Tokyo Gentleman Story

In February 1999, a lot of things happened during this half month. . .

First, Qianjia, Lihua, and Jiye-senpai and their exams, then the various things that happened to animic, and finally, Master Jinmin’s predecessor, preparing to start production.

And in fact, it's not just Moriha's side that is busy, Sega is also very busy.

By mid-February 1999, Sega dc finally barely exceeded 1 million sales.

But facing this fact, Sega's upper management was not happy.

——Since mid-January, Sega’s stock-out situation has been improved, but at that time, Sega and the others had not thought that things would turn out to be like this.

Obviously, dc seemed to be very popular immediately before, however, when time passed from the New Year, dc's reputation plummeted.

Obviously, the hunger and thirst sales before DC were overwhelming, but the result has aroused the disgust of the players.

"...Huh." After seeing the sales of dc, Dachuan Gong silently put down the pieces.

"It seems that the situation is unsightly. It was obviously still being sought after before, but now there is a backlog of inventory..."

Chiba Masao shook his head beside him.

This is a Japanese restaurant in Chiba's family, and the two of them are in this place.

"Because they found the means of hunger and thirst sales were too easy to use, they were careless from top to bottom." Da Chuan Gong shook his head.

Hunger and thirsty sales is a plan proposed by Senxia. This plan was originally intended to allow Sega to spare no effort to recover the previous shortage caused by decision-making issues.

However, after Sega temporarily alleviated the adverse effects caused by the shortage, they became lazy.

Because of the hunger and thirst sales strategy, the popularity of DC has always been maintained, so Sega did not consider speeding up to solve the production problem. On the contrary, at that time, they still wanted to play monkeys.

But the cruel facts have told Sega that in this world, not everyone can become the Monkey King Rebs. The Monkey King Rebs, the Rebs that created the future smart phone monkey-playing tradition, is not just one. People can imitate.

No, no, even if you are Sega, you can't.

Sega did not realize the gap between itself and Rebs, so after Sony and other manufacturers exploded the chrysanthemum from behind, Sega DC's reputation and sales began to fail.

But Masao Chiba noticed that Gong Dachuan's expression did not seem so bad.

"Up to now, I can still sell 1 million units, which is better than I expected." Dachuan Gong put the piece down.

"Huh?" Qianyu Masao was a little surprised. At this time, it was really surprising that Da Chuan Gong was able to say this.

"Sega's interior is too messy, although I tried my best, but now this is the best result."

Da Chuan Gong was also heartbroken about Sega's situation.

"Sega still needs you to take the helm yourself." Qian Yu Masao said.

However, Da Chuan Gong shook his head: "Nakayama Hayao is gone, and I am old now. I will continue to support Sega, but I cannot continue to control her."

After hearing Da Chuan Gong's words, Qian Yu Masao felt a little sad.

Da Chuan Gong is old, and now he is suffering from various diseases, and he rarely drinks alcohol. This is a rare opportunity today.

At this time, Da Chuan Gong really had no spare capacity to manage Sega.

Although Masao Chiba was recruited by Okawa Gong, Masao Chiba is an outsider after all. Although he became a shareholder of Sega, he was only able to think of a part of the decision-making process. You know, there are still some people in Sega who are eager to get dc this stuff quickly. Failure, early death and early birth.

"In a few months, DC will be listed in Beimi, and then it will be a more critical opportunity." Noting that Da Chuan Gong's expression was a little sad, Qian Ha Masao changed a question.

Upon hearing the news about North America, Da Chuan Gong's somewhat serious expression eased slightly.

Unlike Japan, the American people are already looking forward to DC.

Compared with Japan, the sales and reputation of Sega's game consoles in North America has always been better than that of Japan, so their basic disk can even be North America.

After the dc network system came out, it was well received, but the ps2 data announced at Christmas also used the Internet, which caused dc to suffer some blows.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, the quality of Internet games is still good. Sega tested the Internet with VR Warrior and the effect was also very good.

"In the past, we invested in an online game. This game is now called Hero Trail, and the effect is still very good."

The enthusiasm of the hero track continues to heat up, which is one reason why Sega is determined to engage in the Internet.

This game now has hundreds of thousands of registrations and tens of thousands of online users. As time goes by, the number of online users has not only not declined, on the contrary, it has been on the rise.

Because of the emergence of the hero trail, many game manufacturers have put their sights on the Internet, but they still have doubts-the game content of the hero trail is free, and the paid part has nothing to do with the gameplay itself. , The means of profit is a very troublesome place.

"The Internet is a piece of white ground, and what we need to do now is to quickly enclose the land." This is Chiba Masao's view of the Internet, "Mr. Okawa, you decided to add this feature to dc, which is really great."

But facing Qianba Masao, Okawa Gong just waved his hand: "This is actually not my idea."

"...Oh?" Chiba Masao was a little curious.

To be honest, adding the network module was something that DC had considered when designing, but they didn't even think of getting a network card or a fiber optic network at the time. The network system they considered at the time was still the classic "56k cat". Dial-up network.

But the facts have proved that after using the current network system, the network cooperates with the hard disk to add a lot of new gameplay to dc. At that time, it seemed to be a waste of cost. Now it seems that it has become a magical stroke. With emotion.

Qian Ha Masao originally thought that this was a peculiar idea that Da Chuan Gong thought of, but listening to Da Chuan Gong's words, it seems that this is not his idea?

"Get up, this thing is also very interesting. This seems to be something that happened last year or the year before. I happened to meet two young people at Waseda University. They were about Sega at the time, so I went over and listened. They thought."

