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The New Year is just around the corner, and the gaming market is trembling.

Since November, the Pokeni propaganda campaign has become more and more enthusiastic.

The DC game console has been fully accepted at the end of October, and there are no significant bugs in the hardware test, which can reach the level of being put into the market.

After that, the main engine promotion began.

This time, pokeni still invited his royal spokesperson, Takuya Kimura, to advertise for Sega DC, combined with the Pokémon series of games he endorsed, it can be said that the publicity is completely full.

On December 10th, the Sega DC game console was released simultaneously worldwide.

At the same time, it will be released along with "Pokémon 3D World: Mecha Maze"

Pokeni also subsidizes the game console to a certain extent, and if you buy the game console and the mechanical maze at the same time, you can enjoy a 9% discount.

On the DC game console, in addition to pokeni's newly developed mechanical maze, EA has also joined in, so players can also experience NBA1999 on DC, as well as games such as Need for Speed 3.

Some of Omi's new games can also be played on DC.

Although the number of games that can be played at the beginning is not very large, the emphasis is on quality, and the game exclusivity of pokeni and EA has caused a lot of repercussions.

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All the employees of Sega and Pokeni are on the verge of beating their hearts.

During this time, the most concerned every day is the sales volume of game consoles.

Because the DC game console determines success or failure, whether the future of pokeni's games will continue to rise on DC, or whether it will move to PS2 or PC, this time is a crucial battle.

It's not too much to say that it's a battle, there is no smoke of gunpowder, but it makes people feel life and death.

Not only are the people at Pokeni and Sega keeping an eye on the sales of DC consoles, but game manufacturers around the world are paying close attention.

How well the market feedback of DC game consoles and how well they sell will determine whether they want to bet on the future and how much they want to press.

Although Pokeni's back is lonely, his forward figure gathers the eyes of too many people.

In the end, it is actually reflected in the sales of game consoles, which mainly verifies not only the quality of game consoles, but more importantly, whether the market and players have confidence in you.

Faith is far more important than one's own abilities.

Therefore, no matter what happens outside, no matter what the current situation is, Qingzhiyuan is full of confidence, not only to show himself, to his employees, but more importantly, to show the outside world.

Let the whole world know that this wave of pokeni is not the so-called ruin, but the future.

Not only do we have the world's top console development, but we also have the world's top game development, and we have plenty of money in the back, so we don't have to worry about whether DC consoles will be discontinued in the future, or whether the game will not continue to be released.

Although Qingzhiyuan did not say it on the surface, but recently, whether it is Pokeni or Yuehe of Qingzhiyuan Holdings, they have been releasing news to the outside world:

Nvidia, in which Pokeni is a shareholder, is about to go public in 99, and at the same time, the market has valued Nvidia, and it is very likely that the stock price will rise on the day of listing.

Nvidia is also continuing to develop the next generation of graphics cards, and it is expected that by next year, both the performance of graphics cards on PCs and the performance of the next-generation graphics cards it makes for DC game consoles will double again.

At the same time, after the Matrix got off to a hot start, production director Fumie Hitotsubashi also joined hands with Nolan and Keanu Reeves and Angelina Jolie and other core stars to announce the follow-up shooting plans for The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3.

Filming is expected to be completed within two years, and the film will be released in its entirety over the next few years

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This series of news doesn't seem to have much to do with Sega game consoles, and the most relevant thing is Nvidia's graphics card news.

Qing Zhiyuan also did not publicly shout that [we are very stable, I hope everyone can continue to support us] [The game console is very stable, DC will inevitably succeed]

However, the market's confidence in DC game consoles, Sega and pokeni is slowly rising.

Even in the questionnaire of players, the purchase intention has gradually increased from only 5% in the middle of the year to 34%.

Although it has not yet broken through the threshold of 50, it is already very telling.

On Sony's side, Ken Kutaragi is also paying close attention to the movements of DC and Aochiyuan, and what makes him very surprised is that even if the DC game console is released, the initial results are not particularly ideal:

Only 400,000 copies were sold in the first week, and these 400,000 copies were still due to Pokémon, not DC consoles.

According to Kutara Mujian's thoughts, I'm afraid Qing Zhiyuan is already in a hurry at this time.

However, Pokeni's side behaved extremely calmly, especially Qing Zhiyuan, who hardly made any shouts or appeals in front of the media, and even called friends to urge such things rarely happened.

However, this is also the point that Kutara Muken admires very much about Qing Zhiyuan.

He really managed the expectations of the market.

The more times like this, the more we must calm down, and any public appeal, publicity, price reduction or bundling and other profit-making behaviors may backfire.

Especially the more you brag about how great your game products are at such times, call on everyone to buy them, and discount them, it will give the market a lack of confidence.

