Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

In fact, sometimes, players really need some guidance.

Sometimes it is not a fun game that can be discovered and liked from the very beginning.

The previous Dragon Quest and Pokémon are obvious examples.

These games don't have eye-catching graphics at the beginning, nor do they have interesting gameplay, and they all seem a bit boring at the beginning.

At this time, if the game company intends to show bad, just give up this kind of game, it will be a big loss.

Players sometimes really don't know what they like to play, so you have to tell them.

In the first week, thanks to Mario's fame, the sales of Mario Kart in the United States and Japan successfully exceeded one million.

However, sales began to decline rapidly in the second week, which is not a good sign.

Zhu Youxing is ready to save himself again.

And the best way to save yourself is naturally to organize a game.

The desire to win or lose will make most players interested in such a game, but this time it will be different from the previous challenges. Hold a tournament.

In order to build momentum, it is natural to consider holding a competition in Europe, America and Japan, and then have a confrontation between Japan and the United States, which will obviously be more topical.

So Zhu Youxing immediately called the team in charge of publicity, and at the same time used a video conference call to connect with the publicity staff in the United States.

In the current state of the network, the delay of video conferencing across the ocean is a bit high, but it is almost usable.

At this moment, it was seven or eight o'clock in the evening in the United States, which happened to be the time for the employees to rest.

But for this project, the employees in the US can only hold meetings together.

After everyone was almost assembled, Zhu Youxing glanced at the people participating in the meeting on the TV screen, and then at the already full conference room, they looked like they were talking and laughing.

When he was in the company, Zhu Youxing was more talkative and had a milder temper, so he was very relaxed even in meetings.

"Okay, now let's talk about business, let's be quiet."

On the American side, everyone in the conference room immediately silenced, and then looked at Zhu Youxing.

Natsume Yasulong, who is mainly in charge of publicity and marketing, looked at Takeyouxing suspiciously. Usually Takeyouxing rarely had contact with the promotion department, and most of the time he gave them a lot of free space for them to do whatever they wanted. Calling them over for a meeting is indeed a bit confusing, and I don't know what they want to do.

Zhu Youxing coughed twice and said, "Everyone, the recent sales of our Mario Kart are not particularly good, so I think it is necessary to change the promotional strategy."

"How to change?" Natsume Yasulong asked directly.

"Do you still remember the previous Speedrunning Challenge?"

The employees in the United States were a little at a loss when they heard this term, and most of them didn't know much about it.

But soon someone who knew about it began to explain it to them, and they suddenly understood.

Then they thought to themselves, can video games also be competitive? This is really unexpected.

Speedrunning is like running a race, which is equivalent to a sports game in the video game industry, which is indeed enough to attract attention.

Yasunaka Natsume and everyone in the Japanese meeting room nodded. They had personally organized this event with Takeyusei before, so of course they knew it very well.

"I plan to hold such an event again, but this time the event will be more competitive, and I plan to directly form it into an industry line."

Zhu Youxing walked to the projector and played the content he had prepared.

E-sports planning.

Introduction: It is expected to be held once a year, which is a competition for some games with certain competitive attributes.

Everyone watched with wide-eyed eyes, and their thinking began to work quickly now.

"This e-sports project is actually similar in style to the previous challenges, but this time the sense of honor will be emphasized more and the competition will be more formal. All participating players must pass certain certification conditions, and in the future there will be e-sports competitions. Competitive teams, forming a brand new industry chain, of course, all this is just a preliminary plan, and now my idea is only to stay in a local area, and the focus is to promote the game Mario Kart.”

"May I ask the president, so the competition in Mario Kart is about who can win the first place?"

Zhu Youxing nodded: "That's right, but as I said just now, this time I plan to let the participants form a group, that is, a team, and then conduct group battles in the form of a team. In Mario Kart, the participants There will be eight players, and these eight players will be distinguished by red and blue sides, four people and four people in one team, two teams will compete, and then the final winner will be the team winner, and in addition , we will also have individual competitions, one-to-many challenges, etc., and the game is not just Mario Kart, but there will also be two games, Street Fighter and Street Basketball, both of which have Strong competitive attributes.”

On the projector, images flashed one by one. First, there was a scene of four people fighting with Mario Kart, then a one-on-one battle in Street Fighter, and finally the winner was determined.

In the field of video games, e-sports has always been an area that cannot be ignored.

It's not that the game industry can't develop without the video game, but if there is e-sports, the video game will expand its territory again, making more people interested in video games.

There are really many people in this world who have a pure desire to win and lose, but don't care what the outcome is.

Then in this way, such a group of people can be recruited to become players as well.

In my original world, there were actually very few real core players, and there were 4 billion player groups all over the world.

If only relying on video games on consoles to reach the scale of the game industry in the original world, that would be a bit of a dream.

Some people prefer online games, some people prefer competitive games, and there are always people who prefer farming games.

This time is also an attempt to broaden the field. Several large game manufacturers in my previous life also have their own different e-sports projects, but these projects are not conspicuous compared with the top e-sports, but that is also the same. It's a group of people who deserve attention.