Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 553 457. As expected of the president, he knows a lot

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After Qing Zhiyuan's [Digitalization] lecture ended, there was actually not much of a stir in society. It could only be said that a storm was brewing.

After all, digitization was not proposed by Qing Zhiyuan. Sony has been talking about digitization for some time, and the current wave of digitization is basically everyone’s consensus.

But this concept is still too advanced, and everyone’s perception of digitalization is actually very weak.

Game manufacturers may be more sensitive, but for players, they won't pay much attention to this thing until it is implemented.

And only when the big wave of digitalization hits their faces will people truly feel its power.

So after pokeni's digital press conference, a small bubble appeared briefly, not even a wave, and then it fell silent. Everyone should do whatever they should. Anyway, the sky will not fall, and pokeni will not be able to fly into space. .

People stop paying much attention to the news after a while.

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A selection of games from various eras from Sega and Pokeni will be released.

Fortunately, the strategy formulated by Qing Zhiyuan is to gradually release pokeni and Sega games over two years to maintain a long-term process.

The reason why there are so many different interface standards is actually very simple:

Everyone wants to be the rule maker.

However, even so, in October, Qing Zhiyuan's request was still to release more than 10 games on the Dandelion gaming platform.

According to Qing Zhiyuan’s words:

Only by making the plate bigger and letting others in can we go out. Instead of blocking and guarding our own one-third of an acre of land, it is better to share it, turn what is ours into others', and then turn what others have into our own.

The USB interface was originally launched in 1994 by some industry giants at the time, including Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel.

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Make a new game controller and use USB as the interface. The new controller must not only support running on DC game consoles, but also support access to PCs.

That is:

This gives programmers enough buffer time.

The controller patent currently used by Sega DC belongs to pokeni. To a certain extent, there seems to be no doubt that Qing Zhiyuan wants to change the interface of the controller, not to mention that the president has a more ambitious goal.

And this is just the beginning. Qing Zhiyuan’s plan for the future is——

In other words, the current USB technology is quite mature.

Sega DC's controller naturally has its own exclusive interface, but now Qing Zhiyuan wants them to give up using their own interface and use USB. In fact, it was not well understood by everyone at the beginning.

I don’t know why, Akanishi Ken feels that this digital project is more tiring than developing a game platform or making any game before.

Moreover, in order for Qing Zhiyuan to allow PC players to also use controller operations, he also specially put forward a new requirement to Sega's console R&D department——

In short, in order to implement this plan, the relevant departments of pokeni are now working overtime, just to be more rigorous and avoid problems.

However, a relatively large impact of this plan is-

At the same time, different interfaces also have historical origins. When everyone first designed game consoles, they based them on their own hardware production experience. Sega has its own development history, and Rentendo and Sony also have their own histories.

Once someone becomes the rule maker, they can use the rules to suppress others and obtain the maximum rights and interests.

Although Sony has been pushing this standard, it has not received much response so far.

USB 1.1 was released last year. It is also called Full Speed ​​USB and has a maximum transmission speed of 12 Mbps.

When the company bosses held a digital meeting the next day, Shinji Mikami took out a small notebook and said:

Maybe in the future, the computer will be connected to the controller, and the console will be connected to the keyboard, and it is not certain that they will be integrated with each other.

Every game released in the future will have a digital online version. Players can either purchase game discs or download them online.

A game CD can be used on Sega DC or on a PC with Windows system installed. This is the unified ecological platform plan proposed by Qing Zhiyuan.

Don't underestimate a USB interface, it looks really insignificant, but it is equivalent to connecting the host and the computer, and Sato Hideki also feels that the game consoles they develop are becoming more and more computerized.

For example, a person who is naturally good at oil painting will definitely be more inclined to use oil painting techniques to create animations, while a person who is good at ink painting will naturally hope that the animations will be designed and drawn according to the standards of ink style.

Although the news is silent.

As soon as this proposal came out, it shocked the members of Sega. There are many kinds of controller interfaces on the market now. Each game console has its own game-specific controller interface, and there is no unified standard.

So, now it looks calm outside, but inside pokeni it looks like a war.

But, the pokeni side is like a war.

Early games are very small in size and are actually the most suitable. However, considering the popularity of the game and the adaptability of players, Qing Zhiyuan still adopted the method of combining games from different periods for sale.

It was with these foundations that Qing Zhiyuan dared to mention turning the handle into a USB interface.

At the beginning, everyone had no experience in making handles. They were crossing the river by feeling the stones, and naturally they would come up with all kinds of rules.

Each game disc comes with a unique digital code. If you don't want to use the game disc to play, you can also use this digital code to download the game from the Dandelion game platform and install it locally.

The programmers are all nervously doing the final digital testing work. The bugs have actually been eliminated a few months ago, but it is difficult to guarantee whether problems will occur after it is actually put on the shelves.

Fortunately, after Hideki Sato, the director of the R&D Department, communicated with Qing Zhiyuan, he had a deeper understanding of his future strategic intentions, and then he agreed.

All pokeni games must be made into two modes of controller and keyboard operation, so that players can also get a good experience on the PC side.

In this way, both old and new players can be taken care of.

"But there's a problem."

“The digitization our company is promoting this time, once the dandelion currency can be used to purchase games, it will have an anchor point, because games are real money and require spending money.

There will be some players who can buy our games without spending money. Will it have a bad impact?

For example, it would be considered gambling or something. "

Shinji Mikami’s meaning is obvious: once virtual currency circulates and has purchasing power, it is actually given a real monetary value. In this case, will it be considered gambling?

And there is another layer: some players can buy games with the dandelion coins they win, so when the games are sold, will they naturally lose part of their income?

