Chapter 330 Jedi Counterattack from Europe (Big Chapter)
Wang Zha has been launched, and Western consumers have some Buddhist-like reactions. In fact, it has a lot to do with the West's long-term bad propaganda against Xia Kingdom.
Let me ask you, if carbon crystal memory was produced by an American technology company, how could there be so many difficulties in sales or market development?
But Chen Xiao has always believed that even if it takes a little more time, advanced technological products will definitely be recognized.
Just when AMD and Dell were very anxious, Dell Smart Series finally welcomed its first batch of customers.
A small game company in Germany. To be precise, it cannot be called a company because its size is too small and it does not have the relevant conditions of a company. It would be more accurate to call it a game studio.
a little better.
Farshan is the owner of this game studio.
Farshaan has been playing video games since he was a child. After entering his youth, he began to be exposed to high-quality games from all over the world.
Including Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc.
After graduating with a degree in software engineering, Farshan merged his interests and career and established this game studio.
At the beginning, there were only three people in the game studio. Except for Farshan himself, the other two were his college classmates.
Not to mention, Farshan is really a genius in games. After the establishment of the game studio, several small puzzle games developed by the studio have been bought by large game companies such as Ubisoft.
Market sale.
These small games were quite popular in the PC market, and Farshan got his first pot of gold from them.
But because it is too small and not well-known, the price of the copyright sold is not very high, which can only barely allow Farshan Studio to survive.
The ambitious Farshan's goal is not as simple as survival. He hopes that he can make a game that will amaze the world, and that his game studio can become a game company comparable to Ubisoft.
During this time, Farshan's game studio has expanded to 20 people. They are developing a narrative 3D game with a grand world view.
This game still has requirements for computer configuration.
In terms of 3D graphics, this game is definitely not as good as the advanced 3D games on the market. After all, a small game studio cannot develop its own 3D engine.
But in terms of the richness of the plot and the amount of data, Farshan is very confident in his game!
As a gamer and an entrepreneur, he has always believed that the core of a game must be the world view it creates, rather than those gorgeous killing scenes.
The core of the worldview is the story, and the core of the story is a large amount of data.
The Farshan team started building this game 5 years ago.
In order to create this game, Farshan also spent a lot of money to purchase the most advanced commercial computers in the world for his team at the time.
Unlike the fast-food game production of other game companies, Farshan's game team is like thinking about a masterpiece that will last forever.
As the amount of game data increased, Farshan's team discovered a terrible fact.
Even if the game is finally finished, it will take a lot of time for users just to enter the game.
Because the amount of data is really too large.
Of course, this is not a problem for top-end computers.
Farshan's team believes that excellent games must be adapted to mainstream computers. Expensive computers are definitely not affordable for ordinary people, and they cannot make games popular around the world.
By chance, Farshan's team heard about carbon crystal hard drives and carbon crystal memory, and believed that this was the most important way to solve the problem of slow reading of data due to large amounts of game data.
Finally, Fashaan got a carbon crystal hard drive and carbon crystal memory from a friend, and installed them on his five-year-old computer. He was surprised to find that the game was very smooth in both development and partial operation.
In other words, as long as there is a carbon crystal hard drive and carbon crystal memory, the performance of the computer can be greatly improved, allowing ordinary computers to run world-view games with the largest amount of data, and it is very smooth.
Currently, the development progress of Farshan's game named "Origin" has reached the final stage.
However, as the development progressed, the configuration of the computer purchased 5 years ago could no longer keep up, causing considerable lag, which greatly affected the development progress.
Farshan wants to take advantage of this Christmas shopping holiday to replace his team's computers (currently there are 20 people in his team).
Farshan's initial idea was to find a way to get carbon crystal hard drives and carbon crystal memories from Xia Guo and install them on his team's computers, so that these computers, which were only 5 to 3 years old, would be rejuvenated.
But it is a pity that the production of carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal hard drives is already tight, and Germany strictly cracks down on smuggled products.
Therefore, Fashan had no way to obtain this batch of products from Xia Kingdom.
Helpless, Farshan was ready to randomly purchase a batch of business computers at reasonable prices during the Christmas shopping season.
While he was visiting the PC market with his colleagues in the company, he suddenly saw Dell's new computer.
Nafashaan was very excited that the new Dell computer actually uses carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal hard drive.
Farshan bought 20 units without saying a word.
Moreover, he did not negotiate the price with the store manager at all, paid for after-sales delivery, and finally left.
This wave of operations surprised Dell's Anna and others.
The store manager also hoped that Farshan could say a few words about the purpose of purchasing these computers.
But Farshan seemed very busy and didn't want to talk much.
These 20 computers can be considered as the opening of Dell Berlin sales and experience store.
After the newly purchased computers arrived at the studio, Farshan immediately equipped them with all employees.
And let everyone keep up their efforts and strive to complete the final puzzle of the game before Christmas.
A good horse goes with a good saddle. Farshan's team is not only a team of skilled people, but also people with ideals.
After replacing the equipment, everyone worked more efficiently.
Sure enough, all preparations for the "Origin" game were completed before Christmas.
Farshan's game studio does not have the ability to promote and sell games on its own.
His best way is to sell all or part of the game rights to a large game company.
Because he originally had a cooperative relationship with Ubisoft, Farshane personally took "Origins" to the Ubisoft headquarters in France, hoping to recommend his game.
Ubisoft's game makers are all veterans. After only testing "Origin" once, the company fell in love with this game.
And hopes to purchase the full copyright of the game for 1 million marks.
For Farshan, the copyright of a game can be sold for 1 million, which is already quite good.
But after so many years of accumulation, Farshan has gained some confidence of his own.
