Number One Game Designer

Leaving "GTA" aside, Fang Xi thinks it is better to arrange other things for SNAIFKL first, but before that, the first thing to do under Hongyi's banner is...

"SNAIFKL is history, you guys are Ghost Car Studio now!"

Fang Xi sat in Auger's villa and pondered for two minutes before deciding on the name.

"Ghost Vehicle? I like the name, it's a bit like Ghost Rider, I like the feel!"

Ghost Rider, Soul Chariot, is a relatively well-known movie, mainly because it is cool enough.

Chen Yu explained on the side:

"The ghost car comes from Chinese myths and legends. Legend has it that it is a monster bird with nine heads. Its figure covers the sky and the sun, and it is very powerful."

Considering the cultural barrier, Chen Yu didn't talk about specific legends, and these people may not be interested in talking about them. And sure enough:

"Is this bird powerful?" Dillon asked.

"Is this bird handsome?" Ono asked.

Fang Xi nodded, and then greeted with cheers from Dillon and Aonuo, Fang Xi was a little confused, what about it? Suddenly remembered, Fang Xi pulled Aoge beside him and asked:

"What does your earliest name SNAIFKL mean? I checked and couldn't find the meaning of this word."

"Oh, this." Ogg drank a glass of beer and his cheeks were a little blush. He started drinking before the sun went down. Fang Xi suspected that this group of people must really have Nordic blood.

"When we were founded, no one could think of a good name, so we have used the letters that Dillon pressed Ono's face on the keyboard at that time."

Okay, this is very Nordic, Fang Xi is silent, this is "True Face Rolling Keyboard".

At this time, Chen Yu, who was next to him, answered the phone and came over and whispered to Fang Xi:

"Boss, Director You's phone call, Japan's Nintendo has preliminary cooperation intentions."

Fang Xi asked Aoge for a small room, and declined Aoge's invitation for a drink in the middle, saying that the way this group of people celebrated was to drink together.

After closing the door of the small room, Fang Xi shook his head: "It's better to call them Asgard Studio."

Then he sat down and said, "Tell me, what did Xiao Lan say?"

Chen Yu didn't dare to neglect, he turned on the pad he was carrying, and Xiao Lan also sent him an email at the same time - why didn't he send it to Fang Xi? Because Xiaolan knows who is the most reliable of the two.

"Two hours ago, Nintendo of Japan sent us a preliminary exchange application. They hoped to send a delegation to Beiyang City, and wanted to reach a cooperation with us in the field of games. Their initial goals include the stand-alone version of Left 4 Dead—" —Does not include the battle royale DLC, the portal, and hope to be able to try our DEMO version of "Origin of Everything."

Fang Xi tapped on the armrest of the chair, the mainframe... It is impossible to say that he is not envious, but the current Hongyi really has no spare time to develop the mainframe.

Although Hongyi's current reputation is boundless, if it can have its own platform, Fang Xi estimates that it will not be a problem to at least double all the income so far. This brings us to the difference between the PC and host environments.

The biggest problem on the PC is the uneven operating environment. Taking graphics cards as an example, among the best-selling graphics cards in 2018, the performance of the top 1080ti and the tenth best-selling graphics card 1060 can at least double, let alone earlier ones. GTX 9-series and even 7-series graphics cards. To put it bluntly, it is because the attribute of games is not prominent on PCs. Therefore, although the player base is large, there is no unified development environment, and there are many brands of graphics cards and CPUs. The game development department is just different. The optimization of the environment will cost a lot of money.

As for the console, although the configuration alone may not be able to match the top of the PC, but with a unified operating environment, developers can optimize the game to the extreme, and the experience will not be much worse. The game console is also a conventionally high-priced area in terms of game prices. Developers can make more profits, and a generation of consoles can last for a long time.

Developers don’t need to make too many changes, and an environment can be used for a long time. Looking at PCs again, how many years have GTX 10 series graphics cards been popular? It has to be said that the replacement of PCs is too fast, and the small developers have not yet passed the pain of this environment, and the new environment is coming again.

So Fang Xi has always hoped to have his own host, but although he has made a lot of money now, how can the money be invested in the host? It's just a drop in the bucket.

So there is no reason to refuse Fang Xi's invitation from Nintendo:

"Agree and tell the other party that we are also looking forward to working with them."

Chen Yu wrote it down and replied to Xiaolan later, asking Xiaolan to formally invite Japan.

"Although it's only in the early stages..." Fang Xi tapped his fingers: "However, studios related to platform transplantation can also be recruited. It's a matter of hurrying up sooner rather than later."

Chen Yu made another note.

Thinking about the mainframe, Fang Xi couldn't help feeling a little bored when he thought about the sales channels of physical CDs that Hongyi hadn't involved at all. If Hongyi developed its own mainframe, it would basically start from scratch, a closed system, security, and confidentiality. , a brand-new operating method, etc., are basically the same as the difficulty of making Apple from scratch for Mr. Qiao. Not only the cost of research and development, but also the cost of time is a big problem.

"Chen Yu, tell me." Fang Xi said softly, "How difficult is it for us to acquire a company that owns the mainframe?"

Before Chen Yu could speak, Fang Xi laughed out loud and shook his head.

Although there is no specific investigation in this time and space, but I remember that in the last time and space, there are all giants who develop consoles: Microsoft and Sony are not small companies, and their main business is not in games. Games are just incidental. Both of them have a market value of several thousand. The market value of Nintendo, the only company mainly engaged in the game business, is close to 100 billion US dollars. Even though the game industry in this time and space has shrunk compared with the previous time and space, it is still a giant. Hongyi is just a rookie in the game field with a history of more than a year. The current profit has not exceeded 10 billion, and it is still too early to talk about acquisitions.

Since there is no hope for the time being, it is better to work together to make the company bigger.

"Let Lu Wanqi form a special reception team to facilitate cooperation with Nintendo, and it is best to get technical support for host transplantation."

Chen Yu nodded and made another note.

Although many people said that Fang Xi was incomprehensible, Chen Yu admired Fang Xi quite a lot. He was in the third year this year, and Fang Xi was four years younger than him. He was indeed a junior, but what?

It can be regarded as starting from scratch, and everyone who joined Hongyi knows that Fang Xi only got a shell after taking over the company. At that time, the company was able to pay employees another month's salary in addition to debts. In Fang Xi's hands, Hongyi owed the bank three million yuan to now making a net profit of billions of dollars a year. As far as Chen Yu knows, there are many venture capitalists in the outside financial world who are begging for Hongyi to go public. As long as it goes public, Fang Xi's net worth can at least double tenfold and become the youngest billionaire worth hundreds of billions.

But Fang Xi never seemed to think about this, and his eyes seemed to be always on places he couldn't see, so Chen Yu admired Fang Xi even more. It's easy to understand what you want, but it's commendable to be able to persist in your heart, and you are still a young man who has just left school.