"Fred, are you a fan of the future Oasis?"

On the U.S. plane to Shanghai, Paul asked his colleagues. This time, he and Fred are going to Future Oasis to have already made contact with their new book, Sin City, and Future Oasis about related matters, and have also signed non-disclosure agreements and the like.

This time they were able to experience the latest beta version of Sin City, the version of Future Oasis for internal testing, with a very high level of completion, including a single-player story and a multiplayer mode.

Their task is to evaluate the game, including its completeness, quality, innovation, etc. They report directly to Stephen on what they're evaluating to decide how Sin City gets the MS in action.

The time for the press conference is limited, and if "Sin City" is average, then it is also a role to fill in the lineup, giving a little time to debut.

If Sin City's overall performance is good, then you can give more time, at least for a longer period of time.

If Sin City is so good that it explodes...... Then the next person to contact the future Oasis is not Paul or Fred, but Stephen or other executives in MS Interactive Entertainment.

In the console game industry, in the end, it is the quality of the game that speaks, although marketing and publicity investment has accounted for a large proportion of the game development budget, but in the relatively stable console game industry, an excellent game will at least not be buried.

"Yes Paul, I'm a fan of Future Oasis."

Fred nodded, and said with some excitement: "It's really disappointing that you don't know about this company, real players will definitely not know about Shadow Secrets." ”

Paul shrugged his shoulders and said, "I rarely play games on PC. ”

Paul is a true console party, he basically only plays games on consoles, and the future Oasis games were only available on PC, so he doesn't know much about future oasis.

"That's a shame."

Fred said: "Shadow Secrets is fantastic, it's really a very unique game. While I'm not a big fan of Future Oasis' new game called Three Kingdoms, I'm glad they've regained the same feel they had in Sin City. ”

"I've studied the videos they've put out right now, and I have a gut feeling that this game is going to be more than we imagined."

Paul didn't have a direct idea of the future Oasis, he could only say: "Hopefully Sin City won't let us down, Stephen should be very nervous right now, he doesn't have many cards to play." ”

Now MS's new host is in a critical bottleneck period, and this generation of host wars MS and SN fought a four-six in the first year, and MS has a slight disadvantage.

In the next period of time, both console platforms will usher in the first wave of blockbuster blowouts, which is the first critical period to determine the fate of the two consoles, and this battle will also start from this E3.

This generation of consoles is also an important achievement for Ingrid, the new president of MS Interactive Entertainment, which is a good way for a female president who took over the MS Interactive Entertainment division a few years ago. When MS was arguing about the positioning of the next-generation console platform, she unified the opinions of the entire department and MS executives, and strongly promoted the birth of the new generation of XBOX.

The new XBOX didn't do well in the early days, and President Ingrid is now under a lot of pressure, and it will take some time to test the correctness of the high level of support for VR games that she is advocating.

Ingrid's envisioned VR masterpiece that can drive the entire console platform to complete an explosive leap has not yet appeared, and XBOX now needs to fight with SN's new generation of PS in the field of traditional games.

If E3 and XBOX suffer a fiasco in the first wave of the next two years, the entire interactive entertainment department may face a major purge.

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This time, Paul and Fred traveled to the operational headquarters in Shanghai, where their assessment tests would take place, not in the Oasis studio.

For this, Paul thinks it is good, at least the transportation in Shanghai is much more convenient, and there are direct planes. However, Fred had a slight regret and wished he could see the location of Oasis Studios.

They also meet Su Li, the founder of Future Oasis and now the head of Oasis Studios and Sin City, for the first time.

After some pleasantries and discussions, Paul and Fred wanted to get to the bottom of Sin City as soon as possible.

On consoles, sometimes a game can save a platform directly. An exclusive masterpiece allows players to buy consoles for games, and after console sales go up, more games are willing to join the camp, thus creating a virtuous circle.

This is also the reason why consoles value first-party exclusive games, and many times the quality of first-party exclusive games can determine the life and death of a console.

"Sin City" is a third-party game that is released on all platforms, but it also attaches great importance to third-party game MS.

An excellent third-party game, although it is sold on all platforms, has some room for maneuver, such as adding some exclusive content on a certain platform, so as to promote the sales of the game on a certain platform.

Of course, this comes at a cost, but as long as the game is good enough, MS doesn't skimp on that. Compared to the victory or defeat of the entire console war, all the costs are worth it.

THIS TIME IT WAS THE XBOX VERSION OF SIN CITY THAT WAS USED FOR TESTING, AND THERE WAS ACTUALLY NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE THREE VERSIONS OF SIN CITY, BUT MS WAS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THE GAME PERFORMED ON XBOX.

The evaluation version for Paul and Fred, the latest version of the internal beta, was packaged last week. This version is a relatively stable version that is already ready for a multiplayer game.

Su Li personally accompanied Fred and Paul to evaluate the experience, and by the way, he served as a docent for the two, introducing them to some of the content of the game and the details of the design.

Su Li is still more willing to be invited by MS, and in any case, MS's special press conference is undoubtedly one of the most concerned pre-show press conferences on E3. For this year's E3, Nintendo, another giant, doesn't seem to have much heavyweight news to announce, which is basically a competition between MS and SN.

Of course, it doesn't make much sense to just make up the numbers and show your face. With the quality of Sin City now, Su Li feels that he can get better treatment.