Tokyo Gentleman Story

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Shoichiro Nikoku has a headache recently.

Sega’s recent sales are really unexpected.

1 million units sold.

Originally, Sega expected that by mid-January, it would probably be able to sell so many dcs, but the actual situation was very bad. It was not until mid-February that they reached this level. It was too late for their prediction. One month's time. This is not a good thing.

Especially Sony has been aggressive recently.

After saying that ps2 was going to be released, Sony began to show its hideous minions.

They began to contact third parties on a large scale. Sega DC has not yet started to make efforts, Sony has started to fight for those third-party games.

The situation in North America is fine, but in Japan, the situation in Sega DC is terrible.

Why did it become like this?

Sega dc provides hard disk and network interface, which can enrich game content, and the friendliness of development also allows third parties to develop games more easily. The two advantages combined together could have brought Sega a greater advantage, but why did it become like this?

Shoichiro Nikoto was a little upset about the hunger and thirst for sales before.

Because the sales strategy of hunger and thirst is so easy to use, the dc has been on fire at that time, and this craze lasted until Christmas.

However, the problem appeared at Christmas.

Shoichiro had never expected that things would show up in such a state of development. The word-of-mouth took a turn for the worse, and friends and merchants fell into trouble...

Things started to get bad.

DC began to be condemned by the players, and the monkey-playing strategy had no effect.

"It's not me who is wrong! It is not me who made this request... By the way, it is Chiba Masao! It is his strategy!"

At this time, Shoichiro joined the hand and thought of the strategy and started to shake the pot.

But he thought about it, and found that something was wrong. Chiba Masao is a director. If he wants to throw the pot, he throws the pot for himself!

Realizing that there was no way to get rid of this pot, Iritsu Shoichiro said that he was Alexander.

Shaking the pot is a Japanese tradition. There will always be people who want to dump the pot to their subordinates, and then the subordinates will quit with tears.

But Shoichiro Ikyo found that he seemed to be carrying a big pot now, and it was still stuck with 502 glue.

But if you really want to talk about it, it seems that this pot should have been taken by Koshoichiro to memorize it...

Things have already happened, so how to deal with the aftermath, in fact, is the key to the problem, but the Japanese think about the loop, basically only at the stage of how to throw the pot, as for the aftermath... Haha.

As long as it succeeds in the end, it doesn't really matter what the process is like.

"Ah, yes, Suzuki-san!"

And Yu Suzuki.

Well, yes, Suzuki is the crux of the problem.

Suzuki Yu's former vr warrior once brought Sega to glory, and now the opponent is preparing to make a masterpiece.

As long as there is a hit masterpiece, and then the entire market is crushed, then the mistakes made by myself before will also be covered up.

Suzuki Yu is the hope of joining Shoichiro.

What, you need 5 billion yen to make?

not enough! I will add another 2 billion!

What, do you want a certain oriental country to collect its charm?

not enough! At least for the whole East Asia to go to one side!

As long as Suzuki Yu can produce works several times as a savior, it is enough.

After Sega DC is sought after by the public, they don’t need to win over those third parties anymore. Sony now spends a lot of money and experience to dig them. When they see that their results are so good, they don’t want to come back obediently Make games for us?

This is the key word!

After Nikoto Shoichiro figured out this, he felt very comfortable, as if the constipation after a long time had been smoothed out at once, it was so comfortable!

"I remember that Mr. Okawa and Mr. Chiba also value Suzuki-san very much, so let's find them first..."

Shoichiro Izuo figured this out, and then hurriedly went to find Yu Suzuki...

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"Ahee--! Ahee--!"

In the office of the animic club, Morinka sneezed twice in a row.

"I asked you to wear a mask a long time ago. You just don't listen to Morinia." Qianjia glanced at Morinia who was sneezing, and then continued to focus on the file in hand.

"Well, it's just an itchy nose, it's not a pollen allergy." Senxia shrugged. He didn't admit that this was his allergy. "Someone must be thinking about me... Well, yes, it must be like this. !"

Well, what Mori Xia said is really not a mistake. As a third-party game manufacturer, he was indeed sent to Shoichiro just now.

But Qianjia shook his head at this time, and then handed the file to Morinia: "Let's not talk about the meaningless things. Just this matter, how did you plan?"

The "this matter" Qian Jia said was the document they had in hand.

Well, to be precise, this is something from Sony.

"Sony wants us to continue developing games on ps2..."

Senxia took the file, and then raised the end of the file with his right hand, while resting his chin with his left hand.

"Plants vs. Zombies were sold on ps before, but after that, the two large-scale games we developed in succession were made for dc and were valued by Sony. This is a matter of course." Qianjia has no opinion on this.

In the earliest days, Morinia and Qianjia were actually working with Sony. The reason they later mingled with Sega was entirely because their resources were better to deceive-ahem, that was wrong, it was Sega. It would be more reasonable over there.

"But for ps2 or something to develop games, and also require exclusive, this problem is a little bit bigger..." Senxia looked at the file and thought.

Morinia never thought about monopolization from the very beginning, no matter what platform it is, as long as you are a platform, we can go up and develop games-this is Morinia's previous idea.

Well, Nintendo is not included. As Nintendo, Morika is very conscious of this.

"But if it is exclusive, the conditions are very favorable, and Sony will help us conduct research and sales."

The process of the game from the finished product to the consumer’s hands is sometimes very troublesome. The reason why Moriha and others did not encounter this problem at the beginning is because Qianjia’s thighs are thick enough, so they can contact good enough Agents.

