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   Chapter 547 Lifetime Series

  The operating system is the foundation of Microsoft. If you really want to start cooperating with Xue Leshan on the host business, then the first thing Microsoft has to win is the host system, which is something Microsoft must grab.

Terry Myerson was slightly relieved to hear what Bill Gates said. He is now in charge of the Microsoft WP system, and he is also linked to this system. The higher the status of Microsoft, in turn, the worse the WP system, the lower the status of Myerson.

  Meerson originally wanted to build the WP system into a system that spans a wide range of electronic products such as mobile phones, computers, and handhelds.

   The development of the Symbian mobile phone system has already made Myerson feel anxious. Now the mainstream mobile phone brands are starting to carry the Symbian system, and WP is still under development. When the development is successful, I don’t know how many brands will carry it.

   Now another game console has appeared. If this is also taken away by Saipan, then Myerson is afraid that the WP system will never turn over again.

  The entire host industry is surging undercurrents. With the emergence of companies competing for Sega, all kinds of rumors inevitably appear, and the media also begin to report news that Sega may change hands.

As soon as the news came out, it caused a shock in the game industry. No matter how Sega is, it is also one of the giants in the game console industry. From the original arcade, to the game console, from MD to Saturn, to today's DC console, Sega no matter what it sells How many machines, the names are all there.

"Edge", the most famous game magazine in England, first reported, "The latest news from Nippon Games, Sega, one of the world's three major game consoles, is seeking acquisitions. According to rumors, game makers such as Konami and Capcom are interested. Sega.

In addition, it is rumored that the closest contact with Sega is Sammy, the second largest pinball machine manufacturer in Japan. Sammy's parent company is the most active in the game industry in recent years, Xue Leshan, the most popular in the game industry this year. "Diablo", it is from its banner! "

   Speaking of Sami, if anyone is unclear, the name of "Diablo" is well known in the game industry. Hearing that Xue Leshan intends to acquire Sega, it caused an uproar for a while.

On major game forums, ING, GameStop, etc., there is a lot of discussion. Japanese benzene game users, when they hear the news, are all mourning. Sega, the pillar of the game industry, is going to be acquired by an American game company. For them, it is really difficult to accept.

For a long time, the Japanese benzene game industry, whether it is a game or a console, has ranked first in the world, and has always been imitated by peers in other regions. When did it turn out to be acquired, and even the Japanese benzene media shouted, "Xue Leshan" Do you know what a game is and how to develop a console?

  Xue Leshan does not know whether he understands games or not, or whether he will develop game consoles, but it is true that he is richer than Sega.

  Users in other regions except Guoriben are basically neutral to this news, and some users even expressed their expectations.

  Cameron routinely finished the task of "Diablo", entered the Battle.net platform of Snow Mountain Online, formed a team to PK with people, and then logged into the IGN game platform.

It's been a few months since he bought "Diablo", and Cameron has already cleared the level a long time ago. Now it's just a habit to play the dungeon. There is no new game to attract his attention, so he can only play Diablo. Then enter the Battle.net platform and abuse the new players to kill time.

  Diablo is still popular in America, but it is not as big as it was in the past few months, but in overseas markets, Diablo users are constantly increasing.

Now Diablo has sold nearly 7 million units worldwide, exceeding Wall Street's estimates. Originally, Wall Street estimated that Diablo could sell 15 million units globally in two years. The battle of Diablo this year, it is estimated that it will be able to do more than eight or nine million sets!

  New players are constantly pouring in, and they are constantly sending fresh blood to this game. In addition, Diablo has updated several copies of the game, and Battle.net PK, etc., so that old players like Cameron are still in the pit.

Cameron saw the news that Blizzard Studios has started preparations for the development of Diablo 2. Cameron hopes that the news is true, but it feels a little mysterious. Blizzard is now busy with the completion of "StarCraft", and I heard that "Warcraft 3", which was established long ago, but has not been developed for nearly four years.

   There are even rumors that Blizzard is preparing to develop an online game "World of Warcraft" derived from Warcraft. This game is heard to be developed at the request of Bruno Song, the big moneymaker behind Xue Leshan.

StarCraft, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, plus a "Diablo 2", it's not that Cameron doubts Blizzard's strength, just talking about so many games, even if it's playing old Maozi's nesting doll, it's estimated that Blizzard will have to I have been busy for three or five years, not to mention the high-quality slogan from Blizzard, "Blizzard's product must be a high-quality product."

