Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 243 147. Could it be Steins Gate?

In the scene, no host manufacturer dared to believe this figure.

But the players and reporters off the court were all excited.

Good luck!

With such a cheap 32-bit host, even if it breaks a bone, players will only feel happy.

Carnival of gamers.

They even wish you could give it to them for free.

As a result, a huge drop watershed was formed on the scene——

The game makers sitting in the front row were all surprised, saying that Sony was crazy.

With such a low price, either the cost cannot be recovered, or there is a problem with the quality, it is impossible to be as low as 299.

The players slightly behind and in the middle cheered and danced, as if celebrating Christmas early.

Sony's PS marketing strategy is a typical business war model, which is purely price wars until the lowest price in the market, and then dumping the monopoly market to make profits through games.

It can be said to be quite barbaric and detrimental to others.

But Qing Zhiyuan didn't know whether he was losing money or not. Sony said that he didn't have a loss subsidy, so you can't help it.

As long as the data on the book is suitable.

Seeing the expressions of everyone in the audience, Ken Kutaragi showed a happy smile after a long absence.

Not to mention the follow-up sales performance, at least today.

Just this morning, it belongs to Ken Kutaragi, and it belongs to Sony.

……

"congratulations."

After Kutaragi recovered, Qing Zhiyuan congratulated him.

The latter was slightly taken aback, shook his head, and smiled bitterly, "Congratulations, this is just the beginning, the war has not yet started, and we don't know what the end result will be."

"Don't worry." Qing Zhiyuan patted him on the shoulder, "I have confidence in Sony. Don't forget, part of this game console was designed by me."

"Uh……"

At this time, all the wrinkles on Kutaragi Ken's face seemed to come alive, and they had their own ideas, and they sprang up everywhere, and finally merged together, turning into a big embarrassing character.

"I hope so."

Kutaragi Ken sighed.

Yes, now Sony and pokeni are on the same boat.

If PS can sell well...

In fact, pokeni can't make a lot of money, because Sony's strategy directly keeps the price very low, which is almost the cost price.

In addition to various tax deductions, profit sharing and so on, whether you can make money in the end is another matter.

It's just that there will be a very big platform advantage in game development in the future.

After the pre-show press conference, countless people felt that this Chicago Consumer Electronics Show was really a worthwhile trip.

More exciting than ever.

The main reason is that this kind of real swords and guns, the scene of almost fierce fighting on the scene is really beautiful.

Countless media sent back reports that day, for fear of being preempted by other media.

The news was published in the relevant video game magazines and electronic product magazines early the next morning.

【Chicago Consumer Electronics Show: Console War】

[Sony's new product release, the ultra-low price of 299 crushes the opponent]

Of course, these are Qing Zhiyuan's imaginary words, because he bought the English version at the newsstand.

It takes a little effort to read English, but fortunately, Qing Zhiyuan had a good command of English in his previous life, and some words that are relatively uncommon can be understood by referring to the context.

[At this year's Chicago Consumer Electronics Show, game manufacturers around the world have exhibited their own 32-bit new consoles, which can be called a console war.

In this battle...

There's the Sega Saturn, a 32-bit console from Sega, and the 3DO's...

The most eye-catching is the PlayStation brought by Sony.

This game console is said to be a trial machine developed in cooperation with Ren Tiantang two years ago, and it has been improved on this basis.

It can be seen at the scene that these major game manufacturers have tried their best to gain hegemony in the future console market...

Unexpectedly, Sony PS only called out the ultra-low price of 299]

Qing Zhiyuan saw a little brother who was reading a newspaper, his eyes widened when he saw this.

"WTF?! 299? True or false?"

This year is really a very important turning point in history,
From this day on, the Sony company will completely enter everyone's sight and lead a new console era.

……

After the pre-show press conference, Sega's US CEO Kolinsky immediately found Qing Zhiyuan.

"Qing Sang, it is said that Pokeni participated in the research and development of Saunière's console, is it true?"

