"Grand Theft Auto?" Hearing Zhao Hao's words, James and Li Hua were slightly stunned.

"A game with criminal freedom as a selling point, a city in reality is perfectly made into the game, a seamless super map, no need to change the scene to read the point, perfect freedom." Zhao Hao nodded and said to everyone.

It's no problem to make money through game production, but it's a little bit more difficult to get people to know you and gain popularity through games.

However, Zhao Hao still thought of one, and the way was to make himself a character in the game.

Characters from anime and comics.

This is still Zhao Hao's real practice from fate suddenly remembered, no one pays attention to the game maker, what about the game protagonist?

You can set the protagonist in the game as yourself.

Then Zhao Hao talked to James about the game characteristics of some creative Grand Theft Auto.

"Perfect game, but I'm afraid our engine needs to be upgraded." James said with excitement on his face.

This is really a surprising game, and even after listening to Zhao Hao's words, James has already imagined how attractive this game will be when it comes out.

It's just that compared to James's excitement, Liu Dong and Li Hua are a little hesitant.

"But if you have a game with such a theme, it will definitely be banned in China." Liu Dong on the side said with some concern.

After all, radiation has just failed to pass the audit in China.

Even such a sci-fi wasteland-themed game as Fallout has suffered such treatment, not to mention the development of 'Grand Theft Auto' that Zhao Hao said.

Liu Dong, who almost didn't have to think about it, knew that if this game was developed, there would definitely be no way to sell it in China.

At most, you can only sell online.

But fortunately, the current Steam platform and Amazon are not a rare thing in China.

Almost most of the stand-alone gamers buy on these two platforms, and in fact, the sales of the domestic physical version are not very good, even if the stand-alone games made by the Chinese themselves can only be said to be average sales.

On the contrary, the sales volume of Wanwan and Hong Kong are higher.

But if it is said that the sales on the Steam network, according to the statistics of Steam, it almost provides more sales than the radiation generally. This is really a surprise to most game makers.

And if this is because of the support of the Chinese people, the sales in Russia are actually not bad.

It can only be said that the games that are made, as long as they are fun, there is definitely a market.

"The ban was banned, but this time we did more than just the PC platform. We also do it for console platforms. Zhao Hao said indifferently.

Ban?

As long as it's not real, there's no way to ban it anyway.

Because you can't ban foreign platforms as well.

Unless it's for Steam, like for Google.

But even so, there are a vast number of netizens with magical powers, who circumvent the wall through proxies.

What really makes Zhao Hao care is whether the game can be satisfying.

Zhao Hao knows the original appearance of the game. But whether he can make a better existence than it, that's not something Zhao Hao knows.

If you have to choose a game that will make you addicted to losing track of time, then it is undoubtedly the Grand Theft Auto GTA series.

It's not a game, it's a real city.

But what really makes Zhao Hao a little confused is whether the game engine used by himself and others can support Zhao Hao and them to make such a masterpiece.

"I'm just telling you about the plan, and if you want to make this game, these people on our team don't have enough right now." Zhao Hao smiled and said to James.

Such a huge project is not such a simple matter. At least with the current manpower of the space gate, it is definitely not enough.

"Brother Zhao, we can completely make up a fictional city, if we want to follow the real city, then the project is too big." Li Hua on the side opened his mouth and said to Zhao Hao.

Hearing Li Hua's words, Zhao Hao couldn't help but nod lightly.

Indeed, the project is indeed too big, and it is estimated that any building on the street will have to be photographed with a camera, and then a map will be made with software.

It is estimated that it will take a year or more just to model the map.

"I won't talk about this now. At least to make what I said, we're going to have to do a major engine overhaul, and while it's good now, it's not enough to make a Grand Theft Auto. Zhao Hao shook his head lightly and said.

"The boss. How much will be costed for this project? James on the side opened his mouth and asked Zhao Hao a very critical question.

After all, the quality of a game is not determined by the budget, but just like the director, there is no game maker who does not want to have sufficient production funds.

"The initial estimate is $60 million for development, including the new engine." Zhao Hao did not hesitate at all, and said to everyone. He had already asked someone to calculate this number.

This is still a conservative estimate, and as the game is developed, the funding will definitely continue to increase.

But even so, hearing Zhao Hao's words, Liu Dong, James and Li Hua also gasped.

$60 million, which is almost the development cost of a first-line game masterpiece.

Of course, when the time comes, if you find hardware developers like Inter and NVIDIA, you will definitely be able to get sponsorship.

There is even a discount on funding.

With the sales performance of Radiation now, there is no need to think about it at that time, and the sponsorship fee is not something that can be spent with a few million simple Radiation.

In fact, these hardware giants spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year just on triple-A game titles.

There's only one reason why you're so keen to sponsor triple-A titles, rather than those beautiful indie games.

The requirements of the game are not high, how can players update the hardware, and how can their products be sold?

After hearing Zhao Hao's words, Liu Dong and the others fell into dementia.

60 million! And it's still dollars!

You must know that even the development cost of the previous radiation was only 10 million dollars, and the total cost of publicity and public relations in the later stage was only 15 million US dollars.

Now that Zhao Hao said that the fund for the next project has been increased to 60 million, how can Li Hua not be stunned.

Not to mention 60 million US dollars in China, even if it is a production of 60 million yuan, no company is willing to invest in it.

But at the same time, Liu Dong and the others also understood why Zhao Hao chose the console version this time.

Because the games on the console platform are much more expensive than the PC platform.

Consoles are cheap and games are expensive, that's the reason.

If the PC version is developed and sold at the price of Fallout, I am afraid that the sales of Fallout will have to triple before it can recoup its cost. (To be continued.) )