Chapter 40: Between the Knees

And the final illegal operation is the lowest level.

However, in today's China or in modern times, I don't see much of it.

If you want to look for such cases, you have to put them in the era when capital was still growing savagely, such as the United States in the early years.

Whether it is the steel tycoon Carnegie or the oil tycoon Rockefeller, their rise is not only filled with the blood and tears of workers, but also the physical annihilation of their peers.

That's right, it's really physical annihilation.

Knowing DuPont could blow up a rival's family, as did other businessmen of his time.

However, although their methods are not bright at all, they have money and the right to speak, so that future generations can describe them as purer and nobler than the messengers sent by God to the earth.

It is only later that with the construction of a modern country and the gradual improvement of the rule of law, such behavior has gradually become rare.

But no matter what, entrepreneurs in any era are actually constantly infiltrating downward.

All kinds of behaviors they make will always break the bottom line.

If Takahashi wasn't so clean, even Wanhu could have doubled in size now, but he didn't want to do so much.

He can not do that, and not be eliminated from the competition, not because of how good he is.

It's because he has what his opponent doesn't have, and he knows what to do in the future.

Instead of fighting with those people, it is better to stay ahead of them.

Always ahead of them, he can not care what the hell those people are going to do.

Despite this, Takahashi is still concerned about the morality of his peers.

In fact, the smaller the company, the less ethical it is.

For example, the game sales model pioneered by Nintendo is actually a model of low-frequency consumption by consumers.

The low-frequency consumption model often represents information asymmetry, which often represents a lower level of morality.

This is true for example, whether it is a driver's license test in China or a tour.

The driver's license test is generally only taken once in a person's life, and you won't know what is wrong with it, and you won't know it.

And tourism, whether it is to Heilongjiang Peony (Meow) Jiangxue Township to travel to break the fortune, or to Taiwan (Meow) Bay to travel to die, to a large extent, will only go once.

The same is true for a game, where players will probably only buy it once.

The reason why it is similar to the driver's license test and travel and other shady scenes is gradually known by the majority of consumers.

This is because although a consumer may come here once in a lifetime to consume, they can share their experience online so that others do not fall into this pit again.

And video games have encountered this problem earlier than them, and once a game is not fun, word of mouth will explode immediately.

And the game with an explosion of word-of-mouth will naturally not sell much, and even the signboard of a game company will be smashed.

Under the Nintendo system, because the authority to submit for review is on the game company, it can't change the vest so unscrupulously.

But Sega is different, almost any game company can submit a game for review as long as it spends money, and as long as the quality of the game is okay, it can be launched.

This gives some small workshops the opportunity to change their names with a shot, so there will be many "one-day games".

What do these "one-day games" mean?

It's just that this game can only be sold for one day, even the next day, and some players will say that it is a garbage game.

However, it's not illegal, it's just not fun, it's just not right.

Even, compared to the Atari era, which simply sold packaging, or empty cassette, and had a clearer system, the game era was more standardized.

As for the Chinese players' certain affection for Sega, first of all, Sega promotes the genuine version in China to a slightly better extent than Nintendo, and on the other hand, it is like Chinese fans always think that foreign movies are excellent movies, because only the best films are introduced.

For those games that are not of good quality, Sega has not done any work to introduce them at all.

Therefore, Chinese Sega players play all the fun games, and the evaluation of Sega is naturally good.

And this "Shenmue" incident exposed all the bottoms of Sega Company.

If Sega could have said that those bad games were made by others, but what about "Shenmue"?

Yes, Shenmue isn't a bad game, there's a lot of good and groundbreaking things about it.

But so what?

It's not fun!

When Yu Suzuki learned about the sales, he turned gray almost overnight.

The reason why he switched to console games instead of arcade games was because he wanted to break through himself, and secondly because he felt that arcade games had passed their prime.

If it weren't for Capcom's production of the fighting game "Street Fighter 2", which forcibly continued the life of arcade games, perhaps the entire arcade hall would be closed two-thirds of the way now.

But by the end of the 90s, although there were still a lot of arcade halls in Ben, the number of arcade halls in the world, such as the United States, the world's largest game consumer, had decreased very, very much.

There are only two countries in the world that still maintain a huge number of arcade halls, one is Yuben and the other is China.

But the number of arcade halls in China, which is growing backwards, does not represent the prosperity of the arcade industry at all.

Because, China's arcade halls are basically pirated arcades, and the price of the game is also very cheap, only one-tenth of the game played once, or even one-twentieth of the game.

And what about the local arcade market?

In addition to the fact that there are still many people playing fighting games, it is supported by things such as catching dolls and arcade machines for music games.

Yu Suzuki didn't want to spend the rest of his life designing claw machines or music games, and he didn't want to watch the Arcade overlord Sega decline.

So, he moved into console games to make a game that would continue to be the future.

However, it is a pity that he Yu Suzuki is not a genius.

I don't have the ability to do things the first time.

There are indeed many excellent things about "Shenmue", and the shining points can be seen as long as you are not blind, but the problem is that the rhythm of this game is slow, and there are too many flaws.

It's not that Yu Suzuki doesn't want to fix these flaws, but he doesn't have time for them.

You know, "Shenmue" has been working on it for several years, and if he is allowed to revise it again, the entire project team will have a breakthrough investment of several hundred percent, and it is unknown whether this game will be launched.

Yu Suzuki, who locked himself in a small room, buried his head between his knees in the dark.