Chinese Video/Computer Games

Mcsweeney

Junior Member
There's a lot of negative sentiment around Genshin Impact these days, with players feeling like the game is stagnating with lame plot progression and the devs not listening to player feedback on how to improve the game. Wuthering Waves on the other hand had a rocky debut and many people wrote it off at the time as a failure, but it's now made a comeback with the game massively improving with subsequent patches and the devs listening closely to player feedback. A lot of Genshin influencers are actually switching to Wuthering Waves now because the game mechanics are far superior.

The Chinese gacha game industry is basically becoming the Chinese EV industry where it's fiercely competitive and the companies have no choice but to deliver an excellent product or go extinct.
 

GulfLander

Captain
Registered Member
I said this last year and during 2023 that by 2025, Chinese games will explode in quality. The best part is that 2025 has only just started. Wait till 2030 arrives and after, we will most likely dominate the gaming scene just like how we did with electronics.
Does CN hav domestic substitute w software for like unreal engine? Incase of sudden unexpected things...
 

Aniah

Senior Member
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Does CN hav domestic substitute w software for like unreal engine? Incase of sudden unexpected things...
I know Unity China is a China-exclusive version of Unity and I've heard it's the most advanced version but in terms of a completely domestically made engine then I don't know. I've heard from somewhere that Tencent has their own engine but I'm not sure there's any proof of that.
 

OppositeDay

Senior Member
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I know Unity China is a China-exclusive version of Unity and I've heard it's the most advanced version but in terms of a completely domestically made engine then I don't know. I've heard from somewhere that Tencent has their own engine but I'm not sure there's any proof of that.

Chinese companies wouldn't have invested so much resources into Unity China without some reassurance re sanctions. Unity China is a Chinese company and likely have a permanent license to develop and market a fork of the 2022 version of Unity in China.

As for domestic engines, there are Chinese MMOs that looks decent with inhouse engines.
 

Tam

Brigadier
Registered Member
There's a lot of negative sentiment around Genshin Impact these days, with players feeling like the game is stagnating with lame plot progression and the devs not listening to player feedback on how to improve the game. Wuthering Waves on the other hand had a rocky debut and many people wrote it off at the time as a failure, but it's now made a comeback with the game massively improving with subsequent patches and the devs listening closely to player feedback. A lot of Genshin influencers are actually switching to Wuthering Waves now because the game mechanics are far superior.

The Chinese gacha game industry is basically becoming the Chinese EV industry where it's fiercely competitive and the companies have no choice but to deliver an excellent product or go extinct.


Not saying WuWa is bad but Genshin creamed it right to the very top of Sensor's revenue charts in January 2025 with $99 million.

Hoyo still laughing it's way to the bank apparently.
 
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