That development time would be shortened by more than just a little.

A super mercenary corps of 2,500 people!

If they truly went all out, it would probably take at most four or five months to complete!

But the problem was!

If they did this...

Gu Sheng looked with a complicated expression at Little Nezha, who was nodding with satisfaction.

Wouldn't our development costs explode directly?

Previously, Gu Sheng had roughly investigated the development costs and efficiency of motion-sensing pod engines.

For example, Neon's Phoenix Engine, currently the most powerful engine in terms of image quality rendering, had a development time of about one year and nine months, with development costs around 87 million dollars.

And for example, Poland's Pride Engine, one of the commercial engines with the highest market share in Europe, had a development time of one and a half years, with development costs around 96 million dollars.

Of course, looking at the world's most advanced and comprehensively powerful engine currently, it naturally still belonged to Phantom Dream 5.

With a development period of two and a half years and development investment exceeding 130 million, it was called the most expensive commercial engine in history.

In summary, it could be seen.

Among the currently active commercial engines in motion-sensing pod game development work, development costs were all around 100 million dollars, with development times ranging from one and a half to two and a half years.

Actually, originally.

According to Gu Sheng's plan, the total investment for their [Golden Engine] wouldn't be much, controlled within 70 million dollars, with a development time controlled to about one and a half years.

An engine gap period of one and a half years.

Gu Sheng was confident they could endure it.

But he never expected!

One meeting!

Their young lady directly waved her little hand and assembled a mercenary corps of over 2,500 people!

Although the gap time would be greatly reduced, the corresponding development costs would also multiply!

If Gu Sheng's previous standard was 70 million dollars as the upper limit, then now, roughly calculated, if going all out to drive such a huge mercenary corps, development costs would start by tripling, and might even be more!

For Golden Wind now, investing such a huge amount of capital into engine development absolutely counted as major bleeding!

After all, previously, most of their liquid capital had almost all been invested into the development of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."

Although Modern Warfare was now bringing them unimaginably huge capital returns.

But this kind of all-in investment, like a reservoir problem with money coming in and going out simultaneously, was definitely not something ordinary local tycoons could pull off.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Gu Sheng's stunned, speechless expression, Shen Miaomiao knew she had made the right move with this step!

"I know, this is a difficult decision for us,"

Shen Miaomiao spoke earnestly, not only to Gu Sheng but also to the various mercenary corps representatives present:

"But with a powerful enemy before us, since we sit in these positions, we must shoulder this responsibility."

"Actually, speaking of which, we should thank Phantom Dream, thank them for choking Golden Wind at this time,"

"After all, as we rise day by day, sooner or later, they would become unable to sit still,"

"This is a step we must take, and at the same time, it's a step that proves our true rise,"

"Regardless of cost, regardless of expense,"

"We must use the toughest stance to tell our enemies—"

"Huaguo is not your foundry, nor is it your product dumping ground,"

"Huaguo is a fair Huaguo, Huaguo is our Huaguo!"

These words!

Made everyone present burn with passion!

At the same time, it also gave Gu Sheng a flash of inspiration!

Before this, he had been considering—how exactly could they find another path, achieve a breakthrough in technology, and thus surpass Phantom Dream 5 to some extent?

After all, in engine development, they were beginners; they absolutely couldn't casually surpass Phantom Dream Company with its years of technical experience right from the start.

Then!

Since we can't surpass Phantom Dream 5 in overall performance, we need to find another path, like Phoenix did, surpass Phantom Dream 5 in a certain aspect, even create progress from nothing, build our own core market competitiveness!

And this core competitiveness—Gu Sheng had been unable to find the method, unable to determine where exactly the focus point should be.

But now!

Shen Miaomiao's words made his heart surge and inspired a sudden idea!

He seemed to have found that development direction for the "from nothing" core competitiveness!

This would be a major advancement in the engine industry.

At the same time, it would also be a spectacular and magnificent leap forward creation in the gaming industry!

Seeing Miaomiao looking at him, and all the representatives present turning their gazes toward him!

Gu Sheng took a deep breath, nodded, and spoke in a deep voice!

"Chairman Shen is right."

"King Goujian of Yue slept on brushwood and tasted gall, finally destroying the State of Wu,"

"For so many years, we've been making games for them, acting as agents, even being their dumping ground,"

"Enduring their arrogance while waiting for the right moment,"

"And now, the moment has arrived—"

At this point, Gu Sheng couldn't help leaning forward slightly, his gaze sharp:

"Everyone, it's time to let them witness the greatness of our nation."

—!!!

As these words came out!

The venue instantly erupted with excitement and fervor!

Dragon head!

Golden Wind truly deserved their position as the leading representative company.

And truly deserved the title of national enterprise representative that had appeared four times in China Daily!

The combination of a supernova's birth and the most successful female CEO of the new generation was leading Huaguo's gaming industry toward the globe, advancing toward the world.

And now.

Some people didn't want them to rise.

Just as Shen Miaomiao said, now was the right moment.

And just as Gu Sheng said, it was time to let the enemies see the resilience and greatness of our nation!

[Golden Engine]

Project established!

.......

Undercurrents surged!

Because this time, Phantom Dream didn't deliberately keep their price adjustment plan confidential.

