Back To 1995

   Chapter 557 The wolf is here

When Sega was just announced to be acquired, there were still countless players all over the world mourning, wondering what this game brand that has been with them for more than ten years will become, whether the console department can still exist, and whether it can be purchased in the future. Sega host.

In the past, countless players ignored the Sega consoles, and they were picky. Compared with Sony and Nintendo consoles, they were a little reluctant at this time. This is basically human nature. When I lost it, I started to panic.

   But just as countless players are still talking about what will become of Sega after the acquisition, and whether the Sega host can still exist, a big melon suddenly burst out.

  Samer Sega officially announced that it will split the Sega host and hand it over to the Xue Leshan headquarters. In the future, both Samer Sega and America Sega can use the Sega brand, but the host business will be taken over by America Sega!

   As soon as the news came out, the outside world understood that Sega’s console business should be kept. If you don’t want to play consoles, you don’t need to spend so much effort.

But as soon as the news came out, players immediately questioned, especially the media and players from Nippon, who suspected that the Sega host had left Nippon. Without the blessing of craftsmanship, can Sega America still produce a qualified host? ?

To have such an idea, of course, is related to the status of Nippon Games and consoles in the global game industry. Now the game industry and comics industry are almost "daily streams". Nippon games, consoles, comics, animations, etc. All over the world, it is a big sale, even America is blowing up this stream, and the ratings of "Dragon Ball" in America are quite high.

America and even the world's arcade games are all exported by Nippon. The three major console brands are almost using America and North America as their backyards. Comics and animations are also selling well. No wonder Nippon can shout this. The slogan is gone, how can Sega live without Nippon? !

Not only Nippon, but countless overseas users also have this concern. Although it is not as arrogant as Nippon, the host brand will not be able to survive without Nippon, but they are also worried. Xue Leshan is good, maybe No one knows about the reincarnated Sega console that can't be played.

   At this time, Peter Moore, the president of Sega America who took over the host business of Sega, came forward and announced several news to the outside world.

  The first, the Sega DC console, will adjust the price to the same price as the Sony PS2, that is, the price will be reduced!

Everyone understands that they will promote promotions when they come up. Second, Peter Moore once again declared that the games developed by the game studio under Xue Leshan in the future, whether it is "StarCraft", "Grand Theft Auto", "Quake 2" ", "Half-Life", etc., will become exclusive games for Sega consoles, that is, on the console platform, Snow Leshan will only be released on the Sega console, and it may be earlier than the PC platform!

Exclusive games have always been the biggest disadvantage of Sega consoles. There are too few games that can be played, and the types of games are too backward. Even if the performance of the machine is good and no games are played, it is not a scratch on the wall, it is useless. what.

Now Sega consoles seem to be making up for this shortcoming. Looking at the series of cooperative game manufacturers released by Sega consoles, Sega Games, Blizzard, Rockstar, Valve, Id Games, and EA also appeared on this list. !

   What excites Sega console players the most is Peter Moore's announcement that Sega will be "connected" and introduce the Snow Mountain online game platform into Sega. In the future, Sega consoles will no longer be just stand-alone games.

   Introduced the Xue Leshan online platform, which means that Sega users can use the Battle.net platform, even if players are half a world away, they can play games together!

   On the Xue Leshan online platform, thousands of games may also be open to Sega console users, so there is no need to live with those dozen or so old games every day.

   As soon as these news came out, it was a shock to most Sega console players, regardless of whether they could do it well, at least compared to the half-dead Sega in the past few years, the current Sega console obviously really wants to change.

  Most players were attracted by the news released by Peter Moore, and the media and the game industry paid more attention to the news released by Peter Moore later.

   The production base of Sega consoles will be moved from Japan and handed over to Alcatel Mobile to take over the production of Sega consoles. In fact, it is from Japan to Yanjing!

This relocation can greatly reduce the cost of Sega's mainframes. The mainframe parts, assembly, etc., all use Alcatel's mobile phone industry chain, which can reduce the cost of Sega's mainframes to an astonishing level. Even if there is a price war, Sega Don't be afraid, Nintendo and Sony dare to fight a price war, and the Sega host can make them cry!

  The last two news released by Peter Moore did not make much fanfare, but for the entire game industry, it was like a thunderbolt.

   The Sega console may start the development of a new generation of consoles before the end of the year. This vague statement immediately caused Nintendo and Sony to be nervous.

Before Sega, it has always been the leader of game consoles. In terms of technology, it has always surpassed Nintendo and Sony. When it came to developing DC consoles, it exhausted all of Sega's energy and expenses, but the sales were not very good. Sega has also begun to shy away from the new generation of consoles.

