Chapter 213: Developing VR Games
One week after it was opened, the global console sales of Killer had reached a terrifying achievement of 12 million.
However, the domestic review of the killer made Zhao Hao a little surprised.
You only need to mosaic the over-sizing and bloody images to pass the review and go on sale.
This made Zhao Hao a little surprised.
As long as it is not a castrated version, it is just a mosaic patch, Zhao Hao has no opinion on this.
Therefore, players who have a national bank host in China play with a harmonious picture.
But these can't be the vast number of players, although the game purchased is a harmonious version, but you also have a harmony patch, we also have a great god to make an anti-harmony patch.
James: They will return to China in a short time.
And the game that Zhao Hao is going to develop is Grand Theft Auto.
It's just that before the official development of Grand Theft Auto, Zhao Hao and they still have to develop a game, which will be a VR-enabled device.
The agreement signed between Google and Zhao Hao was about the exclusive use of the VR device platform developed by Google on the VR device for the game to be developed.
As for the other copyrights and revenues, all belong to the space gate itself.
But in the same way, Google can provide nothing more than data development related to VR.
There is also 30% of the cost of product development.
In other words, Google will have to pay at least about 10 million dollars.
and a commitment to free publicity of the work.
Although it is not like NVIDIA, it chooses to sponsor it with money.
However, using Google's channels for free, it can be said that the value of Zhao Hao's game promotion is not as much as that of direct investment with nvidia.
And even more.
You must know that on Google, publicity is not a few dollars that can be spent.
And they will pay 30% of the cost of its development.
Of course, Google doesn't do the same for good.
Develop a game if it occupies the PC platform. Thirty percent of the profits will also be distributed to Google.
That is, it is equivalent to investing in movies, investing a part of the proportion and then sharing profits afterwards.
A week later, Zhao Hao traveled to San Francisco in his big toy 'Space Gate' and took James back to the company's headquarters.
"We need some dedicated writers to write the story." Inside the special conference room of the space door, watching everyone. Zhao Hao opened his mouth and said.
For the production of Grand Theft Auto, Zhao Hao is ready to do it himself.
But for the plot of the VR game made by Unicom and Google, as for the detailed plot subplots and so on.
Zhao Hao is ready to follow Hollywood's streamlined manufacturing and use multiple editors to write the game's plot story.
One person is responsible for writing the conflict story, one person is responsible for the emotional story, in short, he is responsible for the aspects that the individual is good at, and finally put it together.
"Making a game the same way you shoot a movie?" Hearing Zhao Hao's words, everyone couldn't help but look at each other.
"Then what platform is the game we made?" Heard Zhao Hao's words. Hideo Kojima couldn't help but ask.
"PC, there's no way to change that." Hearing Hideo Kojima's words, Zhao Hao shook his head gently.
At present, even the latest version of the console platform on the market is still limited, and its performance is still much worse than the mainstream PC platform.
So if you want to make the game the best, there is no doubt that it can only be a platform like PC.
"The performance of the console platform is too limited, according to the VR and other data provided by Google, the minimum hardware requirements for the developed VR games have reached a mainstream PC platform in the current market. are completely unattainable. Zhao Hao looked at everyone and said.
VR virtual technology, this is a technology that can never be ignored. Even for the emergence of this technology, Zhao Hao even hopes that Google's progress can be faster.
Because he and Tolia about the construction of a virtual kingdom of gods with divine power, it all depends on this thing to shake up.
Even now, Zhao Hao doesn't have so much divine power to create the so-called virtual divine kingdom that stores ownerless divine power.
But the same VR technology has too high hardware requirements.
After all, it is a technology that is ahead of its time.
If you want to promote its VR technology, you can't do it without at least two or three years, because it is too much for CPU and memory graphics cards.
VR devices actually still rely on the PC platform. Otherwise, VR equipment doesn't do anything at all.
It can only be used as a more sci-fi helmet.
"But if we develop VR games, then there won't be enough people on the Grand Theft Auto side." Hideo Kojima opened his mouth and asked Zhao Hao.
Although the space gate studio has expanded a lot, it still does not have enough manpower to support the studio to work on two large projects at the same time.
If you go all out to develop a VR game.
Then it is estimated that the number of people that can be freed up is only a team of twenty or thirty people.
It might be more than enough for a game in general, but for a game like Grand Theft Auto. These people are estimated to be in the Year of the Monkey.
"Grand Theft Auto is not in a hurry, first of all, Grand Theft Auto's engine, we have to deal with it, at least for this part of the picture rendering, we have to go further." Zhao Hao shook his head gently.
Grand Theft Auto Zhao Hao wants to use his own engine to do it, and as for the VR game jointly developed with Google, it is better to use the purchased engine.
After the project was decided, two days later, Zhao Hao cooperated with Google to hold two press conferences at home and abroad to establish the development of VR games.
The initial funding cost for the development is $60 million.
When such a news was publicized, the entire gaming industry was like an earthquake.
VR technology is actually not uncommon anymore, and in fact, some games already have mature VR equipment.
But this time it was significant, with the collaboration between Google and Spacegate.
This is something that almost no one expected.
Even if it has been revealed before, it is said that Zhao Hao led his employees into Google headquarters for strategic cooperation.
But most of them are just scoffed at, what kind of existence is the space door, and what kind of existence is Google?
But now that the news is released, it shocks people severely.
However, after the shock, everyone is extremely looking forward to this VR game.
According to the news revealed by Zhao Hao at the press conference, this game will be a sci-fi genre, a Star Wars-themed game like Star Wars.
Players will engage in battles in the vast universe.
This is even more exciting.
The universe on the PC screen may not be so shocking, but if it is brought in first-person and seen with your own eyes, the shocking cosmic scene is different.
Whether you like the game, or the players who don't like the game, are looking forward to it. (To be continued......)