Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Hayakawa Kentaro removed the old minister and replaced him with a new minister named Hayakawa Ueto, the youngest son of Hayakawa Kentaro, who is 35 years old this year and has been in charge of overseas business before.

Now that the overseas business is on the right track, he no longer needs his help, so he was called back by his father to manage a new department called the Video Game Division.

To be honest, he really doesn't understand video games, even more ignorant than that old minister.

But this time Hayakawa Kentaro gave him a clear plan.

The marketing of video games and game consoles should be completely separated from the development and should not be confused with each other. The development of video games should be 100% respected. At the same time, learn from the red and white machines, accept third-party game production, and explore game production as much as possible. Talents.

With these few rules, in fact, Hayakawa Ueto can only manage the management team at most, plus the cooperation between the coordination teams will be fine.

The old minister was originally transferred from the marketing management department, so now he is the deputy chief and will be mainly responsible for marketing, and he is not allowed to intervene in anything related to game production.

Marketing only needs to promote the game product after getting it, and it is not allowed to interfere with any game creation.

Su Rui Electronics' turning speed was extremely fast, and it only took half a month to quickly readjust.

People who develop games and consoles are respected, and the motivation immediately changes.

Now they don't have to be forced to make a game for a long time, but they also set a minimum upper limit, requiring their game team of more than 20 people to produce at least one game within three months.

At the same time, the additional manpower is to add a new game development team, but this development team has only one task, which is to disassemble the game.

Disassemble all the game programs of the red and white machine from the inside to the outside, and see how it is done from scratch.

Surui Electronics is a large group. They are not afraid of failure, but they are afraid that they will not make progress after failure.

If it weren't for this belief, Su Rui Electronics would never have developed into a large international group.

At the same time, outside Zhu Youxing's office, a man in a suit sat on his seat with a confident smile, holding a thick document in his hand, waiting patiently.

Not long after, the door of Zhu Youxing's office opened from the inside, and at the same time Zhu Youxing's voice came out.

"You tell the second engineering development team that the battery must be done well. This is the only thing that cannot be compromised. If Japan can't find a suitable product, it will look for it in the world."

"Okay President, I understand."

A young engineer walked out of Zhu Youxing's office, and walked upstairs quickly.

"Hi sir, you can go in now."

The man in the suit smiled and nodded at his assistant politely, then walked into Zhu Youxing's office.

"Hi, President Zhuyou, nice to meet you."

Just as the people from the second engineering development department were sent away, the next person walked in.

For a while, Zhuyou Xing was really busy. He was busy with company affairs during the day, and now he only had the opportunity to study game development at night.

Seeing the people coming in, Zhu Youxing glanced at the guest list on the table.

"Is it Ishimura-san, the business manager of Kuppongi Entertainment Co., Ltd."

"Yes, my name is Ishimura Sanye, and I have entrusted Mr. Ota to contact you before."

Ishimura Sanye introduced himself and walked to Zhu Youxing's desk.

"Sit down, I heard that your company intends to participate in game development?"

"Yes, our company has been producing software systems for dance machines, pachinko, mobile karaoke machines and other equipment in the past, and we have certain experience in this regard."

While talking, he put the documents in his hand on Zhu Youxing's desk and pushed them over.

Zhu Youxing picked up the information and began to look through it, while listening to the other party's introduction.

"We are also looking for business transformation recently. We want to make a breakthrough. We just saw that your company has developed and produced a game console product, and you are openly welcoming anyone to join in and make games. We became interested."

"At the same time, didn't your company add the first third-party game to your game console lineup not long ago? And those people are only half-way monks. Our company is thinking that maybe with our technical strength, we are also qualified to join .”

Among the materials handed over by Ishimura Sanno are all the basic materials about their Jiuppongi Entertainment Co., Ltd.

As he just introduced, it is a company that focuses on entertainment system and software development, which is actually a relatively young industry in Japan today.

"I welcome it very much." Zhu Youxing closed the information and nodded, "Our game consoles really need more video games, and we also need more individuals or corporate groups to join this platform."

Ishimura Sanno said happily: "That would be great. We have actually produced several game demos, but we can't run them on the Famicom without a license. Is there any requirement for us to obtain the license?"

Ishimura Sanye can be said to be the first foreign company to actively want to join the Famicom camp, so Ishimura Sanye does not know what conditions are required to obtain the authorization of the Famicom.

"So fast?"

This company's action is quite fast, Zhu Youxing is a little surprised.

Zhu Youxing pondered for a moment and then asked: "What platform can your game run on now?"

"The PC platform is fine, and we plan to launch the game on the PC platform in the future, but you also know that the price of personal computers has not completely dropped, and there are still a small number of people who actually own personal computers. I think the focus must still be on game consoles. "

Computers in Japan generally cost more than 70,000 yen. Of course, if you want to save up for a second-hand mobile phone, it’s no problem, and it will be half cheaper.

But if the average family has no special needs and just plays games, then obviously the game console is more cost-effective.

Now the red and white machine only costs 7,000 yen, and a game costs 3,000 to 5,000 yen.

Under Japan's strict copyright law, you can't escape spending money on genuine games and software when you buy a PC computer. It is really more cost-effective to buy a game console directly.

Especially after the bubble burst, people are more careful in all aspects of spending.

Zhu Youxing nodded: "Then let me see the demo content first, and then we will make a decision."

"Okay, I've brought the content of the demo."

Immediately, Ishimura Sanno took out a box of discs from his bag. The name of the trial game on the disc was recorded with a black marker. Just insert the disc into the computer and simply install it to run and try it.