   Now that there is a big sponsor, the Sega console seems to be restless again.

If there are still some smoke bombs in this news, then the next news, when America's Sega host announced that it had reached a cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Microsoft also issued an announcement to invest 500 million US dollars in the Sega host and get 50% of the Sega host. When it comes to equity, the entire game industry and even the technology industry are a little stunned!

Microsoft wants to enter the hardware industry, especially the game industry, it has long been known by Sima Zhao, but it has always hit a wall and has no chance. , To say that there is no transaction in the middle, it is estimated that no one will believe it.

Compared with the previous news, the last one has a significantly greater impact on the outside world. What exactly is the agreement between Microsoft and Xue Leshan? People dare to be sure.

  With the entry of Microsoft, and thinking of what Peter Moore said, it seems that Sega needs to develop a new generation of consoles. It seems that it can be explained. With such a big sponsor, it seems that Sega does not develop new consoles.

   It's hard to say what will happen to the Sega console in the future, but one thing is that there are two major shareholders, Xue Leshan and Microsoft. It is certain that it may become the most rich company in the console industry, no one!

   It seems that the smoke bombs are not attractive enough. Satomi, Oguchi Hisao and others who returned to Nippon Benzene once again announced that they would acquire SNK company for Saga!

The purchase price this time is not expensive. The purchase price of SNK is only less than 5 billion yen. It took away 51% of SNK's equity, but correspondingly, it also took on it, which will crush SNK game manufacturers. 30 billion yen of foreign debt.

After  ‒Samer Sega acquired SNK, it immediately let SNK continue to develop a new generation of "King of Fighters" of arcade games, attracting arcade game fans around the world to revel.

However, Samsega also knows that arcades are indeed gone, except for letting SNK develop a new generation of arcade games such as "The King of Fighters", "Samurai Soul", and "Legend of Hungry Wolf", which will continue to be used in their own arcade game halls. , Sammy Sega still let SNK start to transform and develop PC and handheld games, and let SNK's main game R&D personnel, headed by the team headed by the father of fighting games, Nishiyama Takashi, to develop new games, arcade games really can't be counted on...

Just when the attention of the outside world was all on Sega, Satomiji returned to Nippon and started the action. First, at a high price of 740 million US dollars, he acquired Dynam, the third largest pachinko arcade operator in Nippon, and got the The latter's controlling stake has also acquired Dynam's 974 stores.

   Before the entire Japanese marble shop had yet reacted, Samex Sega once again announced that it had reached the latter with the emerging marble shop operator Park, investing 200 million US dollars in Park and getting 489 Park stores.

Just by acquiring Dynam and Park, Samex Sega has acquired nearly 1,500 billiards shops, plus Sega's original more than 500 arcade game halls, Samexega has almost transformed itself into a Japanese Benz The second largest billiards operator.

   These acquisition funds were all mortgaged by Sega and Sega. They first mortgaged Sega to the Bank of America, and then borrowed the money to acquire Dynam, and then took out Dynam's store as a mortgage.

This way of playing is obviously playing with fire. If you are not careful, you will burn yourself to death, but there is no way for Sega to do it. Without this method, you can't buy so many billiards shops. Bank of America, for Sa Mercer also turned a blind eye.

After the acquisition of Dynam, Park, and Sega, Sega did not stop, but continued to acquire stores in the marble house. They were almost not picky eaters, whether it was a chain brand of marble houses with hundreds of stores, or a small workshop with only a few dozen. , Sammy and Sega are not spared, especially the billiards in Tokyo, Osaka and other places, and they come to talk one by one!

There is a feeling of "wolf is coming" in the entire Japanese marble shop, but the current situation of Japanese marble has made many marble shops unable to resist the acquisition of Samexega. If they do not sell the store to Samexega, they may Gotta go bankrupt.

  ICNC TV headquarters, the current ICNC TV headquarters, has moved out of the NBC headquarters. Although it has not built its own headquarters building, it has also moved to a new office building.

   In the prime time of the evening, America just finished broadcasting. This year, the ratings have soared since the beginning of the broadcast, and now after the TV series "The Sopranos", which is the champion of America's ratings.

   Amid the sound of music, a familiar backdrop appeared, Ellen DeNigelles standing on the screen of ICNC TV.

"He may not be the most famous person in the world, but his name is well known in the game industry. He manages the best game company in the world. Forget about eating and sleeping for a game, sleepless all night to clear customs...

   Let's welcome, the true guru of the gaming industry, Ken Williams! "

   (end of this chapter)