People will think that you may not be able to hold on, the financial chain of Pokeni and Sega is about to break, and the sales of game consoles are lower than expected......

All kinds of speculation will arise, and it will go in the direction of the worst and the most depressed.

But Qing Zhiyuan is not biased, his calmness does not say anything, he does not make any changes, but it is like a ballast stone, stabilizing the giant ship of Sega and Pokeni, even if there are stormy waves ahead, and there is already a storm around him, this ballast stone is still very stable.

So far, the ship can be said to be in danger, and there is no sign of capsizing at all.

And those information related to Pokeni released intentionally or unintentionally confirmed Qing Zhiyuan's confidence invisibly.

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In December, the game console was released, and in January, Qingzhiyuan followed Nvidia's Huang Jenxun to the New York Stock Exchange, and at the scene, Qingzhiyuan witnessed the listing process of Nvidia at the invitation of Huang.

On the same day, Nvidia's stock rose from the issue price of 11.4 yuan all the way to 26 yuan, more than doubled.

It can be seen how confident the market is in NVIDIA.

Confidence in Nvidia also invisibly reflects confidence in NVIDIA's cooperative company, which is also the most important shareholder of NVIDIA, Pokeni.

After this wave of listings, the market's feedback on DC game consoles is also very obvious.

That night, both Sega Mi Guo and Neon Sega received orders from major sellers wanting to increase the number of DC game consoles.

The launch ceremony of "The Matrix 2" was also successfully held in January, and the media reported on the scene in a big way, and production director Fumie Ichibashi said that the Matrix series was just the beginning of the Moon River Company.

It is Yuehe's long-cherished wish to make better and better sci-fi blockbusters, and after the Matrix, Yuehe Group will also carry out new cooperation with Pokeni, and will successively move many of Marvel's superheroes to the big screen.

With the blessing of Pokeni's special effects, everyone can look forward to it.

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The war on game consoles seems to be a battle for game consoles, but it is a contest in all aspects.

Originally, everyone thought that after Pokeni acquired Sega, it might face the problem of not having bullets to fight, even if there were Pokémon to support the field, it would still fail in the end.

However, Qing Zhiyuan behaved lightly, ignoring the disapproval of Sega DC in the outside world, and while withstanding the pressure, he gave the outside world and his peers a wonderful illusion -

Qing Zhiyuan behaved so calmly, did he have a backhand? It's like "Automata" that he made at the Tokyo Game Show last September.

The release of other news has basically strengthened the confidence of the outside world in Pokeni.

NVIDIA's listing is a shot in the arm.

This chip company has developed into a two-generation gap between 3D graphics cards on the market, and even Huang is still running with his Huang's law, the concept of doubling performance every six months.

With Nvidia at the bottom, no matter how you look at Pokeni, there will be no financial problems.

Otherwise, Qingzhiyuan should start selling Nvidia shares now.

It is precisely because there is no financial pressure that it can be held for a long time, and Qingzhiyuan is full of confidence in Nvidia at a glance.

The news of Yuehe, coupled with the support of DUN and Nao Tsuda, has invisibly increased the confidence of the market.

The news emitted above inexplicably gave the players and released a kind of -

I'm not bad for money at all.

And I'm very confident that I can hold on, even if Sony's PS2 arrives, it's a little bit fearless.

This wave of Pokeni's trump card has played well, and the global popularity and marketing strategy of Pokémon have been quite effective.

Therefore, after the release of the game console, as the market confidence continued to recover and strengthen, the sales data also slowly rushed up.

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By January, more than 3 million DC consoles had been sold, and Pokémon sales had broken through the 1 million mark.

The online reviews of DC consoles and the Maze of Machines have also begun to explode.

Anyone who has played the mechanical maze is in for granted.

"I was a little hesitant to buy DC, but after I went to one of my friends' house and experienced the latest Pokémon 3D world: Maze of Machines, I couldn't hold back anymore.

Seriously, the performance and picture performance of DC game consoles are much stronger than PS.

I originally thought that DC could do better than PS in some details at most, but I was wrong, I found that after playing the game on the DC console, the game quality on the PS could no longer meet my aesthetic needs.

This is probably what the American poetess Emily Dickinson said:

I could have endured the darkness if I hadn't seen the sun.

I could have had a good time on PS if I hadn't seen DC.

The graphics of the DC game console are really beautiful, the light and shadow effects, the detailed textures, and the metallic luster on the mechanical Pokémon that can be seen in the mechanical maze is not the kind of simple reflected light, but has some more delicate diffuse reflections......

At that moment, I decided that DC consoles had to be in their hands.

In fact, I didn't make a mistake in my judgment, and I didn't feel better than that when I bought a DC console.

