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Chapter 332 So Confident

In the early morning, Chuhe just got off the plane and was picked up by a special car to the hotel. EA's old acquaintance Charles personally received Chuhe.

Although he hadn't slept for about thirteen hours in a row, Chuhe felt that he was in good spirits, at least he didn't feel sleepy.

"Don't you need to take a break?" Charles said in the hotel, looking at Chuhe in surprise.

"The spirit is not bad, and I have to stay for a while, just adjust the jet lag." Chuhe said with a smile and shook his head.

Although Tianhe Network was also included in this trip to Los Angeles, most of them were familiar with each other. The real cake was divided between the Big Three, EA and Ubisoft.

However, Chuhe is not very interested in this piece of cake. What really interests Chuhe is that many industry leaders will come to the TGO summit this time.

For example, the well-known good friend Hideo Kojima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, the president of From Software, and kaeo, the creative director of Blizzard's project.

"Did Tianhe Network bring anything interesting this time?" Charles asked Chuhe very interestedly.

Without waiting for Chu He to speak, Charles continued: "This time everyone brought a lot of interesting things, for example, we brought the latest demonstrations of Mass Effect and Star Wars Battlefront; Ubisoft brought Tom Ke Lancey's The Division, and a whole new franchise called Far Cry."

Although Ubisoft is more valued by Chinese players in the Assassin's Creed series, in fact, in the Ubisoft family, although Assassin's Creed is a classic IP, it is not yet ranked.

In addition to his sales, there are classic Tom Clancy series, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell, all of which are first-class classics.

Thanks to the cooperation between Ubisoft and Tom Clancy, the latter has provided it with countless excellent scripts. It can be said that as long as the Tom Clancy series is not too bad, profitability is basically a matter of size.

However, with the death of Tom Clancy, Ubisoft has obviously encountered some setbacks in Tom Clancy's series in recent years, and has launched several series without achieving the desired results. It is rumored that Tom Clancy has been temporarily suspended internally. Clancy, the idea of ​​Ubisoft's most successful series of IP, turned to the idea of ​​developing a new IP and improving the status of Assassin's Creed.

This time the blockade of the whole territory and the new IP of Far Cry are obviously Ubisoft's test of the market.

If the latter is a great success and the former is unsatisfactory, then the Tom Clancy series, the first-line IP under Ubisoft, may have to be hidden for a while. Will launch a sequel.

In addition to the Tom Clancy series, Ubisoft's second best-selling series is not Assassin's Creed, but a fan animation game, the South Park series.

Of course, if you naively think that this is a children's game because of the style of the game, then you are thinking too simply.

All kinds of nasty jokes and spoofs are definitely a game that makes you feel bad about yourself.

"At present, we can't come up with anything interesting. Several games are still in the early stages of production." Chuhe said with a smile.

This time there are not too many shows, there are only two games, one is QD's heavy rain, and the other is the prototype of Longzu Studio's massacre.

Includes Divinity by Blacklight Studios.

As for the implosion of TINGK, the main reason is that mobile games were not brought to the summit this time, including the mobile game giant Gameloft, which was not invited.

Although gameloft was forcibly acquired by the industry cancer Vivendi not long ago, the founder, the board of directors and the high-level CEO all resigned and left, and after the acquisition, 5 games were publicly released. One last bit of value.

But at least for now, Gameloft is still the leader in the mobile game industry. Even EA, which owns Need for Speed, The Sims, and Fifa series, can only follow behind.

Picking up a can of Coke from the side, Chu He opened the pull ring and took a sip into his mouth: "The demonstrations of Mass Effect and Star Wars on E3, I saw very amazing."

Although I have reservations about this in my heart, on the surface, what should be boasted is still to be boasted. After all, we are still very good partners.

"It will surprise everyone. We have invested more than 4 million U.S. dollars in development costs." Charles heard Chuhe's words, and a smile appeared on his face.

Players far away in China may not be clear about these two games, but players in North America and Europe, in fact, EA has been making various appearances. In terms of performance, the fans and players of these two games must have already exploded their expectations.

And for EA, I was a little apprehensive from the beginning. After all, the investment cost of more than 4 million US dollars, although it will not make EA really collapse, but it is still very large.

Once you lose money, the financial statements will be ugly at that time, and the impact on market value is the real loss.

However, as the content of the demo demo and the game are slowly released, more and more players are looking forward to it. The two promising game projects have already made EA so excited that it is almost impossible to find the north.

At the same time, thanks to the success of Red Dead Redemption, EA is actively absorbing the excellent features of Red Dead Redemption, and wants to integrate them into Mass Effect Andromeda and Star Wars Battlefront 2, two classic IP sequels.

So confident?

Do you really have a clue?
Chu He couldn't help but look sideways when he saw Charles, who had almost written on his face that we could win.

"Isn't the release plan set for this year? Otherwise, Red Dead Redemption will have a strong opponent in this year's TGA." Chu He smiled and said to Charles.

"Not so fast. The specific time will probably be next year, but it's still in the confidentiality stage." Charles didn't hide anything, and it wasn't any important news.

"By the way, the scale of this summit is huge." Chu He said looking at Charles.

Judging from the participating lineup, it will definitely not be inferior to the old game summits such as Cologne and E3.

It's just that this time the summit is not open to the public, including tickets are not sold for commercialization, of course, ordinary players are still sent out in various countries.

At the same time, the game makers who participated in the summit also had a share of tickets. Tianhe Network, which participated in the summit, got 300 tickets, and Chuhe gave all of them out of the lottery before going abroad.

50 were drawn on Weibo, 50 were drawn on Twitter, and 200 were drawn on the official website of their own game.

Hearing Chuhe's words, Charles nodded: "The main reason is to increase the influence of the industry. It has no direct competition with traditional exhibitions such as E3 and Cologne."

The timing of the summit was very clever, it happened to be the halfway point between the end of E3 and the start of Cologne.

Well, for what Charles said, Chuhe believed it himself.

The summit jointly held by Yusanjia, EA, Ubisoft and other world-renowned first-tier manufacturers, which is torn apart every day in the console industry, has such a noble goal.

(End of this chapter)