‘Wukong’ Makes Game History in First-Day Rush
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- "Black Myth: Wukong" is a Chinese-made game backed by Tencent which has become the second-most popular title ever on Steam within hours of its launch, a strong first-day performance which could shore up expectations for China's $40 billion gaming arena after years of regulatory scrutiny. Niko Partners CEO and President Lisa Cosmas Hanson joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss on "Bloomberg Technology."
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Can't wait to see Wukong testify before congress
😆
Mr Wukong are you a member of the CCP? Sir does your staff have the ability to connect to my wifi network?
Is Wuhong Singaporean? 😂
Fast foward to "Havoc in Congress" 😆
congressman, I'm a monkey...
Expecting some US Congressmen start to declare: The Chinese game company is a threat to US national interests..
Who do you think you are
Subpoenaed Wukong to congress hearing, with Bajie accompanied preferably
@@newerforbut they forget that west in the journey to the west is not America or Europe
@@Q_QQ_Q😂😂😂
It is with the malware it contains 😜
US Govt: "This game is a threat to our national security, we need to ban it"
According to these U.S. Congressmen, WuKong must be an associate of, and secretly working for, the CCP.
LOL
With billions and billions of America Tech companies donations, partners in crime
Play god again
I can foresee that😂
China has talent, has money, has massive gamer population and most of all has a long history filled with many great, real and mythical stories.
but they can only create a Jack Mah ? can the cartoony jack be compared to Musk , Jobs , ....Can China " Invent , Create " rather than be a Cat ? that sort of cat we all know ....Brains from West + Production in China = best way .
@@davidwong7283 中国还创造不出来萝莉岛呢，傻逼
@@davidwong7283 you're certainly no brains from the west despite your kongkonger name. China has been inventing creating for thousands of years and is returning to that now. Look at the BYDs.
@@davidwong7283 wtf you stroke?
We don't have LGBT shit, nobody will buy a game with those disgusting idea
Kudos to the guest, Lisa Cosmas Hanson, for staying professional and focus on the game itself and gaming industry in general. The hosts kept trying to bait her to be political by asking her opinion about the Chinese government this or that. It is just a game developed by a private gaming company, so stop politicize everything just because it is coming out of China. Geez
A Chinese fart on the street, and then United States journalists: What role do you think the Chinese government plays behind it, and what impact will this have on global warming?
Agreed
Bots
Chinese game developers have 5000 years of history and culture to draw inspiration from
actually, most of ASIA countries has a lot of history and culture too. but, china has the BIGGEST opportunities to draw it to the game, film, etc.
@@ilzafadilatulhaq1780Chinas influenced.
@@jsc3417 not fully for some countries
well, history overcapacity
@@ilzafadilatulhaq1780 when will India produce a game like this?
It’s rare a game attracts the attention of international media, they did a great job, I saw some streamers playing this game on twitch
no it didn't, that girl who wrote the article in IGN that lock and leave his twitter account probably ran to the communist murican's politician and so they would now soon announce that Chinese online games are a threat to us national security.
Its been a long 4 years of waiting.
Next up is phantom blade zero which is also from a chinese developer.
When? @@chuy3840
81% of its sale came from China.
Congress man : Are you Singaporean?
Wukong : No, I am not.
Congress man : Are you in any way related to Singapore ?
Wukong : No, I am not.
Congress man : Are you a security threat to the US ?
Wukong : May be, if Americans are frightened by a monkey or a digital game.
Wukong: Brother, I am the Great Sage Heaven's Equal, the victorious fighting Buddha. You can combine all your puny forces and still will loose to me in fire power.
Thank you for making me laugh! 😅😂
😂you are a genius
Wukong Singaporean😂
秀 儿
when you dont have to pay parasites the like of SBI millions of dollars to ruin your game, you can spend the money on real engineers to make the game amazing...
Worse paid them millions to screw up your games. 😁😁
Fun fact: the Japanese comic Dragon Ball was motived by the story of Wukong. And the name Goku is actually the Japanese pronunciation of Wukong (悟空)
yes， that is true
你咋这么搞笑呢 悟空就是中国的发音 你那么愿意当日本人的狗 自己当去
It is the other way around.
@@OHOHOHCOME Confirm, I've seen Goku personally in the 15th century before Journey to the west was written. That's straight up robbery. Those shameless Chinese. 😑
@@MGZetta I read somewhere that the author of JTHW watched dragon ball Z and loved how Goku became supersayan, that’s why in his novels he put a limiter on WuKong so that he doesn’t go ham on the rest of the characters.
