Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 372 X-suit Somatosensory Suit

The entire month of March can almost be said to belong to the month of the Alpha bracelet.

Alpha company officially announced that since the launch of the Alpha bracelet on January 1, the sales volume in the first month has reached an astonishing 10 million units, and the sales volume so far (March 1300) has successfully exceeded 3 million units!

According to this speed estimate, Alpha6 is very likely to sell 6 million units within a year, which is already a very shocking figure. In the global wristband market, Alpha[-] wristbands are almost in a state of being crushed. It has dealt a devastating blow to other bracelet manufacturers.

Moreover, this amazing sales volume is based on the high price of the Alpha6 bracelet, which is priced at 13000 yuan, which is an unaffordable price for many people.

Even so, the Alpha6 bracelet has achieved such amazing sales, which shows how dominant this bracelet is in the high-end market.

At the same time, the major evaluation media are also touting this wristband in a fancy way. Among these evaluation media, it is obviously leading the future of the wristband industry.

With the increasing sales of Alpha bracelets, the market share of various derivative products such as Alpha game market and Alpha system is also rising.Among them, for mobile game developers, the biggest impact is that the Alpha game market has become a super-large channel that cannot be ignored.

A little-known mobile game company in the third district announced that since their self-developed independent game "Wind Chaser" was released on the Alpha game market, it has easily reached tens of millions of sales. After deducting the share of the Alpha store , this game, which is only priced at 10 yuan, still brought the company nearly 6000 to [-] million profits in a short period of time, which is simply a sudden wealth.

"Wind Chaser" is just an independent game, and it is far from being able to compare with some 3A masterpieces in terms of art resources, game capacity and other aspects.Its only advantage is that it takes advantage of the characteristics of the Alpha6 bracelet, so it successfully got a very precious recommendation position in the Alpha store.

This game mainly uses the visual capture technology, through the interaction between the player's line of sight and the game screen. With beautiful scenes and melodious music, it successfully puts on an "artistic game" skin for itself. achieved unprecedented success.

Obviously, the game "Wind Chaser" has an element of speculation, but it is undeniable that it has received high ratings on the Alpha store, received an editor's recommendation, and sold eye-catching sales.

Many people now understand why Griffon Studios launched the mobile game version of "Light of the Gods", it really makes money!

Even if it is a traditional bracelet game, even if it does not use visual capture technology, as long as it is moved to the Alpha store, many people will pay for it.There are not many opportunities to make money lying down like this. Griffin Studio is also a listed company now, and shareholders also need to read financial reports. It is normal to want a piece of the bracelet game field.

Compared with Griffon Studios, another game company's approach is much smarter.

The EQS company in the second district directly made two bracelet games and released them to the Alpha game store. They didn't do too much publicity, and they didn't get a special talk at the press conference. They just put them on the shelves silently.

However, after the Alpha store gave these two games special editorial recommendations, their sales took off immediately, reaching 30 and 50 respectively.Although it seems that there are not as many independent games as "Wind Chaser", the prices of these two games are 58 and 39 respectively. Based on this price, EQS has made a lot of money.

Many players sighed for Griffon Studios. You said you made mobile games, so you did it, and sneaked to the Alpha store to make a fortune in silence, wouldn't it be over?He had to hold a press conference to make it known to everyone, and then he was scolded like hell.

You can see that EQS is very smart. It secretly made two mobile games and sold them well.Because there is no fanfare, fans of the company's original console games are basically unknown, and they are perfectly staggered.

With the success of EQS, other established game manufacturers are also a little bit impatient.

After all, who would not be greedy for making real money?

For companies like EQS and Griffin Studios, the income of developing a large-scale 3A masterpiece game is really too low. The investment is tens of millions or hundreds of millions. return.Can a bracelet game be made on the Alpha bracelet?The investment has been directly reduced by ten times, but its profitability is not inferior to many console games at all.

All of a sudden, the hearts of these established game manufacturers began to float.

It is also for this reason that throughout March, news about the Alpha bracelet followed one after another.

Needless to say, the research and development companies of bracelet apps and bracelet games are thinking about how to port their own apps or games to the Alpha platform immediately.

Many traditional game manufacturers have actually made bracelet games, and the mobile games of companies like EQS are actually quite profitable!

