Global Monopoly of Technology

After the press conference, the demo hall prepared next door quickly became overcrowded.

This time, if you want to try the experience first, you don’t have to wait in line. A number-taking device is placed at the entrance. Players only need to get the serial number and then they don’t have to wait in line. They can walk around and hear the intelligent announcement in the lobby. Just check in.

There are 100 devices in the trial play hall that can provide trial play. The time for each trial play is 15 minutes. If you still want to play after the time is up, you can get your account again. The trial play hall will be open to players until 18:00 today. .

In addition to a large number of players, various media reporters also came to the trial hall to shoot.

At this moment, the game atmosphere in the entire lobby is extremely hot, and players are very happy. The games currently available for trial experience include "The Witcher 2: King Assassin", "Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood", "GTA: Merry Tony" Part of the content of the five masterpieces of "Song of the Song", "Minecraft" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops" are open to players in advance.

Only after personal experience, players realize the power of this next-generation console, and the leap in picture quality brought by 4K rendering technology is the most intuitive visual impact for every player.

Human beings are creatures who love the new and hate the old. After using better things, things that they thought were good in the past also subconsciously resisted. If you want to use them again, there is always a psychological barrier that is extremely uncomfortable.

Especially for game enthusiasts, this effect is even more magnified tenfold.

And with the trial hall closed on the same day, all the players left the conference reluctantly, and it was very uncomfortable to think that it would take nearly three months for the console to go on sale.

On the second day, the domestic version of the Bluestar video and the international version of the BV video were filled with a large number of videos from the demo hall during the Cologne press conference. Some were shot by game media, and some were shot by players with Azure-3.

The discussion on the Reddit forum has also been high, and this keyword has also been on the rise in Google search terms, and its popularity is so high that players in almost the entire game industry are discussing it.

For a while, the phrase "I can't buy a console, I'm about to die" spread rapidly among console players and became a new slogan for overseas players to play.

Foreigners are also very good at playing memes, just like the animated meme that sucks your wallet as long as you are stared at by G Fatty's smile.

In the past five years, the Steam platform of Valve has grown up. After all, it has been raised by Bluestar Technology Group as its own son for many years, and various social portals have taken off.

It's hard not to take off on the Steam platform.

Luo Sheng's promise to G Fatty is getting closer and closer to the day when it is realized, that is, he hopes that Steam players can be spread all over the world, even Antarctica is no exception.

The major domestic player communities are also hotly discussing, but the focus of the discussion is on the host not being released in Greater China.

"Why is this?"

"Nima, it's really funny that the product launched by the console as a domestic company can't be released in the mainland."

"The previous media boasting about the lifting of the ban on game console sales is really a pit!"

"It's so distressing."

"You really don't understand the good intentions of the archbishop. This is saving money for the vast number of mainland players. Let's see piracy... [Erha]"

"To be fair, it's a bit surprising to hear such news, but it's also reasonable, let's not talk about the Plus version of the 699-dollar console, which is about 4,767 yuan. Would you be willing to spend 299 yuan or more than 2,000 yuan to buy a standard version? Is it a console? Then the games inside, 3A masterpieces, buy a game for about 409 yuan for 60 dollars?"

"Also, there are so many free games on the PC side. Even if there is no problem at the level of the ban on game consoles, it is estimated that the archbishop will be cautious in exploring the mainland market. Maybe he won't even be able to recover the investment in channel fees."

"Is there no future for domestic console games?"

"Remove 'could it be' and '?', there is no future, even if there is a future, it is almost impossible to see when the future will be. I dare to say that 99% of players in the country will never be willing to pay more than 400 yuan to buy a single machine. Games, even if you can connect to the Internet.”

"Agree, let's get the piracy environment sorted out first. You can download pirated stand-alone games by simply searching a few websites. Who would say so much 'wrongful' money, right?"

"The immortal sword has to withstand it, I must buy it next time... [laughs and tears]"

"It can only be said that the water in here is too deep, even the archbishop dare not step in easily."

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For a while, the public opinion in the mainland game industry, both players and game media, were discussing the environment of domestic stand-alone games and the console market, and some media even made headlines claiming that domestic stand-alone games are dead.

This time the console is not released in Greater China, but it is released globally. Although everyone understands, it cannot be released in the mainland because the ban on the sale of game consoles is not lifted.

However, the occurrence of such a thing has indeed seriously hit the hearts of a group of practitioners who insist on developing domestic stand-alone games, and their pessimism has become more and more obvious in them.

How much they hoped that Luo Sheng would be able to reshape the entire industry in the same way he did in the field of e-sports, and turn the tide in the domestic stand-alone game industry.

In fact, Luo Sheng also thought, but even if he is the richest man in the world, he is not omnipotent, and he cannot solve all problems by himself.

Reversing the habit of domestic players to free games and purifying the online piracy environment is beyond the scope of what he should do as an entrepreneur. This is what the country should do.

Even if it is done, it is a very laborious and basically thankless thing.

When I first entered the e-sports industry and reshaped the industry, I was criticized a lot, especially in the eyes of parents, which left a very bad impression.

Luo Sheng didn't want to do it again, otherwise he would have to be pushed to the forefront of public opinion, although he could afford it, it was no big deal.

But no one wants news coverage of their own news to be full of negative public opinion.

Well, all of this can be ignored, and you can bear it, and then what? The results of it?

The result must be that the invested cost cannot be recovered, the consoles cannot be sold, and the 3A-level game masterpieces cannot be sold. Third-party developers are not even willing to invest a little cost to do Chinese translation work, because they also give up. the Greater China market.

Moreover, the attitude of those top international manufacturers towards the Greater China market is generally to learn from Microsoft, just like the Windows operating system, turn a blind eye and let piracy run rampant in the Greater China market.

This also has certain advantages, but it takes too long to receive this kind of benefit, and many companies die after waiting. Only the powerful top third-party game developers can play this way.

The advantage is that after ten or twenty years, it is possible to make a fortune by feeling.

After all, although the game is a pirated version, it has also accompanied a generation of players to grow up, and the mainland console game player group should not be underestimated. In the future, it may be moved to make up for a debt or something.

It's just that this risk is too great, and the high probability is that the company has not waited until it has died.

After all, there is only one "Polish donkey" in this world.

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