Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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This is a carnival about players and is closely related to players.

Video games are what this carnival is all about.

Among them you can find the most like-minded people from all over the world.

Zhu Youxing never thought that he would be able to hold such a carnival in person one day.

It's really heart-wrenching.

It's a pity that I can't invite those world-class stars I am familiar with.

In this world, I really don't know any movies, songs or football stars.

At this point he is somewhat alienated.

However, he was very generous and directly spent tens of millions of dollars to find a way to invite some well-known stars to stand on the stage.

He is not familiar with these people, but the people in this world are very familiar. It is also a good thing for players to see some of their idols with their own eyes.

And for these stars, it is still very cost-effective to get hundreds of thousands of dollars just for showing their faces at the carnival. Of course, world-class first-line stars must be more expensive.

Now that these stars are invited, it is natural to promote it well. First, announce a small part of the star lineup. Whenever players see that their favorite stars will also participate in the carnival, they will yearn for this carnival even more.

In January and February of 2003, the number of tourists in Tokyo suddenly increased rapidly.

The Japanese government is naturally quite happy. This is a real performance. The Japanese people obviously have a better impression of their current government. Many citizens even suggested that this government should continue to be re-elected.

It is simply impossible to happen in the past few years.

Before, the Japanese people scolded the government the most, and there was even a record that the shortest term of office was less than 20 days.

Fortunately, Japan is not like South Korea. The president is a high-risk occupation and goes to jail after leaving office. Otherwise, the prime minister may not be enough.

These economic benefits are real. If some people come to travel, the economy of some shops can be rejuvenated.

Especially the streets of Akihabara, which has slowly become popular in recent years.

It was just the address of a temple at first, and then gradually shops opened around it, and then electronic companies such as Su Rui Electronics entered it, which increased the prosperity of this street.

But what really makes Akihabara famous is the two-dimensional culture that belongs to Japan alone, but even so, it still belongs to a small circle of people.

But now it's different.

There are many more game stores in Akihabara now.

Some are arcades where you can play games, while others are stores where you can sell video games.

Here you can buy the trendiest video game products, and there are some exclusive gifts in Akihabara, which have become the darlings of some collectors.

In January and February, some foreign tourists almost only have this one place to choose.

It's really nice to experience first-hand the culture of the land where video games are on the rise.

On the entire street of Akihabara, the most impressive and conspicuous store is the official store of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

This store directly occupies the third floor of the most popular location, with a total area of ​​more than 5,000 square meters.

There are dizzying types of games here, which is simply a player's paradise.

At this moment, because the carnival of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is approaching, the largest official store in Tokyo also looks very celebratory.

The lobby is full of promotional brochures about the carnival, and customers who come in can take one of these brochures for free.

Every page in the booklet is full of stamps.

These seals are the location of each official store of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

If you are really a loyal player of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, then you can travel all over Japan before the carnival and knock all the stamps on it, and you will get an exclusive special 10th anniversary celebration reward.

It is rumored that the top prize will be a good opportunity to have a meal with the god of games, Zhu Youxing.

For players, being able to have dinner with the god of games is even more desirable than eating with a goddess.

Therefore, every player who enters the store will take the booklet to collect stamps without hesitation.

In addition to this pamphlet, the current clerks have also put on a new set of work clothes.

This is the exclusive work attire for the anniversary carnival. The highlight is a celebratory atmosphere. The entire hall will also play all the most classic game tracks of Youxing Electronic Entertainment in a loop, and there are many cheerful variations, so that players can play in advance. Get into the celebratory atmosphere of the carnival.

And then there are very substantial things, that is, during the carnival, you will get a certain discount when you buy games in the official store, and some games are very cost-effective.

Moreover, if you buy digital games on the Battle.net terminal of the PC platform or the network port of the Youxing Electronic Entertainment console, you will also get a greater discount, allowing you to enjoy better games in advance without leaving your home.

In short, the celebration atmosphere in the past two months has been full.

At this moment, the Japanese government is also working hard to help with publicity.

This is a good opportunity to improve the national economy. Although there is no way to fundamentally change the status quo of the entire country, at least serving the people well at the moment and making them less scolding the government is a big gain.

For a while, the number of foreign tourists in the Tokyo area surged rapidly, and the data was refreshed almost every day.

At this time, Su Rui Electronics chose to avoid the edge for the time being, and did not compete with Zhuyouxing at this time, because it was very uneconomical.

This time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment even endorsed it from the government. Competing with others at this time is obviously boring.

But the other person was not so happy.

He is YOO's Long Weiyu.

He is a person who started from the Internet, holding a lot of investment money in his hands and nowhere to spend it. He was complacent and felt that he could gain more attention by relying on the money offensive.

But he didn't expect that he used money to suppress Youxing Electronic Entertainment several times, but it didn't work. Now that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has regained attention because of a carnival, he couldn't bear it.

If this continues, his previous efforts may be in vain.

So without hesitation, he decided to add money to play more of his own advertisements, promoting the works of several game studios he acquired, hoping to use this method to attract the attention of other players.

It's a pity that such efforts really have little effect.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment is now at the top of the game industry, their fame will naturally attract countless people, and the benefits of doing things will be twice the result with half the effort.

What he did at Changweiyu's side was getting twice the result with half the effort, which was a great loss.

Even Ueto Hayakawa suggested that Nagaoyu should not compete with Zhuyouxing at this time, because it is not cost-effective, and with that money, he can wait to invest in the next wave.

