Chapter 243 A Direct Challenge (1010)

Now game developers have more choices.

If you are poor and don't have much money, you can develop PC games first.

Because PC games don't need to consider the game console licensing fee and the cost of cartridge production.

The cost can be saved by at least half.

That means that as long as the profit is half of the game console, it can be profitable.

Under this temptation, more people are developing PC games.

However, the sales of game consoles are often higher, generally more than three to five times more than the sales of games on PC.

It is obvious that most players have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of game consoles, and believe that they should use game consoles to play games, not computers. They have not yet completely regarded computers as an entertainment product.

So once a game manufacturer with a certain scale, it will still choose to sell its own games on game consoles.

In the first month of 1996 alone, more than 100 game companies were founded in the United States, and hot money quickly poured into this newly emerging industry.

But among these people, they know that there is still only one overlord in the game industry, that is Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

So far, no one has been able to shake its position.

Even Shuri Electronics could only barely grab the corner of the opponent's clothes and keep up with the pace.

When the second month of 1996 came, after nearly two years, Youxing Electronics Entertainment finally officially released the third Metroid game that it had secretly developed for nearly half a year.

Super Metroid.

Its story follows the last story of the second Metroid: Samus Returns. Samus took a spaceship with the Metroid cub to a scientific planet in the Galactic Federation.

However, not long after landing, the space pirates came and kidnapped the Metroid cub.

Samus had to embark on a journey again to save the Metroid cub.

This game can be said to have appeared after much anticipation.

Two years.

Do you know how I got through two years?

This is the inner thoughts of many loyal Metroid players.

When they saw the real promotional video of Metroid, some people even had tears in their eyes.

They have been looking forward to the new story for a long time, but Youxing Electronics Entertainment just doesn't do it.

If this had been placed in the hands of Surui Electronics and other game manufacturers, they would have probably developed three or four generations of works.

But Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is really a big company with a huge number of IPs.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment can easily continue to produce a series of games, and Metroid's position seems not so important.

But under the call of countless players, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment seems to have finally heard the voices of the players, promised to continue to produce Metroid games, and finally produced the game at the last minute.

The players are very excited.

They have never been so excited.

However, in February, only a few previews of the game screen were released, and the price of the game was officially announced.

The price in Japan is 8,900 yen, and the US price is 99 US dollars.

If you plan to buy an SFC game console, you can reduce 1,000 yen and 10 US dollars respectively, which can be regarded as promoting the sales of the game console again.

The price of this game is already very scary.

The main cost is concentrated on the specially made game cartridges.

The mass production cost of the game cartridges alone is as high as 2,000 yen.

Adding packaging and transportation, the cost of each cartridge is about 3,500 yen.

If it is an ordinary game company, it may not be able to afford it.

If it is a game with a new IP, it may be difficult to recover the cost.

But Metroid already has a certain player base, and since it is a game that was launched two years ago, players feel that this price is acceptable.

But for new players, this makes them shrink back a bit.

With this money, you can buy two slightly outdated SFC games that are equally fun. The price of Metroid's first release is really a bit too high.

But this is not a problem. As long as the quality of the game itself is good enough, the subsequent sales will definitely not be too low.

On Hayakawa Ueto's side, he finally realized that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is really not a fuel-saving lamp. They are really preparing to use big tricks.

If it is just a game released in general, how can it be sold so high?

There must be something wrong with the abnormal things. This game is definitely unique.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is different from other game manufacturers. Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has a plan for any abnormal operation, and there has never been any accident.

So this time, Ueto Hayakawa did not underestimate Yusei Entertainment.

He immediately decided to retreat.

It was obvious that Yusei Entertainment was coming aggressively, ready to show off its muscles to the people in the industry.

Ueto Hayakawa, who had a little PTSD from Yusei Entertainment, seemed to have foreseen something.

Sometimes it is not shameful to avoid the sharp edge.

If you plan to fight Yusei Entertainment, invest huge costs and confront the other party head-on, and then suffer heavy losses, that would be the worst thing.

However, Ueto Hayakawa is very cautious, but other game companies are not so cautious.

Especially Lierda, which has been in the limelight recently.

They made a lot of money in this game industry boom.

The players seem to be quite satisfied with it.

The founder of Lierda is also a gamer who loves games, so the games he developed are also very good.

As Youxing Electronic Entertainment has been silent for more than half a year, they seem to have forgotten the fear when they were dominated by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

They want to challenge Youxing Electronic Entertainment head-on.