Game Development Giant

Through the phone, Jester could hear the fatigue in Claudia's voice. ?. .

During this period of time, this young woman had really tried her best for the business of the European branch. Looking at the sales data in front of her, Jester naturally wanted to know how much the other party had paid for it.

But Jester was not a good talker, so he could only encourage Claudia on the phone.

Hearing his words of encouragement, Jester could clearly feel Claudia's happiness from the phone. However, both of them were too busy. After chatting about work, they chatted a little more about friends. Then he hung up the phone.

In the confrontation with Nintendo in North America, Jester won 10% first, but the subsequent confrontation will definitely be more intense. According to Hiroshi Yamauchi's temper, Jester knows that he will definitely not give up, and wait until Nintendo has everything prepared. Well, there will definitely be a counterattack as fierce as a tsunami.

Jester is not afraid of others. What he is most worried about is that Nintendo will directly enter into a price war with him.

This kind of market cutting-throat war is actually like bloodletting. After cutting the throat, see whose blood dries first. The problem is that FES is far stronger than its own Dreambox in terms of cost, profit and production capacity. Compared with the distribution volume, Comparing selling prices and production capacity, it is impossible to compete with Nintendo in this area until the production capacity of its production base in mainland China is improved. Fortunately, Nintendo has suffered losses in selling consoles at a loss. According to Hiroshi Yamauchi's stubborn temperament, they have no plans to play a cut-throat war with them yet. However, businessmen are pursuing profits. If Nintendo cannot gain a foothold in North America this year . Then Jester can't guarantee that they won't play this trick. In Jester's memory, when n64 came out, but the market was basically dominated by Sony and Sega, in order to re-seize the market. Minoru Arakawa has done things like lowering the price to the point where Nintendo barely makes any money selling it.

At that time, relying on the price reduction of n64 and the wave of timing of "Ocarina of Time", the game was extremely beautiful, and it almost turned the situation completely upside down. If Nintendo hadn't continued to kill on NGC. Then maybe the entire history of video game consoles will have to be rewritten.

Of course, the price reduction of n64 was proposed by Arakawa to Hiroshi Yamauchi several times. And under the premise that I would resign if you don't do this, Mr. Yamauchi had no choice but to agree.

Because at that time, Nintendo had reached a time when it had to make sacrifices.

However, this approach was obviously a direct disobedience to the tyrant of Nintendo, and when Microsoft joined the video game industry, Arakawa's idiotic suggestion to destroy Nintendo's game department without thinking through it finally made the former The industry had been optimistic about Hiroshi Yamauchi's successor for twenty years, but Hiroshi Yamauchi personally kicked him out. He didn't give his son-in-law any face at all. As long as Nintendo does not significantly reduce prices within a year, then after one year, when the production capacity of its manufacturing center in mainland China reaches the standard, it will not be worried about the production costs at all.

Isn't it just cutting the throat? Who is afraid of whom? I only need a few of you for the labor cost in one workshop. How dare you compete with me and cut your throat?

But if it's Sega. Jester might not think so.

After all, in the history he knew well, the old stubborn Nakayama Hayao could do incredible things. Back then, he was able to stalk Nintendo. Now that he is about to replace Nintendo, he has also become a chess piece in Sega's way, and he can't save him. I will also try this real version of Contra for myself for more than ten years.

Jester has a headache when he thinks of Sega. Recently, Sega's new console MS is about to be officially released, and the million-selling masterpiece he promised to make for them hasn't even started yet. Nakayama Hayao has called and urged him several times. times, the tone and attitude became increasingly rude, and "hang?on" had reached the most important stage of development, so I had to agree perfunctorily before.

When I go to Japan this time, UFA must have been hidden from Sega's eyes and ears. I don't know how Nakayama Hayao will embarrass me.

While thinking about it, Jester sighed. After the production of "Fire Emblem" was completed this time, he started working on it for them. Maybe he could catch up with the Christmas sales and help them expand their mobile phone. sales volume.

In fact, Jester still wants to make a million-level game for Nintendo, because he doesn't want Sega to immediately enter the research and development of 16-bit machines when they see that eight-bit machines are hopeless. In Jester's eyes, this It is completely unnecessary to upgrade this function in a short period of time, and it is too wasteful of research and development costs, so he plans to make such a million-level game for Sega, so that people at Sega can leave some thoughts about MS, so that they will not be disappointed after seeing MS. After losing hope of competition, they went all out to develop the Sega MD.

Jester has already told Tamahide Yoshiro that he is going to Japan, so the Japanese side is relatively well prepared this time. After all, it is the first time that the company's number one person has come to the branch to inspect, although the branch has not yet A formal game development team is basically composed of game publishing employees.

Originally, publishing should be what Fengxing Publishing has to do, but like its European branch, Fengxing Publishing does not have time to operate outside of North America for the time being. In order to distribute products globally as soon as possible and compete with Nintendo around the world, Jie Ste will deal with it this way for the time being.

However, he has already thought that within the year, he will transfer the distribution rights of the Japanese branch back to Fengxing Publishing, and the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment will also formally establish two or three game design teams and officially become a game research and development company. .

