Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

In May, the PN2 game console was officially released, priced at 299 dollars a piece.

This is the world's first 32-bit game console, the first game console that can run 3D graphics games.

The first games include a racing game with 3D graphics, and Sun Knight 3D, a housekeeping role-playing work of Suri Electronics.

If the player bundles the two first-time games and the PN2 game console, they can also get a certain discount, and they can buy them all for about four hundred dollars.

Different from Need for Speed ​​on SFC, the racing game rendered by 3D graphics allows players to really have a real feeling, as if they are really driving a car.

And this game was also created by American employees recruited by Su Rui Electronics in the North American branch.

When they joined the ranks of video game production for the first time, they fell in love with the production of games, and immediately handed over an answer sheet that made Su Rui Electronics very satisfied.

A real racing game based on the relatively more popular rally games in the United States. At the same time, it seems that it is to compete with Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Su Rui Electronics did not know how much it paid. The brand authorization of car companies in different countries seems to be much larger than that of Zhuyouxing.

And the initial first impression of this game is also very good in the eyes of players.

When the PN2 game console was released on the day, it caused a small upsurge. After all, this is the world's first console that can run 3D games. The two 3D graphics games above are indeed very attractive, especially the one racing game.

As for Sun Knight 3D, that one is a bit rough, because Suri Electronics has not been able to imagine how to make a real 3D game yet.

And 3D racing games are just created according to the old way of making games before. Racing games have basically set the basic rules of game production on 16-bit game consoles, so making them is not particularly difficult.

The sales volume of the PN2 game console in the first week immediately reached 200,000, and the number of users who bought bundles exceeded 100,000. The sales including games reached more than 80 million US dollars in a week, and the results were very good.

Many players are the kind of very loyal followers, they are playing the PN1 game console from the beginning.

Since Surui Electronics took the lead in entering the US market, many players were preconceived and more inclined to Surui Electronics.

Even if the quality of video games is slightly poor, it is actually enough to be enjoyable to play.

The big deal is for players to buy an SFC game console to play. Anyway, in the field of video games, you only need to buy games. Now American players can still afford a few dozen games, not like Japan. Relatively more conservative.

This achievement also made the senior management of Su Rui Electronics slightly satisfied, so they simply relaxed the previous tightening policy on Ueto Hayakawa, and gave him more budget, so that he can be more open to develop more and more Fun video game.

And no matter what industry, once there is money, the speed of development will never be slow.

Just after the first week of sales, Su Rui Electronics immediately announced the establishment of three game studios to produce different types of games, including a studio specializing in the production of baseball, football, basketball, and rugby games.

There is also an action game studio that intends to emulate Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Street Fighter.

And a creative studio for more types of development.

As soon as the news was announced, American gamers became even happier. The momentum continued unabated in the second week, and the sales of game consoles remained at around 170,000.

They like high-tech things the most. Sometimes fun games can boost sales, and excellent graphics can also boost sales.

It’s just that fun games tend to prosper for a long time, but games with good graphics can only harvest one or two waves of leeks at most before showing fatigue.

In addition to Surui Electronics, the Lierda company in the United States also announced that it is developing its own 32-bit game console, and promised to release it on Christmas. It seems that they also want to get on the car quickly and make a wave of hot money together.

There are hundreds of millions of dollars in sales in two weeks, which is already a figure that cannot be ignored.

Although the money that actually goes to the manufacturer may only earn about one-third at most, it is also amazing.

Converted into Japanese yen, the profit is also in the billion level.

Manufacturers in Japan were also a little shocked.

Only then did they discover that Su Rui Electronics seemed to be a good choice as well.

They don't look weak at all in the United States now, of course they are still a bit worse than Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

On the other hand, Youxing Electronic Entertainment looked calm.

Because Zhuyouxing has been busy expanding the company's employees recently.

With the development of video games, it is no longer possible to use the past model of small workshops with a few or a dozen people to develop.

Now 16-bit game consoles can barely allow a dozen people to develop games together.

But once entering the era of 3D games, the developers of a game often need hundreds or even thousands of calculations.

And Su Rui Electronics and several other companies do not seem to realize this.

They simply use the most basic programming methods to write 3D graphics games.

This workload is not the same as that of 2D games in the past, but now they only want to speed up the game development as much as possible, and the matter of recruiting employees has been put in a secondary position. It seems that Ueto Hayakawa has some foresight and has always maintained In the recruitment announcements in the United States, employees are constantly being recruited, but the frequency of recruitment is also not high.

As for Zhu Youxing, the number of employees in his company doubles almost every month.

Zhu Youxing must start planning for the future.

When the 3D era really comes in the future, I will think about recruiting a sufficient number of employees. First of all, not to mention the training cost, it will greatly slow down the progress of my game development at that time.

Time is far more important than money.

From the first to the tenth game development team, each team will have new employees joining every day, and then some old employees will teach them, guide them to develop games, and make them as proficient as possible in the game development process.

And the two groups that specialize in the development of game hardware have also expanded to four, and each group has also expanded to more than 50 people.

However, the four teams are still led by a unified person, that is Hayazawa Airi, she can most faithfully convey the will of Takeyusei, and ensure that the development of game hardware will not go astray. I believe that only Hayazawa Airi is qualified for such a job.