Is it not a galgame?

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The next day, news about the E3 Electronics Show was sent back to Japan, and with the help of the current Internet, it spread around the world almost on the same day.

E3 is a world-class electronics exhibition, and the pre-show press conference is the highlight. You can see classic games from major game companies around the world and learn about future trends.

It can be said to be a window into the future.

Every game company is not stingy in displaying their products on it, and it can even be said that they spare no effort to showcase their company's future products. The purpose is to provide higher competitiveness and make their products sell better.

The E3 Electronics Show is also a world-class marketing platform. When the live broadcast industry had not yet taken off, television commercials and exhibitions were excellent advertising channels.

After browsing through this year's game products, the players sighed a lot, feeling that the games produced by these game companies were a bit lackluster.

"Why do they all seem to be relying on their old games? Many of their games are sequels to previous ones. Haven't they ever thought about developing some new games?"

“Times have changed. Competition in the gaming industry is fierce now. Many fields have been segmented. It’s not easy to innovate. Who knows if the money you spend will go down the drain?
Making finished works not only sells a wave of sentiment, but also has a fan base.

Old players will also support it. In this case, the development of the sequel will definitely be given priority, at least it is a safe bet. "

"Alas, things are going downhill. Have the current game manufacturers lost their ambition?"

"There are quite a lot of innovations in foreign games. I saw that EPIC has launched a new Unreal Engine this time and used it to make Unreal Tournament."

“It seems that all new companies have this kind of confidence, because they don’t have a certain scale and don’t have to care so much. Instead, they can give it a try and make the products they like and want.”

"Tsk tsk, I don't know what to say. If this continues, I feel like these old companies in Japan will be surpassed by the up-and-coming ones one day."

"It's not that easy. People are not stupid. They can form barriers through accumulated advantages, just like Rentiantang in the past, where they controlled the platform and let the latecomers jump in at will."

"But, in the end, they didn't hold on. Didn't they still get conquered by Sony and Pokeni?"

"Hahaha, in this era, whether it changes or not, it's a problem."

But when everyone saw the relevant content from Paradox, their eyes lit up again.

"Wow, Pokeni is really good. They came up with so many creative games at once."

"It's worthy of being my favorite game company. This is what I admire most about Qingzhiyuan. Even though the company has become the world's top scale, it has never thought of stopping to rest and has been constantly moving forward."

“The games and new handheld game consoles that Paradox brought this time are really amazing, right?
Just seeing Spirited Away was shocking enough, but I didn’t expect Harry Potter to appear later…

What’s even scarier is that the SDS handheld game console is so beautiful that I’m a little tempted when I see it.”

"Honestly, you have to get SDS. Just imagine how great it is to be able to play Monster Hunter on a handheld device."

“Are handheld game consoles also entering the 3D era?!”

Everyone then realized what was happening and exclaimed in amazement.

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If Pokeni went public, its stock would have surged by now, just like Nvidia will in the future.

As long as good news related to technology is released, the stock price will rise rapidly.

According to the evaluation of a third-party professional organization, Pokeni's current total value is close to more than 2000 billion US dollars.

Many people were eagerly looking forward to Paradox's IPO.

For example, Masayoshi Son.

As soon as the E3 electronics show ended, Masayoshi Son called.

"Congratulations, Pokeni stole the show at E3 this time. I watched the content of the press conference. SDS really has great potential and will definitely be a big seller in the future."

"Haha," Qing Zhiyuan responded with a smile, "President Sun, you're too kind. Our handheld game console is just a condensed version of the console, and we've made some improvements based on the previous handheld consoles.

The technical aspects are nothing.”

This is obviously just Qing Zhiyuan's own cliché, because anyone with a discerning eye can tell how difficult it is to develop to this level.

"Then shouldn't P-net go public?" Masayoshi Son persuaded him earnestly. "If P-net goes public, its market value is estimated to exceed 600 billion US dollars. After the IPO, you can quickly expand to more than double its size."

