Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 243 A Head-on Challenge (1010)

Now game developers have more choices.

If you are poor and have little money, you can develop PC games first.

Because PC games do not need to consider the cost of game console license fees and cassette production.

The cost can be saved by at least half.

In other words, as long as the profit is half of the game console game, it can be profitable.

Under this temptation, more people develop PC games.

However, games on consoles tend to sell more, generally three to five times more than games on PCs.

It is obvious that most players have gradually become deeply attached to game consoles, thinking that they should use game consoles instead of computers to play games, and they have not yet fully regarded computers as an entertainment product.

So once it is a game manufacturer with a certain scale, it will still choose to release its own games on game consoles.

In the first month of 1996 alone, more than a hundred game companies were established in the United States, and hot money quickly poured into this newly emerging industry.

But among these people, they know that there is still only one overlord in the game industry, and that is Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

So far no one has been able to shake its position.

Even Su Rui Electronics could barely grab the corner of the opponent's clothes and keep up with the pace.

When the second month of 1996 came, after nearly two years, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment finally officially released the third game of Metroid, which it had secretly developed for nearly half a year.

Super Metroid.

Its story follows the second part Metroid: The Return of Samus, and the final story begins. Samus takes the Metroid cubs on a spaceship to a scientific planet in the Galactic Federation.

But not long after settling down, the space pirates came to the door and took the Metrod cub away.

Samus had no choice but to embark on a journey again to save the Metrod cub.

This game can be said to have appeared after a long-awaited call.

two years.

Do you know how I got here in two years?

This is the inner thought of many loyal Metroid players.

Some people even got tears in their eyes when they saw the real promotional video of Metroid.

They have been looking forward to a new story for a long time, but Youxing Electronic Entertainment just doesn't do it.

If this is placed on Su Rui Electronics and other game manufacturers, I am afraid that they have already developed three or four generations of works.

But Youxing Electronic Entertainment is really a big business, and the number of IPs is also huge.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment can continue to produce a series of games casually, and Metroid's position is not so important.

However, under the call of countless players, Youxing Electronic Entertainment seems to have finally heard the voice of the players, and promised to continue to produce the Metroid game, and finally produced the game at the last moment.

Players are very excited.

They've never been this excited.

However, in February, only a few previews of the game screens were released, and the price of the game was officially announced at the same time.

The price in Japan is 8,900 yen, and the price in the United States is 99 dollars.

If you plan to buy an SFC game console, you can reduce the price by 1,000 yen and 10 dollars respectively, which can be regarded as another boost to the sales of the game console.

The price of this game is already very scary.

The main cost is more concentrated on the specially made game cartridges.

The mass production cost of the game cassette alone is already as high as 2,000 yen.

Including packaging and shipping, the cost of each cassette reaches about 3,500 yen.

If it is an ordinary game company, I am afraid it will not be able to bear it at all.

If it is a brand new IP game, it may be difficult to recover the cost.

However, Metroid already has a certain player base, and since the game was launched two years later, the players feel that the price is still acceptable.

But for new players this can be a bit daunting.

With this money, you can buy two slightly outdated SFC games that are equally fun. The price of Metrodome's first release is a bit too high.

But this is not a problem, as long as the quality of the game itself is good enough, the subsequent sales will definitely not be too low.

On Hayakawa Ueto's side, he finally understood that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, and they are really preparing to make a big move.

If it's just a game that is generally released, how can it be possible to sell so high?

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. This game definitely has its own unique features.

Youxing Electronics Entertainment is different from other game manufacturers. Any abnormal operation of Youxing Electronics Entertainment is definitely planned, and there have never been any accidents.

So this time Hayakawa Ueto did not despise Youxing Electronics Entertainment any more.

He immediately decided to back off.

Obviously, Youxing Electronic Entertainment came over aggressively, ready to show off its muscles to the people in the industry.

Ueto Hayakawa, who has a little bit of PTSD, seems to have a premonition of something.

There's no shame in avoiding the edge sometimes.

If you plan to fight Youxing Electronic Entertainment, invest huge costs to confront the opponent, and cause yourself heavy losses, that is the worst thing you can do.

However, Ueto Hayakawa is very cautious, but other game companies are not so cautious.

Especially Lierda who has been in the limelight recently.

They made a lot of money in this game industry boom.

Players seem to be quite happy with it.

The founder of Lierda is also a gamer who loves games very much, so the games he developed are also very good.

And as Youxing Electronic Entertainment has been silent for more than half a year, they seem to have forgotten the fear of being ruled by Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

They want to challenge Youxing Electronic Entertainment head-on.