Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Qing Zhiyuan rolled his eyes. The next step of the work was not mainly done by Akanishi Ken.

After the meeting with the company's department directors, Qing Zhiyuan retained Iwata.

The other party also understood and probably guessed what Qing Zhiyuan was going to do next.

“Now our game platform has become a hit, at least in the Omi region, it has had preliminary influence, allowing players and the market to see the huge prospects of network transmission.

So the best thing is to take advantage of the popularity this time and bring in the corresponding third parties. "

Satoru Iwata suggested.

"Yeah, I think so too."

Qing Zhiyuan laughed silently and felt very relieved. Having a butler like Satoru Iwata can really save a lot of things.

In any industry, it does not mean that whoever comes first will get the big share. The key lies in whether you can make the market bigger and bring in all the forces of all parties.

This is what the so-called enlightened person will be helped by.

In the previous life, there were actually quite a few game platforms, such as Steam, Orange Game Platform, Ubisoft Game Platform, and Paradox also had one...

In fact, it is similar to fighting a hardware war. It all depends on who can seize more territory and have more user groups.

So although pokeni has made a good start now, it does not mean that the future game platform market is ours. Qingzhiyuan definitely needs to take this opportunity to consolidate.

So as Satoru Iwata said, it is best to bring more third parties in, especially before they become competitors on the future gaming platform, to eliminate hidden dangers and become your own help. important.

"Since you think the same as me," Qing Zhiyuan laughed and said to Satoru Iwata, "then let you handle the matter of persuading the third party."

Although the idea of ​​an online game platform was proposed and implemented by Qing Zhiyuan, he hopes that the subsequent execution process will be promoted by Satoru Iwata.

It can be regarded as a meritorious service for him, in order to prepare for Iwata to become the CEO of pokeni in the future.

Qing Zhiyuan and Satoru Iwata discussed for a long time in the conference room and almost sorted out their ideas.

Getting a third party to join in is actually not an easy task.

Everyone is used to the previous hardware model and wants to digitize it and become a product sold on the pokeni game platform. There is actually a process in between.

Moreover, it seems to be transferred to a virtual online game platform, but in fact the final carrier is PC and Sega DC. There is a huge cost in this process, which is almost equivalent to remaking the original game.

It took pokeni two years to digitize a few early games, and it will take another two years before full digitization is possible. If you think about it, the transformation efforts of other companies are actually quite large.

However, the best way is to first let third parties make new games on the Dandelion gaming platform, and then slowly remake old games.

"To allow a third party to launch games on our gaming platform, there are only a few things that need to be done."

Iwata concluded, “The first one is to build momentum and make our game platform give people the feeling that it has a huge base and user group. As long as they can roughly figure out what benefits they can get after joining the platform, then the rest Things will move forward easily.

The second is to reduce the difficulty for them to enter. If there are tools that facilitate third-party game companies to make digital games, then I think they have no reason to refuse. "

To put it bluntly, the core is to allow them to make money easily and easily.

This is actually similar to the concept of making games. No matter how difficult your game is in the future, the threshold to get started must be low enough for more players to enter easily.

In addition, the game is cost-effective enough to attract more players.

The same applies to cooperation with third-party game manufacturers.

"No problem, just let it go and negotiate. If there are any hard bones to crack, just leave them to me."

"I'll take care of the program," Qing Zhiyuan said. "Let's see if they can provide third parties with some more convenient and easy-to-use tools to reduce the cost and development cycle of digitalization."

…

"What?! Digital tools?!"

Early the next morning, Qing Zhiyuan went to Akanishi Ken and explained the situation and what to do in the future. Akanishi Ken felt his head was big again when he heard it.

Wasn't it agreed that this content, which falls within the scope of company cooperation, would be left to the strategic department to handle?

How come we are still involved in the end? !

President!

Can you be a human being?

Qing Zhiyuan discussed with Akanishi Ken that it was definitely unrealistic to do automation.

Games previously developed on FC and PS platforms had different coding methods and even different operating systems.

"In this case, if you want to do one-click transcoding and automatic digitization, it will definitely be impossible. Even if we can make the corresponding tools, the final product will definitely be full of bugs.

I don't know if it can run or not. " Akanishi Ken said in embarrassment.

He folded his hands and frowned like two caterpillars.

But there was an irrepressible smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was secretly happy in his heart:

Look, it’s not that we don’t want to do it, it’s just that we really can’t do it.

Although I have been amazed by Qing Zhiyuan's programmer thinking many times before, the president is not a programmer after all. He is a painting student and can understand a certain coding process from daily work exchanges. It's already quite remarkable.

But, that’s probably the end of it.

No matter how he looked at it, Ken Akanishi felt that the idea proposed by the president was a bit too vague. It was almost equivalent to asking you to convert between Windows system and OS system, which was almost impossible.

This is called asking the president to retreat when faced with difficulties.

There is no need to try things that are impossible to achieve.

