Game Development Giant

With Jester's roar, the carnival officially started, pushing the anger of the entire carnival party to the climax.

This time there is not only an e-sports project that attracts much attention and has many more supporters than last year, but also a cosplay project that has only been officially included in the carnival competition unit starting from this year. Although Jester is not very interested in this, Including his previous life, he didn't know why this project was so popular.

But after seeing that there were indeed a large number of players cheering for the cosplayers wearing the costumes of the characters in the game and taking photos with them, Jester thought that there would definitely be cosplay in such large-scale game exhibitions in the future. competition items.

Therefore, at the second carnival, it was added.

What players need and crave is what we want to do. This is also a creed that Jester has been adhering to since he founded Mars Entertainment.

After Jester finishes this speech, he will fly to the UK. The reason is very simple. He has worked day and night as a producer to produce two games this year, and he also has to worry about the World Electronic Game Alliance and the Second Mars Entertainment Conference. Regarding the league, basically there is no rest at all this year.

Therefore, Jester also decided to take a long vacation for himself after hosting the carnival, the last major event of the year.

As for the game "Runestone Guardian", which is not a big one, Jester plans to start production after the Spring Festival. The reason is that after he was exposed to the idea of ​​vacationing in the UK, he had to rush to that country on the other side of the Pacific. He accepted The invitation, or rather, was a response from that country to his reaction to the events in the middle of this year. They invited themselves to attend the annual Spring Festival Gala, and Jester agreed after much consideration. of this request.

"The speech was a success."

In the car driving to the airport. Mark Saini said something to Jester sincerely.

Jester smiled noncommittally. In fact, a lot of the content of his speech just now was a reference. Mike Mowaimi's speech at the opening ceremony of BlizzCon in 2013 was only slightly modified. To adapt it, Jester watched the live broadcast of the BlizzCon that time on the Internet. To be precise, it was a hit, but it was a pirated broadcast. At that time, he felt that Mike Mowaimi's speech was exciting.

"I may have to discuss with Claudia during this vacation to finalize our marriage. I won't be back for a few months, and the Christmas promotion next month will depend on you."

Jester did not talk about his previous speech, but directly talked about the next work matters to Mark Saini. In previous years, Jester was not directly responsible for the Christmas promotion war, but Mark Saini would do it. Pay attention to this, which is a major event for the company within a year.

"Um."

Mark Saini didn't talk nonsense and just nodded. When he heard Jester talking about getting married, a subtle smile appeared on his face. At the same time, he also teased Jester: "Claudia has complained to me a lot in the past few years, always saying that you are not good to her."

Jester was a little embarrassed by what Mark Saini said. He sighed and said: "These years, I really feel sorry for letting her be alone in Europe. Moreover, it was all her fault after a while. Look at me. I have very little time to look at her."

"Actually, you don't have to work so hard." What Mark Saini said is true. As a game company that has already formed a scale and has seven or eight games in development at the same time. There is indeed no need. Bosses like him are still developing games on the front line of development.

For example, although he also likes to make games, now he usually only makes one every one or two years, so that he will have more free time and it will not prevent him from spending time with his wife and children.

Mark Saini got married more than a year ago, and the child was born before they were married.

"You do not understand."

Jester just said something in a very calm tone, and then he seemed to think about it for a moment before adding: "Time is running out."

Before I knew it, the car had arrived at the airport.

Before getting out of the car, Jester seemed to have remembered something. He said to Mark Saini seriously: "Right, Mark, please help me pay attention to the development process of Dreambox 3 during my absence. This time our The development guiding ideology is to guide the development of hardware with software as the core. In the previous two times, we developed the hardware first, and then considered how to develop games based on the hardware. In my prediction, in the future The game market will shift from hardware vendors to software vendors."

Jester also mentioned these words in the previous high-level meeting, but many people thought that Jester was alarmist, because with the establishment of the World Electronics Association, Mars Entertainment, Sega and Sony have already After reaching a cooperation, these three companies almost control the entire hardware platform. Those third-party game manufacturers must abide by the rules they set as long as they want to be in this industry.

"It won't be like this." Obviously, Mark Saini also agrees with this view. In his opinion, Mars Entertainment, which has become the setter of industry rules, is unlikely to decline in a short period of time.

There was an undetectable light in Jester's eyes, and he still had that indifferent tone.

"If you want to maintain the current form unchanged, it is indeed what you think. However, the most important problem is that no one likes to be inferior to others."

Mark Saini thought that Jester would talk about those third-party developers, especially dishonest ones like EA. Before, EA had the idea of ​​​​joining other companies to launch its own console, but he did not expect that Jester would The sudden measures taken by the World Electronic Games Association to carve up the market caught them off guard, which made them give up the idea for the time being.

Besides, even Nintendo has backed down. Do other third-party manufacturers still have the courage?

Therefore, Mark Saini truthfully stated his doubts.

This was also the thought of many people in the company, and Jester could not change all their opinions. However, he still hoped that Mark Saini would come with him. He thought for a moment, organized his words, and then said: "They are indeed not as good as Nintendo. It can even be said that they are far behind Nintendo. But have you ever thought that these third-party developers do not have the ability to shake the foundation of this pattern, but those who work with us to complete this situation Where is your company?”

Hearing Jester's words, Mark Saini was suddenly shocked. He knew what Jester was talking about.

"You mean Sega and Sony? They..."

He did not say the rest of the words, because what Jester said here was enough. No one willingly succumbs to others. The temporary forbearance must be for future counterattacks. This is an eternal theorem.

"I'm not really worried about Sega, I'm worried about Sony."

Everyone in the company's senior management knows that Jester attaches great importance to Sony. Even in Jester's eyes, Sega's threat is not as great as that of Nintendo.

"Yes, for a behemoth like Sony, as long as they are willing to pay, there is almost nothing they can't do." Mark Saini also agreed with Jester's point of view. Sega, like them, also specializes in the game industry. The most important thing is that Sega does not make as much money as them, and it makes much more money than Sega.

The development of games, the laying of channels, the research and development of hardware, and the recruitment of talents. In the final analysis, it is all about money. If you have money, you can have everything. Although this sentence is a bit absolute, it still makes some sense. Whether it is money, In terms of R\u0026D, channels and talents, they are not as good as our own Sega.

No matter what ingenious strategies they have, they can be easily cracked by him. This is their biggest shortcoming and the reason why Jester doesn't take them seriously.

But not Sony.

"Let's not talk about it now. You just need to remind the development team of Dreambox 3 to listen more to the opinions of those game producers. You must know that the essence of game consoles is to make games, so game consoles should be used in the development of games. Above, it provides the greatest convenience to game developers, which is why I abandoned the dual-CPU architecture in Dreambox2, which is not conducive to game development."

Mark Saini is also convinced of this.

He is a game developer, so he has a high degree of recognition on this point. In fact, Sony's subsequent failure in the early days of ps3 was because all development was based on the instructions of hardware engineers and ignored the opinions of software developers. , As a result, after the ps3 was developed, it had powerful functions, but developing games on the ps3 was extremely painful.

And it was precisely because Mark Saini was able to correct the chaos when he served as the chief architect of PS4 that he made PS4 a game console that was completely built for games.

This is a very big progress for Sony's hardware R\u0026D institutions, allowing them to move from being arbitrary as hardware developers to being on the right track of discussing development with hardware and software developers. The most important thing is that sales are not It will be deceptive.

The sales of ps4 are indeed brilliant. When the total sales of ps4 exceeded 20 million units, the sales volume of their old rival xbo was less than 12 million units.

In this next-generation competition, ps4 can be said to have won a great victory. (To be continued...)