Chapter 2 The Oasis of the Future Now
MS's Forza Motorsport has bounced again, and Su Li is actually very clear about it, and this masterpiece that they have high hopes for to redefine racing games is now becoming a bit difficult to deliver.
Racing games are no better than others, and if this kind of game wants to have a strong graphic performance, the technical indicators are still very high. For example, high refresh rate, no tearing of the picture at high resolution, and there are also requirements for VR equipment.
SU LI KNEW THAT MS HAD ACQUIRED A VR EQUIPMENT DEVELOPER FOR ITS OWN XBOX TO MAKE VR EQUIPMENT VERY EARLY, AND THIS TIME IN ORDER TO PROMOTE ITS OWN VR GAMES, MS HAD IMPLEMENTED A LOW-PRICE STRATEGY FOR THESE VR DEVICES TO SEIZE THE PLAYER BASE.
Not to mention, the price is still very competitive, at least players who like to play VR, they are very willing to buy MS's VR equipment, and by the way, buy a console.
For MS, the money discounted on the device can still be transferred back through the game in the end. Players have bought all the equipment, are you afraid that they will not buy the game?
However, for players, now that the VR equipment has been bought, the games that have been advertised all over the world have not been released, which makes them very resentful and feel that they have been deceived. Especially after Forza Motorsport jumped again, MS is now facing a big crisis.
From last year to now, the gaming world can be described as a group of demons, and now there are some big changes.
The impact of the Oasis engine, as Su Li had predicted, sent a huge wave through the gaming world.
The number of games this year is far greater than in the past, and the games that some small and medium-sized companies have come up with look like masterpieces.
Now the game industry is already planning to reduce the price of the game, which was originally $60, but now the game quality is about the same, and the plan will be reduced to the $45 level.
However, this has nothing to do with the current Future Oasis, which has not released any new games for more than a year, and their movement in the gaming field is the follow-up update to Sin City.
As its own signature game, the update of Sin City is still not behind, and Future Oasis has updated the first expansion pack for Sin City. This expansion expands the game's map and reveals the secrets of Sin City's powers.
Of course, although there are no new games released, the development of games in Oasis in the future is still not left behind.
Now, the development department of the future oasis has moved into their new home.
It had only been a few months since they moved here, and the hundreds of people in the development department finally left the small building that had become overcrowded and came to their own development base.
This is indeed a base, and this large area is all included in the scope of the development headquarters of the future oasis.
However, there are still a lot of empty places here, and according to the plan, these places will build various game-themed buildings or some landscapes according to the game content released in Oasis in the future.
In the current development headquarters, there are three small buildings that are not tall in a triangular way, Su Li doesn't like that kind of high-rise buildings very much, he thinks that this kind of strata building with the characteristics of living alone is more suitable here.
Now Future Oasis has four game development studios, and the Oasis Studio, which developed "Sin City" and "Shadow Secrets", is still their core studio, the trump card of Future Oasis.
The Three Kingdoms Studio, which developed "Three Kingdoms", had a relatively low sense of existence for a period of time before, and the game "Three Kingdoms" is now a very outdated game, but in the future, Oasis now retains the name and personnel of the Three Kingdoms Studio, and a group of newcomers are also being added, and related sequels are being developed.
The remaining building is a newly established studio in the future Oasis, Unreal Studio, which does not currently have any game masterpieces, but this newly established studio still attracts a lot of attention.
Because Su Li is the person in charge of this new studio.
Originally, many people thought that Su Li, who had already achieved fame, would leave the front line of game development and become a company manager.
However, for Su Li himself, if he really left the development front line to become a businessman, then everything he did before would have no meaning.
In his opinion, the biggest effect of making so much money now is that he can have enough resources to do the games he wants to make.
And the only overseas studio, under the leadership of Nicholas, is working on a new steampunk game, and they will expand on the previous mod called "Steam 1938" to open up a new game series for the future oasis.
Now that Future Oasis has enough capital to play multi-line, in fact, all four studios have their own projects on the ground, and Sin City's sales revenue and licensing fees for the commercial engine can easily support them to launch four projects at the same time.
Since the release of Sin City, Su Li has completed two milestones in the system, and with the increase in authority and the power of the engine reaching the standard, their Oasis has begun a new evolution.
This evolution lasted more than three months, and the version number of their Oasis became 2.0.
This major version upgrade is a real evolution for this engine, which is enough for them to start playing all kinds of "sao operations".
As the traditional gaming landscape gradually turns into a red ocean, Future Oasis, like some other gaming giants, has set its sights on more advanced game formats.
For example, VR games.
Su Li's purpose in establishing this Unreal Studio is to explore new ways of playing, to explore the future direction of game design, to put it simply, to start playing all kinds of black technology.
Now, in addition to Nicholas, whether it is Unreal Studio or the old Oasis Studio, their current projects are VR games.
Although Su Li is now the head of Unreal Studio, it is still necessary to care about the project situation of Oasis Studio.
Now that the future oasis has been silent for a long time, there is no news except for some patches and updates to Sin City, which makes players who are waiting for the new work of the future Oasis very dissatisfied.
"There is no news from its four studios, so they won't go on vacation after making money, right?"
"It seems that we have bought too much Sin City, and we have no worries about food and clothing, and there is no pressure, which has slowed down the production of the game."
In the forum, many players complained about the future oasis.
Forget it without a game, it's a bit too much to even draw a pie.
In fact, the development of games within Oasis in the future has not been interrupted, and shortly after the release of Sin City, several games were launched at the same time.
However, it now seems that Sue is still some way away from being in charge of Unreal Studios and releasing the game, but it is Oasis Studio, which Summit has taken over, that will soon release the news of their new work.