Game Development Giant

The thing is, the trick isn't that hard to find. (top-point) novel

People outside the industry may not be able to see it very clearly. In short, they can see the essence of the problem through the phenomenon, but for the industry, there are always many such people.

And Sony is exactly where these people deserve their future.

And now Sony is acquiring their own game development capabilities precisely because they have seen their biggest weakness in this cooperation. In the initial cooperation agreement, the agreement signed between Sony and Nintendo, Nintendo made The biggest concession is that the naming rights of the new game console belong to Sony, and Sony also has the right to independently develop games on the new console.

Hiroshi Yamauchi was able to agree to such conditions in the first place only because Sony did not have a sufficient R\u0026D team.

As soon as it is officially released, their master-slave relationship can be reversed immediately.

But what Sony is doing now has completely poked Nintendo's weakness. This is something Hiroshi Yamauchi cannot tolerate. If Sony also has a strong enough development team, why will they rename the new PS? The console may really become a PS.

When Jester thought of this, he just sighed. Nintendo is still standing still, and it seems that it has not noticed Sony's current small moves at all. But according to his understanding of Yamauchi Hiroshi, it makes people swallow this sigh of relief. , that is basically impossible.

At this time, Jester couldn't help but think of another thing.

This time, Nintendo won't directly overturn the table with Sony again? However, this idea only flashed through Jester's mind. He knew that it was impossible to completely overturn the table, because although the PS console The ownership is shared by both parties, but the reason why Sony is considered to have a dominant position is this. When reviewing games on PS consoles, Sony accounts for 60% of the review quotas.

If Nintendo and Sony completely fall out, there is simply no way to prevent this.

It's unclear whether Nintendo has left a backdoor or loophole in it. After all, no one has seen the original contract except these two companies.

Dreambox only ranked third among all game consoles in half a day's statistics, and the second place was Sega's MD game console. As for the first place, there is no doubt that Gameboy, this It goes without saying that the strength of game consoles is no longer needed. In previous Christmas interviews conducted by multiple TV stations, at least 60% of teenagers wanted to get a gameboy as a Christmas gift.

What's more, the popularity of Pokemon throughout North America has provided a large number of fans for the game released on Christmas. In addition, the number of fans cultivated through electronic pet machines in the past five years People who are interested in this kind of mobile cultivation game.

It is self-evident that the sales of gameboy and Pokemon have skyrocketed at the same time.

Although Sega's MD ranks second, the gap between them and Gameboy is not too big. After all, for North American players, Sega is still a novice in the field of home game consoles, although this is already their fifth home game console. machine, but for North American gamers. They are more familiar with this game company in arcades.

Moreover, Sega's hardcore gaming style is more suitable for the arcade market than the home game console market, especially for large arcades. They are almost unique. Neither Mars Entertainment nor Namco, nor Capcom, which has recently made a splash in action games, can compare with them.

In half a day. Pokemon sold 540,000 copies! And this is only in North America, plus yesterday's sales in Japan. So far, this game has been produced by Jester himself. The game shocked everyone with its incredible sales, but this is also Jester Lee's style, if you don't move, it will be amazing.

In a game show at noon, the host was talking about news related to the games released this Christmas. After talking about the strength of Sega's new console MD in the market, it almost beat Mars Entertainment's old game console in sales. After Dreambox and Nintendo’s NES, they began to brag about “Pokemon”.

However, most of the things that are blown are some secrets that Jester or other people on the development team inadvertently revealed during interviews. There is still relatively little content about the game, which is actually quite understandable. , a game that has only been released for a few hours, it is impossible to get a lot of specific information about the game.

However, according to the ratings of Game magazine, of course, many people say that this magazine has some kind of relationship with Jester, but that doesn't matter. The important thing is that at least this magazine's ratings of games have always been fair, and It didn't cause too much negative comments from players.

Pokemon is a game with very novel gameplay, as stated in Game magazine. In the initial ratings, although Game was rumored to have some unclear relationship with Mars Entertainment, But when it comes to the game Pokemon, they have always adhered to their strict, cautious, and fair attitude.

This game, in the initial version, was rated 32 points. It was rated as a somewhat novel game, but nothing more.

For many people who ordered Game at that time, after seeing their evaluation of Pokemon, their first reaction was disbelief. They couldn't believe it no matter what. Jester said that he spent four or five years on it. Time, and then personally served as the producer of the game, but it was only rated 32 points by Game magazine.

For some small game companies, being rated 32 points by game may be something that can make them happy for days or even months, because according to the scoring standards of game, it can reach Thirty-two points is equivalent to eight points per person. The final sales volume can basically reach more than 500,000 units.

For many small game companies, sales of 500,000 units are almost a shot in the arm.

Of course, just a few days after the players were disappointed, some people even resented the evaluation of Game and felt that they did not feel the new gameplay that Jester had revolutionized in this new mode of the game. A 360-degree reversal occurred.

Even specifically for this matter, Game even made an unprecedented haircut.

In this article, the four test editors of Game magazine who participated in the Pokemon game rating first made a sincere apology to all readers and players who subscribed to their magazine. They even joked to themselves that fortunately they were the first to discover their mistake before the game was officially released. The reason for such a mistake was that their understanding of the game was still based on the previous model, and Pokemon is exactly like As Jester himself said, this is a game that cannot be applied by common sense.

However, if you just start playing this game, you may think that this game is nothing special.

However, in the magazine, our criterion for judging whether a game is a good game is that after playing the game for a long time, the player can still continue to gain fun from the game and discover interesting things. , brings joy.

When you first started playing Pokemon, you found that this game seemed to be nothing more than that. However, this game seems to have some kind of magic power that we have not yet fully understood, which can attract players to continue playing without daring at all. To boring.

In the end, it can even make players think about the content of this game unconsciously while eating, sleeping and running.

That feeling was too much of an artifact.

It was one of our testers who discovered this. When he came to the company one day, he suddenly discovered that almost everyone had a Gameboy in their hands and took it out to play for a while. Out of curiosity, he asked and found out that they were all playing Pokemon.

Even the tester who had played the game the longest looked at his game time and was almost shocked to see that he had already played for more than 150 hours. You know, they got it from Mars Entertainment. It only took more than a week to get these game cartridges and distribute them to the magazine employees.

Because of this, they have re-evaluated the score of Pokemon.

Among the entire evaluation game group, at least 70% of the people were immersed in the world of Pokemon. When a re-evaluation was proposed, which had never happened in the history of game, they still received recognition within the magazine. It was a sensation.

After the report was submitted, the editor-in-chief immediately gave instructions and agreed.

Then a never-before-seen group of ten testers, each with no less than seventy hours of play time, re-rated Pokemon.

Because this is a re-evaluation, the standards are much stricter than the previous tests.

And the score is no longer out of forty points, but becomes one hundred points.

In this article, we introduced the re-rating event. The re-evaluation score of Pokemon is as high as 98 points in the 100-point selection system. This can be said to be a higher score than 40 points. It is much more difficult to get 40 points.

As for the reason why such a score is given, Game is very simple.

Because we really can't think of a reason why a game that can make so many people addicted and have endless fun for more than a hundred hours cannot get such a score.

The release of this extra volume added to the craze before the official release of Pokemon. (To be continued...)