Actually, with Dragon Quest already dominating the market and Final Fantasy pushing its gameplay to the limit, it's hard to see any major breakthroughs in gameplay.
The only difference is that Final Fantasy focuses on darker storylines, giving players different choices.
Dragon Quest 3 has truly perfected the current gameplay, making it difficult to surpass in the short term.
Of course, there are some highlights, such as more stylish job settings and skill designs compared to Dragon Quest.
The world-building also looks cooler now.
The Crystal Mythology system sounds quite upscale, more attractive than Dragon Quest's traditional storyline of ancient demon kings reincarnating to destroy the world.
Apart from that, there isn't much else.
But RPG players are not picky at all.
In fact, they even hope for RPGs with almost the same gameplay, as long as the story is interesting enough.
It can be said that RPG players are easier to please.
The first-week sales of Final Fantasy 1 were 370,000 copies.
In the process of the SFC sales surpassing one million and heading towards two million, such sales were quite good.
The neighboring Sui Rui Electronics, which just released the new handheld console HM1, had nothing to do about this.
Even without any gameplay breakthroughs, the RPG games from Gamestar Electronic Entertainment are still widely popular.
But due to the limited sales of the consoles themselves, they couldn't expand the sales of their Sun Knight game much, they can only take it slow.
It's always like this. Just as things start to look up, Gamestar Electronic Entertainment would mercilessly crush your fantasies.
But at the same time, they seem to leave a glimmer of hope, making you feel that you still have some potential to continue.
It's in this state that Sui Rui Electronics' game business division can maintain relatively stable revenue and expenses.
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"Please, just let me borrow your GB to play for a while! As long as you let me play, I promise to do your homework for a week!"
In a classroom of a primary school, during the break, several children surrounded another child, staring intently at the GB handheld console in the central child's hands.
The first-week sales of GB were extremely hot, reaching 700,000 units.
But on average, there weren't actually many children who owned one.
Not everyone can afford to buy such toys for their children.
Especially some parents who think that such things would affect their children's studies, wouldn't buy them no matter what.
As a result, if anyone in a class had a GB, that child would immediately become the focus of attention for countless other boys.
In this classroom, only Kotaro owned a GB handheld console.
This was thanks to his father also being a player now, so he was relatively open-minded about playing games.
And Kotaro had already made plans for the future - his dream was to become a game developer and create the best game in the world!
As for now... he'll play first.
Due to being in a relatively open-minded family environment, Kotaro always managed to get the latest electronic games first.
Once a relatively transparent student in the class, he was now a little star in the class.
And he enjoyed this feeling very much, which also strengthened his dream of making games in the future.
"Alright, alright, I'll let you play for a day, remember, don't let the teacher catch you, and don't let your parents catch you either, or else if it's confiscated, you'll have to compensate me!"
Kotaro repeatedly warned the classmate who had begged him for ten days.
Between them, the relationship used to be average, but because of electronic games, the relationships between the boys quickly improved.
And now even the girls had their own favorite things, called Tamagotchis.
They would discuss passionately every day about how their little babies were growing, and occasionally a few girls would gather together, exchange signals via infrared wireless, and then complete the achievement of marriage.
Every time a pair of little babies completed the marriage achievement, the girls would specially hold a small wedding ceremony for them, making a small wedding dress for their egg-shaped Tamagotchis, which looked quite realistic, and they were immersed in the process of raising little babies.
The boys despised those things, thinking that only weak girls would play with them, while GB was the romance of boys!
Kotaro handed the console to the classmate and felt a little reluctant.
But recently, he had almost played through all the GB games released, except for Tetris, which had no ending, all the other games had been completed at least three times, including the super baseball game.
So it wasn't a big deal to let his classmate play.
The child who borrowed the GB happily took the GB handheld console and ran to his seat, and soon all the children ran to him, staring at him playing with wide eyes, while Kotaro felt a little idle.
At this moment, he occasionally glanced towards where the girls were gathering.
His gaze focused on one of the classmates, with a faintly bewildered light in his eyes.
Unable to control himself, he walked over and joined the group of girls.
"You're playing Tamagotchis, huh? How many marriage achievements have you completed?"
The girls were startled by Kotaro's voice, turning their heads to look at him.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?"
"Go away, go away, you boys go play your GAMEBOY, isn't that thing meant for boys? Don't mix with us girls who play Tamagotchis."
A female student made a shooing gesture.
But Kotaro didn't back down, instead, he squeezed over and said, "Don't rush to drive me away, if you're discussing Tamagotchis, we can also have a chat."
"Huh? Do you also play Tamagotchis?"
The girls looked at Kotaro suspiciously.
And Kotaro sneakily glanced at the girl in the crowd.
He found that she was staring at him now, so he immediately straightened up.
"Ahem, as a high-end player, naturally, I have experience with all kinds of electronic games. And my favorite person once said that electronic games are not divided into male and female, only good and bad. Any game can be played by anyone. So I don't think there's anything wrong with me playing Tamagotchis for a bit. And let me tell you, some of the little babies in Tamagotchis actually have some connections."
"Connections? Aren't those little babies fake? Where's the connection?"
"Hehe, you just don't understand, do you? Have you seen a trailer for an animated series called Pokémon recently?"
"No." The girls shook their heads.
"Then let me explain it to you. Actually, I'll tell you, some of the little babies in Tamagotchis will appear in this animation, and there's a lot of detailed information about these little babies in the animation. These are all exclusive news that I painstakingly obtained."