Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 204 The war is about to begin
Holy Light Society's first new game launch conference was very successful.

However, everyone knows in their hearts that all Fuyukawa Che's speeches are still in the conception stage. After all, the industry insiders present could probably estimate the amount of dividends Fuyukawa Che received from NTsoft last year, and this amount of money was far from being able to cover the US$100 million starting cost of Elden Ring.

What's more, these are just R&D costs.

Even if Toru Fuyukawa does not do the normal 3:1 promotion of AAA masterpieces, he will definitely have to spend 1 to million US dollars in promotion expenses. Added up, Fuyukawa Cheru needs to prepare million US dollars and billion yen. .

The cost can buy twenty red buildings!
"Everything still depends on the sales performance of FATE and Stardew Valley. Otherwise, what he just said will probably become the laughing stock of everyone."

"It's good for young people to be motivated, but he is too ambitious and too ambitious."

"Yes, yes, he is leaving no way out for himself. Hey, it's great to be young. I remember when I first entered the game industry, I also dreamed of making a cross-generational game, but Now I just want to make a living and not go bankrupt like SAGE.”

"Senior Xiaolin is too humble."

"Haha, the future belongs to you young people. Hey, this Dongchuan's speech rendering ability is so strong. I felt the passion of youth just listening to it. How about it, do you want to go have a drink?"

"Everything is subject to senior arrangements."

The three best friends have always believed in the principle of doing things according to their own abilities in the workplace.

Sayoko, Izumi Himawari, Tsukitake Asuka, Miyano Miwa, Ohara Chika, Koyama Futaba.

Of course, when Fuyukawa Che gave the money, he must get shares, but don't think that this is Fuyukawa Che taking advantage.

"There is no problem with the development tonight, but Qianhua is responsible for employee benefits. Ask her for details." Miyano Miwa said with a smile. As one of the company's "three giants", she naturally takes care of such a critical matter as employee welfare, but this area is strictly within the scope of the Finance Department Chika Ohara's responsibilities.

Fuyukawa Che now has the first two items, and the third item is not yet strong, but... this is only temporary.

"Stardew Valley has sold more than 30 million units in eight years, but the vast majority of sales are in the early stage. One or two million units sold in a year in the later period is considered too much. FATE does not have a global game platform like OTTO. In this case, it sold for 200,000 yuan, and the price was high. The Xuanfa was not as good as me, and the materials were not as good as mine."

Obviously, Fuyukawa Che didn't want to make such a stupid mistake, and he was definitely right to listen more to the demands of his employees.

Dongchuan Che drank water and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Chika Ohara also understood his thoughts. She glanced at Fuyukawa Che with appreciation and said, "No problem. Our overtime pay is much higher than other companies. Although the dividend is only the average level in the industry, your name is so famous that the team leaders didn't say much."

Chika Ohara also understood Miyano Miwa's little thoughts.

The original work of Old Touhou took four years to develop, but Fuyukawa Che wanted to compress this time to less than two years, or even about one year like Sekiro.

"That's good. You have to pay more attention to this aspect. I don't mind giving them more overtime pay, but I need to mobilize their enthusiasm."

You have to work hard starting tomorrow, and you have to eat and drink enough today.

Looking at the guests who were chattering away, Fuyukawa Che kept thinking in his mind. I am very confident in the improved FATE and Stardew Valley, but I can be optimistic and positive when doing things, but I must prepare for the worst when making decisions.

Ability, ambition, and capital: if grassroots want to succeed, these three are indispensable.

This is why games that take too long to develop and constantly change development teams and developers midway are generally crap.

As long as FATE and Stardew Valley are released, he can recruit new employees while maintaining cash flow. When the time comes to recruit a team of 100 people to develop small-scale [independent games], the efficiency will not take off immediately.

As for Holy Light Society, the current salary is high, and there will be opportunities to start a business on his own in the future. It can be said that Fuyukawa Cheru has maxed out the benefits. However, if you stand at a different angle, you will see different things.

Are they stupid?