You can't imagine that China has an extremely grand mythology system. I was very excited when I heard that the following series of Black Myth would include Jiang Ziya and Zhong Kui.
I've just heard about this new today. Game science registered these 2 names.
Game Science refused to pay for DEI Consultant services with a $7M quote
That's sheer extortion.
Pay 7M and woke the game
yeah. no wonder why the game is good. they know what game they want to make
Just saw the secret boss fight of the 2nd ending.
This game makes GOW , elden ring , dark souls 3 , Sekiro and Godzilla vs Kong look like kiddy cartoons .
This is not a game . This is what we gamers wanted to play for a long time .
This is art people
This is pure art .
1. The multiple endings
2. The atmosphere
3. The sheer spectacle
4. The ever changing gameplay
Is ironic that she ask these tests, it was a chinese game that proved gaming can be revolutionized by anyone .
Thank you GAME SCIENCE. ❤THEY HAVE DELIVERER ON THEIR PROMISE.
@@zacksmith5963 yo chill dude😅. After playing black myth wukong over 4 hrs on my first night,I agree that everything you said about the game is true and much more. It has a lot of unique things that those games don't have but it doesn't make those games look like kiddy cartoons. Actually it definitely borrowed some ideas from Sekiro and others. Sekiro, God of War, elden ring among others have earned their right as some of the best games ever made and Black Myth is joining those ranks now. 😊
Wukong stays inside the heart of ALL Chinese boys for hundreds of years. It teaches us how to stand firm in front of whatever god/power. So yes, we have traditional of single power government, but we also have traditional to push down government when it don't do its job well.
Which is why Chinese dynasties don't last very long.
@@Steve-pq7cb yup, each of them last only for a few centuries. how long has america existed btw
Exactly right. We have not turned down the CCP just because it is not bad enough till now. If CCP behaves the same as Biden or Trump or Obama, it should have been turned down 3 times.😄 Now the pressure is in the hands of American people.😄
...lol where's Jack ma?
which government did you push down in the last 100 years ?
When Bloomberg TV finds nothing bad to say about a Chinese news, you KNOW it HAS to be SPECIAL!!
Gamers don't really care about all this wokeness and political correctness. You make a great game, gamers will play it. Stick to the core of gaming and you will attract a big market. Kudos to China.
It's funny that the host always trys to lead the expert to talk about something politically triggering, and the expert would always bounce back with only data based professional insights.
Just announced the game sold 10 million copies worldwide in THREE DAYS....just ludicrous!
As a game developer in China, Lisa is surprisingly accurate in this reporting.
It's rare western media don't lie when it comes to China.
Best part about China and Eastern game devs is that there is no DEI. So refreshing to play games that don’t shove these things down your throat.
Yeah, you clearly need to look harder if you think eastern entertainment doesn’t get political.
And its the most racist country in the world.
This is a threat to national security. BUT AT WHAT COST??
"Everting!"
This game is platformed on PS5 /steam ....
I came here to say the same 😂
lol
Uh this doesn't work.
Asian Devs pumping out bangers after bangers, Lies of P, Stellar Blade, Wukong whereas North American Devs giving us AAAA disappointments.
Elden Ring
@@elmohead Elden ring is Japan Dev, mate
Lmao @@elmohead
The last good game from a Us company was God of war
@@thehumus8688 i was just putting another awesome game in that list.
The guest forgot to mention a very important factor that contributes to its success. The dev of the game has been attacked by western woke journalists. It’s just the game players giving the middle finger to the western game woke community.
How so
This comment is brain rot
Yea, Western game devs better get their act together and abandon DEI and identity politics in games or they will get left behind and Eastern game studios will regain dominance with China being a new player in town.
@@vary1143the journalist call the game lack of diversity .😂
@@vary1143 The media did some google translation off one of the main game dev's weibo post, which turn out to be far off from its original meaning, and create a whole sexist article using that wrong google translation. It's really stupid accusation, and honestly not calling it out here and not giving those woke media attention is probably the best treatment here
this is so crazy & insane... china's first game (black myth wukong) 20M plays on day one, worldwide hit & game of the year 2024!
2M, btw
@@wqxwy 2M concurrently but 20M total.
I think the line we all ear from the government is "How can we ban this game from the USA so EA and Bethesda win the market without competition?"
Correct. There's a fear that Chinese companies will have the same effect on us that some Japanese companies had during Japan's rise.
As the Chinese Olympic champion swimmer said, "It's just the beginning."
