Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 251 E-sports?

In fact, sometimes, players really need some guidance.

Sometimes it's not a fun game to be discovered and liked right from the start.

The previous Dragon Quest and Pokémon are obvious examples.

These games don't start with eye-catching graphics, they don't have fun-looking gameplay, and they tend to be a little boring at first.

At this time, if the game company intends to ruin it, it will be a big loss to just give up this kind of game.

Players sometimes really don't really know what they like to play, so they have to tell them.

In the first week, thanks to Mario's fame, Mario Kart's sales in the United States and Japan combined successfully exceeded one million.

But sales began to plummet in the second week, which is not a good sign.

Zhu Yuxing is ready to start saving himself again.

And the best way to save yourself is naturally to organize a game.

Winning or losing will make most players interested in such a game, but this time will be different from the previous challenge, this time is just right to engage in real e-sports, and bring out a variety of games again. Hold a competition.

In order to build momentum, then naturally one can consider holding a game in Europe, America and Japan, and then have a Japan-US confrontation, which will obviously be more topical.

So Zhu Yuxing immediately called the team responsible for publicity, and also used a video conference call to connect with the propaganda staff in the United States.

In the current network state, the delay of video conference across the ocean is a bit high, but it is almost usable.

At this moment, it is already seven or eight o'clock in the evening in the United States, just when the employees are resting.

But for this project, the employees in the United States had to follow along for a meeting.

After everyone was almost there, Zhu Youxing glanced at the people participating in the meeting on the TV screen, and then at the already full conference room, they all seemed to be talking and laughing.

When he was in the company, Zhu Yuxing was easy to talk and had a mild temper, so he was very relaxed even in meetings.

"Okay, now let's talk about business, be quiet."

On the US side, everyone in the conference room immediately silenced their voices, and then all looked at Zhu Youxing.

Natsume Kanglong, who is mainly in charge of publicity and marketing, looked at Zhu Yuxing suspiciously. Usually, Zhu Yuxing rarely had contact with the publicity department. Most of the time, he gave them a lot of free space for them to play at will. Calling them over for a meeting was indeed a bit confusing, not knowing what to do.

Take Yusei coughed twice and said, "Everyone, the recent sales of our Mario Kart are not particularly good, so I think it is necessary to change the promotion strategy."

"How to change?" Natsume Kanglong asked directly.

"Do you still remember the previous Speedrun Challenge?"

The employees in the United States were a little at a loss when they heard this term, and most of them didn't know much about it.

But soon someone who knew it began to explain it to them, and they suddenly realized.

Then they thought to themselves, can video games be competitive too?This is really unexpected.

Speedrunning is like a speed race, it is equivalent to a sports competition in the video game world, which is indeed eye-catching enough.

Natsume Kanglong and everyone in the Japanese conference room nodded. They had personally organized this event with Zhu Yuxing, and of course they knew it very well.

"I plan to hold such an event again, but this time the competitive attribute of the event will be higher, and I plan to directly form an industry line."

Zhu Youxing walked to the projector and played the content he had prepared.

eSports planning.

Introduction: A competition event dedicated to some games with certain competitive attributes is expected to be held once a year.

Everyone watched with wide eyes, and their minds were now starting to run fast.

"This e-sports plan is actually similar to the previous challenge, but this time it will place more emphasis on the sense of honor, the competition will be more formal, and all participating players must pass certain certification conditions, and then in the future there will be electronic Competitive teams, forming a brand new industry chain, of course, all of this is just a preliminary plan, and now my idea is just to stay in a local scope, the focus is to promote the game Mario Kart.”

"Excuse me, President, so the competition in Mario Kart is about who can get No.1?"

Zhu Yuxing nodded: "That's right, but as I said just now, this time I plan to let the participants form a team, that is, a team, and then fight as a team. In Mario Kart, the participating players There will be eight players, and these eight players will be divided into red and blue teams, four teams of four, two teams will compete, and then the final winner will be the team winner, and other than that , we will also have individual competitions, one-to-many challenge competitions, etc., and the game is not just Mario Kart, but also two games, Street Fighter and Street Basketball. Strong competitive attributes."

On the projector, pictures flashed by, first of four people fighting against each other in Mario Kart, then one-on-one battle in Street Fighter, and finally the winner.

In the field of video games, eSports has always been a field that cannot be ignored.

It's not that the game industry can't develop without video games, but if there are e-sports, video games will expand their territory again and make more people interested in video games.

There are really many people in this world who have a pure desire to win, but don't care what the thing that decides the outcome is.

In this case, such a group of people can be drawn to become players as well.

In my original world, there are actually very few real core players, and there are 40 billion player groups all over the world.

If you only plan to rely on video games on the console to reach the scale of the game industry in the original world, it is a bit of a dream.

There are always people who prefer online games, there are always people who prefer competitive games, and there are always people who prefer farming games.

This time is also an attempt to broaden the field. Several large game manufacturers in my previous life also have their own different e-sports projects, but these projects are not as conspicuous as those of the top e-sports, but that is also the same A group of people worth paying attention to.

(End of this chapter)