Fortunately, before Christmas, Fang Xi had already completed this simple round-the-world trip and returned to the second-tier city of China, Beiyang City in the fringe of urban and rural areas.

In the headquarters of Hongyi’s industrial park, Fang Xi opened a new studio last month amidst the curiosity of the employees of the headquarters. It was listed as "Nine Phoenix", which is responsible for the Borderlands series. Restarting work, but still in three or two big cats and kittens, only a few people were forced to transfer by Fang Xi, for the headquarters, now the most important is undoubtedly the assassin series of the "Holy Order" studio.

Now the interior of the Assassin Studio is divided into two parts: the game and the "Assassin: Chronicle". There is no need for the majority of the game part. The main frame of the assassin has entered the final part. Fang Xi has reviewed most of the content and is basically satisfied.

The work done in the chronicle part should be more precisely the shaping of the world view. The team staff responsible for this part need to thoroughly understand the history of China, and then add the active figures of the assassins. In this case, several were born. CG, "Assassin Chronicles: Xuanwu Gate" is just one of them.

"Master, there is another invitation." Xiao Lan put a letter on Fang Xi's desk.

There is no need to open it, and Fang Xi can guess what this is going to do by looking at the sign on the envelope. The envelope does not look big. The paper is self-printed and the color is simple. The surface of the envelope is wrapped in a light blue color, and a light TheElectronicEntertainmentExpo logo is printed on the front. Letter from E3.

what? Why do you think there is no 3 in this string of English? E3 got its name because of the three letters beginning with E in its English name.

Fang Xi looked at the envelope over and over, and then opened it casually. Before opening the letter, he looked at Xiao Lan with an expression of expectation and curiously said:

"Interested?"

Xiaolan nodded excitedly:

"This letter was sent to the company three days ago, but you didn't open it because you were not here at the time, young master. In fact, everyone in the company is looking forward to the content here. It's E3 after all."

Fang Xi chuckled lightly, opened the letter paper and glanced at it. Nowadays, he often needs to go abroad to deal with foreigners. Fang Xi's English level is not bad now. After reading it three or two times, he said in his heart, "Sure enough." Then he said:

"Then you can go and announce it. This is the invitation letter for E3 next year. We also have our own manufacturer day, although it is not independent and the largest."

"Oh yeah~~~~"

Before Fang Xi finished speaking, Xiao Lan over there rushed out to announce the news.

Shaking his head, Fang Xi returned his gaze to the letter paper.

This is probably an intuitive manifestation of Hongyi’s increasing influence. Although at the E3 exhibition six months ago, "Eternity" was neither well received nor popular at the time. It was purely attracted by Hongyi’s other products to attract attention. But now it looks like this kind of heat, I don't know what E3 feels like.

And next year’s E3 invitation will directly make Hongyi officially have its own venue on the third day of E3, which can be regarded as half the theme day, which is also the strange rule of this world.

In this time and space, because the game industry is relatively not very prosperous, the three large-scale companies of Wesosoft are considered to be giants in the game industry. Therefore, in the one-week theme exhibition at E3, the first three days belong to the three Wesosoft companies. , One day, the order is often the same. This time the E3 arrangement is set to still be Microsoft on the first day. This is normal. After all, North America is home.

On the second day, they were the best hardware supporters in the current game market. On the third day, Nintendo X Hongyi made Fang Xi very painful.

Even now Fang Xi wants to call directly: Are you trying to mess with me? Maliciously lead the two fans to confront each other, be careful I sue you!

However, Fang Xi didn't wait to call to the E3 organizer to scold the street, instead he received a call from Nintendo.

"Mr. FANG? I heard that you have returned to China. You should have received the invitation letter from E3?"

The caller was one of the people who led the Hongyi investigation last time, and Fang Xi still had some impression.

"Yes, I also just learned that Hongyi was forced into the third day to be on the same day as Nintendo. At this time, I was considering whether to make an E3 call to protest."

"No, no," the person on the other end of the phone explained:

"This is actually requested by Nintendo."

"?" This Fang Xi was really strange: "I would like to hear the details."

"Now the influence of your company in the game industry can be seen by everyone, but your company is actually not the protagonist of Manufacturer Day."

"Yes." This Fang Xi understood, is the so-called manufacturer's day really calculated on the basis of influence? In fact, it is not, but because these three companies all have their own consoles. Having a console means having a complete set of channels, which is very different from only doing game research and development.

"It’s good if you understand it. In short, all parties have considerations. For the theme exhibition of E3 next year, we also hope that Hongyi can contain the momentum of the two Wesophones together. We are very optimistic about Hongyi’s game appeal. According to that traditional phrase, we hope to perform a perfect finale with Hongyi."

Fang Xi was silent for a while, and digested the news for himself:

"As long as the ending is exciting enough, the audience will forget the previous actors?"

The people over there chuckled: "This is the truth. In order to prevent the two players from arguing, we still need to issue a joint statement."

...

So the simple cooperation was concluded. Fang Xi was caught off guard by this. Although the last time he participated in E3, he said that he would have his own manufacturer day sooner or later: but at that time, he knew that if you want to be a manufacturer, you must first have it A game console with a good market share. Now, the Solfa family dominates. Ren and Microsoft rely on some of their own monopoly to support themselves. Now they are just a developer in the final analysis, saying that they must have their own theme day. It was a joke.

And what I put in front of my eyes is an opportunity, but it may also be a restriction. If you choose Aren for your game, you may have to give up the other two. There was no shortage of full-platform dominance in the last time and space, but it still There has not been a cross-host simultaneous launch, and even if different hosts are successively launched, optimization is a big problem-the architecture of each host is different, and optimization for different architectures will also cost a lot of cost. The game needs to be played on multiple host platforms, not to mention that it is unrealistic. The optimization problem of each host platform is enough for people to bald.

And now the choice placed in front of Fang Xi is, to choose Ren, you have to give up finding ways. Is this kind of business worthwhile?

But regardless of whether it was cost-effective or not, Fang Xi knew that he had no time to struggle now.

"Forget it, anyway, for now, Hongyi's main sales channel is still PC, and the mainframe can only be regarded as an addition, don't care, don't care~"

Fang Xi shouted:

"Xiaolan, come in quickly! We want to issue a joint statement with other companies!"