Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 124 'Small Surprise' (17)

Natsume Yasulong has always been a relatively conservative person.

There are pros and cons to this.

Zhu Youxing just smiled and said: "Video games are an emerging field, and there must be some differences from the past, so don't stick to those small details. In your eyes, I am a president. In my own It seems that I am a game producer, but deep down in my heart, I always think that I am a gamer."

Several people in the conference room seemed to be touched.

They also like games, and they agree with Zhu Youxing's words.

Only by treating yourself as a game player can you have a deeper understanding of what players want.

Zhu Youxing continued: "So, on TV, I won't pretend to be a president or something. I will always pretend to be a player, and I'm also proud of being a player."

In fact, what Zhu Yuxing said just now was taken from a famous saying of one of his most admired people: Mr. Iwata Satoshi.

This person has made great contributions to Nintendo, and is the biggest contributor to Nintendo's long-term prosperity after the millennium.

This person is also widely popular with players.

Even competitors and peers are impressed by it.

When this gentleman sadly passed away, gamers and industry leaders mourned him, and no one can deny the changes he brought to the game industry.

It is no exaggeration to say that Satoru Iwata is the Jobs of video games.

Zhu Youxing has already made a decision, and there is no need for others to stop it. After all, this company belongs to him. Now Zhu Youxing has absolute dominance over the entire company, and there is not even a second shareholder who can influence the company's will. Of course others can't say anything.

Zhu Youxing said again: "Okay, everyone, get ready, I need enough informative content for the face-to-face meeting in half a month's time, besides the launch of game consoles."

The class leaders of several game development teams cheered up.

One by one, they reported the corresponding games prepared in their group.

Among them, three of the current five teams will produce a first-party boutique game before the official release of SFC.

At the same time, the picture quality and sound effects of the first-party games on the original red and white machines will be upgraded to a higher level, and when they are logged on to the new game consoles, it is almost equivalent to a game with a screen reset.

Old players only need to hold the old version of the cassette and add 500 yen to replace the new version of the game cassette on SFC.

The old version of the cassette will be refurbished and repackaged to sell at a lower price, which is equivalent to an official replacement cassette.

Zhu Youxing knew that the sale of second-hand cassettes was unavoidable, so he might as well start this business himself.

The official replacement of the cassette with official endorsement will be of better quality and more popular among players.

In addition to these, Zhuyou Xing actually prepared another unexpected surprise.

A surprise that dealt a fatal blow to Su Rui Electronics.

After listening to the reports of several team leaders, Takeyuho looked at Hayazawa Airi.

"Airi, have you solved the battery problem of the Second Engineering Development Team?"

Just now, Hayazawa Airi has been waiting for Takeyuhoshi to call her.

Now that it was finally brought up, she immediately cheered up and said happily: "It has been solved! According to your request, we can already guarantee at least 25 hours of battery life."

"That's right, then let's officially release it. Next, let's discuss how to release it in the most likely way to arouse the greatest response."

Hayazawa Airi is very happy, she has been following up on this project all along, and she and several other people have already started planning half a year ago, earlier than SFC's planning time.

At the earliest time, Zhuyouxing had asked them to solve the problem of battery energy consumption balance as much as possible.

In order to solve this problem, from the beginning of the research on the battery to the present, they have finally kept the battery life at more than 25 hours, which is just the minimum required by Zhuyouxing, and it can be regarded as barely fulfilling the task.

And this product, Game Boy, referred to as GB, is a handheld game machine. Its performance is worse than that of the red and white machine, but its biggest advantage is that it can play games on a small screen, so that video games can be played at any time. Enjoy anywhere.

Its portable features, coupled with long-lasting battery life and relatively low price, immediately captured the hearts of players once it was released. Even if there were many competitors at the same time, it was difficult to compete with GB.

That was really the era when Nintendo dominated the world.

In the previous life, Zhuyouxing's first handheld was the GBC, which was an upgraded version of the GB handheld.

At the beginning, Zhuyouxing wanted to develop this game console directly, skipping the first generation of GB handhelds, so that the performance of the game console would be better.

But if this is done, the price will increase a lot, and the actual sales of the handheld itself may exceed 10,000 yen.

Players in this era may not be able to accept such an expensive game console, so they decided to expand the number of players first, and then consider upgrading the game console.

In the end, it may be possible to skip the GBC and develop the GBA directly.

Moreover, Zhuyouxing has also finalized the game lineup for landing on GB.

These include Metroid, which is supposed to be the second generation, as well as Tetris, and a Super Mario entry, plus a Super Baseball latest entry.

In the previous life, GB's starting lineup also had four games, but two of them were suspected of making up the numbers, Arkanoid and Mahjong.

But the games he expects to release can be regarded as a luxurious lineup, and at the same time, Zhu Youxing also wants to see if he can break Metroid's highest sales record under such circumstances.

Generally speaking, the first game often has a certain advantage.

Among the first games on the red and white machines, backgammon has already reached 500,000 sales, and other chess and card games of the same type cannot compare with it. This is the advantage of the first launch.

Regarding how to promote these things in the face-to-face meeting and how to announce them to achieve the greatest effect, everyone began to discuss heatedly, and Zhu Youxing didn't intervene too much. Anyway, there is still enough time, and there is no problem in making a decision on the last day .

"Okay, you can discuss the details after the meeting is over, let's end the meeting."

Everyone left the table one after another, going out in twos and threes to continue the discussion.

This face-to-face meeting is still very important, and it is an opportunity for the company to demonstrate its capabilities to the outside world.

Perhaps Su Rui Electronics and other manufacturers have known about the release of SFC in advance, but they don't know the price yet, but they never imagined that there will be a super blockbuster after SFC.

I don't know what their expressions will be when they see this blockbuster.

Well, it’s decided, let GB make an appearance in the finale of the face-to-face meeting, and give a few ‘little surprises’ to the competitors