Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 514 418. I can’t sit still anymore

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The new year is coming, and the game market is trembling.

After entering November, pokeni's publicity campaign became more and more enthusiastic.

The DC game consoles have all been accepted at the end of October. There are no significant bugs in the hardware testing, and they have reached the level of being put into the market.

After that, the host promotion began.

This time pokeni still invited its own spokesperson Takuya Kimura to advertise for Sega DC. Combined with the Pokémon series games he endorses, it can be said that the popularity of the promotion is completely full.

On December 10, Sega DC game console will be released simultaneously worldwide.

Also released at the same time is "Pokémon 3D World: Machinarium"

pokeni also subsidizes game consoles to a certain extent. If you purchase a game console and Machinarium at the same time, you can enjoy a 10% discount.

On the DC game console, in addition to the newly developed Machinarium by pokeni, EA has also joined in, so players can also experience games such as NBA 1999 and Need for Speed ​​3 on DC.

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

Although the number of playable games was not very large at the beginning, the focus was on quality, and the exclusive titles of pokeni and EA have caused quite a stir.

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All employees at Sega and Pokeni, their hearts are about to beat out of their chests.

During this period of time, the sales volume of game consoles has received the most attention every day.

Because DC game consoles determine success or failure, whether pokeni's games will continue to rise on DC in the future, or whether they will switch to PS2 or PC, this time is a crucial battle.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a battle. There is no smoke, but it makes people feel that life and death are at stake.

Not only people from Pokeni and Sega are continuing to pay attention to the sales trends of DC game consoles, but game manufacturers around the world are also paying close attention.

The market feedback and sales of DC game consoles all determine whether and how much they should bet on in the future.

Although pokeni's back is lonely, his moving figure attracts the attention of too many people.

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

Confidence is far more important than your own ability.

Therefore, no matter what happens outside or what the current situation is, Qing Zhiyuan always behaves confidently, not only to show it to himself, but also to his employees, and more importantly, to the outside world.

Let the whole world know that this wave of pokeni is not a so-called burnout, but a continuation of the past.

We not only have the world's top game console development level, but also the world's top game development level, and the funds behind us are very abundant. There is no need to worry about whether the DC game console will be discontinued in the future, or the game will not continue to be released. The problem.

Although Qing Zhiyuan did not say anything on the surface, in recent times, both Pokeni and Yuehe controlled by Qing Zhiyuan have been releasing news:

Nvidia, which pokeni has a stake in, is about to go public in 1999. At the same time, the market has valued Nvidia. It is very likely that the stock price will rise on the day of listing.

NVIDIA is also continuing to develop next-generation graphics cards. It is expected that by next year, the performance of both PC graphics cards and the next-generation graphics cards it produces for DC game consoles will double again.

At the same time, after Moon River Company got a hot start with The Matrix, production director Fumi Hitotsubashi also teamed up with Nolan, Keanu Reeves, Angelina Jolie and other core stars to announce The Matrix 2 and The Matrix 3 follow-up shooting plans.

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

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This series of news does not seem to have much to do with Sega game consoles. The most relevant news is Nvidia's graphics card news.

Qing Zhiyuan did not publicly say: "We are very stable, I hope everyone can continue to support us" [The game console is very stable, DC will definitely succeed]

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

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

Although it has not exceeded the critical value of 50, it is already very illustrative.

On Sony's side, Ken Kutaragi is also paying close attention to the trends of DC and Qing Zhiyuan. What surprised him is that even if the DC game console was released, the initial results were not particularly satisfactory:

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

According to Kutaragi Ken's thinking, Qing Zhiyuan may be anxious at this time.

However, pokeni behaved extremely calmly, especially Qing Zhiyuan. He almost never made any propaganda or appeal in front of the media, or even called friends and businessmen to urge them. Such things rarely happened.

But this is something Kutaragi Ken admires very much about Qing Zhiyuan.

He truly manages market expectations.

The more times like this, the more you need to stay calm. Any public appeal, publicity, price reduction, bundled sales, etc., may be counterproductive.

