Chapter 33: Prologue
In the new year, as the dust settles on the major awards in the gaming industry, the gaming industry has turned an old chapter and begun to embrace a new future.
This old chapter is not just the last year, but an entire gaming generation.
In this generation, too many stories have happened, and there are too many memories left with a generation of players who have changed from teenagers to teenagers, or from youth to middle age.
For gamers, every generation of gamers has their childhood and youth.
The feelings of the gaming industry are indeed a very powerful force, and those works that left deep memories on you in your childhood and youth will give you a completely different feeling when a new sequel comes out many years later.
In this generation, the entire game industry has experienced a profound impact and change, the form of the game, the content of the game, the preferences of players, the choice of the market, some traditional concepts have become no longer applicable, and developers need to learn the rules of the new era.
With the improvement of mobile phone performance and the progress of network construction, the impact of the rise of mobile terminals on the game market is obvious. The concept of gaming has also shifted from home entertainment to socializing and filling fragmented time.
This generation of players, in the context of the growth of numbers, is more differentiated than before.
The new design concept, those incredible works that can almost be called fire, have also brought too much impact to the practitioners of the game, and some designs that are considered incomprehensible have been sought after by players.
The transformation that games have undergone in this generation is more radical and profound than the alternation of the previous generation.
It is the hardware that is used to carry the game, and only the development of the hardware is the most critical factor that drives the development of the game.
In the field of home consoles, SN almost overwhelmingly became the winner of the eighth generation, and finally exceeded 100 million console sales to complete the double killing of direct competitors.
Nintendo's NS has chosen a unique development path, while MS, another giant in the console industry, continues to compete with SN with the super powerful skill of "having money".
In the past few years, MS has launched a Jinyuan offensive, acquiring game studios all over the world, accumulating its own game lineup, and making up for their shortcomings in the field of game entertainment.
There is indeed a lot to be gained by throwing money around the world, and MS has repeatedly said that they will be the winners of the new generation.
In this context, a new generation of game consoles, which has opened the curtain on the next generation of games, is coming this spring. The advent of the new console has also sounded the clarion call for developers to join the competition of the new generation.
In March, MS and SN each released their new consoles, the ninth generation of the game, with a gap of a week.
In addition to the traditional function enhancement and full entry into the 4K era, the further optimization and support of VR games, and the interaction with mobile devices have also become the characteristics of this generation of consoles.
For hosts, it's only natural that they want to pull players back into their living rooms.
And for game developers, they also need to think about their own way forward in the face of rising game development costs.
In this generation, a new name has been added to the list of developers competing in this field.
An oasis of the future.
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"The sales of this generation of consoles are better than we imagined, I originally thought that because of the impact of mobile terminals, the initial sales of the new generation of consoles will not be much higher than the previous generation, but the enthusiasm of players is still beyond everyone's expectations."
In the future oasis, Su Li and Li Haoming chatted about the release of the new generation of consoles.
After the Spring Festival holiday, everything in the future oasis returned to normal, and at this time, the future oasis from top to bottom knew what they needed to fight for next.
They are about to join the competition of the new generation, and the next project of Future Oasis is a top-level masterpiece for all platforms.
Although it was not explicitly stated before, everyone in the future Oasis has actually been mentally prepared. All previous indications indicate that in the future, Oasis will definitely join this realm that can be called the battlefield of the gods.
This field is an unfamiliar field for other domestic companies, and before that, domestic game companies were basically unable to participate in game development at this level.
Although the development of this kind of full-platform masterpiece is difficult and the investment is high, in fact, the income in this field is more stable than that of mobile, and this field still follows the rule that the quality of the work determines success or failure, as long as the game is done well, then it will definitely succeed.
This field is also new to Future Oasis, but they are more courageous and confident than others.
After the accumulation of three projects, Future Oasis, which has a sales volume of one million, is ready to meet new challenges from top to bottom.
"Both MS and SN are very well prepared for this generation of hosts. This generation of consoles has been released a year later than originally planned, and the lineup of games that escorted the game's debut is much stronger than ever. ”
This generation of consoles, in addition to the achievement of 24-hour sales of more than one million, because of the global synchronous release, SN's new console only took more than a month to break through five million sales, which is less than half of the time taken by the previous generation of consoles.
In this generation, there are more than 30 games for the first launch of the two consoles, and in addition to some remastered games, SN and MS have more than one exclusive new masterpiece participating in the first escort, which is also an important reason for the explosion of console sales.
These new games involved in the launch escort are all produced by the core first-party studios of both parties, and these studios have long been able to get the development machines of the new consoles.
Future Oasis naturally doesn't need to rush to an early gathering, and now Future Oasis has reached an agreement with both parties and officially entered the developer camp of the new console.
The first console work of the future Oasis is naturally a ported version of "Three Kingdoms", and the console ported version of "Three Kingdoms" will be released in addition to the dual platforms of the new console, and the version of the previous generation of consoles will also be released.
This time, neither MS nor SN's new consoles are backward compatible and cannot play the games of the previous generation consoles, so Oasis still needs to make two versions in the future. Now the old consoles still have a large market size and have not been completely eliminated, and it will take a year or two for the game market of the new consoles to mature.
"Three Kingdoms" is just an appetizer, and the core work of the future oasis is naturally the new work "Sin City", which has been in preparation for a long time.