Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

The next day was the regular monthly board meeting of NGS.

Akira Nakamura and other middle and senior managers will report on their respective work today.

Akira Nakamura also seized this moment, and he planned to take advantage of this moment to take out Fire Emblem.

The meeting began with basic status reports from each department.

Due to the huge sales of NGS's game consoles and games, it has now firmly occupied the North American and Japanese markets.

It is now gradually spreading in Europe.

President Yamauchi was very satisfied.

NGS once started by producing children's toys.

Later, he resolutely prepared to devote himself to the development of the electronic game industry. This move made NGS famous around the world.

"President, NGS's hotel business is also booming. We have plans to open hotels in the United States and even Europe!"

"President, our NGS restaurant business is also very good. There is obviously a trend to surpass video games. We think we can vigorously develop the hotel and catering business. Americans like Japanese food and Japanese-style hotels very much."

Miyazaki was the first to stand up after hearing these words: "President, I don't think it's appropriate. The hotel business and restaurant business require a very huge cash flow, which is much more expensive than the cost of video games. Now video games are There is no need to join other industries in industries that are obviously profitable.”

Akira Nakamura said: "President, I think so too. There is so much money to be made from video games that the hotel business and catering business are really unnecessary."

"Nakamura-san, Miyazaki-san, the hotel and catering business are also a very important part, and they are the paving stones for NGS to become one of the world's top companies in the future..."

"But if you lose money, no bricks will work."

It didn't take long for people from several departments to start arguing about whose industry had the advantage.

Seeing that this trend was about to continue to deteriorate, Yamauchi directly stopped it.

Nowadays, NGS's cash flow is very healthy, which is entirely due to the substantial increase in revenue from video games. It is obviously impossible for Yamauchi to give up video games easily.

But he did have a dream to open a hotel and restaurant, and he even thought about opening a theater in the future.

He felt that this thing was a way to get into the upper class.

He is obviously not satisfied with just having money. He also hopes to become a plutocrat in his lifetime.

"Okay, let's not mention this. Everyone is responsible for doing the best business possible. I only look at the results. I won't give too many opportunities to the hotel and restaurant business. The video game business must also maintain positive growth. , otherwise I might cut it off at any time."

When Nakamura Akira heard this, his heart moved and he immediately raised his hand.

"Nakamura-san, what's the matter with you?"

"It's like this. I have a game here. This game is quite good. I would like to recommend it here. I hope that I can get the president to agree to the production and promotion of this game."

"Game? Actually I don't know much about this." Yamauchi shook his head, "If you think this game is great, then you and Miyazaki can work together."

Everyone knows that Miyazaki and Yamauchi are fighting openly and secretly, but sometimes they will occasionally stand on the same front when it comes to their gaming business interests.

But after the quarrel, they will still fight on their own again.

Miyazaki looked at Akira Nakamura: "Nakamura-san, where did this game come from?"

"It's a game producer from China. He led his team to produce the latest game."

"From China? Could it be that young man named Zuo Zhen?"

"Yes, that's him."

When Miyazaki heard this, he remembered that Nakamura got credit for Zuo Zhen.

At this time, he no longer stood on the same front as Akira Nakamura: "Nakamura-san, according to our company's rules, if a small development team like this wants to log in to the game on NGS, it must first pass the review."

Nakamura replied decisively: "Don't worry about this, I have already passed the review."

"Ahem, I haven't finished talking yet. There are still rules behind it, which are the rules set by our president. Games developed by such a small team can only release three games a year. As far as I know, this The team has already released three games through you, so I really suspect that you are secretly leaning towards this young man."

Akira Nakamura explained: "It's not that I'm biased, but his game is indeed very good, and I can guarantee that with my position and personality."

Yamauchi was interested when he heard this: "You use your position as a guarantee? How about the sales of Nakamura-san's previous games?"

Ko Nakamura became energetic when he heard this. He quickly said: "President, so far this team has released one game, and is currently promoting and producing two games. The released game has already sold 300,000 cartridges."

"Oh? This result is indeed pretty good, so it doesn't mean we can't let this team release another game this year."

Nowadays, more than 20 million NGS game consoles have been sold, but there are still only a few games with million-level sales. Sales of 300,000 are already quite good.

Miyazaki on the side sounded a little unhappy.

This guy Nakamura went to the regular meeting to report this matter. Obviously he had no right to refuse.

"Miyazaki, you arrange this matter." Yamauchi said directly.

"Okay president, I understand."

No matter how upset Miyazaki was, he would never disobey the president's order.

After the meeting, Miyazaki got the Fire Emblem game floppy disk from Akira Nakamura, and then went back to study the production of cartridges.

With the president's permission, Akira Nakamura was very happy. There is hope that the game will be launched this year.

However, Miyazaki also said that the production of this game must be delayed. He can only guarantee that enough cassettes can be produced this year, but it is definitely not possible now.

Their cassette production department is also running smoothly now.

He didn't have any objections to Akira Nakamura, and the president agreed. The most Miyazaki could do was make things difficult at this time, but his goal had been achieved.

This put him in a good mood.

He had already begun to study how to contact Zuo Zhen and immediately told Zuo Zhen the good news.

The current online social networking methods are really a bit poor. Akira Nakamura really hopes that in the future, there will be technology that can allow people to chat around the world without any barriers.

Now that he has solved Fire Emblem's problems, he even feels like he can foresee the game's success.

The success of Contra gave him great confidence.

He felt that he had found Zuo Zhen's treasure, and he had to dig deeper.

While he was thinking about it, Miyazaki asked him to go to the cassette production department to find him that afternoon.

Akira Nakamura had a bad feeling in his heart, but he quickly rushed to the cassette production department.

"Nakamura-san, don't blame me for deliberately embarrassing you. Your game... requires a special cassette production line. If you want to schedule production, I'm afraid the time will be delayed even longer."