Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

The story of Metal Gear Solid 5 has ushered in a temporary end, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment did not say that this story will be completely over.

It's just that now players are not very interested in this type of game, and the number of people who buy and play games is gradually decreasing.

The main reason is that there are fewer people playing, and without fresh blood, a good game will come to an end one day.

However, Zhu Youxing knows that fashion is a ring, and when it develops to a certain level, things that were popular in the past will come back to shine again.

Just like the retro trend in the previous life, as long as it is a good thing, it will shine again sooner or later.

And the end of the Metal Gear series does not mean that this type of work will disappear.

Metal Gear Solid gave the main character Snake a decent end for the time being.

Because it is a temporary end, many players who were not interested in this genre suddenly want to try it out, because many people say that this is the world's number one stealth game.

At the same time, there are also a group of people who are not reconciled, and want to make stealth games with profound connotations like Metal Gear Solid.

It's just that there will definitely not be any big investment in this type of game in a short time.

At most, it is an investment of tens of millions of dollars, and then the cost is returned or a small profit is made. This is almost the status quo of stealth games.

But as long as some idealists are willing to persist, then this type of work will not die out completely.

Immediately after the release of Metal Gear, the latest Forza series was also launched, filling the gap of no new racing works released in the previous two years.

Then, by the way, Youxing Electronic Entertainment also launched some smaller games, including a realistic motorcycle racing game, and even a sci-fi space racing game.

These games all achieved sales of one million or less than one million in the period of time after they were released.

The sales volume of these games is not high, but because the development cost itself is not high, there is still a small profit. At the same time, these works can be regarded as cultivating the team's ability to develop works, which will be used for some larger-scale and more ambitious works in the future. Good foreshadowing.

All the people who have been involved in the development of these games are the talents of the future.

At the same time, in 2021, Cyberpunk 2077 also announced the latest expansion pack. The specific release date has yet to be announced.

During this period, Su Rui Electronics was not far behind, and released its latest Sun Knight series while Youxing Electronics Entertainment and game product lines were in gaps.

Unlike Youxing Electronics Entertainment's high-quality game strategy, Su Rui Electronics' squeeze on IP is more ruthless.

The series of IP of Sun Knight has also launched more than a dozen works of the original and rumored works.

And these works also cover a variety of genres, some of which are a bit weird.

For example, Sun Knight Kart, at that time it seemed to be the appeal of some small-scale players on the Internet, but this should be more of a meme and ridicule of the players, probably because they never really thought about officially launching this kind of work.

But the game development team of Surui Electronics seems to have really listened to it, and released a sun knight kart.

The characters in it have changed from the very serious plot and image in the original story, and each image has become more cute, and then sitting on a small go-kart has a strong sense of contrast, and it is surprisingly fun.

There are rumors that there are Mario Kart development talents hired by Su Rui Electronics with a lot of money in the development team.

Not everyone is an idealist, and some people are more realistic. It is also common to spend a lot of money to poach corners.

However, this will not affect the status of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

If one or two people could shake the status of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, someone would have done it long ago, instead of waiting for a few poachers to kill the old club.

But this kart is still very fun, and the shadow of Mario Kart can be seen from all sides.

Zhuyouxing played it on purpose during the first few days of its release, and found that the quality is not weaker than some mainstream kart racing games in the previous life, and made better choices in some aspects, very similar to the running kart racing games in the previous life That kind of pure speed racing game is less entertaining.

On the contrary, this has aroused the pursuit of some players, and the thinking of Su Rui Electronics to compete in other tracks has gone away.

They have realized that they can no longer compete directly with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's mainstream games, and they have to play to differentiate themselves.

Take a look at Brown Entertainment. Most of the games they make are different from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment does not make online role-playing games, they insist on developing this way.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment does not make first-person shooter games in the popular era, Brown Entertainment does it, and it is still doing well, a bit like the previous Battlefield series and Call of Duty series.

It's not that Zhu Youxing doesn't want to do this type of work, but it was a sensitive era, so he tried to avoid it when he was developing in Japan, so as not to cause trouble for himself.

In short, Brown Entertainment's differentiated competition method has indeed given itself a considerable market position.

Surui Electronics is now preparing to develop in this way.

Youxing Electronics Entertainment focuses on entertainment and gameplay in a certain game type, while Suri Electronics focuses on plot description and light gameplay.

If Youxing Electronics Entertainment focuses on the plot in a certain type of game, then Su Rui Electronics will do the opposite and focus on the fun of gameplay.

Now it seems that this strategy is really good. At least now, the sales of many games of Surui Electronics are slowly increasing, and the stock price of Surui Electronics is also rising steadily.

Needless to say, Mickford, their game department has cut their own arms from the very beginning, directly excluding the most popular operating systems in the world, and only developing games on their own systems, so even if the games are fun, sales Always tepid.

But Myron Keith himself is an unwilling person, and he continues to try to win more game development markets.

In 2021, there is another game that players are looking forward to: Rogue 5.

Players experienced Nico's story in the previous game and realized how ridiculous the American Dream is.

The profound connotation of the story has won the support of a large number of fans.

Among them, the ethnic minority groups in the United States are now the most popular in the Grand Theft Auto series, because they think that the works of this series are speaking for themselves, and they promote the excellence of this series of games everywhere. They even call on the Oscars of this world to launch a A new award, give this work an award or something.

This has caused dissatisfaction among people from the sociology school in the United States, because they think that this series of works is promoting violence, and they should try their best to prohibit it.

But it's a pity that the minority groups are not easy to mess with. When they get together, each of them is full of gunpowder, and every day they scold these social school people on the Internet and offline.

