Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"Don't make any video games, Zhuyou, how about following me in the film and television industry? This can make more money than making those few games, and now the film industry is easier to gain fame in the world, and the audience for movies is still larger. , this video game can’t compare.”

Tukarev admires Zhuyouxing and his team very much.

Their special effects development technology is very powerful, which shows that Zhu Youxing has a very unique vision. If they can cooperate with him to develop in the film and television industry, they will definitely have a bright future.

Zhu Youxing refused with a smile: "In the future, I will definitely find an opportunity to make movies, but I don't plan to make it my main business, but in the future, I can consider IP derivative production, game adaptation movies, and movie adaptations. Games, isn’t that pretty good? It just so happens that you can also make a video game while Xinghai’s infinite popularity is still there, and I think you can make some extra money.”

Tukarev obviously didn't care much about Zhuyouxing's suggestion, he really didn't have much interest in video games.

At this time, Zhu Youxing asked again: "By the way, didn't you bet with some old opponents before? It seems that if you win, they will apologize to you in person. Have you made an appointment? I will also go to witness .”

Tukarev shook his head after listening: "Hehe, how could those guys who value face more than anything else apologize to me? They will have all kinds of excuses to shirk such things as apology, but it doesn't matter. Disgusting them once this time already made me feel good."

Tukarev didn't care, but he still wanted to see how those guys apologized in person.

It's best to learn from Japan and apologize with a ninety-degree bow.

Of course it's just thinking about it.

It's impossible for these big guys to do that.

But you can't skip the fact that you won the bet yourself.

Afterwards, he would often take this incident to disgust those guys, and whip the corpse if he had nothing to do, which was enough to make them uncomfortable.

After that, Tukarev invited Zhu Youxing to have a meal and a few drinks, but Zhu Youxing did not refuse, but put it aside for the time being, and made an appointment another day.

Tukarev also left afterwards, no longer disturbing Zhuyouxing's work.

The turmoil in the outside world has nothing to do with Zhu Youxing at this time, he has to concentrate on new game development now.

His base is still in the game industry, and he also wants to bring more excellent games to this world, and he doesn't want to waste any time.

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At the same time, in a magnificent company building in a certain city in California, several executives and board members of Hongguo held a new shareholders meeting.

At the end of each year, the CEO will preside over a meeting and report the sales situation of the year to the shareholders.

Myron Case, who was the CEO of Hongguo at the time, turned on the projector with a heavy heart, and rows of data were then presented to the shareholders.

"This is our sales performance in 1997."

The data that appears in the projection is the sales data for the current year.

Overall, the sales performance is not bad, at least there is still a profit of more than ten percent.

However, if you compare the results of the previous few years, this is only a profit of more than ten percent, and the profit of less than 200 million US dollars is really unreasonable.

Myron Keyes is therefore heavy hearted.

But as the CEO, he must be responsible to the shareholders. He must truthfully announce the data. If he cheats a little bit, he will never be a CEO.

"I want to know one thing." At the conference table, a major shareholder spoke first, "Why did our performance decline again this year, and it fell so fast?"

All the shareholders also looked directly at Myron Case with very sharp eyes.

When Myron Case first took over as CEO, Hongguo's business was booming.

Their personal computer business and the newly expanded mobile player business are very good, and their products are very popular.

At that time, the annual profit could exceed one billion U.S. dollars, and it was regarded as one of the top electronics companies in the United States.

At that time, Myron Case also had a very grand vision, and the goal was to more than triple the performance within three years.

And he pays special attention to the field of personal computers, which he believes will be a potential explosive point in the future and needs to be focused on.

In the first year of his tenure, he really improved the company's performance rapidly, and the personal computer business also developed very well. He saw that his goal of doubling in the first year was about to be completed.

But just when the performance doubled, the next quarter's sales data suddenly came to an abrupt end.

The sales performance did not drop immediately. At that time, the sales in the current quarter could only be the same as the previous quarter.

At that time, Myron Case believed that consumers should enter a short period of weak consumption and recover soon.

But what he didn't expect was that that quarter was his highlight moment.

The PC business began to decline slowly for unknown reasons.

At that time, it was not only his company that was slowly declining, but the performance of the systems sold by the Morgan Group next door was also slowly declining.

For a short period of time, Myron Keith couldn't find any reason why consumers were not interested in personal computers.

At this time, it happened to be the time when video games entered the United States.

The answer is obvious, that is, the video game console business has affected the sales of Hongguo's products.

Of course, the price of game consoles is not expensive, but people's energy is attracted by video games. Even with that spending power, the interest in personal computers will inevitably weaken.

When Myron Case discovered this, it was already the period when Youxing Electronic Entertainment began to expand rapidly in the United States.

Myron Keith was also shocked that a company that only had entertainment content developed so rapidly.

It's hard to understand.

However, he is also a CEO with strong management skills. He immediately took action and organized people to develop games on his own personal computer.

But the computer game market at this time is really too small.

More people still regard personal computers as office supplies, and no one regards computers as entertainment products.

Entertainment is entertainment, office is office, you can't occupy both.

Especially children, they are not interested in computers at all.

Only a gaming console can cheer them up.

Myron Keys made various attempts to save the situation, but all failed.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment defeated their Hongguo company's products in a disguised form.

The personal computer business, which obviously has unlimited potential, has become an industry with an uncertain future. There are also various problems in his previous production line planning and various business orders.

Originally, Hongguo Company also had a product line of portable music listening equipment, but this product is going downhill, and Hongguo Company has fallen into an endless loop like this.

"Dear shareholders, I will explain the specific reasons to you next, please let me finish reporting the data first."

Myron Case took a deep breath, and then said in a slightly heavy tone.