Game Development Giant

Their main question about Jester is whether he really spent $200 million to develop a game.

After all, this number is simply too high.

What kind of spirit is it to invest such a huge amount of money in this game when you know clearly that there may be no return? Of course, considering Jester's identity, it is not impossible that he could do such a thing.

Some people think that what Jester said is true, because Jester’s attitude towards the game has always been to strive for excellence. If you want to do something, you must do your best. Otherwise, it is better not to do it, which is very likely. , based on the game he wanted to make, and comparing the parameters of the new console, Jester found that there was no way to achieve the level he envisioned.

Therefore, we decided to redevelop the console.

This seems to make sense.

Of course, the reason for disapproval is also very simple, that is, this is 200 million U.S. dollars. This is not 20 million U.S. dollars. Previously, Forbes announced Jester’s personal property last year, including all shares, movable and real estate. In total, it is only between 30 and 4 billion US dollars.

However, he invested 200 million in one game.

This is 20,000 cash R\u0026D funds, not movable or real estate, and during this period, Jester has never sold any of his assets.

Also, it is said that he still has a lot of investments abroad.

Many people don't believe that Jester can spend this money directly for a game.

Of course, they did not doubt Jester's ability to come up with $200 million in cash. I just don’t believe that Jester invested so much just for a game that is destined to be unprofitable.

The two sides argued with each other. No one can convince anyone.

Then they immediately turned to the discussion of another question - Jester was answering a reporter's question about Enix's announcement that the next generation of DQ True Story would only be released on PS2, although it was not It was stated clearly, but very implicitly, that they also have third-party exclusivity, and this third-party exclusivity is not exclusive to Sony.

American players don’t have a deep understanding of dq. After all, this game is popular in Japan, Europe and the United States. Not many people like this game, and it is far less influential than Final Fantasy in Europe and the United States.

However, there is always a small group of people who can accept this kind of Japanese-style game. The quality of dq's previous works is of the highest quality. Therefore, once you accept this setting, you will naturally become addicted to dq, and there are many supporters.

Moreover, for some games, you only need to understand his popularity and influence before you can start discussing it.

Basically, netizens came to the conclusion that this incident will have a negative impact on the promotion of Mars Entertainment’s console in Japan. Extremely disadvantageous because of dq's influence in Japan. It can be said to be unparalleled.

Mars Entertainment can compete with DQ in the Japanese market, probably only the Balotelli series, but don't play it, Dreambox 3 was released a year later than PS2.

The gap in area accumulated in the Japanese market this year is basically irreparable.

As for what Jester said, they also have an exclusive third party, which should be a Japanese game company, and Japanese game companies have a lot of good relations with Mars Entertainment. Many small workshops that were previously very small can develop to the current scale. , are closely related to the support of Mars Entertainment, so the loyalty of these companies to Mars Entertainment can be believed.

However, because these companies are not big, and Mars Entertainment will not force these companies to take the initiative to be exclusive, they also look down on the games of these companies, and they are unlikely to give up the possibility of a full platform, so it should Not these small companies.

After much deliberation, they quickly set their sights on a company.

It was this company at the beginning. When Mars Entertainment and Nintendo officially started a war in the Japanese market, they were judged from Nintendo's camp to Mars Entertainment's camp.

Capcom.

The more these people discuss, the more likely they think it is, because Capcom is indeed the most likely.

I didn’t think so before, but now through the analysis of some news, it can be seen that the cooperation between Mars Entertainment and Capcom in this area should not have just started now. In the past few years, Mars Entertainment used technical support as an excuse to A group of technical personnel were dispatched to Capcom to develop a game.

The news did not attract enough attention at the time.

Because this kind of thing is common for Mars Entertainment for some of its partners, but now that I think about it, I find that Capcom has not announced this game to the outside world. Someone asked about it before, and Capcom’s response was very... Simple, this is a game they're building for the future.

What is the future?

There is no doubt that it is the new console.

Of course, this is impossible to be recognized by Mars Entertainment.

There are even people who are not worried at all about the situation that Mars Entertainment will face in the future, especially in the Japanese market.

Although dq has a huge influence in Japan, there are many outstanding third-party manufacturers with great influence. Mars Entertainment is rich enough. Even if their first-party Japanese studio is not good, they can still spend money to buy some second-party studios. of.

The second party is a relatively new concept.

As we all know, gamers with a little knowledge of first-party and third-party can understand the meaning. In fact, as the name suggests, first-party refers to games developed by studios under the host company, and they will only be sold on the host company's website. Games are sold on the platform, and third parties are independent game studios that have no relationship with the host company. They can choose to sell games on any platform.

Therefore, some people may question, since there is a first party and a third party, is there a second party?

Of course there is.

Generally speaking, as long as it is a game released by a console company and is only sold on the platform of this console company, it is a second-party game. But there is a problem here. Since it is not a studio owned by the console company, why? We still need to let the host company publish it. It has nothing to do with the host company anyway. Wouldn’t it be better to publish it ourselves? It can be used across all platforms. Why can we be a second party?

There are two situations. One is cheap. For example, later on, Capcom was so cheap that he took the initiative to bring his own dry food and became Nintendo's second party, which is despicable.

There is a second type, which is the most common second-party situation.

That is, one is a third-party studio, but it receives money from console companies and develops games specifically for them.

Because this game is exclusive and the copyright belongs to the host company, but the developer is a third-party studio, so in order to distinguish between first-party and third-party games, this situation is called second-party. game.

Take Bloodborne for example.

This is the most common second-party situation. (To be continued...)