Game Development Giant

In the end, Hiroshi Yamauchi followed Shigeru Miyamoto's suggestion and gradually concentrated the main areas of publicity on Japan.

Seeing this change from Nintendo, Jester couldn't help but admire him. He knew that no matter how the game "Dragon Quest" was improved, as long as the production staff remained the same, their production philosophy would not change. This will be a very Japanese-style work, and such a work will inevitably receive a cold reception in markets other than Japanese and popular.

Originally, when Jester saw Nintendo hyping up the game in the United States at the beginning, he felt that Nintendo did not understand the true essence of the game, but now it seems that this is not the case.

After the publicity funds were withdrawn from the United States and invested in Japan, the publicity of "Dragon Quest" has been directly increased by an order of magnitude. This excellent painting can be seen not only in buses, trams, subway stations, etc. Advertisements, and several producers of this game have also frequently accepted interviews from various media. Among them, "faitong" even conducted an exclusive interview for ".s.," using the Japanese Game Defense War title.

The theory of Japanese style games was also officially proposed by "Fai Tong".

As for Toriyama Akira, the most outstanding national comic master after Osamu Tezuka, he also used his own connections to face the comic weekly "Shounen Jup" which has published millions of copies and has a unique influence among Japanese teenagers. The game has a lot of hype going on. Nowadays, Akira Toriyama has established his supreme position in the Japanese comic industry with "Dragon Ball". Countless of his fans even regard him as a god. He personally participated in the original painting setting, which is very popular among teenagers throughout Japan. The incredible influence is unparalleled, and is even considered by the current Yuuji Tsui to be his biggest magic weapon in defeating "Final Fantasy" this time.

But no matter what, this time Enix. Regardless of whether they can win the next head-to-head showdown, they have also completed the transformation from an unknown small game company to a large game company. During this period of time, there are dozens of times more games than usual. As long as "Dragon Quest" can reach one million local copies this time, and get the most favorable treatment from Nintendo in terms of royalties, the rise of Enix will also become a foregone conclusion.

As for "Final Fantasy", the treatment is not as superior as "Dragon Quest".

It has received very little space in Japan's most influential game publication "Faitsu", let alone "Shounen Jup". Mars Entertainment simply cannot obtain the right to advertise through this comic publication from Shueisha. And what made Sakaguchi Hironobu most angry was that after he handed over the official version of the cassette of "Final Fantasy" to "faitsu" who reviewed the game, he did not read it in the new issue of "faitsu" As for the comments about the game "Final Fantasy", when Hironobu Sakaguchi asked "FaiTong" why there were no evaluation results, the reply he received made him extremely angry.

"Sorry, we forgot."

Moreover, the tone of "Faitong's" reply was extremely disdainful. It seemed that Hironobu Sakaguchi was a dispensable character, and "Final Fantasy" also seemed to be a dispensable game. They didn't even bother to prepare an excuse. They just used an excuse that only fools can succeed. We forgot, it's just a game that is not worth mentioning. If you forget, forget it.

What can you do to me?

As a game designer, I treat my work as if I were my own son, and I can humbly say how bad my child is. But you absolutely cannot allow others to say no.

After seeking Jester's opinion, Sakaguchi Hironobu held a press conference in the name of Mars Entertainment Japan Branch to attend the press conference. In addition to Hironobu Sakaguchi, there are also designers such as Hideo Kojima, Yuji Naka and Yasumi Matsuno who have established their own development teams. This is almost the entire development force of the entire Mars Entertainment Japan branch.

Moreover, Tamahide Yoshiro, the president of the Japanese branch, also personally came to express his opinion that what was announced at this press conference was the opinion of the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment.

They also support their employees unconditionally.

Looking at the reporters from all walks of life in front of him, not just from the game media, Mars Entertainment is not a small business. Even news about them, such as "Asahi Shimbun" and "Yomiuri Shimbun", are flocking to it. Hironobu Sakaguchi thought of it again He was on the phone with his boss, Jester, and what his boss said to him.

"Whatever you want to do, the company will stand behind you and support you in everything."