Qing Zhiyuan frowned fiercely, thinking that some bastard leaked the news.

"Well, Sony wants to develop a new game console, and we just have the need to develop new games, so we asked them if they could do some hardware support according to our vision.

Generally speaking, the demand is what we put forward.

It can be regarded as participating in the design. "

Falk~
Kolinsky cursed in his heart.

Qing Zhiyuan, a fox, did you feel wronged by saying that?

A few words of understatement will take myself out.

"I didn't know in advance that you were going to develop a 32-bit machine. Sony found us first, so of course it went smoothly. We all cooperate with each other." Qing Zhiyuan said.

Kolinsky opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"But..." Qing Zhiyuan comforted him again, "Don't worry too much, because President Zhongshan had dinner with me when we were in Neon, and we also talked about Sega Saturn.

We definitely still have to cooperate with Sega, after all we all have a common enemy.

Don't forget, our goal is to defeat Rentian. "

Ok?
Hearing this, Kolinski's anger dissipated a little.

"President Qing, for capricious [friends] like Sony, I suggest that you should be less bound to them."

Kolinsky didn't go any further. He just chatted with Qing Zhiyuan for a few words before leaving, "Then you are busy first. I look forward to cooperating with pokeni."

Seeing his back in a hurry, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing.

I'm afraid this guy was caught off guard now, and he is busy going back to report the local situation to President Zhongshan, and then discuss countermeasures.

……

In comparison, Qing Zhiyuan was the most laid-back person in the entire press conference, even so laid-back that even the company's Takahashi Kazuma couldn't stand it anymore.

"President, why are you so calm?" Kazuma Takahashi frowned, "I originally thought that there would be some emergencies at this electronics show, but I didn't expect it to be so explosive.

It feels like watching a war of the century up close. "

Qing Zhiyuan looked at him with some amusement.

What is like?
obviously it is.

"President, you didn't realize that a small company like ours is actually squeezed into the cracks by them, no, it should be said that these big bosses stirred up a vortex, and we were forced to get involved.

If it is not done well, we are also in danger. Kazuma Takahashi said.

"No, what's the danger?" Qing Zhiyuan gave him a sidelong glance.

Seeing the calm look of the president, Kazuma Takahashi was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

"President, do you see any clues?"

"Well, it seems that there are many opponents, but in fact the outcome has already been determined." Qing Zhiyuan said, "This is a winner-take-all game. In the end, it depends on who has the most money and who can burn the most money."

There is nothing new under the sun, it is just a game of capital.

From the electronic field, to the Internet, to the food delivery and taxi-hailing in China... all of them were spent on burning money.

Sony has strong funds and obviously wants to crush others. In addition, it has accumulated technology, and the result has already come out.

"Ah...this..."

Kazuma Takahashi lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he understood almost immediately.

"By the way, President, why is Ren Tiantian so calm?"

"them……"

Qing Zhiyuan froze for a moment, saying that you have overwhelmed me with this question.

"Their ideas are too advanced, maybe they don't bother to develop 32-bit machines first."

At this time, Rentendo Yokoi Gunpei seems to be busy developing VR game consoles.

But, if you stride too far, you might pull something.

Mistakes in strategy are the most fatal.

……

Now that he has learned the truth about the [Endgame], Kazuma Takahashi's heart suddenly feels at ease.

On the second day, I didn't care too much. I followed the example of my own president. Everyone was warmly welcomed. It didn't matter who did what. I just focused on my own platform.

The pokeni exhibition area is not too big, but there are many players who come to experience it, and many people still come here just because of the name.

The main reason is that what P agency exhibited was the sequel to Diablo, which became popular last year.

Last year's Diablo sold like crazy in the Omi region.

For this reason, Sega's MD has a wave of sales, and it has directly sold 400 million copies.

The main reason is that I have never played such a real-time combat game before, and it is still from an overhead perspective. What is even more rare is that the entire worldview is very in line with Western characteristics, which makes them very immersive.