Some white guy will say that games can't improve that much in a short time. They must be cheating,
81% of its sale has come from China. so NO.
Wu 悟 = understand, fathom
Kong 空 = emptiness
This story is based on a novel.
To be exact, WuKong is base on one of the character from "Journey to the West" its one of China's 4 great classic novel written in the 16th century.
@@wf645 Worth watching or reading before playing i hear
So basically the monkey understands nothing? Or that he understands that everything is emptiness?
@@Hermit-Crab the name was given so that he was reminded to attain the understanding. I don't think the monkey cares actually. He's not the philosophical type.
@@MyKharli nope. It's in Chinese. Unless you understand Chinese it's not worth reading in English. Like it's not worth reading Ulysses in Chinese. Also it's only inspired by the novel. While the characters are mostly the same, the storyline is outside the novel.
She keeps asking China this and China that. This is a worldwide phenomenon and as the guest said the game happened to come from China.
Not really, 81% of its sale has come from China.
Bloomberg has decayed. This is a global game phenomenon. The fact that they kept asking political questions repeatedly with baits and stuff shows how limited they are and doesn't serve their investors any good. It blocked the true value of this event.
Highest concurrent players recorded. More than the second and third players combined
Wouldn't be surprise if this CEO gets invited to Congress in the following months and gets asked, "Does Black Myth Wukong access the WiFi" or "Does Wukong provide data for the CCP"
This is not a game they just made in a few months to even a year. They started showing teaser gameplay demos 4+ years ago. They spent a lot of time on it to make it the best they could. Not saying its perfect, but so much work went into it. Gonna get my copy soon.
The fact that employees got a day off to play the game tells you something about the gaming industry in China. Even bosses got into playing of games.
Just make great games again. Easy
The success of Wukong is largely due to its focus on gameplay rather than pushing a 'woke' agenda. Prioritize creating games that emphasize quality and entertainment over political messaging, and you'll have a winning formula.
It’s ridiculous that you do not even mention how many ppl in the West love this game. I can’t wait to buy and play it. And eff DEI
A mainstream video game commentator who actually knows the subject matter and is respectful.
This lady is professional in game industry and Chinese game business.
Since when bloomber gives a crap about the video game industry?? Let me guess...because is chinese they gotta throw shade and make a headline, right?
The Niko Partners CEO Lady is very knowledgeable about gaming. She’s definitely a gamer!!
No feminism no gayish bulshit no wokeness!!love how this company exceeds expectations by staying true to their roots and culture unlike some other gaming companies😂😂
She knows her stuff
The game was made by the heart and soul by the developers, you can tell by how it was created
Senator: whom did your venerable master serve?
Wukong: The Tang Dynasty
Senator: so you're affiliates with the CCP
Greetings, beautiful game, I love it. The beauty and richness of Chinese history and mythology, fantastic
It's a really high quality game. I love ancient Chinese culture especially supernatural stuff they mix with it.
is Wukong a member of the CCP? this is a matter of national interest
yes and he is the boss of the CCP.
cry bitch cause the chinese are fine with their government. lololol
Is wukong thinking of applying for US citizenship??? If wukong really apply any chance 🤔
That’s just stupid …. Dumb yank
Their overall attitude is... How did these lowly Chinese achieve this? WTF?? Instead of... "Wow, let's admire it for what it is. Congrats to the Chinese game developers.... "
Not game ever got this sort of attention. Well done game science
Except gta 6
For a small studio (unknown studio) this is a hugggge win for them 💰 🤑 💸
I am going to see a lots of wukong this coming Halloween 😂
81% of its sale has come from China.
I dont think people realize how rich Chinas history is, and how vast their lands are. If someone would just be willing to make more ancient Chinese games with ancient chinese culture, ghost of tsushima would not scratch the amount of times the kingdoms have clashed and the mandate of heaven was passed on from one kingdom to another. Or how many times the Chinese defended clashes with the mongols in the north with the great wall being built. The Katana is not a better sword than the best of Chinese swords. They should make more Chinese games with Chinese culture and history.
Tell that to 20k chineses who entered the US illegally from Mehico last year.
@@richschm China was an economic power for 2000 years, every civilization had an up and down. So it's easy to point fingers now, but they're making a comeback, we get to see it happen before our eyes. It's quite an amazing thing, to be a part of history. We get to see China become a major superpower again, within our lifetime, and that's something to be proud to be a part of in history.
