Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

After the Gameplay exhibition, NetDragon and Tenghua are still building momentum for their two VR masterpieces.

And Nebula Games didn't make players wait too long.

On the fifth day after the exhibition, Chen Xu's official blog and the official video released by Nebula Games directly detonated the popularity of the switch handheld.

Promotional video about the new Switch handheld.

In the spacious living room, a beautiful girl in pajamas sat cross-legged on the sofa, playing games on the TV with the handle in her hand.

Next to it is the switch placed on the conversion box, and the picture on the screen shows the jelly bean man.

When she was about to rush to the front of the finish line, a pair of sinful little hands next to her grabbed her, so she was eliminated tragically.

The girl showed a depressed expression, but the next moment she saw the time on the clock, she quickly got up from the sofa and ran to the bathroom.

Put on makeup, change clothes, and get ready to go out.

But before leaving, she walked towards the switch placed on the table next to her, took it out and put it in her bag. At this time, the camera also gave a special close-up.

The next moment the video came to the subway, and the girl sitting on the sideboard took out the switch from her backpack.

The screen shows the picture of "Animal Forest".

Countless islanders and small animals greeted her cordially, fishing and tidying up their island.

After waiting for the station, the girl came to a park.

In the park, there are already many people waiting there.

After seeing the girl's figure, everyone waved together.

A switch is also placed next to them.

Then I saw that everyone pulled out a handle on their respective switches, and divided into two teams to play the game together.

The next moment is a fragmented picture of fragments.

Players who are lying on the bed playing switch, players who take out the switch from the bag during the noon break in the company.

At the weekend offline party, everyone took the switch and played various games together.

"Super Mario: Odyssey", "Jelly Bean Man", "Hacked Kitchen"...

In addition, there are also some classic arcade games produced in the middle, such as Metal Slug, Snowman Brothers and Turtledove, Insect Princess and so on.

After these game screens are played, a switch configuration single icon is played in the promotional video.

Looking at the relevant configuration list, players and industry designers who are knowledgeable about accessories are stunned.

Not too high, but really too low!

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Judging from a hardware parameter announced by the switch, its configuration can only be described in general terms.

In terms of performance, it can't even compare to some flagship phones.

This thing is really a handheld! ?

But the price of the machine revealed at the next moment made everyone confused again.

Because...the price is too cheap.

1299 yuan! ?

Everyone was stunned when they saw the price.

Compared with its hardware cost, this price is obviously higher than the cost.

But the account can't be counted like that!

The labor costs for machine production and the research and development costs for handheld computers cost money, right?

There are also marketing and advertising costs for subsequent machine sales, including the need for offline dealers to distribute goods. Does this also require money?

At the price of 1299 yuan, it is obvious that Nebula Games has no intention of making money on the machine at all, and it may even lose money.

Many designers in the game industry have stayed with game manufacturers.

But for players, this price obviously gave them a lot of surprises.

Especially the lineup of games that land on the switch.

"Dark Souls" and "Monster Hunter: World", many players don't think about it subconsciously.

Because these two things look like cakes at first glance.

And there is no real screen.

Even if it is going to be released, many players are basically aware of a configuration of the switch.

There is a high probability that some picture performance may be castrated, and it may even be said to be locked for 30 frames.

But other games, it is not the same has been shown at the exhibition.

And this time there are a lot of new games.

Judging from the picture, these games are indeed inferior to mainstream PC and VR devices.

But for players who play handheld, in fact, since they chose handheld, to some extent they have made some choices and have psychological expectations.

At least in terms of price, at this price of 1299, what Chinese cabbage is needed?

On Chen Xu's official blog, he also published a piece of the latest news about switch.

"First of all, the switch will be launched on June 1, Children's Day, so that all gamers can feel the fun of the game. This is what we hope the switch can do."

"The game will be divided into a digital version and a physical cartridge on the switch."

"If the physical version of the cassette is 2cm*3cm, the thickness is only 3mm, so there is no need to worry about the difficulty of carrying it."

"Of course, in order to prevent children and pets from accidentally swallowing it, we used denatonium benzoate on the cassette, which is a chemical that is harmless to the human body. Of course, its biggest feature is that it is bitter."

"Well, as for how bitter it is, I believe that no one will like that taste."

"In addition to the switch, we have launched a new service that is a membership service. Players can choose to subscribe to the corresponding monthly and annual fees, or form a family member."

"Members can enjoy cloud save and online services, and will also play many free games located in the member library for free."

"On the first day of release, in addition to premium transplanted games such as "Kicked Up Kitchen", "Jelly Bean Man", and "Two Players", there will also be two Switch exclusive works "Animal Forest" and "Super Mario: Odyssey""

"In the next few years, we also plan to develop several exclusive games specifically for the switch."

"This will not be a handheld with only one or two years of vitality. In the planning of Nebula Games, the switch will have this stronger vitality."

"In the second half of the year, we will bring an unprecedented open world game for the switch."

On the official blog, Chen Xu briefly introduced the content related to switch.

At the same time, before the release, Nebula Games will also have a special face-to-face meeting to bring players more new news about the switch.

Of course, Chen Xu will not be involved in this one.

………………

As Nebula Games warms up to the switch.

Online players and peers in the game industry are also discussing it.

Low pricing that does not rely on machines to make money, and a follow-up operation plan, as well as dedicated exclusive games.

All of these can see the resource investment of Nebula Games, and many people's views on this are also polarized.

"Nebulas Games is so much money that there is no place to spend it?"

"Although it seems that the concept of switch is very bitter, is this configuration too low?"

"Yeah, this hardware device is placed here, is it possible that Nebula games can still make flowers? It feels like some small games!"

"Yeah, and switch and open world? I think it's a joke."

Of course, there are also many expectations and curiosity.

"The cassette has a unique taste? I don't know what it is!"

"I checked it, and that thing seems to be called bitter essence, but I don't know how bitter it is."

"Isn't anyone talking about a new game? The exhibition looked very exciting before!"

"You won't know if you play it, but compared to this game, I pay more attention to Mr. Chen's pie. This machine hasn't been released yet, and it's already painted a few years later!"

"But to be fair, this time, Mr. Chen's pie is indeed a bit too much. Although "Animal Forest" and "Super Mario: Odyssey" look interesting, they even drew an open-world pie in the end."

"233333, the warrior of love becomes the warrior of cake."

The players had a lively discussion.

Whether the switch can be successful or not depends on its final sales in the final analysis.

As for what Chen Xu said on the official blog about the switch and the open world, players didn't think too much about this.

Mainly it's hard to imagine.

Switch and open world?

Comparing VR with PC, this weak function is completely irrelevant to the open world.