Chapter 373: Release Date

Being able to play one of the most important roles in several first-party games that debuted on consoles is still extremely exciting for Yuji Naka.

Because it represents a kind of trust that his boss has in him.

What's more, this time's direct opponent is Sega, who he had been humiliated for no reason, for the Nintendo of the previous competition, Yuji Nakatsu has no ill feelings, and even he likes Miyamoto Shigeru's games very much, he likes some of Miyamoto Shigeru's design concepts very much, these design concepts are often mentioned when he follows Jester, Jester often mentions them when making some games, but Jester's range of games is too much and too complicated, and it is difficult to study it for a long time in a type of game.

Shigeru Miyamoto is completely different, although there are many types of games that Miyamoto has made, but his game design style is extremely uniform, and it must be fun, simple and fun, and a game that can bring joy.

This kind of understanding of the game, I think the essence of the game is not only fun, but more importantly, the design idea of bringing happiness - this idea is what Yuji Nakashi agrees with the most, like many RPGs, at the beginning of the design is not designed according to this design idea, so Yuji does not like it very much, this Jester put forward the idea of design, and his continuous improvement of the "Super Balotelli Racing" has brought this pure happy design idea to the limit.

Therefore, for this game, it is the most attentive work of Yuji Nakatsu in the four years since he participated in the development of the game.

At this time, Yuji Naka, who was so valued by Jester, couldn't help but think of more than four years ago, when he died and applied for a position, that may be his last application, after all, he was just a secondary school student, in the job search failure again and again, although he didn't want to admit it, he still insisted on shouting why don't you look at my actual level and so on.

But he already knew that if he failed again this time, he might have to completely abandon his dream of becoming a game developer he most desired and instead follow his father to manage a fish stall, which was not the life he longed for, and what he longed for was always the excitement that he had when he first came into contact with video games.

In the end, during the interview with Sega, he was mercilessly harassed by the interviewers, and their mean words can still clearly emerge from his mind, and the sour feeling is really unforgettable.

But his good fortune is that it may be the deputy interviewer who splashed a cup of coffee on his suit before, because of guilt to say a few words for himself, but he annoyed the interviewer, and finally the two of them stiffened up, and then left with the deputy interviewer......

These past events emerged from his mind like a movie one by one, and he was fortunate to follow the person named Yuxiu Yoshiro to join the Mars Entertainment Japan branch that was just established at that time, and then he was called by the big * OSS to the United States to participate in the research and development of hardware, and then he followed the big * OSS to learn how to make zuò games, this qiē experience flashed from his mind like a horse.

Now, he's made a name for himself as one of the best designers in Japan, having produced more than 3 million single-game games.

And this time, he will be the representative of the first game when the new console is released.

It's impossible to say that it's not exciting.

Yuji wanted to cry, but he still held back, and he said to Jester: "The process is very smooth, there is no special trouble, but there are more places that need to be repaired and optimized, but it can be repaired in less than a week." ”

Receiving a confirmed reply from Yuji Naka, Jester was also relieved that he could hold the launch ceremony according to the original plan.

After hanging up the call with Yuji Naka, Jester immediately contacted the executives of Fengxing Publishing and Mars Entertainment and informed them of their opinions, that is, on the fifth day of next month, that is, on the weekend, Dreambox2 will be officially released, and the game on sale at the same time will be released at the same time, and Jester also informed them that except for "Super Balotrie Racing", which Yuji Nakaji is still repairing at the end, the rest of the first party have been made a long time ago.

And whether it is popular release or Mars Entertainment, there is no objection, because the original release of new consoles is the result they want most.

Because of these two aspects, I have long been dissatisfied with the situation that only Sega has sixteen hosts on the market.

Seeing the market share that originally belonged to them being encroached upon by others, and the feeling that they are powerless, everyone will feel dissatisfied, let alone these two companies that have dominated the North American market for several years.

After determining the release time, Mars Entertainment and Fengxing Publisher also held a press conference as soon as possible to announce the news, and the players who got the news were naturally excited, and those American game media, although some of them have a bad relationship with Mars Entertainment, but after all, they are American media, and they are naturally unaccustomed to the products of a Japanese company that they are now extremely hostile to in the American market.

The key is that the previous video game market was ruled by the Americans, and when it came to the update of game consoles, they Americans fell behind, which can make many people extremely dissatisfied, so during this period of American game newspapers, the reports on the success of Sega MD in North America are always full of a sour taste.

This time Mars Entertainment finally announced the release of their new console, and the American gaming media, which had always been hostile to Sega, finally had something to brag about once again, so the next day some newspapers even released a supplement in advance, featuring games reminiscent of Mars Entertainment's entire Dreambox era, to build momentum for Drambox2.

Even these game media, which have little to do with Mars Entertainment, are inexplicably excited, not to mention the gamers who have been extremely excited about Mars Entertainment's new game console since the official release of Sega's MD.

After hearing the news that Mars Entertainment will officially release Dreambox2 on the weekend of the 5th of next month, many players even cried with joy and rushed to tell each other, which is simply the best late New Year's gift for them - of course, it is not excluded that some players complain, saying why Mars Entertainment will not release it in the Christmas season, so that they can use the money from Christmas gifts to buy Dreambox2.

Jester is also helpless about this kind of complaint, if the development progress of Dreambox can be released in the past Christmas season, he will definitely not delay until now, who doesn't know that the Christmas season release is the best choice?

And this can also make a wave of frontal sniping at Sega, so why not.

It's nothing more than a delay, there's no way.

At the first time that Mars Entertainment announced to the outside world, Hayao Nakayama, who was conducting market research in the United States and commending Sega's North American branch, also got the news at the same time, and then he immediately terminated his research on the market, and immediately held a conference call with Sega's senior management in the United States.

Only 20 hours later, Hayao Nakayama, who returned to Japan on a special plane, held a fund meeting at the Sega headquarters in Japan, and in addition to the senior management of the headquarters, the main management of the North American branch also returned to the Japanese headquarters with Hayao Nakayama to participate in this meeting.

Everyone at Sega is well aware of the power of Mars Entertainment in North America.

Moreover, many people here are also very familiar with Jester, who has worked with them and even developed games for them, and none of them do not admire Jester's talent in games.

But now, they will officially become competitors on their own side.

"Should we take any targeted measures?"

One of the directors who was working was the first to speak, but his words did not cause any strong reaction, but a few people looked at him and looked away.

And Nakayama Hayao's eyes also looked at the director who was the first to speak, and said in a tone that seemed to be a little impatient: "How can we take targeted measures against the other party's sales activities?" Now we should be thinking about how we can maintain our sales and market share growth, and at worst, maintain our current market share. ”

As he spoke, Hayao Nakayama looked around and said unceremoniously: "But judging from the current market reaction in the United States, it is very difficult to do this. ”

After Hayakuo Nakayama finished speaking, the conference room was very silent, and after everyone in the audience looked at each other a few times, they were all silent.

After more than three minutes, a young man sitting at the end of the seat stood up, and in an instant, he attracted everyone's attention. Before he could speak, Hayabusa Nakayama smiled and asked, "Do you have anything to say?" ”

The young man nodded, and without the slightest hesitation, he directly said his own opinion.

"I think that in any aspect, we have no advantage over Mars Entertainment, which is actually complimenting ourselves, in fact, our disadvantage over Mars Entertainment may be much greater than we can think of in the seat, the advantage is in the North American market, this is the opponent's home field."

As he spoke, the young man paused slightly, then licked his lips. R1152