Game Development Giant

After discussing with Shigeru Miyamoto, Jester agreed to Miyamoto's plan.

The team he formed after joining Mars was selected by himself. This was what he should have done. However, in the past, he had invited people from the company who were willing to join. However, Miyamoto wanted to invite people from Nintendo who were willing to join him. Colleagues came to see me.

Jester has no problem with this.

Moreover, now that the head of Nintendo has changed, Minoru Arakawa has made it clear this time that he wants to sell Nintendo's game business and then carry out strategic transformation. Jester doesn't care what he transforms into. What he cares about is that Nintendo now has The game development talents and the copyrights of many games.

Especially The Legend of Zelda.

With Shigeru Miyamoto's careful management, this game has now almost become a series that can be as famous as, or even surpass, several of his own RPG games.

Naturally, I didn't pay attention to the RPG series I had produced in recent years.

And there is a big gap between the level of others and Shigeru Miyamoto.

Although it is certainly not difficult to make better new IPs in the future with Shigeru Miyamoto, but if we can get the copyright of "The Legend of Zelda", which has huge influence in Europe, America and Japan, then Why not?

Of course, this is not a simple matter.

Now I am not the only one who is eyeing the copyright of the "Legend of Zelda" series. Sony and Sega are also greedy.

However, there is still an advantage for me to compare with them, that is, what I want and what I am bound to get is actually the copyright of "The Legend of Zelda".

After asking Nintendo, it seems that Minoru Arakawa does not want to sell the copyright of "Zelda" as soon as possible, because in his eyes, this can almost be said to be one of the earliest among Nintendo's game copyrights. . And there is a lot that I want to get.

Under such circumstances, how could he live up to the title of Arakawa Minoru's pretentious genius businessman if he didn't open his mouth?

But Jester didn't want the other party to take advantage of this.

Although there are many companies that want to get "The Legend of Zelda", the real competitive ones are Mars Entertainment, Sony and Sega. The others are just clowns and have no basis at all. These people are not even They don’t even have the courage to stand up and compete directly.

This is the benefit of forming the World Electronics Association.

It seems that all members can enjoy the profits of the entire platform, but when these profits are given to them, part of their power is also taken away.

That is, I want to stay in the association safely. Then don't challenge the authority of Mars Entertainment, Sega and Sony, otherwise, it will definitely be sanctioned by these three companies.

For example, don't compete head-on with these three companies.

In fact, this association is like a deformed trust, and it is even more terrifying than a trust.

Jester didn't want Minoru Arakawa to raise the price, so he could only negotiate with Sony and Nintendo. Then they compromised with each other. Jester didn't believe that the two of them were like him, only determined to win "The Legend of Zelda".

After all, Nintendo is famous for many games.

It is still difficult to communicate face to face. After all, this is not a big deal, and it is impossible for Nakayama Hayao and Kutaragi Ken to come to the United States casually.

And Jester has a lot of things going on recently, so it's impossible for him to fly to Japan casually.

Therefore, there is only one conference call.

After the three parties negotiated in several aspects. Sony and Sega are also very interested in this matter. After all, Nintendo was a few years ago. It is still a behemoth that can compete head-on with Mars Entertainment. In terms of video games, both Sega and Sony can only look up to them.

If it weren't for the fact that Jester jointly formed the World Electronic Games Association last time and then monopolized the entire home console market, then neither of them might be qualified to compare with Nintendo.

Therefore, under Nintendo, there are too many things that can make them covetous.

Therefore, they all agreed with Jester's opinion.

The three parties will first conduct a consultation, and after all three parties have distributed the benefits, they will negotiate with Nintendo.

It was not easy to choose a time when all three of them had free time, but it was not too difficult. A week later, such a time was found, and the three began negotiations to carve up Nintendo.

This reminded Jester of the historical event before World War II when Britain, France, and Germany carved up the Czech Republic. Without the presence of the Czechs, several countries actually completely carved up a sovereign country. This time, it was a bit like , they were about to be carved up without anyone from Nintendo being present.

