Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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During the farewell ceremony, Hayakawa Ueto and Takeyusei had a long talk for a long time.

Even Hayakawa Ueto himself never thought that he would chat with Zhu Yuxing for a long time.

The main content of the chat was still related to video games. He remembered the suggestion made by one of his subordinates to increase the manpower of game development and try to develop more standard industrial games.

Originally, he was still hesitant. Even though he had played Assassin's Creed and marveled at the completion and production cycle of the game, he was still not sure whether this development model would work.

Obviously Zhu Youxing would be a good person to consult.

In this regard, Zhu Youxing didn't hide any secrets, and simply explained all the characteristics of industrial development very clearly.

Because industrialized game development requires a large enough scale.

He alone cannot support it.

Originally, there were seven or eight companies with over 10,000 employees in the world that could barely support the entire game industry.

There have to be enough people.

Seeing Hayakawa Ueto's tangled and eager look, Zhu Youxing seemed to have guessed something.

If a large company is not in the stage of crazy expansion, it is not so easy to recruit people on a large scale.

I don't know how many companies are eager to reduce their employees, and Su Rui Electronics is probably in this state.

Ueto Hayakawa is probably under a lot of pressure.

But there was nothing Zhu Youxing could do about it, it was their own family's business.

But suddenly Zhu Youxing thought of a way.

"Hayakawa, if you have a headache because of recruiting employees, I have a compromise solution, just buy the studio directly. They have mature experience in game development. If you buy a few more people, you can add up. isn't it?"

"Acquiring a studio? That's one way, but I'm afraid there are not many studios that meet the standards. Even if there are, they may come from all over the world."

"You want nearly a thousand employees to work together?" Zhu Youxing asked.

Ueto Hayakawa nodded and said, "Of course, do we need some people from all over the world to develop games together?"

"Why not?" Zhu Youxing asked back.

Hayakawa Ueto was taken aback.

"To put it bluntly, video games are a bunch of data composed of 0 and 1. These data are not like physical industrial products. If they are not gathered together, there will be a lot of logistics costs, but digital products do not need to consider those. Why can't they be distributed all over the world? employees to develop games together?"

Ueto Hayakawa stood there in a daze, feeling as if a new world had been opened to him.

He really didn't think about developing games all over the world at all before.

Mainly because few companies in the world have done this

At Youxing Electronic Entertainment, most of the teams are still working together to develop games.

But in practice this is not necessary.

It’s just that Zhuyouxing has not acquired studios on a large scale, and the recruitment of employees was mainly concentrated in the United States and Japan at first, but in the future, it will inevitably embark on the road of multi-location studios developing games together.

Ueto Hayakawa is currently trapped by the restrictions of other high-level executives in the company. It is not so easy to expand the number of employees, but it is much more logical to acquire a studio to save the country.

"Zhuyou, if it is this multi-studio model, is it possible to develop a game like Assassin's Creed?"

Zhu Youxing said: "It's not possible, but it can definitely be developed. The development difficulty of the game itself is not high."

Is it really not high?

Hayakawa Ueto has serious doubts.

I'm afraid this low level is only true to Zhu Youxing himself. If other people want to develop such a game, it will definitely not be so easy.

But this should at least make the development of the game much easier now.

Ueto Hayakawa took a deep breath and gradually calmed himself down: "Takeyu, thank you very much for your proposal. If it weren't for you, I might have more detours to go."

Zhu Youxing waved his hand and said: "I'm just saying this by the way, and now we should also be regarded as some kind of alliance, because we have a common enemy, don't we?"

"A common enemy?"

Ueto Hayakawa was puzzled for two seconds, then reacted immediately, nodded slightly and said, "Yes, we do have a common enemy."

Myron Keys is trying to erode the soil of video games with other forms of entertainment.

Then let him understand the charm of top games.

Myron Case achieved expansion by mass production of smart products, and video games counterattacked in a similar way.

...

Hayakawa Kentaro's farewell ceremony ended, and Su Rui Electronics became active again.

Ueto Hayakawa himself began to personally contact many well-known game studios around the world, and negotiated acquisitions and shareholding matters.

The senior executives of Surui Electronics had objections at first.

But they were quickly persuaded.

Because Hayakawa Ueto personally showed them the social response of Assassin's Creed.

This is the most standardized industrial game template. Ueto Hayakawa is confident that as long as there are enough people, he can develop works of similar quality.

And this kind of work is a model of guaranteeing income from drought and flood, not losing money and making a small profit or even a chance to make a lot of money. With Ueto Hayakawa's repeated assurances, the plan to acquire the studio was quickly approved all the way.

However, these are still in the confidential stage, and will not be revealed in a short time. It is not to keep secrets from the game peers, but to keep secrets from Mickford, so as to catch surprises in the future.

Even the handheld business, which had been shut down, was quietly restarted.

As for Youxing Electronic Entertainment, Zhuyouxing has already started planning for the next step.

The formulaic game has already proved its success. Next, a dedicated team of thousands of people will continue to release works in the form of New Year's goods to maintain the popularity of this series of works. As for Zhu Youxing himself, it is naturally impossible for him to be idle.

Already there are two new goals on the giant whiteboard in his office where he usually plans for the future.

First of all, the first thing is to promote the research and development of the switch. Zhuyouxing hopes to release it as soon as next year, and then another new project.

One particularly prominent word on the whiteboard: cinematic storytelling benchmarks.

The formulaic sandbox game already has Assassin's Creed. After this series of works cultivates talents, it can plan for bigger works. But before that, there is another type of game that is also at the right time to be launched, which is film narrative. game.

Zhu Youxing has tried to promote cinematic narratives in Metal Gear Solid and several other games before, and also used real stars to star in for this, but this is not a full version of cinematic narrative games.

Looking at the vocabulary of cinematic narrative game benchmark, Zhu Youxing picked up a pen and wrote down the name below:

"Uncharted"