Chapter Twenty-Eight: Digging the Corner of the Cap

1994 can be said to be an important year for all home game console players in later generations. Of course, today's gamers don't understand why it's important. They just know that this year, Sega Corporation's new generation of game consoles Saturn and Sony's new game console PS will come out one after another, and bring absolutely different gaming experience to all gamers.

But for Fang Mingyuan, 1994 was not only like that, for him, it meant that the Fang family further grew in the game industry. In April of this year, led by Cameron, Kazuki Aso came out and took over a game studio called Chaos. Chaos Studios, of course, is very new to the majority of gamers, but, in normal history, it was later renamed Blizzard!

Blizzard! Yes, it is the Blizzard company in the later generations because of the "Diablo", "Warcraft", and "StarCraft" series! For Blizzard, Fang Mingyuan, who likes "StarCraft" and "Diablo", is naturally no stranger. And I've been following it for years. It was not until 1994, when the company was unable to develop a successor due to lack of funds, that it came forward to acquire it in one fell swoop.

Fang Mingyuan took 70% of the shares, and the two founders of Blizzard each took 15% of the shares. However, this 15% stake is enough for them to step into the ranks of millionaires from then on. However, compared with the sharp increase in net worth, what these two like more is that Fang Mingyuan stated from the beginning that the normal operation of Blizzard will not be easy unless there is an intolerable deviation. With sufficient R&D funds, personal net worth have skyrocketed, and the company usually still has the final say, how can such a result not satisfy them.

Of course, Fang Mingyuan is more satisfied, Blizzard, that is, a mother jī who can lay golden eggs, "Diablo", "Warcraft", "StarCraft" three series, which one is not a well-known signboard in the game world of all shijie! Every time a work is released, it is not a day for all shijie gamers to celebrate. A "Diablo" has made everyone wait for nearly ten years! Ten years, how many game companies have such confidence and dare not release a sequel in ten years!

I don't know how many people a Diablo has affected, and how many similar games have been produced since it, including online games, have not been branded by it?

And a "Warcraft", I am afraid that there will be tens of millions of players around the world, and only Blizzard itself knows how much profit it collects.

A StarCraft film sold a million copies in South Korea alone, and the global sales can be imagined.

With 70 percent of the shares in such a company in his hands, what else could he be dissatisfied with?

"It's a challenge and an opportunity!" Fang Mingyuan stood in front of the window of the hotel room, looking at the sea in the distance, and said softly.

Saturn and PS are still following the original trajectory of history to today, but no one knows whether their future will repeat the mistakes of history.

In Fang Mingyuan's previous life, Saturn initially had a certain upper hand, and Sega Co., Ltd.'s strategy of releasing the arcade acclaim "VR Warrior" with the Saturn console won Sega a good start, and the first batch of 200,000 Saturn units had almost all been booked by players a month before the console was released! On the day of the launch, Saturn's 150,000 consoles were quickly sold out. Most of the players who bought the Saturn came for VR Warrior. By the end of the year, Saturn had sold a total of 500,000 units in Japan, surpassing the PS in the same period. Half a year later, Sony and Sega announced at the same time that the PS and Saturn consoles had sold more than one million units, and the competition between the two 32-bit consoles entered a white-hot state. However, due to Saturn's support for 3D pictures not as strong as PS, coupled with higher production costs than Sony, and poor software support, Sega was ultimately defeated. PS The ending of the final victory in one fell swoop.

In this life, because Fang Mingyuan participated in Sega Co., Ltd., he naturally knew that the quality of the 3D effect was an important criterion for the future host Xìng energy, and under Fang Mingyuan's tough attitude, so from the very beginning, the R&D Department of Sega Co., Ltd. paid the greatest attention to the 3Dxìng energy of the Saturn host, Fang Mingyuan believed that the Saturn in this world, even if the Xìng in 3D can not be as good as PS, the difference is extremely limited.

As for the issue of production costs, Fang Mingyuan and the board of directors of Sega Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement to transfer part of the production capacity to Huaxia one year after the Saturn is officially put into production, and with the help of Huaxia's cheap labor, the production cost of the host will be reduced to resist the pressure of Sony. To be honest, it is not easy to reach this agreement, if it were not for the directors of Sega Co., Ltd. also understood that if they fought with Sony for production capacity, Sega Co., Ltd. would definitely be at a disadvantage, and they would never let go, and the heritage of the old manufacturing enterprises was by no means ambiguous. Although the national income of developed countries is not low, the price of a game console is also a burden for many people. If the xìng of the two consoles can be the same, it is naturally cheaper and more popular with players.

