Author: Poplar
Editor丨Zhang Weixian
On the evening of June 7, the official website of the State Press and Publication Administration released the "Approval Information for Domestic Online Games in June 2022".A total of 60 games were approved this time, including 1 web game, 1 client game, and the remaining 58 games. for mobile games.
On April 11 this year, after more than 8 months, the game industry finally waited for the release of a new batch of version numbers.At that time, a total of 45 games received the first batch of version numbers in 2022, including 5 client games, 1 Switch game, and the remaining 39 games were mobile games.
In terms of quantity, the number of editions in June increased by 15 compared to April, which is basically in line with outside forecasts.Someone in the game industry once told reporters that during the previous version number suspension process, the review process of new games continued, so it is not ruled out that after the version number is resumed, the number of releases will increase in a short period of time.
In addition, in the approval information disclosed by the State Press and Publication Administration this time, 21st Century Business Herald reporters noticed a change: unlike the previous declaration categories, which were divided into mobile, client, etc., the description of this declaration category has changed to "domestic mobile games" ", "domestic client game", "domestic web game" and so on.
More importantly, after the description of some "domestic mobile games", the word "pilot" was added, which has never appeared in previous game approval information.In this regard, a senior game industry person told 21st Century Business Herald that whether there is a "pilot" is related to the place where the game is submitted for review.Not marked with "pilot" means that the game is directly submitted to the State Press and Publication Administration for review, while games marked with "pilot" are approved by the next-level approval unit.
People in the industry said that the decentralization of the approval power of game version numbers has already been carried out, but this is the first time to distinguish them in the public information.
In April last year, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Opinions on Several Special Measures to Support the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port to Relax Market Access", which clearly pointed out that the development of the online game industry should be encouraged, and the authority to approve domestic online game pilots should be delegated to Hainan. Hainan develops the online game industry.
However, according to the reporter's understanding, among the 60 games approved this time, 16 games are marked as "pilot", and the publishing units of these 16 games are mainly located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, and there is no publishing in Hainan. Among them, there are 8 units in Shanghai and 6 in Beijing.
