Game Development Giant

After thinking about it for three days, Keigo Higashino agreed to go to the United States.

And Michael Staniff also quickly took out his script. Jester was not satisfied after reading it. The only thing that determines the quality of a detective game is the script. Of course, the script alone is not enough. , Jester was also very satisfied with Michael Staniff's previous performance in the company, so he simply said to him after rejecting the game script written by the other party.

"Keigo Higashino will arrive in a few days, and we will discuss it together then."

A few days later, in the conference room of Mars Entertainment, Jester, Michael Staniff and Keigo Higashino, who had just arrived in the United States, had a long discussion. The main issue was that Michael Staniff and Keigo Higashino discussed this game called The Ace Attorney game was discussed in more detail, while Jester just fixed some mistakes.

It has to be said that Keigo Higashino's ability to write game scripts is far superior to that of Michael Staniff. In a very short period of time, he:: .s. briefly told the outline of a story.

The whole story started with a small case, and then progressed layer by layer, and the difficulty of cracking became more and more difficult. As if he was self-taught, Keigo Higashino completed a case that in Jester's opinion was almost flawless. I can't find anything that can be modified. After all, it is the work of a future master of reasoning. Although the other party's style has not yet been fully formed, his thinking about reasoning is far from that of myself or Michael Staniff. Within the reach of the layman. "Not a word is easy."

Jester put his hand on the table and said to Keigo Higashino seriously. When Keigo Higashino heard what Jester said, he also glanced at Jester in surprise, with a somewhat uneasy look in his eyes. With a look of understanding, he wondered why Jester would make such a choice at this time.

Michael Staniff also nodded. After just a few hours of communication, he was completely impressed by Keigo Higashino's talent in reasoning. He was also full of praise for Keigo Higashino's complete plot that was not described in detail, but could not be said to be simply finished. At least he, or anyone he knew, did not have such ability.

After the previous discussion, Keigo Higashino also became very interested in this game called "Ace Attorney".

When Jester said that he would use the plot he just mentioned word for word, Keigo Higashino was also surprised, and then he smiled, while Jester and Michael Staniff were a little confused. Looking at Keigo Higashino. They didn't understand why Keigo Higashino was laughing.

However, Keigo Higashino is not a salesperson. After smiling, he immediately said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Michael, actually the story just now was just a rough idea that I came up with in the past few days. Many places can still be improved. Yes, you said this is not easy. That’s not too arbitrary.” Keigo Higashino’s words even surprised Jester and Michael Stannis. They could never have imagined that such a script, which was already perfect in their eyes, could only be regarded as a draft in the eyes of Keigo Higashino.

"Then..." Jester saw Higashino Keigo replying to him like this, and he knew that the other party must have agreed to his invitation.

really. Keigo Higashino nodded seriously and said solemnly: "I am very willing to participate in the development of this game and improve the script of the game as soon as possible. Through the chat with Mr. Li just now, I also got a lot of inspiration and I feel deeply. Right." Keigo Higashino's tone was also a little excited, and it didn't seem like he was lying.

Jester knew why. He just inadvertently mentioned that Keigo Higashino's writing style will be mature after ten years. Naturally, Keigo Higashino, who is still in the transition period and has not even touched the doorstep in the exploratory period, will be deeply touched.

However, Jester doesn’t have a deep understanding of reasoning, so he can only briefly talk about it, but cannot explain it in depth.

Keigo Higashino agreed to write a script for the game, which also made Jester feel relieved.

In this way, the development team of "Ace Attorney" was established with Michael Staniff and Higashino Keigo as the core.

The next few months were uneventful. After the popularity of the pre-sale, Sega's d was still extremely popular when it was officially released. In just ten days, dozens of copies were sold. million units, and due to the shortcomings of third-party game manufacturers, Sega's strategy of porting its own arcade games was a great success. You know, Sega is still the dominant player in the arcade market in Japan or, in other words, the entire world.

Even Mars Entertainment or Namco, which have also made great achievements in the arcade market, are no match for Sega.

