Chapter 318: The Carnival is in progress
However, the idea of forming an association with game companies as the core must be done as much as possible, and it must be carried out simultaneously in the United States and Japan, otherwise, as long as they start to do it in the United States, Nintendo may be able to immediately understand their ideas, and they will be able to make a momentum in Japan immediately - using the conservative ideas of the Japanese, taking advantage of the momentum and public opinion of the Japanese gamer countries, they can easily seize the opportunity in the Japanese market.
Of course, Jester does not rule out that there are many Japanese game companies that also have this kind of feeling, but since they are companies, then the vast majority of them must be profit-oriented, as long as they are tempted to profit, then Nintendo will have no chance.
At that time, the general trend of itself has become a big trend, and Nintendo will either choose to join, or choose to resist it on its own, as they did against Sony's Cesa.
However, at that time, Sony only integrated most of the Japanese manufacturers, and there were many choices for Nintendo, such as E3, coupled with the huge influence and heritage they have established in the past ten years, there is no pressure on their original intention to open, after all, they already had a very large fan base at that time, but what about this world?
They are far from the influence and fans in the world that Jester remembers.
After thinking of this, Jester immediately contacted his assistant and asked him to contact the video game manufacturers in the United States, of course, it can't be all, only need to include more than second-rate ones, and at the same time, he also contacted Japan's Tamahide Yoshiro and told him his idea briefly, and the details will be discussed in detail after the carnival is over.
However, in Japan, I also try my best to contact those companies that are close to me.
After hearing this, Tamahideyoshiro was also very interested in Jester's idea of this video game association and a special game exhibition, but it was limited to telephone communication, and it was impossible for the two to go into too much detail, and when he heard Jester ask him to quietly contact Japanese game manufacturers, he seemed to think of something. After a slight hesitation, Tamahideyoshiro asked something that Jester had inadvertently overlooked.
"Would you like to contact Sega?"
"Sega?" Hearing this question from Tamahide Yoshiro, Jester was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that at this time Sega had also entered the troubled waters of home game consoles, MD is a very good home game console, and Sega's R&D capabilities are also trustworthy, and there will definitely be a place for Sega in the future video game market.
For Jester, the gaming market is simply too big, and for players. Games are very subjective choices, it is impossible for a game company to control the entire industry forever, although they now seem to have the best market share, but this is just because in the wild era of video games, they entered the market early, occupying the first-mover advantage, with the passage of time, players will become more and more mature, they will like a variety of games. The entire market will also become more detailed in the larger environment.
In Jester's eyes, the most that his family is dominant is that it can maintain an era. When Sony completely disguises itself in private and joins this feast of video games without disguise, it will inevitably become a bipolar or even multipolar situation. It is impossible for such a situation to be transferred by the will of a single person.
This is what the video game world of the future will look like.
And this is what Jester wants to be at his peak and the most influential in the industry. If you do it in the future, you will definitely not be as happy as you are now.
The carnival is actually a large-scale party, Jester himself is also walking around in the various exhibition halls, looking at the full scene, from time to time many people found Jester dressed casually, have come forward to him to autograph, and Jester is also not refused, and even he was specially looking for someone to design a simple and easy to learn one-stroke autograph for himself, and now it just came in handy.
In addition to the ubiquitous cosplay and the trial of a variety of games that have not yet been released, it is also essential to have a commemorative product for a party like this.
For example, some exclusive game character dolls, key chains, and even some props made in proportion, or reduced or equal proportions, are also sold in the carnival, and players can also redeem a gift at a special point with admission tickets, which are not expensive compared to a few hundred dollars in tickets, but the value of the commemoration should be unparalleled.
For example, in this gift, players will randomly get a badge of the first Mars Carnival for several years, this badge is in every gift bag, but the reason why it is graded refers to the fact that this badge has three levels of gold, silver, and bronze, and the price of the gold commemorative badge is naturally far more expensive than the price of the ticket, but it is also very rare, in less than 30,000 tickets, there are only five.
The venue of the competition is arranged in Hall B, which has undergone special decoration and set up a rostrum, on both sides of the platform, which is the contestants this time, and a large screen is in the center of the rostrum, which is to facilitate the audience in front of the rostrum.
When Jester arrived in Hall B, it was already overcrowded, not only were the nearly 1,000 seats prepared, but even some of the aisles were crowded with players watching the game.
Of course, Jester, as the boss of Mars Entertainment, naturally has privileges, and he directly entered the scene of the game through the work area behind Guò.
The two days before the start of the "Street Fighter" tournament selected eight finalists in the qualifiers, and Daigo Umehara naturally became the No. 1 seed with an indisputable winning record, and the rules of the finals at the carnival site are completely different from the qualifiers, the qualifiers use a round battle system similar to that in the football league, that is, a person plays against someone other than himself, the winner gets points, and the loser has no points, and finally chooses to enter the top eight with a total score. If there is a tie, then there is an extra game between the two, and then the winner will be determined and the seats will be determined.
This method can be said to be the fairest way, which can basically eliminate the accidental factor of a qiē.
Of course, the only drawback may be that there are very high requirements for the contestants' physical, mental, and willpower, and there is still time.
In the finals held at the carnival, this method is not very adaptable, first of all, this method is too dull and irritating for the audience, and the audience is not much interested in watching the contestants play next to each other and then divide the seats, and secondly, this method is too time-consuming, the carnival time is limited, and it is impossible to waste so much time.
In such a venue, in this case, the most suitable way of competition is undoubtedly the one-on-one elimination mode, and this form, with the greatest chance, is also the easiest to drive the emotions of the audience.
The eight finalists will tie for seven in the game mode, and this number of games will not completely eliminate the accidental factor, nor will it make the audience aesthetically fatigued.
Now that the first three matches have ended, one from the United States, one from Canada, and one from the United Kingdom have reached the semi-finals, and the biggest favorite of the tournament is Daigo Umehara, while the other is a player from the United States, to Jester's surprise, the player from the United States turned out to be a man with black hair and yellow skin.
"What's his name?" Jester pointed to the opponent of Umehara Daigo, and immediately a staff member stepped forward and handed over a piece of paper with detailed information about the contestant, Jester glanced down and saw the nationality of the other party at first glance, a Korean.
"Park Ji-hyung?"
Jester read a sentence silently, he must have never heard of it, but according to the information on this piece of paper, this one is called Park Zhiheng, a Korean international student, who entered the U.S. finals through the U.S.-Central regional trials, and in the final U.S. finals, his score was fifth, and he was originally not eligible to participate, but because the fourth place had no way to participate except for a car accident, so he came on as a substitute.
Unexpectedly, this Korean student, who was not favored at the beginning, actually presented a very good press conference in the qualifiers a few days ago, and finally tied for eighth place, and after a round of play-offs in Tongguò, eliminated the second place in the Japanese division and entered the final of the quarterfinals.
In the previous qualifiers, Park Zhiheng was not perfectly killed by Daigo Umehara, but the final outcome was that Daigo Umehara won the game with a very easy 3-0.
"Basically, there is no suspense!" Jester handed the piece of paper back to the staff member beside him, and said casually.
This staff member may be involved in a lot of relationships, and he still has a thorough understanding of the strength of each player, he also nodded after hearing Jester's words, and said: "Well, the gap between him and the level of the Japanese child is still quite large, I can't believe that the Japanese child has such a strong comprehension ability for this game, in the previous qualifiers, only the second place in the points and this Japanese child are inseparable, and the final champion and runner-up must have been produced between these two people." (To be continued......) R640