Chapter 80: In Preparation [for wyr0934, the fourth update]
How to increase the number of players, keep players active, and make players pay for a game?
After the 21st century, any game that is slightly more popular is looking for e-sports, and that's why it's because of that.
Takahashi's ability to organize competitions is obvious to all in the industry, but after the establishment of Wanhu, several games launched by Wanhu did not have large-scale events in the country.
It's not that Takahashi can't do it, but because there is no money.
Hosting a big tournament may seem easy, but in Hudson's time, it was necessary to have sponsors to sustain it, not to mention the 10,000 households who had just started out in poverty.
Today, Wanhu has earned a ten-figure yen from "Endless Fantasy", although it is still far from the level of enterprise-level financial freedom, doing whatever you want, buying whomever you want, and taking money to smash it directly. However, there is no need to worry about a game that will bring down the finances of the entire company.
However, you don't have to be foolish to have sponsorship.
Because of the good cooperative relationship with Toyota, this time Takahashi found Toyota again, and Toyota expressed strong support for the national competition activities of Wanhe.
This time it was much more bold than Hudson's, sponsoring a total of five caravans, and asking if there were enough people for 10,000 households, and if not, Toyota could provide assistance.
In addition, Toyota also invited 10,000 households to set up all the competition locations in Toyota stores. With Toyota's sales outlets all over the city, if you agree, you can really leave a huge amount of venue rental fees.
Takahashi didn't simply think that Toyota was Uncle Lei Feng who was happy to help others. They provide venues and sponsor competitions for 10,000 households, all of which are advertising.
You must know that compared with hard and wide, the brand logo that appears casually in the lens can actually affect people's hearts more.
Toyota's marketing in this book started with the baby, even if the event held by Takahashi was not someone who could afford a car right now, but Toyota could afford to wait.
After thinking about it, Takahashi felt that this would have little impact on the event. Toyota's sales store is no more than the suburbs of the city, and the transportation is quite convenient, so he agreed to Toyota's sponsorship request.
However, Takahashi didn't want to start the competition right away. Because, now that the competition is held, everyone can only practice with the arcade machine, and the arcade machine is a one-time buyout product. No matter how much the player practices, he will not give more money to each machine, and he can only get new orders.
If 10,000 households are just starting out, the new arcade orders are also considerable. However, now the level of ten thousand households has changed, and the things pursued have also changed.
When the competition will start depends entirely on when the red and white version of Tetris will be released to the market.
Although this is also to help Nintendo make money, it is also to increase the influence of Tetris as much as possible. Only when the whole country is influenced by "Tetris" and discusses "Tetris", the last step of the Wanhu trilogy, the last killer move, the handheld version of "Tetris" can achieve the best results.
While preparing for the national competition, Takahashi is also busy with another project that is more important for Wanhu, that is, TV programs.
Before Takahashi participated in the program of the local TV station, he had already begun to explain the thaw of Takahashi on TV.
Not long after that, TV Tokyo found Takahashi again. They wanted to work with Takahashi on a new video game show.
You know, video games are becoming more and more influential in today's books. Any TV station wants to take a ride on video games.
However, Takahashi has since changed the host of the video game I don't know how much. There is still no TV station that has achieved the kind of influential effect that Takahashi has achieved on a video game-themed program.
After several twists and turns, after countless efforts, TV Tokyo finally broke through the barrier and was able to cooperate with Takahashi again.
Takahashi is also very prepared for this collaboration, as it will be a long-term broadcast. Today's Takahashi is much more valuable than the previous Takahashi time, and the time cost of running to TV Tokyo again and again is a little unworthy.
Therefore, Takahashi proposed to TV Tokyo to build a studio at the headquarters of Manhu, so that it would be easier to record programs.
TV Tokyo, which has always talked about "poverty", was not ambiguous this time and immediately agreed to Takahashi's request. On the top floor of 10,000 households, a brand new studio was built.
And this time, the show is divided into two parts, one is the daily version.
Every day, the group of people who are exposed to it is the vast number of office workers and primary and secondary school students. And every Saturday, there will be a special edition, which is a video game variety show.
Takahashi will be the host, inviting all kinds of celebrities to play video games on his show.
Takahashi, who has not had much contact with the entertainment industry, was a little worried about whether he could host this kind of show at first. However, after a little practice, he felt that he was up to the task.
Compared with the entertainment industry in China after the 21st century, which has become a pot of rat porridge, the entertainment industry in the 80s is also very money-worshipping, and the power of capital is also very strong. However, they know how to make a show. The actors and singers know how to practice and know how to sing.
I won't use a sticker when I'm acting in a TV series, and I won't say "01234567, 7654321" when I read the lines.
There is also a basic bottom line in the industry.
Although there are still examples of sleeping with you, even if you sleep with you, you have to do your job well to get on the top.
Takahashi found that those guests, no matter how big the horn was, still treated themselves as human beings and other people who did things together. Takahashi was relieved to be able to produce a show with them.
Takahashi doesn't have too many thoughts of going deep into the entertainment industry, if he enters the entertainment industry as an artist, he doesn't have that much time, and it is difficult for the announcement fee to satisfy him.
And if he enters with capital, he doesn't think he can fight against the capital that has been up and down in the entertainment industry for a long time.
If you don't cook it, you can't do it.
Blindly entering an industry that you are not very familiar with is asking for your own death.
Takahashi cooperated with TV Tokyo, not to enter the entertainment industry, but to expand the influence of Manho.
You must know that in 1986, the hottest group at the moment was the kitten club created by Yasushi Akimoto.
Yasu Akimoto, who has been in the entertainment industry for several years, has single-handedly created a nationally influential girl group like the Kitten Club, and it is not next year that he will get rid of it. Make an apology to many.
Takahashi felt that he only needed to make games in Yumoto. Even if you have ideas for other industries, it is to return to China and return to that virgin (harmonious) land of the capital market.