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

In addition to game companies like Kelvin Entertainment, the NGS's vigorous promotion has also attracted the attention of other game companies.

Among them are several large-scale companies that have in-depth cooperation with NGS.

Their president even called Yamauchi, the president of NGS.

"Mr. Yamauchi, we just got news that you seem to be promoting a new game?"

"There is such a thing, but it was arranged by my subordinates and I didn't interfere too much."

Yamauchi, who was already in his sixties at this time, responded calmly.

"Mr. Yamauchi, you can't be like this. This company has just emerged. How can it get such high-standard publicity resources? Isn't your NGS a bit too biased?"

Yamauchi did not respond directly to this statement.

He also understands that this kind of thing is not fair to senior partners.

These partners all just signed new royalty agreements at the beginning of this year, and they got more money. But then NGS gave a small company more publicity resources. It is normal for them to be dissatisfied.

Yamauchi could only comfort him and said: "Don't worry, this is only temporary. You also know that I also need to check the level of my subordinates. After all, I am older and cannot stay in this position forever. I always give way." of."

"Huh? You mean this is a test for your men?"

"Haha, just taking a look."

"Okay, then Mr. Yamauchi must give us more publicity resources later. A big game company like ours is always more powerful than those small game companies, and can also make you more money. You should be Someone who knows how to make trade-offs.”

Yamauchi nodded: "This is natural, I have my own considerations."

After receiving Yamauchi's assurance, the game company hung up the phone.

But then, several more calls from game companies came to him.

They all have the same purpose, which is to be dissatisfied with NGS's focus on promoting games from small companies this time.

If you say this is your own game company, then we won’t say anything even if you work hard to promote it.

But this is just a small company.

Sometimes if you are nagged too much, you will still feel a little noisy after all.

Yamauchi was also slightly affected.

"Is this propaganda really inappropriate?"

We still have to take care of the emotions of these big companies.

Thinking of this, Yamauchi made up his mind, picked up the phone again and called the publicity department, and asked them to reduce the intensity of publicity for Fire Emblem and subsequent real games.

He can't cause the dissatisfaction of big and well-known game companies because of a small company.

In the following days, Fire Emblem-related promotional billboards were taken down and replaced with promotional advertisements from other major companies, which slightly calmed the dissatisfaction of those people.

But among these companies, there are still many voices discussing real games.

They had all played three games before the real game during this time.

Then they all came up with the same answer.

That is to say, the games produced by this company are indeed interesting. The average quality of the three games is also steadily increasing, both in terms of picture quality and gameplay.

It’s hard to imagine that this is a team of one person, and that it was improved and transformed in one year.

However, the three games produced by this company are all side-scrolling adventure games.

What they most recognize is that this company is very good at side-scrolling games.

This time the real game released a new type, which has never appeared before.

War chess role-playing development game.

SRPG.

They had never heard of this type before.

Everyone agrees that this company has taken a big step.

They could have continued making side-scrolling adventure games.

In their eyes, if Zuo Zhen is a wise person, then he will continue to work on side-scrolling adventure games, or make some small improvements.

And this time it was too risky to jump directly from a side-scrolling game to a completely new game type.

Among them, some people are dissatisfied with NGS's excessive promotion of Fire Emblem.

Or a little jealous.

Why does this small company receive such special care from NGS?

We have all paid more royalties, and we don’t have this kind of treatment, but your small company actually has this kind of treatment.

And they all unanimously feel that this new type has no future. If you don't make your side-scrolling game well, why go and make a new type if you have nothing to do?

Even if you make a new genre, wouldn't it be better for you to make a role-playing game?

Later, NGS took the initiative to reduce the promotion of Fire Emblem, which did not prevent them from continuing to discuss dissatisfaction.

At this time, Akira Nakamura was under greater pressure.

He is the main advocate for increasing the promotion of Fire Emblem. His position cannot completely influence the promotion department, but he can use his position to indirectly influence it.

As long as there is no interference from Miyazaki, it will be relatively smooth for him to do this.

But he didn't expect that Miyazaki would not influence him later, but would be influenced by those jealous big companies.

Akira Nakamura still wants to persist, but his voice alone will certainly not be able to withstand the voices of so many large game companies.

In the end, Fire Emblem's publicity gradually waned, and he could only watch it.

As for Miyazaki, he is completely watching the show.

Like the people in other companies, he felt that this person named Zuo Zhen was a little too aggressive.

Even without mentioning the internal struggle between him and Akira Nakamura, he still felt that it would be more appropriate for Zuo Zhen to be more stable.

Moreover, he didn't actually think Fire Emblem was that fun.

Internally, they have played all the content of the game, but they can only say that it is quite average and not very amazing.

It's nothing more than transferring the character development routine to the war chess mode.

This is more like a modified version of role-playing.

Miyazaki himself is not very interested in games, but from a personal perspective, he feels that the story background alone is somewhat interesting.

As for the gameplay, it's really not that interesting.

If he was asked to do this kind of story background, he would definitely make a role-playing game with a story as exciting and interesting as Dragon Quest, and would not consider opening up new areas at all.

But people are forgetful. As the intensity of advertising decreases, the number of people discussing it gradually decreases. Only those who are in the gaming industry are still paying attention.

Some want to see this new company overturn, so as to prove how wrong NGS's previous choice was.

Others are eyeing this new game category to see if there are any opportunities to make money.

If there is, they will follow up immediately.

Some companies have even started to establish projects, which is absolutely efficient.

And soon, March arrived unknowingly, and Fire Emblem was officially released in Japan.