Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

"Please announce the game's release date soon! I can't wait to play it!"

"My home is in New York City, I must find my home in the game!"

"I want to climb up the Statue of Liberty and beat up **"

"Eek~"

"I'm going to Wall Street and wreak havoc!"

In the comments section of the live stream, a group of players were telling each other what seemed like incredibly thrilling plans to outsiders.

If someone unaware of the situation saw this, they would probably call the police on the spot.

However, the players watching the live stream at this moment were not at all surprised by this.

They did the same thing in the previous San Andreas movie.

In those famous American cities, every player left their own mark.

After many years, San Andreas still has over 300,000 concurrent players daily on Battle.net and GS consoles.

Keep in mind that this was originally a single-player game and didn't have the later online mode, but players still enjoyed playing San Andreas to their heart's content.

This is partly due to the game's excellent quality, but also because of its high degree of freedom. Many passionate modders have created high-quality game mods, making the city of San Andreas even more captivating.

Don't assume that mods can only be used on the Battle.net platform. At the request of Takeyusei, the GS game console also has the same Steam Workshop as the PC Battle.net platform.

Any content uploaded to the Creative Workshop can be downloaded and experienced on any platform of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

Seeing the reactions of the players in the audience, Shiratori Yumi felt that she had finally made the right decision to come.

At this moment, he was no longer as nervous and awkward as he had been before the speech; instead, he was completely composed.

He smiled and said to the players, "I know you are looking forward to it, but I know you are even more looking forward to us creating an excellent game. So please be patient and wait. This game will eventually be released. When it is released, I hope we can bring you the best gaming experience."

After speaking, Shiratori Yukai swiftly stepped off the stage, giving the players no time to react.

At this moment, the players all fell silent.

But soon, a series of whistles rang out in the hall.

"More content? We want to know more!"

"Shiratori, you're committing a crime! You unleashed the beast that is GTA, but didn't give us a chance to see the whole picture! You'd better watch out and step in dog poop!"

I'm going to send you razor blades!

The players shouted loudly, venting their dissatisfaction.

That's it for the trailer? They haven't even done anything yet and it's already over?

This is really so painful.

Next up was another developer who was preparing to release a new game.

This developer has garnered a lot of dissatisfaction from players.

He could only try his best to appease the players and promised that GTA content would continue to be provided to them so that they could keep track of the game's progress. However, for specific information, players could check the official website, where GameStar Entertainment would keep them updated on the latest developments of the GTA series.

This explanation finally calmed the players' anger somewhat.

Of course, there is another reason for the calm: the developer announced the latest Pokémon game.

This is also a game that most players love.

Moreover, compared to games like the GTA series, which are full of violence and gore and have strict age restrictions.

Pokémon is clearly more suitable for all ages and has a wider audience than the GTA series.

GTA is like an adult stimulant, while Pokémon is an stimulant for all ages.

This Pokémon game will take place in a completely new world, and it uses the currently popular open-world format, allowing players to adventure across a large world map to find and catch Pokémon. This is a very attractive aspect, which is why the players' anger has subsided.

While GTA: Liberty City Chapters seems a long way off, the Pokémon game is confirmed to be officially released at the end of this year.

The game itself doesn't have any technical difficulties, so development shouldn't be too much of a problem, and releasing it at an annual pace is fine.

Chapter 954 A New Slump

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At the 2015 Yusei Carnival, approximately seven or eight first-party games from Yusei Electronic Entertainment were announced that were in development.

The longest development cycle was for GTA: Episodes of Liberty City, for which no release date was ever announced.

Other games may not be particularly large in scale, but they are all guaranteed to be released before the middle of this year or next year.

As the number of video game players has grown, the scale of the StarCraft Carnival has expanded time and time again. Now, even two venues are no longer enough to meet the needs of these players.

Bamboo Star is already planning to move its carnival there once its first phase of the Star Park is completed in 2016.

They also built a sports stadium there, similar to a football field.

However, it will be an arena for video games, and its construction and design will completely follow the style of video games, making it completely different from traditional sports venues. Zhu Youxing is very much looking forward to the moment when this building is finally completed.

At this year's Game Star Carnival, the most anticipated game was the Pokémon series.

