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

Chapter 228 I want a woman

There is no doubt that this year is a big year for gaming, but this June is also a small month for gaming.

The flagship works of top manufacturers such as SATE, Juyin and NICO were released together with the new generation of handheld consoles two months ago.

Of course, the masterpieces released this year are not only handheld games, there are also masterpieces on the PC. But generally speaking, unless the Hawaii Game Alliance wants to compete with NICO for the market, in order to avoid mutual influence, top masterpieces will not be released together. , and this is when low-cost works find every opportunity to exploit.

There are not many games worth paying attention to in June this year, and Tetsu Fuyukawa’s Stardew Valley is one of them. But to be honest, the industry, especially big companies like NICO, SATE and Juyin, don’t pay much attention to this game. .

The market for farming games is very broad, but Stardew Valley is too small after all. Even after Fuyukawa Che piled up the materials, the size did not exceed one G. In fact, even if the sales of Stardew Valley catch up with Dave the Diver, it will only be 5 million sales.

This sales volume is at most the icing on the cake for the WS handheld console that has entered a stable operation stage. After all, there are too many alternatives to farming games. Unlike Fate, which has strong dominance on a single track, Galgame players can only buy WS handheld consoles. And this is one of the biggest reasons why Juyin and SATE chose to attack Fuyukawa Che at this time, but...
With the release of Stardew Valley, everyone’s jaws dropped!

Sales exceeded 90 million units in half an hour. Although % of them were pre-sales, the real-time sales in half an hour were close to units, which still shocked everyone!

Five hundred thousand sets!
SATE's old farming game Aquarium Star, the highest-selling generation only has sales of more than 3 million. The total sales of the five generations of the series are only more than 7 million. Stardew Valley was released for half an hour, including pre-sales. Sales have reached half of the entire "Aquarium Star" series!

The sales volume is extremely terrifying, and in addition to the sales volume, the game's reputation is also extremely good!
Fuyukawa Che has put a lot of effort into the marketing of Stardew Valley, not to mention the most basic advertising and video website purchases, as well as various cross-border linkages and various profit-sharing draws. But generally speaking, such high-profile announcements are double-edged swords.

One of SATE's current main strategic goals is to gain a dominant position in the Hawaii Gaming Alliance and thereby dominate the handheld field. But whether it can achieve a dominant position cannot be achieved by appointing ministers within SATE. SATE needs to gain enough supporters within the alliance, and the current Fuyukawa Cheru is undoubtedly the most critical help.

It is true that too high popularity will attract the attention of a large number of players, but at the same time, because of too high popularity, players' expectations for the game will also be infinitely raised. At this time, any small problems will be magnified by players, who feel that "Germany is not suitable". However, since the release of Stardew Valley, the praise rate is close to 99%.

Faced with this old woman who has no grievances against him and can still take advantage of him. Although he sat here for more than half an hour, he did not lose his temper. Instead, he stood up and bowed slightly in return, "Commissioner Maeda, you are too polite. Minister Hirano is busy with official work and it is reasonable that he has no time to deal with the Hawaii Game Alliance. I can totally understand it.”

This man is dangerous.

After seeing the old man's appearance clearly, Fuyukawa Che raised his eyebrows slightly. Special Agent Kuriyama was the person who called and arranged to meet today. Of course he, Fuyukawa Che, remembered his appearance, but the middle-aged man next to him
"Is he that Ping Ye? He actually dares to drink. He is very brave."

A five million-selling work with a unit price of 14 US dollars can catch their attention, but it is not enough for them to take a high look at Fuyukawa Cheru, but if the sales volume exceeds million, that is a completely different concept!
This sales volume has already entered the top 30 sales in history. This is a landmark work. There is no doubt that after the release of Stardew Valley, Cheru Fuyukawa's status in the Hawaii Game League will be wildly elevated, and this will directly affect the overall pattern of the Hawaii Game League!

Needless to say, the sales of Stardew Valley were indeed astonishing, and almost all SATE employees who saw him along the way felt as if they had seen a ghost. However, when he came to the door of the conference hall - "Mr. Fuyukawa, please wait a moment!".

"Specialist Kuriyama?"

It was obvious that Fuyukawa Che could judge her position just from a face-to-face meeting and two or three sentences of information. She also judged what kind of man Fuyukawa Che was.

