Some companies are ridiculed for being too lazy, while others are always praised for being too lazy. The difference is quite large.
In this world, as video games become more and more popular, some companies have begun to engage in more and more neglected activities.
Because this is indeed an opportunity for old games to generate revenue again.
Many game companies watch as Yuxing Electronic Entertainment adds support for old games to new machines every time, and then wins the cheers and support of players, making them mistakenly think that these players really love these old games and are willing to pay for them.
Pay for old games.
However, this is not the case.
The fact is that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has always provided free support to players who have purchased these games.
As long as you own an old game cartridge, you can go to a nearby Yuxing Electronic Entertainment official physical store to exchange it for a digital version of the same version of the old game for free.
Of course, in order to prevent players from exchanging goods with each other and selling second-hand items, Youxing Electronic Entertainment will take back these physical cartridges.
Some players are reluctant to throw away these old games when they see this. Anyway, the prices of these supported old games are not high, so it doesn't matter if they just buy them again.
It is with this mentality that the old games of Youxing Electronic Entertainment can occasionally regain their vitality.
Ultimately, it's not that these old games are really that attractive in this era, it's entirely the nostalgia of some old players.
As long as they are cheap enough, they are willing to spend a little more money on these old games.
However, other game companies do not have this awareness. Most of their old games that have been discarded have almost no modifications. They even directly take the original versions and throw them into existing game consoles and sell them again, and the prices are often not cheap. Players are naturally not fools.
How is it possible to buy these games.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the money to buy modern and popular game masterpieces?
Among the companies that are trying to make a fool of themselves, there are inevitably some who have been ridiculed by players, and have sworn that they will never buy these games.
Some game companies saw that there was no profit to be gained from doing nothing, so they gradually gave up this method.
So until now, only Youxing Electronic Entertainment has been insisting on supporting old games. Non-first-party games, Youxing Electronic Entertainment, cannot interfere.
But now, Zhuyouxing plans to slightly change the old game's way of making things worse.
Since the problem we are facing now is that once old games are logged into a new game console, it may cause instability in the new game console.
On the one hand, in order to persevere and guarantee their commitment, on the other hand, they also want to bring these games back to life, so Zhuyouxing decided to carry out a reset plan.
This reset is a program re-encoding based on the original game framework and a high-definition game quality.
For example, games with 8BIT graphics in the FC era can add some new special effects in this era.
Of course, these require some costs.
But actually it’s really not that difficult to do.
Unless the source code is lost, the development of the game will encounter some difficulties that cannot be easily reproduced.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment has always attached great importance to this aspect and has never allowed the code of its game works to be lost.
All game source codes released so far are completely stored in the company's game database, and some of these games have also become part of the Unreal Engine.
It is not difficult to completely reset some games that are suspected of having vulnerabilities. Even if the program development of each game is not difficult, if the number increases, it will be somewhat of a big project.
Fortunately, Zhu Youxing was not in a hurry. He arranged for some of the idle old employees in the previous mobile game department to be responsible for this matter together with a hundred newly recruited employees.
The engineering development department is responsible for constantly testing the compatibility and stability of each old game. Once it is determined that a certain game will have an impact on the system, the new team will take out the source code of the game and re-follow the original game code.
Then re-create it on the new game development platform, and then add some new gameplay methods to the game.
And all of this does not require players to spend extra money.
This is defined by Zhuyouxing as the new reset plan for the game.
For example, the old Super Mario can actually be upgraded to some extent in the background and some special effects.
The performance of current game consoles can fully satisfy the casual tossing and upgrading of old games.
Of course, at the same time, these old games will also retain an original version, because some players are really nostalgic and like the original feeling of old games.
Let’s go back to the first Super Mario. If Zhu Yusei was asked to play an 8-bit style Super Mario with more cool special effects, he might not be able to adapt to it, because he has already been used to the first generation of Super Mario.
Sudden changes in the style of painting may not really be appropriate.
The purpose of adding special effects is to see if it can increase the audience of some new players.
The team that got this task was quite happy.
There is a group of cultural relic restorers in the world who specialize in restoring some damaged cultural relics and then present them to the world in a complete manner.
And what they are doing now is similar to that of cultural relic restorers.
They are also very happy to restore some old games that have been considered antiques for more than ten years.
And when they learned that Zhuyouxing did not intend to make any extra money from players in this regard, they admired it from the bottom of their hearts.
However, Zhu Yuxing simply thinks that it would be detrimental to his style if he used this reset game to make extra money. Nowadays, he really looks down on such a small amount of money.
If he really wanted to make money, he would make more money by creating a card-drawing game like Hearthstone than by flipping all the games and raising the price.
Just think of the reset of these old games as a boost to the gaming industry.
When these employees saw that Zhuyouxing was so confident, they worked even harder. They were always able to complete the reset of a series of old games as soon as possible, and they also restored them in a very high-quality state.
The picture quality is then improved to high definition.
Strictly speaking, the old game and the reset game can be regarded as two different games in terms of image quality improvement alone.
Seeing that the results were good, Zhu Yuxing was relieved to hand over the reset plan to this team, and the rest of the switch development became extremely smooth. If there are no other surprises, the switch should be released next year.
Not a big problem.
At that time, Uncharted Sea will also be released as the first game.