The creator of Genshin Impact is ambitious to make a virtual world game that can accommodate 1 billion players

With a model inspired by Sword Art Online, Mr. Cai is dreaming of a giant game that can hold 1 billion players at the same time.

In a recent interview in GameLook magazine, Mr. Cai Haoyu, director of miHoYo company, developer of Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3 shared about his aspiration to build the biggest virtual world game in history. With a model inspired by Sword Art Online, Mr. Cai is dreaming of a giant game that can hold 1 billion players at the same time.

With the success of Genshin Impact, Cai Haoyu was honored as one of the brightest stars of the Chinese gaming industry in 2020. He was invited to attend a seminar with students of Shanghai Jiaotong University, held online. online on Zoom. Here, Cai revealed a lot about miHoYo’s 10-year development process.

From a few dozen small employees, now with the success of many hit games like Honkai Impact or Genshin Impact, miHoYo has increased in size to 2400 people in 2020. The company’s total revenue in 2020 has surpassed the threshold. 5 billion yuan (~ 16 trillion VND), an extremely impressive number for China’s pure game development business.

Although very proud of what he has accomplished, Cai Haoyu believes that he still has a lot of work to do in the future. As a big fan of Matrix (Matrix series) and Sword Art Online, the creator of miHoYo thinks that the future gaming industry will soon achieve more great achievements. Cai Haoyu hopes that one day, he and his colleagues can create games with a macro mind, even able to hold 1 billion players at the same time.

Of course, these are only wishes in the distant future. At the present time, Cai Haoyu and miHoYo will continue to focus on Genshin Impact with new and more unique content.