   So Cameron feels that, not to mention Diablo 2, it has to become a series in the lifetime, even if he is lucky, it is estimated that he will not see it until the next century...

  There is also a game discussion community on the Xue Leshan online platform, and there are many users, especially the forum in the English-speaking area. There are users from North America, Europe and other places every day, pouring water on it, and the active users are more than a few million every day.

But also because of this, there are quarrels almost all the time. Often a game dispute is only the beginning, and soon the post building is crooked. Below are the players in various regions scolding each other, talking about historical grievances, regional contempt chains, etc. Cameron is very concerned about these I'm not very interested in watering outside the game, so the forums I often like to go to are still IGN.

Compared with Xue Leshan Online, the game forums of IGN are naturally far inferior in terms of user scale and popularity. The game discussion area of ​​Xue Leshan Online platform, the number of posts in a day is estimated to be comparable to the number of posts in a month of IGN Forum. How many.

   But on IGN, almost all discussions are about games. There are disputes about the understanding of different games, as well as game rankings, etc., but it will not be like the online platform of Xue Leshan.

Cameron opened the IGN forum and saw that the most popular discussion on the forum is still about the TGA awards ceremony that will be held soon. This award was touted as a game as early as the beginning of its establishment. The Oscars, the world's first professional game award.

Brother on the IGN forum, the most discussed about the TGA Awards is not which games can win awards, but the game hall of fame launched by TGA, who can enter and become totem characters in the history of games, and even the official IGN forum, but also liven up , launched a questionnaire to ask who is the game Hall of Famer in their hearts?

   This is not obvious, IGN has obviously mastered the traffic password. As soon as this event came out, IGN's user activity on the day increased by 50% directly, and the number of posts doubled.

   In the eyes of a thousand people, there are a thousand Hamlets. There is no specific criteria for the game Hall of Fame, so wouldn’t it be possible to select a large number of people?

In addition to the TGA Awards and the Hall of Fame on the forum, the most discussed is Blizzard's new work "StarCraft". Now the expansion has been released and pre-orders have begun. Now the number of pre-orders worldwide has exceeded 800,000. Cameron also contributed.

IGN's old buddies, facing the "StarCraft" expansion, have analyzed the game many times before and after, and analyzed the game engine of StarCraft, which is a revised version of "Warcraft 2", and the whole game is a real-time strategy The game, compared to Diablo, is much more difficult to operate.

And StarCraft attracts the attention of IGN buddies the most, and what makes real-time strategy game fans ecstatic is that StarCraft has already played with the concept of "fog of war", which makes the game more test players' skills, overall situation, psychological games, etc. No longer is the original game boring.

There is nothing new about these posts. Cameron flipped through these posts and was going to ask the old buddies if there was any reliable new game released recently, and suddenly saw a post pop up, which instantly attracted the card. Meren's attention.

   "The game console industry has ushered in great changes, and Sega may enter the Snow Mountain era!"

   Cameron was stunned when he saw this post. Xue Leshan was playing PC games, so when did he actually start with the game console?

After clicking in, it took only a few seconds to see that the post had already been flooded with water for dozens of floors, which made Cameron scolded the sixth, and usually disappeared. , He really doubted whether these people lived on the forum.

   "I'm looking forward to Snow Mountain's acquisition of Sega, and strongly recommend that Snow Mountain restart the Saturn console era!"

   "I don't deny Xue Leshan's level of game production, but developing a game console is not the same as a game. I remain skeptical about whether Xue Leshan can save Sega."

   "I hope that after Xue Leshan acquires Sega, the Sega DC console sold will not be 399, not 299, but only 199 US dollars..." There is also a dog head emoji behind this post.

   "Dream upstairs!"

Cameron looked at the posts that kept popping up. There were different attitudes on the forum regarding the acquisition of Sega by Xue Leshan and Sammy. There is hope that Xue Leshan will buy Sega quickly, and don't let Sega mess up again. There are also doubts about Xue Leshan. Can you manage Sega, which is full of internal hills, will it develop a host, and so on.

However, when I saw the post that asked the Sega console to sell 199, plus the dog head emoji, Cameron couldn't help laughing. When the Sega DC console went on sale, it was priced at 399 US dollars, and the Sony PS2 next door , the backhand sold for 299 US dollars, the pit Sega almost didn't jump off the building.

  Since ICQ launched emoji packs, emoji packs have swept the Internet world. In major forums, portals, emails, etc., as long as there is a comment area and text, there are emoji packs.

   (end of this chapter)