Chapter 672 576 What? Pioneer Engine Is Going to Be Open Source? !

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News related to the E3 electronics show was sent back to Neon the next day. With the help of the current Internet, it spread all over the world almost on the same day.

E3 is a world-class electronics exhibition, and the pre-show press conference is the highlight. You can see classic games from major game manufacturers around the world and learn about future trends.

It can be said to be a window into the future.

And every game company is not stingy about displaying it. It can even be said that they spare no effort to display their company's future products. The purpose is to provide higher competitiveness and at the same time make their products sell better.

The E3 electronics show is also equivalent to a world-class promotion platform. When the live broadcast industry has not yet emerged, TV advertisements and exhibitions are excellent advertising channels.

After browsing this year's game products, players first let out a lot of sighs. They just felt that the games from these game companies were a bit lackluster.

"Why do everyone seem to be resting on their laurels? Many games are sequels to previous games. Have they never thought of developing some new games?"

"Times have changed, and the competition in the game industry is fierce now. Many fields have been subdivided. It is not that easy to innovate. Who knows whether the money you spend will be wasted?

Making existing finished works can not only sell a wave of emotions, but also build a fan base.

Old players will also support a wave of support. Under such circumstances, priority must be given to developing a sequel to the game, at least it is a safe one. "

"Hey, things are going downhill. Don't any of today's game manufacturers have any enterprising spirit?"

"Foreign games have a lot of innovations. I saw that EPIC also launched a new Unreal Engine this time and used it to make "Unreal Tournament."

"It seems that new companies have this kind of confidence, because they have not formed an established scale, and they don't have to care so much. Instead, they can give it a go and make the products they like and want."

"Tsk, tsk, I don't even know what to say. If this continues, I feel like one day we will be surpassed by the rising stars, the established companies like Neon."

"It's not that easy. I'm not stupid. You can build barriers through accumulated advantages. Just like Rentian did in the past, hold on to the platform and let those who come after you jump on it."

"However, we didn't hold on in the end. Weren't we still captured by Sony and Pokeni?"

"Hahaha, in this era, whether it changes or remains unchanged, it is still a problem."

But when everyone saw the relevant content of P Club, their eyes lit up again.

"Wow, pokeni is great. It has come up with so many creative games at once."

"It is indeed my favorite game company. What I admire most about Qing Zhiyuan is this. Even if the company has reached the top scale in the world, it never thinks of stopping and taking a rest, and keeps running forward."

"The games and new game consoles brought by P Club this time are too powerful, right?

Just seeing Spirited Away was enough to shock me, but I didn’t expect that Harry Potter would be shown later...

What’s even more frightening is that the SDS handheld console is so beautifully made. I was a little moved when I saw it. "

"Seriously, you must buy SDS. Think about it, what is the concept of being able to play Monster Hunter on a handheld console."

"Is the 3D era going to start on handheld consoles too?!"

Only then did everyone sigh in surprise.

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If pokeni goes public, the stock should surge by now, just like Nvidia in the future.

As long as good news related to technology is released, the stock price will rise sharply.

According to the evaluation of third-party professional institutions, pokeni’s total value is now close to more than 200 billion US dollars.

Many people are eagerly looking forward to the listing of P Company.

For example, Masayoshi Son.

As soon as the E3 electronics show ended, Masayoshi Son called.

"Congratulations, pokeni really stole the show at E3 this time. I read the content of the press conference and found that SDS really has great potential and will definitely be a big seller in the future."

"Haha," Qing Zhiyuan responded with a smile, "President Sun, you have to thank me. Our game console is just a condensed version of the console and some improvements have been made on the basis of the previous console.

Technical aspects are nothing. "

This is obviously just Qing Zhiyuan's own cliché, because anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance how difficult it is to develop to this level.

"Then it's time for P-net to go public," Son Zhengyi said earnestly. "If P-NET goes public, it is estimated that the market value will exceed 60 billion US dollars. After the IPO, you can quickly expand to more than double the size. "

"Well..."