All team leaders who have worked on more than two works under him and have shown their talents can go out alone to set up their own studios, and these team leaders can also get a lot of investment funds from him.

The soldiers and horses move forward before the food and grass are moved.

Raising investment is a very, very, very difficult thing. Larian, the production team of Baldur's Gate 3, had no money to develop the game because it couldn't get investment, even begging grandpa and grandma to do so. It was disbanded twice and reorganized twice. It can be said that it was a very miserable life. .

The new game launch conference is done, and the company’s internal issues are all discussed. Obviously, the women in the cubicle knew that the real sailing stage was coming. Not to mention women like Izumi Mukahi and Sayoko who were not very good at hiding their thoughts, even Fuyukawa Teru couldn't help but get excited.

To be honest, the 0.3% dividend given to the team leaders is actually not low. Not only because he knows that the sales volume of the old ring is high, but also because these team leaders are not like the chief game producer when he was surrounded by beautiful women. He is not even a core producer, and there is a more special reward mechanism within the company.

It’s like some professors and experts would suggest that young people rent out their vacant houses or drive private cars to solicit customers, thinking that this can solve the employment problem of [low-income people].

Now that a new game is suddenly developed, people from the production team of Laotou Huan must be recruited. Although it often happens in the game industry that employees from project A are suddenly transferred to project B to help out, and then returned to project A, it will definitely take more time to reintegrate into the production team of Laotouhuan, and it may even Produces some tearing sensation.

"How did the team leaders react?"

But there's no rush.

To be honest, with twice or more manpower and material resources than FS, and without taking any detours, this idea is not impossible to realize, but it requires the concerted efforts of the entire company and a high degree of concentration.

Without much beeping, Fuyukawa Che glanced at his watch and waved his hand, leading a room full of beautiful girls, plus Koyama Futaba who had just ran into the cubicle and was still making money through live streaming, towards the barbecue restaurant.

Thinking of this, Fuyukawa Teru, whose throat was filled with smoke after talking for most of the day, walked into the backstage, took the mineral water from the hands of the excited Sayoko, turned to look at Miyano Miwa, "The development of the old bracelet can start tomorrow. . You have emphasized employee benefits.”

"If we follow the normal results, the sales volume of these two games will be enough to support the entire research and development of Lao Tou Huan, and there will also be dividends from NTsoft. However, we must prepare for the worst in everything."

From a gentle lady to a young female college student, from a cool mixed-race beauty to a cool and glamorous strong woman, from an elegant bespectacled girl to an F+ size lolita.

He, Cheru Fuyukawa, is also a human being, and it is impossible for one person to lead several studios at the same time, but he also does not want to be like NTsoft, which established too many studios internally, and ended up being too big and causing internal struggles.

She threw the lunch box she had just finished into the trash can, then pushed up her elegant glasses, without wiping the oil stains on her mouth, and nodded calmly: "I have confirmed it three times. Overtime work is voluntary, and overtime pay is 1.5 times. , 3 times on holidays, calculated on an hourly basis. In addition, the game sales bonus starts at 0.3 million, and for every million sales level, the team leader will increase his salary for three months, plus a maximum of % bonus for ordinary members. Two months’ salary.”

It was obvious that those who were willing to attend the press conference did not have much hostility toward Fuyukawa Che. Even if many people are not very optimistic about Haikou, which Fuyukawa Che praised, they are not overly yin and yang, but what they say is not unreasonable.

It may indeed be due to lack of intelligence, but it is mostly due to the fact that life is too rich, and I have been separated from the bottom for a long time, so isolated that I am not even willing to inquire more, and finally such a thing happened.

As the press conference ended, the guests chatted about everything that had just happened at the conference and left under the leadership of the staff.

After finishing these things today, it's already time to get off work.

Chika Ohara is not the type who has little ambition and wishes her colleagues would do more. If you rashly interfere in the field where Chika Ohara is responsible, or in other words, where Chika Ohara is in charge, even if you are your best friend for many years, you will easily get into trouble, so there is no need.

However, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time.

Needless to say, this super group of six women and one man is indeed very eye-catching.

