In February 1999, a lot of things happened in the space of half a month. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

First of all, Chika, Lihua, and Himeba-senpai are their exams, and then there are all kinds of things that happen to animic, and finally there is Master Kontoshi's Yuannoku ready to start making.

In fact, it's not just Senxia who is busy, Sega is also busy.

By mid-February 1999, Sega DC had barely managed to sell more than 1 million units.

But faced with this fact, Sega's upper echelons were not happy.

-- Since mid-January, Sega's out-of-stock situation has improved, but at that time, Sega and the others had no idea that things would turn out like this.

Obviously, a moment ago, DC seemed to be very popular, however, when the time passed from the New Year, DC's prestige plummeted.

Obviously, DC's previous Hunger Sale went overboard, and it turned out to be disgusting among players.

“...... Call. After seeing DC's sales, Okawa Gong silently put down the file.

"It doesn't look optimistic, it's clear that it was still sought after before, but now it's starting to have a backlog of inventory......"

Chiwa Masao shook his head beside him.

This is a Japanese restaurant in the Chiba family, and these two people are here at this time.

"Because they found that the method of hungry sales was too useful, they were careless from top to bottom. Okawa shook his head.

Hungry Sales is a plan proposed by Mori Xia, which was originally intended to give Sega the spare power to recover the shortage caused by previous decision-making problems.

However, after Sega temporarily alleviated the adverse effects of the stockout, they began to slacken.

Because of the strategy of hungry sales, the relationship between the popularity of DC has been maintained, so Sega did not consider speeding up to solve the production capacity problem, on the contrary, at that time, they still changed their ways to play monkeys.

But the cruel truth tells Sega that in this world, not everyone can become the monkey king Rebus, Monkey Mi Monkey Mi, Rebus, who created the tradition of playing monkeys on smartphones in the future, is not something that just one person can imitate.

No is no way, even if you're Sega, you can't.

Sega didn't realize the gap between itself and Rebus, so after being blown up from behind by Sony and other manufacturers, Sega DC's reputation and sales began to fail.

But Chiba Masao noticed that Okawa's expression didn't seem to be so bad.

"We've been able to sell 1 million units so far, which is better than I expected. Okawa put the file down.

"Huh?" Chiwa Masao was a little surprised, at this time, Okawa Gong was still able to say such a thing, it was really surprising.

"Sega is in such a mess that I've tried my best, but now it's the best thing to do. ”

For Sega's condition, Okawa Ko is also very distressed.

"Sega still needs you to be at the helm. Chiwa Masao said.

However, Okawa shook his head: "Hayao Nakayama is gone, and I'm old now, I will continue to support Sega, but I can't continue to control her." ”

After hearing Okawa Gong's words, Chiba Masao was a little gloomy.

Okawa is already old, and now he is riddled with various diseases, and he rarely drinks alcohol, and today is a rare opportunity.

At this time, Okawa really didn't have the energy to manage Sega.

Although Chiba Masao was recruited by Okawa Gong, but Chiba Masao is an outsider after all, although he has a stake in Sega, but he can only think of part of the decision-you must know that there are still some people in Sega who wish that DC's thing would fail quickly, die early and be overborn.

"In a few months, DC will be listed in North Rice, and then it will be a more critical opportunity. Noticing that Okawa Gong's expression was a little gloomy, so Chiba Masao changed the question.

As soon as he heard the news about North America, Okawa Ko's somewhat serious face also eased slightly.

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

Compared with Japan, Sega's game consoles, sales and reputation in North America have always been better than Japan's, so their basic market can even be said to be North America.

DC's network system was well received after it came out, but the PS2 announced at Christmas was said to also use the Internet, which caused some blows on DC's side.

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

"In the past, we invested in an online game, which is now called Hero Tracks, and the results are still very good. ”

The popularity of the hero's trajectory continues to heat up, which is one of the reasons why Sega is determined to engage in the Internet.

The game now has hundreds of thousands of registrations and tens of thousands of online users, and over time, this number of online users has not only not declined, on the contrary, it has been on the rise.

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

"The Internet is a blank field, and what we need to do now is to go to the enclosure as soon as possible. This is Masao Chiha's view of the Internet, "Mr. Okawa, it's great that you decided to add this feature to DC in the first place. ”

But in the face of Chiba Masao's words, Okawa Gong just waved his hand: "This is actually not my idea. ”

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

To be honest, adding a network module, although it was something that DC had considered when designing, but they didn't think of getting a network card at that time, making a fiber optic network, and the network system they considered at that time was still the classic "56K cat" dial-up network.

But it turns out that after using the current network system, the network with the hard disk has added a lot of new ways to play to the DC, which seemed to be a waste of cost at the time, but now it seems that it has become a stroke of genius, which is really a bit emotional.

Chiwa Masao originally thought that this was a strange idea that Okawa Gong came up with, but listening to Okawa Ko speak, it didn't seem to be his idea?