After all, these veteran game manufacturers all started out as console games. Making a bracelet game is like killing chickens with a sledgehammer. The quality crushes many bracelet game manufacturers, plus some well-known IPs and the names of the manufacturers themselves. If the Alpha game store gives some resources to promote it, it will take off instantly.

All kinds of news surrounding the Alpha bracelet are almost revealing the same message as the players: the Alpha company is beginning their era!

And on Weibo, Peng Liang, the CEO of i-Evaluation, is obviously very proud of his previous judgment, and frequently posts and interacts on Weibo.

"In the Alpha bracelet sales report, two more game companies have decided to launch a new game on the Alpha platform. I made a prediction before, but it was criticized by many people. Now look at it? Griffon Studios, EQS and other established studios are all Moved their own games to the Alpha6 wristband, EQS has already enjoyed the sweetness. As for the Griffin Studio, even if they are scolded now, they will definitely explode when "Light of Dawn" really hits the shelves. If you don’t believe me, we’ll just wait and see the stock price and earnings report.”

"I have said a long time ago that there is absolutely no studio in the world that cannot be changed by capital, and the same is true for Weiguang Studio. Now Weiguang Studio is still making console games, it is only because they realized it later. I hereby Boldly predict that within a year, you will definitely be able to play "Ink and Cloud 2" on your bracelet!"

Before he knew it, there were more and more supporters on Peng Liang's Weibo.

"Support President Peng!"

"Boss Peng really sees the problem deeply. What about those trolls before? Griffon Studios has already made mobile games, is it enough to slap you in the face?"

"Trolls, this is a major trend, do you understand? The hardware must be constantly updated, and Mr. Peng, who specializes in evaluation, doesn't know [-] times better than you?"

There were still many people who opposed Peng Liang at the beginning, but as more and more traditional game manufacturers began to join the Alpha store, these opponents gradually lost their confidence.

Some people have been talking about Shimmer Studios, but no one can guarantee that Shimmer Studios will not be on the Alpha store.

What Peng Liang said made sense, no one would have trouble with money!
With EQS as the first person to eat crabs, and the taste is delicious, the people behind may follow suit.

Although the players felt that this was a waste of money, it was better to lose money than to lose money, right?How can a game company have trouble making money?

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On March 3th, Uno Technology and Weiguang Studio held another joint press conference. This time, they will release a brand new product and the new game "Interstellar 16: Rebellion", which has attracted much attention from players.

News of this press conference had already spread out a month in advance, and Lin Xiaoguang's Weibo also revealed a lot of information, but it did not attract much attention.

On the one hand, it is because for the sake of confidentiality, Shimmer Studios and Uno Technology did not disclose too much, but only released some relatively marginal news, which is not exciting enough; on the other hand, it is because the recent headlines have been covered by Alpha The screen was swiped, and there was an obvious gap in the popularity of the two.

Many players know that Yunuo Technology is going to release new products, but what exactly?Players don't have much expectations.

GS1 emulator, GS1 host, handle, full-view display... These have all been released.

According to the life cycle of a host, the GS1 host can last at least five or six years, and the release of GS2 is absolutely impossible.Many people speculate that most of the products that will be distributed this time are handheld devices, or equipment such as headphones, stereos, and traditional monitors, so the interest is not too great.

Players are more interested in "Interstellar Tinder 2".

The conference site.

Although all the news related to the Alpha bracelet has been swamping the screen recently, players are obviously still full of expectations for the new equipment of Yunuo Technology.

After a series of new devices such as GS1 emulator, GS1 host, elite handle and full-view display, many loyal players of low-light games have bought "Yunuo Technology Family Bucket", and all kinds of supporting facilities are very complete. .

It's not about how much they like Yunuo Technology, the key is that every time Yuno Technology releases a new thing, the players will be surprised to find that they really need it...

Every time Uno Technology releases a new device, Shimmer Studios will often release a brand new game, and this device can often significantly improve the gaming experience!In other words, every new product of Uno Technology accurately hits the pain points of players.

Therefore, many players are also looking forward to what kind of peripherals Yunuo Technology will produce this time.

handheld?Or sound equipment such as a sound wall?
On the right side of the stage, there is a GS1 emulator, which should be used to display the game.