I really recommend that players who like to play games and like Pokémon can get one.

The price of 249 is already quite cheap. It's totally worth it. ”

"This time, I was really impressed by the DC game console and Pokémon of Pokeni, and I endured it for a long time and finally couldn't escape the temptation of Pokémon.

In fact, I regretted it after I bought it back-

Why didn't you buy it sooner?

I've wasted so much time, and if I had bought a DC console earlier, I would have been able to enjoy a game like Pokémon Maze earlier.

If I had bought earlier, I would have been able to invite my friends over to my house.

If I had bought earlier, I would have been able to show off to my friends earlier.

Sega DC has really made a lot of money this time, such a game console, such a high-quality game, it is definitely the first in the world.

It's really too much to say not to buy. ”

"The same Need for Speed 3, I experienced it on a DC game console, and I experienced it on Sony PS, and I will take a screenshot for you.

It's two completely different graphics games.

DC can fully exert the effect of Need for Speed, and it is very smooth. ”

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Thanks to EA, a good comparison has been made for the world.

The same game,Put it on the PS and put it on the DC to feel really different,The light and shadow effects on the DC,Model performance,And the scenery changes seen on the road,It's much stronger than Sony's PS。

Some people may think that Sony's PS2 is still worth looking forward to, and DC should not be compared with PS that is about to be outdated, but many people are actually very direct visual animals.

At the first glance when they saw the DC screenshots, they could already conclude that the DC game console was much higher than the PS, and it was estimated that it was not inferior to the PS2 at all.

On pokeni's official website, you can also see the picture of the 2B lady in "Automata".

This is all ironclad evidence that can help gamers re-understand the console market and make them fully feel the DC console, even compared to the PS2 that will be released in two years, the machine performance is still superior.

If this is the case, is there any need to wait until after 2000?

The development of the PS2 is still going on, everything is an unreal pie built by Sony, and DC is so real in front of you and within reach.

So why go for the near and far?

Everything is instilling confidence in the market.

In February, the total sales of DC game consoles reached 7 million, and the sales of Pokémon 3D World: Maze of Machines exceeded 2 million.

Not only did he successfully harvest the children's New Year's money, but he even created a lot of wealth for Pokeni and Sega.

By March, even some game manufacturers who were on the sidelines could no longer sit still.

Because the third bullet of Pokeni was also launched:

Pokémon 3D World: Magic Crisis is also officially released, and it is available in major game stores around the world.

The most important point is -

A cast of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro characters was also added to Crisis of Magic.

It's incredible.

Neon players are going crazy about it.

"Wow, this is a chinchilla. My favorite Totoro can actually appear in Pokémon, so I can't buy it now. ”

My Neighbor Totoro's plan to join Pokémon was negotiated with Ghibli a few years ago, but it has not been put into the game and has not found the right time to cut in.

This time it's just right, first in the magic crisis, and then in the handheld battle.

Ghibli also cooperated with the publicity, and Miyazaki personally drew the interactive animation of Totoro and Pikachu, although it was only a short ten seconds, but it became the most talked about topic at the moment.

The PV of the game is also a hot mess.

This wave of Pokémon smashed down, and the sales of DC game consoles directly skyrocketed again.

In April, the sales volume of Pokémon Magic Crisis exceeded 3 million copies worldwide, and the total sales of DC game consoles reached 10 million.

So far, players' willingness to buy DC game consoles has also broken through the 50% threshold.

Qing Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Breaking through 10 million sales means that DC is alive.

Just like in the Wandering Earth movie, at the last moment, Liu Peiqiang ignited the atmosphere by himself, and the explosion wave produced pushed the earth away.

When he saw this again, Liu Peiqiang's son lay on the ground and sighed silently: "Earth, live." ”

Qing Zhiyuan is also in the same mood: DC! Lived!

It's completely possible to survive and go to the era of DC2.

Even if it does not necessarily replace PS in the future, at least it has gained a firm foothold in the market.

As long as you are stable, you will be able to launch a follow-up attack.

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10 million is a tipping point, and once it is breached, it is equivalent to the first domino has fallen, which will have a series of chain reactions.

So when I saw this number of DC releases, game manufacturers who had never looked for Qingzhiyuan before also began to fall one after another.

The first to feel the change in wind direction was Masashi Miyamoto, president of Square Enix Corporation.

"Hey, President Ao, I'm Square Enix, Masashi Miyamoto."

"Oh, Miyamoto-sama, I remember your voice."

"Well, although Final Fantasy 8 can't be released on the DC platform, I thought, can we put 9 on DC for development, as you said before, you can still make a number of game engines developed by pokeni itself, right?"

"Uh-huh, of course." Qing Zhiyuan laughed, "The previous promise will definitely work, welcome to join the DC family." ”

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