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No.1 on the list occupies too much market share, which has caused a serious impact on the box office of other old and new films.

As a result, No.2 lost the opportunity to hit the 35 million local box office threshold. In the past three days, it has fallen by 782% year-on-year, earning 1 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office is 9378 million US dollars. There will be a difference of at least $400 million, and we can only expect a breakthrough next week.

However, it's not bad, and it still ranked second in the sixth week of its release, which can also be seen from the recent box office performance of other films.

The same ghost-themed film No. 3 on the list was produced by Warner Bros. In order to avoid competition with the film, the filming started a week earlier. As a result, it became a typical example of the failure of word-of-mouth and the inability to enjoy the Halloween schedule bonus.

With a combined media score of only 4.7 and the magazine's reputation as "a parody of the Conjuring film universe", although Hollywood bigwig Al Pacino was invited to participate, after the box office of 1493 million US dollars in the first week, Even with the popularity of Halloween in the three days of the next weekend, it still dropped 43% year-on-year, with only $603 million in revenue. In four days, with a budget cost of $3000 million, the cumulative box office was only $2096 million.

Although it is not too much of a failure, the local market is estimated to be in the early 3000 million, and some overseas sales, including peripheral channels, will definitely be able to recover costs and achieve profitability, but this is obviously far lower than Warner Bros.'s expectations.

You know, during the promotional stage of the film, Warner expressed his ambition to make a trilogy.

Did not dare to mention the universe.

Now, it is estimated that the total local box office will not be as much as the three-day weekend, and the trilogy must become a joke.

The box office of No.2 and No.3 on the weekend list is less than [-] million, and others can be imagined.

Not worth mentioning.

Simon, however, found one of the films to be quite interesting.

This is a sci-fi film that started painting at the same time last Friday. It was produced by Paramount with a budget of 2500 million US dollars. Starring Uma Thurman.

The film's box office revenue in the first three days of the weekend was only 317 million US dollars, which was a complete failure. However, the setting of the story is very interesting.

The story tells about a future in which genes determine one's future. Ethan Hawke plays Vincent, who can only live to be 30 years old due to genetic defects. Jerome, a half-paralyzed young man, conspires to switch identities for the chance to become an astronaut.

The subsequent plot is not worth mentioning, just look at this setting, look at this setting... So, this proves once again that Hollywood is a circle.

As with people, so with movies.

After browsing the box office for the past three days of the past weekend, Simon processed some daily documents. At 10 o'clock, there was a tripartite meeting between Daenerys, Ygritte and Tinkber, combining on-site participation and video connection The way.Some executives from the other two companies came from San Francisco in person, and Jeff Bezos from Igret and C-girl from Tinkobel participated through video communication.

About games.

More precisely, it is a game console.

Simon has considered this matter for a long time, even for some years.

Should the Westeros system be the game console itself?

In the early days, I didn't have enough strength, so I didn't think too much about it.

Now, with the right time, place and people, there is no lack of anything. Whether to do it or not is just a question of whether to do it or not.

Simon finally decided to do it anyway.

Well, the problem is coming.

Why do you want to be a host?

First of all, from the perspective of users, one is price and the other is experience.

Whether it is now or in the future, if you want to support the top games, personal computers need to invest more money to stack top configurations.The customized and optimized game console can not only perfectly support all kinds of large-scale games, but the price will be much cheaper.As for the experience, no matter whether it is now or in the future, the display effect of the TV is much better than that of the computer screen.

This is the biggest advantage of the game console.

Secondly, from the perspective of game manufacturers.

The game console itself is difficult to make a profit, which is proved by Microsoft's huge losses that have lasted for many years in memory.However, through the host platform, Microsoft has become the world's leading game production and distribution company, and its game business revenue scale has been ranked among the top five in the world, leaving EA and Blizzard behind.

It can be said that Microsoft is losing money on hardware, but the entire game business is not losing money.

Not only Microsoft, but also Sony and Nintendo, which have their own game platforms, have long been among the top game manufacturers in the world in terms of related business revenue. It can be said that among the top five game manufacturers in the world, three of the three with console platforms directly account for three.

This is a testament to the power of the platform.

Due to the game industry environment he was in, Simon has always been more interested in online games. In the same global ranking, besides the three console manufacturers, the other two are basically locked by online game manufacturers.Even if it is a stand-alone game, Simon once preferred PC stand-alone games.

However, after these years of understanding, and based on various information in his memory, he can also judge that console games have always occupied a large part of the future global game industry output value of more than [-] billion US dollars.

This is why the Westeros system must be the host.

And, now is the right time.

In terms of hardware, it is not a problem whether it uses Intel or AMD chips, or self-developed PowerPC architecture that has been determined to be marginalized after Tinkber acquired Apple.On the operating system, Apple's technical foundation and core patents, coupled with the long-term accumulation of the Westeros system in the Linux system, can all be solved.

Speaking of which, the first-generation PlayStation launched by Sony three years ago used the Linux system, or the authorized version of Linux from Eaglet.The Westeros system wants to develop game consoles. Not surprisingly, the core of the operating system will also be Linux.

This is conflict.

Since it is imperative, of course this cannot be taken care of.

However, on Sony's side, because it is a permanent authorization of the relevant version, it is impossible to take back the Westeros system. The other party conducts follow-up update research and development based on the Linux version it has obtained. Apart from the cost increase, it is not a fatal problem.

Our future is free competition.

When Simon made this decision, it was Microsoft who sniped more.

Over the years, in the face of the overt or covert suppression of the Westeros system, Microsoft is doomed to be unable to become the world's largest market capitalization company in history in 2000. Even if the Internet bubble in this time and space has burst, Microsoft is still Competing with Eaglet in the network business has no intention of expanding into the direction of game consoles.

Simon just took this pit.

In the future, there will still be three pillars. On the US side, the Westeros system will take up the quota. If Microsoft wants to intervene, it will only be more difficult.

The last thing is content.

Simon plans to be directly occupied by him in advance, and the game console named Xbox will be developed by Tinkber. In terms of content, Daenerys and Ygritte will be the main ones for the time being, and Tinkball will also participate in the future.

The game is a big cake, and none of the three can finish it, so they just serve it together.

Simon also meant to raise Gu about this.

It's better to compete with each other than outsiders to share the cake.

In order to more closely integrate the interests of the three, the development of this game console will set up a separate subsidiary affiliated to Tinkobel, Tinkobel holds 40% of the shares, and the other two each have 30%.

Although she is the main research and development force, Miss C has no objection.

Simon explained it very clearly.

The mainframe business is not only difficult to make money, it is likely to have to invest for a long time, and actively subsidize it in order to expand market share, which is likely to lead to huge losses, so this is not the other two taking advantage of Tinkerbell, but the future three bear the loss together.

Of course, while bearing the losses together, they can also share the benefits brought by the Xbox platform in the future.

This is also the reason why Simon let the three companies hold shares together.

Human relationships will never be more stable than direct interest relationships.

If Daenerys and Ygritte do not hold shares and do not have to bear losses, even if Simon has been coordinating with it, in the long run, it will definitely dissatisfy Tinkber, who invested alone. You take advantage of it?

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In the final analysis, it is still a kind of sisterly settlement.

Calculate the accounts in advance, and there will be no troubles in the future.

The meeting lasted for two hours. After discussing all aspects, the Westeros system research and development was officially finalized by Simon as the "X Project" of the Xbox game console, and it was planned to be officially launched at the end of 1999, before the arrival of the millennium. The development cycle is two years.

This is the deadline set by Simon himself.

Even with the current resource strength of the Westeros system, it is not a problem to rush out and produce a console in a year, but considering that the life cycle of each game console will be very long, if it is messed up, I want to update it It’s not that easy, and thinking about the various problems that Microsoft caused the first generation of Xbox because of rushing work, Simon decided on a more abundant development deadline.

After the meeting, I made an appointment for lunch with Chen Qing at noon.

Simon left the meeting room and continued to discuss with Nancy Brill, who had been taking care of the game business by his side, and Larry Probst, who had been promoted from EA all the way up and now became the general manager of Daenerys Entertainment's game business Some specific projects in the games department.

In the morning, Simon has seen the game adaptation plan given by the game department.

The town of evil spirits, the battle between humans and ghosts, and desperate escape, plus various settings in the film that can be developed into game props, it can be said that it is simply tailor-made for game adaptation.Therefore, before the film was released, a R&D team from Daenerys' game department began to prepare the plan after seeing the sample film in advance.

As for whether to invest in development, it still depends on the specific market feedback of the film.

Now, it is more popular than expected, and the development of the game naturally needs to be refined. Simon directly sent back the plan that was actually not bad, and asked Nancy and Larry to let the development team improve it.

Speaking of which, with the current hardware conditions, the effect of making this kind of 3D stand-alone horror game will definitely not be very good.If it can be put in 10 years, or even 20 years later, the quality of the movie can be achieved, and the game will definitely scare people to death like a movie.

The problem is that it is okay to think about it this way, but it is impossible to really press it.

Ten or 20 years later, there are still themes ten or 20 years later.

What's more, just like movies, successful games also rely on creativity and careful design, not picture quality. Therefore, as long as the current hardware conditions are the best, players will buy it.