However, Changweiyu does not seem to want to follow the advice of allies, but continues to increase investment in game advertising.

Zhu Youxing didn't want to pay attention to this at all, because Zhu Youxing knew that this guy would stumble sooner or later, the Internet bubble would burst almost at any time, and now he just had to wait for himself to fall.

Investors' money is not so easy to get, they need real feedback in real money.

But now many Internet companies are burning money crazily, but there are not many ways to make money.

Chang Weiyu's e-commerce and game production will have some potential, but these can't make up for the money he spent.

It can only be said that Internet upstarts like Changweiyu are easily confused by money. Their success is too fast, and they can only be regarded as short-lived after all, and finally disappear completely.

Zhu Youxing vaguely remembered the story of the rise of Internet upstarts in Japanese history in his previous life.

The Internet upstarts in the previous life naively thought that they already belonged to the capitalist class after they had some voice and money, and then prepared to attack the cornerstone of the interests of those old plutocrats.

Then, the final result of this group of Internet upstarts is to be ruthlessly crushed. In Japan, almost no Internet companies have grown up, because the old chaebols felt threatened and forcibly crushed these young people to death.

In Japan, few people who dare to touch the chaebol cake have good fruit to eat.

The harder you jump now, the harder you will fall in the future.

However, Zhu Youxing also intends to deliberately ignore this long-tailed rain.

He found that the more he ignored this guy, the more he jumped out, so he might as well use tricks to make him dance more cheerfully, it's best to play himself to death, and then he can still reap a wave.

Swallow all the wealth he left behind.

Now I already have a certain amount of voice and capital on the Internet, but it is only hidden, and I haven't revealed much, but Zhu Youxing, who knows that the future must belong to the Internet, will definitely not miss this opportunity.

After all, game development costs money, and he still has a super dream in the future, which is to develop the best games.

How can you make the best game without saving more money?

Changweiyu continued to increase investment, but it didn't affect Youxing Electronic Entertainment too much.

Carnival is an event that many players are looking forward to, and they will not change their minds because of the vigorous promotion of other games.

Even if Changweiyu followed Zhuyouxing's example and held a game celebration press conference, it didn't affect too much.

And the time quietly came to the end of February.

The venue for the Stars Carnival has basically been set up.

The main venue promotes the venue.

At this time, a temporary three-story steel structure celebration area has been built at the fastest speed.

In the center of the first floor is a huge screen.

All subsequent press conferences about electronic games will be held here, and at the same time, live broadcasts will be broadcast here during the game in another venue, so that more players can experience the charm of e-sports.

The second floor is a large area for trial play and viewing.

In the viewing area, there will occasionally be relevant game leaders to interact with the players, and communicate with the players about the content of the game in depth.

The third floor is a completely open-air venue, which can accommodate more than 20,000 people at the same time without any problem.

On the day of the carnival, there will be a great concert on the third floor, an open-air concert.

In order to get this done, Zhuyouxing spent over 100 million US dollars for this.

This can be regarded as the most extravagant consumption of Zhu Youxing since he came to this world.

He had never spent money so lavishly in the past.

It's a really cool feeling to be able to spend as much money as you want.

But you still need to save money. This is the 10th anniversary carnival, which is very commemorative, so it is very reasonable to spend the money.

The following carnivals may be more advanced and interesting than this, but it is estimated that they will not spend such money anymore.

Moreover, in fact, he spent so much money on this carnival, so far, he has returned a lot of money.

Tickets for e-sports at the sports arena next door are more expensive than the carnival side.

The prices over there range from 7,000 yen to 50,000 yen depending on the location.

The ticket money alone has now earned back more than one billion yen, which is the income from tickets for several days of events.

In addition to the event tickets, there are more peripherals that are selling out quickly.

It can be said that if the money earned in the past few days continues, if it is not good, all the money spent can be earned back.

It is equivalent to crowdfunding a grand carnival event by the players.

In the last few days, players are looking forward to it.

For a while, hotels and apartments near the carnival venue in the Tokyo area were crowded with people.

No one can accurately estimate how many players there will be this time, even the current Youxing Electronic Entertainment cannot accurately determine.

Tokyo is now a lively scene even at night.

Many local people even feel as if they have returned to the good old days before the bubble burst.

They even shed tears of emotion because of this, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

It really makes people miss the era before the bubble burst.

You can see many players gathered in the streets and alleys, some of them are exchanging their experience about the game, and some are exchanging their precious Pokémon, which also proves the dominance of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment force.

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The next day, February 28th, is the last day of February.

Tomorrow is the opening day of the carnival.

The enthusiasm of the players reached its peak on this day, and they also gave full play to their strength in queuing up today, and directly set up a tent at the gate of the venue, waiting to rush into the carnival venue tomorrow morning.

This also formed a unique landscape. Colorful tents were placed around the entrance of the venue, and people gathered in twos and threes or more to play games together in some places.

It's great to have so many like-minded people playing games together.

At this moment, video games allow everyone to have no barriers. Everyone is here for only one thing, and that is to be happy.

Here, just being happy is enough.

March 1st came just like that.

Then, at midnight on March 1st, when many players were gathering to play games in twos and threes, suddenly there were bursts of roaring sounds in the direction of the venue.

At this moment, people raised their heads in surprise and looked towards the direction of the sound, and then they saw a scene that they would never forget in their lifetime.

It was a fireworks show, accompanied by exciting music that made the blood pumping.

In the early hours of the night, the carnival opened without warning, which was beyond the expectations of all players.