He gave his own conditions, only selling half of the copyright. If the sales in a year do not reach 1 million marks, then after one year, all the copyright of the game will belong to Ubisoft.
If it can exceed 1 million, then both parties will share it.
If other companies negotiated with Ubisoft like this, they would have been kicked out by Ubisoft long ago.
But the game "Origins" really surprised game engineers.
He has a very complete worldview and is very extensible.
This means that the "Origin" game can be completely treated as an IP, which means that the potential of this game is very great.
Ubisoft immediately agreed and signed a cooperation agreement with Farshan.
The Christmas shopping season is also the peak sales season for games.
A week before Christmas, Ubisoft grandly launched a new story-based 3D game "Origins".
Although the 3D quality of this game is not particularly good, the plot of the game is very rich and quite attractive.
Ubisoft is already the most well-known game company in the world.
The games launched every year receive strong attention from gamers and the industry.
After the launch of "Origin", people from related industries immediately started testing it, and game players also purchased and tried it.
In addition, in order to promote this game, "Ubisoft" has placed a lot of advertisements online and offline, which makes "Origin" popular.
After 5 years of development, this game is truly a masterpiece.
Soon, reviews from many gaming magazines in Europe were published.
A game reviewer: "This game is great! The plot is so perfect! The world view is perfect! This is the most valuable game I have played in the past few years!"
Editor-in-Chief of a gaming magazine: "The shock of the world view and storyline brought to us by "Origin" is unmatched by modern fast food games. Although its 3D effect is not very good, its storyline perfectly makes up for it all. I
I heard that Ubisoft did not develop this game itself, but purchased the game copyright from a game company."
"The performance of this game is perfect. The only drawback is that the data reading is too slow. Every time you enter a copy in the game, you have to wait a lot of time. The experience of this game is somewhat weakened."
“This game requires quite a lot of configuration! Especially the requirements for CPU memory and hard drive are very high!”
Soon, "Origins" became popular in Europe in almost just one week, and many players in America and Asia even tried it through pirated copies.
Players around the world have the same feeling as players in Europe. Although the picture quality of this game is a bit worse, its world view and storyline are very excellent.
The only drawback is that the game's progress bar will be very long, and the loading time when switching dungeons is quite long.
Of course, top-end computers don't have these problems.
Media such as "Deutsche Zeitung", "The Times" and BBC also paid attention to this game on Christmas Eve.
They found Farshan and interviewed him.
The popularity of the "Origin" game seems to have nothing to do with Dell Europe as a whole, or Changtian Technology.
They didn't pay attention to the news either.
Dell Europe is still anxiously waiting for the sales of smart series computers.
However, its sales have been tepid. Until Christmas, the total sales volume of the Dell Smart Series in the Berlin Experience Store was less than 100 units, which was far from everyone's expectations.
Dell is a little anxious, and some people from the US head office even regret cooperating with Changtian Technology.
Carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal hard drives are indeed very good, but due to Western media's bias against Changtian Technology's products and European users' relatively low awareness of such products, the Smart Series computers have been slow to sell.
AMD is also anxious. If the 3000+ series CPUs still cannot be sold despite the addition of Changtian Technology's latest technology, it will be a very heavy blow to AMD.
During this period, the relevant persons in charge of Dell and AMD kept calling Wang Xiang.
One is to complain, and the other is to discuss countermeasures.
They seem to blame Changtian Technology for the problem of poor product sales.
In this situation, Wang Xiang was speechless.
Wang Xiang reported the relevant situation to Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao was still very calm.
Because Chen Xiao knows that excellent products will be accepted by consumers.
It's just a matter of time.
Dell Smart needs a hot spot. As soon as this hot spot comes out, the entire series of brands will be alive.
It's just that when and where this explosive point will appear, Chen Xiao is not yet able to judge it.
Chen Xiao's prediction was not wrong at all.
Just when Dell, AMD and Shenship were very disappointed with the sales of Dell Smart series in Europe.
The explosion came out.
A number of European capital media interviewed Farshan and asked him about his entire journey as a game developer.
Among them, The Times asked a question to reporters.
"The reputation of the game "Origin" is very good, but many gamers, including game reviewers, have a problem. The data of the game seems to be very huge. There are more than 10 game discs. After installation, the game is as high as 30 G
, it is not very friendly to such a configuration.”
In 2001, the installed base of a game could reach 30 gigabytes, which was quite scary.
After all, if carbon crystal hard drives are excluded, the hard drives in the hands of many users are only 20 or 40G. Excluding some system files and miscellaneous files, they may not even be able to install the game "Origins".
A reporter from "The Times" said: "Is this game only for high-end players? Because only high-end or top-end PCs can play the game smoothly. This computer with ordinary configurations does not seem to be very friendly!"
Fashaan became a little angry when he heard the reporter from The Times asked such a question.
"The games we develop must be aimed at the majority of players, not just the top players."
"We have also paid attention to the problem of long game loading times. We develop and use Dell Smart series computers in cities. This computer only uses AMD3000+ chips. Logically speaking, its chips are worse than the Pentium 4 on the market.
a little."
“But the Dell Smart Series uses a combination of carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal hard drives. Only these two things are needed to exchange data with the CPU with the fastest response, so it is no problem to play games smoothly with this configuration.
!”
"The price of this computer is much cheaper than many brands of high-end computers."
"We still have a computer with a configuration from five years ago, but after we replaced the carbon crystal memory and carbon crystal hard drive, we can play the game "Origins" without any problems!"
"When we make games, we emphasize the connotation of the game, the world view and storyline, rather than the visual sense!"
Farshan was just stating a fact, but he did not expect that because of his interview, the entire European and even global PC market would undergo earth-shaking changes.