There's really something wrong with this online game plan

Chapter 189 Host Structure
In this world, the development of console game platforms is actually quite similar to Lin Yao's previous life.

At the beginning, a Japanese manufacturer and a European and American manufacturer occupied the absolute market respectively. Then, perhaps seeing the potential of the console game platform, a new spoiler appeared, and another Japanese manufacturer challenged the original two manufacturers, and finally formed A three-legged situation.

In the beginning, these game consoles did not consider so many performance issues, and would try to sell the game consoles as cheaply as possible.

After all, game consoles are positioned as home consoles. To put it bluntly, for most western families, they are considered electrical appliances like TVs, washing machines and air conditioners. As long as the games can be played, it’s fine if you don’t go to see those better game screens. .

The main profit point of game consoles is not selling consoles, but selling games. As long as the game developers don't feel that the performance of the current consoles cannot meet the games they develop, they will basically not update them.

Just like Lin Yao's FC in her previous life.

If it weren't for Sega's desperate efforts to launch new machines, FC might have been able to fight for more than ten years.

But just as the competition between the three major game consoles gradually stabilized, Linmu Studio's "Breakout" came out.

Then it happened that graphics card manufacturers also set their sights on the game market.

The number of entry-level gaming graphics cards has exploded.

What followed was a combination of various game graphics cards, and now the PC market share is rising.

At this time, the three game console manufacturers suddenly discovered that home consoles seemed to no longer lead the trend. In order to be competitive, they began to prepare new machines by coincidence.

This is the result of market competition, and of course it is also related to player needs, game development needs, and hardware as a whole reaching a critical point.

Players have played games like "Breakout", and feel that they can't go back, and major manufacturers have seen that "Breakout" has begun to improve the quality, are developing, and games that plan to be launched in the future are also starting to try to be like "Breakout" The screen moves closer.

The current game consoles can't stand it anymore, and it becomes imperative to update the console.

In fact.

The three major game console makers are all planning new game consoles.

But this time I noticed "Battle Royale" and wanted to make it the host platform for escort masterpieces.

It is a host manufacturer in Europe and America, named Bushnell.

Their family does not have an operating system. Rather than saying that they are like the XBOX owned by Lin Yao in his previous life, it is better to say that they are more like the Atari who always talks about the origin of games.

Because Bushnell's ancestors are really rich, it is the world's first game console company.

Not long after the microprocessor was born, they made the first kind of arcade machine.

And at its peak, it has a huge industry with very high value.

But prosperity must decline.

The company went to the top step by step, and then went to decline step by step.

Bushnell also experienced an infighting a few years ago when the company was split in two.

Those who originally worked on the console platform and those who made games directly parted ways.

This also led to the rise of Japanese manufacturers.

In the end, the pattern of home game consoles was dominated by the Bushnell family and became the current three-legged rivalry.

In this three-legged pattern, Bushnell is still the weakest.

Their share of home game consoles has been the lowest.

Therefore, in the face of the game screen changes caused by "Breakout", they are also the most attentive. They started preparing for the new console early on, hoping to seize the opportunity again with the new generation.

no way.

If you don't seize the company, you will die.

But unfortunately.

Because of Bushnell’s internal strife in the past few years, the first-party game producers have left. They no longer have the ability to make first-party games, and the third-party games are funny to say. Although their companies are in Europe and the United States, they can’t compete. Japanese manufacturers.

Then their situation became very awkward.

Like the other two Japanese factories, they not only have a huge lineup of first-party game production studios, but also have a good relationship with third-party game production companies.

They are also preparing for a new console, but at the same time they are preparing a bunch of first-party games for the new console.

Some major game manufacturers in Europe and the United States also have contacts.

Bushnell has nothing but to compete for some third-party game production companies, but the effect is not good.

Seeing that there are not many new console game lineups, let alone escort masterpieces, they are really in a hurry.

That's why the employees rushed into the leader's office, excitedly saying that they had found a masterpiece escorting the new game console, and the leader said that he was playing the embarrassing situation.

no way.

Now manufacturers in Europe and the United States have contacted them all over the place, and almost none of them are willing to make exclusive masterpieces for Bushnell.

They can only look elsewhere.

And it coincided with the "Battle Royale" fire in Linmu Studio during this time.

They all set their sights on the studio that made "Breakout"...

"..."

Bushnell President Office Company.

George, who was thin and thin, was a little embarrassed when he heard the boss say that he was playing. He stood there for a while, and then continued: "Then what do you think of this idea? Boss."

The president of Bushnell, Crane Adams, let go of the mouse and keyboard after hearing the words, and after a moment of thought, he said: "It is possible, but this game has already been released on PC, and the effect as an escort masterpiece should not be very good, and this kind of game It’s meaningless if not enough people buy it. The most important thing is that this game doesn’t even adapt to the handle... My God, it doesn’t even fit the handle, so don’t they use the handle to play the game?”

"As far as I know, in the country where Linmu Studio is located, players really don't use handles to play games. For them, handles are a very small controller..."

George was silent for a moment, then whispered back.

Adams immediately shouted: "Heretic!"

"..."

George was a little helpless. This boss is good because he is young, likes games, and can mingle with the employees.

But on the other hand, because of his young age, this boss is not very stable, just like now, he still complains about other people because of the handle problem...

"If we can make this game an exclusive game on our platform, we can try it as an escort masterpiece."

After Adams complained that the new game of Linmu Studio does not support handles, he did not continue to struggle with this issue: "After all, this game is really fun."

"Impossible, boss."

George shook his head: "This game has already been released on PC, so it's impossible to monopolize it."

"Then our new host is exclusive?"

"There may be a price to pay."

"As long as it's within our acceptable range, yes."

Adams was also prepared for this: "But..."

He changed the subject: "It would be even better if they can make a new exclusive game for our game console platform."

"..."

After hearing the words, George thought for a while and said, "Then I'll contact you to have a look?"

(End of this chapter)