After yoo released its own first-person shooter game, they also launched their own racing game.
Need for Speed Part 5 added some gameplay features such as the later very successful police chase, story mode, etc., while Yoo was more inclined to compete in real competition arenas.
Obviously, the game studio has realized that it cannot compete head-on with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. Anyway, racing games are not just about street racing. We can definitely make another track-type racing game.
Before the game was released, Changweiyu carried out a large-scale publicity as usual, especially a very high-profile announcement of cooperation with well-known racing events, so that you can play the most classic racing events. They also spent a lot of money on this.
Obtaining the license for a small amount of money obviously wants to replicate the success of FIFA football games.
However, when the first week of sales of the game ended, the results were not satisfactory, and could even be said to be a bit bad.
Sales of 320,000 in the first week were more than cut in half compared to the sales of the previous two games.
On various social media, player feedback is also relatively lackluster. Most players seem not to be interested in racing games, and even though the game has been heavily promoted, it has not achieved very good results.
After the first week of sales, Changweiyu immediately invested more money in publicity, hoping to win word of mouth in this way.
But the results are still very bad.
Suri Electronics also had high hopes for Yoo's racing game, allocating more resources to the game and advertising the game several times for free, but they did not expect that the sales of the game would be so low.
This is a game with an investment cost of over 100 million US dollars, and the sales volume is simply not enough.
It is a very bad result for both Surui Electronics and yoo.
At this time, the game review media also began to take the initiative to stand up. Among them, the most authoritative Kazuo Murakami published his own article.
Everyone knows that he is a die-hard supporter of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, but this does not affect his professional judgment.
He was one of the first people to play video games, and he has experienced countless games from junior high school to now.
His evaluation of this racing game is that it is a dessert game that can be played, but it does not stop there. Murakami Kazuo himself is willing to give this game a three and a half star rating.
This is already very good compared to the games produced by Surui Electronics' game consoles in previous years.
After all, previous games didn’t even have a passing grade.
It’s pretty good to be able to pass and move up now.
But players are a group of users who will never be satisfied, and they will endlessly desire better games.
And once you experience better games, you will start to feel bored with some relatively low-quality games.
This situation has intensified after the release of Need for Speed 5 by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.
On the day when Yoo's racing game was released, not many players went to the store to buy the game. At least you didn't have to wait in line for too long to buy the game.
The release of Need for Speed 5 is completely different.
For example, in Japan and the United States, players continue to line up in tents in front of stores on the eve of the annual release according to tradition.
In Europe, as the installed base of gs1 consoles increases, the number of players of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is also growing rapidly.
Players in Europe are also queuing up quite enthusiastically, which is very obvious when compared to yoo’s racing games.
Anyone who pays a little attention to the gaming industry can tell which game is more popular through this kind of on-site sales.
"I really want to know now why Need for Speed seems to be more popular. You have vowed before that you can express racing games in another way and achieve overtaking in corners!"
Nagao Yu is an operator. He is not a creator, but he has a unique vision. At least he can think of creating a media group of his own to expand his influence.
But as he is not the creator, he cannot understand those game development issues.
Previously, after his development team proposed the idea of a racing game to him, he thought it was quite reasonable. At least he himself felt that he was more interested in a more realistic racing game.
And after the success of the football game, he felt that it was even more important to obtain professional licensing.
However, all his efforts and investments have yielded little results.
He didn't understand, really didn't understand, why this was the result.
Now he could only question the person in charge of game development who had given him assurance before.
I have given you the best development environment, but you get such a result, which is completely unacceptable.
"President, we didn't do a good enough job, I'm very sorry."
The person in charge of the game who was being questioned didn't seem to be in particularly good spirits at this time and seemed a little tired.
The pace of their game development was very fast during this period. In order to catch up with the progress, he almost didn't sleep. After the game was released, he thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that Nagao Yu kept calling him over.
, one moment he was in a meeting, and the next he was studying how to increase sales. He really couldn't stand it any longer.
Not only that, there are some other reasons that really make him feel depressed. One of them is that since the development of racing games, the salary has always been paid later, and the salary has also been significantly lower. Previously, Changwei Yu
It was also promised that each of them would be rewarded with bonuses after the release, but it has not been mentioned again.
Another reason is that since the advent of the Internet era, pure stand-alone electronic games do not just end after the game is released. Now the game also requires continuous follow-up service support after the game is released.
Because the construction period of this racing game was too tight, just to be released earlier than Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's Need for Speed, this also indirectly caused some problems at the bottom of the game itself. He personally was called by Nagaoyu every day for meetings.
, the people under him are not idle either, they are fixing loopholes every day.
All of this made the person in charge more and more exhausted, so he seemed a little weak when answering questions.
Nagao Yu was obviously not satisfied with this answer. He said sternly: "Immediately think of a way to remedy this. Can you launch more models? Can you launch more tracks?"
"This... there may be some difficulties. The development team hasn't had much rest yet. They have been urgently fixing game loopholes. They haven't had any time to relax after the game was released, and now they don't have much time to add game content."
"Just work overtime for me."
ps: Sorry readers, I had a lot of work on the weekend yesterday, so I fell asleep immediately after get off work. I will make up for the chapters immediately and will add more chapters today to compensate.