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Chapter 243 Is 147 Steins;Gate?

Chapter 243 147. Is it Steins;Gate?

At the scene, no host manufacturer dared to believe this number.

But the players and reporters off the court were all excited.

What a blessing!

With such a cheap 32-bit console, players will only feel happy even if it breaks their bones.

Gamers’ carnival.

They even wish you could give it to them for free.

As a result, a huge watershed was formed at the scene——

The game manufacturers sitting in the front row all looked surprised and bluntly said that Sony was crazy.

With such a low price, either the cost cannot be recovered, or there is a quality problem, and it cannot be as low as 299.

The players slightly behind and in the middle cheered and danced, as if they were celebrating Christmas early.

Sony's PS marketing strategy is a typical business war model, which is a pure price war, hitting the lowest price in the market, and then dumping the monopoly market to make profits through games.

It can be said to be quite barbaric and harmful to others.

But Qing Zhiyuan actually doesn’t know whether it’s a loss or not. Sony says it doesn’t subsidize losses, so there’s nothing you can do about it.

As long as the data on the books are consistent.

Seeing the expressions of everyone in the audience, Kutaragi Ken showed a happy smile for the first time in a long time.

Not to mention the subsequent sales results, at least today.

This morning belongs to Ken Kutaragi and Sony.

…

"congratulations."

After Kutaragi recovered, Qing Zhiyuan sent congratulations to him.

The latter was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and smiled bitterly, "What are you congratulating for? This is just the beginning. The war hasn't even started yet, and we don't know what the final outcome will be."

"Don't worry." Qing Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder, "I have confidence in Sony. But don't forget, I designed part of this game console."

"Well……"

All the wrinkles on Kutaragi Ken's face seemed to come alive at this time, and they all had their own ideas, jumping around everywhere, and finally merged into one big word "囧".

"I hope so."

Kutaragi Ken sighed.

Yes, now Sony and pokeni are in the same boat.

If PS can sell well...

In fact, pokeni can't make much money, because Sony's strategy directly drives the price very low, almost to the cost price.

Add in various tax deductions, profit concessions, etc. Whether you can make money in the end is another matter.

It just means that there will be a very big platform advantage in game development in the future.

After the pre-show press conference, countless people felt that the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show was really a worthwhile trip.

Better than every time before.

The main reason is that this kind of real swords and guns, the scene of almost fierce battle is really beautiful.

Countless media outlets sent back their reports on the same day, fearing that other media outlets would preempt it.

The news was published in relevant electronic game magazines and electronic product magazines early the next morning.

[Chicago Consumer Electronics Show: Console Wars]

[Sony’s new product released, the ultra-low price of 299 crushes its opponents]

Of course, these are all words that Qing Zhiyuan imagined, because he bought the English version at a newsstand.

It takes a little effort to read in English, but fortunately, Qing Zhiyuan had a good command of English in his previous life, and you can probably understand the meaning of some unfamiliar words by relating them to the context.

[At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, major game manufacturers from all over the world showcased their own 32-bit new consoles, which can be called a console war.

In this battle...

There's the Sega Saturn, a 32-bit game console from Sega, and there's the 3DO...

The most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the PlayStation brought by Sony.

This game console is said to be a trial machine developed in cooperation with Rentian Tiantang two years ago, and is an improvement based on this basis.

It can be seen at the scene that these major game manufacturers have tried their best to gain hegemony in the future console market...

What was unexpected was that Sony PS only offered an ultra-low price of 299]

Qing Zhiyuan saw a young man reading a newspaper, and his eyes widened when he saw this.

"Wtf?! 299? Real or fake?"

This year is really a very important turning point in history,

Starting from this day, Sony, the company, will completely enter everyone's sight and lead a new era of consoles.

…

After the pre-exhibition press conference, Sega's American CEO Collinski immediately found Qing Zhiyuan.

"Qingsang, it is said that pokeni participated in Saunière's console development. Is it true?"

Qing Zhiyuan frowned fiercely, thinking that some bastard had leaked the news.

"Well, Sony wanted to develop a new game console, and we happened to have the need to develop new games, so we asked them if they could provide some hardware support according to our ideas.

Generally speaking, the demand is raised by us.

It can be considered as participating in the design. "

Farke~

Kolinsky cursed in his heart.

Qing Zhiyuan, this fox, are you wronged by saying this?

Pick yourself out in a few words.

"I didn't know beforehand that we were going to develop a 32-bit machine. Of course Sony found us first and followed suit. We all cooperate with each other," Qing Zhiyuan said.

Collinski opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"But..." Qing Zhiyuan comforted him again, "Don't worry too much, because President Zhongshan had dinner with me when we were at Neon, and we also talked about the Sega Saturn.

We definitely still have to cooperate with Sega, after all, we all have a common enemy.

Don’t forget, our goal is to defeat Rentian. "

Um?

After hearing this, Kolinski's anger dissipated somewhat.

"President Qing, for [friends] like Sony who are capricious, I suggest that you should be less bound to them."

Collinski stopped talking and did not continue. He just chatted with Qing Zhiyuan for a few words and then left, "Then you are busy first. I look forward to cooperating with pokeni."

Seeing his hurried away figure, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh.

This guy was probably caught off guard now and was busy going back to report the local situation to President Zhongshan and discuss countermeasures.

…

In comparison, Qing Zhiyuan was the most laid-back person at the entire press conference, so laid-back that even the company's Kazuma Takahashi couldn't stand it.

"President, why are you so calm?" Kazuma Takahashi frowned, "I originally thought that something unexpected would happen at this electronics show, but I didn't expect it to be so explosive.

It felt like watching the battle of the century up close. "

Qing Zhiyuan looked at him amusedly.

What is likeness?

obviously it is.