@@richschm ...Those Chy!nese are cr!m!nals escaping Chy!na, you 1dd110tt. What happens when your c0untry intenti0nally "allows" illegals for cheap lab0r, while Chy!na defends their border and pr0tects their citizens from illegals. US truly is a c0untry of cr!m!naals.
No Dei = break records
for real, wtf assassins creed. you put a black man in ancient japan? Asian erasing.
@devinwynn1299 yk they gave an American ex president powers right ?
Like the guy got powers n tech
Which isnt real
The black guy u talk is is real history and actually lived and was a good. Fighter
Like bro
It's a video game
@@vary1143Their suspension of disbelief breaks whenever you nudge a brown person into frame.
Magic. Aliens. Apples of Eden.
*immersion intensifies*
~1 Black guy.~
“YOU GOT CHOCOLATE IN MY PEANUT BUTTER!!! Grrrrr!!!”
@@devinwynn1299 Not a black man. A gay black samurai
Yasuke is a historical figure but he was not a samurai and not a gay, they use him as entertainer, there is no record of him being a samurai but ubiwoke came in shit all over japanese history and culture that is what people don't like. It's not about black guy. Make black samurai as fictional game no one going to complaint. Why need to nosy about change other country history like cleopatra in Netflix.
So do you need wifi to play it?
U need WiFi to download it if you buy on steam or PS5. But otherwise you play offline.
参议院先生，是的，我想说，需要wifi。但他有可能通过你家里的wifi盗取你的个人资料。利用个人资料，我们可以用核弹远程锁定你。这非常危险，诚实的建议。
From one of the most popular Chinese novels/movies Journey to the West to Black Myth Wu Kong. It’s just amazing, the readers can actually be a Wu Kong now and that’s so cool.
Ban black Myth … it is either a national security issue, or over capacity, or whatever…
Don't worry, China has WuKong to fight them!
Why Bloomberg interviewed this lady ,who does not like a game player.
Go and interview a game player in the western countries and see what their views on BlackMath: Wu Kong are.
When west medias keep talking about collapsing economy of China, it is hard for them to believe that China team can develop such world level PC game which were sold 4 million copies in a few days. Chinese game players are not short of money at all.
Wait a minute. No one ever doubted China's ability to make games. China has been making games successfully for some time. The entire East Asia is making games. A couple months ago, the chart topper was Stellar Blade (South Korea). Today, it is Black Myth Wukong (China). Nobody cares which country of East Asia makes games, as long as the game is good, and Black Myth Wukong is good. Gamers just want to play games. Whether it comes from China has no relevance to gameplay.
She sounds very professional and knows the stuff she's talking about.
You don’t sound like a qualified game player because you’re the only person in the comments I saw who denied that she was professional and a real gamer.
It seems you misunderstood ‘anti woke’ as ‘anti women’: I’m confident that your slander came from her gender, and gender only. [otherwise, PROVE it.]
Plus, it seems you just don’t understand what business news (not gaming news) is.
There are different types of interviews. You may express your opinion that you prefer interviews with game enthusiasts, but who are you to deny that interviews with analysts of gaming industry, who are able to see things more professionally and objectively, are also welcomed.
@@graceli6886 I just realized that a game player requires qualification. Are you qualified? By who?
I prefer an interview with a real WuKong player ,instead of a CEO of certain company, am I free to share my view no matter you like or not?
@@xgguo3531 exactly. Who are you to disqualify another person with no evidence? Read your first sentence in OP again.
Just have fun, less politics. Win for all. Wukong is a rebel, and has free spirit.
What did we learn? DEI does not necessarily equate to profits!
China does not make DEI their priority BUT competency and talent to develop awesome products.
Its merits not DEI that gives superb products.
It has no DEI bz it's the most racist country in the world.
China game companies all the way have been making a good and great games. But they are all gacha, p2w mmorpg or mobile games oriented. I mean look at Genshin Impact and Kings of Glory. So when one company want to penetrate the steam user based. The chinese people explode and support it. The are very patriotic and love their culture and motherland.
Wow Lisa was the perfect guest for this. She definitely knows her stuff.
This is just the BEGINNING!
Dont forget ..steam is also earning handsomely. .. its a win-win situation for both the party. If only US government understands this.
Every Chinese gamer knew this game was going to sell many PS5...
Journey to The West & Romance of The 3 Kingdoms - Any games that created around these 2 theme have a big global appeal especially to the Chinese & Overseas Chinese audience particular in South East Asia.
Wu Kong overcapacity.
Congressman: The antennas on your head. Do they have access to my WiFi?
