Zhu Youxing seemed a little absent-minded these past two days.
He has obviously foreseen that the era of Internet mobile phones will come in the future.
This made him feel slightly powerless.
It seems inevitable that the handheld console will be put on hold for the time being.
It’s not that I have given up completely, but the focus will not be here, but more complex console games with better graphics.
It's easy to burn yourself out by investing too much in a handheld console.
However, he was still absent-minded, and Zhu Youxing still maintained an enthusiastic attitude towards game development and did not relax.
This is your main business, and you definitely cannot give up on this.
Even if the smartphone era arrives in the future, he still wants to develop games.
Video games have become indispensable in this world. Even if video games are impacted by smartphones, at least you won’t go hungry.
But at this time, Zhu Youxing received a special invitation.
It was an invitation from the Millicent Film Selection Committee, inviting him to attend the annual Millicent Film Selection Festival.
Millicent's annual film selection is similar to the Oscars in Zhu Youxing's previous life, but the name is different.
The reason why I was invited was because of a movie last year: Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children.
This movie is of great epoch-making significance. It is an all-CG movie that uses digital technology to create an extremely real world. This not only has a profound impact on the game industry, but also caused quite a shock to the film industry.
Although the technology in this world is developing rapidly and the cultural content is quite rich, there seems to be something strange about this world, that is, the use of new technologies is not as good as in his original world.
If calculated in terms of years, the world should have had top-notch special effects movies like Avatar before the turn of the millennium.
But this world does not, or in other words, no one in this world is willing to invest too much money in full special effects.
Even for super blockbusters, people in this world like to shoot with real swords and guns. Only a few science fiction movies use a lot of special effects.
But when Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children appeared, it seemed that the eyes of people in this world were opened. They realized that full special effects movies could be made like this, and full special effects movies were so enjoyable.
Just after Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children's disc sales exceeded one million and the box office in Japan quickly exceeded 10 billion yen, many media groups including Detroit Film Group quickly followed up and launched new releases in a short period of time.
full special effects film development project, and most of the special effects development software they use is Unreal Engine.
From the perspective of an Unreal Engine provider or a pioneer of new film technology, Bamboo Game is worthy of being invited as a guest on the Millicent Film Selection Program.
At the same time, the letter also mentioned the movie Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children, which has been nominated for Best Overseas Film of the Year, Best Animated Film of the Year, Best Screenplay of the Year, Best Action of the Year, Best Music of the Year, etc.
A series of nominations.
It can also be seen from this that the Millicent Selection Committee recognized this film.
Even though this movie looks a bit average, the technical capabilities in it have to make people raise their eyebrows.
It's really amazing, it's not something ordinary people can do.
The Millicent Film Festival will be held at the end of March. It will be held in Las Vegas, USA. Big figures in the film industry will definitely attend. Bamboo Star is the only one who is not involved in the film industry and has also received a recommendation from the selection committee.
Specially invited people.
This is equivalent to giving Zhu Youxing a lot of face, and Zhu Youxing will definitely go.
If you don't go, you'll seem a bit too unsociable.
Moreover, this is also an opportunity to increase the popularity of your own IP, and Zhuyouxing will naturally not miss it.
Nowadays, Final Fantasy-related peripherals are also selling like hotcakes. The value of the IP is not much worse than that of our own Mario series and Pokémon series. It is very likely that it will become a similarly world-famous big IP in the future. Now it is a good idea to take advantage of this opportunity to promote it.
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After receiving this invitation letter, Zhu Youxing did not hesitate and quickly booked a flight to the United States. He happened to be planning to discuss the development plans for multiple games with the team there.
Following Takeyusei to the United States were several game producers, as well as Airi Hayasawa and Aya Tsukino.
The first class cabin on the plane has been completely occupied by Yusei Electronic Entertainment. Everyone is taking a rest with their eyes closed. Aya Tsukino is sitting on the seat next to Yusei Takezhi, seriously thinking about how to play the new game.
Zhu Youxing was quietly looking at the information on the computer.
The content of the information is related to Myron Keys.
Most of them are some of Myron Keyes’ recent activity tracks.
The company is intensively preparing for new products, and the press conference will probably be held in the near future. I am afraid that once launched, it will become a blockbuster.
Zhu Youxing sighed slightly.
Tsukino Aya noticed Takeyusei's sigh, so she put down the mobile phone she was holding and looked at Takeyusei.
After a few seconds, Takeyusei turned to look at Tsukino Aya, and found that she had been staring at him, and asked doubtfully: "Aya, what's wrong with you?"
"You have something on your mind." Tsukino Aya said.
Zhu Youxing didn't have any need to hide it, he nodded simply and said: "Well, I am indeed a little worried, but it has nothing to do with work."
"Related to Myron Keys? This person is all in your recent computer browsing history."
"It is indeed related. This person is quite powerful."
Tsukino Aya didn't quite understand and said: "Is it very powerful? He seems to have only released a few relatively successful music players. What is this? This thing has no technical content."
"But, this thing is very popular." Zhu Youxing said.
"Hmm... It seems that the total sales volume is only tens of millions. Our latest game console has sold more than 30 million units. How is this comparable? Are you worried that this little thing will threaten the sales of our game consoles?
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"That's not true." Zhu Youxing shook his head.
"Then what are you worried about?"
"Maybe I'm worried about the future."
"Future?" Tsukino Aya became even more confused.
After two seconds of silence, Tsukino Aya looked at Takeyusei seriously and said: "Takeyu, this is not like you normally. You are usually very calm about any upcoming crisis, but this time you seem very powerless.
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"Well, that's true. Maybe it's because I think this time will be much more troublesome than before, so I'm worried."
Zhu Youxing knows best what will happen when the Internet era arrives.
Electronic games will definitely develop rapidly, that's for sure, but the product lines of home consoles and handheld consoles will definitely suffer a huge impact, especially the handheld console industry.
But Zhuyousing just likes this industry, which is really confusing.