Chapter 33: Biochemical Maniac Cháo

On September 1, 1994, GameStation officially announced the establishment of the "Resident Evil" R&D department, which immediately caused a stir among gamers on Shijie.

After several years of operation, "Resident Evil" has now spanned the three major fields of novels, comics, and animation, and there are many works that have borrowed from the setting of "Resident Evil". It can be said that there are hundreds of millions of people who are interested in Resident Evil. Of course, gamers have a large share of this. Because they all know that GameStation has already stated when Resident Evil came out that it will create a version of the game for Resident Evil. It's just that GameStation believes that the existing game console can't perfectly perform the level that the developers expected, so it temporarily shelved the game development of "Resident Evil" and invested in other fields.

And GameStation has now established a Resident Evil R&D department, which means that there will be new consoles approved by GameStation! So, for a while, people asked what the future release console of "Resident Evil" was.

A GameStation spokesperson didn't hide this, and bluntly informed the reporters that the future "Resident Evil" will be coming to Sega Corporation's new R&D console, Saturn. Immediately after the news broke, the price of Sega Corporation's stock in the Tokyo stock market rose by 3 percent, while Sony's stock fell slightly. And within ten days, the number of reservations for Saturn's host nearly doubled, which made Sega Co., Ltd. happy from top to bottom.

Of course, these directors of Sega Co., Ltd. also felt the pressure from Fang Mingyuan. Today's GameStation companies have the influence they can exert on the future development of Sega Co., Ltd. to the point where they can't ignore it. Just the news of the start of the development of a game has had such a noticeable impact on Sega that it is comparable to the national carnival when the new Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series came out.

It's just that even if these directors are wary of Fang Mingyuan, they are helpless now, "Resident Evil" will land on the Saturn console in the future, which can make Sega Co., Ltd.'s stock rise in the Tokyo stock market by three percent, so if one day, Fang Mingyuan announces that "Resident Evil" will switch to the PS console, I'm afraid that Sega Co., Ltd.'s loss in the stock will be more than three percent!

Because of the aura of "Resident Evil", everyone didn't notice that on the same day, Blizzard, which was not very famous at the time, also announced another news that it would officially develop another game - "Heroes of Invincible".

For "Magic Mén Heroes Invincible", Fang Mingyuan is too familiar, in his previous life, I don't know how much time he spent in front of the computer for himself, from the "Heroes Invincible" generation to the fourth generation. It's just that due to the bankruptcy of 3DO, the fifth-generation "Heroes of Heroes" produced by Ubisoft, which he took over, disappointed him, and since then he has bid farewell to the "Heroes of Heroes" series.

Now that he has strong financial resources, he naturally doesn't want the "Heroes of Heroes" series to repeat the mistakes of the past, but fortunately, with the "Magic Mén" game as a guide, Fang Mingyuan found Neputing Co., Ltd., and for a price of 16 million US dollars, as well as his insights on the "Heroes of Heroes" game, he was impressed by Neputing Co., Ltd. to acquire it all and merge it into Blizzard.

Of course, there is also a big reason for this because of Joe. Ten thousand. In order to concentrate on making games, and because Fang Mingyuan's offer was generous, and his views on the war chess game "Heroes of Invincible" with magic Mén as the game background were extremely in line with his taste, so it was only two meetings and less than three days for the two parties to complete this lightning acquisition. As a result, poor 3do has lost its signature classic game masterpiece in its previous life.

In fact, many people don't know that in fact, the name 3do does not only represent a company, but also represents a host at that time. One of the most powerful game consoles of its time, before the advent of Saturn and PS.

The 3DO host is not produced by 3DO itself, but is licensed to Panasonic, Sanyo, Samsung and other well-known Japanese electrical appliance companies. The first model, the FZ-1, was produced by Panasonic, and the Xìng of the main unit undoubtedly surpassed all competitors of the period, but its price was extremely high. It is several times that of other hosts in the same period, and it is as high as nearly 700 dollars in the United States!

