An electronic game, not only the ancient "pong" or the three-dimensional game of this generation, is actually far from being large in size.

The cassettes from the Red and White Machine Age, and the huge majority of the storage space are already used to store game maps.

Of course, it was not called stickers at that time.

In this generation, the proportion of storage space occupied by stickers has been higher. For example, Wanhu's "Endless Fantasy 9", the space occupied by stickers is 700 megabytes.

This is because of technical limitations, the number of polygons on the same screen is strictly limited, and only characters can use relatively few polygons, while backgrounds cannot use polygons at all.

Although the clarity of the map is not particularly high, the picture of "Endless Fantasy 9" looks much better than the three-dimensional game of the same period.

The mystery here is that Wanhu uses normal maps.

The so-called normal map is to pre-create a complex polygon scene and then use the rgb channel to record the normal direction.

In this way, a smooth surface will show different concave and convex depths.

The effect displayed in the game is a bit like a painting without shadows, and suddenly the shadows are added, making it look more three-dimensional.

For this technology with very wide applicability in the future, Wanhu registered a patent two years ago.

After all, this technology has been applied in Wanhu's special effects production.

Because of patent protection, other manufacturers of this technology cannot use it at will.

Even, except for those big manufacturers, small manufacturers have not even discovered that this technology has been born.

Of course, Wanhu will not not authorize this technology like the lens patent of Konanmi in another world. Once authorization is authorized, the lion will open his mouth.

But at this point in time, it is impossible to authorize, even if there is more money, it will not work.

Just like Sony wants players to feel that their skills are the best, at the beginning of the three-dimensionalization of the console game, Wanhu also wants players to feel that Wanhu's three-dimensional game technology is the best.

Of course, this technology is actually an algorithm.

If other manufacturers have the energy to research, they may not be able to bypass it.

However, at the end of 1996, only Wanhu's games adopted this technology.

At the beginning of 1997, Japan was still in the winter vacation.

Countless families are watching TV around the stove.

On such a day, the TV suddenly released a brand new game advertisement.

At the beginning of the advertisement, Wanhu's logo flashed by, followed by the logo of the PS game console, and then entered the game screen demonstration.

In the lower right corner of the advertisement, the words "Endless Fantasy 9" are clearly written.

Although the "Endless Fantasy" series is also a game series with a long history, its popularity in Japan is now no less than that of the "Dragon Quest" and "Final Fantasy" series.

The reason is very simple. Sega's console has never been sold in Japan for more than 10 million units.

Although "Endless Fantasy" is already the best role-playing game sold on Sega console, compared with the red and white machines with more than 30 million units sold in Japan and the super red and white machines with more than 20 million units, the audience is still too small.

The sales of a game often depends not only on the quality of the game, but also on the platform on which the game is located.

In a modern commercial society, material resources can be said to be extremely rich. In such an era of extremely rich spiritual entertainment, no matter how fun electronic games are, they are afraid of the fragrance of wine.

Even if Wanhu has the mouthpiece of "Player Heart", he can brag about his own games.

However, if you want players to buy their own games, unless they are true love, the cost will be too high.

After all, Sega's platform can be called a very fun game, probably only the game of Wanhu, as well as Sega's own "Sonic" series and "Sakura Wars" series.

In addition to this, the game is either exclusive or not, or the gameplay needs to be discussed.

The game "Endless Fantasy 9" can be said to be a return work of the "Endless Fantasy" series after several years of separation from mainstream platforms.

The sales of ps hosts are now slightly worse than n64.

However, with Sony as the backing, countless manufacturers are very confident about PS.

For example, Square Enix broke with Nintendo and chose to make games for Sony.

Although manufacturers such as Capcom are also somewhat quasi-faced, they are also trying their best to make games for PS.

This is mainly because the conditions given by PS are extremely generous, and the amount of the premium is very small compared to Nintendo.

The most important thing is the game's CD production, which can be made first and then paid.

In addition to the cheap price of CDs, this alone allows third parties to complete the creation and issuance of games without borrowing usury.

That’s right, except for the best game manufacturers, almost all Nintendo third-party games have to borrow usury.

Even Nintendo eventually developed a related company, specializing in this kind of usury work for third-party parties.

It can be said that for third parties, Nintendo is simply not a human being, and it is a marrow sucking for third parties.

The collective backlash of third parties, on the one hand, is certainly because Sony's strength convinces them, but on the other hand, it is mainly because Nintendo has caused them to be too big.

Of course, Erwuzi like Capcom was thinking about checks and balances.

If it can help Sony's Ps develop, it will break Nintendo's monopoly in the home phone market.

It is very likely that Nintendo will give in and let Nintendo come out of its small abacus.

If this is the case, it will definitely make more money to be able to sell games on both platforms than to only sell games on one platform.

It's ridiculous to say that manufacturers like Square Enix, who were small workshops at the beginning, could rise entirely by Nintendo's support, but manufacturers supported by Nintendo have completely broken with Nintendo.

And manufacturers like Capcom and Bandai Namco, who started making arcade games in the past, used to be produced in the red and white machine era, felt that they had an equal relationship with Nintendo.

Therefore, they did not break completely, but wanted checks and balances.

When "Endless Fantasy 9" was about to be released, news suddenly came from Nintendo that Junhei Yokoi, a veteran of Nintendo, resigned in early 1997.
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