Chapter 30: The Next Generation
The summer vacation passed quickly, and the "Video Game Players Conference" at the end of the summer vacation came to a successful conclusion.
Compared to last year, this year's scale is much larger, at least twice as large. The Chiba game has also been transformed from a platform into a separate house.
Chiba Yuki was admitted to the University of Tokyo with a high deviation value, and the next president of the Togao Game Club was originally going to fall on Hayashi Hiko. But Lin Yan was troublesome, so he gave it to Little Fat Dun.
Unlike the deserted game club before, the game club has now become a large club with more than 100 members.
After the start of the new semester, more new people will be recruited. The new president of the game club, Chubby Dun, has become extremely busy because of this.
Chiba Yuki's promotion to university means that Lin Yan and Little Fat Dun, as well as high school sophomores such as Mayu Riverside, have all become juniors in high school.
In this way, the school will be busier.
What's worse is that Hayashi is still the head of the game production department of Chiba Games, and he has a lot of things to do every day. Therefore, the trouble that was once in front of Chiba Yuki has also become the trouble of Lin Yan now. How to balance study and work has become a very urgent problem to be solved.
Just when Lin Yan was still adapting to the rhythm of life in Xindi, another good news came from the red and white machine. The total number of units sold reached 40 million units.
This time, not only is Chiba Game numb to this, but even the media outside has lost the momentum of the previous front-page headlines and a few days of continuous articles.
On the cover of a satirical magazine in the United States, the map of the United States was painted in the color of the handle of the red and white machine. It's probably about the red and white machine occupying the United States, and other weird things like yin and yang.
The sales of red and white machines are still growing rapidly. Not only the production line of red and white machines. The cassette production line is also expanding rapidly.
Because Chiba games require too many memory chips, more than the current number of memory produced worldwide. So, take the international market as a benchmark. The price of memory chips has risen sharply.
The couple who died of their daughter, if Chiba Games really gave them 100 yen for every cassette they sold, they would really be billionaires.
That day, Chiba Yuki was still joking with Lin Yan, saying that his daughter died, and he was also a lost horse.
Of course, it is very disrespectful to joke about the dead. Lin Yan didn't laugh along, and hinted at Chiba Yuki slightly. Yuki Chiba understood that this could not be said.
It's okay for the two of them now, but if other people hear it, they will sell this information to the outside media. That's a lot of fun.
All the previous efforts of Chiba Games to build an image will be in vain. It is even quite possible to provoke a large-scale revolt.
Recently, a large number of games have been being converted from Japanese to English. Because it is a relationship to sell to the United States, so. There are some game cartridges that have been cut off.
Because, these plots are not very harmonious. There is nothing wrong with distributing it in Japan, but if it is the same in the United States, it is easy to have problems.
A foreign company. It is not easy to adapt to the American market. There are so many continents in the United States, and the laws are different in each state.
Something that is possible to be okay on this continent. If you put it in that state, it becomes a very serious mistake. A huge amount of compensation is required.
Therefore. Some plots that may cause misunderstandings are all deleted. These games are just side-scrolling action games. Games like vertical shooters. There's no role-playing genre yet, so even if you cut out the plot, you won't lose much of the gameplay.
Wait a lot, it's just that the American player happily finishes playing, fighting and killing all the way, and in the end, he doesn't understand why he manipulates the characters.
Compared with the red and white machine, the machines of other manufacturers are much more shivering.
In order to continue to occupy a part of the market, some home game console manufacturers have begun to launch new home consoles.
Because of the passage of time, the performance of these machines must be better than that of red and white machines.
As a result, these manufacturers have given their game consoles a next-era name.
The Video Game League even deliberately printed the sixteen-bit symbol on the console. I would like to explain to you that I am a sixteen-bit host, which is twice as advanced as an eight-bit host.
Any company that is the first in an industry will be the target of other companies in the industry. It's like Apple's Apple mobile phone, which has to be recycled by domestic manufacturers several times a month. Or for the time being, Xiaomi, the number one brand in China.
Almost all of them are in such a state. It's like this, but there's nothing to worry about. Lin Yan was very happy, because only in this way did it prove that Chiba Games had indeed become the number one in the industry.
The speed at which games are launched in Japan is still three games a week, and the game is launched at a uniform speed. In the U.S. and Europe, games are being launched a little faster.
Because, before entering these two markets, the red and white machine has been in Japan for a year. In the past year, there have been many, many games launched.
In order to enrich the game content of foreign game consoles and attract more people to buy red and white machines, it is not a big problem to launch it quickly.
The only problem that can be caused is that every game sells less. After all, no matter how much cartridge you launch, there is only so much money in the player's pocket.
Chiba Games has established a telephone customer service system not only in the United States, but also in various countries in Europe. Players are on standby twenty-four hours a day, and if they encounter any problems related to the red and white machines, they can call in.
In the newspapers of the United States, there was a recent report on such an incident, saying that there was a child who could not pass the level of playing with the red and white machine. So, he called Chiba Game customer service.
The customer service of Chiba Games, in the end, really only from what the kid described on the phone, let him play through that level.
The employee who worked as an operator at the time said that he had a red and white machine next to him, and if a player encountered a problem, he could immediately reproduce the problem, and then find a solution, and finally provide a solution.
In this way, the customer service department of Chiba Games has become a dream job for tens of millions of American players.
Why not play for free and make money at the same time.
Of course, there are not many people who can realize their dreams and come to work in the customer service department of Chiba Games.
There are less than 200 customer service people in North America, no more than 200 people in Europe, and only 30 people in Japan.
These operators are generally not employees of Chiba Games, but are dispatched by another company. (To be continued......)