Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 124 'Little Surprise' (17)

  Natsume Yasushi has always been a relatively conservative person.

   This has advantages and disadvantages.

Zhu Yuxing just smiled and said: "Video games are an emerging field, and there must be some things that are different from the past, so don't stick to those subsections, in your eyes, I am a president, in my own eyes, It looks like I'm a game producer, but deep down in my heart, I've always thought I was a gamer."

   Several people in the conference room seemed to be touched.

   They also like games, and they agree with what Zhu Yuxing said.

  Only by treating yourself as a gamer can you have a deeper understanding of what players want.

  Take Yusei continued: "So, on TV, I won't call myself a president or something, I will always call myself a player, and I'm proud of being a player."

   Actually, what Take Yusei said just now was taken from one of his most admired people: Mr. Iwata Satoshi.

   This person has made great contributions to Nintendo, and is the biggest contributor to Nintendo's longevity after the millennium.

   This person is also very popular with players.

   Even its competitors are amazed by it.

  When this gentleman unfortunately left the world, gamers and industry leaders mourned for him. No one can deny the changes he brought to the game industry.

   It is no exaggeration to say that Iwata is the Jobs of the video game industry.

Zhu Youxing has already made a decision, and there is no need for others to stop him. After all, this company belongs to him. Now Zhu Youxing has absolute dominance over the entire company, and there is not even a second shareholder who can control the company's will. Of course no one else could say anything.

   Zhu Yuxing said again: "Okay, everyone, prepare, I need enough content for the face-to-face meeting in half a month, except for the game console release."

   The heads of several game development teams were all excited.

   They report the corresponding games prepared in their group one by one.

   Among them, three of the current five teams will produce a first-party boutique game before the official release of SFC.

   At the same time, it will also upgrade the first-party game picture quality and sound effects on the original red and white console to a higher level, and landing on the new game console is almost equivalent to a screen reset version of the game.

  Old players only need to take the old version of the cassette and add 500 yen to replace the new version of the game cassette on the SFC.

  Old cassettes will be refurbished and repackaged for lower prices, which is equivalent to an official new cassette.

  Zhu Yuxing knew that selling second-hand cassettes was unavoidable, so he might as well start the business himself.

  Official replacement cassettes with official endorsements, the quality will be more guaranteed, and players will be more popular.

   In addition to these, in fact, Zhu Yuxing also prepared another surprise.

   A surprise that was a fatal blow to Suri Electronics.

   After listening to the reports from the group leaders, Take Yusei looked at Airi Hayasawa.

   "Airi, has the battery issue of the Second Engineering Development Team been resolved?"

   Airi Hayasawa had been waiting for Take Yusei to call him just now.

Now that    was finally mentioned, she immediately regained her spirits and said happily: "It has been resolved! According to your request, we can already ensure at least twenty-five hours of battery life."

   "Yes, then let's officially release it. Next, let's have a good discussion about how to release it to get the most response."

   Hayazawa Airi is very happy, she has always followed up on this project, and she and several others have already started planning it half a year ago, earlier than SFC.

   At the earliest time, Zhu Yuxing had asked them to solve the problem of balancing battery power consumption as much as possible.

  In order to solve this problem, from the beginning of researching the battery to the present, they finally kept the battery life at more than 25 hours, which is just the minimum required by Zhu Yuxing, which is barely able to achieve the task.

And this product, GameBoy, referred to as GB, is a handheld game console, its performance is slightly worse than that of red and white consoles, but its biggest advantage is that it can play games on a small screen, so that video games can really be played anytime, anywhere enjoyment.

   Its portability, long battery life and relatively low price captured the hearts of players as soon as it was released. Even if there were many competitors in the same period, it was difficult to compete with GB.

   That was really the era when Nintendo dominated the world.

   The first handheld of Zhu Yuxing in the previous life was the GBC, which is an upgraded version of the GB handheld.

  Bamboo Youxing wanted to directly develop this game console at the beginning, skipping the first-generation handheld console of GB, and making the performance of the game console a little better.

   But if you do this, the price will increase a lot, and the real sales of the handheld itself may exceed 10,000 yen.

   Players in this era may not be able to accept such an expensive game console, so I decided to expand the number of players first, and then consider upgrading the game console.

   In the end, it may be possible to skip GBC directly and develop GBA directly.

   And Zhu Yuxing has also finalized the game lineup that will land on GB.

   These include Metroid, which was supposed to be the second generation, as well as Tetris, and a Super Mario title, plus the latest in Super Baseball.

   GB's starting lineup in the previous life is also four games, but two of them are a bit suspicious, Arkanoid and Mahjong.

   But the games he plans to release can be regarded as luxurious lineups, and Takeyusei also wants to see if he can break the highest sales record of Metrod under this circumstance.

   Generally speaking, the first game often has a certain advantage.

   In the first game in the red and white machine, the backgammon has reached 500,000 sales, and other chess and card games of the same type cannot compare with it. This is the advantage of the first launch.

As for how to publicize these things in the face-to-face meeting, and how to announce them to have the greatest effect, everyone began to discuss heatedly, and Zhu Youxing did not interfere too much. Anyway, there was still enough time, and the final day was no problem. .

   "Okay, you can discuss the details after the meeting is over. Let's end the meeting."

   Everyone left the table one after another, and went out in twos and threes to continue the discussion.

   This face-to-face meeting is still very important. It is an opportunity for the company to show its capabilities to the outside world.

   Maybe Suri Electronics and other manufacturers have already known the release of SFC in advance, but they don't know the price for the time being, but they never imagined that there will be a super blockbuster after SFC.

   Don't know what they'll look like when they see this bombshell.

  Well, decided, let GB appear in the finale of the face-to-face meeting, and give a few 'little surprises' to the competitors

   (end of this chapter)