Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

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When the world lamented because of Monster Hunter and felt that the games made by pokeni were so luxurious and high-end, they actually underestimated another thing pokeni was doing.

It can be said that a terrible storm is brewing in pokeni.

It's just been overshadowed by the success of "Monster Hunter", and no one has reacted yet.

When Monster Hunter was released, pokeni was implementing digital reforms in the Omi region.

In September 1999, three weeks after Monster Hunter was released, Qing Zhiyuan held a unique new product launch conference in the United States.

The theme of the press conference is——

[Digitalization will become the future of pokeni]

This title is actually quite big, but reporters are not unfamiliar with the concept of [digitalization], because last year, Sony’s new president Nobuyuki Idei proposed the concept of digitalization.

And Nobuyuki Idei believes that Sony should be guided towards the digital future.

It is Nobuyuki Dei's mission to digitize Sony.

Just one year later, Qing Zhiyuan did not expect that Pokeni would also follow the same pattern, which surprised reporters and related practitioners.

So when Qing Zhiyuan held this press conference, the venue was packed with people.

The scene was so majestic that it even faintly overshadowed the press conference held by Nobuyuki Dei when he first became president.

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Although the digital content this time was for the Oumi region, there were still many Neon journalists and media present at the event.

At the press conference, the young president of pokeni released a series of development plans for pokeni in the future, the most important of which is this -

Digitizing.

"What is digitalization?" Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile at the scene, "Game production, from the beginning, is actually very firmware.

In other words, the game itself is the hardware.

Since the cassette era, games have been burned onto a board on ROM. In this case, if we want to change to a new game, we must replace the board.

It is also commonly known as cassette.

The cassette itself is something that has substance, volume, and size, and needs to occupy real space.

The casings of each box of cartridges are almost of the same standard. You may not think it is anything at first, but when you buy more games, the cartridges will pile up and become a presence in the house that cannot be ignored.

I’m not saying that this is a particularly big problem. In fact, for players like me, collecting cassettes is also a kind of fun.

Cassettes are a product of history and will naturally perish in history.

Perhaps it cannot be said to be death. I think it is more appropriate to use the word change.

CD and DVD are new media used to change cassettes.

However, I also believe that CD and DVD media should also be changed.

And now, it's time to change it. "

Qing Zhiyuan paused and said, "What I want to propose today is that this concept is not particularly new, but it has not yet been applied to the digital field."

"Have you ever thought about something like this? Are the games we play really cassettes, or CDs, or DVDs?"

Before anyone at the scene could answer, Qing Zhiyuan revealed the answer:

“Actually, whether it’s ROM cartridges, CDs or the latest DVD media, these are just carriers of games.

The game itself is, in our expert terms, nothing more than code.

Mapping to the physical level, it is a circuit switch of binary 0s and 1s.

This is why games can be copied and burned into countless identical cassettes.

In fact, every individual human being is unique, but this is not the case with games. When we play "Monster Hunter" or "Pokémon", it is impossible to say that the Monster Hunter I play is not the same game as the Monster Hunter you play. There's a huge difference, right? "

Ha ha ha ha……

There was laughter.

"Although they are different cassettes, the burning program is the same and the code is the same. This allows players to have a unified understanding and experience."

"Since the code is the core of the game, then it doesn't really matter if you change the carrier."

Qing Zhiyuan continued, “This is the digital content I want to propose today.”

"The game itself is a bunch of code and data, and the data itself can be transmitted through the network, or copied through reading and writing. So what pokeni has to do is very simple:

Digitize the game. "

When one person mentions digitalization, everyone may think it is far away, but Qing Zhiyuan also mentioned digitalization, which made everyone feel a sense of crisis.

The main reason is that Qing Zhiyuan is not a talkative entrepreneur. Not long after his prediction, P Club will really realize it and make things.

This is very scary.

Sony talks about digitalization, but it is still at the level of MP3, and there is no concept of digitalization of games.

But for Qing Zhiyuan, the digitization of games is already on the agenda.

When game manufacturers see this scene, they will naturally feel deep fear in their hearts. The first thing they worry about is——

Am I falling behind?

It can be said for sure that we are lagging behind. As for how far behind we are, no one at the scene knows clearly.

There is no bottom at all.

However, everyone at the scene actually only had one concept in their minds, but no thoughts on how to implement it. Until now, they still don't quite understand how Qing Zhiyuan can implement the digitalization of the game.

Even if what he said is right, the game is indeed a bunch of code and data, but doesn't it also need some carrier in the end?

Is it possible that you can create a game out of thin air that exists in people's brains?

It's almost like eating air.

In fact, the concept is very grand. Without specific details to support it, everyone will just think that Qing Zhiyuan is painting a cake.

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But the next second, Qing Zhiyuan gave the answer directly:

"In fact, our digitalization work is more than half way through." Qing Zhiyuan took out a mobile phone from his trouser pocket and showed it to everyone.

In fact, the content above could not be seen clearly at the scene.

So Qing Zhiyuan explained with a smile, "A minute ago, Mr. Ken Akanishi, the company's program director, told me that we have completed the digitization work for every previous Pokeni game and every Sega game.

In other words, now our games are not displayed in the form of integrated circuits, but are packaged into data packages. "

"You can understand that we have extracted the soul of the game and formed the data. From now on, it is no longer strongly bound to the hardware."

