Chapter 8 The Value of Cloud Platforms
Many of the strategic layouts of the future oasis are carried out secretly, except for a very small number of people who always pay attention to the dynamics of the industry, too many people do not have such a keen sense.
For example, players are not interested in paying attention to the strategic layout of a game company, and the game is the only thing they care about. Therefore, players' feelings about the changes in the industry are still lagging behind those in the industry.
In recent years, major game developers have been exploring the direction of cloud gaming, which means that the game is based on cloud computing, and the server replaces the player's host or computer to complete the processing of the game screen, and then transmits the game screen directly to the player.
If this approach is adopted, then players no longer need a high-spec PC or corresponding game console, and hardware is no longer a limiting factor for players to play. Putting the game content on the server side for computing will also make it easy for Oasis to give full play to the scalability of the game in the future.
If the game is installed on the player's computer or console, it is not a good experience to update a game frequently. However, if this update is done server-side, then Oasis may find a way to update the game in real time in the future.
More importantly, in the future, Oasis hopes to make up for its last shortcoming through this cloud platform, that is, it does not have the design ability of game hardware.
The console platform has been monopolized by giants, and the future oasis does not plan to plunge headlong into the big pit of host development, this is really a real sinkhole, not to mention that the future oasis can't afford to play, there are really not many people who can afford to play this.
In contrast, the cloud gaming platform is more operable, and in the judgment of the future oasis, in the future, the prospect of the cloud platform is broader than the heap of hardware. The hardware of console games will always be very limited to game development.
Game consoles are not like PCs, but the hardware can be upgraded at any time, and after a console is released, the hardware configuration of this console will be fixed in the next few years, unless the manufacturer comes up with an upgraded version of the configuration.
In the case of cloud gaming, the use of cloud hosts can solve this problem, and the configuration of the machine that the player himself uses to play the game is not important, as long as he has the ability to decode the video and add the input device.
Of course, cloud gaming looks great, but it's not that easy to achieve, and the biggest problem is latency. Players input information to the cloud, and then get feedback from the cloud, with continuous picture output, has great requirements for the network.
In the early days of cloud gaming, a lot of interpolation technology was used, that is, the player machine still performed part of the calculation, and then the cloud also performed part of the calculation, which was the solution to deal with the huge data transmission.
Web technology is much stronger now than it was a few years ago, and the implementation of cloud gaming no longer seems as distant as it once was. In the future, Oasis has now taken cloud gaming as its strategic direction and begun to explore and accumulate related technologies.
However, cloud gaming is still in the research stage, and the resources allocated to each direction are limited under the multi-line operation of Oasis in the future, and it is not the time when the whole family made a game together.
In the future, the output speed of Oasis games, although it seems to players to be a bit slow, is actually quite efficient. For example, Oasis Studio's "Time and Space Code", when this game was established, many VR games had been working on it for a long time, and now the progress has a tendency to be overtaken.
Now, it's time for "Time and Space Code" to enter the publicity stage.
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Some time ago, IGN conducted a huge survey among the player base, and the main question was to find out what kind of games players are most looking forward to right now.
In the results of the questionnaire, "VR games that are comparable to traditional masterpieces in terms of game content" was the answer with the highest number of votes.
However, the developers have judged that VR games can become a hot spot in the game field for a period of time in the future, and they have been recognized by players.
However, the survey also shows the reality that the VR games launched by these developers today are not the VR games that players are expecting.
In the final analysis, the limitations of the content of current VR games are still too great. Some of the content-rich masterpieces are actually VR realistic versions of traditional game masterpieces, although they are played with VR, but there is no operation mode to match them.
Therefore, they hope to play a VR game that belongs to the VR era, not a simple VR display, but a matching gameplay.
In another survey, players were asked to list their "VR games from the game company they would like to play." ”
Players can fill in up to three companies, and in the final results, the number of votes for Future Oasis is in the top three.
Although it has been a long time since the release of Sin City, the game is still alive and well, and with the further increase in sales on the new console platform, Sin City has become one of the "must-have games" for many new players, and it still maintains a very good popularity.
The newly released DLC of Sin City also received good reviews, although the rating was lower than the main game, but it also received a score of 9.2.
In several media interviews or events, Future Oasis has admitted that "they have multiple games under development at the same time, and VR games are their next key direction." ”
"We're working on multiple projects at the same time, but based on the current progress, the next game to be released in Oasis in the future will be a VR game, which is our first foray into the VR field, but I think this game will definitely make players feel very cool when the time comes."
This is the original painting at the time, and this statement also made the players cheer for a while, now that the official admitted this matter, then with the efficiency of the Oasis in the future, maybe the new work they have been dreaming of will soon appear.
However, some people expressed pessimism about this, although the efficiency of the future Oasis is good, but the development of VR games is generally not fast, and many people think that the new game of the future Oasis can be released within two years is already very good.
But in fact, the news of the new game of Oasis in the future appeared even faster than some players of the optimistic family thought.
Just a few days after the end of this investigation, an image circulated on the Internet and was quickly reprinted by gaming media around the world.
"The promotional image of the new game of the future Oasis has stolen away!"