Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 368 The Rise of E-sports

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Being able to persuade a potential person to re-do what he likes to do, Zhu Yuxing is quite a sense of accomplishment.

In the future, when this kind of person will be useful sooner or later, he will be very patient and just wait slowly.

The second day of the Consumer Entertainment Expo also ended successfully. During this period, Youxing Electronic Entertainment announced many future game plans, as well as a new handheld, the upgraded version of the GBA, the GBASP, which is the first handheld with the clamshell feature.

There is no improvement in performance, but the game life of the buttons and the screen display effect of the handheld are improved.

These improvements did not increase the price of the handheld, but reduced the price of the GBA by twenty dollars, and then let the GBASP maintain the original price of the previous GBA.

You can buy a game console with a better picture than before at the original price, and this game console will be officially sold in a week. This time, GBASP has sufficient reserves, so there is no need to worry about the problem of not being able to buy it.

Some players are happy, some are slightly disappointed.

Because they actually want to see a game console with better picture quality.

But for now, that seems to be the case.

The third day is the key release time for other game makers.

Lierda and Suri Electronics also launched their own new game consoles this time.

At present, the handheld market is booming, and according to industry estimates, the share of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment on handhelds is actually not as high as imagined, and there is still a lot of market space, which is much better than the game console market.

The two companies therefore plan to focus on hand-held devices and strive to grab some market share.

The performance of the two handhelds this time is very strong, and all of them have reached the level of GBA.

Moreover, the GBA is mostly 2D games, but the two game consoles can run 3D games stably, which makes the two game consoles look full of gimmicks.

It is possible to play 3D games close to the quality of the console on the handheld, which has become the title of the two manufacturers' publicity.

Of course, if the situation is true, it is definitely impossible to achieve the picture quality of the mainframe, but at this time there are no restrictions on advertising laws, so naturally there is no need to worry about any trouble for this kind of bragging.

As for Hack Brown’s Brown Entertainment, they just continue to concentrate on promoting the game. Some people in the industry predicted that Hack Brown would launch a game console, but Hack Brown was much more cautious than they thought, and continued to invest money in game development. The game console seems to have no plans to touch it in a short time.

This also allows Huck Brown's funds to flow better, and will not be easily dragged down by the heavy investment of game consoles.

In this way, the three-day entertainment consumption exhibition ended.

Players are content.

The first entertainment consumer exhibition showed the world for the first time the various entertainment methods of games.

In addition to those core players, many non-core player groups participated in this exhibition.

This is also considered to expand the audience of the game player group.

By the end of the show, players are most looking forward to the release of StarCraft.

This is a game personally supervised by the god of games, Zhu Yuxing. At least in terms of game quality, you don't have to worry too much. The only thing you need to consider is whether this new type of game suits your taste.

At the same time, such a thing happened in Korea.

The South Korean government announced a greater policy inclination in e-sports, encouraging consortia to form their own professional e-sports groups.

At the same time, large companies can also jointly fund the establishment of e-sports events.

Unlike Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's establishment of an e-sports event in Japan, this time it is supported by a national government.

E-sports players can get the same treatment as Olympic medalists if they perform well.

Exemption from military service, and many additional monetary rewards.

With the support of such a policy, the Korean people suddenly developed a great enthusiasm for video games.

Video games began to flourish in just two or three months.

The tax-free policy and the e-sports support policy were completely established half a month before the release of StarCraft.

And several large consortiums in South Korea collectively issued an invitation to the whole world.

They started an international esports event called WCG.

The name of this WCG was provided by Zhuyouxing. As the initiator of e-sports, Zhuyouxing is still qualified to provide the idea of ​​a name, and WCG itself is indeed a very suitable name for e-sports.

The first WCG e-sports competition also set up several major projects.

Need for Speed, Street Fighter, StarCraft, Street Basketball.

These four projects are the main projects this time. Other small projects will be slowly observed over time. If they have the potential to become e-sports projects, they can also become new e-sports projects.

And WCG also gives a very attractive bonus.

In the past, the prize money of e-sports projects hosted by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment was controlled within the range of [-] million yen, which is one million US dollars.

The winner will receive 70.00% of the million dollars.

And because WCG has the support of many Korean chaebols, in order to let WCG expand its influence, they gave out a cash reward of 200 million US dollars to the winners of each project in the first session.

The 200 million will belong entirely to the winner, while the runner-up and third place will receive US$50 and US$[-], respectively.

This bonus alone immediately made everyone focus on Korea.

All of a sudden, gamers in the United States, Japan and other regions went crazy.

Anyone who thinks they have some strength is itchy in their hearts, and they all want to join this competition.

$200 cash first prize.

This is definitely not enough to watch compared to those athletes in traditional sports, especially football, basketball and American basketball.

These are even more impossible to compare with.

But for the average person, video games can be very engaging.

Anyone can feel like they have a chance to win.

Except for StarCraft, an unannounced game, everyone who likes the other three games is confident.

Players began to gather together and participate in this e-sports competition in their own way.

Snapped!
"It's a complete joke, what's the difference between it and gambling?"

In a professional sports organization, a middle-aged man in a suit angrily threw the newspaper on the table.

The cigar next to him still had smoke lingering, and the expensive watch gleamed in the process of smashing the newspaper.

"Isn't this e-sports just a group of decadent teenagers playing? This thing has to come to the stage? Isn't this humiliating us?"

"Well, boss, please be patient. In fact, I think this thing is very interesting. Young people like it. If we also invest some money to start an e-sports club and win over some Internet addicts, we can't say it well. It can become the object of young people’s pursuit.”

"Pursue a fart, I don't agree with this thing, this thing is to lower our own style!"

(End of this chapter)