"It's also interesting to say. I guess it happened last year or the year before that, but I happened to meet two young people at Waseda University who were talking about Sega, so I went over and listened to their thoughts. ”

"I turned out to be a student at Waseda University. Chiwa Masao nodded.

However, Okawa Gong shook his head, and Chiwa Masao also noticed at this time that Okawa Gong had a smile on his face: "No, those two people are actually high school students." ”

“...... High school students?"

After hearing Okawa's explanation, Chiwa Masao was surprised.

"Well, and I think Masao you should know each other. Okawa said with a smile.

Okawa knows each other, but the other party probably doesn't know Okawa, and it seems that the other party should still know each other.

Chiwa Masao's expression became strange: "It can't be a little girl, right?"

Okawa Gong nodded: "That's right, Qianjia and that-yes, it's a young man named Tianhai Senxia." ”

"That kid......" When talking about Amami Senxia, Chiba Masao also touched his chin.

"yes, it was their idea that inspired me. Okawa explained.

"I see. Chiwa Masao nodded, then picked up the flask on the table and poured a glass of sake for himself and Okawa.

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

"Sin Crown" is a popular game recently, not to mention, before their animic club "Plants vs. Zombies" was released on the PS platform, which is also very remarkable, and Sony even found them because of this.

“...... But that kid seems to be more optimistic about Sony......"

At the thought of the beginning of the animic club, Masao Chiba frowned.

Although Animic seems to be a third party to their DC now, his daughter will go to Sony from time to time to learn about the progress of PS2, and Chiba Masao also knows.

The reason why their works are on DC is because some of them can only be fully embodied in DC, and on the other hand, 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 discipline.

It's really good to have a platform exclusive game, but don't you see, the most nourishing game manufacturers are not companies like Ka Framing and Dark Rong?

"If I were to abandon my position, I would actually be more optimistic about Sony. Because it is a private place, Okawa Gong is not particular when he speaks, he sighed, "I can't help Sega too much now, although DC is my hard work, but what I can do is limited." But Sony has a dedicated home console division, and it doesn't have such a serious dump like our Sega. ”

Sony is larger than Sega, and their products range from TVs and home appliances to electronics, and they have a very rich product line, although there will be friction between their departments, but when it comes to dealing with it, it is much more mature than Sega's.

"yes, speaking of which, the arcade department seems to be very hostile to the Internet system here in DC. ”

Masao Chiba thought of some news from Sega before.

While the internet is fun, after the advent of VR Warrior Online, there was a strong opposition from the arcade side to the development of games with network capabilities, especially those that ported the arcade machine.

In the arcade, the confrontation between people is basically a part of the game, but at this time, everyone can fight and play with other people without leaving home, and this feeling has caused the arcade department to have a sense of crisis.

"Times are always evolving, although I am old, but I know that technology is changing with each passing day, holding old ideas, and finally ushering in can only be the final demise. Okawa Gong's words were full of the elders' understanding and sighs about this world.

Masao Chiba finished the sake in his cup and poured himself another glass.

"There's a real feeling of being able to get back now. "Masao Chiba has no hopes for the future of Sega.

From the board of directors to the management, the entire Sega has problems, and it is useless to rely on Yukawa to sell the moe alone.

This is a matter of the entire company structure.

Now Sega can only hope to fight a turnaround in North America and save Sega.

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

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

"But we don't have a chance. And at this time, Masao Chiba suddenly thought of a game they were working on with a huge investment.

There is no way for hardware to determine the market for games, but the games themselves can.

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

"Ah, the game. Okawa also nodded, "Yu Suzuki is still very optimistic." ”

"Hey," Chiba Masao 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 also be able to suppress the internal voice again, and then we will take the opportunity to twist the company into a rope, and it will be enough." ”

As long as the work is good, they can take this opportunity to re-sort out the interior of Sega, and in this way, the situation will be much better.

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

Before that, Yu Suzuki developed the game VR Warrior. Later, he made one of the most lucrative games in Sega's history, "VR Warrior 2", which helped Sega stabilize their somewhat sluggish hearts.

And last year, the VR warrior series, as a game art treasure, was made a permanent collection by the Washington Museum in the United States, and this glory was brought by Yu Suzuki.

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

"In order to make Suzuki-san better at developing software, I am going to transfer him to the second software research and development department. Okawa said, "Shoichiro Iriko agreed. ”

Although Masao Chiba feels that Shoichiro is a little unreliable, Yu Suzuki is still trustworthy, and for this decision, Masao Chiba thinks it is very correct.

"Well, Suzuki-san will definitely be able to develop a new game that can rival VR warriors by then, cheers. ”

"yes, it's up to him, cheers. ”

Chiwa Masao and Okawa smiled lightly, then raised their glasses.

......

Mounted is Capcom, and dark glory is glory.

2-in-1 chapter. (To be continued.) )