Hearing Jester say this, Kutaragi Ken was a little silent.

Because he himself has not had such an experience, he has not experienced first-hand those indie game makers, when they want to make a game in their hearts, that kind of hardship, so, when Jester said that he himself made it from such an indie game maker, Kutaragi Ken was speechless.

For a high-achieving student like him who graduated from Tokyo Electro-Communications University, just after graduation, he joined Sony, which was not very famous in Japan at the time, and his classmates, the university all joined NTT, which was far more famous than Sony at that time, but with his talent, he also rose to prominence within Sony, until now, he has become a leader in one field of Sony.

However, it is a bit uncertain to say that Ken Kutaragi has not experienced a difficult environment.

Therefore, after Jester finished speaking, Kutaragi Ken was silent for a while, and then shook his head slightly, and said: "As you said, Mr. Li, as a hardware engineer, I have been working at Sony since graduation, and I have indeed not experienced the difficulties and embarrassment of the independent game maker you mentioned. ”

As he spoke, Ken Kutaragi's tone paused.

"However, Mr. Li, you may not know that when I was in my third year of college, my father was seriously ill, and my family wanted me to drop out of school to take over my family's small printing house and bookstore......

Jester quietly listened to Kutaragi Ken finish talking about his experience, and he was also embarrassed.

"Sorry to remind you of something unpleasant."

After listening to Ken Kutaragi's story, Jester also apologized and expressed his apology: "It's true that I didn't think it through. ”

Kutaragi shook his head.

"Nothing, everyone has experienced a difficult situation, as long as there is perseverance and perseverance, they can survive, combined with my own experience, I can understand the difficulties you said about the indie game system people to face, and I also have the heart of a villain to spend the belly of a gentleman, before I really didn't expect that you, as the industry share**, would have the courage to do this kind of thing."

Jester and Kutaragi Ken didn't talk for long, after all, the two of them also had a lot of things.

This time, Ken Kutaragi came to the United States, in addition to attending the GDC Global Game Developers Conference, he also had to deal with some matters of some North American branches.

This is Satoshi Iwata's first time in the United States, and he was invited to Los Angeles to participate in the first GDC, the Global Game Developers Conference.

In fact, the original Iwata Satoshi had no intention of coming, because the cost of a trip to the United States was too great, and his salary was not too high, especially after Nintendo announced its withdrawal from the game industry for transformation, as Nintendo's funded establishment, and has been making games for Nintendo or OEM games for the industry, this period of time has also been a dismal business.

Even because it is not a direct subsidiary of Nintendo, when Nintendo split the game department, and the major game companies were eyeing Nintendo's game talents, their research institute was rarely interested.

Even, Iwata Satoshi has heard that Nintendo's headquarters has planned to stop continuing to inject funds into the HAL Research Institute, that is, they, the remaining members of the HAL Research Institute, can only get the last consolation money and then be dismissed, and then become unemployed.

But he was different from those young people who had just graduated from college.

He has graduated for eight or nine years, and as a person born in five or nine, he is thirty-one years old this year, and it is really impossible to be as dedicated as those young people, and then work hard for qualifications in the new company, but as a game producer, he really can't think of what kind of work he can do besides making games.

Just when he felt that his future was bleak and there was no light in sight, he suddenly received an invitation, an invitation to GDC, the Global Game Developers Conference, held in Los Angeles in January this year.

Moreover, in the entire HAL Institute, he was the only one who received the invitation from the organizers.

At that time, Satoshi Iwata was planning to refuse.

Because with Nintendo's withdrawal from the game industry, the salary of the HAL Research Institute has also shrunk significantly, and he still has a family to support, so he is reluctant to go to the United States to attend such a conference, and let him spend a lot of savings.

However, when his wife found out, she encouraged him to come to Los Angeles to participate, because he knew that Satoshi Iwata loved game development immensely, and for Satoshi Iwata, his love for games was more important than his own life.