As for Sega Corporation's Saturn software support, although it has improved in the past two years, it has not changed significantly. This made Fang Mingyuan very worried.

Although Fang Mingyuan's company has also prepared several games for the launch of the Saturn console, Fang Mingyuan still has some doubts in his heart - this console is like a car, this game software is like gasoline, no matter how haode the car is, it must have oil to start.

Since he has joined Sega Co., Ltd., the success or failure of Sega Co., Ltd. Saturn is related to Fang Mingyuan's vital interests, so he cannot be ignored at all.

Therefore, Fang Mingyuan decided to officially make "Resident Evil" into a game. After a long period of publicity in Xiǎo theory, animation, and comics, "Resident Evil" has now become a well-known representative of Shijie zombie genre works. In addition, the level of hardware has also been greatly improved compared to a few years ago, and the development of "Resident Evil" can be said to be a matter of course. But Fang Mingyuan is still worried that the level of "Resident Evil" is difficult to reach the level in his previous life, if this first shot can't be fired, causing the premature death of the "Resident Evil" series, wouldn't it be unbearable for the majority of gamers. So he came to Osaka, Japan this time to find someone in charge of the development of "Resident Evil".

Shinji Mikami, this name is naturally not unfamiliar to Biochemical Mí, this young man who is known as the "Father of Biochemistry", is now just a Leng Touqing who has only graduated from college for four years.

Before Fang Mingyuan personally came to "dig the foot of the wall", in fact, Fang Mingyuan had sent several groups of people to persuade Shinji Mikami to change jobs, but the results showed that Shinji Mikami's feelings for CAP were quite deep, and even if he had a high position and high salary, he was not able to impress the future "father of biochemistry".

In desperation, Fang Mingyuan had no choice but to go out in person.

Shinji Mikami straightened his outfit in front of the hotel mirror, combed his hair, and patted his cheek to relax himself. If you want to say that you are not nervous, it is pure nonsense, but today I want to meet a well-known person in the Japanese manga industry and the game industry, and he is also the youngest one. It is said that this one has not yet gone to college this year. However, it has made a name for itself in Japan and has countless supporters. Although in the past two years, his works have been decreasing day by day, but he is still a popular one! Especially a "Chess Soul" and a "Resident Evil", which can be said to be a leading trend in Japan!

Although it is said that Shinji Mikami will be the "father of biochemistry" in the future, and his fame is not below Fang Mingyuan, but now he is still an out-and-out rookie who has only been out of university for three or four years!

To be honest, Shinji Mikami was very confused in his heart, and he didn't know what this one had taken a fancy to him, not only did he send someone to recruit him several times, but now he came in person, which really gave him enough face. But in this way, Shinji Mikami's heart is even more drumming. I know my own affairs.,In the past few years in CAP.,Although I've participated in the production of a lot of games.,And I've been recognized by the seniors in the club.,But is it really to the point where I can be appreciated by that one?,Shinji Mikami's heart has no score at all.。

The reason why Mikami Shinji refused the other party Mingyuan's previous solicitations, on the one hand, it is all the inherent habits of the Japanese, on the other hand, it has to be said that it is precisely because of the lack of spectrum in his heart that Mikami Shinji feels that he is not qualified for the position given by Fang Mingyuan, so he refuses.

But he didn't expect that Fang Mingyuan would personally fly from Huaxia to Osaka for this reason...... It really shocked Shinji Mikami. The three visits in Chinese history are nothing more than that!

Shinji Mikami didn't sleep well all night last night, and he pondered over and over what made Fang Mingyuan take a fancy to him, but even if he wanted to break his head, he couldn't figure out what was worthy of Fang Mingyuan's attention in himself. As a result, when I came today, I found that I looked very much like a national treasure in China.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Shinji Mikami smiled helplessly, I don't know how much this problem of dark circles has bothered, of course he is helpless.

Shinji Mikami looked at his watch and stepped into the elevator.