Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 152
Chapter 152: Chapter 150: Offering Salute for the Birth of the King
Translator: 549690339
Lincoln stared in disbelief at the headline.
“Is this really an article about us?” he asked incredulously.
‘Yep! Truly!”
“Okay, let me read it.” Lincoln put down the porridge in his hand and picked up the tablet to read the absurdly titled article.
Mavis discreetly vanished, not wanting to disturb Lincoln’s reading.
“Yesterday morning at eight o’clock, Cloud Dream Studio’s latest creation, “Assassins’ Alliance”, was released, attracting the attention of gamers across the industry.
Of course, this is another virtual reality game, a groundbreaking masterpiece that perfectly caters to players’ preferences and introduces numerous innovations.
But what we’re talking about today is not this game, but the game console that should have been the headline of all game media homepages, but was eclipsed due to the release of this game – The Mirage.
Yesterday, the world’s first virtual reality game console – The Mirage, officially sold over 10 million sets!
What does this figure mean?
When we talk about the top player in the gaming industry, we don’t generally discuss companies that produce PC and console games, because we take it for granted that the real industry leaders are the ones producing VR masterpieces.
The giants in the VR gaming world are three: NetDragon, Flying Fox, and Wild Island, so how many devices have they sold in total?
We don’t have the exact numbers, but based on the sales figures announced after each generation of equipment is released by these three companies, their total sales should be less than 23 million.
Considering the product upgrade cycles and the number of old devices damaged or obsolete, the market inventory can be confirmed to be around 20 million sets.
And now, The Mirage has arrived.”
This device is a brand new virtual reality gaming equipment that, technologically, undoubtedly leads the VR industry by an era – or more than one era.
And yesterday, the market inventory of The Mirage also broke through 10 million sets.
It hasn’t surpassed the total sales volume of the three VR giants yet, but these three should not have been counted together in the first place.
In a real sense, The Mirage has already surpassed the market share of any one of these three giants!
In other words!
Whether in terms of technological advancement or market share, Cloud Dream has essentially surpassed the three behemoths of NetDragon, Flying Fox, and Wild Island!
So, everyone! Let’s salute the birth of the new king!
We have often speculated about the outcome of the war between these three giants, curious about which company will finally leave the other two far behind and become the ultimate victor.
But what we never imagined was that all three giants would be left behind by the tide of time on the same day!
Starting today, the era of the three great gaming giants sharing equal footing has officially ended!
From now on, there is only one leader!
That is – Cloud Dream!
In the end, never forget: How long did it take Lincoln, the founder of Cloud Dream, to create this miracle from scratch?
Less than just two months!
I’ve said my piece, so everyone, feel free to start cheering!”
The article wasn’t long, and Lincoln finished it in a short while.
But after finishing, he was a bit bewildered. Sure, the sales exceeded 10 million yesterday, and I was slightly inflated then, but…
Isn’t this a bit too exaggerated!
Terms such as “The end of the era of the three giants” and “The one and only new king”… this isSo embarrassing!
These kind of grandiose statements are best left for others to say!
Look at this professional’s wielding pen!
“I can not! I must reward him! I can’t just accept this for free.” Lincoln clicked on the “Reward the author” option, ready to tip the author of the article.
He had put in 500 dollars, and just as he was about to confirm, he suddenly realized and quickly stopped.
Publicly rewarding an article praising himself with his main account although it’s based on facts, it’s still somewhat shameless.
“Mavis, help me out. Can you use a small account to reward this article for me?” “No problem! Leave it to Mavis!” Mavis hopped out of the tablet screen again.
She whipped out a cute frog-shaped wallet and took out a gold coin. With a skillful flick of her finger, it landed with a “pop” right on the “Reward the author” button.
Sure enough, Mavis’s small account appeared at the front of the reward record.
As expected, this article caused a huge stir, with countless players exclaiming in disbelief!
They marveled at how Lincoln could create such astonishing achievements in such a short amount of time!
Even just reading the comments could not satisfy their excitement, the number of people who tipped for this article was off the charts.
Lincoln even spotted a name in the tipping records that should never have appeared—
Flying Fox Gaming.
When he noticed the name, Lincoln thought it might be a case of an identical name or a deceptive imitation account.
But when he clicked on the profile of this account, he was astounded to discover: this was actually the official account of Flying Fox Gaming, one of the three largest VR factories in the domestic gaming industry!
What’s happening? An official account showing up to tip an article that belittles them and praises their competition?
“I don’t get it.” Lincoln shook his head.