So within just a week, basically all mainstream manufacturers and groups internationally had heard about this price adjustment change.

Although Phantom Dream, for some reason unknown now, hadn't officially announced their price adjustment plan yet.

But discussions about this matter were already raging, with various manufacturers feeling insecure and constantly debating.

Even many media outlets had started speculative reporting and analysis on this matter.

And in such circumstances!

[Europa Interactive Entertainment Expo] was held as scheduled at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Gaul!

Including Huaguo's Nuyan, the United States' CloudPower, Poland's Aurora Games, Germanic FoxForce, and nearly a hundred other game manufacturers exhibited!

Actually, from the scale, it could be seen that the size of the Europa Expo had some differences compared to the global four major game expos.

After all, the four major game expos had hundreds of participating manufacturers, big and small, roughly calculated.

While the Europa Expo only had about a hundred manufacturers participating, most being small and medium-sized game companies.

Moreover, as a secondary expo, since the Europa Expo's main focus was usually on racing games.

So typically, the global gaming industry's attention to the Europa Expo had always been just moderate, basically just something for media to casually mention.

But this time!

The situation seemed somewhat different!

Although currently, the "Phantom Dream price adjustment" matter was boiling in the gaming circle.

But it seemed precisely because of this that this Europa Expo became even more noteworthy!

Because this would be the last international secondary game expo before Phantom Dream's engine price adjustment.

And!

According to the information various media outlets had now.

"European Truck," jointly launched with Nuyan, would very likely be the last game Golden Wind made using "Phantom Dream 5"!

《Final Song? Golden Wind to jointly launch last Phantom Dream 5 engine game with Nuyan at Europa Expo!》

《Road Ahead Uncertain! "European Truck" might become Golden Wind's final masterpiece!》

《Parting Ways! Reliable sources say "European Truck" jointly launched by Golden Wind and Nuyan will be the final work of the Phantom Dream 5 era!》

《What Lies Ahead for Huaguo's Engine? Many industry insiders speculate this engine price adjustment change will heavily damage Golden Wind!》

《Golden Wind's Difficult Winter: Europa Expo Might Become Supernova's Final Shining Stage》

(....

News reports came flooding in.

In this current situation with surging undercurrents, where Phantom Dream hadn't announced price adjustment policies nor had Golden Wind announced engine self-development, media opinions varied widely, with many even considering "European Truck" participating in this Europa Expo as the "final masterpiece" of Golden Wind and even Gu Sheng!

"...So as everyone can see, today we've come to Paris, Gaul, and behind me is the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center!"

Gaul time, 9:00 AM!

In front of the artistically distinctive, curvaceous three-story fully transparent glass curtain wall building, Daily Gaming News' dedicated field reporter Tian Tian greeted the camera.

Then, Tian Tian turned sideways and invited the two accompanying guests over:

"So today, besides me being on site, we've also invited two popular review editors from our Daily Gaming News livestream—Da Ming and Xiao Lin!"

That's right!

Coming to the Europa Expo this time, besides Tian Tian, Hao Xianming and Lin Xiaomeng also came along.

After all, now, with the opening of Daily Gaming News' livestream room, these two new-generation review editors of Daily Gaming News were becoming more known and loved by more viewers.

And at this moment, the chat barrage was noticeably more active compared to previous years, creating a lively atmosphere—

"Ah... envy Tian Tian..."

"Tian Tian Tian Tian can go on field assignments, so awesome"

"Tian Tian Tian Tian goes on field assignments... even foreigners might not understand this sentence"

"Punctuation test: [These days the weather is sunny every day, Tian Tian goes on field assignments every day]"

"Damn hahahahaha, what advanced Chinese test question"

"Da Ming and Xiao Lin are here too! No wonder there was no stream yesterday, they were slacking off to Gaul!"

"Da Ming and Xiao Lin (X), Xiao Lin and Xiao Lin's Pillar of Strength (√)"

"Da Ming: You're cursing again?!"

"Speaking of which, so many people are paying attention to this Europa Expo"

"Yeah, after all, everyone outside is saying this is Little Yellow's final masterpiece"

"So without Phantom Dream, is Little Yellow really finished?"

"That's not necessarily true, but short-term Little Yellow definitely can't find a replacement for Phantom Dream 5, which is a serious blow to subsequent game development"

"I just don't understand, is Phantom Dream out of their minds with this price adjustment?"

"Sanctioning Little Yellow, isn't that obvious? Clearly Little Yellow has beaten Komera and CloudPower to the point they can't take it anymore, they have to apply some pressure"

"Sigh... we don't have our own engine... truly being controlled"

"They say this is the last game Little Yellow participated in developing using Phantom Dream 5 engine, wonder how the quality is"

"Nuyan itself is an old hand at racing games, plus Old Thief, probably the quality won't be bad"

"But whether they can beat CloudPower this time is hard to say, after all, according to previous leaks, CloudPower's game this time is supposedly very high quality"

For a moment, opinions varied widely in the chat barrage!

And in this unprecedented level of attention!

This expo hailed as Golden Wind's final masterpiece and also Nuyan's crucial battle officially began as the group entered the exhibition hall!

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com