Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy are both good games, and that's true.

However, Hironobu Sakaguchi has been working with Jester in the United States for too long, and he has been working with the development team with a strong Americanization of Mars Entertainment, so there are a lot of Americanized designs in the game production, which is similar to the design of "Final Fantasy" that Jester knows.

Because in the original "Final Fantasy" design team, the most important thing was two people, one was Hironobu Sakaguchi, the producer, and the other was an American named Gibbelly, which was the main program of the "Final Fantasy" project team at that time.

And now, Gibbelli, a personal designer who is very famous for developing games on the Apple II, has also joined Mars Entertainment, and has also worked with Jester on the "Fire Emblem" team, probably because of his own providence, and he and Hironobu Sakaguchi have also formed a friendship behind him.

Finally, when Hironobu Sakaguchi returned to Japan to set up a development team, he also sent an invitation to Gibberley.

And Giberly agreed without hesitation.

So, on Final Fantasy, in the beginning, it wasn't so Japanese.

And the results of sales also fully illustrate this point.

When the sales of North America and Europe came out on the first day, the media was still collectively singing and declining the day before, because in the face of this kind of sales, no one can say [Mars Entertainment is going to change from prosperity to decline, otherwise, "Final Fantasy" will sell hundreds of thousands of sales in a single day Mars Entertainment is going to go out of business, so what will happen to Nintendo.

It's just that the best-selling in Europe and the United States can't bring the effect that Jester wants in the Japanese market, and in the Japanese market, the sales of Final Fantasy really can't be said to be low, and after Jester has seen the number of surveys, after the release of Final Fantasy, there are still many players who love this game, but there is no Dreambox. Also went to buy one.

Such a number of people is very large, just a preliminary prediction, there are tens of thousands.

But still, Dreambox's market share in Japan has not increased, but has dropped by two percentage points, from 25 percent to 23 percent, because "Dragon Quest" is so popular, whether it is a child who is still in elementary school or a young person who has already entered middle school. Or college students who have entered a university campus, as long as they are interested in video games, there are almost no people who don't like this game, and not only that, but there are even many people who never pay attention to video games, just because they like to read manga, and in order to support Akira Toriyama, they also went to buy FC.

After that, I became a fan of the game.

This cross-border influence. Jester didn't have that, and a month later, Final Fantasy sales in Japan stopped at 600,000 copies, and the game was well-received. In addition to falling out with Mars Entertainment, "Fami Pass", which is forbidden to report on Mars Entertainment's games, ignores this, and it seems that there has never been such a game in the world, other game media. They also praised the game, and they all said in the article that this sales volume can explain a qiē.

This is not sarcasm. Although it is far inferior to the 2.7 million copies of "Dragon Quest" in Japan a month later, in terms of market share, one out of every three Dreamboxes in Japan has purchased "Final Fantasy", while for FC, it is five.

As for the disappointment, for Hironobu Sakaguchi, it is almost certain.

His feelings for Jester are very deep, for Jester, he feels that it is his mentor, so that he can see the direction of progress again in the game career IQ that has been confused, and he is only grateful to Jester and Hironobu Sakaguchi, gratitude, he knows Jester's importance to "Final Fantasy".

I just want to rely on this game to open up the Japanese market.

Unfortunately, the results were dismal.

Jester, who was far away in the United States, also heard Tamahide Yoshiro say that Hironobu Sakaguchi's will has been depressed recently, and after giving the people in the development team a month's vacation, he should have started the preliminary preparations for the next game as a producer, but Tamahide Yoshiro asked several times in a row, and Hironobu Sakaguchi was all distracted.

When he heard the news, Jester also felt a little funny, in fact, this time in the Japanese market did not open up the situation as he thought, it was also in his expectation, originally, "Dragon Quest" This game is called the Japanese national RPG in history, and the status of this game in the eyes of the Japanese is supreme, not to mention, in this world, Yuji Digging in the reference to "Fire Emblem", the production of zuò is more complete than the original work of the first work of zuò.

Moreover, even if "Dragon Quest" finally sold 2.7 million copies in the Japanese market, compared with the world sales of 4 million copies of "Final Fantasy", it is a huge gap, and in Jester's opinion, Hironobu Sakaguchi has no need to be depressed at all.

