"Wukong" becomes the king of network traffic, and A-share concept stocks collectively soar
2024-08-22
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Chao News Client reporter Liu Yanxin Liu Peng intern Zhu Xingze
With the official launch of the domestic 3A game masterpiece "Black Myth: Wukong", more and more netizens' attention has been attracted by "Wukong", and players have proved their love for this game with their actions.
At 10 a.m. on August 20, Black Myth: Wukong was launched globally on PS5, Steam, WeGame and other platforms. In just one hour, the game topped the list of Steam's most popular games, with more than 1 million online players. At 3 p.m., when the reporter was writing this article, Black Myth: Wukong still topped the list of the most popular games with 1.16 million online players. Among all Steam games, Black Myth: Wukong ranked fourth in terms of the number of online players.
Public data shows that the game currently ranks first in Steam's global weekly sales, and it has topped the charts in 12 countries including the United States, Singapore, Thailand, Canada, Brazil, and Italy. In terms of sales, as of July 19, 2024, pre-sale sales have reached 1.2 million copies, with pre-sale sales exceeding 400 million yuan.
Image caption: Among all the historical peaks of online users of Steam games, Black Myth: Wukong ranks fourth
After a day of immersive experience, the reporter was shocked by "Wukong"
At 10 o'clock in the morning on the 20th, "Black Myth: Wukong" (hereinafter referred to as Black Monkey) was officially launched, and the Chao News reporter couldn't wait to go online and start playing. After a day of game experience, the reporter can feel that this game has indeed made great efforts in image quality. The machine played this time is a SONY PS5 console game. In order to ensure the smoothness of the game, the reporter did not turn on the image quality priority mode. Even so, the reporter did not encounter any malicious bugs during the game. The picture was smooth and colorful. The reporter was still shocked by the scenery, character modeling, and combat effects in the game. To give a simple example: when the reporter played Black Monkey, the freehand painting of mountains, forests and flowing water in the game screen, coupled with the fallen trees in the mountains, gave the reporter a feeling of dampness and chaos, making the reporter seem to have an illusion of being in it. And this sense of immersion is difficult to obtain in other games. The game's attention to detail is also fascinating. For example, the detail of the black bear demon turning into black wind and escaping in the original book is also displayed as its skill in the game. When the player fails to pass the level, the animation effect of turning into a strand of hair and resurrecting is amazing.
After a whole day of playing, the reporter was deeply impressed by the operating system of Black Monkey. First of all, the attack characteristics of Black Monkey rely on the sticks that are familiar to Chinese audiences. The attack system is also centered around stick techniques, and is equipped with three different skill trees: spells, body techniques, and stick techniques. This gives players more operating space to choose from. At the same time, each hero's different attack angles, starting moves, and rhythm speed all require players to figure out a little bit. In the early stages, players will encounter more difficult elite monsters. The reporter speculated that this may be a threshold obstacle setting by the designer in order to allow players to better integrate into the game. From the perspective of game difficulty, this game may be relatively high for new players, but players will feel a sense of accomplishment when defeating monsters.
Chao News reporter experienced the game first hand.
The concept of "Wukong" created a big bull stock, Huayi Brothers rose 68% in a week
The "monkey" Wukong is not only active on the game list and hot search list, but also has created a whirlwind in the A-share market.
"Wukong became the most popular stock in the A-share market on Tuesday. If it weren't for the theme of Black Myth: Wukong, the number of stocks that fell would be even higher," a professional investor in Hangzhou told Chao News. However, this investor did not benefit from the popularity of the "Wukong" theme. "During this wave of gaming fever, the stocks that rose well were not traditional gaming stocks. Stocks like Sanqi Interactive Entertainment and Perfect World still fell."
Today's A-share market is full of environmental colors. More than 4,500 companies fell in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, and only more than 500 rose. "Wukong" concept stocks are the only red, and many stocks have risen sharply. In terms of sectors, the knowledge payment sector index rose by 0.9%, and the media and entertainment sector index rose by 0.16%. In terms of individual stocks, CITIC Publishing rose by 20 cm, Huayi Brothers once hit the 20 cm daily limit, and closed up 19.03%. Zhejiang Edition Media rose by the daily limit, and Silk Road Vision once rose to 15%, closing up 8.08%. Others such as Rongxin Culture, Duoke Culture, Guomai Culture, Happiness Blue Ocean, Publishing and Media also rose by more than 3%. Since the game sector rose in volume last Thursday, big bull stocks have emerged among the "Wukong" concept stocks. For example, Huayi Brothers has risen for a week, with a cumulative increase of up to 68%, and Xinxunda has risen by 20 cm for two consecutive times.
Many companies whose stock prices have soared responded to the business layout related to Black Myth: Wukong on interactive platforms: Huayi Brothers (300027.SZ) said that the company holds a 5.17% stake in Hero Entertainment, which is an early investor in Game Science, the developer of Black Myth: Wukong; Silk Road Visual (300556.SZ) said that its subsidiary Ruiyun Technology provided rendering for the Black Myth: Wukong fan animation; Zhejiang Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. (601921.SH) said that its subsidiary Zhejiang Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. is the publisher of the game Black Myth: Wukong. CITIC Publishing (300788.SZ) said it will participate in the publication of the Black Myth: Wukong setting collection.
In addition to game companies, game accessory companies have also been favored by investors. "Black Myth: Wukong" and 8Bitdo launched a co-branded controller, and the third-party controller manufacturer Zhishang Technology (301486) rose 7.25%. Zhishang Technology responded to investors that the company did not directly cooperate with 8Bitdo, and would increase its layout and expansion efforts in the field of game components in the future.
The arrival of Black Myth: Wukong also made securities analysts feel the spring breeze of the game industry's recovery. Many industry analysts said that the hot pre-sale of Black Myth: Wukong shows that my country's game production capabilities have a certain degree of competitiveness in the global market. Great Wall Securities believes that, referring to the current popularity and quality of games, Black Myth: Wukong, as a soul-type game, is expected to catch up with the sales of top soul-type games such as Elden Ring and Dark Souls after its official launch. In the current game market where content is king, some game companies with strong R&D capabilities and rich product reserves are worthy of attention.
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