Game Development Giant

Faced with such an unexpected situation, it was naturally impossible for Jester to devote all his energy to this amusement park.

Originally, I wanted to let this Samsung come. The director in charge of this project left first, and then contacted me after he had finished handling the matter of the PS being released. In fact, this won't last long, but he must leave here now and go. Hold a high-level meeting and discuss their countermeasures with the people in the hardware development department. Although Jester didn't take Nintendo seriously, with the addition of Sony, that was completely different.

Relying on their wealth, Sony can infinitely close the gap with itself, and it is now at the critical point of the next era of console replacement. At this critical point, the console overlords of the previous era like themselves are actually The advantage is very weak. If you are not careful, you may lose everything, because when it is updated, anything can happen.

For example, SFC was also the market leader at the time, but when it was updated, due to strategic mistakes, the sales of the n64 were not as good as those of Sega's SS and Sony's PS. Another example is Sony's PS2, the original generation of miracle machine. The entire game market was completely monopolized, but due to early design errors of PS3, the results were not ideal. Even the father of PS, Ken Kutaragi, resigned due to this.

The Samsung executive saw Jester saying this. Although he didn't know what was said in the phone call Jester just answered, he could clearly see Jester picking up the phone with a smile. , the moment he heard the news on the phone, his face suddenly changed color. Although it was only a short moment, he also knew that it must be a big deal.

Therefore, this Samsung executive is very good at observing words and emotions. He quickly bowed and left respectfully.

And when he left, he also looked at Li Fuzhen, who had been sitting aside and seemed to regard him as nothing. Seeing that Li Fuzhen had no intention of leaving at all, he knew the true identity of his assistant. Of course, he would not dare to confront him. The eldest princess of the Samsung Group ordered no matter what, and Jester did not express dissatisfaction. There was no need for him to say anything, and everyone could see that their eldest princess. The admiration for Jester is not the slightest bit.

Li Fuzhen is a very active girl. Before, she was a little reserved because of the presence of the Samsung executive. Now in Jester's office, when Jester and her are the only ones left, she acts like He looked like a different person, like a little girl who hadn't grown up yet, jumping to Jester's side.

Jester had received instructions from Li Jianxi before, hoping that he could take good care of Li Fuzhen for him in the United States.

But Li Fuzhen obviously still has some color. After she came to Jester's side, she took a peek at Jester and found that there was no dissatisfaction on Jester's face, and then she became bolder. Moreover, she knew before that Jester was in an emergency, so she just shook Jester's arm and said while shaking it: "Brother, please take me to visit your company, please!"

Hearing Li Fuzhen call him brother, Jester's eyebrows raised sharply. He was friends with Li Jianxi as equals, but Li Jianxi's daughter called him brother, so he was twice as young as Li Jianxi. But when he saw Li Fuzhen shaking his arm in a coquettish and cute way, Jester couldn't get angry. In fact, Jester also felt Li Fuzhen's affection for him, but he thought it was due to distance. As Li Fuzhen's contact with him increases and he learns more about his qualifications, this good impression will only turn into friendship.

"I have to hold a meeting. When the meeting is over, I will take you to visit the largest game production company in the world."

Jester said.

Li Fuzhen, who had achieved her goal, also retracted her arm around Jester and stood aside and became obedient.

"When did your father arrange for you to enter school?"

Before Jester left, he asked casually. When Jester asked about her affairs, Li Fuzhen showed a hint of joy on her face. She said excitedly: "After the Christmas vacation, I will enroll in January."

"Um."

After receiving the answer, Jester nodded and said that he understood. After a slight hesitation, Jester added: "I will take you to visit the president of UCLA in a while. What happened some time ago, the president My husband invited me to be a guest, and I agreed, just in time to take you with me."

"By the way, if you feel bored, go to the employee lounge to have some fun. It's a good place."

After saying that, Jester waved his hand and left the office first.

Previously, Jester had notified the administrative department and asked him to notify people from various departments to come to the large conference room on the top floor for a meeting. Now Mars Entertainment, excluding those independent studios, has more than a thousand employees. There are nearly ten people working on game development at the same time.

When Jester came to the conference room, he could clearly see a cautious look on the faces of the participants.

"I made a mistake this time. I didn't expect them to develop it so fast." At first, Jester apologized, then walked around the scene and fixed his eyes on the head of development of the hardware department.

"Where's our progress?"

When Marcus heard Jester's question, he stood up directly and said with a smile: "No problem, everything is going according to plan. The white box test will be over soon. If nothing else, after the white box test is over, We can also send the prototype to the manufacturer right away, and we can sell it by Christmas..."

But before Marcus, the head of the hardware department, could finish what he said, Jester waved his hand to interrupt him.

"There is no need for a Christmas release. At that time, our main game was "Pocket Monsters", and our main marketing was also our Gameboy. As for our next-generation console, there is no need to be so anxious - by the way, Sega's American version of MD is also scheduled Will it be released at Christmas?”

Jester said, turning his face to the marketing department on the other side.

"Yes, their MD is indeed scheduled to be released in North America on Christmas." After hearing the answer, Jester nodded, and he said with some thought: "Originally, Christmas is indeed a good date, but this time Sega It’s a time lag, it’s not that I don’t want to launch it during Christmas, it’s just that our machines can complete the first batch of production at Christmas, but this is not the case for new games that are paired with next-generation consoles.”

Of course those who are engaged in game development know what Jester said.

For a game console, especially when the war of the next generation is about to break out, in addition to the previous reputation, the first game is the biggest attraction that can attract players to rush to buy it. It is said that this time Nintendo is led by Miyazaki. Motomo is working on a brand new game, and Sega is not to be outdone. Yu Suzuki's two masterpieces have experienced a consumer frenzy after they were released in MD Japan.

Therefore, in order to ensure victory as much as possible, Jester can only officially release it when everything is ready.

Jester then asked several people respectively, and after getting the reply that they were developing several games for next-generation consoles that could be completed before the end of January, Jester breathed a sigh of relief.

During New Year's Day, the entire company's strength will definitely be to promote handheld mobile phones. This is an unshakable basic strategy. Under this circumstance, if it announces that its own game consoles will also be open for pre-sale, it will inevitably be suspected of overshadowing the host. Moreover, Officially announcing its next-generation console is obviously one of the most important things for its company.

And when it was announced on Christmas, it was not considered as the first promotion target, which is putting the cart before the horse.

If it is really going to be announced at Christmas, then large-scale publicity must start before then, because for a company that develops game platforms, no matter what it is, it is not as important as a next-generation console.

"Then we will temporarily set the pre-sale time for our next-generation home game console to mid-to-late January. By the way, does our home game console now have a name?" Jester then remembered, this The new sixteen-bit host has not yet been given an official name. Within the company, people within the company only refer to this machine as the new host, but there is no specific name for it. name.

"Are we going to collect from players like we did last time?"

Someone made a suggestion.

But immediately, Jester shook his head after hearing this suggestion. He simply said: "Last time we just played a fresh game, although this time we will do it again, the effect will be good, and the players will be very enthusiastic. But first of all, there is not enough time now, and our announcement date is only more than a month away. Secondly, there are times when we cannot do it again and again, especially if this has been done once.”

As he spoke, Jester paused for a moment, as if he had made a decision.

"In this way, I think we don't need to worry about the name of the game console. In fact, the name Dreambox is very good. Since it is good, we don't need to change it - simply call it Dreambox2. This name is simple and easy to remember. And for our fans, this name is also very kind. After all, when they see Dreambox, they will naturally think of us. If we rashly change the name, we will lose more than we gain!" (To be continued...)