Chapter 80 Why won't there be a wave of independent games?
The news that Takahashi appeared in Akihabara quickly spread on the online forum. Takahashi's own speech also spread along with this news.
Maybe it is because the retelling is not as infectious as Takahashi said in person.
Compared to the reality of the forum, if these people were calm and rational, they did not support Takahashi one-sidedly and cheer for Takahashi when they were in Akihabara, but began to rationally discuss whether what Takahashi said was feasible.
"Everyone can make games? What does Takahashi treat playing games as? Did it treat them as a handicraft class for elementary school students?" A netizen in the forum complained purely to vent his emotions.
Another netizen demonstrated from the perspective of cost and supply chain that it is unrealistic for everyone to make games.
"Even if someone has made a game, this game is fun. But how can you sell this kind of game? Do you take it out separately and make it into a game card?
The cost of a game card will not be less than 500 yen at least. With the cost of logistics and distribution, the cost of a card with the lowest capacity will be at least 2,500 yen. This does not count the profit share of the publisher and the game producer. If the profit share is included, it must reach a selling price of at least 4,000.
Moreover, if the number of copies produced is less than 10,000, you can't make a penny.
Even if you get 30,000 shares, you won’t make much money.
Takahashi is the president of Wanhu, and everyone knows the status of Wanhu's gaming field.
Why is Takahashi saying this?
Perhaps there is a breakthrough in technology?
but……
How can technology be so easy to break through?
Although Wanhu is a company with hardware production capacity, Wanhu's actual hardware level has always been second-rate.
Do we need to believe that a second-rate hardware manufacturer will make any revolutionary changes?”
The reply to this post is obviously more than the reply to the post that is purely venting emotions.
Everyone agrees with the analysis of the poster.
The fact that Wanhu has always been a second-rate manufacturer in the hardware field is deeply rooted in their minds.
Although Wanhu has sold voodoo graphics cards worldwide, it can be regarded as a very practical configuration for personal computers.
However, first of all, Japanese players pay less attention to computers and lack understanding of foreign information.
Moreover, because Wanhu has cut the voodoo graphics card company from Wanhu itself. Therefore, even if the Japanese who know about voodoo graphics card or even use it, they still don’t know that it has contacted Wanhu because of the lack of information.
The game console made by Wanhu is simply carved from the same mold as Nintendo.
Although everyone thinks Nintendo's games are fun, no one dares to say that Nintendo is a top-notch hardware manufacturer.
Nintendo's hardware will not be surprising most of the time.
Even if the performance is the strongest among the hosts of the same era, there will be no cool-looking black technology.
Every function is simple and unpretentious, as long as it has it, it will inevitably be a technology that will be applied on a large scale.
This advantage is that it can reduce the cost of the machine and be more competitive in price. But the disadvantage is that there is no good gimmick in publicity.
However, to a certain extent, this is also a state of the heavy sword without a front.
It is obviously very strong, but I can't find my strengths. However, when I look back, I find that there are no weaknesses.
The same is true for Wanhu’s game handheld console and Nintendo’s game handheld console.
As for why, for so many years, neither of the handheld machines of both companies have been innovating much.
Because both families are in a state of equal strength.
You should know that the upgrade of machines is often initiated by the side that is behind or even fails.
On the handheld machine, Nintendo and Wanhu have reached a delicate balance. Whoever upgrades first will make people feel like they have lost.
In everyone's opinion, this way of letting go of disputes and jointly developing is a good way to make money with harmony.
Of course, Nintendo and Wanhu are still in a cold war state, so all this happened tacitly.
Actually, it’s interesting. The forum discussed by this group of forum netizens was actually built by tens of thousands of households.
Other game media or game companies are unwilling to do things like building websites that require continuous expenses and cannot see the benefits.
Even if some game manufacturers have created an official game homepage, they often do not need much resources.
Forums, in an era when bandwidth and storage space are not cheap, doing this is a burning money in a sense.
It's the kind of people who burn more money the more they have.
As for why ten thousand households do it?
Takahashi and others who only focus on immediate interests do not know that future game forums or online media are the mainstream of the future.
Although print media has its advantages, they are always incomparable to the Internet in terms of cost.
Although the forum is still mainly discussed, as the official of the forum, it will update some news in the news section from time to time.
In the irrigation section, the "Takahashi Akihabara incident" that everyone discussed for a long time has not yet ended, and another big news has appeared in the news section.
The title of this big news is, "A letter from Takahashi to the players."
The content of this letter is used to explain the reasons and purpose of his speech at Akihara.
He stated in his article that the twenty-first century is the century of the Internet.
Independent games that may not be cost-effective now may be very troublesome after entering the Internet era.
Moreover, the characteristic of small capacity is particularly suitable for the current situation where network bandwidth is insufficient and network is slow.
However, it seems a bit unrealistic to talk about this now, but it won't take long to make everything happen.
Don’t ignore the speed of the development of the Internet. Ten years ago, online forums were still a new thing, but now many people are unable to live without online forums and even relied on online forums to eat.
Can this be imagined ten years ago?
No, no.
But today everything came true.
Many times, we will fall into a wrong mindset, thinking that everything is unchanging.
But in fact, everything is changing, and it is changing all the time. Perhaps, before we pay attention, changes have already occurred.
Today's forum is full of text. Why won't there be pictures tomorrow, and why won't there be video the day after tomorrow?
Could it be that expressions composed of characters such as Yan Wenzi will last for a lifetime?
I think technological progress is the first driving force for the advancement of electronic games. In the future Internet era, why will there be no wave of independent games?
Chapter completed!