[Stardew Valley sales may eventually break the 25 million mark].

When Juyin's statistics department announced this news in the industry, practitioners in the entire gaming industry were shocked, especially the management of SATE.

At least it should be different from that of Pingye.

Maeda Xiaoran made this judgment, but if the position she is sitting in now is the position of SATE chairman, then she will be more wary at this time, but now she represents the interests of her own faction.

Manager Maeda warmly greeted Che Fuyukawa to the conference room. However, her old eyes were full of admiration and wariness, and she murmured in her heart: No wonder the chairman and Juyin wanted to beat him up so early. This man, indeed He is a very terrifying opponent.

The second type is a reckless man who has a temper but lacks the ability to judge the situation and solve the problem. He only loses his temper.

"We must seize this opportunity!"

"It's great that Mr. Fuyukawa understands. Please, I will entertain Mr. Fuyukawa from now on. Nohara, please go get the Dahongpao I bought from China."

This is the reality in the business world. Half an hour ago, when Fuyukawa Che came to SATE, no one came downstairs to greet him. But when the clock on the wall reached 6:45, Fuyukawa Che drank the entire cup of oolong tea. At the end, the end of the corridor where people were coming and going suddenly became noisy.

Manager Maeda was thinking naggingly, but next to her, Cheru Fuyukawa didn't think too much and just followed him towards the conference room.

She doesn't even need to push her staff to the position of director of the marketing department. Even if he is a deputy director, as long as he can have a good relationship with Fuyukawa Cheru, then this person will have a greater say in the Hawaii Alliance than the director, that is, Earn better performance and give their faction a greater voice within the company!

Dongchuan Che kept thinking in his mind. SATE did not do a good job in today's matter, but in this case, the subordinate who made the mistake usually comes out to admit his mistake and apologize, and then the boss smooths things over. The worst thing is that the two of them appeared together. How could it be that the boss came out to apologize alone, and when he apologized, he specifically pointed out that Minister Hirano was drinking outside right now.
This is not the way to speak for your subordinates.

"Good evening, Mr. Maeda!"

Although this General Manager Maeda is just a General Manager, what is the concept of a General Manager of a top-tier manufacturer like SATE. To put it bluntly, if the president of a small or medium-sized game company comes to SATE, the most he can do is meet with the deputy director. If he wants to meet with the director, he has to make an appointment long in advance.

A very sincere seventy-degree bow, the old voice echoed throughout the corridor. After hearing her words, all the employees in the corridor couldn't help but widen their eyes with disbelief.

"Thank you for your hard work, Manager Maeda!"

In her opinion, although these three types of men are better than each other, they are only generals at best.

The rapid footsteps of leather shoes on the floor tiles sounded, and the crowd in the corridor bowed and saluted. Soon, under Dongchuan Che's gaze, an old and thin old woman walked up to him in small steps.

One is a coward who doesn't even have a temper and accomplishes nothing.

So, is this guy from Sato's group?

Only men who have the vision and ability to see through the essence of the problem, and at the same time control their emotions, and think step by step through calm thinking to achieve their goals, are the heroes who truly have a chance to stand on the top of the mountain.

Sales and reputation have exploded, and the sales growth rate is still rising. There is no doubt that the game quality of Stardew Valley has caught up with this huge wave of traffic!

From her decades of experience in the ups and downs of the business world, men in this world can be roughly divided into four types.

Shocked, the employees all looked at Fuyukawa Che in shock, but Fuyukawa Che just looked at the old woman in front of him calmly, with some amusement in his eyes.

Following the sound, under the gaze of Fuyukawa Che, a group of men in black suddenly walked out of the corner of the corridor. The leader was a wizened old man who was in his sixties or almost seventy years old, and beside him, there was also a man. A short middle-aged man.

Originally, Manager Maeda was unable to compete with the chairman, and it was impossible for her to be promoted to the position of head of the marketing department in the internal selection. But now that Hirano himself has caused trouble and angered Fuyukawa Che, things are different. .

"Private Marseille. My dear, Maeda Xiaoran, Mr. Fuyukawa, I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. This is our dereliction of duty at SATE. Please rest assured that I will definitely teach that guy Hirano a lesson later. He even made an appointment with Mr. Fuyukawa and ran away. Go out and drink.”

this point is very important.