Qing Zhiyuan was a little confused. He touched his eyebrows with his hand and thought:

I used to go public to raise funds, but the problem was—

Now pokeni doesn't seem to be short of money. It can almost maintain a balance of payments, and it can also carry out certain expansion and research and development.

For example, the research and development of smartphones is now enough covered by P’s earning power.

So under such circumstances, is it still necessary to go public?

"President Sun, you know that the 1211 incident happened last year, and the global stock market is still in a slump. I think it's not wise to enter the market at this time, right?"

Masayoshi Son frowned fiercely on the other end of the phone.

Doesn't he know this?

It's because SoftBank lost money, so Masayoshi Son thought that he could make a big push, and after cashing out successfully, he could also relieve the urgent need.

However, not being listed does not mean that the equity cannot be traded. Masayoshi Son holds 30% of P-NET's equity, which can actually be traded.

He himself is not sure whether to sell it at this time.

"Well, that's right."

Masayoshi Son smiled on the other end of the phone, "Then let's wait and see, the stock market will definitely recover. I have received some relevant news, Qingsang, don't worry too much."

After hanging up the phone, Qing Zhiyuan looked at his phone with some amusement.

Good guy, it's obviously you who should be comforted, but you have to comfort others instead.

President Masayoshi Son is really too cute.

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After the announcement of the SDS handheld game console, although the specific release date has not been determined, there are a lot of visitors every day.

Many game manufacturers call the operation department of Paradox every day, hoping to seek cooperation.

Having missed the DC game platform, you can't miss the handheld game console again.

Qingzhiyuan is also very open, saying that the handheld game console also supports some functions of the Dandelion game platform, and you are fully welcome to cooperate.

Qingzhiyuan welcomes any game company from any country in the world to release games on the handheld game console.

The premise is that as long as you are a regular game company and the game products submitted can pass the company's review, there will be no problem.

The right to review is equivalent to the right to mint coins to a certain extent. Pokeni has become one of the three giants with the right to speak with the continuous operation and accumulation of the Dandelion game platform.

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This wave is simply a model of win-win cooperation.

Pokeni has reached cooperation with more than a hundred game companies and stated that the Dandelion game platform is open to the world.

When the players heard this news, they were almost blown away.

"Wow! Is Pokeni so powerful this time? I feel that the Dandelion Game platform is going to take off! How come there are so many games all of a sudden?"

"Not many yet? They said [coming soon], do you understand? But I admire President Qing very much, he was able to negotiate with so many game companies on his own."

In addition to negotiating with Japanese game companies, Pokeni is also negotiating with game companies in Europe and the United States, hoping that they can put their games on the Dandelion Game platform for sale.

This process will take a very long time, and Qing Zhiyuan is currently handed over to Iwata Satoru's strategic department to handle it.

The number of games that have landed on the Dandelion Game platform has gradually increased, and the user circle will also become larger and larger.

In general, no matter which game manufacturer cooperates with Pokeni, as long as they are willing to put the game on the Dandelion Game platform, it is basically a win-win process.

At the beginning, this process will be long and difficult, but as the Dandelion Game platform continues to grow, the works of other game companies in the world will surely slowly converge here.

This is the power of the platform.

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In addition to building a world-class platform, Qing Zhiyuan said he would add fuel to the fire of the world.

Let the flame of Paradox burn more fiercely.

So he called Akanishi Ken, the head of the programming department, to the president's office.

"It's like this, I plan to open source the Pioneer Engine." Qing Zhiyuan said directly to the point.

Akanishi Ken was stunned, like a wooden chicken, his eyes motionless, and he felt that his whole life was wrong.

What the hell is this?

Open source? !

Is the president's brain broken?

Is he kidding?

He stared at Qing Zhiyuan for a long time until he confirmed that the president was not joking.

His whole worldview collapsed.