In the conference room, everyone couldn't help but nod their heads after listening to Shinji Mikami's question.

However, now that we have reached this point, we can’t just not release the digital version of the game just because there are problems, right?

Program Director Ken Akanishi frowned, this would really cost him his life.

After Qing Zhiyuan listened, he laughed happily, unlike everyone else's worries.

Mikami Shinji was very pleased to consider this issue.

"Let's break it down and analyze it," Qing Zhiyuan said, "First of all, the issue of gambling." "We just bind the player's dandelion coins to the account. Akanishi-san, please record it here, and remember to do it before the game is launched. , this function must be implemented.”

"The currency can only be used for purchases in my own account and cannot be used by others. Then this currency is one-way. It does not constitute gambling."

Bound currencies have actually been used for a long time in previous lives.

Once the recharge is successful, these virtual currencies will be bound to the current account. If you want to give a gift to a friend or something, you have to pay and cannot use the bound currency for transactions.

The advantage of this is that, first, it limits the circulation of currency. If currency circulation cannot run, there will be no gambling involved.

Second, after the currency is bound to the account, it will not easily cause inflation.

This point is complementary to the first point. The premise of inflation is currency circulation. Now that currency is no longer in circulation, inflation will be restricted.

In other words -

Perhaps there are indeed some lucky or relatively strong players on the Dandelion platform who can win a large amount of Dandelion coins through the chess and card halls run by P Club, but these currencies can only be used for their own purchases and cannot be given to others. use.

In this way, his expenses are limited.

If you think about it, in reality, there is a group of top rich people who control most of the wealth of a certain country, but their personal consumption level is not enough to squander all the money.

Even if you eat the most expensive food and play the best, everyone's time and energy in a day are limited, and the upper limit of demand is here, so they can only spend a fraction of the money.

Since money will not pour into the market from the treasury of the rich, it will naturally not cause large-scale inflation, resulting in rising prices.

These are very basic economic principles.

This is what Qing Zhiyuan admires the most: although Chinese game manufacturers in previous generations may not have been able to produce high-quality and fun games, they were world-class in the study of human nature and economic operations.

Even if there are no games, Chinese game manufacturers can have fun just by relying on money.

Qing Zhiyuan is just taking out things that have been proven and thoroughly researched in the future and using them in advance.

"If you bind the currency, only you can use it. If the currency cannot be circulated, there is no problem at all." Qing Zhiyuan said, "The dandelion coins we provide are valuable, but what we anchor is not the game, but the Real currency.

Don’t forget this. Dandelion coins themselves can be purchased through Japanese yen, euros, US dollars, and soft sister coins.

That’s what it’s really anchored to.

Games are just products for consumption. "

Binding currency? !

At first, Shinji Mikami felt that this design was a bit anti-human, because it was part of my personal assets, and it was actually quite uncomfortable to limit my use. Although I was very rich, I couldn’t buy anything for my friends.

However, after Qing Zhiyuan explained the entire principle clearly, Mikami Shinji felt that——

This setting is really amazing.

Currency with one-way circulation can not only reduce inflation, but also promote purchases by ordinary players, and perfectly avoid gambling risks.

In this way, it seems that there will be no problem in any country.

"As for what you said, some players can buy games for themselves by winning other people's currency..." Qing Zhiyuan smiled, "Isn't this a good thing?"

Ok?

Everyone raised their heads and looked at the president with some confusion.

Because from the most direct feeling, you will feel that "we have lost money"

For example, the game "Dragon Journey" is about to be released. It was supposed to sell 200 million copies, but 10 of them were purchased by these [winners] without spending any money and by winning other people's dandelion coins. , so judging from the books, have we made less money by 10 copies?

Qing Zhiyuan actually understood their thoughts very well and couldn't help but laugh.

Some things are actually counter-intuitive.

"Why do you want to isolate gaming platforms from games?"

Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Although the dandelion coins spent by these players were won from others, it seems that they did not spend the money to purchase the game, but think about it -

Isn’t this money already spent by other players?

All the money recharged into the game platform is our income, but part of it is used for Qinghun, Shogi, and Texas Hold'em Poker, while the other part is used for game purchases.

But in the end it doesn't matter where the money goes.

The benefits we gain are actually completed the moment players recharge. "

"Of course, during settlement, the whereabouts of these virtual funds must still be tracked. The number of copies of each game sold is still calculated according to the original calculation method. In fact, there is no change.

You don’t have to worry about whether the game has sold so many copies and made real money.

Because this is true, beyond a shadow of a doubt. "

It may be better to understand by changing the way of thinking, that is, the future pre-recharge method:

If the money is added to the account but has not been consumed, is the money considered spent?

When recharging, the platform has already obtained the income of this money, but when it is finally settled, it must still produce specific reports and data according to where the money is consumed.

There is actually no conflict between the two.

One is to put currency in, and the other is to consume currency.

After listening to Qing Zhiyuan's economics class, the other planners at the scene were completely stunned.

who am I?

Where am I, what am I doing?

At first glance, what Qing Zhiyuan said seemed counter-intuitive and contrary to common sense, but after careful consideration, I found that what he said was right.

“This kind of behavior is equivalent to other players paying for some [luckier] players to play the game, so it’s understandable.”

Qing Zhiyuan concluded.

Only then did everyone suddenly realize:

Wow, that's it.

No wonder the president said we should look at it from a holistic perspective.

We actually have no losses.

Akanishi Ken finally breathed a sigh of relief at this point. Adding a currency binding system is much better than the entire digital waste, otherwise their work this year will be in vain!

What Shinji Mikami and the others were thinking was:

As expected of a president, he knows a lot.

Where did the president learn so many of his tricks?

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