"Well..."

Qing Zhiyuan was a little troubled. He touched his forehead with his hand and thought:

In the past, listing was to raise funds, but the problem was that

It seems that Pokeni is not short of money now. It can almost maintain a balance between income and expenditure, and can also carry out certain expansion and research and development.

For example, the research and development of smartphones, Paradox’s ability to make money is now sufficient to cover it.

So in this case, is it still necessary to go public?
"President Sun, as you know, the 1211 incident happened last year, and the global stock market has been in a slump ever since. I think it's not wise to enter the market at this time, right?"

Masayoshi Son frowned fiercely on the other end of the phone.

Doesn't he know this?

It is because SoftBank is suffering losses that Masayoshi Son wants to make as many gains as possible. After successfully cashing out, he can also alleviate the urgent need.

However, not being listed does not mean that the shares cannot be traded. Masayoshi Son holds 30% of P-NET's shares, which can actually be traded.

He himself was not sure whether he should sell it at this time.

"Yeah, that's right."

Son Masayoshi smiled and said on the other end of the phone, "Let's wait and see. The stock market will definitely recover. I have received some relevant news. Qingsang, you don't have to worry too much."

After hanging up the phone, Qing Zhiyuan looked at his phone with some amusement.

My goodness, it is you who should be comforted, but instead you are the one who comforts others.

President Son Masayoshi is so cute.

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After the news about SDS's handheld game console was announced, although the specific release date has not yet been determined, there is a constant stream of visitors every day.

Many game manufacturers call Paradox’s operations department every day, hoping to seek cooperation.

If you missed the DC gaming platform, you can’t miss the handheld game console.

Qingzhiyuan is also very open-minded and said that the handheld game console also supports some functions of the Dandelion game platform, and you are fully welcome to cooperate.

Qingzhiyuan welcomes any game company from any country in the world to release games on handheld consoles.

The premise is that as long as you are a formal game company and the submitted game products can pass the company's review, there will be no problem.

The right to review is, to some extent, equivalent to the right to mint coins. With the continuous operation and accumulation of the Dandelion game platform, Pokeni has now become one of the three giants with the right to speak.

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This wave is a model of win-win cooperation. Pokeni has reached cooperation with more than 100 game companies and stated that the Dandelion game platform is open to the world.

When the players heard the news, they were shocked.

"Wow! Is Pokeni so awesome this time? I feel like the Dandelion gaming platform is going to take off! How come there are so many games all of a sudden?"

"Not much yet? They said [coming soon], do you understand? But I really admire President Qing. He was able to negotiate with so many game companies on his own."

In addition to negotiating with Japanese game developers, Pokeni is also negotiating with game developers in Europe and the United States, hoping that they can put their games on the Dandelion game platform for sale.

This process will take a very long time, and Qingzhiyuan is currently being handled by Satoru Iwata's strategic department.

The number of games launched on the Dandelion game platform is gradually increasing, and the user circle will become larger and larger.

In general, no matter which game manufacturer cooperates with Pokeni, as long as they are willing to put the game on the Dandelion game platform, it is basically a win-win process.

This process will be long and difficult at the beginning, but as the Dandelion Game platform continues to grow, the works of other game companies in the world will surely converge here slowly.

That’s the power of the platform.

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In addition to building a world-class platform, Qing Zhiyuan said it also wants to add fuel to the fire in this world.

Let the flame of Paradox burn even more fiercely.

So he called Ken Akanishi, the boss of the programming department, into the president's office.

"It's like this, I plan to open source the Pioneer Engine." Qing Zhiyuan said directly.

Ken Akanishi was completely stunned, like a wooden chicken, his eyes motionless, and he felt that his whole life was in trouble.

What is this ghost?

Open source?!

Is the president out of his mind?

Are you kidding me?
He stared at Qing Zhiyuan for a long time until he was sure that the president was not joking.

The whole worldview collapsed.

