Chapter 80: Scoring Ban Lifted
In November, most of the northern hemisphere can be regarded as winter, and the end of the year is the most critical time of the year for major merchants.
For example, the big sale in the United States, known as "Black Friday", is at the end of November, which is the craziest day of the year for shopping in the United States. From November to December every year, it is basically the peak shopping season in most Western countries.
Although there is no tradition of Black Friday in China, with the rise of online commerce, the annual online shopping festival is also in November, and the sales are also very terrible, which has far exceeded the Black Friday in the West.
And because of the relationship between several festivals at the end of the year, the days of traditional shopping malls are also more comfortable in a year, from November to before the Spring Festival, it is the period of the highest sales in shopping malls.
For the gaming industry, November is also the golden season for annual releases, especially for console games that rely on retail channels, November is the time when blockbusters are released.
The prime time of the game's release at the end of this year is the prelude to Sin City, a futuristic oasis.
On Friday, November 5th, Futuristic Oasis' triple-A masterpiece "Sin City" was released simultaneously in many countries around the world.
At this time, there are basically no works to compete with "Sin City", and the release date of slightly competitive works is also scheduled to the end of the month. It can be said that most of November belongs to Sin City, and no one can compete with it.
The pre-sale situation of more than a month ago has been announced, and the fire of "Sin City" is already a sure thing, and the pre-sale sales that can be officially counted have exceeded one million, and this pre-sale sales are the electronic game sales that have been paid, and the sales booked in the store are not counted in it.
Sin City has a very large distribution, and Future Oasis has chosen to publish it on its own this time, which is also the first time they have released a game of this scale.
Globally, Future Oasis has prepared more than 10 million copies of the first physical version of Sin City, and it doesn't seem to be afraid of the game being slow-selling.
Compared with the price of a game, the material cost of a disc of a physical game is basically insignificant, and for the first batch of 10 million shipments, Oasis feels that it will definitely be sold out in the future.
This also means that in the future, Oasis's sales estimate for "Sin City" will be at least 10 million.
Domestic physical games are now basically sold online, and most of the physical stores are specialized video game stores, and most people do not have the habit of going to traditional shopping malls to buy such audio and video games.
Judging from the survey of Oasis in major large online stores in the future, the sales of the domestic console physical version of "Sin City" are also very good.
At least during this time, the sales of new consoles on the two platforms in China have increased significantly, and many players who were still waiting and watching, or new console players, bought consoles in this time period, and even the sales of some previous games have also increased.
In Europe and the United States, advertisements for "Sin City" have appeared intensively in the relevant areas of major shopping malls, and shopping malls have reserved the best and most conspicuous position for "Sin City".
Everything awaits the official release of Sin City on November 5.
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More than a week ago, major gaming media outlets received the media version of Sin City before players, and this time the media review was much larger than the games that preceded the future Oasis. Sin City is rated by more than 200 media outlets, large and small, including all major gaming outlets.
Previously, the number of media ratings for several games in the future Oasis was not very large, and "Shadow Secrets" should be the most, but many of them were also scored after the game was released.
The rating of "Shadow Secrets" is also one of the highest rated among all the games in Future Oasis, and after two large DLCs, the overall score is still maintained at more than 9 points, which has been generally praised.
This time, Sin City's rating lineup is much larger, and Oasis has prepared more media versions of the game than before, and has rejected many media requests for early reviews.
Not all media are eligible to receive the media version of the game, and there are only a few dozen media in the first batch to receive the game, and most of them are old game media, and their ratings have a relatively large weight in the MC collection.
Domestic game media have also wanted to get the media version of "Sin City" through various channels, because the lifting time of media reviews is earlier than the release time of the game, and the media that can publish reviews will definitely be able to attract huge traffic, which is also a reflection of the status of the industry.
However, in this regard, the future oasis does not refuse to come, and any pheasant self-media can get the media version of the game. In fact, in the end, there are only a few domestic game media that can get the media version of the game, which is basically concentrated in those old media.
The game will be released on November 5th, and the relevant review ban will be lifted on November 1st.
On November 1st, many players were waiting for the media to release reviews of Sin City, although Sin City had been tried before, and the performance on E3 was also very impressive, but only the final official version is the real time.
The content of the trial is limited, and it is not possible to have an in-depth experience, and this review, the media have more time to have an in-depth experience, evaluate all aspects of the game, and express their opinions.
The future oasis is indeed very confident this time, and the previous elimination of plug-ins is, and so is the media evaluation this time. In the future, Oasis did not "stuff money and public relations" with any media, and wrote as much as it wanted, and would not interfere with media ratings.
On the evening of November 1, the first long review and rating of "Sin City" was officially released.
Gamespot gave Sin City a perfect score of 10, praising the game as "the best yet-in-class game that best embodies the new generation of gaming."
When the news came out, the hearts of players were also put at ease, and Gamespot is one of the most well-known gaming media now, and the ratings have a certain authority.
It seems that the final version of the game, will not disappoint.
By the evening of the same day, more than a dozen media outlets had released ratings for Sin City.
Sin City received 7 perfect scores and 3 high scores of 9 or more.
By the day before it was released, all the ratings that "Sin City" received, except for a very few media outlets that gave a strange low score for some strange reasons, were basically all high scores.
Moreover, Sin City's ratings so far surpass all the games on the new console platform to date, becoming the first top game of the new generation.