Game Development Giant - Chapter 880

c874 The new console wars

What’s more, it’s the use of human beings to vent their thoughts about violence, pornography, and unscrupulous behavior.

This is very criticized by others in the gaming industry.

Jester also talked about this issue in an interview. He said: “I know very well what kind of game GTA3 is, but this game is a restricted game first. Secondly, this This game uses a lot of new technologies and new ideas in its design. When looking at a game, you can’t just look at one aspect, but also look at the other aspect.”

“What’s more, GTA is definitely not just using the psychological characteristics of people’s violence and wanting to do whatever they want to set up the gameplay. If you have enough understanding of the word rock, then you will be able to understand Rock Star more deeply. What exactly is this game trying to express?”

Many people’s direct refutation of Jester is quibbling.

And Jester did not continue to answer.

He just said: “I have announced my withdrawal from the management of Mars Entertainment. At present, my identity is only the person in charge of WOW. For the management, he is just a consultant now. As for how the company will operate and what games will be produced, , he won’t care, what he hopes is that Mars Entertainment can still be the best game company in the world without him.”

Of course, this is also said to the outside world.

The reason why Mars Entertainment can get such great support from within Mars Entertainment, and even dispatch the best technical team from the headquarters to support, is that for a while, Mark Saini himself and the most outstanding team of Mars Entertainment that he worked hard to establish The technical team, the ice team, is also stationed there for a long time.

Obviously, without the strong support of Mars Entertainment, this would be absolutely impossible.

The reason why Rock Star is able to receive such treatment is because of Jester’s tacit approval or even his instruction.

Inside Mars Entertainment, it is also clear that Jester values ​​​​the Rock Star studio. Although Satoru Iwata has also expressed his opinions to Jester, Jester is other than Rock Star. Since he announced his resignation, he has not paid special attention to other studios, so Iwata just complained and let it go.

Actually. If Jester didn’t specifically state that Rock Star is what he values, then according to Satoru Iwata’s character, it is really possible to suppress this studio, or the game GTA3.

It’s not that Iwata doesn’t know how great the game GTA3 is.

Satoru Iwata is one of the best game designers in his own right. The acumen for games is beyond the reach of most people, even most people in the industry.

He certainly knows what makes GTA3 great.

I also know that this game will definitely sell well if it is released, but this game is seriously inconsistent with the game strategy Iwata is planning to implement.

Previously, Dreambox4 used motion sensing to successfully open a door among stay-at-home moms.

If the game GTA3 appears again at this time and is specially manipulated by someone who is interested, then it is very likely that the door that was opened before will be closed again, so Iwata asked Jester to explain his thoughts. Te also thinks his idea is very practical.

but. It is impossible for Jester to give up GTA3.

In the end, we could only come up with a compromise, which was to change the release date of GTA3 from the original plan to accompany the launch of Dreambox 4 to a delayed release of the console version, but the release time of the PC version remained unchanged.

Although this will have a certain impact on the release strategy of Dreambox 4 and the performance of the game GTA3.

But there is nothing that can be done about it.

Time passed very quickly, and Sega announced the discontinuation of DC products earlier than the original history. Just one day before the release of PS3, many players posted some commemorative posts on the forum to commemorate Sega. They all knew that Sega could support it until now. It’s already very difficult, and DC’s sales are indeed unsatisfactory. And the PS3 will be released soon.

Instead of continuing to stick to DC.

It’s better to spend your precious funds on things that need to be done more.

The next day, the day Sony’s PS3 was released, Sega released a new official message, announcing that they would completely launch the production and development of home consoles. After that, I just focused on the design and production of games.

And Microsoft is moving quickly.

Almost at the same time that Sega announced the news, they immediately announced their console development plan, and they would all accept Sega’s hardware department. After some rectification and adjustments, it was renamed the new department of Microsoft Game Hardware Department. It will start working again to design a console for Microsoft that is in line with the times as soon as possible. Moreover, Microsoft also claimed that in fact, the design of this console started on the drawings a year ago.

The paper design has been mostly completed. If nothing unexpected happens, this brand new console will be available to players within about a year.

At the next E3 exhibition, Microsoft will share with players their plans for new consoles.

Sega also stated that they will develop games for any gaming platform.

Soon, Sony reached a cooperation with Sega. They wanted to launch “Shenmue 2” on their PS3 platform. Microsoft also proposed their idea, but Mars Entertainment stayed put and ignored the matter.

If Jester’s idea is to follow, he will definitely win Shenmue 2, because he is a fan of Shenmue, and he hopes that Shenmue will have the opportunity to be launched on his own platform.

But unfortunately, the person in charge of Mars Entertainment is now Satoru Iwata.

And Jester said that he would not interfere with Iwata’s decision.

In the end, “Shenmue 2” was acquired by Sony.

Although Microsoft’s exclusive price is higher, Sony’s conditions are more attractive. They will not only want “Shenmue 2”, but they will also invest in “Shenmue 3” even if the sales of “Shenmue 2” are not good. Development, of course, if the sales of Shenmue 2 are not satisfactory, Sony will ask them to oversee the development of Shenmue 3.

Microsoft’s statement is that they will only consider whether to accept further investment based on the sales of “Shenmue 2”.

Sega was originally leaning towards Microsoft.