Zhu Youxing felt that this was really a bit like fighting fire with fire.

Both sides are not good people in the American circle, but the two groups of people scolding will help his game. He just needs to keep silent and make money from the Americans quietly. As for the disputes outside the game It has nothing to do with myself.

He is the porter and creator of the game, and he ignores everything else.

The sales volume of Metal Gear Solid 5 is fixed at around seven million.

At about 3 million, the game can already pay back the cost, and the subsequent sales are purely earned. It is to let this series of works finally shine, and then wait for the next boom in stealth games.

Then, there was the release of Rogue 5.

According to the development cycle, this was finally scheduled for the time period at the end of the year.

On Christmas Eve, Rogue 5 was officially released.

Seeing this, other game companies immediately postponed the release of the games they had worked so hard to invest in.

One company was more ruthless and directly launched an early release, which is quite rare in the game industry. It can be regarded as taking another track to earn a wave of attention, so that the game will not lose money.

"President, all the reviews of Rogue 5 have been completed, and we are just waiting for the game to be released."

At Youxing Electronic Entertainment headquarters, Zhu Youxing is looking at Rogue 5 in full body form.

At this time, he was holding the handle to try out one of the characters, Xiaofu.

Being black, the character had a pretty standard beginning for his race.

While bickering, the two good brothers began to discuss how to earn a lot of money from him next.

Lamar was full of witty remarks, and his mouth was hardly idle.

It's really a familiar feeling.

The corners of Zhu Youxing's mouth twitched slightly, he has mostly reproduced this game.

Only a few details have been modified.

There are image quality improvements in the game, as well as optimization of the collision system in the game.

This game was one of the best masterpieces in the previous life. Since it has a perfect score, there is almost nothing to criticize. What Zhu Youxing can do is to add more details to the game on this basis.

For example, let every house in the city in the game be freely accessible for exploration, and at the same time add some game plots and adventures to these countless buildings, increasing the overall thickness and playing time of the game. As for the main plot of the game, there is no need to change it. .

Now after experiencing the main storyline for more than ten minutes, Zhu Youxing is talking to some high-class people in a high-end nightclub, listening to economic words that they don't understand, and at the same time making a mockery of the current economic society and mocking the present The rich people in the world are a bunch of wrong people.

That's enough, there's no need to do more.

Several producers responsible for the development of Rogue 5 looked at Zhu Youxing nervously, waiting for his final decision.

They feel that this work has been done to the extreme.

The overall game scale is smaller than Cyberpunk 2077, but the content is absolutely comparable.

Just because of the experience of 2077, they went a lot smoothly when developing Rogue 5.

Cyberpunk 2077 took six or seven years to develop, and this Rogue 5 only needs two or three years.

If you add overtime or something, maybe it can be done in a year or two.

After all, they have a large number of people, and the overall plan has been determined from the beginning. If the main framework remains unchanged, the game development will go much smoother.

But they know that their president has always been a very picky person, and it's hard to say whether he can accept the quality of the current game.

Even if they think they are perfect, their president may be dissatisfied.

"Now this game is perfect, I have nothing to criticize, ready to release."

Finally, Zhu Youxing put down the game controller and looked at several game producers in front of him.

Several game producers immediately showed expressions of relief, and then said happily: "Okay, let's contact the publicity team."

The achievement of game development can be recognized by the boss is the biggest gain.

In fact, if you want to pick faults, you still have to pick them. Rogue 5 itself is only an earlier game product. If you look at it from the perspective of the future, there must still be some shortcomings, even if Zhuyouxing has done a lot of optimization and modification.

But this is enough, and it is meaningless to pick on those minor problems, which have little impact on the player's experience, and it is okay to slowly adjust after subsequent game updates.

Finally, this game was also promoted to this world by himself, and Zhu Youxing was quite happy.

So far, he has brought hundreds of games to this world. Each game has its own characteristics, and it occupies 70% of the top 100 mainstream video game rankings in this world.

There is still an absolute monopoly position, but in recent years, the quality of other game manufacturers' works has been getting higher and higher. Maybe he is about to retire, and his dream in this world has basically been fulfilled. Enjoy the rest of the time Video games out of this world are also a good option.

Then occasionally develop some classic independent games in the future, basically that's it.

"Zhuyou, your expression doesn't look so happy."

All the other game producers left, only Zhu Youcai stayed.

She noticed that Zhu Youxing's expression and eyes changed many times.

She has lived together for many years, and at the same time, she can feel that Zhu Youxing's mood seems to have changed in a delicate way.

Zhu Youxing laughed and said, "I'm very happy, there's nothing unhappy about it, I just recalled these years a little bit, and I feel that time flies by quite quickly."

The game empire has taken shape, and the video games in this world will continue to develop in the future.

Video games have also formed a huge trillion-dollar market today, and no one dares to underestimate this industry.

Not just any industry can bring millions of jobs.

This can be regarded as another invisible achievement of Zhuyouxing in addition to the achievements of the company's development.

The world itself is actually a bit of a mess.

But sometimes there is also a glimmer of hope.

Video games are a good buffer.

Zhu Youcai looked at Zhu Youxing carefully for a long time, but she couldn't see what Zhu Youxing was thinking in his heart.

In the end, she gave up thinking about Zhu Youxing's thoughts. Zhu Youxing would say it when he wanted to say it.

"Will you be home on time today? I will cook myself." Zhu Youcai said, "Airi said she would come to eat too."

Zhu Youxing nodded: "Well, I will be on time. I don't have much work now, so it's not bad to relax suddenly."