"What!? President, what are you talking about? Why do you suddenly want to open source Pioneer 2? Do you know how much effort we put into this thing? How many days and nights have we spent?!

And the effect of Pioneer 2 is really very good. We can completely rely on this game to lead the entire era and crush similar products.

Why open source Pioneer 2?"

Akanishi Ken could not understand Qing Zhiyuan's decision either intellectually or emotionally.

If it were any normal person, it would probably not understand Qing Zhiyuan's idea.

At the beginning of this year, NVIDIA released the new Geforce 4 series graphics cards, which marked that the current graphics card level has been greatly improved and entered a new stage.

And at this speed, Qing Zhiyuan has no doubt that NVIDIA in this timeline will be more advanced than in the previous life.

So, with the hardware upgraded, Pokeni's Pioneer engine will naturally be updated.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's idea, in the future, it will be replaced at a rate of about 2 years, until the growth of hardware level begins to enter a bottleneck period, otherwise the replacement speed of Pioneer engine will always be very fast.

The purpose is to pursue the best performance effects so that the game can be at the forefront of the times.

After the Trailblazer 2 engine came out, in terms of special effects rendering, it has basically reached the level of "Automata".

What an awesome engine this is?

Just relying on its technical crushing will make Pokeni invincible in future games. It is like King Arthur's curry stick, the holy sword given by the Lake Fairy, which can kill everything.

But President Qing actually wanted to give it up.

Isn't this crazy or what?

If Pokeni were a kingdom, Kendu Akanishi had the urge to overthrow the royal power.

"Listen to me," Qing Zhiyuan thought for a long time and comforted, "Open source is for the better development of our company. You have to show confidence. Even if we open source Trailblazer 2, won't we continue to do so?" Is it iteration and R&D?

After making Trailblazer 2 open source, I believe our team will be able to maintain its leadership in the engine, and I hope to release Trailblazer 3 next year."

"This..." Akanishi Ken doubted his ears.

What the hell did I hear.

He suddenly had the urge to give up resistance. The president open sourced Pathfinder 2 just to let the brothers develop Pathfinder 3?

This is not the result Ken Akanishi wants. He would rather not come to the president's office to talk about this matter today.

If I had known it would be so tragic, Ken Akanishi said I should have taken annual leave to travel.

Ah, my Hawaii, sun and beach beauties...

Damn it, you have to say goodbye to me.

Continuing to develop new engines and open source the current game engines will be a heavy workload for the entire programming department.

For Qing Zhiyuan, he has even seen the 20-year-old Unreal 5, not to mention the Trailblazer 2 now. In the future, as the hardware continues to change, the engine will also develop along with it. If just because of the opening of a Trailblazer 2 I can't bear to do it, it would be too petty.

"Making Trailblazer 2 open source is also to allow more game production teams or independent game producers to participate."

Qing Zhiyuan said, "I don't want a tool to be in our hands, as that will not be of any benefit to the game industry."

“The engine is open source, lowers the threshold for game production, and allows more game producers to participate, in order to provide more sustainable products for the game platform.

As long as we master the powerful tool of the game platform, then all game producers in the future will be equivalent to working for us as long as they sell games on the platform.

The best businessmen give tools and resources to others, and then let them become their own. "

Moreover, doing so is equivalent to tying up a game company with an engine.

The market will definitely get bigger and bigger, but if we regard competitors as enemies, it will only get smaller and smaller.

"Uh..." Akanishi Ken felt very uncomfortable and his brain was frozen.

"I don't know if you can understand it," Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "Anyway, you have to believe me. The reason for making Trailblazer 2 open source is so that we can make more money."

Moreover, there is another point that Qing Zhiyuan did not say clearly: considering the pressure from Unreal Engine at this conference, the biggest role of open source is actually to force some potential opponents to give up resistance through dumping.

On the surface, open source seems to be a disadvantage, but in fact it is the greatest protection for one's own technology.

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