Point out Hirano's name directly.
The old fox of a big company really has a different sense of smell.

The third type is mediocre people who can judge the situation but cannot control their emotions.

As soon as he thought about this, Dongchuan Che knew what was going on.

To put it simply, when SATE is considering candidates for the marketing department director, it must not only consider internal factional issues, but also consider the relationship between the person in charge and Fuyukawa Cheru. Otherwise, even if he takes the position, the work will not be carried out.

It was obvious that Deputy Minister Hirano had indeed drank a lot. Even though he could tell from the water stains on the ends of his hair that he had specially washed his face, the moist feeling in his eyes after drinking could not be concealed.

Should I say it or not, if he had seen these two people a few days ago, he, Fuyukawa Cheru, would definitely have taken the initiative to greet them, not because of Minister Hirano, but because of Special Agent Kuriyama.

This Special Agent Kuriyama is the [Founding Father] of SATE. He was once a famous super game producer in the gaming industry. He holds a high position in SATE. He is the kind of person who [in short, the entire Japanese game industry] would tremble. a legendary person. And as a young man, he, Fuyukawa Che, felt that it didn't matter if he met an older man and gave him some face and courtesy.

In terms of emotion, reason and reality, there is nothing wrong with bowing and greeting, but the situation is different now.

Although the entire staff on both sides of the corridor had already bowed, and even Manager Maeda next to him also bowed, but when he saw Manager Kuriyama walking towards him, Cheru Fuyukawa just looked at him indifferently, his spine not straight. But there is no bend, just a normal suit posture.

"This guy is so hard!"

"This little guy is indeed a tough guy."

Standing in an ordinary posture, Mr. Maeda next to him was secretly speechless. On the other side of the corridor, looking at Fuyukawa Che's still indifferent expression, Special Agent Kuriyama's eyes darkened slightly, his eyes serious and heavy but with a little appreciation.

He was the one who called and asked Fuyukawa Che to come over today, but he was also the one who suggested curbing the development of Holy Light Society at the SATE high-level meeting some time ago!
There was no other reason, because he saw some familiar shadows in Fuyukawa Che, or in other words, a kind of ambition.

Ambition is easier said than done.

[It should be noted that when I was young, my ambition was high and I was promised to be the best in the world].

Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of men had ambitions when they were young. This ambition may not necessarily be a career, but it may also be unrepentant love. But after a few years of working, they gradually walked among the crowd and then disappeared.

The city is like a big grinding mill, and the first thing to be rubbed away is the youthful spirit.

The same is true in the workplace. Although today's game industry is thriving, it has also passed the stage of barbaric growth. Although there will be various excellent game companies emerging at this stage, the overall pattern has been clearly divided.

The current structure of the game industry is that everyone can make money by playing games, but except for SATE, Juyin, NICO and a few other top companies, they can no longer form a cross-field business empire.

To describe it simply, this is a "soft monopoly".

There is no clear statement that development cannot be achieved, but whoever dares to take this risk will be beaten.

The environment can change a person's thinking. Young people in this era believe that "people must learn to adapt to the environment" and "people must learn to turn around". Coupled with the rapid expansion of the game industry, many manufacturers can survive without struggling to expand. Very good, so after the vast majority of rising stars come into contact with this level, they either settle down or allow big companies to take shares very early. In short, they just don’t want to offend Tianwei.

But he saw from Fuyukawa Che the style that might be called "old school", or might be called "hardcore".

From the first time Holy Light Society held a new game press conference, from the first time Kuriyama saw Fuyukawa Che introducing "Elden Ring" on a live broadcast, from the first time he saw this man's deep but hot eyes , he knew that Che Fuyukawa was completely different from all the other rising stars of this era.

It must be suppressed, but fate is unpredictable.

The Hawaii Gaming Alliance brought together by Juyin also gave Fuyukawa Cheru some room to breathe and develop.

Now the best opportunity to suppress Fuyukawa Che has been missed. Now as long as he touches Fuyukawa Che, Fuyukawa Che will immediately bounce to the Juyin camp. As a thousand-year-old fox, Kuriyama quickly changed his mind.

Since Fuyukawa Che cannot be solved at the moment, we can only find a way to maximize SATE's interests and let their faction reap the maximum benefits. After all, Fuyukawa Che can only be regarded as a wolf cub at best, and the competition between Juyin and other factions is a tiger blocking the road now, but he never expected that all his plans would be ruined by Deputy Minister Hirano.