If it is exclusive to Sony, Sony will help Morinia solve this problem, which means Morinia will have very good development conditions here, and there is no need to worry about game agents.

"Although I like Sony very much, if their condition is to monopolize the game, I absolutely will not agree to it. Monopolizing the game is originally a bad start for Nintendo."

At that time, Nintendo created a so-called "Royalty System", which guaranteed the game quality of red and white consoles.

The so-called royalty system roughly includes four aspects:

1. Nintendo has the right to review each game; 2. Each third-party manufacturer has up to 5 games per year; 3. Third-party manufacturers must predict the sales of their products; 4. Third-party manufacturers must pay for Nintendo game cassette production Fees and royalties.

Among the various terms of the royalty system, there is one that is the most exaggerated, that is, fc games of third-party manufacturers cannot be transplanted to other hosts, and violators will be punished, and this is the origin of exclusive games.

This kind of system is a great thing for hardware manufacturers.

See you, those novels that went back to the 1980s to engage in games, under the Nintendo royalties system, they began to rebel against Nintendo, but when the protagonist of the novel turned over and became the master of the novel, did they become more powerful than Nintendo?

There is no other reason, even the writer of the novel knows that this stuff makes money! What's the matter with the protagonist breaking his promise, as long as the protagonist can make money! We are going to follow Nintendo's old ways!

——By the way, Mori Summer Black Nintendo, making an exclusive game, is also one of the reasons. As the saying goes, the instigator has no afterthought. This is the case.

Of course, compared to Nintendo, Sony’s situation is much better.

Nintendo is more intimidating, while Sony is a lure, and for many small developers, it is definitely easier to get money from Sony than to make money from games.

"Sega DC is obviously weak in succession now, and it is necessary to leave a way behind, but why don't you agree with Morinya?"

Because Qianjia's father is in Sega's relationship, Qianjia has "inside news" here. Although a bit unkind, when Sega DC had problems, Qianjia felt that ps2 was a good way out.

As the so-called Cunning Rabbit Three Caves, is it not good to be able to find a way out?

"But we don't need it." However, Senxia still refused. "The resources of a small game development team and a game development team are far less than those of a large-scale factory. For these people, can they make the game? And to make the game well, this is the first issue. Sony’s funding is almost an undesirable good thing for them. If it were replaced with animic a year ago, I would think this idea is very good, but now, We don’t need an exclusive work."

Sony has a special care policy for this type of game developers. Just as Mori and Chika said in this document, Sony will try to lower the development threshold as much as possible to provide developers with funding and development. Tools and other aspects can even provide technical guidance.

This is more than just saying that, Sony really does it.

This is the reason why Qianjia is moved.

Or put it, there are so many fans in this world?

Guarding the uncle’s smile, this sentence is more than just talking-although Mr. Hirai Kazuo is still far away from the president of Sony...

"Then exclusive games are no good?" Of course Qianjia knew what kind of advantages the exclusive games might have, but she just wanted to hear Morinha's opinion.

"It's not without it. If it is an exclusive game, I think that besides the market and profitability and other things that have nothing to do with the game itself, there are still many bright spots in the exclusive game. The simplest place is to satisfy the player's superior psychology and desire for exclusiveness. , An exclusive game, naturally divided the camps." Mori Xia briefly said his understanding, and then he changed the topic, "But my philosophy is to let more players come to play our game. ."

Hearing what Morikaichi said, Qianjia also nodded in agreement.

As a gentleman, Chika and Morinka have the same idea.

If you can develop a fun game, of course, I hope more people can play it better!

In addition to the so-called support, financial sponsorship and affiliation are common methods exclusive to games. There is an organization called "third_party_" within Sony. The composition of this organization is to use their work to use funds and technology to attract The excellent third-party work further turned it into a monopoly and cut the path of competitors-of course, this organization is just a rudimentary form now and has not yet been fully formed.

But there is one thing about Senxia, ​​that is, they are not short of money at all, in simple terms, it is "we are not short of money!".

In this case, Senxia does not need to invest and help~www.readwn.com~ This is the confidence of Senxia and the others after they have made great sales in the game.

After we have money, we can tell everyone righteously that this is for love!

For love, we can do what others can't do!

"Then you have to find a way to reject Sony?" Qianjia tilted her head, she didn't seem to agree with it.

"Of course not." Senxia's answer here is also negative.

Qianjia raised her head suspiciously.

"Well, we are just a small game manufacturer. What about our side is actually not that important to Sony. We just need to develop according to our usual process." Morinya said simply, " Not only can there be Plants vs. Zombies 2, but our previous "Guilty Crown" games can also be transplanted in the past, which is nothing."

Guilty Crown is definitely a good game, and Moriha is planning to port this game to ps2-although ps2 hasn't gotten a start.

"I agree with this, but the basic information of ps2 does not seem to mention the hard disk. Sony does not seem to plan to put the hard disk on it. In this case, many of our dlc contents cannot be expanded." Qianjia read the file again. .

"It's not just that there is no hard drive, and mods are not allowed, but this is not a problem, because we are a full-platform leader, we now have the technology and manpower, and don't care about Sony's capital injection, it is correct to continue to follow the full-platform route.

——And this is also Senxia's confidence not to engage in monopoly.

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You Europeans, don't show your superiority in front of Africans...

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I'm going to die... (To be continued.)