“How will these packets be used?”

Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, “We plan to put all digital games from Pokeni and Sega on the Dandelion game platform in two years starting from October.

Players do not need to buy discs or cassettes, they can download it directly from the Internet, and can play it on DC game consoles and PCs.

We can guarantee this, there is absolutely no difference from the host.

Even after we reset, we will also optimize the program and screen, which means that players can enjoy pokeni games without leaving home. "

What? !

As soon as Qing Zhiyuan said these words, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Maybe many reporters haven't quite figured out what form this is and how to implement it, but for people in the game industry, the concept of game digitization proposed by Qing Zhiyuan is nothing short of a thunder.

With a roar, the whole world was shaken and deafened.

No matter how many game masterpieces pokeni has developed before, how leading it is in the world, how good the quality is, and what new game categories it has created, in fact, nothing has been more intense than [digitalization].

Although everyone has not yet thought too clearly about whether digitalization can be successful, everyone who knows the industry knows that——

This is what really shakes the foundations of Rentendo and Sony.

This is a cry, a challenge, and a declaration issued by pokeni to the game carrier.

What do you think the game console industry is fighting about?

Is it a game console?

It seems like this, but in fact what is really fought for is the carrier, the right to mint coins.

When you sell games on my game platform, you have to produce the game according to our specifications. Whether it is Rentendo's cassette or Sony's CD, it is all made according to the inherent format established by them.

That's the rule.

Every box of cassettes and every CD is actually their profit.

However, Qing Zhiyuan now wants to break this thing and change the carrier into another form. To be precise, the game no longer depends on the carrier itself and becomes something that can be circulated at will.

This is so fucking terrifying.

"They are flexible and changeable and are no longer strongly bound to the hardware."

Qing Zhiyuan said, “Just like a blackboard, we can draw various patterns on the blackboard, then erase them and draw them again, and games are those picture books, which are templates for drawing.

In this case, players only need to connect to the Internet, and we will send them along the Internet, which is simple and convenient. "

Qing Zhiyuan spoke for about an hour, and everyone finally had a general understanding of game digitization.

I don’t know what the specific process is now, but everyone vaguely feels that this is a huge storm.

may take the entire world by storm.

After the speech, it was time for reporters to ask questions.

"Then Mr. Qing Zhiyuan, why should this digitalization plan be implemented in the Oumi region instead of Neon?"

“It’s not that we won’t promote Neon, it’s that we won’t be there for the time being.

There are objective reasons why we chose North America,"

Qing Zhiyuan explained, “Now the Internet speed in the United States is the fastest in the world, and it is also the first country to use ADSL. Digitalization is more meaningful only when the network speed is stable and there is a basic download frequency. .”

Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "Our hope is to promote digitalization to the whole world in the future, so that all countries with network transmission foundation can play pokeni games.

No, to be precise, you can play the games provided by our platform.

Not only pokeni, but also Sega and other game manufacturers. We also welcome everyone to publish their own games on the Dandelion game platform. "

Oh well, the network transmits the data, the data is installed in localized storage, and then becomes a playable game.

Before that it was just a bunch of data streams.

"After all, media is still needed, right?" the reporter continued to ask.

"Yes, but the medium can be read and written, it is a hard disk." Qing Zhiyuan said, "In the future, there will be new hardware storage devices that are smaller than hard disks and can be easily read and written. This is also the inevitable trend of the times.

We already have this concept in our design, but it just needs time to develop.

In the future Sega DC game console, the hard drive itself can be read and written, and there will also be other devices to expand the capacity, so there is no need to worry about the size issue. "

Qing Zhiyuan concluded: “One requires a physical carrier, and the other can be transferred at will.

This is the essential difference between digitization and burning fixed discs and cassettes. "

"Okay, I understand, thank you Mr. Qing Zhiyuan."

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"What about the charging model?" Another American female reporter raised her hand and asked.

This is also an issue that many players and game manufacturers are concerned about.

"Similar to the current Dandelion game platform, Dandelion coins are used for game purchases."

The press conference lasted for almost 2 hours. Qing Zhiyuan patiently answered the reporters' questions, and finally the audience stood up and applauded.

There was thunderous applause at the scene.

"It's over, it's over, the world is going to change!"

"The world is about to change again! This time pokeni will implement digitalization. I can guarantee that there will be a large number of followers. The concept of digitalization is so advanced that I get goosebumps all over my body when I listen to it live."

"Yes, with the advent of a new era, how can we not be excited about such important and good news for players?"

"This is completely the fate of Revolution Paradise and Sony. Think about it, if we are like pokeni in the future, we can digitize games and download them through the Internet to experience...

So why bother buying cassettes and CDs? "

"Yeah, it's so scary just thinking about it."

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etc……

The first people to react were game developers.

Now it's game sellers' turn to react.

What the hell is Qing Zhiyuan talking about?

At first, everyone may have been infected by the atmosphere at the scene. Qing Zhiyuan was pushing something new that could be said to usher in a new era, so everyone still applauded.

Including these game sellers, but after applauding and applauding, I realized that something was not right.

Good guy, according to you, players will be able to download and experience games directly through the Internet in the future, so what should we do?

No CDs, no cassettes, what do we sell?

How else do middlemen make a profit?

This is not revolutionizing the lives of Sony and Rentian. It is clearly revolutionizing our lives!

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See you tomorrow (end of chapter)