When he thought of this, Special Agent Kuriyama glanced sideways at Deputy Minister Hirano next to him, his eyes cold and gloomy, but soon, as he came to Fuyukawa Che, his face returned to the look of that kind old grandfather.

He didn't care at all that Fuyukawa Che didn't take the initiative to greet him. Under the confused gazes of the surrounding employees, he bowed slightly to Fuyukawa Che and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Fuyukawa, I have wronged you this time."

One stone caused a thousand waves!

The employees next to him were frightened by Special Agent Kuriyama's proactive overture. However, there was no trace of joy or pride in Fuyukawa Che's eyes. Instead, he frowned slightly for the first time.

This old fox, come up and hit me seven inches!
Although many people ridicule Japanese traditional culture as "lower than upper", in fact, Japan, at least the Japanese workplace, attaches great importance to seniority and inferiority.

Looking for a mistress, going to Kabukicho to drink flower wine and so on can only be regarded as tidbits at best, and people will laugh and ridicule "This guy is really playful". But if a junior is inexplicably rude to a senior, this could really arouse public outrage and lead to a breakdown in reputation.

With his mouth gagged, Cheru Fuyukawa glanced at Minister Hirano who had a timid expression, but also had a playful mood of "hit me". He still bowed slightly, "If you are specializing in Kuriyama, it is Fuyukawa's honor to meet you."

It’s a very ordinary line of dialogue, but Minister Hirano is not mentioned in the entire article.

Looking at Fuyukawa Che's eyes that were still calm, Special Agent Kuriyama knew what he was thinking. He still kept a smile and raised his hand slightly: "Haha, you should feel sober when you can see a young talent like Mr. Fuyukawa at this age. It's Kuriyama. Come on, this is not the place to talk. Let's go into the conference room and talk in detail. Oh, by the way, Maeda, I think I still have some good tea in my office. Can you help me get it?"

As soon as these words came out, Mr. Maeda's face instantly turned ugly!
There are so many employees, and there is an outsider like Fuyukawa Che, but she is treated like an errand girl!

It's insulting but
Special Agent Kuriyama was a real powerful boss. She did not dare to defy him head-on, so she could only leave in dejection and run to get tea. As for Fuyukawa Che, who was watching this scene, his expression did not change at all.

It is true that Executive Director Kuriyama is a powerful person, but Ms. Maeda is also the Executive Director. In this case, if Maeda loses face, Kuriyama just wants to flex his muscles in front of him. As for the effect, to be honest, Fuyukawa Cheru did pay more attention to Special Agent Kuriyama, but the one who was most affected was Minister Hirano next to him.

Feeling the fearful eyes of the attentive employees, and seeing that Fuyukawa Che didn't say anything, his timid mood turned into pride, and he even looked at Fuyukawa Che with a little disdain in his eyes. but.
As Fuyukawa Che walked into the conference room door behind Special Agent Kuriyama, the next second.

"Kneel down."

The tone was not serious and the voice was not loud, but as the old man's voice rang in the conference room, the next moment, two men in black directly pushed Deputy Minister Hirano to the ground!

Sitting under the soil seat, Fuyukawa Che could even hear the sound of his forehead hitting the tiles. At this moment, Special Agent Kuriyama also sat at the head of the conference hall, looking at Fuyukawa Che with his eyes, "Mr. Fuyukawa, have you calmed down now?"

At this time, Special Agent Kuriyama no longer had the kind aura before, but instead exuded a cold and powerful aura.

But in his unexpected look, Fuyukawa Che was not frightened by the sudden change in front of him. Instead, he sat down opposite him, then pulled the ashtray and lit a cigarette, "It's okay. Forget it. , let him go, I don’t want to waste my breath on these little things tonight.”

The voice echoed in the conference hall. Now not only Special Agent Kuriyama, but also the men in black who followed behind looked at Fuyukawa Che in surprise. In their opinion, Fuyukawa Che was only in his mid-twenties. Not only would he be frightened, but he would at least be nervous when seeing such a scene. How could he be so comfortable?

Especially Minister Hirano. He was so frightened that he almost peed when he was pushed to the ground. But after hearing Fuyukawa Che's words, he raised his head with disbelief and looked at the handsome man smoking a cigarette at the table.