And Europe…

Jester thought again of Claudia's tired voice on the phone just now in order to open up the European market, and then he sighed, let's leave Europe alone for now. Japan is okay, it is a wholly-owned holding, Europe, after all This is not his own company... Jester could only comfort himself in this way.

After Sakaguchi Hironobu learned that Jester wanted to return to Japan, he immediately expressed his desire to go with him, and when he learned that the game "Fire Emblem" had not yet determined the main composer, he immediately became excited. representation. He met a very outstanding musician in Japan, and like him, he was also a fan of DND games. He had also had music provided by him for several of his previous works, and his level was very good.

Jester heard what Hironobu Sakaguchi said. ?I immediately thought that the person he was talking about was not Nobuo Uematsu, right?

Jester couldn't remember the specific impression. He didn't know many famous music poems that he could recite. In Japan, there are only a few Yoshiro Mori and Joe Hisaishi. There are great masters like Tetsuro Oda, but when he looked at Square's information, he did have the impression that Nobuo Uematsu and Hironobu Sakaguchi had a very good relationship, and that such an outstanding scorer as Nobuo Uematsu could end up in such a miserable state. His work at Square was all based on Sakaguchi Hironobu's face.

certainly. Jester must not be able to say this, because how could he possibly know who Nobuo Uematsu is now? So Jester just pretended to be hesitant, but after Hironobu Sakaguchi's repeated requests, he still reluctantly agreed.

"All right!"

Got an accurate answer from Jester. Hironobu Sakaguchi was also very excited and bowed to Jester repeatedly to thank him.

However, since Sakaguchi Hironobu was allowed to follow him back to Japan, he naturally would not ignore Naka Yuji. Moreover, he had heard before that Yuji Naka often sang hometown songs in the apartment assigned by the company, and would always take out a photo of his sister and look at it for a long time. Jester even learned that this was Yuji Naka’s first It was the first time he had left home so far away, and he had been intensively developing a simulator for half a year, so Jester immediately granted him half a month's leave and asked him to return to Japan with him.

Either work, or let him go to Japan to take a rest.

This time Jester went to Japan mainly for a simple recruitment. Unlike his previous trip to Europe, where he directly brought a team of dozens of people, he did not bring too many people. In addition to Sakaguchi Hironobu and Naka Yuji, There are only two accompanying assistants, just two ordinary administrative staff in the company, helping me bring some necessary information.

However, after hearing the news that Jester was going to Japan, Carly came to Jester again. She said to Jester succinctly: "If you want Fengxing Publishing to officially take over Japan's distribution next year, When it comes to work, it is best to send someone to familiarize yourself with the work now, otherwise it will be very irresponsible for a publishing company to directly take over a huge unfamiliar market a year later. It is very irresponsible for a publishing company to send someone over now to take over in the future. Don’t be too passive when doing it.”

After Jester thought about it for a while, he felt that Carly's opinion was good, but he immediately changed his mind and thought, who is the best person to send?

To be honest, he has been focusing on Mars Entertainment recently. He really has nothing to do with his publishing company. The most he can do is ask how the logistics center is being built and where the flagship experience store is. How many franchise stores are there? What are the sales data last month? As for personnel rights, because Jester didn’t know much about distribution and marketing, he also delegated power to his trusted CEO Carly, who only made high-level appointments. When making an appointment, you also need your own signature, but for a general appointment, you only need Carly's signature.

Of course, it is only the personnel power. As for the most important financial power of a company, Jester must be firmly in his hands.

"Meg is good..."

Jester came up with a suitable character. He was recruited at the same time as Carly Terry. She is currently the number three character of Fengxing Publishing and is responsible for the construction of the flagship store. Jester also knows that this woman is very capable. He was able to bring eBay to its peak back then and later take charge of Hewlett-Packard, a well-established technology group. It can be seen that in terms of his ability, there is no problem in serving as the general person in charge of a region. However, his words have not yet been After saying that, he was interrupted mercilessly by Carly.

Carly looked at her boss. She didn't understand why he didn't care much about the publishing company that created the biggest profit for him, but instead paid so much attention to this company that only developed games. In her eyes, Jess The place where Te should be based most should be a publishing company, not a R\u0026D company, because distribution rights are a game company's biggest right.

And how could he know so little about the senior people at his company?

Is there such a thing as a boss?

But Carly couldn't be angry anymore, because Jester gave her trust that she didn't have in any other comparable company, which she was very grateful for, and allowed her to show off what she had learned.

When she heard Jester talking about her best deputy, Margaret Whitman, she immediately frowned and said unhappily: "My boss, you won't even be able to leave Meg." Her husband doesn’t know, right? You have to know that the reason she came to California is that her husband wants to intern in a hospital in California. Otherwise, how could she quit her job as a sales executive at Procter \u0026 Gamble to work as an assistant in a consulting company? You Do you think you could have poached her if she was still at P\u0026G, the shell company you started with?”

Seeing the embarrassed look on Jester's face, Carly originally wanted to continue saying a few words, but immediately, Jester's face suddenly became unwilling.

He muttered in a low voice: "You are still from Att, so why don't I poach you here? What happened to Procter and Gamble? Can Procter and Gamble be more famous than Att?"

Hearing Jester's wry words, Carly was immediately speechless. )

ps: ??ps: I added the first chapter yesterday