"My suggestion is to let them do the digitization themselves, and whoever owns the child will take it away. We actually don't need to do this kind of thing." Akanishi Ken gave his own opinion.

Qing Zhiyuan stood face to face with him, also holding his hands and lost in thought.

"Well... I think what you said makes sense."

Letting these games run on the Dandelion game platform is equivalent to running on Windows. The operating systems used by the game consoles they were on were different.

This is definitely incompatible, let alone if you have to automate the transcoding.

Even different game console models developed by the same company are actually incompatible with each other.

For example, the original controller only had a D-pad plus four buttons, but later it became a D-pad plus 6 buttons. Later, there were single joysticks, double joysticks, etc...

It is indeed too difficult to integrate all of these.

However, Qing Zhiyuan laughed, and he suddenly thought of a way to deal with it.

Seeing Qing Zhiyuan's smile, Akanishi Ken felt nervous for no reason.

No way? !

No way?

Can you think of any solution to this? !

"I understand," Qing Zhiyuan said, "In this way, we don't actually need to make a transcoding tool for the game. What we really need to do is an emulator."

"ha?!"

Akanishi Ken was slightly startled, "Simulator?!"

What the hell is this?

Qing Zhiyuan chuckled, "As for the simulator, we use virtual software to simulate the real operation of the game console."

Akanishi Ken shook his head. Although he knew every word, he didn't understand it.

"For example, wasn't our "Onmyoji" originally a game running on Rentendo's FC?

If it is not adapted to the Windows system, it actually cannot run, right? On the Dandelion gaming platform. "

Akanishi Ken blinked, isn't this nonsense?

If you ask a gorilla to give birth to a tiger, it can't do it.

The genetic sequences are all different.

"But what if we build a Rentian FC on the Dandelion gaming platform?" Qing Zhiyuan smiled slightly and prompted, "You must know that FC is ultimately just a program used to run games.

Just through hardware.

And we turn it into a virtual game console, a game console running on Windows? "

What? ! ! !

Qing Zhiyuan's words shocked Akanishi Ken for ten thousand years.

What are these... terrible thoughts? !

Is this something that anyone can come up with? !

but……

If you think about it carefully, it seems to make some sense.

Even Ken Akanishi was already thinking about how to make it work.

This is why Qing Zhiyuan could play almost all games on PC in his previous life. He didn't need to buy a game console, he just needed to download an emulator and then run the game through the emulator.

It is equivalent to putting the mechanics of a game console onto the platform.

…

Akanishi Ken thought carefully for a long time, trying to find some reason to refute Qing Zhiyuan, but in the end he fell silent.

I have to admit that the simulator solution proposed by Qing Zhiyuan is theoretically feasible.

"Then in the simulator, we can map the original game operation method to the keyboard or DC game controller, and let the players set and adjust it."

Qing Zhiyuan also specially drew the corresponding sketch.

"There is no need to change the game code, as long as they recompile the original game digital circuit and convert it into the corresponding program file, and then put it on the Dandelion game platform, and the corresponding simulator will be automatically called when running."

Qing Zhiyuan concluded.

concrete.

So concrete!

Akanishi Ken was secretly shocked. There was nothing in this world that could stop the president's crazy idea.

But the problem is that these ideas may seem crazy, but they can actually be implemented.

I really saw a ghost.

In this way, we have to develop these functions! ! !

But at this moment, Akanishi Ken suddenly thought of something.

"Do Rentian and the others agree? What about Sony and the others? Are there any risks?"

"Just leave this kind of matter to the company's legal department to handle it." Qing Zhiyuan said, "And when you do it, you don't actually need to tell the players that this is running an emulator. The emulator is a background program, hidden The interface is only mobilized when the corresponding game is running."

In the previous life, there were companies that made various game emulators for PC and made a living from it. Generally speaking, it should be considered a gray area.

The emulator itself does not constitute infringement.

Because this is just a tool, just like a video decoder, video player, and music player.

Only the game itself will constitute infringement. If it is used without authorization and used for commercial purposes, the other party will definitely sue.

But--

Qing Zhiyuan thought to himself, we are obviously inviting the genuine developers of these games to our platform. This is a serious partnership and an official authorization act.

If we have to share accounts with them in the future, then there will definitely be no so-called infringement and risks.

Unless they are games that have signed exclusive agreements with Rentendo and Sony, they can be released on pokeni's game platform as long as they are authorized by the developer.

After Qing Zhiyuan's explanation, Akanishi Ken almost accepted the president's philosophy. After discussing some more important details, Akanishi Ken no longer had any problems.

When Akanishi Ken left the conference room, Qing Zhiyuan sighed deeply and laughed.

Seizing the opportunity and wooing friends and businessmen is the key to strategy.

The game platform is equivalent to a large supermarket. The more and more complete the goods, the more customers will come to shop.

As long as Ken Akanishi's work is completed, it will be equivalent to adding many weighty chips to Satoru Iwata's negotiations.

pokeni's gaming empire is just around the corner.

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See you tomorrow (end of chapter)