Chapter 393: Mega Man
In short, Hisao Koguchi unknowingly played "Super Balotelli Racing" for half a day.
Then, the first thing he did was to get people on the plane that day, and immediately send the Dreambox2 console that had not yet been released in Japan with this game to Japan, hand it over to Yu Suzuki, and tell his former boss, who was also a game developer in his mind who had a great influence on him, that it would be a game that would redefine a genre.
This is a very high evaluation, and there will definitely be no more than five games that can be evaluated by Hisao Koguchi in this way.
Retracting his memories, Hisao Koguchi also sighed: "We don't have the strength to be with Mars Entertainment now, especially in the game, my so-called strategy of reducing the price of the platform share, in the end, it is just a kind of evil way, and it is very harmful to ourselves, and if we want to resist the infringement of this evil way on ourselves, then our own righteous path must be strong, but at least from the game on our MD console, we can't see this kind of game." ”
As he spoke, Hisao Koguchi paused slightly, and accentuated his tone: "I'm talking about a phenomenal game like Super Balotelli Racing!" ”
There was a lot of talk about this meeting, but there was only one thing that came out of the discussion, and that was to get the headquarters to step up the development of a work that can be called a masterpiece, so that players will immediately think that this is a Sega game when they see this game.
Sega's big price cut in North America and the launch of the Dreambox 2 are big events in the gaming world, and even in Japan, thousands of miles away, there are many followers.
In particular, Nintendo and Sony have not yet officially entered the sixteen-bit console market.
Yamauchi Pu was also extremely surprised when Sega's big price reduction remarks first came out, because he himself knew that the cost of making a sixteen-bit machine now, plus the investment required for transportation and sales, the price of 200 US dollars per unit was only barely holding on to the capital, and it was even very likely to lose money in some cases.
Yamauchi, who had previous criminal experience, resisted this, and even secretly reprimanded Sega for destroying the market.
But immediately turned back, it was his turn to be a little worried, that is, how should he set up his new console, the price of Super Nintendo, but fortunately, Mars Entertainment's reaction gave him a better hint, so that he could learn from it, anyway, he is absolutely, 100% resistant to selling hardware at a loss.
He didn't want to repeat the same mistakes again.
And Sony's reaction to this is a lot more peaceful, in the small mouth of Hisao Koguchi's price reduction remarks just finished speaking, Kutaragi Ken took the initiative to talk about this matter in an interview, his statement is very intriguing, he thinks, a game developer can not rely on hardware to make money, should rely on software to make money, this is a kind of behavior they have confidence in their own software.
When the interviewer asked Kutaragi Ken whether Sony's PS console would be sold at a price similar to Sega's MD console, Kutaragi Ken did not give a clear answer, but only answered ambiguously: "The pricing of the product is not something I can decide alone, but for me personally, I think the price of MD is very appropriate." ”
However, the day after Ken Kutaragi was interviewed, he was seen appearing in front of the building at Capcom's headquarters.
This photo made the headlines of a certain news program in the first place, and even the headline used the extremely sensational "Capcom Mutiny!" The title of "The Story Repeats Itself Four Years Ago", because Capcom defected from Nintendo's royalty camp four years ago.
As the weakest of the six famous game developers at that time, Kenzo Kimoto seized the opportunity to break away from Sony's royalty camp and join the camp of Mars Entertainment when Mars Entertainment's Dreambox needed to enter the Japanese market, and the expansion of the Japanese market definitely needed the full support of local game developers in Japan.
With the support of Mars Entertainment, Capcom has now become one of the largest game development companies in Japan, and with the departure of Namco and Hudson, their current prestige is enough to be compared to Konami.
It is really amazing that these two two weakest game development companies can now have such a status when the six major start-ups were founded.
It is precisely because of Capcom's previous betrayal that it makes people think so much.
Jester also got the report of the Japanese branch as soon as possible, and he knew about the news of Ken Kutaragi and Kenzo Relocation in less than half an hour when Ken Kutaragi first appeared at Capcom's headquarters, but he didn't make a statement.