The fact that this game is released annually does not dampen players' enthusiasm.

This product hasn't yet reached the level of a world-class IP, but it's still making a fortune from selling various merchandise and games.

Some of America's top entertainment giants are very envious of the Pokémon series, which has led them to start planning to launch similar product lines in hopes of riding on its popularity.

Next, the GTA series is the second most anticipated event at Carnival.

Of course, as usual, Bamboo Star will release a Cyberpunk 2077 preview this year.

However, this trailer, like the previous ones, had no text prompts and simply showed a futuristic cyberpunk city and several CG gunfight scenes.

After the CG presentation, the speaker will only say that it was an official technical demonstration of Unreal Engine 5.0, presenting everyone with an extremely realistic sci-fi city under Unreal Engine 5.0.

However, despite this, players have already begun to take an interest in such a sci-fi city under neon lights.

Some players have also started discussing the trailer on forums.

If a game with such a cyberpunk world were to actually exist, would you be interested?

Absolutely!

This game is absolutely awesome!

It perfectly matches my vision of the future!

Some players have even started urging Yuxing Electronic Entertainment to quickly turn this demo into a real game.

Even if the quality is a little worse, they still want to personally wander around and travel in such a cyberpunk world.

However, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has remained silent and has not responded to this.

In recent years, the trailers have only touched on the theme and haven't really revealed anything. This is to avoid giving players too much expectation too early, and to wait until there are some real results before making any announcements.

After all, this is the most perfect game that Zhu Youxing wanted to make, and he hoped that players in this world could feel the unique charm of this game from the very beginning.

To ensure that players in this world have no regrets from their past lives.

As for the team currently developing 2077, they are extremely excited about the forum content.

They were quite expressive, but the rules within Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Company would not allow them to reveal such a secret; no one wanted to cause trouble.

It's just that this is really suffocating.

Then, they channeled this pent-up motivation into game development, and began to accelerate the development of Cyberpunk 2077.

With the 2015 Yuxing Carnival coming to a close, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment and the gaming industry have returned to normal.

Players are also eagerly awaiting the release of several excellent games this year.

Around the middle of the year, Zhu Youxing received the company's latest sales and financial report.

"President, it seems that the number of video game players has reached a bottleneck. Recently, the average monthly sales of game consoles worldwide have been less than one million."

According to the data available to Yusei, the combined sales of Yusei Electronics' latest GS home console and handheld game console are barely close to one million.

This has never happened before.

For more than two decades, Yuxing Electronics Entertainment has been making great strides, consistently maintaining a high position in the sales of game consoles and games.

As for game sales, they have also decreased somewhat compared to expectations recently.

It's not that the game's quality is bad. The video games developed by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment have always been of consistently high quality, generally fluctuating slightly within the four-star range. Occasionally, a top-tier game is released, which receives four and a half or five-star reviews and achieves good sales.

However, since 2015, game sales have remained sluggish overall.

"What about the sales of the other game consoles and games?" Zhu Youxing asked, looking up.

“We investigated the official financial reports of several other companies, and their situations are similar, all of them are not in a good state.”

Zhu Youxing leaned back in his chair and said calmly, "It seems the overall environment is developing in a bad direction."

"President, I think we might consider slowing down the pace of some of the investment to preserve more reserves, because..." Natsume Yasutaka hesitated, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

"Why?"

"Because the overall economic environment is not good right now. Actually, it's not that our game industry is bad; the global economy as a whole seems to be stagnating recently."

"Stagnation?"

Zhu Youxing was stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening.

Is there a problem with the global economy, which has affected all industries?

That's a variable that can't be controlled.

After hearing what Natsume Yasutaka said, Takeyusei became much calmer.

Economic downturns are not uncommon from the perspective of human development.

He had experienced several economic crises in his original world alone.

This makes it clear that the overall economic resilience of this world is much stronger than that of his world.

The last time the world experienced an economic downturn was when the dot-com bubble burst.

At that time, starting with Japanese internet companies like YOO, the bubbles they inflated that seemed to have no future were all burst. A large amount of capital chose to abandon these hopeless directions, leading to the global internet crisis.

This, in turn, affects the world's overall economic environment.