Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Here, first of all, we need to mention the sales results of FC game consoles.

When Zhu Youxing went to the United States in January, the sales volume was about to exceed 10 million.

Later, in March, it officially entered the sales volume of tens of millions.

It took almost exactly two years to create a game console product with sales of tens of millions in Japan, which has proved the success of Zhuyouxing.

He is also bound to become an unskippable figure in the history of video games in this world.

On the day of tens of millions, Zhu You Xing deliberately arranged it with great fanfare. He spent a lot of money to invite the most popular singers to compose the theme song celebrating the sales of tens of millions. ready for creation.

In addition to the theme song, there is also a celebration of the whole company in a large theater, and more than a hundred lucky players are invited to celebrate this rare event.

For this reason, TV Tokyo set aside a special period of time to broadcast live, which greatly increased the ratings by a small amount.

The data of tens of millions of sales has also spread to the ears of several other companies. While they admire the smooth development of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they are also stepping up their efforts to enter the video game market.

For a while, the valuation of any company with anything to do with video games will skyrocket in the stock market, which seems to be a money carnival game.

However, this is also a good thing. With capital invested in this industry, it means that this industry will continue to diversify and develop. Zhu Youxing alone cannot support the entire industry.

After finishing the celebration, and then returning to the present time, before we know it, we have already arrived in July, which is also the beginning of the midsummer season.

Children's holidays have boosted the sales of video games again. Youxing Electronic Entertainment has been quietly gathering strength. Of course, during this period, the release of various games is indispensable, such as the fifth part of Final Fantasy and the fourth part. Dragon Quest.

Among them, Final Fantasy 5 has developed the career transfer system to the current extreme. There are as many as 24 kinds of job transfers, and there are rich game plots as the basis.

Even the SFC cassette is a little too much for so many huge and complicated contents.

The fifth Final Fantasy is also a rare Final Fantasy in Zhuyouxing's memory that only has a good ending. There are 15 endings in total, and the number of surviving warriors of time varies according to the final ending. Different deaths of the four warriors of light will also bring There are different endings, but in the end, it is generally the ending of saving the world and returning the world to peace. Even if the four warriors of light die, they will return to the world in different ways. Overall, it is very satisfactory.

The plots of the first, third and fourth Final Fantasy games tortured players to death, but the fifth one had a happy ending, which actually led to a surge in the sales of this generation of games.

The sales of the first three games, 1, 3, and 4, are generally maintained at about 1 million to 2 million in Japan. They can be regarded as best-selling games, but they are still much worse than Dragon Quest. When it comes to Final Fantasy 5, The sales in the first week exceeded 700,000, and the sales in the second week also reached 500,000, which is quite terrifying. Obviously, the players are really yearning for a happy ending.

Of course, in addition to the sales in Japan, in the United States, because SFC broke through two million sales in a few months, the sales of Final Fantasy 5 also reached more than 700,000.

The United States and Japan add up to close to two million, and the basic plan of Final Fantasy is almost stable.

Those small department stores in the United States are also happy, and they have made a lot of money following Zhuyouxing.

Before the appearance of Zhuyouxing, they probably never imagined that an entertainment item could sell so quickly and so hotly.

As for Dragon Quest 4, as the first part of the sky trilogy, coupled with the experienced first development team, they also made a lot of groundbreaking content, adding more occupations, adding more in-game Small games, including character development and other content, the sales volume in the first week is much more terrifying than Final Fantasy.

And because Dragon Quest 4 is logged on both FC and SFC game consoles at the same time, FC is only a bit worse in picture quality, but the content is hardly reduced.

Based on FC, which has sold tens of millions of game consoles, its sales reached a terrifying million in the first week, and there are so many die-hard fans. Final Fantasy will definitely not be able to surpass the status of Dragon Quest in a short time.

In addition to these two housekeeping works, there is also an adventure game focused on the United States, called Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In the previous life, this name was a famous series of movies.

But it doesn’t exist in this world, so Zhu Youxing simply took the name and developed a horizontal version of the ruins exploration game. This game is completely developed by the studio in the United States. Add some game development experience to that side, as for the sales of the game, I don't have much hope.

However, Americans seem to be quite interested in games in the form of relic exploration, and the sales volume has reached 300,000. The results are quite good, which also makes the game development team established in the United States very excited.

Apart from these, there seems to be no movement on the upstream side of Star Electronics Entertainment in terms of gaming hardware.

Judging from the development rate of Youxing Electronic Entertainment in the past, it has been very calm recently.

But this is only a superficial dynamic.

Now that Zhuyouxing has expanded to four engineering development teams, and each team has also increased to fifty people, how can it be possible to let them idle?

It's just that, except for the top game company executives who are closest to Youxing Electronic Entertainment, few outsiders know the specific movements of the four engineering teams.

At this moment, the four engineering development teams are working together to tackle two topics, namely the upgraded version of the GB game console, GBA, and a new game console series: the GS series.

Needless to say, GBA is one of the most classic handhelds in the previous life.

With 32-bit performance, it is not impossible to make 3D games on it, but because it is planned to achieve 32-bit performance on the handheld, and to keep the battery life of the game console itself for a long time, this continuous experiment design The process is quite long, and until now, it has only been studied for a long time, and there are still many tests and finishing work left. It is almost impossible to release it before Christmas, so I will simply wait until next year's International Consumer Electronics Show. Published.

As for the GS series, this is the mainframe that Zhuyouxing intends to emulate the previous PS series.

Focus on high performance, and at the same time make the carrier of video games cheaper, replacing the form of cassettes with optical discs, greatly reducing the cost of physical games.