"What!? President, what are you talking about? Why are we suddenly making Pioneer 2 open source? Do you know how much effort we put into this thing? How many days and nights we spent?!
Moreover, the effect of Trailblazer 2 is really very good. We can completely rely on this game to be ahead of the entire era and crush similar products.

Why open source Pioneer 2?

Akanishi Ken could not understand Qing Zhiyuan's decision either intellectually or emotionally.

Any normal person probably wouldn't be able to understand Qing Zhiyuan's thoughts.

At the beginning of this year, NVIDIA released the new Geforce 4 series graphics cards, which marked that the current graphics card level has been greatly improved and entered a new level.

And at this rate, Qing Zhiyuan has no doubt that NVIDIA in this timeline will be more advanced than in the previous life.

Therefore, as the hardware becomes more advanced, Pokeni's pioneer engine will naturally need to be updated.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's idea, the speed of replacement of the Trail Blazer engine will be about one every two years in the future until the growth of hardware level begins to enter a bottleneck period. Otherwise, the replacement speed of the Trail Blazer engine will always be very fast.

The purpose is to pursue the best performance and make the game at the forefront of the times.

After the release of the Trailblazer 2 engine, the special effects rendering has basically reached the level of "Automata".

What an awesome engine this is!

Just relying on its technical advantages will make Pokeni's future games invincible. It is like King Arthur's curry stick, a holy sword given by the Fairy of the Lake that can kill everything.

But President Qing actually wants to give it up.

Isn't this crazy or something?
If Pokémon were a kingdom, Ken Akanishi would have the urge to overthrow the monarchy.

"Listen to me," Qing Zhiyuan thought for a long time and comforted him, "Open source is for the better development of our company. You have to be confident. Even if we open source Pioneer 2, aren't we still iterating and developing it?
After making Trailblazer 2 open source, I believe our team can continue to stay ahead in the engine, and I hope to release Trailblazer 3 next year."

"This..." Akanishi Ken doubted his ears.

I heard something.

He suddenly had an urge to give up resistance. Did the president open-source Pioneer 2 just to encourage his brothers to rush for Pioneer 3?

This was not the result that Ken Akanishi wanted. He would rather not have come to the president's office to discuss this matter today.

If I had known it would be so tragic, Ken Akanishi said I should have taken annual leave to travel.

Ah, my Hawaii, the sunshine, the beach and the beauties...

Damn it, they are all saying goodbye to me.

Continuing to develop new engines and open-sourcing the current game engines will be a huge workload for the entire programming department.

For Qing Zhiyuan, he has seen Unreal Engine 20, which is 5 years old, not to mention that it is only Unreal Engine 2 now. In the future, as the hardware continues to change, the engine will also develop together. If he is reluctant to release it just because of Unreal Engine 2, it would be too petty.

"Making Pioneer 2 open source is also to allow more game production teams or independent game makers to participate."

Qing Zhiyuan said, "I don't want a tool to be in our hands, which would not be of any benefit to the gaming industry."

“Opening up the engine lowers the threshold for game production and allows more game developers to participate in the game in order to provide more sustainable products for the game platform.

As long as we control the powerful tool of the game platform, all future game makers will be working for us as long as they release games on the platform.

The best businessmen are those who give tools and resources to others, and then make them their own people.”

Moreover, doing so is equivalent to tying the game company to the engine.

The pie will definitely get bigger and bigger. If you treat your competitors as enemies, it will only get smaller.

"Uh..." Ken Akanishi felt very uncomfortable and his brain had frozen.

"I don't know if you can understand," Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "Anyway, you have to believe me. We open-source Pioneer 2 so that we can make more money."

Moreover, there is another point that Qing Zhiyuan did not make clear: considering the pressure from Unreal Engine at this press conference, the biggest role of open source is actually to force some potential opponents to give up resistance through dumping.

Open source may seem disadvantageous on the surface, but in fact it is the greatest protection for one's own technology.

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...(End of chapter)