Chapter 53: Advanced and Backward

The stall of Chiba Games is getting bigger and bigger, and it is gradually not something that Lin Yan can fully grasp.

If someone had played Chiba games a year ago, he would have explained them one by one.

Now, however, if he were asked, he could not have said so clearly.

After all, people's energy is limited, if Lin Yan is always following the progress of every game in the company, as well as the progress of all third-party manufacturers' games. Then he hardly has the space and time to make his own games anymore.

Whether a game like StarCraft can come out or not is a question.

In fact, the production of "StarCraft" is also a challenge for the staff of the fifth part. After all, you have never made a computer game before, and if you have to port a game, you usually have to leave it to an outsourcing company.

Because, for Chiba games, the red and white machine and the handheld machine are their basic disk.

In fact, when Lin Yan was making "StarCraft", some people said that he was not doing his job. There is a skeptical attitude towards the development of StarCraft.

After all, making computer games is really not much money, far less than developing games on red and white machines.

Chiba Games, as the first party, has gray profits on the red and white machine. For example, a cassette costs 3,000 yen, and Chiba Games earns 1,200 yuan in production costs.

Among them, there is a licensing fee of 800 yen, and the remaining 200 yen is the hardware cost of the cartridge, and the remaining 200 yuan is swallowed up by Chiba Games.

Without explaining where the money went, no one knew where it went, except for a few people at the top of Chiba Games.

With red and white machines, there are now nearly 100 million units in the world. The sales of the released games can be described as appalling. People who don't understand. When you hear real sales figures, your first instinct is not to believe them. Rather, I thought it was a joke.

Probably the most important thing for a modern business is cash flow. Chiba Games does not allow third-party production of game cartridges, and does not accept cash on delivery, requiring full prepayment.

The cycle of factory production of cassettes is generally between 30 and 50 days, and the cost of making cassettes during this time can be used by Chiba Games.

Even, there are already rumors of grapevine. Chiba Games is the company with the largest cash flow and the strongest purchasing power in Japan.

However, Chiba Games doesn't seem to be interested in anything other than video games, and has not invested heavily in real estate or entered any new industries.

Even, there was no blood transfusion to the Chiba Group, the nominal parent company.

Play the game quietly, and there is nothing more than that. Even, when there is economic strength. There are few demands on other matters. After all, with the relationship of the Chiba Group, even if there is an appeal, you don't need to do it yourself with Chiba Games. The parent company has been able to help them do so.

Lin Yan looked at the fax letter, the report about the North American Chiba Game Carnival, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. This is in addition to the "Video Game Players Conference". "Game Developers Conference", the third successful conference held by Chiba Games.

Basically these successful conventions. It will become a repertoire every year. Even if the old players get bored, there will be new players on top.

Of course. The cornerstone of all this is that the games of Chiba Games are still fun and attractive. It can still attract a large number of players to play.

This is a challenge for other companies, after all, no company can always be on the cusp of the times and control all the gaming trends.

Even a Chiba game with Hayashi Hayashi can't say that it can do this, after all, there will always be accidents. Small accidents, after being magnified layer by layer, will become monstrous waves. It's like because a butterfly is waving its wings and flooding a continent.

What Lin Yan can do is only grasp some key nodes. However, even with these nodes, Chiba games may not be able to prosper for a long time. It's like there is no dynasty for 300 years, and some things, although everyone knows they are right, can save the status quo.

However, these strategies are also beneficial for them in the future, but for the present, they are real losses.

At this time, foresight will become short-sighted, after all, there are only a few saints in this world, and few people can lose their own interests to save others.

In one word, it is that there is no way back, and even if there is a solution, it is almost impossible to implement, and eventually it goes bankrupt.

The royalty system that Hayashi set for Chiba Games before is such a system. This may not be a good system for third-party manufacturers, but it is a really beneficial system for Chiba Games.

In the era when Atari had just collapsed, this strict royalty system was indeed an advanced system. However, the advanced nature of this system cannot be maintained forever. After all, times are constantly evolving. No matter who it is, it will change from advanced to backward. If we cannot give up backwardness, or if we cannot give up backwardness and become a part of the advanced, we will inevitably be eliminated. This is true of all kinds of derivatives, from nature to human society.

Lin Yan looked at the numbers on the paper, and a vague smile appeared on his face, but he didn't know if he would suffer a huge backlash when he planned to use the royalty system, and maybe he would be kicked out of the company by Chiba Games.

That's right, his relationship with Chiba Yuki is indeed very good, but for the sake of interests, relatives whose blood is thicker than water can turn against each other. If you want the relationship to be good forever, all you need is to know what to do and what not to do.

If you blindly go too far, then even if you are a good friend, you can't be good forever.

Hayashi felt that it was necessary to talk to Yuki Chiba, after all, the birth of Chiba Games was basically just a joke entrepreneurial activity at the beginning.

It's a bit like the "Destiny Game" and the Totaka Game Club, which are much smaller than Chiba Games now. It's all the product of what Chiba Yuki wants to do, and Lin Yan has some ideas.

What Chiba Yuki wants is to prove himself, while Hayashi wants a help with resources. Therefore, when two people hit it off, the relationship and friendship become better and better.

It's so good that Chiba Yuki once seriously considered whether to let Lin Yan be his fiancé.

If it is an ordinary person, even if he is disdainful of the identity of his son-in-law, he can hardly refuse Chiba Yuki, after all, marrying Chiba Yuki means marrying the Chiba Group, which means that he is rich and rivals the country. (To be continued.) )