US Government: This game poses a serious national security threat to the United States.
But at what cost? A giant middle finger to western liberalism?
the fuck are you talking about bro. Why does this have to be a middle finger to western liberalism? why can't people in China have the right to express their creative artistry too? Why can't we all share our cultures and coexist? Why is only one culture allowed to dominate? And what does this have to do with western liberalism? Why are you politicizing everything.
Which isn’t a bad thing when you consider that Western liberalism is pretty much woke DEI crap nowadays.
And conservatives. Yes.
Just saw the secret boss fight of the 2nd ending.
This game makes GOW , elden ring , dark souls 3 , Sekiro and Godzilla vs Kong look like kiddy cartoons .
This is not a game . This is what we gamers wanted to play for a long time .
This is art people
This is pure art .
1. The multiple endings
2. The atmosphere
3. The sheer spectacle
4. The ever changing gameplay
Is ironic that she ask these tests, it was a chinese game that proved gaming can be revolutionized by anyone .
Thank you GAME SCIENCE. ❤THEY HAVE DELIVERER ON THEIR PROMISE.
Your Western liberalism doesn't even know what a woman is.
To be fair, Chinese government actively suppress its gaming industry, passing numerous laws against Chinese gaming industry. This game succeed DESPITE Chinese government, not because of it. If Chinese government would stay put, China could have the biggest and most innovative gaming industry in the world.
The US politicians strongly believe in Tonya Harding philosophy. "If you cannot compete fairly, break opponent's leg!" You bet the US politicians will claim Wukong has national security threat.
Every other game site/critic: 10/10, 5/5
IGN: 8 for lack of diversity
😂
Power of Monke
It is an ancient Buddhist story come into light with this game.
That's the way to do it, people are tired of monetize open world nonsense. Just high quality production
The US will try to ban this based on national security and force Uyghur labor in making the game
Western media be like: "Black Myth: Wukong has sold 10 million copies across all platforms. But at what cost?"
Game Science actually broke away from Tencent to avoid being controlled by the big corporations.
wukong is my favorite actor in my childhood
What a concept, making a good single player game, instead of pumping out time vampire games that just want to milk you of more money.
The game will soon have 100% tariff and be labeled a national security threat. 😂
once again china beat the west on the game.. its simple.. the talent, creativity and money to develop the game make it success..
The U.S. will ban it 😂
I will always respect this guy for how he interviewed Todd Howard in regards to Starfield.
2,42m playing on Steam at one time 🎉how marvelous it is😢🎉
Black Myth: Wukong proves that a game can be designed that looks awesome, has awesome game mechanics, a very good story, enemy diversity, highly complex boss movement, the characters move is liquid and dynamic, runs on a potato, has near to no bugs nor glitches, doesn't need microtransaction nor live-service trash, ist strongly tied to Chinese mythology - and all that from day one.
Mean while GTA 6 :
🐧B*** it's my picosecond sales🐧
This is another proof that China has some serious overcapacity issues - they should just keep purchase american made games, why they have to develop their own games posing a national threat all other countries! 200% tariff should be put on all Chinese games!
Genius Boomer: What's that on your chest?
Wukong: Shanwenkai
Boomer Genius: fking CCP I knew it
Did you now that the comic Naruto was also inspired by Chinese legend of the Nine-tailed Fox aka 九尾狐 ？
its a national security concern by Bloomberg
Competition is always better for consumers or in this case gamers.
Sanction Wukong
Wukong can clone himself using the miracle of overcapacity
Love that she recognized Genshin Impact's success as well!
I would caution against the idea that gamers or people in general don't get tired of Journey to the West as the story has been adapted and inspired many others, not all of whom have been successful. Furthermore, there are many more classic myths and stories from China that can be adapted other than JtoW. At the end of the day, the people behind the game put out a great product that satisfied its target audience. Western game publishers would do well to keep that in mind when evaluating Black Myth's success.
Drug testing Wukong!
Whole Global Market Need To Be Compete To Make Quality Improve. Not Sanction !! Good For Consumers !
But it endangers national security.
But it endangers national security.
The thing is when will it be cracked.i heard it has denuvo
Well apparently making good game with good story and good designs without political signaling is a key to success what a discovery ...
its not just Chinese gamers/consumers, its world wide.. most western gamers who do like to play story based games, got or getting this game..
81% of its sale has come from China, there is not that nuch demand outside of China.
Yay China!!!!😊
Niko needs to invests in faster/more stable ISPs