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Faced with the sudden reversal of comments on the Internet, Tenghua's "City in the Sky" project team was a little confused.

Everyone praised them like a flower before, why did they suddenly turn upside down?

Although the sales volume seems to have an impact at present, it is not large, and it still maintains a very considerable upward trend.

But the key is this word of mouth, why did it suddenly collapse?

Before that, they even thought about what they were going to do continuously.

In comparison, Yang Chen is not surprised that "Castle in the Sky" has gained a reputation of Waterloo.

Because the first part of this game is really good, if you take the first half away, this game is actually a very good 3A masterpiece.

It might not be great, but it's not too bad either.

But the most critical problem is that the contrast between before and after is too great.

Players may not have such great expectations for this game at the beginning, but when playing the game, they find that this game feels different!

This is a masterpiece!

So the expected value was raised all of a sudden.

But after the surprise in the early stage, the players discovered that the follow-up part, except for the content of the art map, is basically a game of changing skins.

Various side missions and collection elements are very similar to the previous missions.

For example, they all go to a certain place to kill monsters, and then take resources back to exchange business and give you rewards.

And the plots of these branch lines are not well connected with the main line, or connected with each other with the background worldview. It feels like it is implanted for such a branch line and such a collection element.

In fact, it can't be said to be bad, including in the game, Yang Chen can also see that Tenghua has implanted RPG development elements, basically for the purpose of giving players a sense of motivation.

But the key is that the first half is super god, and the second half is mediocre, which is simply unacceptable for players.

But after all, the quality of the game is not that bad. For some players,

In fact, it is not unacceptable, so although the word-of-mouth of players is not as good as it was when it was first released.

But it still maintains a 50-50 rhythm, but this is obviously a bit uncomfortable for Tenghua.

I thought it was a hit, but I climbed halfway up the stairs and fell down again.

It's just uncomfortable, but Tenghua also feels that they have succeeded. Although the subsequent sales have declined a lot, they are still growing.

Compared with the resources invested in this project, it is already very good.

"This sales volume feels like it should be able to fight Nebula Games' upcoming "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", right?"

In the conference room of Tenghua Games, the people in charge of the "Castle in the Sky" project team were half happy and half disappointed.

The joy is that the project's achievements have exceeded their previous expectations, but the disappointment is that the project still failed to become a blockbuster IP after all.

But looking at the total sales of "Castle in the Sky" so far, they have an idea that they might be able to take Xingyun games down?

If it was a game on the PC platform of Xingyun Games, they definitely had no idea.

But this is not a game on the PC platform, but a game exclusive to the Switch handheld.

And referring to the original "Super Mario: Odyssey", although it also caused a lot of waves in the game circle, and has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide so far, which is equivalent to one out of every three switches installed with "Super Mario" "O: Odyssey" and refer to the possession of physical cassettes, and Xingyun games have not prohibited second-hand distribution, and this number may increase.

But this sales volume is accumulated over time!

Moreover, although the global sales of Switch have reached nearly 30 million shipments, there are still too few players compared to the PC platform.

In addition, these players are not all the audience of Nebula Games, including showing potential on the Switch platform, and after logging in to many third parties, fans of third-party game manufacturers have transferred to this platform.

So maybe The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild didn't sell very much in its first week?

And maybe the game isn't fun?

After all, it is really hard to imagine what kind of open-world games with rich content can be made on the weak platform of switch.

Maybe "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" made Yang Chen and Xingyun Games fall from the altar?

This is not impossible!

An open world game with a cartoon style theme, a game developed on the switch platform with extremely limited functions.

It felt like a broken leg and a hand.

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As the days passed, Tenghua was still promoting "Castle in the Sky", but the popularity had been replaced by another game.

That was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and two weeks after its announcement, the Nebula game was officially unlocked.

Although it is said to be an exclusive game on the Switch platform, due to the influence of Xingyun Games and Yang Chen, many players who do not have a Switch also immediately paid attention to the major live broadcast platforms.

On Tuesday, after get off work, Chen Yao left the salary of 300 yuan just paid today, and deposited the rest in his bank card.

Not for anything else, but to buy the "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" that Nebula Games just launched today, and there is no direct order online.

Because there is a video game store on a street not far from his rental house, he had already told the boss in advance to reserve a "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" cassette.

On the bus on the way to the video game city, I saw a little brother next to me who was searching the map on his mobile phone. The location shown on it happened to be the video game city he was going to, and in his other hand he was holding the switch. Storage bag, seeing this scene, Chen Yao couldn't help but feel a little surprised and happy to meet like-minded people.

"Coincidentally, did you also go to the video game city to buy Zelda?" Chen Yao stepped forward to talk.

"That's right! Did you also go to buy games?" The other party also seemed a little surprised.

"Yeah, I've been waiting for a long time, but I just don't know if it's fun or not."

"The game of Xingyun Games is definitely nothing to say, and watching the trailer is also very interesting, but fortunately, the game's first release date is today. If it were a few days earlier, I guess I don't have enough money to play the first release."

"Same, same, luck is really good, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" was released just after the salary was paid today." Chen Yao also smiled happily.

Feel lucky!

For some other games, sometimes when they are released, because the money for the month has been spent, or the economy that can be spent in the plan has been spent, it is not enough to buy the game, and it is impossible to be the first batch of first-time players.

But Xingyun Games can play the first game every time, which is simply too happy.