Upgrade The World From Hongmeng

Chapter 81: How Difficult to Play 3A Games on Mobile Phones and TVs

Early the next morning, Gu Fan came to Wu Hao’s office, and the two continued the topic of yesterday.

“Gu Fan, please tell me specifically, if we are a cloud gaming platform, what problems we will face in hardware and are there any good solutions.” Wu Hao wanted to know more details. He checked a lot of information overnight. , I found that what Gu Fan said really made sense, and he wanted to hear the opinions of professionals.

“The hardware problem is mainly focused on the server. I don’t know much. However, I have a senior who works at Longguang Tengfei. If necessary, I can ask him for remote video. Recently, he is on vacation.”

“Ask now, it’s not convenient to see the party!”

“good.”

Gu Fan left the office and returned ten minutes later. The two used the widescreen TV in the office to connect with each other. Both sides made a brief introduction of themselves and then cut to the topic.

“Mr. Wu, now the cloud gaming platform has a mature operation model, but the game experience is not good. The main problem is that the hardware investment cannot keep up, the server is too far away from the user, and the delay problem is difficult to solve, even if 5G is popular. However, the impact will still be relatively large. Another disadvantage is that the number of servers is not enough, which limits the number of simultaneous online users, and you need to wait in line for a long time before you can play a game.”

“Brother Luo, if you want to build a new national platform, what is the budget for purchasing servers?”

“Servers plus supporting hardware equipment, as well as computer room rental fees, fiber broadband access fees, water and electricity fees, labor costs, etc., to build such a platform, you will need to invest more than one billion yuan to cover the main If you build a platform that can cover the county level in a large city in China, it will cost tens of billions.”

“…”

“This is too expensive!” Wu Hao exclaimed in his heart.

The funds he could mobilize were still less than 200 million yuan, which was too far away. The price quoted by the other party shocked him.

“Mr. Wu, I advise you to stop dreaming. Your company is developing well, but its size is still too small. Why bother to play this kind of money burning project.”

“Brother Luo, if I rent a server to render animation, is it feasible?”

Wu Hao is looking for other possible breakthroughs.

“It’s completely possible. This is already a mature technology. For animation and film, the main cost is modeling and art resources. Server rendering does not cost much.”

“Brother Luo, as far as you know, do domestic giants have a layout in terms of cloud gaming platforms?”

“There is a layout, but it’s still in the small stage. After all, the 5G network is still ending, and the network speed in many areas is not stable. At this time, no one dares to invest a lot of money in this area.”

The domestic giants have not yet started, which also indirectly shows that the construction of hardware facilities at this time has not yet reached the minimum standards for project launch.

“Brother Luo, does Longguang Ascendas have any corresponding products in this area? I’m talking about front-end servers. The demand for this piece should be very large in the future.”

“There is a layout, but the product has not been developed yet, and the market demand can’t keep up… To be honest, I am not optimistic about the cloud game platform. If the rendering is all done on the host, the video will be distributed to various types through the network. The terminal needs continuous high-bandwidth communication. As a result, the equipment in the computer room will always be in a high-power operation state, and the power consumption will be huge. Heat dissipation and equipment loss are problems. This mode is not desirable!”

“Then if the terminal is responsible for the rendering of the game, isn’t the computing power wasted when you don’t usually play the game?… The terminal will also be very expensive, right.”

Wu Hao used future thinking to refute Senior Brother Luo. Obviously, the other party did not calculate the general ledger and did not expect that the power consumption of the terminal would drop a lot.

“You are right, but the cloud gaming platform is not cheap at this stage. The price for users to play cloud games will be even more expensive than buying a 3A game. It can’t be done without cost advantages.”

“Understood, thank you Brother Luo!”

“…”

After disconnecting, Gu Fan left the office, Wu Hao fell into deep thought. He had anticipated the difficulties of the project, but he did not expect that the difficulties in front of him would be so great.

In the memory of previous lives, there are many server resources. Computer rooms everywhere are like telecommunication service halls, which are located in every corner of the city. The price of renting a server will be very cheap.

On this basis, the terminals in people’s hands will be extremely simplified, just for display and interaction, and almost all data processing will be concentrated on the server.

The advantage of this is that the terminal is low in price, low in power consumption, does not need to be updated, and meets the needs of wireless charging. The multi-point server room has greatly improved the computing capacity of the entire society, and the price of digital services can be very low.

By then, a variety of highly specialized servers will blossom everywhere, including servers responsible for rendering, servers responsible for office, servers responsible for network security, storage servers, communication servers, and so on.

The computer room constructed by the server cluster provides powerful computing power support. Program developers only need to use their brains to create various application scenarios without worrying about the lack of hardware computing power.

However, at this time node, the 5G network is still undergoing final debugging, and various intelligent scenarios have just entered the society, and have not had a profound impact on people’s lives. No company is willing to invest in large-scale server deployment.

Wu Hao began to search for memories carefully, looking for the time window for the popularization of cloud games, but he did not find that time point because he was not familiar with the game industry, he only knew that the final result would have a huge impact.

“Will there be a transition period?”

If the server is temporarily inadequate, you can first rely on the computing power of the mobile terminal to solve part of the rendering work, and then integrate all the data through the mobile terminal, so that the 3A masterpiece can also run on the mobile phone, and then cast it to the TV. This is also possible. The chosen solution.

“This will not succeed, it is like investing in a hydrogen energy car!”

Japan once owned the world’s most advanced hydrogen energy vehicles, but was eliminated by electric vehicles. Japanese car companies suffered heavy losses, and finally had to return to the technical route of electric vehicles and hand over the market to others.

Technology can never go against the trend. Since cloud gaming is the future trend, it is the right choice to work hard in this direction.

“At this time, it is really difficult to play 3A games on TV and mobile phones.”

In addition to the server problem, there is also the problem of game development. It takes only half a year to develop a high-quality game. It is definitely a fantasy. I have never worked in this industry before. I don’t know anything about game development. Opportunity for success.

Wu Hao’s thinking has gradually become clear. The foundation of cloud platform development must be achieved after a large number of servers are put into use. This requires the joint efforts of officials and individuals. It is not a wise move to enter the field of cloud games rashly now. Think calmly and find a reasonable breakthrough direction.

This direction of cloud gaming platform, temporarily let go.

The task of the system needs a breakthrough, Wu Hao thought about it, but didn’t think of a good direction.

“If it’s really not possible, you can only invite ‘nobles’. Now there are 500 social contribution points, which is still very abundant.”

Wu Hao immediately submitted an application for the use of social contribution points to [Bluestar Technology Promotion System].

【Please enter the number of points used: __】

“50”, Wu Hao felt that it was just a directional reminder, and did not need to pay too much social contribution points, after all, the system task had just begun.

[The system has received social contribution points, and it is arranging a “noble person” for you, please wait…]