When Qing Zhiyuan arrived at his exhibition area, he found that the entire venue was surrounded by people.

Kazuma Takahashi saw Qing Zhiyuan, jumped up from the crowd, and waved to him.

"President! President!"

Everyone didn't understand Japanese, and they didn't know what Kazuma Takahashi was talking about, but they all followed his gaze curiously.

After a quick glance, he retracted his gaze and continued to watch others experience Diablo 2.
"President, someone is looking for you."

Takahashi broke through the crowd and said.

"Huh?" Qing Zhiyuan was slightly taken aback, "Who is it?"

……

Immediately behind Kazuma Takahashi were three Americans.

One of them is handsome with glasses, and the other two are similar in appearance, they seem to be a pair of brothers.

After some introductions, Qing Zhiyuan knew that these three people were the founders of a game company called Condor.

The two thin, shoehorn-faced Scafe brothers were Max and Eric Scafe.

The Batman-like guy with the glasses is David Breivik.

This company was just established in September last year. It was originally a company specializing in porting games, and now it plans to make an independent game of its own.

They also said that they are fans of pokeni, and they are really crazy about Diablo.

"This game is exactly what we dreamed of." David Breivik said, "Today I can play Diablo 2, it is really the happiest day in my life."

"No, no. Thank you." Qing Zhiyuan smiled.

His eyes were still looking at the man in front of him, David Breivik, as if he had heard it somewhere.

After two seconds, seeing the person in front of him talking more and more excited, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Qing Zhiyuan's brain.

What the hell!

David Breivik, the Scarfo brothers, isn't this the founder of Blizzard North?
Qing Zhiyuan finally remembered.

Condor game company is the predecessor of Northern Blizzard, which is the creative team of Diablo. In the previous life, it was this group of people who produced the famous Diablo.
It's great to be praised by the creator of Diablo for his Diablo.

What kind of experience is this?
Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but shook his head and laughed.

It was like the Dragon Lord biting his own tail.

The founders of Condor Game Company also exhibited their games at the same Chicago Electronics Show. At that time, Diablo was still a semi-finished product, and it was a turn-based game.

Turn-based game, can you believe it?

"Diablo 1" is indeed inspired by the classic Roguelike game "Moria" that was born in 1983. For the 90s, the Roguelike RPG was already a backward product of the previous era.

Therefore, "Diablo 1", which cannot keep up with the times, naturally hits the wall everywhere.

At that time, the father of Diablo, David Breivik, participated in the Chicago International Consumer Electronics Show with the original version of "Diablo 1" in order to obtain investment to develop games.

And at this Electronics Show, I met Blizzard who was also doing outsourcing and transplantation.

After chatting with several founders of Blizzard, the other party suggested that David Breivik make Diablo an instant game.

So this conversation led to two major events of historical level——

First, after David Breivik went back, he really discussed with his colleagues and voted to change Diablo into a real-time meat pigeon game. The process of making it real-time is also simple and rude——

The programmer directly speeds up the animation, allowing the turn-based battle to fast-forward, and it becomes the later real-time system.

Second, the Condor game company accepted investment from Blizzard and became a part of Blizzard, which was later known as Blizzard North.

Northern Blizzard made Diablo series, and the original Blizzard developed "Warcraft"

……

Thinking of this, Qing Zhiyuan was suddenly in a daze.

I didn't expect to see them at this Chicago Electronics Fair.

Hasn't history been rewritten?
You don’t even have Diablo, so why did you come to Electronics Show?

Could it be the great Steins Gate...

The timeline is closing?

"Actually," Breivik gave a thumbs up and pointed to the back, "We also participated in the exhibition this time, and brought a small game here."

"really?"

Qing Zhiyuan became excited and expressed his curiosity——

What else can be made without the dark Condor?

……

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I wanted to go to sleep, but I still couldn't fall asleep until I finished writing this chapter.

no update at night

Thanks everyone
see you tomorrow

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