From beginning to end, he didn't say a word to Fuyukawa Che.

Just now, he thought that Fuyukawa Che didn't want to offend SATE, so he didn't dare to speak ill of himself in front of Special Agent Kuriyama even if he suffered a loss, but now he realized that Fuyukawa Che didn't want to offend him at all.

We are not on the same level, what can we say?

Angry, Deputy Minister Hirano's eyes were full of anger, but he was so frightened that he peed, his mouth was trembling and he did not dare to speak at all. Seeing his appearance, Special Agent Kuriyama also showed some unconcealable disgust in his eyes.

Strictly speaking, Vice Minister Hirano was not their direct descendant, mainly because Chief Inuzuka had just retired and the influence of the Marketing Department had not yet been completely purged.

Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes, and the same goes for top big companies.

At this time, if a hard-line minister is parachuted into the marketing department, it may lead to too strong a backlash, so they asked Deputy Minister Hirano to temporarily take over Sato Fujiko's position, and then make further adjustments when the situation stabilizes. It is a warm water. Boil the frog.

But even though he didn't have high expectations for Hirano, when he saw him like this, Special Agent Kuriyama still frowned and waved his hand: "Take him down. No one is allowed to come in before I give notice." "

"Yes."

Soon, as the door closed, the small conference room, which was not too big, fell completely silent.

Looking at Fuyukawa Che who was still there, Special Agent Kuriyama's cold and strong aura gradually disappeared. His eyes were full of admiration and regret, and he smiled and said: "Smoking alone is a bit too cunning."

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Never expecting such an opening statement, Fuyukawa Che choked in his lungs with a puff of cigarette. He gave the other party a strange look, then threw the cigarette away, "Is there a fire?"

"No."

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Snap, snap.

As the smoke floated up to the dome, looking at Fuyukawa Che who still didn't take the initiative to speak, Special Agent Kuriyama exhaled a puff of smoke that was both familiar and unfamiliar, pushed the lighter to Fuyukawa Che, and spoke proactively, "I haven't seen you so interesting in many years. You are a young person. It seems that you are the type who doesn’t like to be polite to the elderly, so let’s talk about what price we need to pay before you will support us SATE at the mid-year meeting.”

The Hawaii Gaming Alliance meets twice a year, once mid-year and once at the end of the year.

The main content of this meeting is, in addition to arranging the release time of games from game manufacturers in the alliance and avoiding conflicts, there is also a very critical point, which is to determine who will produce the physical cartridges.

Currently, Juyin holds 80% of the cassette production rights in Europe and the United States, and 10% in Japan. SATE holds 70% of the cassette production rights in Japan, and 10% of the cassette production rights in Europe and the United States.

From a quantitative point of view, Juyin has an absolute advantage, and that's not all. Offline physical stores in major European and American cities do not allow SATE cassettes to enter. This means that sometimes SATE can produce 10% of overseas cassettes, but there are no offline channels, so it is difficult to sell the goods.

Of course, there are no offline channels, and there are online channels, such as shopping platforms such as Amazon. However, these shopping platforms still ship goods from nearby merchants, and only when the nearby supply is sold out, goods will be transferred from remote areas. Therefore, SATE is in Europe and the United States. Cassettes sometimes even face slow-selling problems.

This point is very critical.

Because most manufacturers don't care who the boss of the Hawaii Game Alliance is, they care more about the slow-selling problem of their own game cartridges.

Europe and the United States are the world's largest game markets, so they will naturally favor Juyin, and Juyin will definitely use the votes of these manufacturers to further squeeze SATE's living space in the future until SATE is completely squeezed out, and this time SATE I approached him Fuyukawa Teru in the hope that he could vote for SATE at the mid-year meeting so that SATE could gain more market share in Europe and the United States.

Of course, the quality of tickets from different levels of manufacturers is different, and according to the momentum of Stardew Valley, the effect of the vote in the hands of Fuyukawa Che in the middle of the year will not be less than the votes in the hands of the three giants.

This vote in his hand is very important, Fuyukawa Che knows it well.

He flicked it on the ashtray, then rubbed his wrists with his hands, and said calmly: "What do I want? Well, first of all, I want a woman."

".woman?"

"kindness."

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(End of this chapter)