Especially at this time, the more you brag about how great your game products are, call on everyone to buy them, and offer discounts, it will give the market a sense of lack of confidence.

Everyone will think that you may not be able to hold on anymore. The capital chain between Pokeni and Sega is about to break. The sales volume of game consoles is lower than expected...

All kinds of speculations will arise, and they will go in the worst and most depressing direction.

But Qing Zhiyuan refused. His calmness did not express his position or make any changes. Instead, he was like a ballast stone, stabilizing the giant ship of Sega and Pokeni, even if there were turbulent waves ahead and the sky was already full of storms. , this ballast stone is still very stable.

Therefore, it can be said that the ship has sailed without any danger, and there is no sign of capsizing at all.

And the information related to pokeni that was released intentionally or unintentionally, invisibly confirmed Qing Zhiyuan's confidence.

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The game console was released in December. In January, Qing Zhiyuan followed Nvidia's Huang Renxun to the New York Stock Exchange. At the scene, Qing Zhiyuan was invited by Huang Renxun to witness the listing process of Nvidia.

On that day, Nvidia's stock rose from the issue price of 11.4 yuan to 26 yuan, more than doubling.

This shows how confident the market is in NVIDIA.

Having confidence in NVIDIA also invisibly reflects confidence in NVIDIA's partner companies and Pokeni, NVIDIA's most important shareholder.

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

That night, both Sega America and Neon Sega received order calls from major sellers, wanting to order more DC game consoles.

The opening ceremony of "The Matrix 2" was also successfully held in January, and the media covered the event extensively. Production director Fumi Hitotsubashi said that the Matrix series is just the beginning of Moon River Company.

It is Yuehe's long-cherished wish to make better and more outstanding science fiction blockbusters, and after The Matrix, Yuehe Group will also launch new cooperation with pokeni, and will gradually bring many Marvel superheroes to the big screen.

With pokeni’s special effects, everyone can definitely look forward to it.

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The game console war seems to be a battle for game consoles, but it is actually a competition in all aspects.

Originally, everyone thought that after pokeni acquired Sega, it might face the problem of running out of bullets to shoot. Even if there were Pokémon to support the game, it would still fail in the end.

However, Qing Zhiyuan acted calmly and ignored the outside world's disapproval of Sega DC. While withstanding the pressure, it gave the outside world and his colleagues a wonderful illusion -

Qing Zhiyuan behaves so calmly, does he have a back-up plan? Just like the "Automata" he created at the Tokyo Game Show last September.

Other news releases basically strengthen the outside world's confidence in pokeni.

Nvidia's listing is a booster shot.

This chip company has developed so far that it has almost formed a two-generation gap in the 3D graphics cards on the market. Even Huang Renxun 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, Qing Zhiyuan should start selling Nvidia shares now.

Because there is no financial pressure, it can be held for a long time, and Qing Zhiyuan is full of confidence in Nvidia at first glance.

The news about Yuehe Company, coupled with the support of DUN and Nao Tsuda, have invisibly increased the market's confidence.

The news distributed above inexplicably released a kind of news to the players and many friends and businessmen——

My pokeni is not short of money at all.

And I am very confident that I can sustain it. Even when Sony's PS2 arrives, there is no fear in it.

This wave of pokeni's ace cards is playing well, and Pokémon's global popularity and marketing strategy are quite effective.

Therefore, after the game console was released, as market confidence continued to recover and strengthen, sales data slowly increased.

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

Reviews of DC game consoles and Machinarium reviews on the Internet have also begun to grow explosively.

All players who have played Machinarium praise it very well.

“Originally I was a little hesitant to buy DC, but after I went to a friend’s house to experience the latest Pokémon 3D World: Machinarium, I couldn’t hold back anymore.

To be honest, the performance and graphic expression of DC game consoles are much better than PS.

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

This is probably what the American poet Emily Dickinson said:

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the sun.

I could have played it just fine on the PS if I hadn't seen DC.