When Satoshi Iwata made up his mind to come to GDC and have an intimate conversation with the most famous developers in the industry to see if he could find a better job related to the game for himself, the organizing committee contacted him, and as an invitee, the organizing committee would solve the cost, accommodation, and catering for him, and he didn't need to spend a penny.

This made Iwata Satoshi breathe a sigh of relief, and it can even be said that he was a little overjoyed.

After all, it's not a small amount of money for him.

After the plane landed, Satoshi Iwata didn't wait too long in the airport hall, he saw the person sent by the GDC organizing committee to pick up the plane, a young man was holding a white card, the card had Iwata's name written in Japanese, which was very eye-catching in the airport hall.

Satoshi Iwata's English is not very good.

Of course, the GDC organizing committee will not send a person who is proficient in Japanese to pick up the plane, after all, Satoshi Iwata is not a big name in the gaming industry.

Although it's not good, but, the speed of speech is a little slower, and it's okay to have a little simple daily communication of hello, hello, hello, everyone, it's just that Iwata Satoshi's thick Japanese English accent makes the young man who came to pick up the airport sound very unaccustomed, and he has to ask a question repeatedly, even if, he can understand what Iwata Satoshi means, but fortunately, the two don't need to communicate much information.

Sitting in the car, the pick-up person will take him to the hotel arranged for him by the organizing committee.

Satoshi Iwata watched Los Angeles from the inside out of his car window.

Not as beautiful as Japan.

That was his first thought.

More developed than Japan, this is the second impression he came immediately, and then he remembered, he asked when he was in Japan, why he sent him such an invitation, and he was the only one in HAL, you know, in HAL, he is not the most famous person.

However, the response of the organizing committee was also very vague.

It's just that the senior management of the GDC organizing committee, some people have a high evaluation of the games or projects he participated in before, and they value him very much, so this time he was specially invited to Los Angeles to participate in the GDC Global Game Developers Conference.

However, when Satoshi Iwata asked which senior executives valued him so much, GDC Japan did not know and did not give him an accurate answer.

Therefore, for Satoshi Iwata, who has now arrived in the United States, what he wants to know most is who invited him to participate in this GDC.

I didn't want to get an answer from the young man who came to pick him up, but he was a little bored, so he still asked the young man who was driving, because of his Japanese accent, he repeated it several times in a row, and the other party understood what he meant.

And the other party's answer was not unexpected by Satoshi Iwata.

"I don't know this very well, but you are on the invitation list of Mars Entertainment, and it should be an invitation from a certain big man in Mars Entertainment." The young man who was driving thought for a moment before answering.

Although he didn't ask who invited him to GDC, Iwata still got a piece of information that he had, at least knowing who he was invited to.

However, this made Satoshi Iwata a little confused.

Because, he really has nothing to do with Mars Entertainment, whether it is with the head office in the United States, or the branch in Japan, and even because of the accident of President Pu Yamauchi forced by Jester, Minoru Arakawa took over Nintendo, split the game department, and made the income of his people drop sharply, he also scolded Mars Entertainment a lot of bad things before.

After thinking about it for a long time, Iwata Satoshi vaguely remembered that he had greeted Shigeru Miyamoto.

But the friendship is not too deep, but I have written a few programs for Nintendo's games, and I also discussed it with Shigeru Miyamoto when HAL made zuò's games.

But it's not a personal discussion.

It's just at a discussion meeting, and it's mainly because he listens to what others say, and what he said at the time may only be a few words, and there are no bright spots, according to his understanding, it is impossible to be remembered by a big man like Shigeru Miyamoto.

But now she can remember the big names in Mars Entertainment who have intersected with him.

That is, Shigeru Miyamoto.

When he was thinking, the car had already come to the hotel where he was staying, and the little brother who picked up the airport accompanied Iwata Satoshi to complete the check-in procedures, and left, originally Iwata Satoshi also wanted to stay with this little brother to eat something, but the little brother was more than an hour later, and there was another one who needed him to pick up the airport, so Iwata Satoshi also gave up the invitation. R1152