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"This Hall B is so mysterious. For the past ten days, it has been blocked off. Other than the construction workers and staff, no one is allowed to enter. What is inside?!" In the Los Angeles International Exhibition Hall, a few staff members who are preparing for Hall A are mumbling.
These staff members are all employees of Electronic Arts in the United States. A few days ago, the company sent them to Hall A of the Los Angeles International Exhibition Hall to supervise the construction of the exhibition hall.
Although these workers were sent from Rosewood City in California to Los Angeles and had to be separated from their families for a period of time, they weren't too upset. After all, working in Los Angeles was relatively easy. They only needed to supervise the workers, instruct them to build the platform more firmly, and make the posters flatter and straighter. They also needed to make sure that they didn't paste the posters of different games together. Anyway, it was a very easy job, and they could also enjoy the travel allowance. The workers were very satisfied with it.
There are a lot of people in Hall A, and almost all of them are in the gaming industry. Although the competition between gaming companies is fierce, the staff members are very friendly in private.
After all, they will most likely be job-hopping in the future. Building a good relationship with people in the gaming industry will definitely benefit them in the future. Therefore, the staff members of the gaming companies often gather together to chat and have meals. They are very familiar with each other's situation.
For example, Nintendo occupied the largest area in Hall A. This company actually occupied one-third of the entire Hall A, but it couldn't be helped. After all, Nintendo had a lot of games under their hands, such as Mario Bros., Pokemon, The Legend of Zelda, Kirby of Stars, and more than a dozen popular games. Moreover, Nintendo was also a console manufacturer. For their consoles, Nintendo would definitely publicize them.
In any case, in this era, Nintendo was the absolute overlord of the entire gaming industry. Their plate was the largest, occupying one-third of the entire exhibition hall. There was nothing that could be said about it.
The second biggest company was Sony. They occupied about 14% of the exhibition hall. Sony was the most popular gaming company in the world this year. They had introduced the PS console, and it had the best performance and 3D graphics. They had defeated Nintendo's Super FC console and even defeated Nintendo's VB console. Now, Sony was in the limelight all over the world.
Everyone in the industry knows that this E3 is a battle between Sony and Nintendo. They want to see if the East Wind will win, or the West Wind will defeat the East Wind. The rest of the people in the exhibition hall are only here to watch and show off their products.
The third largest company in the venue was Electronic Arts, which was also known as EA.
EA is different from Sony and Nintendo. EA is a company that focuses on PC games. Due to the high price of PCs, the popularity of PCs is not high. Even in the US, there are only about 10 million PCs. That's why the sales of PC games are not high. Only a few hundred thousand PCs are sold. That's why the sales of PC games are not high. It is considered a masterpiece if a game can sell a few hundred thousand copies.
And if the sales could exceed 1 million, then it would be a godly creation of the universe, the Four Great Classical Novels, Super Mario, and Pokemon level existence.
Logically, EA's gaming revenue cannot be compared to Nintendo. After all, the PC game market is only so big, and console games are not like console games. There are more than 300 million consoles in the world.
But in fact, EA's gaming revenue is second only to Nintendo. It is even higher than Daqian Games. EA is the second most profitable gaming company in the world.
The reason was simple, it was because EA had a lot of games. Without mentioning other things, EA's speed of game development and release was unparalleled. In the past, they released 300 games in a year. At this rate, they were releasing one game per day.
EA also likes to acquire a large number of gaming companies and studios. They especially like to acquire those newly famous studios. This way, EA will have a large number of game IPs and game developers.
In 1995, EA's annual gaming revenue was 2.2 billion USD, while Da Qian's gaming revenue was only 1.2 billion USD. Of course, if you consider that 70% of Da Qian's gaming revenue came from Pokemon, then you will realize that Da Qian is really awesome.
These are the three biggest gaming companies in the exhibition hall. These three gaming giants take up almost half of the exhibition hall. The remaining 12% is given to hundreds of different gaming companies. From this, you can see how much influence these three gaming giants have in the gaming industry.
This makes the employees of these three gaming giants very proud. The employees of other gaming companies are very envious. They fantasize about how good it would be if they could join these three companies.
"Oh right, do you know what's going on in hall B? It's so mysterious! "an EA employee asked curiously when the employees were chatting with each other.
"I don't know!" Everyone shook their heads.
"You don't know. Hall B is also one of our gaming exhibition halls!" Just when everyone was confused, only Ren Tiantang's employees had a look of understanding. Obviously, they knew some inside information.
"Impossible. If hall B is also our exhibition hall, why are they surrounding it? Why don't they let us in? We can also arrange our exhibition in hall B! " Some of the employees of small gaming companies who didn't get a lot of space and could only hide in a few square meters of space suddenly shouted.
If Hall B was also the gaming exhibition hall this time, then they could totally run to Hall B, so that they wouldn't be squeezed by these gaming giants until they didn't have any space.
"That won't do. Although hall B is indeed the exhibition hall this time, the entire hall has been rented. You don't have the right to go in!" Nintendo's employee said disdainfully.
"What? How is that possible? Hall B has an area of 10,000 square meters. Which gaming company is able to book the entire Hall B? "Some of the people from smaller gaming companies were stunned when they heard this.
Hall B's daily rent was 50,000 USD. This was almost equivalent to a small gaming company's monthly income, or even a few months' income. This was too extravagant!
"Who is this company?!" Some of the employees of large companies didn't think it was impossible. After all, it's only fifty thousand dollars a day. Their companies can grit their teeth and pay this amount even if they don't make any money this year.
However, they couldn't figure out which company this awesome and rich company was. The three giants of the gaming industry were already in Hall A. Could there be a gaming company more awesome than the three giants in the world?
"Didn't you all notice that there is one gaming company missing among us?" Nintendo's employee asked.
"Who is it?! I didn't notice! "Everyone shook their heads. They really don't know which company is missing.
"Why are you all so slow today? Didn't you all notice that Daqian Games is not here? "Nintendo's employee asked.
"Daqian Games? I have never heard of this company! " Other than Sony and EA's employees, many of the employees of small gaming companies were stunned. They had never heard of this Daqian Games.
"Daqian Games. It's the company that developed Pokemon!" Nintendo's employee added.
"What? Aren't Pokemon developed by Nintendo?" The people from the small gaming companies were even more dumbfounded.
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