“Mavis, any other interesting things happening?”
“Yes!” Mavis immediately responded. Because of Mavis’s high-intensity online surfing, she had countless interesting things to discuss.
Sometimes when Lincoln felt tired from studying, Mavis would share various jokes and gossip with him, and the two of them would have a laugh together.
Of course, Mavis wouldn’t start telling jokes to Lincoln right now. She displayed some more headlines to Lincoln—
‘”The Ultimate Niche Gaming Circle’, ‘The Real Luxury in the Gaming World’— The Mirage Beyond Daxie”
“What did Mirage Update? Explore the History of Mirage’s Updates Since its Launch and Analyze its Future Direction”
‘”Assassin’s Alliance’ Newbie Must-Read! 10 Essentials You Need to Know Before Entering the Game!”
‘”Assassin’s Alliance’ Amusement Park Mini-Game Types, Rewards, and A Complete Guide! ”
“Wait, wait!” Lincoln hastily stopped Mavis, “I’m curious about all of those!”
“Master, please start eating your breakfast! Shall Mavis read it to you while you eat?”
“Yes, yes, Mavis is the best.” Lincoln picked up his bowl again and started dealing with his breakfast.
Meanwhile. Mavis began reading the content Lincoln was interested in
“Every gaming platform has its corresponding gaming circle such as PC gamer circle, console gamer circle, VR gamer circle, even handheld console circle, and arcade circle. This is the same around the world
However, in the last two months, a new platform circle has emerged in Daxie— the Mirage player circle.
But the number of players in this circle has grown so rapidly, to the point where it skipped over the term “circle” and became one of the most mainstream gaming forms.
In foreign countries, Mirage gaming platform players are still a very, very small circle.
You could even say that this is a “phantom circle”.
There’s only one reason—foreign players who can genuinely use Mirage and play virtual reality games are just too, too rare!
As we all know, every time Mirage is available domestically, it’s sold out within a few minutes, and the market’s resale price has been bid up to 5 to 15 times. It all depends on how greedy the people you run into are, as well as if they are con artists or not.
Under these circumstances, the equipment that managed to be distributed overseas is so rare that you might be able to count all the consoles in an entire country on your fingers.
Moreover, Dream Cloud Studio has recently been established, and it has far from meeting domestic demand and has not yet begun overseas expansion.
Even if a few Mirage units did make it overseas, without the support of Dream Cloud’s servers, an individual wishing to connect to Dream Cloud’s servers to play the game must first learn about related networking technology.
As one can expect, if a foreign player wants to play virtual reality games, this is definitely a hardcore mode.
These various limiting conditions have made the Mirage console game circle the smallest and most niche, yet also the most high-end, player circle.
However, even with such hellish conditions, there are still players who have overcome tremendous challenges to enter the virtual world!
In the ‘Traveler of the Wind’ released earlier, due to unique communication limitations, we can’t tell if players matched with overseas players.
However, after the opening of ‘Assassin’s Alliance’ yesterday, nearly a hundred players can testify that they saw players from overseas in the amusement park.
Our reporters also interviewed these players as soon as possible and, through them, we could feel the strong desire and expectation of overseas players for virtual games.
All the interviewed overseas players are, without exception, eagerly hoping that Dream Cloud will soon sell the Mirage console in their countries so their friends will also have a chance to buy the console and experience this unimaginably wonderful game together.
It’s worth mentioning that during the game’s random matching mode, our reporter also met a very special ‘player’ from overseas.
And it’s very likely that this player is the most special one among all the overseas players!
The following is our actual interview record with this overseas player—”
“Wait, what’s going on?” Lincoln aske confusedly “Didn’t only one foreigner log into the game yesterday? How come they’re saying there are many overseas players?”
“Master, you’ve mistaken-” Mavis shook her head, “Yesterday evening, there were many overseas players logging into the game! But you were concentrating on your research, so Mavis did not disturb you.”
“Is it because of the time zone?” Lincoln guessed, “Are they all from America?”
“Master guessed wrong again-. The distant ones are from America, Britannia,
Ba Federation, Ilarya …… the close ones include Daxie’s vassal states Izumo and Baekje, as well as several countries in South Asia, but there are relatively fewer of them.”
Speaking of this, Mavis smirked proudly, “The internet in East Asia and South
Asia was established with the help of paxie. The base-laver protocol is
identical to Daxie’s! So Mavis can directly connect to them, bringing their information here! There’s very little lag!”
“Ah … this.” Lincoln didn’t know how to react.
Mavis continued to read enthusiastically..