Sega has a large number of fans of arcade games. When these arcade games can be played on home machines, these people are naturally excited. Therefore, the sales of d are very hot, even so hot that it doesn’t look like it. Sturt had expected this, because in his memory, the world when Sega released the D was much better than it is now. At that time, the market was dominated by Nintendo, so Sega It can still attract many small game companies that are dissatisfied with Nintendo's royalty policy.

However, the current Nintendo is far less domineering than in the world that Jester remembers. At its peak, it once dominated 90% of the entire video game market. Therefore, their royalty policy for those small game companies is It was extremely harsh, which also gave Sega an opportunity to take advantage of it at the time, but now, Mars Entertainment is in a strong position, and after learning from Nintendo's pioneering royalty policy, Mars Entertainment gave its franchise to third-party game development companies. The conditions are very loose, so naturally Nintendo's strict policies cannot be maintained.

In this way, Sega certainly has no chance of recruiting development companies like the ones Jester remembers.

But just like what Sega did in Jester's memory, in this world, Sega still does this, which is to transplant arcade games. Sega has accumulated many years of experience in arcade machines, and they have no shortage of games. It lacked players, so it was able to become an instant hit.

On the contrary, the PC-e jointly developed by Namco, Hudson and Nippon Electric quickly entered a state of decline after going through the climax period when it was first released. Although Namco also has many arcade games , but their arcade games cannot be compared with Sega in terms of quality or quantity, and their porting capabilities are also far inferior.

As for development capabilities, except perhaps Mars Entertainment and Nintendo, no other game company can compete with Sega.

"Everyone, what do you think?"

Hiroshi Yamauchi himself had forgotten that this was the first time he had held such a high-level meeting this year. Since around the beginning of the year, after Sega was revealed to have developed a 16-bit home console, he has held such meetings again and again. According to the high-level meeting, it seemed that this year was particularly unsatisfactory for Nintendo. Not only did it fail to maintain the platform share of the European and American NES that it finally managed to stabilize last year, but it also lost ground in the Japanese market due to the failure of two consecutive masterpieces in the first half of this year. Killed and abandoned their armor.

Now he has just read last month's financial report. Now their FC's market share in Japan has been suppressed to 69% by Mars Entertainment. You know, this is their market share in Japan since they launched FC. It's the first time it's lower than 70%. Although it's only temporary, I think once a few of my new games are released, the share will quickly return to 70%, but it's only 10%. .

Fortunately, the PC-e developed by the two traitors has not made any noise so far, which is as expected. Otherwise, it may not even be possible to obtain 69% of the market share.

But this Sega...

When thinking of Sega, Hiroshi Yamauchi couldn't help but think of Nakayama Hayao's gloomy face, and then he couldn't help but snorted coldly. He had a personal conflict with Nakayama Hayao. He had previously held a charity event hosted by a Mitsui family. At the party, I was almost angered by Hayao Nakayama's deliberate provocation, which almost caused him to lose face in front of the top consortium in Japan.

Facing Hiroshi Yamauchi's question just now, everyone present looked at each other, but no one stood up to speak.

In fact, they have discussed this issue many times. The current situation of Nintendo does not need to be external. They only need to be themselves, develop their new console Super FC with Sony's joint development team, and develop it with the internal game development team. Excellent game, don't lose like the previous "Legend of Zelda II".

Well, for Nintendo, nothing else matters.

As for Sega, it just has a slight first-mover advantage. As long as their own game console is ready, they will be able to quickly regain their lost share. This is basically the consensus of everyone, including Hiroshi Yamauchi, but Nintendo After all, it is a listed company. Seeing its market share continue to decline, as the market share declines, the stock price also falls - no listed company can withstand such an impact.

What's more, according to the news they had found out before, Mars Entertainment has now begun the development of their next-generation games. This also means that the other party's next-generation home game consoles, that is, 16-bit consoles, have basically been finalized. .

They can ignore Sega, which has the upper hand, but none of them dare to ignore Mars Entertainment.

Chapter 306: The panic caused by the sale of d.

Chapter 306 The panic caused by the sale of d,