Ken Kutaragi has visited many game development companies before, not only Kenzo Tsumoto, but even Enix, he has also visited, not only visited the president of Enix, but also personally visited Yuji Tsukui, the producer of "Dragon Quest".
The content of these interviews is unknown, but meeting these people at this time is enough to show Sony's wolf ambitions.
So not only is Mars Entertainment dissatisfied with this, even Nintendo is very dissatisfied, for Mars Entertainment, Capcom's position in their system is important, but it is not undesirable, and Enix, or Yuji Dig and his "Dragon Quest" series, is absolutely indispensable to Nintendo.
It can even be said that this is the most resolute shield they use against the RPG offensive of Mars Entertainment.
Therefore, the day after Kenzo Qianmoto met with Yuji Tsuii, Pu Yamauchi also visited in person, and the content of their discussion is unknown to the outside world, but someone just lined up with a photo of Pu Yamauchi when he left, full of light, obviously, the result of the negotiation between the two sides was very happy.
Jester did not visit Kenzo in person.
He really knows Qian Benxian too well, this person, he is a pure businessman, in his eyes, there are only interests at all, but it can't be said that they don't know how to learn about Entu, if you have a favor to him, he will repay the favor, but he feels that after his repayment is almost over, then the two do not owe each other.
As for the sale of games on the platform, Kenzo looks at it more directly, and it is more essential, he thinks this is a mutually beneficial thing, I play the game, you collect the royalty, the two win-win, the same, it is also not indebted, if there is a better platform that can provide me with greater benefits, then I will not hesitate to go to the new platform.
As long as Sony's PS has not even been released so far, it is impossible for Kenzo to change his mind.
Even if the pie that Sony drew for him is delicious, until he can't see the specific prospects of PS, Kenzo Qianmoto will definitely not reveal any thoughts of wanting to switch to the other camp, as for whether he has thought about it, it is unknown.
Even, in Jester's expectation, after the announcement of the number of his Dreambox2 releases, he didn't need to contact Kenzo Mimoto himself, according to Kenzo Mimoto's character, he would contact himself directly and explain to himself that he met Ken Kutaragi.
Sure enough, the news that Mars Entertainment announced that its sales exceeded one million units in three days had just been issued no more than an hour later.
Jester received a call from Kenzo Tsumoto.
Even what Jester said on the phone was similar to what he had guessed before, and it was definitely impossible for Kenzo Mimoto, the old fox, to say anything nutritious on the phone, just some without the slightest nutrition, to discuss the release of their game on Dreambox 2.
This time it was a surprise to Jester.,Capcom's games are generally speaking,Or the arcade version will be released first.,After all, the performance of the arcade machine is indeed on the home machine.,Some new ideas.,Games with innovative systems,It's all now on the arcade and perfect.,And this time,Kenzo Mimoto said,This time they will be for the first launch of Dreambox2,Specially made a game.。
The game is not a new game, but a sequel to a series of games, this game has achieved excellent results both in the arcade and on the previous Dreambox, especially its version of the Dreambox, which is called a masterpiece in action games, enough to be compared with the last game left by Yokoi Gunhei in Nintendo, "Metroid".
At that time, it was rated as a work with 39 points by FAMI-tsu.
"President Kenzo Mijimoto, do you really plan to put the launch platform of "Mega Man 3" on Dreambox 2?" Jester was still a little unconvinced when he heard Kenzo Mimoto's statement, and he had mentioned it a few times before, asking Capcom to shift the focus of "Mega Man" to home consoles, because this kind of action game has begun to decline in arcades.
However, Kenzo always said haha about this, and he promised it very well at the time, but he quickly forgot about it, and as for whether it was intentional or not, only I know.
"Yes, Mr. Lee, Keiji Inifune has inspected your Dreambox2 platform before, and he said that it is really a perfect work of art, and he said that it is his dream to be able to debut his work on such a platform."
And Kenzo Qianmoto naturally won't forget to give Jester a big sycophant.
Jester naturally won't be stunned by the other party's sycophants. R1152