Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 584
583
After YOO released their No.1 shooting game, they also launched their own racing game.

The fifth part of Need for Speed ​​was added by Zhu Youxing, which was very successful after the police and robbers chase, story mode and other gameplay, while YOO is more inclined to the real competition in the arena.

Obviously, the game studio has realized that it cannot compete directly with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. Anyway, racing games are not only for street racing, we can make another racing game of track type.

Before the game was released, Changweiyu carried out a large-scale publicity as usual, especially announced a very high-profile cooperation with well-known racing events, allowing them to play the most classic types of racing events. They also spent a lot of money on this. Obtaining authorization for less money is obviously very eager to reproduce the success of FIFA football games.

However, when the game's first week of sales ended, the results weren't as good, if not bad.

32 sales in the first week, compared to the sales of the previous two games, it is even more than cut in half.

And on various social media, the player's feedback is relatively flat, most of the players seem not interested in racing games, even if the game is promoted vigorously, it does not achieve any good results.

After the first week of sales ended, Nagao Yu immediately invested more funds for publicity, hoping to win word of mouth in this way.

It's just that the results are still bad.

Su Rui Electronics also had high hopes for YOO's racing game, gave the game more resources, and even advertised for the game several times for free, but did not expect the sales of the game to be so low.

This is a game with an investment cost of more than [-] million US dollars, and this sales volume is simply not enough to watch.

It is a very bad result for both Su Rui Electronics and YOO.

At this time, the game evaluation media also began to take the initiative to stand up, and the most authoritative Murakami published his own article.

Everyone knows that he is a die-hard supporter of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, but this does not affect his professional judgment.

He was one of the first people to play video games, and he has experienced a lot of games from middle school to now.

And his evaluation of this racing game is a dessert game that can be played, but it doesn't stop there. Murakami himself is willing to give this game three and a half stars.

This is very good compared to the games of Suri Electronics' game consoles in previous years.

After all, the previous games did not even have a passing line.

It's good to be able to reach the pass level now.

But players are a group of users who will never be satisfied, and they will have an infinite desire for better games.

And once you experience better games, some relatively low-quality games will start to feel boring.

This situation has also intensified after the release of Need for Speed ​​5 by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

On the day when YOO’s racing game was released, there were not many players who went to the store to buy the game. At least they didn’t have to queue for a long time to buy the game.

The release of Need for Speed ​​5 is completely different.

For example, in the Japanese region of the United States, players continue to line up in the traditional way of setting up tents in front of the store on the eve of the annual release.

In Europe, with the increase in the installed capacity of GS1 consoles, the players of Youxing Electronic Entertainment are also growing rapidly.

Players in the European region are also queuing up, which is very obvious compared to YOO's racing games.

Anyone who pays a little attention to the game industry can see which game is more popular through this on-site sales situation.

"I'm wondering now why Need for Speed ​​seems to be more popular. You all swore before that you can express the racing game in another way and achieve corner overtaking!"

Chang Weiyu is an operator, he is not a creator, but he has a unique vision, at least he can think of creating a media group of his own, so that the influence will continue to expand.

But he, who is not the creator, can't understand those game development problems.

Before, after the development team under his command proposed to him the idea of ​​a racing game, he thought it was quite reasonable, at least he felt that he was more interested in a more realistic racing game.

And after the success of the football game, he felt even more important to obtain professional authorization.

However, he made these efforts and investment with little success.

He doesn't understand, really doesn't understand, why this is the result.

Now he can only question the person in charge of game development who had patted his chest before as a guarantee.

I've given you the best possible development environment to get this result, which is totally unacceptable.

"President, we didn't do well enough, I'm very sorry."

The person in charge of the game who was questioned did not seem to be in particularly good spirits at this time, and looked a little tired.

During this period of time, the pace of their game development is very fast. In order to catch up with the progress, he almost never sleeps. After the game was released, he thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect to be called over by Chang Weiyu again and again , He had a meeting for a while, and then he was studying how to increase sales. He really couldn't support it.

Not only that, but there are some other reasons that make him feel a little down. One of them is that since the development of racing games, the salary is always paid later, and the salary has been significantly reduced. It also promised to reward each of them after the release, but it has not been mentioned anymore.

Another reason is that since the advent of the Internet era, pure stand-alone video games are not only over after the game is released, but now the game also needs continuous follow-up service support after it is released.

Because the construction period of this racing game is too tight, it was released earlier than Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's Need for Speed, which also indirectly led to some problems at the bottom of the game itself. , the people under him are not idle, and they are filling the loopholes every day.

All of this made the person in charge more and more exhausted, so he seemed a little weak when answering questions.

Nagao Yu is obviously not satisfied with this answer, he said sternly: "Now find a way to remedy it for me, can I launch more models? Can I launch more tracks?"

"This... there may be some difficulties. Right now, the development team hasn't rested much. They have been urgently patching game loopholes. They haven't had time to relax since the game was released, and now they don't have much time to add game content."

"Just give me overtime."

PS: Sorry readers and bosses, I had a lot of work on the weekend yesterday, and I fell asleep after get off work. I will make up chapters right away, and I will add more compensation today.

(End of this chapter)