Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 171 Planning Summary

   In the United States, the status of women is also not high.

   But it's not a little bit better than Japan.

   At least the women here are working and not many will point fingers.

   In the eyes of Zhu Yuxing, Songqiao is a very powerful tool person, and has always been conscientious.

   And she also has some alumni and friends in the United States, and these alumni and friends may also become a resource to help expand the US market.

   So Zhu Yuxing agreed with her idea of ​​going to the United States to work hard.

   As for myself, of course, I still stay in the base camp in Japan. At most, I go out to the town of the United States occasionally or something.

   However, he still intends to participate in the International Consumer Electronics Show in person.

   He wants to see with his own eyes what the technological level of the world has reached, and he can glimpse some future trends at the consumer exhibition.

  Since the steady sales of Pokémon, GB sales have also been rising steadily.

   The team that originally developed the Pokémon was a little frustrated.

   They felt that the game they made was a bit of a failure.

   But I didn’t expect this game to become a hot topic in an instant, and it became a very popular thing among children.

   And this is not limited to boys, many girls are also involved.

  Because the Pokémon game Zhuyouxing has also added more elements of cultivation, basically all the cultivation characteristics of Tuoma Gezi have been moved to GB's Pokémon.

   This also makes many girls buy game consoles because they like the development characteristics of Pokémon.

   At the same time, all the employees of Youxing Electronic Entertainment also came to the new office.

  There is a better office environment than the previous company, and the average office area has also been expanded, and the overall atmosphere is also very good

   All the employees who just arrived at the company immediately fell in love with the new office location.

   And what makes these employees excited is that there is a film and television agency upstairs, and you can see all kinds of big and small stars coming in and out every day, which is a treatment that has not been received in the past.

   Even if you can't talk at close range, it's nice to be able to take the same elevator every now and then.

   And the fact that a company with amazing potential came to this building also spread in the building, and many people also looked at this big family who just rented a five-story building with curiosity.

   "What does this company do?"

   "I heard that it is for making games."

   "Make games? Is it a video game that has become very popular recently? Which company is it?"

   "It's the most popular company that makes GB, red and white machines, and SFC."

   "Wow! It turned out to be that company, I'm really lucky, we can be in the same building as this company, have any of you inquired about this company's recruitment requirements?"

   "Don't think about it, you are a mechanic and it has nothing to do with other people's high-end electronics."

   After all the employees had almost finished moving, Zhu Yuxing called the key employees to hold a meeting.

   This time, I am going to confirm the progress of the work to be done now, and arrange the next game development plan at the same time.

   Now, there are six game development teams in the company, from the first to the sixth.

   There are still only two teams specializing in the development of game consoles and peripherals, but the total number of both teams has expanded over the past period of time.

The    meeting was held the afternoon after the move, and the heads of each group and several additional departments were brought together.

   Zhu Yuxing asked them to report their current work progress one by one.

   Among them, the main research and development direction of the first engineering development team is the development of new 32-bit game consoles, which is the most important project in the company, and it is also the most confidential.

   Except for the leaders of each group, no other outsiders know the research and development progress of the first engineering development group.

The purpose of    is to make a blockbuster in the end.

   And the second engineering development team is studying the extended version of the GB handheld, that is, the color backlight version of the GBA.

  This Zhuyouxing is expected to be launched around this time next year, to supplement the ammunition for the branches that have just entered the European and American markets, so that they can use stronger handhelds to attack the city and conquer the land.

As for the six game development teams, the first team is responsible for the development of Dragon Quest 4. Now that it has come to an end, Zhu Yuxing arranged for them to check the game loopholes more, and then wait for the European and American game consoles to be released. Dragon Quest 4 was released as the launch game.

  Team 5 is responsible for the simultaneous development of Final Fantasy's third and fourth volumes.

  Because the Final Fantasy series has almost no connection between each story, Take Yusei can easily skip the second game and complete the challenge of never making the second game.

   The simultaneous release of the third and fourth volumes is intended to be released on future GBA and SFC game consoles respectively.

   The third one is a crystal myth that is more inclined to medieval legends, and will be exclusively available on the GBA. Like Dragon Quest, it will be the first list to enter the US market.

  The fourth part will be slower, log in on SFC, and after the popularity of Dragon Quest has passed, Final Fantasy will immediately catch up and play a set of combined punches.

   Judging from the US game console market share disclosed by Suri Electronics, there may be some strong competitors in the US.

   This is quite normal. The programmers in the United States started the earliest development, and they were more creative in program development. In the first 20 years of the 21st century in their previous life, the software field in the United States was almost invincible.

   There are also talented programmers over there.

   Having a programming genius like Yue Ye Cai under his command is already a very rare species, but there are many of them in the United States, and they will even be better.

   So Zhu Youxing didn't dare to be careless. He was going to make a few big moves in the first step to enter the US market, otherwise he might not be able to make any waves.

  The reason why Nintendo in the previous life was able to dominate the United States for many years was only because the United States had just experienced a winter of video games before, and a game manufacturer Atari destroyed the entire American video game market with its own power.

   Later, Nintendo took advantage of it, forcibly occupied the vast majority of the market share in the United States, and finally had an extremely stable position.

   As for himself, I am afraid that he does not have that kind of luck. He may have to face multiple powerful competitors from the United States at the beginning.

In addition to the game series development that the first and fifth groups are specialized in, the sixth group has just released the Pokémon, and they have to give them a little time to breathe, let them settle down slowly, and wait for another wave after the GBA is released. Great move is fine.

   The second, third and fourth groups are currently working on short-cycle game development of three months. In the past month, they have successively produced some classic games on the previous red and white machines and SFC.

   There are one each for Galaxy Storm, Mario RPG, football and basketball games, as well as golf games and a Go puzzle game developed in cooperation with the Japanese Chess Institute.

  The sales of most of these games hovered around 200,000 in the first week, and then slowly decreased in the next few weeks.

  Because the original production cost of these games is not too high, they are basically games that Zhu Youxing can make with a creative idea, so generally, they can make a return on sales of about 100,000, and they are all games that make a small profit.

   (end of this chapter)