Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 171 Planning Summary
In the United States, the status of women is also not high.

But it is not 01:30 that is better than Japan.

At least the women here are working and not many will point fingers.

In Zhu Yuxing's point of view, Songqiao is a very powerful tool person, and has always been conscientious.

And she has some alumni and friends in the United States, and these alumni and friends may also become a resource to help expand the US market.

So Zhu Yuxing agreed with her idea of ​​going to the United States to work hard.

As for myself, of course, I still stay in the base camp in Japan.

However, he still intends to participate in the International Consumer Electronics Show in person.

He wants to see with his own eyes what the technological level of the world has reached, and to see some future trends at the consumer exhibition.

Since the stable sales of Pokémon began, the sales of GB have also been rising steadily.

The team that originally developed the Pokémon was a little frustrated.

They feel that the game they make is a bit of a failure.

But I didn't expect this game to become a hot topic in an instant, and it became a very popular thing among children.

And this is not limited to boys, many girls are also involved.

Because the Pokémon game Zhuyouxing also added more elements of development, basically moving all the development characteristics in Tamagotchi to GB Pokémon.

This also makes many girls buy game consoles because they like the development characteristics of Pokémon.

At the same time, all employees of Youxing Electronic Entertainment also came to the new office location.

It has a better office environment than the former company, and the average office area has also been expanded, and the overall atmosphere is also very good.

All the employees who just arrived at the company immediately fell in love with the new office location.

What makes these employees excited is that there is a film and television brokerage company upstairs, and you can see all kinds of big and small stars coming in and out every day, which is a treatment that has not been received in the past.

Even if you can't talk up close, it's nice to be able to take the same elevator every now and then.

And the fact that a company with amazing potential has come to this building has also spread in the building, and many people are also curiously looking at this big family that has just rented a five-story building.

"What does this company do?"

"I heard it's a game."

"Making games? Is it a video game that is very popular recently? Which company is it?"

"It's the hottest one, the company that made GB, Famicom, and SFC."

"Wow! It turned out to be that company, really lucky, we can be in the same building as this company, have any of you inquired about the recruitment requirements of this company?"

"Don't think about it, you are a mechanic and it has nothing to do with other people's high-end electronics."

After all the employees had almost finished moving, Zhu Yuxing called the key employees for a meeting.

This time, I am going to confirm the progress of the work to be done now, and arrange the next game development plan at the same time.

Now, there are six game development groups in the company, from the first to the sixth.

There are still only two groups dedicated to developing game consoles and peripherals, but both groups have grown in size over the past few years.

The meeting took place the afternoon after the move and brought together the heads of each group and the heads of several additional departments.

Zhu Yuxing asked them to report their current work progress one by one.

Among them, the main research and development direction of the first engineering development team is the development of new 32-bit game consoles, which is the most important project in the company, and it is also the most confidential.

Except for the heads of the various groups, no other outsiders know the research and development progress of the first engineering development group.

The purpose is to finally burst out a blockbuster.

The second project development team is working on an extended version of the GB handheld, which is the color backlit version of the GBA.

This Zhuyouxing is expected to be launched around this time next year, to supplement the ammunition for the branches that have just entered the European and American markets, so that they can use stronger handhelds to attack the city and conquer the land.

As for the six game development teams, the first team is responsible for the development of Dragon Quest 4. Now that it has come to an end, Zhu Yuxing arranged for them to check the game loopholes more, and then wait for the European and American game consoles to be released. Dragon Quest 4 is released as the launch game.

Team [-] is responsible for the simultaneous development of Final Fantasy's third and fourth installments.

Because the Final Fantasy series is inherently almost unrelated to each story, Takeyusei can easily skip the second game and complete the challenge of never making a second game.

The third part and the fourth part will be released at the same time, and it is planned to be released separately on the future GBA and SFC game consoles.

Among them, the third part is a crystal fairy tale that is more inclined to medieval legends. It will be exclusively launched on the GBA. Like Dragon Quest, it will be the starting list for entering the US market.

The fourth part will be a little slower, log in to SFC, and after the Dragon Quest heat passes, Final Fantasy will immediately follow up and play a set of combo punches.

Judging from the market share of game consoles in the United States disclosed by Suri Electronics, there may be some strong competitors in the United States.

This is quite normal. Programmers in the United States started their development the earliest, and they are more creative in program development. In the first 21 years of the 20st century in their previous life, the United States was almost invincible in the software field.

There are also talented programmers out there.

It is already a rare species to have a programming genius like Yue Ye Cai under his command, but there are many of them in the United States, and they will even be better.

So Zhu Youxing didn't dare to be careless. He was going to make a few big moves in the first step to enter the US market, otherwise he might not be able to make any waves.

The reason why the Nintendo of the previous life was able to dominate the United States for many years was only because the United States had just experienced a winter of video games before, and a game manufacturer Atari destroyed the entire American video game market with its own power.

Later, Nintendo took advantage of it and forcibly occupied the vast majority of the market share in the United States, and finally had a solid position.

As for himself, I am afraid that he does not have that kind of good luck. He may have to face many powerful competitors from the United States at the beginning.

In addition to the development of the game series that the first and fifth teams are specialized in, the sixth team has just released Pokémon, so we have to give them a little time to breathe, let them settle down slowly, and wait for the next wave after the release of GBA The big move is fine.

The second, third, and fourth teams are currently working on three-month short-cycle game development. In the past month, they have successively produced some classic games on the previous generation of red and white machines and SFC.

There are Galaxy Storm, Mario RPG, football and basketball games, as well as golf games and a Go puzzle game developed in cooperation with Nippon Kiin.

The sales of most of these games hovered around 20 in the first week, and then slowly decreased in the next few weeks.

Since the production cost of these games is not too high, they are basically games that Zhu Youxing can make with a creative idea, so generally, they can make a return on the cost of about [-] sales, and they are all games that make a small fortune.

(End of this chapter)