Chapter 945 The Ultimate Racing Car

After a long silence, the two companies, Xinlang and Wangyi, finally took action.

All along, Xinlang has always followed Qin Feng's footsteps closely. Whatever Qin Feng puts out, they will put out.

This passivity makes them very embarrassed. Not only was Wang Zhidong embarrassed, but the financial backer AOL was also extremely embarrassed.

Therefore, they have been holding back their ultimate move and want to catch up with Qin Feng.

However, they are only in social media. At present, the functions are very limited, so they are also thinking about turning in other directions. Pure social media, including Qin Feng's side, has not been profitable.

Even if Qin Feng launches a yellow diamond service, it is still based on "QQ Farm".

Therefore, AOL is thinking that the only breakthrough is in games.

After a market assessment, AOL and EA reached a cooperation agreement based on the current computer hardware performance and network conditions.

The cooperation between the two American companies is undoubtedly very natural and even natural.

For EA, although they look down on the online game market for the time being. However, AOL reported back that in the Chinese market, one can earn more than 10 million US dollars a month by relying on a small game "QQ Farm".

This is still somewhat attractive to EA.

Therefore, EA also temporarily established an online game department within the company to cooperate with AOL to develop online games.

Of course, the Chinese market is currently as famous as the United States as a global Internet user market. Especially with the large number of people in China, the market is very large. Although China is still a developing country, it has great market prospects and great potential.

Therefore, EA has also developed an online game specifically for China, which is also one of its popular games: "Need for Speed".

"Need for Speed", as one of the most popular racing games in the world, can be said to be very popular. It’s one of the best memories for almost every player.

Different from Japan's "Ridge Racer", "Need for Speed" directly brings all kinds of cool sports cars into the game, allowing players to easily have their sports car dreams.

This is its success.

Released in 1995, it has always been a favorite racing game among car fans.

The first generation, released in 1995, had no name, so it was called "Need for Speed". It was originally released on 3do. As for the 3do, it was a top-notch game console at the time. Its performance was far behind Nintendo's SFC and Sega's MD. It can be said that before the PS and SS came out, it was the king of home game consoles.

It was released in 1993, but the price was too high. The price of $699 makes all players stunned.

This was 1993, and a game console sold for $699. That was robbery. You know, Sega's DC game console, which will be released this year, is only priced at $199.

This is 1998. Five years ago, a home game console sold for $699, which was outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that 3do's game consoles are expensive, but the games are cheap, only about $3. This made game manufacturers unable to survive, so they all changed jobs and left the 3do platform.

In the end, 3do became a platform for various h games. And at that time, most h games were real-person games. Although the price of the game is low, the cost of supporting this kind of game is also low. Just get a shell of the game and find some actresses to shoot some restrictive scenes, and that's it.

But this model eventually led to the collapse of 3do. Its annual sales were only 125,000 units. At that time, whether it was Sega's SS or Sony's PS, it could sell more than 200,000 units in a single day.

Therefore, "Need for Speed" was quickly ported to the PC by EA.

Of course, the computer performance of PCs at that time was still very poor. Moreover, at that time EA was cooperating with the professional car magazine RoadTrack, and all the car performance included were very professional.

This is also the first generation whose data is completely comparable to that of real cars. But this kind of professionalism also leads to some cars with poor performance in the game that have no sense of gaming experience at all.

Therefore, "Need for Speed" is not too successful, and of course, it is not too unsuccessful. After all, the capital was guaranteed and a small profit was made.

This second generation in 1997 is also a transitional version.

Before this, it was sold under the dos version. By 1997, it was a world of win systems. Therefore, "Need for Speed ​​2" is also tepid in adapting to the win system.

Nothing too great. After all, the game itself is not optimized well enough.

But, soon. This year, the newly released "Need for Speed ​​3" is also the first "Need for Speed" series game with a suffix name, "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit", which is very popular.

With the help of the newly released more mature win98 operating system, EA's deeper understanding of the win system, optimization of driectx, and the superior performance of voodoo2, this generation has become popular.

Currently, "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit" is the most popular racing game in the world.

It has been well received by the gaming community, with almost all gaming magazines giving it rave reviews.

In later generations, it was also honored as EA's most successful "Need for Speed" game.

In the game, in addition to normal racing, players can also choose a police car pursuit mode. In the police car pursuit mode, players will not only be chased by police cars, but can also drive police cars. Players can use helicopters and land support to intercept illegal racers during pursuits.

It can be said that the fun of the game becomes rich all of a sudden. The entire game has become extremely cool and the gameplay is diverse.

It can be said that "Need for Speed" truly became famous in this generation.

The scary thing about the cooperation between EA and AOL is that AOL persuaded EA to develop the now popular "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit" into an online game version.

This requires considerable courage. Especially for EA, a lot of money will be lost by converting a game with booming sales into an online game.

After all, when you launch the online version, its stand-alone version will definitely be affected.

Fortunately, for the sake of trade-off, the online version is currently only launched for the Chinese market. This is to help America Online seize the Chinese market. At the same time, it is also an attempt by ea.

If it succeeds and makes money, then corresponding European and American versions may be launched. After all, all it will need is a transplant then.

As for this online version, it is very simple to change. According to the characteristics of online games, it was changed to upgrade. Players continue to race cars to upgrade the cars and turn them into more powerful cars.

At the same time, players can choose their faction. Drag racers and the police.

From the beginning, players need to choose different camps to challenge the game. This introduction of camp mode made the game a hit right from the start.