Super Tycoon

Kutaragi Ken called the executives of Sunny PS to have a meeting to discuss the next step of development.

"Everyone, can anyone tell me about the current situation in the market? What is the result of the arcade machine I asked to follow up?"

Someone stood up and bowed: "President, Zhi Duoxing is the most popular in the market now, and the ranking of Zhi Duoxing by major magazines has stabilized at the first place."

"We have contacted three arcade machine manufacturers, but two of them announced that they will no longer produce arcade hardware, but switch to game development, and signed a cooperation agreement with us."

"There is another company that has merged with other companies. They have established a new company, and they also want to develop CD players as a new generation of arcade consoles." New 81 Chinese website is updated the fastest.

Kutaragi Ken's expression is not very good-looking, the industry's No. 1 ranking is something they have stared at for a long time, why was it snatched away by Zhi Duxing?

To deal with Nintendo's strategy, Sunny began to implement it a few years ago. Coupled with Nintendo's own mistakes, it went very smoothly. Now in the game camp, Sunny is number one in the industry.

But Zhi Duoxing left them far behind by relying on a dance mat peripheral, and now he has dominated the arcade market. It took less than a year for Zhiduxing's game console sales to exceed 10 million, but it quickly reached 30 million.

From zero to 10 million, it took three years, but from 10 million to 30 million, it only took less than a year!

This growth rate is really too terrifying.

Sunny's PS sales have used many methods, and they have done a lot of promotional activities, and even sold some games at a discount. Now it is still not as good as Zhiduoxing, but it is similar to N64.

Who would have imagined that when the N64 was first launched, it would have a lot of glory, but the stamina is far less than that of the Zhiduoxing G?

"Have you thought of a way to increase the sales of our PS series? There is no need to talk about methods such as discounts and promotions."

Kutaragi Ken directly blocked the solution that many people came up with. This kind of stupid method is still useless for you to think about it.

"President, in fact, there are only a few directions. Either continue to increase the number of our games, especially popular game masterpieces, so as to attract players and drive console sales through game masterpieces."

"Either it is to introduce new peripherals and enhance the performance of our game consoles. Or it is to enter other markets, such as we also do arcade consoles."

Ken Kutaragi finally had some interest on his face: "Tell me specifically."

"The first one is to increase the number of games, which we have been doing. But now many companies that used to be in the game industry have withdrawn from the hardware market, so we will win them over, so that we can increase the number of our games, saying no There will be some explosions in it.”

"Second, add peripherals. We can't launch a dance mat like Zhiduoxing, but we can add some other peripherals, such as adding a screen, adding a charging cable that can be connected to a car battery, and making our home game consoles become into a portable game console.”

"The third is to turn our console into an arcade console. In fact, we have an advantage over Zhiduoxing. We have a racing game masterpiece GT, which can add steering wheels, etc., to give people a feeling of real driving. Also You could add a ray gun to make it feel like you're actually shooting."

"These three solutions are the solutions I thought of for the time being, which will allow us to catch up with Zhi Duoxing and surpass it!"

Everyone believes in catching up, but surpassing it is not easy.

Kutaragi took a sip of the coffee on the table, it was already cold, he put it down a little dissatisfied. Needless to say, increasing the number of games is what they have been doing.

But the addition of peripherals gave him a big reminder. Souni now has LCD screen technology, because they still make computers, and laptops use LCD screens. starter

It seems that it is not too difficult to make an additional display peripheral. However, the size of the PS game console is not small. In order to ensure the performance advantage, the electronic components inside were not small.

With the technology at this time, it can be reduced a lot. Yeah, why not zoom out? Just like Zhiduoxing GMINI, get a reduced version, which is not only easy to carry, but also can be used as the host of the arcade.

It is not enough to connect the car battery, you need to get another battery block, so that you can play in the wild when there is a power outage, or go to some places where it is not convenient to connect to electricity.

As for other peripherals, you can launch a steering wheel and the like to play racing games, you can also launch a large joystick, which feels like playing an arcade machine, and you can also launch a light gun to play shooting games.

It's not impossible to go straight out of the arcade.

"That's a good point. Does anyone else have anything to add?" Ken Kutaragi looked around.

"President, I think we should add more language versions. I have studied the sales strategy of Zhiduxing. They can sell game consoles and games in more than 70 countries in more than a dozen languages. Why don't we do this? What to do? That alone has allowed Zhiduoxing to perform extremely well in Asia and Europe."

Someone immediately jumped out to object: "Did you not read those reports, how much does it cost to do a software translation? Many new language versions of Zhiduoxing Company can't recover the cost at all."

"What we want is a profitable solution, not a loss-making solution."

Don't they know that the multilingual version is more convenient to sell, but it is sold to make money. If you don't make money, there is a use for it.

"No, Zhiduoxing didn't make money at the beginning, but since they got the dance machine peripheral, they have started to make profits in some areas where they were losing money before."

"Then authorize some software companies that use this language to develop some games or do translation, and the cost will become lower and lower."

"Those who bought game consoles can't just play one or two games, can they? If they want to buy new games, they will continue to bring profits to Zhiduoxing."

"And as the sales of Zhiduoxing increase, ours will decline, and the gap between us will become wider and wider."

Dangdangdang~~

Kutaragi Ken knocked on the table: "Okay, don't quarrel, it's all for work. Mr. Shimayama knows these things well, so he should have deliberately collected some data, and after analyzing it, send it to my office."

"Our next goal is to launch a tiny version of PS, which is more convenient to carry. It can be used to suppress Zhiduoxing's MINI and also to expand the arcade market."

"President, what shall we name it? PS2?" This performance has not been upgraded, so it is not considered the second generation. But if it is also called MINI, isn't the trace of imitation too obvious?

"No, our current version is called PS1, and the smaller version is called PSone!"