Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 228 Changes in the game market

  In May, the PN2 game console was officially released, priced at $299 a piece.

   This is the world's first 32-bit game console, the first game console that can run 3D graphics games.

   As the first game, it includes a racing game with 3D graphics, and Sun Knight 3D, a housekeeping role-playing work of Suri Electronics.

  If the player bundles two first games plus a PN2 game console, they can also get a certain discount, and they can buy them all for about $400.

   Unlike Need for Speed ​​on SFC, the racing game rendered by 3D graphics gives players a real feeling, as if they are really driving a car.

   And this game was also made by American employees recruited by Suri Electronics in North America.

  When they first joined the ranks of video game production, they fell in love with the production of games, and immediately handed over an answer sheet that made Suri Electronics very satisfied.

A real racing game, a racing game based on the relatively more popular rally in the United States. At the same time, it seems to be to compete with Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Surui Electronic did not know how much it paid, and began to invite more than 20 people. The brand authorization of car companies in different countries seems to be much bigger than that of Zhuyouxing.

   And the initial first impression of this game is also very good in the eyes of players.

When the PN2 type game console was released, it caused a small boom. After all, this is the first console in the world that can run 3D games. The two 3D graphics games above are indeed very attractive, especially the one. racing game.

   As for Sun Knight 3D, that is a little rough, because Suri Electronics has not yet been able to imagine how to make a real 3D game.

   And the 3D racing game is just created according to the old way of making games before. The racing game has basically set the basic rules for the production of the game on the 16-bit game console, so the production is not particularly difficult.

The sales volume of the   PN2 game console immediately reached 200,000 in the first week, more than 100,000 users purchased the bundle, and the sales, including games, reached more than 80 million US dollars in one week, and the results were very good.

   A lot of players are the kind of very loyal followers who have been playing PN1 consoles since the beginning.

   Since Suri Electronics was the first to enter the US market, many players tend to prefer Suri Electronics.

   Even if the quality of video games is a little lower, it is actually a level that can be played happily.

The big deal is that players can buy another SFC game console to play. Anyway, in the field of video games, you only need to buy games. Now players in the United States can still afford a few dozen games. It will not be like Japan. relatively more conservative.

This achievement also made the senior management of Suri Electronics slightly satisfied, so he simply relaxed the previous tightening policy on Hayakawa Zhiren a little bit, and gave him more budget, so that he could be more open to develop more and more Fun video game.

   As soon as any industry has money, the speed of development will never be slow.

   Just after the first week of sales, Surui Electronics immediately announced the establishment of three game studios to produce different types of games, including a studio specializing in baseball, football, basketball, and rugby games.

   There is also an action game studio that intends to follow the example of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Street Fighter.

   and creative studios for more types of development.

As soon as the news of    was announced, players in the United States were even more happy. The momentum continued unabated in the second week, and the sales of game consoles remained at around 170,000.

   They like high-tech things the most. Sometimes fun games can promote sales, and excellent graphics can also promote sales.

   It's just that fun games are often long-lasting, but games with good graphics can only harvest one or two waves of leeks at most, and they will be exhausted.

   In addition to Suri Electronics, Lierda, a local company in the United States, also announced that it is developing its own 32-bit game console, and promised to release it on Christmas. It seems that it also wants to get on the bus quickly and make a wave of hot money along with it.

   There are hundreds of millions of dollars in sales in two weeks, which is already a number that cannot be ignored.

  Although the real money in the hands of the manufacturer may only earn about one-third at most, it is also amazing.

Converting    into Japanese yen, the profit is also in the billions.

  The Japanese manufacturers were also a little shocked.

   Only then did they discover that Suri Electronics seemed to be a good choice as well.

   They are not weak at all in the United States, of course, they are still a bit worse than Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

   On the other hand, on the side of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, it seems to be calm.

  Because in the recent period of time, Zhu Yuxing has been busy expanding the company's employees.

  With the development of video games, it is no longer possible to use the small workshop model of a few people and a dozen people in the past.

   Now 16-bit game consoles can barely allow a dozen people to develop games together.

   But once we enter the era of 3D games, the developers of a game often need hundreds of thousands to calculate.

   And Suri Electronics and several other companies don't seem to realize this.

   They simply use the most basic programming methods to write 3D graphics games.

This workload is different from the previous 2D games, but now they just want to speed up the game development as much as possible, and the recruitment of employees has been put on the back burner. In the recruitment announcements in the United States, employees are continuously recruited, but the frequency of recruitment is also not high.

   On Zhu Yuxing’s side, the number of employees in his company almost doubles every month.

   Take Yusei must start planning for the future.

   Wait until the future 3D era really arrives before thinking about recruiting a sufficient number of employees. First of all, the training cost will not be mentioned. At that time, it will greatly slow down the progress of your game development.

   Time is far more important than money.

  From the first to the tenth game development team, each team will have new employees join every day, and then there will be old employees to teach them, guide them to develop games, and make them as proficient in the process of game development as possible.

   And the two teams specializing in the development of game hardware have also expanded to four, and each team has also expanded to more than 50 people.

However, the four teams are still led by a unified person, that is Airi Hayazawa. She can convey the will of Take Yusei most faithfully and ensure that the development of game hardware will not go wrong. No one else will take Yusei. I believe that only Hayasawa Airi can do such a job.

   (end of this chapter)