Chapter 261: Unexpected Applicants
And Jester has long considered Americans' love for competitive games, although football is not the first sport of Americans, but Jester's copycat Nintendo's "Football" is still very good after its release in the United States.
The total sales volume also exceeded 1.5 million units, and Nintendo's "Football" also sold 4.5 million units in the United States.
And competitive games, basically the gameplay is fixed, and it is difficult to make a great breakthrough in a short period of time, so the foundation of this kind of game is the most critical, which is why many game companies often invest in the development of shooting games and RPG games, but there are few new series of competitive games launched.
Because the gameplay of competitive games has been laid before the birth of competitive games, no matter how you change them, they are nothing more than those gameplays, and they can't be played with new ideas at all, so they can only make breakthroughs in the picture, image and even the engine.
Although this is also simple, the question is, since there is no breakthrough compared to those old series, then why should those who are used to playing the old series play the new series.
If you want to do this kind of game, you have to do it as soon as possible.
Jester doesn't plan to continue to launch this kind of game on the eight-bit machine.,But next year at the latest.,As early as the end of this year.,Before the end of this year,,You can launch your own new sixteen-bit console.,At that time, with the function of the sixteen-bit host.,Although it can't be a perfect simulation 3D.,But the pseudo-3D system,It shouldn't be a big problem.。
At this time, EA has not yet gotten the authorization from FIFA, and he just took this opportunity to get the power to name FIFA from FIFA, although it is not a big problem to get his hands on it, but I thought that in the future, the FIFA series can surpass the PES series, and press the PES series on the ground to full of old fists, FIFA has made a great deal of effort in it.
It's better to have this thing in your own hands.
However, Jester is not interested in making this kind of game himself, he doesn't have any idea of making a big game right now, he just wants to make some more special games. For example, he used to make a house game called zuò, and now he remembers a game that has a lot to do with football, but it can't be said to be a sports game.
It's a niche, soccer simulation game called Soccer Manager.
However, Jester also knew that it would be very difficult to make a game like Zuò, because the reason why Si was able to make the game was because they had a free scouting system all over the world to provide them with intelligence.
Of course, SI's vast network of scouts didn't happen overnight, when they first started making the game. Most of the numbers in it also rely on the personal preferences and speculation of the designers, and it was not until seven or eight generations, or even ten generations, that this series of games became more and more perfect with the addition of a larger and larger team of scouts.
It also makes the same type of game almost impossible to compare with it.
It is worth mentioning that after twenty years, IS is a game company owned by Sega, when was it acquired by Sega. It is not known whether it was Jester funded by Sega, and many people thought that Sega would withdraw from the gaming market after the PS2 era fiasco, but this was not the case, they just stopped making Zuò home consoles. The game and the arcade machine they still continue to make zuò.
For example, the famous "Like a Dragon" series.
It was a short meeting with Alex Ferguson, after all, he was the manager of the team, and there was a tough game to play in two days, so there were a lot of things to think about as a manager. And the negotiations with Edwards on the acquisition of Manchester United are also in charge of Claudia, and Jester is only responsible for paying for it.
Edwards had a good relationship with Claudia's father, and they were both old aristocrats. And he likes Manchester United very much, but now Manchester United's results also make him sad, and the team is not much less attacking him than he is to Fergue, not that he has lost interest in Manchester United, but if someone buys him up, he will not die out of agreement.
Because the Premier League has not yet been established at this time, the current top league in England is still only called League One. In fact, the biggest change from League One to Premier League is a lot of names, but the change in the business operation model, which is too complicated, so I won't talk about it.
It is only necessary to know that before the establishment of the Premier League for commercial promotion, the commercial value of the English league banned by UEFA for five years is basically not worth mentioning, and after 20 years, even the relegated Premier League team can get 20 or 30 million pounds of TV broadcast, but in this era, even if you buy Liverpool, I am afraid it will not cost 50 million pounds.
And the vast majority of team owners in this era do not expect to make much profit from the team, especially like Manchester United, which has a glorious history, but now the results are similar to Xiang, and it is too difficult for the owner of the club to ensure investment and make money from it.
