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He said that in the future, the company's game releases will have a global strategy from the start. He also expects foreign AAA game developers to realize how large China's market is and tailor more features to Chinese players. AAA games generally refer to titles with high graphics quality and significant marketing. That's meant such video games have tended to come from companies such as Nintendo , Ubisoft and Electronic Arts . "China is a big country. We're talking about 1 million concurrent players," said Ivan Su, senior equity analyst at Morningstar. "China has 600 million gamers." He said the reason why China hasn't previously developed its own AAA game, which are typically played on computers and consoles, is the years-long production time. "It's much more cost-effective if you create mobile games," Su said.

Apple's Tim Cook visited Hero Games

When Hero Games first invested in Game Science, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited in 2017 and was so impressed by the first game, Art of War: Red Tides, he gave it the front page of the iOS App store in 178 countries, Ying said. But that wasn't a commercial success.

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