Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 124 'Little Surprise' (17)

Natsume Kanglong has always been a relatively conservative person.

This has advantages and disadvantages.

Zhu Yuxing just smiled and said: "Video games are an emerging field, and there must be some things that are different from the past, so don't stick to those subsections, in your eyes, I am a president, in my own eyes, It looks like I'm a game producer, but deep down in my heart, I've always thought I was a gamer."

Several people in the conference room seemed to be touched.

They also like games, and they agree with Zhu Yuxing's words.

Only by thinking of yourself as a gamer can you better understand what players want.

Zhu Yuxing continued: "So, on TV, I won't call myself a president or something, I will always call myself a player, and I'm proud of being a player."

In fact, what Take Yusei said just now was taken from one of his most admired people: Mr. Iwata Satoshi.

This person has made great contributions to Nintendo, and is the biggest contributor to Nintendo's longevity after the millennium.

This person is also very popular with players.

Even its competitors are amazed by it.

When this gentleman unfortunately left the world, gamers and industry leaders mourned for him. No one can deny the changes he brought to the game industry.

It is no exaggeration to say that Iwata is the Jobs of the video game industry.

Zhu Youxing has already made a decision, and there is no need for others to stop him. After all, this company belongs to him. Now Zhu Youxing has absolute dominance over the entire company, and there is not even a second shareholder who can control the company's will. Of course no one else could say anything.

Zhu Yuxing said again: "Okay, everyone, prepare. I need enough content for the face-to-face meeting in half a month, which is content other than the game console release."

The heads of several game development groups were all excited.

One by one, they report on the corresponding games prepared in their group.

Among them, three of the current five groups will each produce a first-party boutique game before the official release of SFC.

At the same time, the first-party game picture quality and sound effects on the original red and white machine will be improved by a level, and landing on the new game console is almost equivalent to a screen reset version of the game.

Old players only need to take the old version of the cartridge and add [-] yen to replace the new version of the game cartridge on the SFC.

The old cassettes will be refurbished, repackaged and sold at lower prices, which is equivalent to an official new cassette.

Zhu Yuxing knew that selling second-hand cassettes was unavoidable, so he might as well start the business himself.

The official endorsement of the official new cassette, the quality will be more guaranteed, players will be more popular.

In addition to these, in fact, Zhu Yuxing also prepared another unexpected surprise.

A surprise that gave Suri Electronics a fatal blow.

After listening to the reports from the group leaders, Takeyusei looked at Airi Hayasawa.

"Airi, has the battery issue of the Second Engineering Development Team been resolved?"

Airi Hayasawa had been waiting for Takeyusei to call him just now.

Now that it was finally brought up, she immediately cheered up and said happily: "It has been solved! According to your request, we can already guarantee at least 25 hours of battery life."

"Yes, then let's officially release it. Next, let's have a good discussion about how to release it to get the most response."

Airi Hayazawa is very happy. She has always followed up on this project. She and several others have already started planning it half a year ago, which is earlier than the time SFC planned.

At the earliest time, Zhu Yuxing had asked them to solve the problem of balancing battery power consumption as much as possible.

In order to solve this problem, from the beginning of the research on the battery to the present, they have finally kept the battery life at more than 25 hours, which is just the minimum required by Zhuyouxing, and it can be regarded as barely fulfilling the task.

And this product, Game Boy, referred to as GB, is a handheld game machine. Its performance is worse than that of the red and white machine, but its biggest advantage is that it can play games on a small screen, so that video games can be played at any time. Enjoy anywhere.

Its portability, long battery life and relatively low price captured the hearts of players as soon as it was released. Even if there were many competitors in the same period, it was difficult to compete with GB.

That was really the era when Nintendo dominated the world.

In the previous life, Zhu Yuxing's first handheld was the GBC, which was an upgraded version of the GB handheld.

At the beginning, Zhuyouxing wanted to directly develop this game console, skipping the first-generation handheld console of GB, and making the performance of the game console a little better.

But if you do this, the price will increase a lot, and the real sales of the handheld itself may exceed [-] yen.

Players in this era may not be able to accept such an expensive game console, so they decided to expand the number of players first, and then consider upgrading the game console.

In the end, it may be possible to skip GBC directly and develop GBA directly.

And Zhu Yuxing has also finalized the game lineup that will land on GB.

These include what was supposed to be a second-generation Metroid, as well as Tetris, and a Super Mario title, plus a Super Baseball latest.

GB's starting lineup in the previous life was also four games, but two of them were a bit suspicious, Arkanoid and Mahjong.

However, the games that he plans to release can be regarded as luxurious lineups. At the same time, Zhu Yuxing also wants to see if he can break the highest sales record of Metrod under such circumstances.

Generally speaking, the first game often has a certain advantage.

Among the first games on red and white machines, backgammon has already reached 50 sales, and other chess and card games of the same type cannot compare with it. This is the advantage of the first release.

As for how to publicize these things in the face-to-face meeting, and how to announce them to have the greatest effect, everyone began to discuss heatedly, and Zhu Youxing did not interfere too much. Anyway, there was still enough time, and the final day was no problem. .

"Okay, you can discuss the details after the meeting is over. Let's end the meeting."

Everyone left the table one after another, and went out in twos and threes to continue the discussion.

This face-to-face meeting is still very important, and it is an opportunity for the company to show its capabilities to the outside world.

Maybe Suri Electronics and other manufacturers have already known the release of SFC in advance, but they don't know the price yet, but they never imagined that there will be a super blockbuster after SFC.

Don't know what they'll look like when they see this bombshell.

Well, it's decided, let GB appear at the finale in the face-to-face meeting, and give a few 'little surprises' to the competitors

(End of this chapter)