After chatting for a few words about the adaptation, and talking about an online battle version that will be released before Thanksgiving, after walking into the restaurant building, Simon handed Probst an idea that he wrote at the meeting just now, saying: "In fact, there is another one. I thought of it when I read the comments and George Romero defined the zombie movie recently. It is also the idea of ​​a horror game. This time it is a zombie. The mode is an adventure type. You can discuss it yourself. The name is .”

It used to be launched in 1996, but now it is the end of 1997. It was indeed time to check the comments on the weekend. Simon saw Roger Ebert use George Romero to define the zombie movie analogy, and temporarily thought of this games, and later movies.

Alice!

Ok.

For some reason, Simon always felt that this line was too slippery, almost on par with Schwarzenegger's 'Back'.Milla Jovovich doesn't know where she is now, but she can give this opportunity to other vases around her in the future.

Let's talk about games.

After thinking about it, Simon searched on the Internet, but couldn't find it, and asked Girl A to sort out a list of horror games from Capcom and other mainstream Japanese game manufacturers. , of course there is no need to be polite.

Simon handed the casually written setting to Probst, and Nancy, who was walking on the other side, subconsciously probed, and found that there was a boss in the middle, so she had to give up and asked, "What exactly is it?"

"Zombie games, are you interested?"

Nancy said: "I am interested in every idea of ​​yours."

Simon glanced at the small female executive who was still used to wearing high heels and walking beside him but only reached his shoulders, and joked: "Don't tell me, you also thought about opening my brain and looking inside What is it?"

Nancy made no secret and nodded firmly: "More than once."

Simon said quietly: "Actually, everything started from that night ten years ago..."

Nancy listened, and even Larry Probst visibly pricked up his ears.

Then, there is no then.

Larry Probst quickly looked back at the setting in his hand with a smile, and Nancy realized that ten years ago was 1987, and someone had already become famous. The beginning of these words was to tease herself, raising her hand Hit Simon.

In recent years, the petite executives are still single, which has aroused some speculation between her and a certain big boss.However, the fact is that although there have been some small ambiguities over the years, the two have never made any progress.Nancy Brill herself wanted to understand that it was because she was not a vase.

A certain guy will always show a little more patience and respect to a capable woman. What's more, no matter what the rumors are outside, Nancy knows that a certain guy has never been a guy who likes to be strong.Nancy is very satisfied with this, but, occasionally, it is unavoidable to have some disappointments that she is not willing to admit.

Can't you use strong once?

When they came to an executive restaurant in the restaurant building, Chen Qing was already waiting here.

Nancy, who originally thought that she could have a meal together and chat about more topics, took the initiative to join Larry Probst at the table to explore the game plan that Simon had just given.

The setting is not new.

The virus leaked, the city fell, looking for an antidote, escaping the city... and so on.

Apparently it's still a matter of padding.

Nancy and Probst read the general setting, and the main discussion was which team should be in charge of this project.

The idea given by my boss will be remembered by the big boss if it is done well, with a lot of credit, and the future is bright.However, screw it up, like the one coming out recently, this is actually someone's idea three years ago, however, because the first version of the finished product ended in a very disastrous failure, the person in charge directly lost his job.

very serious consequences.

The upcoming one is the result of someone still insisting on it later. After the failure of the first generation, the one at the beginning of last year finally got a good response, so this time the online battle version was directly produced, which is not only compatible with the stand-alone and LAN gameplay, this time, you can also conduct multiplayer battles on the network platform, the new version of the picture quality and sound effects and upgrade again.

In addition, it will still be sold in a stand-alone game mode, and Daenerys Entertainment will provide an online server battle platform.

Mainly because of the current hardware conditions.

Someone proposed to sell skin props, etc., which is not realistic. After all, with the picture quality, who can tell whether the skin is good or bad?As for firearms and props, apart from the sound setting at this stage, the shape is also not pleasing to the eye, and it is unrealistic for players to spend money to buy them.What's more, it may also affect the balance of the game.

So simply sell it directly as a stand-alone game.

As for the server cost, it will definitely be taken into account in the game pricing process.In addition, if the response of this version of the game is good, maybe next year, at most the year after, will be able to release more gameplay and better graphics. This is not a free update, but you still have to buy it.

Therefore, the 3.0 version of the server only needs to be supported for two years at most, and then it will be marginalized.After all, there is a better version, and it is impossible for players to continue with slag picture quality.

In a word, sellers are always smarter than buyers.

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Chapter 1236 We Media

Only Chen Qing came over alone, and it was such a disappointment to have a chance to have a meal with her boss, bringing a souvenir or something to the table.

After hugging and greeting, the two sat down at the dining table, and after ordering food, Chen Qing skillfully opened up the topic. As usual, she first talked about various trivial things she had experienced recently, such as the family ethics scene related to her boss's vase.