Stephen already had plans to retire, and the hard work of the past few years had left him feeling exhausted and unable to continue. Now the interactive entertainment part of the entire MS is in a state of turmoil, and after the "Yaoguang" of the future oasis is launched, it has become the most dazzling pearl in the game industry.

At that time, some people sighed that everyone originally thought that the year of masterpieces led by "Dawn" of the future oasis would be the beginning of another game boom, but they didn't expect it to be the last twilight of this generation.

With the clashing between MS and Future Oasis, Future Oasis halted the development of the current generation of consoles and all PC games, and suspended all projects. Several of these projects are halfway through the development process and are in turmoil.

At the time, the outside world did not understand such a decision at all, and thought they were completely crazy. The game projects of the future Oasis are basically high-investment and large-scale production projects, and the suspension not only makes the previous high investment go to waste, but also makes people feel extremely pessimistic about the company's prospects.

Who doesn't know, this one is suspended, how long it will be suspended. Although many people are not optimistic about the existing hardware platform in the future Oasis and have an understanding of the decision to take the cloud platform as the development direction, the desperate "gamble" under such a haste is not favored after all.

This is a project that is thousands of times more difficult than making a game, if it is said that making a game can still be made no matter how good or bad it is, and it can't be reduced, then what Oasis wants to accomplish now in the future is not so simple, in short, it is a practice that does not succeed.

If it fails, it will be a devastating blow, and the glorious oasis of the future may never be the same again, and there will probably be no chance to start an era again.

There is no doubt that with all projects on hold indefinitely, there is also panic within the company, and for the first time in the future Oasis there is a mass resignation.

It was at this time that the outside world finally learned some secrets inside the future oasis from the words of those who left, such as the game development engine that was ahead of the times, such as some of their original plans.

According to some unverifiable gossip, there were even hundreds of commercial espionage operations against the future oasis that year, but nothing was achieved. At this time, some rumors began to circulate that there were several bigwigs in the core technical department of the future Oasis who could win the "Turing Award".

This exaggerated joke was only laughed off at first. Just kidding, how can this kind of person, who can be regarded as a national treasure, "deign" in a game company, go to a university casually, and others are not sweeping the couch to greet and give what they want?

I guess it's an exaggerated story made up by those who left the company to ask for credit, right?

However, no one could have imagined that the truth was far more magical than that.

Walking in the core building of the future Oasis headquarters, which has changed dramatically, Stephen can still recall what it was like back then, the worries of the players, the watchfulness of the developers, the feasts and carnivals of the media, the dancing demons, and the chaos.

However, at the time, even the staunchest supporters of Future Oasis expressed concern about their decision, and many felt that after so much success, Future Oasis had become a little "inflated" and began to have some unrealistic ideas.

Maybe in a few years, with a little more accumulation, waiting for a good time, Oasis will indeed have the opportunity to touch the top of the pyramid in the gaming industry in the future. But there is no doubt that this time is definitely not now.

The situation was really bad, the future oasis was facing the biggest crisis ever, and Stephen still remembers being in MS's spacious office, watching the information they collected from various sources, and lamenting their current dire situation.

Su Li responded to all the suggestions of "peace" with a tough attitude, and after cutting all the existing projects, they had to walk on the single-plank bridge and go all the way to the black on the cloud platform, and if they didn't succeed, they would become benevolent.

In the future, Oasis integrated all the projects, filled the gaps in personnel leaving through mergers, and then restarted several of the highest-rated projects internally, and produced games that fully met the specifications of the cloud platform, and carried out the research and development of their cloud platform in parallel, as the first game when the cloud platform was launched.

At the beginning, Stephen was still thinking that now that Oasis does not even have a shadow of a platform in the future, he wants to make a debut game, and he is confident that it is a little ridiculous.

Now that I think about it, there is indeed something ridiculous......

It's just that it's not anyone else, it's yourself.

Walking down the hallway, Stephen found that the place was completely different from when he first arrived. How many years have it been since the last time you were here? Seven years or eight years?

Stephen shook his head, he had watched the miraculous rise of the future oasis over the years, and also watched MS's interactive entertainment business sink into the quagmire step by step. His superior, the strong and confident female president, was forced to resign because of a "serious strategic miscalculation", and as the veteran of the interactive entertainment department, the hero of XBOX research and development, was promoted to the position of department president.

However, he has now decided to retire as soon as possible, and he has been exhausted from just a few years as the head of the department, and he can no longer seek higher achievements.

It is said that the board of directors has reconsidered the future of the interactive entertainment department, and his dismissal or transfer is already a sure thing. Rather than being swept out of the house at that time, it is better to walk a little more chic by yourself. Although Stephen is now in his early fifties, he is starting to get bored with his work and feels he needs to rest.

Perhaps, it's a good choice to be a simple gamer?

Stephen has been working with games throughout his career, and while he hasn't been involved in game development, he's much more interested in games than the box he runs them in, and he's built a great platform for game developers.

It's just that now that game developers have a new, more powerful and perfect platform, it's time for him to quit the stage.

Due to his busy schedule, he can only try out various games, more for his own work than for fun, and what he wants to do most now is to be a simple gamer rather than a hard-working industry leader.

Stephen thought about his retirement and suddenly an excitement arose.

But now, he has one last thing to do, and that is to hope to end the years-long enmity between Oasis and MS in the future, and at least to change the relationship from the current "hostile" to "business rivals".

He thought about the chips he had and felt that the results of this line would not be too good.

On both sides of the corridor of the headquarters, there are huge electronic crystal screens, and now technology can cut such extremely large and high-resolution panels, and there is no longer a need for splicing.

On the screen, Stephen saw the most unexpected miracle in the gaming world, the key to the future, the terrible nightmare that caused all first-party manufacturers to suffer Waterloo.

The cloud gaming platform of the future oasis - "Yaoguang".