"It turned out to be a student of Waseda University." Masao Chiba nodded.

However, Da Chuan Gong shook his head. Qian Ha Masao also noticed at this time that Da Chuan Gong's face was smiling: "No, those two people are actually high school students."

"...High school student?"

Qian Ha Masao was surprised after hearing Okawa Gong's explanation.

"Well, and I think you should know Zhengxiong." Dachuan Gong said with a smile.

Da Chuan Gong knows the other party, but the other party probably does not know Da Chuan Gong, and the other party seems to know each other with himself.

Chiba Masao's expression became strange: "Could it be a female?"

Da Chuan Gong nodded: "Yes, Qianjia and that-- yes, the guy named Tianhai Senxia."

"That son..." Qianyu Masao even touched his chin when he arrived at Tianhai Senxia.

"Yes, it was their idea at the time, which inspired me." Dachuan Gong explained.

"So that's the case." Qian Ha Masao nodded, then picked up the flask on the table and poured a glass of sake for himself and Da Chuan Gong.

"But I really didn't expect that these two high school students are so amazing now."

"Guilty Crown" is not the first game of the recent fire. The "Plants vs. Zombies" launched by their animic club was sold on the ps platform. It is also very remarkable. Sony even came to them for this.

"... But that, I seem to be more optimistic about Sony..."

Chiba Masao frowned when he thought of the start of the animic club.

Although animic seems to be a third party to their dc right now, his daughter will go to Sony from time to time to find out about the progress of ps2, and Chiba Masao also knows.

The reason why their works appear on dc is because some of their works can only be fully reflected on dc, and on the other hand, it is also because dc is their only choice at this moment.

It can be seen that if ps2 comes out at this time, they will definitely develop some games for ps2 without any discipline.

The Ping*Zhan game is indeed very good, but don’t you see, among the game manufacturers, the most moisturizing company is not the unethical companies like Kashou and Anrong?

"If I abandon my position, I am actually more optimistic about Sony." Because it's a private place, Dachuan doesn't pay attention to it when he speaks. He sighed, "I can't help Sega too much now, although DC is me. I’ve worked hard, but what I can do is limited. But Sony has a dedicated home game console department, and it won’t be as serious as our Sega."

Sony's volume is larger than Sega. Their products range from TVs and home appliances to electronics. They have a very rich product line. Although there will be frictions between their departments, they are better than Sega's. The edge is much more mature.

"Yes, get up, the arcade department seems to be very hostile to the Internet system here in dc."

Chiba Masao thought of some news from Sega before.

Although the Internet is very interesting, after the emergence of the vr fighter online mode, the arcade side began to strongly oppose the development of games with network functions, especially those arcade transplant games.

In the arcade, the confrontation between people is basically a part of the game, but at this time, everyone can fight and entertain with other people without leaving home. This feeling makes the arcade department feel a sense of crisis.

"The times are always evolving. Although I am old, I know that technology is changing with each passing day. With outdated concepts, it will finally usher in, and it can only be the final demise." In Da Chuan Gong's words, Full of elders’ understanding and sighs about this world.

Chiba Masao drank the sake in the glass, and then poured himself another glass.

"Now there is a feeling of accumulation." Masao Chiba did not expect Sega's future.

From the board of directors to the management, the entire Sega has problems, and it is useless to rely on Tang Chuan's executive to sell cute.

This is a problem at the structural level of the entire company.

Now Sega and the others can only look forward to a turnaround in North America and save Sega.

But to be honest, Chiba Masao is not optimistic about this.

If dc can be listed lively in North America, at best it will only continue to live.

"But we are not without chance." At this moment, Chiba Masao suddenly thought of a game they were developing that had invested a lot of money.

The hardware cannot determine the game market, but the game itself can.

Just as Pokemon rescued the gb handheld that was about to retire from the stage of history, and Final Fantasy helped PS top the throne of home consoles, the hardware is always inferior to the software.

"Ah, that game~www.readwn.com~ Okawa Ko also nodded, "Suzuki Yu I am still very optimistic. "

"Hey," Masao Chiba nodded, "As long as the game can come out, we can use the quality of the game to revitalize the entire market, make huge profits, and re-suppress the internal voices. At that time, we will take the opportunity to twist the company into a rope. , That's enough."

As long as the work is good, they can take advantage of this opportunity to sort out Sega's internals again. In this case, the situation will be much better.

Whether it is Okawa Ko or Chiba Masao, they value Suzuki Yu very much.

Prior to this, Suzuki Yu developed the VR warrior game. After that, he produced the most profitable game in Sega's history, "vr Warrior 2", helping Sega stabilize their somewhat distracted hearts.

Last year, the vr warrior series, as a treasure of game art, was permanently collected by the Washington Museum in the United States. This kind of glory was brought by Yu Suzuki.

If Sega at this time has any killer features, there is no doubt that this is Suzuki Yu.

"In order to allow Suzuki-san to develop software better, I am going to transfer him to the head of the second software research and development department." Okawa Kodo, "Shoichiro Izuo also agreed."

Although Chiba Masao felt that it was a bit unreliable to join Shoichiro, but Suzuki was still worthy of trust. For this decision, Chiba Masao believed that it was correct.

"Well, Suzuki-san will be able to develop a new game comparable to VR fighters, cheers."

"Yeah, it's up to him, cheers."

Chiba Masao and Okawa Gong smiled softly, then raised their glasses.

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Kashou is Kapukong, dark glory is glory.

Two chapters in one. (To be continued.) l3l4

(Sikushu)