"President, you haven't noticed that small companies like ours are actually squeezed in between. No, it should be said that these big guys stirred up a whirlpool, and we were forced to get involved.

If we don't do it right, we will be in danger. "Takahashi Kazuma said.

"No, what danger could there be?" Qing Zhiyuan glanced at him.

Seeing the president's calm and calm expression, Takahashi Kazuma was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized something.

"President, do you see any clues?"

"Well, it seems that there are many opponents, but in fact the outcome has already been determined." Qing Zhiyuan said, "This is originally a winner-take-all game. In the end, it just depends on who has more money and who can burn the most money."

There is nothing new under the sun, it is just a game of capital.

From the electronics field, to the Internet, and later to China's food delivery and taxi-hailing... they were all created by burning money.

Sony has abundant funds and obviously wants to crush the others. In addition, it has accumulated technology, and the results have already come out.

"Ah...this..."

Takahashi Kazuma lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then his eyes suddenly widened, and he understood almost instantly.

"By the way, President, why do you think Rentian is so calm?"

"them……"

Qing Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment and said that this question of yours overwhelms me.

"Their ideas are too advanced, and they may not bother to develop 32-bit machines first."

At this time, Rentendo Yokoi Gunpei seems to be busy developing VR game consoles.

But, if you take too big a step, you might pull something off.

Mistakes in strategy are the most fatal.

…

Now that he has learned the truth about the [Endgame], Takahashi Kazuma's heart suddenly feels at ease.

The next day, I didn’t care about that much. I followed the example of my own president, warmly welcoming everyone who came, and it didn’t matter who or what I did. I just focused on building my own platform.

The pokeni exhibition area is not big, but there are many players who come to experience it, and many people come here specifically to see it.

Mainly because what Paradiso displayed was the sequel to Diablo, which was a hit last year.

Last year’s Diablo sold like crazy in the Omi region.

This also allowed Sega's MD to boost sales, directly achieving sales of 4 million copies.

The main reason is that they have never played such a real-time battle type game before, and it is still a top-down perspective. What is even more rare is that the entire worldview is very in line with Western characteristics, which makes them feel very immersed.

When Qing Zhiyuan arrived at his exhibition area, he found that the entire venue was packed with people.

When Kazuma Takahashi saw Qing Zhiyuan, he jumped up from the crowd and waved to him.

"President! President!"

Everyone didn't understand Japanese and didn't know what Kazuma Takahashi was talking about, but they all followed his gaze with some curiosity.

After a quick glance, he looked back and continued to watch others experience Diablo 2.

"President, someone is looking for you."

Takahashi pushed his way through the crowd and came out to speak.

"Huh?" Qing Zhiyuan was slightly startled, "Who is it?"

…

Following closely behind Kazuma Takahashi were three Americans.

One of them wears glasses and is quite handsome, and the other two have similar looks and seem to be a pair of brothers.

After some introduction, Qing Zhiyuan found out that these three people were the founders of a game company called Condor.

The two thin, shoehorn-faced ones were the Scarfo brothers—Marcos Scarfo and Eric Scarfo.

The one wearing glasses who looks a bit like Batman is David Breivik.

This company was just founded in September last year. It was originally a company specializing in porting games, and now it plans to make an independent game of its own.

They also said that they are fans of pokeni and are really crazy about Diablo.

"This game is simply what we dreamed of." David Breivik said, "Being able to play Diablo 2 today is really the happiest day in my life."

"No, no. Thanks." Qing Zhiyuan smiled.

His eyes were still looking at the man in front of him, David Breivik, and he always felt like he had heard it somewhere.

After two seconds, as the man in front of him became more and more excited, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Qing Zhiyuan's brain.

Damn it!

David Breivik and the Scarfo brothers, aren’t these the founders of Blizzard North?

Qing Zhiyuan finally remembered.

Condor Game Company is the predecessor of Blizzard North, which is also the creative team of Diablo. In the previous life, it was this group of people who produced the famous Diablo.

The original creator of Diablo praised him for doing a great job on Diablo.

What kind of experience is this?

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but shook his head and laughed.

It was like the Dragon King bit his own tail.

The founders of Condor Game Company also exhibited their games at the same Chicago Electronics Show. At that time, Diablo was still a semi-finished product and a turn-based game.

Can you believe this turn-based game?

"Diablo 1" is indeed inspired by the classic Roguelike game "Moria" born in 1983. For the 1990s, Roguelike RPGs were already backward products of the previous era.

Therefore, "Diablo 1", which cannot keep up with the times, naturally encounters obstacles everywhere.

In order to obtain investment to develop games, David Breivik, the father of Diablo at the time, participated in the International Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago with the original version of "Diablo 1".

And at this electronics show, I met Blizzard, who was also doing outsourcing and transplantation.

After chatting with several founders of Blizzard, they suggested that David Breivik make Diablo a real-time game.

As a result, this conversation led to two historic events——

First, after David Breivik returned home, he really discussed it with his colleagues and voted to change Diablo into a real-time meat pigeon game. Speaking of which, the process of making it real-time was also simple and crude -

The programmer directly accelerated the animation to fast-forward the turn-based battle, which turned into the real-time system.

Second, Condor Game Company accepted investment from Blizzard and became part of Blizzard, which later became the famous Blizzard North.

Blizzard North is developing the Diablo series, while Blizzard originally developed "Warcraft"

…

Qing Zhiyuan suddenly felt dazed when he thought of this.

I didn't expect to see them at this Chicago Electronics Show.

Hasn’t history been rewritten?

You don’t even have Dark, how could you even think of coming to the electronics show?

Could it be the great Steins Gate...

The timeline is wrapping up?

"Actually," Breivik gave a thumbs up and pointed behind him, "we are also participating in the exhibition this time and brought a small game."

"Really?"