Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

In the United States, in fact, the status of women is also not high.

But compared with Japan, it is not a little bit better.

At least the women here are able to work normally without many people pointing fingers.

From Zhu Youxing's point of view, Songqiao is really a very powerful tool person, and he has always been conscientious.

Moreover, she also has some alumni and friends in the United States, and these alumni and friends may also become a resource to help expand the American market.

So Zhu Youxing agreed to her idea of ​​going to the United States to work hard.

As for myself, of course I still stay in the Japanese base camp, and at most I go out to the town of Miguo once in a while or something.

However, he still plans to attend CES in person.

He wants to see with his own eyes how far the world has reached the level of technology, and he can get a glimpse of some future trends at the consumer show.

Since the stable sales of Pokémon began, the sales of GB have also been rising steadily.

The team that originally developed Pokémon was a little frustrated.

They felt that the game they made was a bit of a failure.

But I didn't expect this game to become a hot topic in an instant, and it became a very popular thing among children.

And this is not limited to boys, many girls are also involved.

Because the Pokémon game Zhuyouxing also added more elements of development, basically moving all the development characteristics in Tamagotchi to GB Pokémon.

This also makes many girls buy game consoles because they like the development characteristics of Pokémon.

At the same time, all employees of Youxing Electronic Entertainment also came to the new office location.

It has a better office environment than the previous company, and the average office area has also been expanded. The overall atmosphere is also very good.

All employees who just arrived at the company immediately liked the new office location.

And what makes these employees excited is that there is a film and television agency upstairs, and they can see all kinds of big and small stars coming in and out every day, which is an unprecedented treatment in the past.

Even if you can't talk up close, it's nice to be able to ride in the same elevator once in a while.

And the news that a company with amazing potential came to this building was also spread in the building, and many people also looked curiously at this big family that had just rented a five-story building.

"What is this company doing?"

"I heard it's a game."

"Making games? Is it a video game that has become popular recently? Which company is it?"

"It's the hottest one, the company that made GB, Famicom, and SFC."

"Wow! It turned out to be that company. How lucky we are to be in the same building as this company. Has any of you inquired about the recruitment requirements of this company?"

"Don't think about it, you are a mechanical engineer and others have nothing to do with high-end electronics."

After all the employees had almost finished moving, Zhu Youxing called the main employees for a meeting.

This time, I am going to reconfirm the progress of the work to be done now, and arrange the next game development plan at the same time.

Now, there are six game development teams in the company, from the first to the sixth.

There are still only two groups specializing in the development of game consoles and peripherals, but the total number of the two groups has been expanded in the past period of time.

The meeting was held in the afternoon after the move, and the heads of each group and the heads of several additional departments gathered.

Zhu Youxing asked them to report their current work progress one by one.

Among them, the main research and development direction of the first engineering development team is the development of new 32-bit game consoles. This is the most important project in the company, and it is also the most confidential.

Except for the leaders of each team, no one else knows the research and development progress of the first engineering development team.

The purpose is to make a blockbuster when it explodes in the end.

The second project development team is working on an extended version of the GB handheld, which is the color backlit version of the GBA.

This Zhuyouxing is expected to be launched around this time next year, to replenish ammunition for the branch companies that have just entered the European and American markets, so that they can use stronger handhelds to conquer cities.

As for the six game development teams, the first team is in charge of the development of Dragon Quest 4, and it has come to an end. Zhu Youxing arranged for them to check the game loopholes again, and then let them wait for the European and American game consoles to be released. Dragon Quest 4 was released as the first game.

The fifth team was responsible for the simultaneous development of the third and fourth Final Fantasy titles.

Because the Final Fantasy series has almost no connection with each story, Zhu Youxing can easily skip the second one and complete his challenge of never making a second game.

The third part and the fourth part will be released at the same time, and it is planned to be released separately on the future GBA and SFC game consoles.

Among them, the third part is a crystal fairy tale that is more inclined to medieval legends. It will be exclusively launched on the GBA. Like Dragon Quest, it will be the starting list for entering the US market.

The fourth part will be a bit slower, log in to SFC, and after the Dragon Quest fever passes, Final Fantasy will immediately follow up and play a set of combo punches.

Judging from the market share of game consoles in the United States disclosed by Su Rui Electronics, there may be some strong competitors in the United States.

This is quite normal. Programmers in the United States started their development the earliest, and they are more creative in program development. In the first two decades of the 21st century in his previous life, the United States was almost invincible in the software field.

There are enough talented programmers out there too.

It is already a rare species to have a programming genius like Yue Yecai under his command, but there are many of them in the United States, and they are even better.

So Zhu Youxing didn't dare to be careless. He planned to enter the US market with a few big moves at the first step, otherwise he might not be able to make any waves.

The reason why Nintendo in the previous life was able to run rampant in the United States for many years was simply because the United States had just experienced a video game winter before. A game manufacturer Atari destroyed the entire American video game market by itself.

Later, Nintendo took advantage of the void and forcibly occupied the vast majority of the market share in the United States, and finally stabilized its position.

As for himself, I am afraid that he does not have that kind of good luck. He may have to face many strong competitors from the United States at the beginning.

In addition to the development of the game series that the first and fifth teams are specialized in, the sixth team has just released Pokémon, so we have to give them a little time to breathe, let them settle down slowly, and wait for the next wave after the release of GBA The big move is fine.

The second, third, and fourth teams are currently working on three-month short-cycle game development. In the past month, they have successively produced some classic games on the previous generation of red and white machines and SFC.

There are Galaxy Storm, Mario RPG, football and basketball games, as well as golf games and a Go puzzle game developed in cooperation with Nippon Kiin.

The sales of most of these games hovered around 200,000 in the first week, and then slowly decreased in the next few weeks.

Since the production cost of these games is not too high, they are basically games that Zhu Youxing can make with a creative idea, so they can generally be sold for about 100,000 sales and can be regarded as small profits.