In the morning, with the developnt of video gas having co so far, traditional lines to buy gas and consoles had beco quite rare.
Especially for video gas—those days when huge crowds flooded the streets were hard to co by.
Even for Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, that no longer happened.
But ga sales hadn't decreased because of that.
It's just that most people, unless they had a special reason, would choose to purchase physical copies online—or simply buy the digital version so they could play imdiately.
However, consoles still carried a certain sense of occasion.
You couldn't exactly buy a digital console. You still needed the actual hardware.
And going to a physical store to buy one remained a solid choice.
Fathers carrying their newborns, people who looked like they just woke up from a hangover, teenagers clutching a year's worth of saved-up allowance...
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All kinds of people.
In this long line, it wasn't just a bunch of young faces like it used to be.
Now, there were children, seniors, adults, won, and n.
The diversity of the gaming audience was on full display.
And of course, reporters weren't going to miss this kind of news opportunity.
These days, there were very few things that could bring together so many people of different ages, genders, and backgrounds.
The last ti it happened was when Gastar Electronic Entertainnt launched its previous console.
This ti, the new console was priced at $399.
Compared to previous generations, that was quite high—but it didn't put a dent in people's enthusiasm.
Launching alongside the console were several gas: Super Mario Maker, a remastered version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Ti—a ga that pioneered 3D third-person adventure gaplay.
Also releasing was tal Gear Rising, a pure action-slash-em-up. Though a spin-off from the main series, its popularity was no less than the core gas.
There was also a new Uncharted title and Gastar's biggest flagship launch: GTA: Liberty City Chapters.
On average, each buyer of the new console purchased two to three gas.
And one of those, for almost everyone, was GTA: Liberty City Chapters.
Because from the start, it had been the centerpiece of Gastar's promotions.
In the very first wave of advertising, they had made it clear: "Supervised and developed by the ga god Takayuki himself. He personally led the entire developnt."
That tagline was more effective than any ordinary slogan.
Even players who weren't fans of realistic gas wanted to try it out.
Even though it was rated 18 from the start, it was certain to sell extrely well.
All around the world, similar scenes of people lining up for gas were playing out.
And Takayuki, watching these happy custors, felt a sense of accomplishnt—as if he had just perfectly completed a final level.
At the sa ti, he was also doing sothing else: opening up his own ga console.
Before that, Takayuki had announced that everyone in the company could take a week off unless their job was essential—like server maintenance or custor support.
Then Takayuki just holed up at ho and didn't leave.
This week, he was going to ga like crazy.
By now, it had been twenty-four years.
He had been in this world for twenty-four years.
And after all that ti pushing research and developnt, the gaming industry here had reached the graphical and technical quality of his original world—maybe even surpassed it in so areas.
Artificial intelligence, for example, was one area that had advanced well beyond his original tiline. When he crossed over, AI was just starting out. Now, it was widely and maturely applied.
In video gas, AI had been used to make gaplay richer and more dynamic.
Today, he was going to fully imrse himself in GTA 4.
And of course, he wouldn't miss the opportunity to promote the ga while playing it.
Since he was playing anyway, he figured—why not stream it?
So he set up a livestream, broadcasting his gaplay to the public.
But getting the stream up and running took him a while. He fumbled around trying to connect the visuals to the platform, which made him sigh—he was getting older. So of the newer tech was starting to slip past him.
Though truthfully, if Takayuki had just said the word, soone would have imdiately co help him set up everything.
If Facebook's staff had known, they probably would've rushed to his house instantly to set everything up—just so Takayuki could stream smoothly.
After all, this was the ga god. Getting him to stream on your platform? That was a huge deal.
This ti, Takayuki didn't use a secondary account.
He nad his stream account simply: "Takayuki (Official)" and then went live.
He picked up the controller and launched GTA: Liberty City Chapters.
Watching the ti, he waited until exactly 9:00 AM—the official launch ti in Japan—before clicking into the start screen.
At his level, he could've played the ga early without any trouble.
But to him, waiting until release ti had a kind of ritual to it.
Back in the day, whenever a huge title released, he would always stay up all night waiting for it.
Gas used to drop at midnight. He would even take a day off work just to play them the mont they released.
Today, he was recreating that exact feeling.
It brought him back to that passionate ti in his life when he loved gas more than anything.
To that ti when he was always counting down the days to the next big release.
"Huh? 'Takayuki (Official)'? What a bold na. Soone's actually calling themselves the real Takayuki?"
At the sa ti he clicked into the start screen, chat ssages started appearing in the stream chat.
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