Number One Game Designer

Leaving aside "GTA", Fang Xi thinks he should arrange something else for SNAIFKL first, but before joining the Hongyi banner, the first thing to do is naturally...

"SNAIFKL is history, you are now a ghost car studio!"

Fang Xi settled on the name after sitting in Oge's villa and pondering for two minutes.

"GhostVehicle? I like this name, it feels a bit GhostRider, I like this feel!"

GhostRider, Soul Chariot, is a relatively famous movie, mainly because it is cool enough.

Chen Yu explained on the side:

"The ghost car comes from Chinese myths and legends. The legend is a monster bird with nine heads. Its figure covers the sky and the sun. It is very powerful."

Taking into account the cultural barriers, Chen Yu did not mention specific legends, and these people may not be interested. And sure enough:

"Is this bird strong?" Dillon.

"Is this bird handsome?" Ono.

Fang Xi nodded, and immediately greeted Ti Lung and Ono cheering. Fang Xi was a little confused. As for? Suddenly remembered, Fang Xi took Ogg beside him and asked:

"What does your earliest name SNAIFKL mean? I checked and didn't find the meaning of this word."

"Oh, this." Ogg drank a glass of beer, his cheeks were a little red, and he started drinking before the sun went down. Fang Xi suspected that these people should really be of Nordic origin.

"When we were founded, everyone couldn't think of a good name, so at that time, Dillon pressed Ono's face on the keyboard and we have used these letters until now."

Okay, this is Scandinavian, Fang Xi is silent, this is "True Face Rolling Keyboard".

At this moment, Chen Yu, who was next to him, answered the phone and walked over and whispered to the other side:

"Boss, Director Yu's call, Japan's Nintendo has preliminary cooperation intentions."

Fang Xi asked Ogg for a small room, and in the middle declined Ogg's invitation to have a drink, saying that the way these people celebrated was to drink together.

Closing the door of the small room, Fang Xi shook his head: "It's better to name them Asgard Studio."

Then he took a seat and said, "Let's talk about it, what did Xiaolan say?"

Chen Yu didn't dare to neglect, and opened the pad that he carried, Xiao Lan also sent him an email at the same time-why not send it to Fang Xi? Because Xiaolan knows who is the most reliable of these two people.

"Two hours ago, Nintendo of Japan sent us a preliminary exchange application. They hope to send an investigation team to Beiyang City to achieve cooperation in the game field with us. Their initial goal includes a stand-alone version of the road to survival — —Does not include the Battle Royale DLC, portal and hope to be able to try our demo version of "Origin of All Things"."

Fang Xi knocked on the armrest of the chair, the host...It's impossible to say that you don't envy, but the current Hongyi really can't make a move to develop the host.

Although the current Hongyi is infinite, if it can have its own platform, Fang Xi estimates that it will not be a problem to at least double its income so far. This brings us to the difference between the PC and the host environment.

The biggest problem on the PC is the uneven operating environment. Take graphics cards as an example. Among the best-selling graphics cards in 2018, the top 1080ti and the tenth best-selling 1060 can at least double the performance, let alone the earlier ones. GTX's 9-series and 7-series graphics cards, to put it bluntly, is because the game attribute is not prominent on PCs, so although the player base is large, there is no unified development environment, and there are many graphics cards and CPU brands, and the game development department is just different. The optimization of the environment will cost a lot of budget.

On the console, although the configuration alone may not match the top of the PC, there is a unified operating environment, and developers can optimize the game to the extreme, and the experience is not too bad. The console price of the game is also the customary high price area. Developers can get more profits, and a generation of consoles can last for a long time. Developers don’t need to make much changes. An environment can be used for a long time. Here again, look at PC and GTX. How many years have 10 series graphics cards been popular? It has to be said that the replacement of PCs is too fast, and the pain of this environment for small developers has not passed, and the new environment has come again.

So Fang Xi has always hoped to have his own host, but even though he has made a lot of money now, but the money is used to invest in the host? It's a drop in the bucket.

So Fang Xi did not refuse Nintendo’s invitation:

"Agree and tell each other that we are also looking forward to cooperating with them."

Chen Yu wrote it down and replied to Xiaolan later and asked Xiaolan to formally invite the Japanese side.

"Although it's only the early days..." Fang Xi tapped his fingers: "However, the studios transplanted from related platforms can also be recruited.

Chen Yu remembered again.

Thinking of the host, Fang Xi thought of the physical CD sales channels that Hongyi didn’t involve at all. He couldn’t help but feel a little bored. If Hongyi develops its own host, it basically needs to start from scratch, with a closed system, security, and confidentiality. , New operating methods, etc., are basically the same as the difficulty of starting Apple from scratch for the Qiao Gang, not only the R&D cost, but also the time cost.

"Chen Yu, say you." Fang Xi said softly, "How difficult is it for us to acquire a company that controls the mainframe?"

Before Chen Yu could speak, Fang Xi laughed and shook his head.

Although there is no specific investigation in this time and space, I remember that in the last time and space, the development of the host is a huge crocodile: Microsoft and Sony are not small companies, and the main business is not on the game. The game is just incidental. Both of them have a market value of several thousand. A billion-dollar company, and Nintendo, the only main game business, has a market value of close to 100 billion U.S. dollars. Even though the space-time game industry has shrunk compared to the previous one, it is still a giant. Hongyi is just a rookie in the game field with a history of more than a year. The current profit has not exceeded 10 billion. It is very early to talk about the acquisition, and the mayfly is shaking the tree.

Since there is no hope for the time being, it is better to work together to make the company bigger.

"Let Lu Wanqi form a special reception team to facilitate cooperation with Nintendo. It is best to get technical support for host transplantation."

Chen Yu nodded and wrote down again.

Although many people say that Fang Xi can't adjust or anything, Chen Yu admires Fang Xi. He is running for the third time this year. Fang Xi is four years younger than himself, a real junior, but what?

It can be regarded as a self-made business. Anyone who has joined Hongyi knows that when Fang Xi took over the company, he only got one shell. At that time, the company was able to pay another month of employees’ wages in addition to debts, but it has been almost two years now. In Fang Xi's hands, Hongyi owed the bank three million yuan to billions of dollars in net profit a year. As far as Chen Yu knows, the outside financial world does not know how many venture capitalists are seeking Hongyi's listing. As long as they are listed, Fang Xi's worth can be at least tenfold to become the youngest rich man worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

But Fang Xi seemed to have never considered this, his eyes seemed to have been placed where he couldn't see it, so Chen Yu admired Fang Xi more and more. It's easy to understand what you want, but it's commendable to be able to hold on to it, and to be a young man who has just left school.