Players at the scene already knew that the released game "Interstellar Tinder 2", as an FPS game, absolutely needs to be played on the GS1 emulator, so it is very reasonable to have an emulator on the stage.

The press conference officially started, and Lin Xiaoguang took the stage.

To everyone's surprise, he didn't announce the new device right away. Instead, he first introduced the game, "Interstellar Tinder 2".

Moreover, when Lin Xiaoguang talked about "Interstellar Tinder 2", he did not focus on the gameplay of this game, but concentrated the main space on introducing some relatively minor details of this game.

Many players thought it was because Lin Xiaoguang was not a full-time game designer and didn't know enough about the game, but then he thought it was wrong, he probably said that on purpose!

At the same time, a trial player entered the GS1 simulator and began to play "Interstellar Tinder 2" on the spot. The large screen on the scene was divided into two screens, a small part was Lin Xiaoguang's shots, and most of them were the actual game screens of "Interstellar Tinder 2".

The promotional video of "Interstellar Tinder 2" has been disclosed on the Internet before, but there is still a big difference between the promotional video and the actual game screen.The promotional videos of many game companies are made with CG, and the precision is very high, but when it comes to the game, the picture quality is completely shrunk.

However, all the CGs of "Interstellar Tinder 2" are completed by real-time calculations, and the art resources in the game are very high-precision, so the pictures that everyone sees on the big screen are almost the same as CGs.

The testers in the simulator wear body-sensing suits with motion capture functions, so the picture on the big screen is a composite scene of the game screen and the model generated by the actions of the testers. While highlighting the real game scene, it also It allows the audience to clearly see many details of the game.

""Interstellar Tinder 2: Rebellion" is a stand-alone game with extremely rich scenes. Compared with "Xuanjia Project", players will get a richer game experience. Moving forward, beware of the sandworms that come out of the ground at any time; it is also possible to enter the nest of the Zerg, and once exposed, you will face annihilation; you will also drive mechas in the ice and snow to face the rebels..."

The version that the testers are playing is a version specially made for the press conference of "Interstellar Tinder 2".This version stitches many scenes together, so that the audience at the scene can feel the style of different scenes in the game more intuitively.

Especially the initial surface scene left a deep impression on the audience.

The atmosphere of this planet is thin, so the temperature difference between day and night is huge. In the equatorial region in summer, the temperature can reach 45 degrees during the day, and it will drop to minus 70 degrees at night.

The current ambient temperature will be displayed on the UI of the interface. When the temperature deviates from the normal value, the character's protective clothing will start to operate, and a small temperature adjustment icon will appear in the upper right corner of the field of view. At the same time, the battery of the protective clothing start consuming.

During the day, the blazing sun shines on the ground, and the high temperature distorts the character's vision. The red sand everywhere stretches into a scalding ocean. Every step on the ground seems to be able to see a burst of white smoke rising.

At night, the temperature dropped sharply, and layers of white frost or ice crystals began to appear on the surrounding sand dunes. Although it was not as obvious as snow, it still made people feel chilly under the dark night sky.

All kinds of different environments highlight the harshness of the environment in the "Interstellar Tinder 2" game.The game characters controlled by the testers are struggling to move forward in the red desert, which makes people feel like they are there.

The audience at the scene wondered why these scenes were shown repeatedly?
Soon, Lin Xiaoguang revealed the answer to the mystery.

"In the past, whether it was severe cold or hot summer, no matter what kind of changes in the game environment, it could only be expressed by the screen or the reaction of the characters in the game. Just like "Ink and Cloud 2", in the severe cold area, the scholar was frozen Shivering all the time, there are scattered snowflakes floating in the sky, allowing players to feel the coldness of the environment."

"However, this feeling is still too unintuitive after all. The player is outside the screen, and the body cannot feel the temperature of the environment."

"Moreover, in traditional games, the player's shot is often reflected by the vibration of the handle, which can give us some immersive feeling, but it is still far from enough."

"So, the first product that Yunuo Technology will launch this time is the X-suit motion suit!"

"This motion suit will integrate three functions of motion sensing, constant temperature control, and motion capture. With the GS1 simulator, it will bring players a fully immersive gaming experience!"

(End of this chapter)