After watching Capcom's "Monster Hunter" promotional video, the players in the island country were also confused.

The next day, the Internet about "Monster Hunter" sparked heated discussion.

"That's it?! I thought I had read a low-end "Shan Hai Jing""

"All?! It turns out that it's not just me. I also felt this way when I watched it. It seems that I have seen the Monster Hunter promotional video somewhere.

Later, after Oni's reminder, I remembered that it turned out to be a bit similar to the previous promotional video of "Shan Hai Jing" that was released by Yiyue."

"The most important thing is that the pictures and shots are not as good as those of "Shan Hai Jing". I feel that the monster hunter we have been waiting for for a few years is a bit embarrassing."

"Not that, I think it's possible that the game may be similar as long as it involves the theme of free exploration in the world. What's more, both games are action-type and monsters, which deepens the [similarity] in everyone's mind.

You can only know after playing the game.”

"Well, I hope so."

Judging from the promotional video, Bomi is better. Although Cao Yang expected, when he saw the evaluations of most players on the Internet, Cao Yang was still very proud and enjoyed it.

"The Monster Hunter doesn't feel better than the picture of "Shan Hai Jing", at least from the promotional videos of both sides."

"Really, the promotional video of "Shan Hai Jing" is obviously much better than the monster hunter. What's more important is that for some reason, I always feel a sense of intimacy when I see Shan Hai Jing, but the monster hunter has to be farther away from us."

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The Shanhai Jing feels more intimate, which is almost the common understanding of the island people.

This is also a matter of course. After all, the culture of the island country originated from Chinese culture, and the Shanhai Jing is another ancient book. Some people even speculate that this geography magazine is about the Chinese civilization 9,000 years ago.

But the specificity cannot be determined.

Anyway, the stories and images derived from the Mountains and Seas Sutra are as numerous as cows, and finally they gradually move towards myths. Countless people were shocked by the rare birds and beasts and various magnificent stories described in the Mountains and Seas Sutra.

Many novels about monsters on the island country also originate from Chinese culture, such as the very famous Onmyoji and the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk... There are many monsters and Shikigami images in it all come from China.

Many of them come directly from the Shanhai Jing.

So although the two promotional videos tell the story of the matter between people and monsters, "Shan Hai Jing" gives the island people a more intimate impression, which is natural.

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Now Bomi and Capcom are holding on, and in the end they have to look at the actual gaming experience to determine the outcome.

Because of the promotional video, players unknowingly compared these two games.

It is still unknown who will win in the end.

Players are all waiting for the release of these two games.

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At present, time accounts for this side of Bomi.

Capcom also wanted to put "Monster Hunter" in a physical store for sale earlier, but the production of Monster Hunter has not been fully completed and is still in urgent work. The game has also caused many bugs and has not yet had time to restrain itself.

According to the Monster Hunter Production Team's estimate, it will be at least 2 months away.

In other words, Monster Hunter will not meet players until at least March.

In this way, the "Shan Hai Jing" that takes the lead in completing its own purification and the game completion rate is higher, seizes the opportunity.

Fortunately, the release platform of "Monster Hunter" does not conflict with "Shan Hai Jing". One is for sale on ps2 and the other is for sale on PC.

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The reason why Bomi chose PC for sale is very simple -

There is no technology for making game consoles in China. Now there are two mainstream game consoles in the world, one is ps2 and the other is xbox.

PS2 is a home game console developed by Sony, the island country, and Xbox is a game console produced by Microsoft in the United States.

The game console technology in China can be said to be very backward and has not even started. Until now, China's game consoles are still in the era of Little Overlords.

The main reasons are, on the one hand, because of the lack of relevant technical talents, and on the other hand, because of technical blockade, especially regarding the hardware technology of gaming consoles, you will not be able to get out of it without a few years of exploration.

For example, Microsoft later entered the game console market and paid more than $5 billion.

Except for the country, no company can spend such a high cost to develop game consoles. What's more, even if it is developed, it is likely to be wasted. This thing is not even a wave without a ten or five years plus a few billion US dollars of investment.

At this time last year, the country banned the import of foreign game consoles.

The reason for banning game consoles is simple -

It is mainly due to the anti-dumping strategy and wants to support the domestic game console market.

On the other hand, it is equivalent to supporting the industrial chain related to game consoles, the most important of which is that one is the chip.