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

At that moment, I decided that I must buy a DC game console.

In fact, my judgment was not wrong. After buying it, the DC game console gave me no better feeling than this.

I sincerely recommend that players who like to play games and like Pokémon get a copy.

The price of 249 is already quite cheap. Totally worth buying. "

“This time I was really impressed by the Pokémon on the DC game console and pokeni. After enduring it for a long time, I still couldn’t escape the temptation of Pokémon.

In fact, I only regretted it after buying it——

Why didn't you buy it earlier?

I wasted so much time. If I had bought a DC game console earlier, I would have been able to enjoy a game as fun as Pokémon Mechanic.

If I had purchased it earlier, I would have been able to invite friends to my home.

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

Sega DC has really spent a lot of money this time. Such a game console and such high-quality games are definitely the best in the world.

It’s really unreasonable not to buy it. "

"I experienced the same Need for Speed ​​3 on the DC game console and on the Sony PS. I will give you screenshots to see.

These are two completely different games.

DC can fully bring out the effects of Need for Speed, and it is very smooth. "

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Thanks to EA, a company, for making a good comparison for the world.

The same game feels completely different when placed on PS and on DC. The light and shadow effects, model performance, and scenery changes seen on the road on DC are far stronger than those on Sony's PS.

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

When they first saw the DC screenshots, they could already conclude that the DC game console was much superior to the PS, and was probably not inferior to the PS2 at all.

On pokeni’s official website, you can also see the picture of Miss 2B from “Automata”.

These are ironclad evidence that can help players re-understand the game console market and allow them to fully experience the DC game console. Even compared to the PS2 released two years later, the machine performance is still superior.

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

The development of PS2 is still in progress. Everything is an illusory pie constructed by Sony, but DC is so real and within reach.

So why should we sacrifice the near for the far?

Everything is injecting confidence into the market.

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

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

By March, even some game manufacturers who were waiting and watching could no longer sit still.

Because pokeni’s third bomb was also launched:

Pokémon 3D World: Magical Crisis is also officially on sale and is available at major game stores around the world.

The most crucial point is——

Magical Crisis also features characters from Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbor Totoro series.

This was all of a sudden.

Neon players are going crazy about it.

"Wow, this is Totoro. My favorite Totoro can actually appear in Pokémon. I can't help but buy it now."

The plan to add Totoro to Pokémon was discussed with Ghibli a few years ago by Qing Zhiyuan, but it has never been included in the game and the right time has not been found.

This time it was just right, first appearing in Magical Crisis, and then putting it into handheld battle.

Ghibli also cooperated in the promotion. Hayao Miyazaki personally drew the interactive animation between Totoro and Pikachu. Although it only lasted for ten seconds, it became the most talked about topic at the moment.

The PV of the game is also very popular.

After this wave of Pokémon hit, the sales of DC game consoles skyrocketed again.

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

At this point, players' willingness to purchase DC game consoles has exceeded the 50% limit.

Qing Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Breaking through 10 million sales means DC is alive.

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

When he saw this place again, Liu Peiqiang's son lay on the ground and exhaled silently: "The earth is alive."

Qing Zhiyuan also felt the same way: DC! Live!

I can definitely survive it and reach the era of DC2.

Even if it may not replace PS in the future, at least it has already established a firm foothold in the market.

As long as you have a stable footing, you can launch subsequent attacks.

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10 million is a critical point. Once it is exceeded, it is equivalent to the first piece of domino falling, and a series of chain reactions will occur.

So when they saw the figures released by DC, game manufacturers who had never approached Qing Zhiyuan before began to give up.

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

"Hello, President Ao, I'm Square, Masashi Miyamoto."

"Oh, Mr. Miyamoto, I remember your voice."

"Well, although "Final Fantasy 8" cannot be launched on the DC platform, I wonder if we can put 9 on the DC platform for development. As you said before, the game engine that can be developed by pokeni still counts, right?"

"Yeah, of course." Qing Zhiyuan laughed, "The previous promises must be valid. Welcome to join the DC family."

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