Moreover, just like the Czech Republic back then, their resistance was meaningless.

Because, under the shadow of the behemoth World Electronic Games Association, Nintendo or Minoru Arakawa simply did not have the opportunity to have an equal dialogue.

"Is it going to happen again, where not a single punctuation mark is allowed to be changed?"

Jester couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

"I just want The Legend of Zelda."

At the beginning of the three-person conference call, Jester directly explained his bottom line and requirements to Nakayama Hayao and Kutaragi Ken. This did not surprise the other two companies, because he had contacted them before. It has been mentioned before.

Otherwise, this three-person conference call would have been impossible to succeed.

Indeed, "The Legend of Zelda" is indeed the most valuable of all Nintendo games, but Nintendo's golden signature is not just this one.

For example, "Donkey Kong", another example is "Metroid", and so on.

These are very exciting for Sony and Sega.

Although they had tacitly agreed to give up "Legend of Sedar", this was conditional. What surprised them was that Jester himself directly gave them conditions that they had never thought of before during the initial negotiation. He said it, and he said it somewhat neatly.

It made them a little confused as to how to proceed.

What should we say if you do this?

Jester saw that after he said this, both Nakayama Hayao and Kutaragi Ken were silent for a while. He just smiled and asked lightly: "Why, do you two disagree with me?" Place? Or are you also determined to win "The Legend of Zelda"?"

"hehe."

Nakayama Hayao took the lead and laughed dryly. His voice was still a little awkward. He seemed to pause for a moment and thought about his words before speaking.

"I personally have no problem with it. In fact, Mr. Li's request was somewhat unexpected."

Kutaragi Ken also expressed almost the same view.

After hearing their replies, Jester also smiled: "In that case, you two can just talk about the rest. I will listen on the sidelines. Except for "The Legend of Zelda", our Mars Entertainment will not do this this time." Participate in any competition for game rights from Nintendo."

Actually, does Jester want the copyrights to games like "Donkey Kong" and "Metroid"?

Of course I want it, but it’s impossible not to want it.

As long as the game is not too bad, it can easily sell three million copies of the game as long as it is released. As the owner of a game company, how could he not be interested in the copyrights of these two games?

However, the problem is that this time the competitor is not his own.

There are three.

And if I want to get all of these three most valuable Nintendo games and leave the other scraps to others, will Sega and Sony agree?

impossible things.

Therefore, it is enough for me to only take the most coveted "Legend of Zelda". Moreover, this game is also the most compatible with Miyamoto Shigeru, and, relatively speaking, on the platform In terms of action clearance, I already have the Super Balotelli series in this area, so there is no need to covet Nintendo's "Donkey Kong".

As for "Metroid", it is undeniable that this is a masterpiece, and Jester himself is a big fan of this game.

But when you can't have your cake and eat it too, you can only give up the fish and get the bear's paw.

Jester had also asked Shigeru Miyamoto for his opinion before. After all, he had obtained the copyright of Nintendo's games, and it must be handed over to Shigeru Miyamoto to continue production. After he told Shigeru Miyamoto about these three games , when he could only choose one, Shigeru Miyamoto chose "The Legend of Zelda" after a slight hesitation.

Jester was silently listening to Kutaragi Ken and Nakayama Hayao's fierce argument over the remaining game copyrights of Nintendo, especially on "Donkey Kong" and "Metroid". The two sides were almost at odds with each other. No.

For now, the influence of "Donkey Kong" is greater than that of "Metroid", and the sales volume can speak for itself.

Therefore, the focus of competition between the two sides is also focused on "Donkey Kong".

The most important thing is that both Sega and Sony want to have a game character who can represent them as an image ambassador, or a logo, like Mars Entertainment. Mars Entertainment also has Balotelli, who is better known in the United States than The rat is also a famous image.

However, Sega and Sony do not have such games.

But Nintendo has a game and image character that can take on this important role, and that is "Donkey Kong".

This is the reason why both parties refuse to give in. Neither Sega nor Sony want to miss such a golden opportunity, because games with such an image are too rare. (To be continued...)