Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 348 Three Camps of the Game Industry
It's been a wonderful thing for a lot of players in the one month since Final Fantasy 7 was released.

But it's not very happy for my peers.

For example, Surui Electronics, after they discovered the release date of Final Fantasy 7, they decisively shifted the release date of some key games released recently, preparing to avoid Final Fantasy 7.

But some other companies don't seem to care about it.

This caused them to have at least a dozen or 20 sales of games that suddenly dropped to less than [-].

There are some small game studios who are crying, and they often don't have much money.

Fortunately, the game industry is booming, and game developers like them are not short of jobs.

And they don't hate Final Fantasy 7 too much, other than feeling sad.

Because they have all played the game.

This is the game that opens a whole new door for them.

A 3D game with excellent CG image quality.

Before the appearance of Final Fantasy 7, 3D games only had racing and No. 1 shooting games, which had already walked out of their own way.

Other types of games are still in the groping stage.

Later, Mario 64 created the standard of the third-person perspective, especially after adding the joystick button of the handle, human hands can move the game character at the same time, and can also continuously adjust the perspective, which also makes the game progress to the next level. The industrial age is only one step away from the modern technological age.

Until now, the emergence of Final Fantasy 7 has allowed all game practitioners to discover the visual wonders brought about by large investments.

Admittedly, it would be fine if Final Fantasy 7 still uses the old 2D graphics, because the core of Final Fantasy 7 is that the plot is king after all.

However, with the addition of new graphics quality, Final Fantasy 7 seems to have been added with some kind of catalyst.

It instantly expanded a game that could only have a very high impact to [-]%.

No one will deny Final Fantasy 7.

Because it's almost perfect in current conditions.

Even their peers, even some of their competitors' game practitioners, don't have any nasty mentality about Final Fantasy 7.

In Final Fantasy 7's first day of release, sales once again exceeded one million.

Among them, the Japanese region overtook the United States, accounting for more than 70 sales.

The United States accounts for more than 30 sales.

Then on the second day, sales decreased slightly, around 80.

According to the final statistics, the sales volume in the first week totaled 510 million copies.

This data is quite scary.

No game to date has seen such a rapid rise in sales.

In the previous life, the sales volume of the original version of Final Fantasy 7 was fixed at about 300 million, and the subsequent sales volume has no statistical significance.

And this parallel world Final Fantasy 7 seems to be surpassed.

When the sales figures for the first week were finally counted, everyone in the three game development teams cheered.

The sales volume of 500 million in the first week, if calculated based on the average price of 69 US dollars per copy, is about 5000 million US dollars in revenue.

The total investment for Final Fantasy 7, including marketing costs, is in the range of $[-] million.

This is Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's first-party game. Excluding the physical production, sales, and transportation costs of about 30.00%, the rest is all Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's.

In other words, the task of returning to the original was achieved in the first week.

And then the sales momentum of Final Fantasy 7 has not diminished in the slightest.

Many players are quickly joining in because of the influence of the people around them.

And this, by the way, once again drove the sales of the GS1.

In less than a year, the total sales of GS1 exceeded 2000 million.

This data is also record-breaking.

Almost every time Youxing Electronic Entertainment is on the road to breaking records.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has not released its own game sales data for the time being.

But other colleagues can roughly speculate that Final Fantasy 7 is a success just by relying on the popularity on the Internet and the scenes of offline physical stores that are often in queues.

It turns out that big investment can also be successful, so maybe you can really consider setting up your own game industry system.

With Yuxing Electronic Entertainment leading the entire industry, they just need to follow Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

It didn't take long for a number of major companies to announce their forays into the gaming industry.

Most of the main businesses they operated in the past were related to the entertainment industry, so the transformation was naturally very simple.

Hot money has also begun to pour into the industry in large numbers.

The voices of heavily recruiting game practitioners have also gradually become louder.

However, it was only at this time that they discovered that the real game industry elites are now concentrated in the three camps.

One of the biggest is Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

Their game development team has more than [-] people.

Such non-staff teams such as professional outsourcing are also close to a thousand people.

Then there is Suri Electronics.

Through the strategy of recruiting game developers with huge sums of money supported by Zhiren Hayakawa for many years, they also grabbed some outstanding talents from Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in this competition.

Their housekeeping games 3D Racing and Sun Knight are now gradually becoming high-quality games with a four-star rating, and they can be regarded as having their own masters.

Finally, the third one with a wealth of game talents is Huck Games, a new company started by Huck Brown.

The guy who founded Lierda by himself, was ruthlessly proposed by Lierda, and now re-established a new company is already in his 30s, but his mentality is still as young as ever, and Ambitious and constantly expanding their power.

At present, he has established a firm foothold on the PC platform, and also took the opportunity to acquire a studio that used to develop PC online games.

This studio used to be the first team to develop PC online games. The game they once developed is also very famous now, called Dragon Treasure, which is an online game that combines traditional stand-alone RPG elements.

This is the prototype of the initial online game, because the unique role-playing and social attributes have become a game that many people like very much.

In order to acquire the studio, Huck Brown even borrowed money by gambling, and then bought it wholly for $[-] million.

This is also the first act that can be regarded as a clear price for the game industry.

A studio that makes a well-known game is worth $[-] million.

From this, it can be seen that the game industry is really going to take off.

These three camps now almost hold the right to speak in the game industry around the world.

It's fine for others to join, but they need to overcome the talent shortage first.

(End of this chapter)