Fuyukawa Che had just walked out of the company and walked into the lively streets of Akihabara at night. Before he could take a breath of fresh air, he felt a large number of stares from around him.

Fuyukawa Che had long been used to being watched by passers-by, but what made him a little pained was...
I really can’t sit down in the BMW X5 this time
"I should have chosen the 5+2 model."

Watching Chika Ohara taking Futaba Koyama to her Porsche, Cheru Fuyukawa scratched her head in pain. But before he could utter a word, a slender hand grabbed him around his waist.

"Uncle! You want to add more people?!" He twisted the flesh around Fuyukawa Che's waist with one hand, and Izumi Himawari put his hands on his hips and wrinkled his little nose in displeasure.

She looked very cute. In her surprised but unsurprised eyes, Fuyukawa Che pulled her into his arms and kissed her, then smiled and said: "Please. I don't know who has been complaining in the past two days [Oh, sit down" It’s uncomfortable on Sayoko’s lap] [Oops, Miyano’s big butt squeezes me again].”

"Humph, then that was a joke."

After being kissed deeply, Izumi Himawari blushed when she found some passers-by outside the parking lot peering in. At this moment, Sayoko walked up to him, straightened his collar, and said with a smile: "When the company stabilizes, Mr. Che should go change his car. As a president, momentum is very important."

This BMW X5 was bought with dividends last year after I was surrounded by beautiful women and became a firebrand. It only cost more than million yen.

This kind of car is a powerful tool for showing off in the hands of ordinary people, but for Fuyukawa Che's current level, it is still far behind. Although he himself doesn't care much about cars, it is still necessary to make other people, especially company employees, feel that they are rich and powerful.

What's more, it really can't accommodate more people.

"Land Rover seems to have seven seats? Forget it, I'll go to the 4S shop tomorrow."

He really didn't know much about cars, and buying a car only cost a small amount of money. Fuyukawa Che didn't think much, got in the car, and headed to a barbecue restaurant in Shinjuku with a car full of beautiful girls.

This barbecue restaurant is quite interesting. It not only offers barbecue, but also has karaoke in the private room.

To be honest, it is quite interesting to eat and sing with beautiful women, but when the box is full of beautiful women and you are the only man, the atmosphere becomes different, especially if you drink too much.

After finishing the barbecue and downing several cases of beer, the women in the box went crazy.

The drunk Miyano Miwa and Ohara Chika Nana hugged each other and sang old Japanese songs from the 1990s. Izumi Himawari, a pure female college student, drank beer and ate barbecue with Yue, who also drank a lot and her eyes were a little blurry. Zhu Feiniao chatted about music theory and occasionally complained about what he had learned in school.

In the corner of the sofa, the two-dimensional F+ little lolita Koyama Futaba, who was still wearing bunny pajamas, took out a laptop from somewhere and placed it there while drinking and playing with Sekiro. I was already drunk, and I was still mumbling: "This video of my mother, who has no injuries or bullets, and is a pure step to get through the BOSS, will definitely dazzle the traffic!" Then there will be money to spend, fufufu].

Only Sayoko was still lying in Fuyukawa Che's arms as usual, holding a rattle in her hand to provide music to the two girls. Occasionally, she would pick up some snacks and feed them to Fuyokawa Che's mouth, but her other delicate hand was loosened. The belt gradually goes down.

Slow play, not intense enough, but very useful.

Feeling the lively and harmonious atmosphere in the box, Fuyukawa Che smiled and kissed the top of Sayoko's head, took another sip of beer, then wrapped his left hand around Sayoko's white neck and covered the northern hemisphere.

Overflowing between his fingers, he picked up his phone with the other hand and flipped through the game news.

"Shanmu's new handheld GG (Good Game) series is about to come out. The Hawaii Game Alliance, led by Juyin and SATA and including many well-known game companies such as Yuzi Club, Shengguang Club, and AB Club, announced that all its games will withdraw from NICO WS handheld platform, the global handheld industry may usher in a new round of major changes! 》

"NICO's new era handheld console WS3 is about to be released. According to gossip, Nishimura Toru, general manager of NICO Group, said in a private communication with friends that "all game manufacturers who choose to leave the WS platform at this time will be permanently included in NICO's blacklist, and what awaits them will be divine punishment!"