Because the most important thing for Sega now is to get more money. It was easy to carry out internal mergers and prevent insolvency and bankruptcy, but Suzuki Yu’s sudden death completely bankrupted Sega’s ideas.

Yu Suzuki said: “If there is no way to develop “Shenmue 3”, then he will not continue to work on “Shenmue 2.”

Jester was just silently watching another turmoil in the industry. Another console war, but this time, he was no longer personally involved as a chess player from beginning to end like the previous times.

The launch of PS3 is booming.

The exclusive game console plus DVD design has made many people who were originally not interested in game consoles willing to buy one and take it home. Because the price of a DVD is not much cheaper than a game console now, this kind of thing that kills two birds with one stone is very attractive to everyone around the world.

Moreover, Sony’s first-party and their third-party games are indeed excellent.

Received many favorable comments.

Therefore, the PS3 has been on a high since it was released.

Even a month later, the day before Dreambox 4 was released, the total sales of PS3 had already equaled the total sales of DC in the first three months.

To know. This was the best sales volume of DC in the past three months.

The entire industry was shocked by Sony’s PS3. Players were shocked that the game graphics had been improved to such an extent. Industry insiders were shocked that the game could still do this after the performance had been improved so much.

Some people are also worried about Dreambox 4, which will be released soon.

Although they all know that this time Dreambox4 has their own unique motion sensing system.

But whether this system can withstand the test of players is completely unpredictable.

Although the previous public releases have received very good feedback from players, and although the pre-sales of Dreambox 4 are very popular, the console has not yet been released. All of these are uncertain things. When people think of this time, they often come out for interviews. Jester, who was cheering for Mars Entertainment’s new console, suddenly disappeared.

It is said that he went on vacation with his wife and children.

Everyone was dumbfounded and felt that Jester’s choice of vacation at this time was inappropriate.

After all, this is a very important thing for Mars Entertainment. The success or failure of the new generation will depend on the launch tomorrow, after all, the previous launch of PS3 was grand. The grand sales that followed were witnessed by all.

Anyone who puts such pressure on should be nervous.

But soon, Jester Mars Entertainment came out with a sentence. His explanation was very simple: “In the past, every time a new console was released, I stayed up all night, and then asked people to count the consoles every hour. sales situation, that’s because I am the president of Mars Entertainment and I am responsible for the company, but I have now relieved myself of this responsibility. Satoru Iwata has done a very good job, so I feel that I should no longer overstep my authority.”

Finally, Jester also said: “The development of WOW is very smooth. If the plan goes well, then this year, we will conduct the first invitation test. All players can apply, and we will select some players. Let them come to our California headquarters to work with our development team to conduct the first test of the WOW game.”

After some changes in Mars Entertainment in the past two years, basically everyone knows that Jester’s statement that he will officially retire after the development of WOW is completed is not a joke.

And this time, at such an important moment for the release of Dreambox 4, he chose to go on vacation, which further illustrates this point.

This time he really let go.

Otherwise, when something as important as the launch of a console, which can be said to be the most important thing for a game company, is about to begin, what if the person in charge of a company chooses to take a vacation at this time?

Jester’s incident also made Iwata extremely grateful.

Because no matter what Jester said before that he had let go and that he would not interfere with Mars Entertainment, there were still many people, even the vast majority of people, who did not believe it.

Including Satoru Iwata, although in the past two years, Jester has really not intervened in the internal affairs of Mars Entertainment, especially some of his decisions. Except for the rock star matter, Jester mentioned it to him. Ste didn’t even ask.

However, Iwata is still worried.

Moreover, there are some people in the company who are not convinced by Satoru Iwata. They feel that Jester’s talk about retiring is a joke, and Jester will definitely take back his life in the end. Therefore, there are usually some overt and covert attitudes towards Satoru Iwata, and Satoru Iwata Also because he was worried about Jester, he turned a blind eye to these people.

However, this time, Jester made this statement at this very special time.

He has fully demonstrated his attitude.

He is retiring.

Now the person in charge of Mars Entertainment is Satoru Iwata. This is not only a signal sent to the outside world, but also a signal sent internally.

He was also signaling to Satoru Iwata that if there is anything you want to do, just do it.

To be honest, the great sales of PS3 really puts a lot of pressure on Satoru Iwata. Although the pre-sales of Dreambox 4 are extremely popular, judging from the pre-sales situation, we can also know that their sales will not be inferior to that of PS3.

Even three days before the release, people have set up tents in front of several launch locations in California and are preparing to queue up. It can be seen that players are looking forward to Dreambox 4, their expectations for somatosensory, and their expectations for “Super Balot”. “Lee Galaxy” expectations.

However, just being on par with the PS3 is not an achievement worth bragging about.

Because the first three generations of Mars Entertainment’s Dreambox series of consoles under the leadership of Jester, all achieved a dominance of more than 50% of the entire market share. At most, it even reached 70%. ! This is an extremely dazzling legendary record. With such results in front of him, Iwata will never allow himself to fall short of the results left by Jester.

Although Jester told him before going on vacation.

The current situation is different from before. It has become extremely difficult to achieve such a large share lead.

This is only possible unless the other party is stupid.

On the other hand, Sony clearly didn’t make any mistakes with the PS3. Not only did it not make mistakes, it even made a surprising move. (~^~)