Game Development Giant

The person on the other end of the phone was Sid Meier. I don’t know what Sid Meier replied, but it can be seen from the slightly satisfied look on Jester’s face that Sid Meier’s answer It should make him very satisfied. ●⌒Dingma Novel,

After the phone call, Jester flipped through the structure of Age of Empires that he had just completed a few days ago. Some of the things in it were based on later RTS games, and then based on the current hardware conditions, Something written.

I went through it roughly and found no mistakes, so I closed the folder and threw it aside.

He lowered his head and looked at the watch on his wrist. It was almost time. Jester also planned to attend the dinner hosted by Kazuo Hirai tonight. As the boss of Mars Entertainment, Jester was naturally invited. Of course, Jester Ste also casually asked if anyone from Nintendo or Sega was invited.

In response, the Sony employee who came to deliver the invitation just smiled and quickly replied: Sega's is on the invitation list, but Nintendo's is not.

In fact, Jester's willingness to attend Kazuo Hirai's dinner today was not only to give Sony a face, he also wanted to discuss something else with Sony - before this year, Jester had an idea about establishing a game joint venture. Association as well as game show ideas.

However, it has been delayed due to many things, and now I just want to take advantage of this opportunity to talk to people from Sony and Sega about this matter.

He has contacted some game developers in the United States before, such as EA, Snow Mountain, Wei Zhen, etc. They are quite interested in this proposal. Not only is it the professional game exhibition that Jester mentioned, after all, it is held every year They all went to the Consumer Electronics Show, an exhibition focusing on electrical appliances. There is always a feeling of being under someone else’s roof.

In fact, these companies have organized several small-scale specialized game exhibitions before, but they did not become popular. Now that Jester wants to take the lead in organizing a nationwide one, they naturally welcome it with raised hands. of.

And Jester wants something much bigger than them. What Jester wants to do is not just a game show in the United States or North America, but a game show in Europe and Japan, plus North America.

Things in Europe are easy to do. Jester has asked Claudia to do this before. When Jester and Claudia talked on the phone a few times before, Claudia also said that it went smoothly. Almost all the slightly influential game development companies in Europe are very interested in Jester's proposal.

The only thing we need to worry about is Japan. Its influence in Japan is not big enough and there is no guarantee that the vast majority of game development companies will participate.

Moreover, because of his relationship with Nintendo, Jester estimated that if this event was organized by himself, Nintendo would definitely not participate, just like they refused to participate in the Japan Arcade Association. But if I can convince Sega, and Sony, which has just joined the gaming industry, has great influence in Japan.

With the consent of these two companies, then Nintendo is thrown aside. Then this thing can be done very well.

Moreover, leaving aside the relationship between Sega and Nintendo, just looking at the current relationship between Sony and Nintendo, Jester knew that his idea was still easy to realize.

Hirai Kazuo's banquet was held in the banquet hall of a five-star hotel in Los Angeles. He held the meeting in his capacity as the vice president and head of the marketing department of Sony Computer Entertainment North America. Since there is no president position currently, it is for the time being. Although Kazuo Hirai is only the vice president, he exercises the rights of the president.

The banquet was held in a very formal manner. Jester has never been interested in such formal banquets. This is why he usually does not attend any banquets. If it weren't for this time, he really had something to talk to Hisao Oguchi and Hisao Oguchi. Hirai Kazuo discussed that Jester would not attend such a banquet.

Kazuo Hirai has obviously conducted a very in-depth investigation into his biggest rival in the future, Mars Entertainment and the controller of Mars Entertainment, Jester Lee. He is also very concerned about Jester Lee's habit of not liking to attend such banquets. It was clear that although he had extended an invitation to Jester, he actually didn't have much hope as to whether Jester would participate.

But what surprised him was that before the dinner started, he received instructions from his subordinates, and Jester had already arrived at the banquet, which surprised Hirai Kazuo.

Even though Jester attended this banquet, he was sitting in a corner drinking alone. Although he came to see Kazuo Hirai today and wanted to discuss something, he couldn't be too proactive, and based on his attitude toward With Kazuo Hirai's understanding, coupled with Sony's current situation, Jester also concluded that Kazuo Hirai would definitely come to find him.

