Chapter 40: Do You Bet Me? (Ask for a recommendation ticket!!)
When Jester was questioned by Oprah and said that his company was about to launch three new games, and that there were two more major games in development, the audience who participated in the recording couldn't help but let out a voice of surprise.
Many people in it thought that Jester made the game called "American Cubes" just for the first pot of gold, and when he made money, his company would definitely transform, such as making computers.
Computers are now an absolutely new industry, and everyone is optimistic about it, and I don't know how many people are flocking into this industry that seems to be full of gold.
Because the industry is indeed flooded with amazing windfall profits right now.
On the other hand, a year ago, it was still a big hit video game, but with the collapse of Atari, it has long been at the end of the road, and whoever enters is stupid.
Jester watched the reaction of the people in the audience, which he expected, and the damage that Atari did to the entire American video game industry is difficult to describe in words, if I have to use one word, it is destruction.
It's a lot harder to rebuild than to rebuild, especially to get a dead player to change their minds.
Jester knows that this can be achieved overnight in less than a day or two, even if it is a masterpiece with no shortcomings like "Super Mario", it will not sell 40 million copies overnight, it will take time, and it will take a lot of time to make up for the trauma that players have had.
Let's even tell the news of the home machine.
Jester's mind suddenly had this idea irrepressibly, and he actually wanted to see how he would react when he told him about his business, a company that was now making everyone jealous and jealous, go dark in this industry that everyone didn't look good for.
Will it be exciting? Aha, this company that has gone through shit luck is finally going to kill itself!
Jester didn't know, but he could.
While everyone was still immersed in the news that he had previously announced that his company would continue to develop games, he said another piece of news in a very flat tone that made these people even more uncomfortable.
"My company has fully integrated the previous Atari hardware development team, and they are now working on a new console that completely exceeds the performance of all the home games on the market today, and there will be exact product information announced by the end of the year, official samples, and will also participate in the CESA show in Las Vegas early next year."
This time, the casual audience was no longer the same surprise they had when they heard Jester talk about the new game, and the expressions on their faces gradually changed to shock, and at the same time, a buzzing discussion rang out, and despite the chaos, Jester could still roughly hear their similar arguments.
"He's crazy!"
"Did he forget about Atari?"
"It's not like you can't make a game and succeed!"
"They're killing themselves!"
"In this market prospect, it's just a matter of making arcade games, and they dare to make home console games?"
Etcetera.
Oprah didn't expect this to happen, she also looked at Jester with some surprise, although she didn't know much about this aspect, but she still knew that if it was just to develop a game, the investment would not be too high, even if several games failed in a row, it would not be too bad, after all, you can't build thousands of arcade machines in advance and put them there as inventory.
But home is different, home consoles are facing players, game cartridges are also facing players, at least you must reserve more than 100,000 units of stock before you can sell them, 100,000 units is a concept, if you can't sell it out of production, it is at least tens of millions of losses, plus at least four or five games that accompany the game console, according to 100,000 copies of each game, that is, four or five hundred thousand copies.
You know, it's rumored that Atari just buried 790,000 copies of the game cartridge in the landfill in the desert of New Mexico.
A giant like Atari can't afford such a loss, let alone a company that has just been established but only has an arcade machine that sells well?
She wanted to persuade Jester, but she thought that her relationship was not so close, and it was a little difficult to speak for a while.
Jester also noticed Oprah's strangeness, he still had a good impression of this talk show girl who would become famous in the future-Wang, so he said directly: "It's okay, I know what I'm doing, the slogan I shouted when I was recruiting before was to make the best game, relying on the slogan of reviving the video game industry, and the big sale of "American Cubes" to recruit this group of the best game designers in the United States, they gathered around me with their love for video games, as a person who loves video games, At the same time, people who really want to revive the industry, I can't live up to them, and I can't live up to myself. And ......"
Jester paused, his eyes glancing at the buzzing audience below, and a smile appeared, his tone becoming extremely confident, "Ms. Oprah, are you so sure I'm going to fail?" ”
Oprah listened to Jester's words, she also showed a bright smile, she could see a look of déjà vu in Jester's eyes, and her eyes when she vowed to be the best host, no longer ridiculed and discriminated against by those male colleagues, firm like a piece of steel, so she no longer insisted on her previous thoughts, since the other party was full of confidence in what she was going to do, why should she worry about it.
"I wish you success."
"Lend you good words."
Jester nodded, not saying too much.
