Chapter 348： The three camps of the game industry

Chapter 348 The three major 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 is not very happy for the peers.

Like Suri 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 this.

This made them at least have a game with sales of at least 100,000 or 200,000 to drop to less than 100,000 in an instant.

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

But fortunately, the game industry is booming, and these game developers are not short of jobs.

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

Because they all played the game too.

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

A 3D game with excellent CG image quality.

Before Final Fantasy 7, only racing and first-person shooter 3D games had gone their 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 controller, the human hands can move the game characters at the same time, and can continuously adjust the perspective, which also makes the game progress all at once. The industrial age is only one step away from the modern technological age.

Now, with the emergence of Final Fantasy 7, all game practitioners can discover the visual wonders brought by super-large investment.

It is true that if Final Fantasy 7 is still represented by the old 2D graphics, it is no problem, because the core of Final Fantasy 7 is still the king of the story.

But when there are new graphics enhancements, Final Fantasy 7 seems to be adding some kind of catalyst.

instantly expanded a game that could only have a very high impact to 100%.

No one would deny Final Fantasy 7.

Because it is almost perfect for the current conditions.

Even if they are peers, even if they are some game practitioners of competitors, they will not have any distaste for Final Fantasy 7.

On the first day of release of Final Fantasy 7, sales exceeded one million again.

Among them, Japan surpassed the United States, accounting for more than 700,000 sales.

The United States accounted for more than 300,000 sales.

Then on the second day, the sales were slightly lower, about 800,000 or so.

In the last statistics, the first week sales totaled 5.1 million copies.

This data is quite scary.

So far, no game has seen such a rapid increase in sales.

In the previous life, the sales volume of the original Final Fantasy 7 was about 13 million, and the sales volume in the future has no great statistical significance.

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

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

The sales of one million on the first Friday, if the average price of a copy is calculated at $69, that is about $350 million in revenue.

The total investment for Final Fantasy 7, including marketing costs, was in the range of $200 million.

This is the first-party game of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. Excluding about 30% of the physical production, sales, and transportation costs, the rest is all Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

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

And the sales momentum of Final Fantasy 7 has not diminished at all.

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 20 million.

This data is also record-breaking.

Almost every time you are on the road to breaking records.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment has not yet released its own game sales data.

But other peers can roughly speculate that Final Fantasy 7 is successful only by virtue of the popularity on the Internet and the scenes of offline physical stores that are often queued.

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

Youxing Electronic Entertainment is leading the entire industry in the front, they just need to follow behind Youxing 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 be poured into this industry in large numbers.

The voice of recruiting game practitioners with a lot of money has also gradually become louder.

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

The biggest of them is Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

Their game development team has more than 1,000 people.

This extra-staff team like professional outsourcing is also close to 1,000 people.

Then there is Suri Electronics.

Through the strategy of recruiting game developers with huge sums of money supported by Zhito 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 rating of four stars, and they are considered to have their own masters.

Finally, the third camp with rich game talents is Huck Games, a new company started by Huck Brown.

The guy who once founded Lierda, and then was ruthlessly proposed by Lierda to start a new company is already a man in his thirties, but his mentality is still as young as ever. And it is full of ambition to continuously expand its power.

Now that he has established himself on the PC platform, he 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 of its unique role-playing and social attributes, it has 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 $100 million.

This is also the first act to set a clear price for the game industry.

A studio that makes a well-known game is worth $100 million.

It can also 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 all over the world.

Others who want to join are fine, but they first need to overcome the talent shortage.

(end of this chapter)