This is mainly because Matsushita Electric, which was in charge of producing the main engine at that time, actually wanted to make a profit from the sale of the main machine! Those who are familiar with the game market actually know that in the sales of game consoles, the sales strategy of major console manufacturers, including Sony and Microsoft later, has always been to sell consoles at a loss, and then make profits by selling game software. And the difference is just the magnitude of the loss. Perhaps, at the end of a host's sales life, because of the huge sales volume, it can reach a break-even, but at the beginning of sales, if you want to make money through hardware, it will definitely end up in failure.

Moreover, Panasonic has not given enough support to those game software development companies, whether it is jishu or financial, which has caused many game software companies, although they have been authorized by 3DO, but they are not interested in developing game software for 3DO. The gamestation company had received an authorization from Panasonic, but Fang Mingyuan only glanced at it a few times, and then threw it aside.

With the abundant development support of Sega Corporation and Nintendo, only those who have their brains in water will risk failure for a completely self-financing, new console with a severely under-penetrated rate.

To put it mildly, it is to develop a masterpiece at the level of "Final Fantasy", and the console sales are only 100,000 units, even if everyone has a set, the sales are only the sales of mediocre works on the MD, and the game company can lose money!

However, Fang Mingyuan did not completely give up 3DO because of this, but he remembered clearly that in the future, 3DO consoles will definitely withdraw from the game console market, otherwise, it will not be Saturn and PS against each other, PS2 and Xbox will fight against each other. Then its developers are undoubtedly a valuable asset!

At the same time as the news of the development of "Resident Evil" spread, the name of Shinji Mikami, who is in charge, became widely known, and people couldn't help but scratch their heads, what kind of person is this little-known newcomer, who is actually in charge of the research and development of "Resident Evil" in the powerful GameStation company!

You know,"Resident Evil" has a lot of fans in the whole Shijie,Everyone has been looking forward to it for so long,Of course, there are extremely high expectations for the development quality of the game,It can be said,Every part of the new game,Will be put under the microscope by these people,Carefully "observed",If you can't achieve extremely high quality,Then in the future, GameStation and Shinji Mikami will face,It's overwhelming accusations!

Under the attention of many media, Shinji Mikami's resume was soon revealed, and people who always cared about "Resident Evil" couldn't help but be in an uproar, a rookie who had just graduated for only three or four years, well, even if he used to work in a well-known CAP company, but there were no eye-catching achievements. What exactly did the GameStation company choose him? Even at the expense of digging the foot of the cap!

For a time, all kinds of doubtful news were flying in the media. The personnel of the GameStation company have been investigated and questioned by countless reporters.

In the end, it is estimated that the GameStation company was also tired of the constant questioning, so the spokesman officially announced to the outside world that the appointment of Shinji Mikami was personally appointed by "Fang"!

After the news spread, it triggered a new round of talk. As we all know, the original outline and setting of "Resident Evil" were provided by important people at GameStation and the authors of many popular works such as "Age of Discovery", "Wandering Hakusho", "Hunter", and "Chess Soul". Although everyone knows that he is a Chinese and knows that he is very young, he has never officially appeared in front of the media. Everyone only knows that his pen name to the outside world is "Fang".

As the original creator of "Resident Evil", he also has many fans, although he has no official external position in the gamestation company, and has always had a detached position, his influence is absolutely impossible to ignore. In the early days of GameStation, it was not that no one wanted to challenge his position, but the result was that without exception, he was completely ignored by the management, and if he went too far, he could even be fired from the company. According to a source at GameStation, Fang is not only the most important creator of GameStation, but also an important shareholder of the company. So he does have the right and the ability to specify who will develop his work. In the GameStation company, even if there is any dissatisfaction, it cannot shake his decision.

As a result, these media's doubts about Shinji Mikami immediately became much smaller, and people talked more about it, this mysterious "Fang", this time is the discerning person? will still suffer his biggest failure since his debut!

However, Fang Mingyuan didn't pay attention to all this, and at this time he was having a big headache about whether Carrefour Supermarket would be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange!