One
Pre-Spring Festival gift package: 88 edition numbers were issued, including Tencent, Netease, Mihayou, and Sanqi
Less than a week before the Spring Festival, the first batch of 88 domestic game version numbers in 2023 will be officially released!
This means that the issuance of game version numbers has gradually become normal, and the number of approved game version numbers has gradually expanded.
Since the resumption of the release of the version number in April 2022, a clear trend is that the version number is tilted towards small and medium-sized game manufacturers and medium and light and casual games, and Tencent NetEase and other large manufacturers have repeatedly accompanied them, and few version numbers have been obtained.
This phenomenon was reversed at the end of 2022.
In the list of the last batch of version numbers in 2022, large companies such as Tencent, Netease, Perfect World, and Gigabit have frequently appeared, and many medium and heavy mobile games have also obtained version numbers. Among them, Tencent became the biggest winner, winning 4 imported game versions and 1 domestic game in one fell swoop, including many blockbuster games such as "Valorant" and "Pokémon Assemble".
Judging from the first batch of edition numbers in 2023, large companies continue to lead - Tencent, Netease, Sanqi, Gigabit, Perfect World, Mihayou, Kaiying Network, Xindong, Zulong Entertainment and other head and mid-waist companies have obtained version numbers.
Specifically:
Tencent continued to be the biggest winner, winning a total of 3 game numbers: "Dawn Awakening: Life", "White Night Aurora", and "Yuan Meng Star", and 37 Interactive Entertainment won 2 game version numbers: "Mortal Cultivation Immortal Legend: Human Realm Chapter" and "Fu Shake a Dream".
Netease, Perfect, Mihayou, Gigabit, Glacier Network, Kaiying Network, Zulong, Xindong and other companies obtained 1 edition number:
NetEase "Extraordinary Vanguard", Perfect World "Dragon Babu 2: Flying Dragon Battle Days", Mihayou "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", Gibbit "Super Evolution Story 2", Zulong Entertainment "In the Name of Shining", Xindong Company "Torchlight: Infinite", Glacier Network "Twilight Fantasy", Tom Cat "Tom Cat Little Warrior", Kaiying Network "Dragon God Babu no Westward Journey".
(Key products are introduced below)
1. "Dawn Awakening: Life": At present, the official website has more than 17 million reservations
Developed by Tencent Photon Studio, an open-world survival mobile game based on Unreal Engine 4.
2. "Honkai: Star Dome Railway": The official website has more than 8 million reservations
"Honkai: Star Dome Railway" is a new galactic adventure strategy game developed by Mihayou.
3, "Dragon Babu 2: Flying Dragon War Heaven"
"Dragon Babu 2" is a 3D real martial arts MMORPG mobile game licensed by Jin Yong.
Two
Three major research and judgments on the game version number
Research and judgment 1: The normalization of the version number is implemented, and 70-80 can be expected per month without "special circumstances".
Looking back at the game version number in 2022, except for the "opening meeting" and "mask factor" affecting the version number review, resulting in the suspension of distribution in individual months, the trend of "normalization" after the resumption of version numbers is basically stable.
And the re-release of the version number after half a month also shows once again that the version number is normalized. December, and today's edition number issuance, also made some industry rumors of "no release number years ago" self-defeating.
If there are no "special circumstances", we can expect 70-80 editions per month. This means that the industry's top and mid-waist enterprises are expected to obtain several editions a year.
Judgment 2: The marginal relaxation of the subject matter review by the edition number.
Typical of Tencent's "Dawn Awakening", public information shows that the game is Tencent Photon's self-developed survival masterpiece and an open-world survival mobile game. This kind of doomsday survival theme is often not particularly easy in the application and review of the version number, and the marginal relaxation of the subject matter by this review or the description of the version number review greatly enriches the diversity of the industry, avoiding the situation of single theme + single gameplay, and one or two products are "one family alone".
Judgment 3: After last year's "crowding out effect", this year's application version game is expected to be more high-quality.
The gaming industry in 2022 was relatively quiet, leading some companies to lay off projects and some companies to stop operations. In this case, it is expected that the version number applied for in 2023 will be more refined.