Sure enough, after Kazuo Hirai finished speaking and announced the start of the banquet, Kazuo Hirai walked towards Jester's direction with a smile on his face.

What surprised Jester was that Hisao Oguchi came with him.

Jester also stood up, took the initiative to greet him, and held the hand of Hirai Kazuo, who had already extended his hand. After the two let go, Jester turned to look at Hisao Oguchi, and the two families The competition in the company was extremely fierce before. Hisao Oguchi's previous price reduction strategy was aimed at Mars Entertainment, so he was still a little embarrassed when he saw Jester Lee.

However, the smile on Jester's face did not change. After he withdrew his palm from Kazuo Hirai, he extended it towards Hisao Oguchi.

Mr. Xiaoguchi, I admire your ability and vision. Jester said this sincerely. After all, the price reduction strategy of the previous family caused him great trouble. Even now, this trouble still exists. The price factor is like a noose that may hang around his neck again at any time.

Although Jester's words were complimentary, there were still some thorns in them. Hisao Oguchi was also a smart man. Of course he could hear it, but this situation was not suitable for him to refute Jester's words, so he He just smiled and didn't answer.

When three people are chatting, as long as one person really wants to continue chatting, they can get into the mood quickly.

In just a few words, Jester started talking about his special world exhibition. Sega, represented by Hisao Oguchi, and Sony, represented by Kazuo Hirai, were naturally very interested in the topic that Jester mentioned. Interested, and only Jester and Mars Entertainment are qualified to talk about this kind of topic.

Jester sighed deliberately, pretending to be a little depressed and said: Actually, this is a very good thing for the industry. I have basically reached an agreement with the major game companies in North America and the game companies in Europe. They Everyone says this is a good thing, but what about Japan...

Jester didn't say anything about Japan, but Hisao Oguchi and Kazuo Hirai were both outstanding people, so they naturally heard what Jester meant.

Wouldn't Nintendo agree?

Hisao Oguchi asked. He knew that his boss, Hayao Nakayama, had a conflict with Hiroshi Yamauchi, so he didn't have a good impression of Nintendo. Therefore, after Jester finished speaking, he immediately thought of Nintendo, and , except for Nintendo, there is no one else that is more suitable for this matter.

Jester didn't make a sound, just nodded calmly.

My plan is to set up an association composed of our game companies to specifically organize this matter. Moreover, we'd better set a standard for future games, just like the review system for movies. There are too many now. The game is really too bottomless.

Hearing Jester's words, Hisao Oguchi and Kazuo Hirai both nodded. Kazuo Hirai may have only read information about this, but Hisao Oguchi knows more about it, because the current game market is very chaotic. All kinds of uncontrolled games are flooding the market, even on Sega's platform, let alone the most popular PC platform.

Therefore, many media, many officials and even many parents are now hating these game development companies.

Hirai Kazuo never said anything. It seemed that he had been thinking about something after Jester spoke. After Hisao Oguchi expressed his support for Jester's two proposals, he took the initiative to say: I think if Nintendo If you don’t want to join us in setting up an organization to regulate the game industry, then we can set it up ourselves.”

In this sentence, Hirai Kazuo used we. After hearing him talk about us, a strange look flashed in the eyes of Jester and Hisao Oguchi.

But Jester smiled: I have not discussed this matter with your headquarters. If you are really interested in this, please inform your respective headquarters. I personally hope that it can be done within the year. , we will hold a dedicated world-wide game exhibition.

\u003cbStandard's right to speak, Kazuo Hirai knows that he only needs to mention the so-called World Electronic Games Association's statement that Jester mentioned to the headquarters, and the headquarters will definitely agree immediately.

Moreover, regarding the issue that Jester said he had not reached an agreement with Nintendo, I am afraid that is not what he said.

Because no matter how deep the feud between Nintendo and Mars Entertainment is, he can't give up this opportunity to formulate rules in the gaming industry. The biggest possibility is that Jester only talked about the game exhibition and didn't talk about it. World Electronic Games Association thing. (Want to know more exciting news about Game Development Giant? Open WeChat now, click on the + sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add a public account, search for , follow the public account, and never miss every time again Updated!) (To be continued...)