As the voices of the audience faded away, the interview continued, but no matter what questions were asked, it could not cause a shock like Jester's sudden announcement that he was working on a new console and would enter the destroyed home console industry.
This dullness lasted until the end, when Oprah suddenly said that she had obtained a tape of a new game launch and demo held by Mars Entertainment the other day, which attracted the attention of the audience again.
They were also curious about what Jester's new game would look like, who had just been so arrogant about reviving video games.
However, it may disappoint them, this tape does not have a specific game introduction, but mainly focuses on the grand occasion of the release of the trial, and there are only a few shots of the specific game screen.
However, the players interviewed were full of praise for Mars Entertainment's three latest games, and interviewed more than a dozen people in a row, from teenagers to young people in their twenties, including adults in their thirties.
They unanimously rated all three games as if they had different gameplay, but they were all games that were not inferior to American Cubes.
This made these audience members unable to sit still, not inferior to "American Cubes"? A "American Cube" made Mars Entertainment sell nearly $100 million in sales, and three games that are not inferior are worth it, so isn't it another $300 million to sell?
It's just nonsense.
How can dollars be so profitable? Are we Americans stupid and how fast does money come?
This video is fake at first glance, and the people in it are all looking for actors, and all the people in it are self-directed and self-acted by Mars Entertainment, otherwise, how could they only let the game reveal a few shots that they can't understand the gameplay at all?
That's naked-naked-naked hype!
Especially when the recorder of this video said that some players who were still unsatisfied after trying it out spent money to buy other people's license plates and experience it again, and the price went straight from $50 to $100, the audience showed a look of indignation.
This tape is an insult to their intelligence!
"Damn yellow-skinned monkey! You're a liar! Finally, one of the audience members finally couldn't help it and scolded fiercely, and after that, the word liar spread like a signal throughout the audience, and more than 100 spectators in the audience all looked at Jester with fierce eyes, and then shouted liars in unison.
There were even a few who stood up, as if they wanted to come forward and use their flesh-and-body to educate Jester about his previous arrogance and this deception.
At this time, even Oprah showed a somewhat panicked look, she had never encountered such a situation, and she also knew that this tape was recorded by a colleague of ABC, and she had doubts after watching it beforehand, but when she contacted Jack Astom, who was in charge of the location interview at ABC, she was shocked by his answer.
"It's more popular than the tapes you see."
This is nothing, Yan zhòng is the words of the yellow-skinned monkey before, this is naked-naked-naked racism, not to mention that she is a black person, and she hates it even more.
"Haha......"
Just as Oprah tried to stand up and stop the noise, Jester laughed out loud.
He looked at the already angry audience with some disdain, and said in a contemptuous tone: "Even if you say I'm a liar, you have to see how these three games are." ”
As he spoke, Jester stretched out his hand to point to the somewhat sturdy white man who was the first to shout the words yellow-skinned monkey and liar just now, still with a faint smile on his face, but there was a hint of coldness in his smile, "Dare to ask this gentleman, can you tell me your name?" ”
The white man looked at the equally flushed and angry crowd around him, and he said his name aloud without the slightest hesitation: "Henry Stuart, my name is Henry Stuart, what do you want?" ”
But this time he didn't say the word racist again, and he also knew that just by virtue of the discriminatory word he had before, it was enough to make him annoyed.
In the United States, racial discrimination is something that can be done, but not said.
It's taboo.
"It's nothing, since you say I'm a liar, do you dare to make a bet with me? If anyone loses, they're going to run three laps around the Art Institute of Chicago naked, and the whole process will be broadcast live to the whole of the United States -- don't worry, I'll pay for all the live broadcasts. As he spoke, a malicious look appeared on Jester's face, and his eyes were full of cold light as he looked at the white man.
Then the big white man named Henry Stuart couldn't say a word as if he had eaten a fly, and he looked at the people around him who also looked at him, and he didn't want to back down at this time in any way.
But, obviously, his momentum was not as strong as before, and he was silent for several seconds before he opened his mouth and pretended to be loud, and roared fiercely: "I want to know what you want to bet on first!" ”
"It's the fact that you say I'm a liar, so I'm going to do a press conference and demo like Costa Mesa in Chicago, and I'll buy this time slot to broadcast live to the whole of the United States, if my three games can't cause a sensation in Chicago, then I lose, if it causes a sensation, you lose, how about it?"
Jester grinned, revealing his white teeth, his smile seemed bright, and the look in his eyes seemed to be the same as before, but he was surprised to reveal an undisguised chill.
PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket!!