequel to "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" needs to sell ten times the sales at several times the price in order to have a relatively good profit.

This is the first serious game work of 'Dimension Entertainment', and it has to challenge this high difficulty as soon as it comes up, and the challenge is very huge for 'Dimension Entertainment'.

Marketing is one thing, but in the final analysis, the most important thing is the quality of the work itself.

If you can't make a work that is particularly good in quality and gameplay, it's unlikely that 10 million sales will be made.

No matter how good the marketing is, it is a loft in the air without its own quality support.

The efficiency of Luozhou Studio is still quite fast.

In itself, the game already has a certain degree of completion, and integrating a beta version is originally a planned thing. Now, the boss wants to play around and see the results of the investment, and they quickly made this integration their first task, and they quickly came up with results.

A little earlier than expected, Fan Zhe played this beta version.

The game is installed on his computer.

At present, in the office, in addition to him, the four people in charge of this project are also here.

In addition to the two chief planners of Eggplant and Gao Yixiang, Zhong Hua, the art director, is also there. In addition, there is another person named Chen Jue, who is in charge of the construction of the very important technology and AI aspects of the "Taiwu Picture Scroll" project.

At this moment, they were nervously waiting for Fan Zhe to give an evaluation.

And after opening the game, Fan Zhe, the first thing that caught his eye was a CG opening animation.

The main role of the game's opening animation is to serve as a game's signature.

The famous "World of Warcraft", every time the expansion is released, its CG animation can cause a sensation - do CG with your heart, make games with your feet, although it is just a joke, but people's CG animation is really good.

And other game masterpieces are also working hard in this regard.

'Dimension Entertainment' has very unique conditions, and if you don't make a good CG, I'm sorry for my own technical ability.

This CG, the whole process took about three minutes, and it can be regarded as a relatively complete short film.

In the short film, at the beginning, it shows a bustling street market.

Under the bright sun, bright red ribbons fluttered on the buildings next to the spacious bluestone street, densely populated, with many shops opening on the streets, and many vendors and various customers interacting with each other, quite a feeling of crowding.

Not far away, a luxurious team came. Dozens of servants, carrying a large luxurious sedan chair, walked step by step; Next to the sedan chair, there are many heroic knights guarding it.

Looking at the clothes on the team, Fan Zhe recognized that this was the person from Fulongtan painted in the design draft.

That's a sect.

The camera shifts to the second floor of a tavern down the street, where a man sits at a balcony table with a hat.

As the convoy approached, he stood up, stepped on the railing, and leaped down sharply, his sword flashing in mid-air, instantly killing one of the guards and pounced on the sedan chair.