Game consoles are the same as PCs, and they both require their own unique chips.

If the domestic game console industry can be built, there will naturally be demand for chips and parts of various game consoles. In this way, it will drive the common development of upstream and downstream industrial chains.

This area is very beneficial. It not only allows the development of relevant high-end and sophisticated technologies in China, but also revitalizes the market and drives the development of the industrial chain, but also provides many jobs.

Unfortunately, there is no strong and financial company in China doing this, so the game console industry has been in a state of stagnation, which can be said to have let down the above wishes.

Since there is no game console developed by itself in China, coupled with the above game console ban, it is even more impossible to allow foreign game consoles to enter China.

In such an environment, Bomi has no good choice. Cao Yang cannot abandon the Chinese market and develop foreign game console software alone. Doing so goes against his original intention of making games.

Therefore, we can only choose to develop "Shan Hai Jing" into a PC game.

This means that the "Shan Hai Jing" cannot log in to the PS2 platform in a short time.

When the islanders developed PS2, they were able to form patent barriers. The operating system was completely different from PCs, and it can be said to be the product of two platforms.

In this way, the benefits are very obvious-

It is very difficult to pirate or port the game on the PC side for PS. It is equivalent to developing a lot of code from the bottom layer, plus various operations and interface adaptation, which is completely different from the PC side.

After doing these things, you almost rewrite the game.

Therefore, even if you want to port the PC, the game's production team must be ported.

It is easier to transplant from PC to xbox, so Cao Yang considered to consider transplanting xbox after completing the English version of "Shan Hai Jing" for a while.

Xbox is compatible with Windows systems. Because Microsoft itself is the developer, porting Xbox will be more convenient.

However, it still needs to do some processing on the operating system, which is also a big project.

To give a simple example, playing games on a game console is to use a controller to play. The controller keys and rockers are completely different from the keyboard. Therefore, if it was not designed according to the operating mode of the game console at the beginning, it would indeed cause a lot of trouble to transplant later.

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Since Bomi's main distribution platform for "Shan Hai Jing" is a computer, and the main distribution platform for "Monster Hunter" is PS2, then the Monster Hunter production team can breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone will not have a head-on conflict for the time being.

If "Shan Hai Jing" is released on PS2, it will be impossible to fight to the death without blood.

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On February 1, 2004, Bomi's "Shan Hai Jing" was officially released.

Early in the morning, a long queue was already lined up across the country and at the entrances of major software stores on East Island.

Now Bomi’s games have a brand effect and are of guaranteed quality.

When players hear that Bomi produces it, they know that this game is generally not bad.

Especially the stand-alone games produced by Bomi are really better than the other ones.

Even the "Glory of Kings: Prequel", which was criticized by players most last year, is now a reputation counterattack and has become a masterpiece in everyone's mind.

Some island countries even want to negotiate with Shimo and want to animate the Honor of Kings series.

Azhe was originally the owner of an audio-visual product store in the Imperial Capital, but now he has professionally opened a software store.

Since Bomi's Honor of Kings series was hit earlier, Azhe has started to buy Bomi's stand-alone games to sell.

After a while, the shop gradually became richer.

Azhe has now recognized Bomi's brand. As long as the game developed by Bomi, he will definitely put all his savings on it.

Generally speaking, there will be no mistakes. Over time, Azhe has made hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling game software alone, most of which are Tobomi's blessings.

This time, Bomi said he wanted to publish the "Shan Hai Jing", so Azhe contacted Bomi early and bought 5,000 sets of CDs in one go.

According to the wholesale price given by Bomi, Azhe spent 150,000 yuan per CD for 30 yuan, basically emptied all his savings over the past two years.

His wife exclaimed that Azhe was crazy?

But only Azhe knew that if there was someone in this world who would not let him down, then this person must be Boss Cao.

The game developed by Bomi has never disappointed him.

How can I lose money?!

If it weren't for the fact that he had only 150,000 yuan in deposits, he could even squeeze everything into it.

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In the morning, as soon as he walked to the corner of the street, Azhe showed a happy smile on his face.

As soon as he saw the long team of players at the door that could not be seen at first sight, Azhe knew that this time he was stable again.

As soon as the store door was opened, players rushed in like zombies.
To be continued...