"Top game producer Tetsu Fuyukawa's Galgame - FATE and pixel style farming game - Stardew Valley will be released soon. The game will be available on PC, GG, and SBOX platforms, and is exclusive to WS handheld consoles.

"Juyin's classic IP - Monster Hunter announced a one-month delay; Shanmu's classic IP - Legend of Mana announced a two-month delay. 》

"Tsk, tsk, it's really lively."

Playing with the soft flesh that overflowed between his fingers with his left hand, Fuyukawa Che put down his phone and took another sip of wine.

Some time has passed since the trip to Hawaii, and Shanmu's handheld console is about to be launched. There is no doubt that the release of Shanmu's new handheld console will inevitably touch NICO's negative side. After all, cutting off people's financial resources is like killing their parents.

However, this destruction of people and money is a two-way street.

The Hawaii Game Alliance wants to seize NICO's territory, and NICO can't stand it.

Similarly, in the environment where NICO has a high degree of monopoly on the handheld market, the Hawaii Game Alliance cannot survive.

Both sides have no way out, and neither side wants to retreat, so it can only be a tough battle.

However, this tough battle actually has little to do with him. After all, his games are not exclusive to handheld consoles. But after all, NICO has been the overlord that has dominated the handheld industry for many years. No matter whether it is Juyin, SATE or Shanmu, they actually have no absolute confidence in their own games.

Therefore, not only will they release the games of the three companies at staggered times, but they will also provide free publicity and support for high-quality games in the alliance. As the most popular game producer in the gaming industry in the past two years, Tetsu Fuyukawa will naturally benefit from it. This wave of dividends.

"A great opportunity of the times. Unfortunately, Shanmu's shares have been eroded by Juyin and SATE. Otherwise, Zelda could have been produced earlier."

A little regret flashed in Dongchuan Che's eyes.

For ordinary people, he is now a rich man worth more than one billion yen, but this money is not enough for him to do what he wants to do directly.

No other reason. Just look at how much pressure Juyin and SATE faced from NICO this time when they wanted to enter the handheld industry.

Now the entire gaming industry is in turmoil, and scandals about NICO, Juyin, SATE and Shanmu are flying all over the sky. Although they all have a tacit understanding and do not directly attack the specific person of the other party, there is overwhelming slander about the company, the game, and even the gaming community.

It is obvious that several parties have mobilized their power in the field of public opinion.

He simply cannot bear this huge pressure from public opinion now. It is even very likely that like Genshin Impact in the previous life, as soon as the platform appeared, it was directly labeled as "Darkness Comes" and labeled with various ugly labels in the field of public opinion.

But if it were not his own platform, he would not be able to produce many super popular games. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to making money for other people's game platforms and attracting popularity, which would make it more difficult for him to go out independently in the future.

"Phew - take your time. Release more popular low-cost games this year, and wait until the old ring is released, and you will have almost enough capital on hand."

"Che-Jun, are you a little unhappy?"

Dongchuan Che was still thinking in his mind, but at this moment, Xiao Dongchuan's strength suddenly increased.

Looking down, he saw a drunken Sayoko looking up at him worriedly.

The charming drunken beauty was very touching. Fuyukawa Che squeezed it hard with his left hand and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I thought of something about the layout behind it."

"Hmm. Sayoko doesn't understand these things, but..."

Saying that, Sayoko smiled foolishly, squeezed her hand again, and then glanced at the bathroom in the private room, "But Sayoko can help Mr. Che relieve some of the pressure."

Changes in techniques.

Fuyukawa Che took a breath, smiled and patted the northern hemisphere, "The water pump is out of lubrication again?"

"What are you talking about? Hey, do you want to call Miyano?"

"I'll feed her when I get home. She's singing vigorously now."

"Well, Sayoko is afraid of being alone and not being able to feed her brother."

"elbow!"

(End of this chapter)