After a long period of silence, the two companies, Xinlang and Netyi, finally took action.

All along, Xinlang has always followed Qin Feng's footsteps closely. Whatever Qin Feng puts out, they will put out.

This kind of passivity makes them very embarrassed. Not only Wang Zhidong is embarrassed, but also the financial backer America Online is extremely embarrassed.

Therefore, they have been holding back their ultimate move to catch up with Qin Feng.

However, they are only engaged in social media. At present, the functions are very limited, so they are also thinking about turning in other directions. Pure social media, including Qin Feng, has not been profitable.

Even if Qin Feng launched a yellow diamond service, it was still based on "QQ Farm".

Therefore, AOL is thinking that the only breakthrough is in games.

After a market assessment, AOL and EA reached a cooperation agreement based on the current computer hardware performance and network conditions.

The cooperation between the two American companies is undoubtedly very natural and even natural.

For EA, although they look down on the online game market for the time being, the news from America Online is that in the Chinese market, a small game "QQ Farm" can earn more than 10 million US dollars a month.

This is still somewhat attractive to EA.

Therefore, EA also temporarily established an online game department within the company to cooperate with AOL to develop online games.

Of course, China's market is currently as famous as the United States' global Internet user market. Especially because China has a large population, this market is very large. Although China is still a developing country, it has great market prospects and great potential.

Therefore, EA has also developed an online game specifically for China, which is also one of its popular games: "Need for Speed".

"Need for Speed", as one of the most popular racing games in the world, can be said to be very popular. It is one of the best memories of almost all players.

Different from Japan's "Ridge Racer", "Need for Speed" directly brings all kinds of cool sports cars into the game, allowing players to easily have their sports car dreams.

This is its success.

Released in 1995, it has always been the favorite racing game among car fans.

The first generation was released in 1995. It had no name, just called "Need for Speed". It was originally released on 3do. As for 3do, it was a top-notch game console at the time, and its performance was far behind Nintendo's SFC and Sega's MD.

It can be said that before PS and SS came out, it was the king of home game consoles.

It was released in 1993, but the price was too high. The price of $699 made all players stunned.

This was 1993, and a game console sold for $699. That was robbery. You know, Sega’s DC game console, which will be released this year, only costs $199.

This was 1998. Five years ago, home game consoles sold for $699, which was outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that 3do's game consoles are expensive, but the games are sold cheaply, only selling for about 3 US dollars. This makes game manufacturers how to survive, so they have changed jobs and left the 3do platform.

In the end, 3do became a platform for various h-games. And at that time, most h-games were real-person games. Although the price of the game was low, the cost of supporting such a game was also low. Just get a game shell and find it again

Just bring some actresses and shoot some restrictive scenes, that'll be it.

But this model eventually led to the collapse of 3do. Its sales were only 125,000 units a year. At that time, whether it was Sega's SS or Sony's PS, it could sell more than 200,000 units in a single day.

Therefore, "Need for Speed" was quickly ported to the PC by EA.

Of course, the performance of computer PCs at that time was still very poor. Moreover, at that time, EA cooperated with the professional car magazine RoadTrack, and all the car performance included were very professional.

This is also the first generation with data that is completely comparable to real cars. However, this professionalism has also resulted in some cars with poor performance in the game that have no sense of gaming experience at all.

Therefore, "Need for Speed" is not a big success, and of course, it is not a big failure either. After all, it saved its capital and made a small profit.

This second generation in 1997 is also a transitional version.

Before that, it was released under the DOS version. By 1997, it was a world of win systems. Therefore, the adaptation to the win system made "Need for Speed ​​2" tepid.

There is no great performance. After all, the game itself is not optimized well enough.

But, soon. This year, the newly released "Need for Speed ​​3", which is also the first "Need for Speed" series game with a suffix name, "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit", became popular.

With the help of the more mature win98 operating system that has just been released, as well as ea's deeper understanding of the win system, optimization of driectx, and the superior performance of voodoo2, this generation has become popular.

Currently, "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit" is the most popular racing game in the world.

It has received unanimous praise from the gaming industry, with almost all gaming magazines giving it rave reviews.

In later generations, it was also honored as EA's most successful "Need for Speed" game.

In the game, in addition to normal racing, players can also choose the police car pursuit mode. In the police car pursuit mode, the player will not only be the target of being chased by the police car, but also can drive the police car. Players can use helicopters and helicopters during the pursuit.

Land support to intercept illegal racers.

It can be said that the fun of the game suddenly became richer. The whole game became extremely cool and the gameplay was diverse.

It can be said that "Need for Speed" truly became famous in this generation.

The scary thing about the cooperation between EA and AOL is that AOL persuaded EA to develop the now popular "Need for Speed ​​3: Hot Pursuit" into an online game version.

This requires a lot of courage. Especially for EA, it will lose a lot of money by converting a game that is selling very well into an online game.

After all, when you launch the online version, its stand-alone version will definitely be affected.

Fortunately, for the sake of trade-off, the online version is currently only launched for the Chinese market. This is to help AOL seize the Chinese market. At the same time, it is also an attempt by ea.

If it succeeds and makes money, then maybe the corresponding European and American versions will be launched. After all, all it will take is a transplant.

As for this online version, it is very simple to change. In view of the characteristics of online games, it has been changed to upgrade. Players continue to run racing cars to upgrade the racing cars to turn them into more powerful racing cars.

At the same time, players can choose a camp: the racing party and the police.
Chapter completed!