When he heard his boss say this to him, Sakaguchi Hironobu suddenly had a feeling. He read the history books of China, and there was a sentence written in it - You treat me with the courtesy of a national scholar, and I will repay you with the courtesy of a national scholar. When Hironobu Sakaguchi told Hideo Kojima and others about Jester's words, these people also burst into tears of gratitude.

Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchi coughed, and the reporters from various media in front of him knew what he had to say.

However, Sakaguchi Hironobu did not speak directly. Instead, he scanned the venue with his eyes. Finally, he rested his eyes on the two reporters from "Faitsu". His eyes were sharp and his expression was cold. He looked at these two The reporter from "Fai Tong" was a little creepy.

Then Hironobu Sakaguchi showed a cold smile and said: "Before I formally talk about the theme of this press conference, I first have to do one thing, which is also closely related to this press conference."

Just when the people present were wondering why Sakaguchi Hironobu said this, two tall security guards suddenly entered the venue. Under the extremely astonished eyes of the reporters present, these two security guards walked straight towards the two The reporter from "Fai Tong" also had a puzzled look on his face, and then each of them held the two people's necks with one hand and blasted them out of the venue.

This approach immediately detonated the whole audience. One reporter stood up immediately. He sternly shouted at Hironobu Sakaguchi: "What are you doing!"

Sakaguchi Hironobu glanced at him, and then a Mars Entertainment employee sitting next to Sakaguchi Hironobu whispered a few words in his ear, telling Sakaguchi Hironobu that this was a reporter from the "Yomiuri Shimbun", and then Sakaguchi Boxin nodded, but still didn't answer.

When the two security guards slipped the struggling and shouting reporters from "Faitsu" out of the venue, Sakaguchi Hironobu stood up and bowed slightly to the reporters who were still looking at him in astonishment. After bowing, he said with some shame: "What happened just now has disturbed all the distinguished guests. Our company has prepared a banquet after the press conference to calm everyone down."

Hironobu Sakaguchi's words obviously did not clear up the doubts of the reporters present, but the reporters present knew that Mars Entertainment would definitely give them a satisfactory answer. Otherwise, the news of such rough treatment of the two reporters would definitely What makes them share the same hatred is that in a society like Japan, if such a large group of reporters like them are offended, then the end will definitely be tragic.

Especially game companies like Mars Entertainment that desperately need media promotion to sell their products.

Sure enough, after Sakaguchi Hironobu bowed and sat down again, he explained to the reporters present the reason why he did this: "Our new game "Final Fantasy" has suffered unfair treatment from "Faitsu" magazine, so Our company has decided after research that all members of our Mars Entertainment Japan branch will refuse to accept any interviews or reports from "FaiTong" in the future, and ban their reporters from attending our press conferences."

Such a declaration was no less than thunderous to the people present. It was even more shocking than when Hironobu Sakaguchi asked the security guards to treat the reporter of "Faitsu" so roughly before.

A game company openly announced that they would reject reports from Japan's largest game publication in the future?

Is this because Mars Entertainment doesn’t want to be involved in the Japanese gaming industry?

"Can you tell me what happened between you and "Fai Tong" that made you make such a decision?" The speaker was a man in his thirties, wearing a pair of blue-rimmed glasses. The woman, who smelled heavily of powder and wore heavy makeup on her face, the staff member beside Hironobu Sakaguchi whispered in his ear and told him that this was a reporter from the "Asahi Shimbun".

Sakaguchi Hironobu smiled and continued: "Actually, there is nothing to hide. It's very simple. Before, "FaiTong" took the initiative to ask us for the official version of "Final Fantasy" cassette for review, but we did not publish it in the new publication. We saw a review of our game in Faitong magazine, and when we asked about it, we received extremely unfair answers."

Such an answer obviously cannot satisfy the people present.

The female reporter who asked earlier was very surprised and continued to ask: "Just because they didn't publish your game in the next publication, you have to cut off all ties with "Fai Tong"?" Then, The tone of the female reporter also became angry, and her voice even became a little harsh, "With all due respect, if this is the reason why you treated the reporter of "Fai Tong" so roughly, and treated a family so domineeringly, If media outlets that have nothing to do with you interfere in everything they report, then we at the Asahi Shimbun will never stand on your side, and we will truthfully report this incident on the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper!"

The female reporter’s words were echoed by other media present.

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