But if you want to say that you don't make money, you can't say that it's okay to make some money for alcohol.
And in addition to the eventful season of the team recently, his other industries have also encountered a lot of crises, and he urgently needs a fund to turn it around, which is very large, and loans alone are not enough, so selling Manchester United has become his best choice.
What's more, he still has this relationship with Claudia.
Claudia didn't say to Edwards that Jester was the one she wanted to buy, she just said that she was interested in Manchester United, and she knew that it was impossible for an old aristocrat like Edwards to sell an English team that had always been very traditional to an American.
It's not that Edwards himself disagrees, it's that he doesn't want to be infamy.
If he dares to do this, then what awaits him must be scolded by the fans, and there will be no second ending at all.
Therefore, he only needs to know, and he just wants to know, that it is Claudia who came to buy Manchester United, as for whether there is anyone behind Claudia, and he doesn't bother to know, but he can be sure that the purchase of Manchester United this time is definitely not done by Claudia, who he has been familiar with since childhood.
Because the simplest, Manchester United's price is not cheap, although his results are not good now, such a large investment, investing in other places is a good choice, but investing in a football team, is not a good choice, because the profits that football can make for investors are too meager.
Second, as far as he knows, Claudia is not a Manchester United fan.
In the end, although Claudia came forward to talk to him about this matter, the subject of the acquisition is indeed a company that has just been established, the information is confidential, and it has not been announced to the public, Claudia is just a partner of this company, of course, Edwards is not a fool, although Claudia did not tell him explicitly, but he can also guess who has the intention of buying Manchester United.
After all, the guy behind Claudia has told him more than once that he is a Manchester United fan.
The acquisition of a club is not something that can be done casually, and the various negotiations involved are quite complicated, Jester has no experience in this area, and American lawyers rarely have this kind of experience in the acquisition of English clubs, so he handed over all the matters related to the acquisition of Manchester United to Claudia and returned to the United States first.
As for when it will be negotiated, according to Edwards, the team is now in a critical period, and his plan to sell the team must not be leaked, so specific negotiations need to be carried out near the end of the season.
Otherwise, according to Manchester United's current ranking in League One, once his intention to sell the team is exposed, then Manchester United will not have the possibility of complete collapse and eventual relegation in the remaining half season.
As for Ferguson's fate?
Edwards was still a little hesitant, he knew that Ferguson was a very good coach, and if he didn't sell Manchester United, then he would definitely continue to give Ferguson a chance, but now...... After thinking about it for a long time, Edwards said in his last meeting with Claudia before the formal negotiations, that he should keep Ferguson as coach and give him at least two more seasons for him to prove his promise.
In fact, Edwards also expressed a little heart, he himself didn't think that the other party could agree, after all, the other party is not like him knows Ferguson very well, knows his ability, now what he needs is time, the whole team into a fist, he has been doing this for two years, he is about to succeed, if he fires him, then the previous work will be lost.
But the people who came to buy Manchester United didn't know this, all they saw was that under Alex Ferguson, Manchester United couldn't have been worse now.
However, to Edwards' surprise, after he proposed this proposal, Claudia did agree decisively, without any delay, and Claudia did not hide it, neither she nor the people behind her had any opinion on Ferguson's continued leadership of Manchester United.
Jester certainly can't have a problem with the greatest manager in Manchester United history, as he still has the luxury of becoming the greatest chairman in the history of Manchester United.
To Jester's surprise, on the second day after he returned to the United States, he was approached by a job applicant he hadn't even thought of, and when he received a call from the company's front desk that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old had come to apply for a game designer and that he had to see him, he was still a little unhappy.
After all, the current self is not something that anyone can see if they want to, but after the front desk personnel said the name of this young man, Jester's face immediately showed a strange look, he didn't expect that this young man, whom he hadn't contacted for a long time, really fulfilled the agreement when they first met.
I came to him to apply for a job. (To be continued......) R752