After Jester personally made a phone call that didn't play the role he wanted, he simply wanted to inspect Hideo Kojima's "Hidden Dragon Gun" that was being tested.

If Jester wants to compete for the Japanese market, it is naturally impossible to rely on only one "Final Fantasy", and he also prepared the next "Hidden Dragon Granulative" and later Yuji Naka's "Phantasy Star", but what he values most is actually "Final Fantasy" and "Phantasy Star", two Japanese-style RPG games.

On the contrary, for "Metal Solid", Jester feels that it may be more liked by players in Europe and the United States.

At the headquarters of the Mars Entertainment Branch in Osaka, Jester met Hironobu Sakaguchi, who had not been reduced for nearly half a year, and Hironobu Sakaguchi also grew a pair of mustaches on his lips, he had no beard before, which gave Jester some familiarity, after all, in his memory, Hironobu Sakaguchi's nickname was a mustache.

And this pair of mustaches on his lips has basically become his nickname.

"Don't have a plan for what's next?" Jester asked Hironobu Sakaguchi to sit down, and then asked with a smile. He didn't ask why the other party was in a sluggish state during this time, but directly talked to him about his next plans.

Hearing Jester's question, Mr. Hironobu Sakaguchi hesitated, he frowned and thought for a while, during which he even took a few sips of coffee, Jester has been waiting quietly, not bothering the other party.

"Boss, I don't have any idea of the next game, my mind is full of thoughts that this time I have lived up to your expectations of me." Hironobu Sakaguchi was ashamed to say this, he lowered his head and whispered, and Jester laughed strangely when he heard it.

Jester asked inexplicably, "How did you live up to my expectations of you?" Final Fantasy is only selling millions of copies compared to Fire Emblem and Balotelli's Otherworldly Adventure, and if you can make a game like this and say that it lives up to my expectations of you, then I am going to commit suicide with my own Heavy Loader. ”

After saying it in a teasing tone, Jester was the first to laugh.

"But......" Hironobu Sakaguchi obviously wanted to say something, although Jester hadn't said it in front of him before, but he knew that Jester was interested in the Japanese market.

But before he could finish his sentence, Jester interrupted him directly.

Jester waved his hand and said: "Actually, what you said is not bad, I really value the Japanese market, let you follow me for so long, and the very good Japanese in the United States have come back to Japan to set up your own design team, just to let you people who understand Japan and understand what kind of games Japanese players like to play, to make games that Japanese people like, so that I can open up this market." ”

Hearing Jester say this, Hironobu Sakaguchi couldn't help but nod his head, he had thought so before.

"But......" Jester's voice suddenly changed, his eyes looked at Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Hironobu Sakaguchi, who had always regarded Jester as his idol, saw Jester suddenly look at him with such a formal gaze, Art couldn't help but sit up straight, only to hear Jester continue, "You are first and foremost a designer, you make a game for players to play, as long as players like your game, then it represents your success." ”

As he spoke, Jester stood up, he picked up a large stack of texts from the table, and then walked to Hironobu Sakaguchi's side, put the stack in front of him, and said: "If you look at the reports of these publications, they are all praise for your Final Fantasy, and there are even many people who say that your game, just looking at the level of the game, is above "Dragon Quest", even if you don't say so, you are saying that it is not inferior to "Dragon Quest". None of them say that your game is inferior to the other party, so why are you still holding on to it? ”

After speaking, Jester patted Hironobu Sakaguchi on the shoulder, and continued with a smile: "In the Japanese market, I didn't complete my previous predetermined goal, which has nothing to do with you, first of all, I mispredicted the power of the game "Dragon Quest", and secondly, our Dreambbox market share in Japan is too low. ”

Hearing Jester say this, Hironobu Sakaguchi quickly stood up and bowed violently to Gist, he said with some trepidation: "Boss, I didn't say that our machine has a low share in Japan, but I think I could have relied on this game to lower the gap between us and Nintendo in terms of market share...... It's a pity to disappoint you. (To be continued......) R1292