After thinking about it for three days, Keigo Higashino promised to go to the United States once.

And Michael. Stanife also quickly came up with his script, but Jester was not very satisfied after reading it, and decided that a detective game is good or bad, only the script, of course, only the script is not good, for Michael. Staniff's previous cousin in the company was also very satisfied, so he dismissed the game script written by the other party and simply said a word to him.

"Keigo Higashino will be here in a few days, and we'll discuss it together then."

A few days later, in the conference room of Mars Entertainment, Jester, Michael. Staniff had a long discussion with Keigo Higashino, who had just arrived in the United States. Staniff and Keigo Higashino discuss the game in more detail, called Reverse Referee, while Jester just corrects some mistakes and omissions.

It has to be said that Keigo Higashino's ability to write game scripts is far better than Michael's. Above Staniev, in a very short time, he gave a brief idea of the story.

The whole story starts with a small case, and then progresses layer by layer, and the difficulty of cracking is getting deeper and deeper, as if it is self-taught, Keigo Higashino has completed a in Jester's opinion, almost flawless, he can't find anything that can be modified, after all, it is the work of the future mystery novel generation grandmaster, although the other party's style has not yet been fully formed, but the thinking of reasoning, is far from himself or Michael. Something that a layman like Staniff can do.

"It's not easy to say a word."

Jester pressed his hand on the table and said to Keigo Higashino very seriously, and Keigo Higashino heard Jester say this, he also glanced at Jester in surprise, with a look of some incomprehension in his eyes, he wondered why Jester would make such a choice at this time.

And Michael. Staniff also nodded, through the exchange just a few hours ago, he was also completely impressed by Keigo Higashino's talent in mystery novels, and Keigo Higashino was not detailed just now, but it could never be said to be a complete plot that was simply finished, and he was also full of praise, at least he, or anyone he knew, did not have such ability.

After previous discussions, Keigo Higashino also took a lot of interest in the game called Reverse Judge.

Keigo Higashino was also surprised when he heard Jester say that he was going to use the plot he just said, and then his face laughed. Staniv looked at Keigo Higashino with some puzzlement, they didn't understand what Keigo Higashino was laughing at.

However, Keigo Higashino is not a person who sells Guanzi, after he smiled, he immediately said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Michael, in fact, the story just now was only roughly thought up by me in the past few days, and many places can still be improved. And Keigo Higashino's words made Jester and Michael. Stannis was amazed.

They couldn't have imagined that such a script, which was already perfect and excellent in their eyes, could only be regarded as a draft in the eyes of Keigo Higashino.

"Then ......" Jester saw Keigo Higashino reply to him like this, and he knew that the other party must have agreed to his invitation.

Sure enough, Keigo Higashino nodded very seriously, and said solemnly: "I am very willing to participate in the research and development of this game, and try my best to improve the script of the game. Keigo Higashino's tone was also a little excited, and it didn't seem like a lie.

Jester knew why, he just inadvertently said that ten years later, Keigo Higashino's style of writing after maturity will naturally make Keigo Higashino, who is still in the transition period now, and has not even touched the door bar in the groping period.

However, Jester doesn't know much about mystery novels, so he can only briefly say one or two, and can't explain them in depth.

Keigo Higashino also promised to write a script for the game, which also put Jester at ease.

In this way, the development team of "Reversal Referee" started with Michael . Staniv and Keigo Higashino were established as the core.

The next few months have been uneventful, nothing more than after the pre-sale of the boom, and when Sega's MD was officially released, it was still very popular, just in just ten days, hundreds of thousands of units were sold, and Sega chose to transplant its own arcade game strategy because of the lack of third-party game manufacturers, you know, Sega is still the hegemon of the entire arcade market in Japan or, in other words, the whole world.

Even Mars Entertainment or Namco, which also have a lot of success in the arcade market, are not Sega's opponents.

And Sega has a large number of fans of arcade games, when these arcade games can be played on home consoles, these people are naturally excited and inexplicable, so, MD's sales are very hot, and even hot is not good, Jester has long expected this, because the world in his memory, when Sega released MD, it was much better than the current situation, and the market at that time was only dominated by Nintendo, Therefore, Sega was still able to attract a lot of small game companies that were not satisfied with Nintendo's royalty policy.

However, the current Nintendo is far less domineering than the world that Jester remembers, and at its peak, it once dominated 90% of the entire video game market, so they were extremely strict with the royalty policy of those small game companies, which also gave Sega an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time, but now, it is Mars Entertainment that is in a strong position, and Mars Entertainment has borrowed from Nintendo's first royalty policy, and the conditions for joining third-party game development companies are very relaxed, so, Nintendo's strict policies naturally cannot be sustained.

In this way, Sega certainly did not have a chance to recruit development companies like the ones Jester remembers.

But just like what Sega did in Jester's memory, in this world, Sega still did it, that is, the transplantation of arcade games, Sega's years of accumulation in arcades, they have no shortage of games, and there is no shortage of players, so they can become an instant hit.

On the contrary, the PC-E jointly developed by Namco and Hudson and NEC quickly entered a state of withering after the high-tide period when it was just released, although Namco also has a lot of arcade games, but their arcade games are not comparable to Sega in terms of quality and quantity, and they are far inferior in terms of porting ability.

As for the development ability, except for Mars Entertainment and Nintendo, there may be no other game company that can compete with Sega.

"Guys, what do you think?"

Yamauchi Pu himself forgot that this is the first time he has held this kind of high-level meeting this year, since around the beginning of the year, after Sega was revealed that they had developed sixteen home machines, he held such high-level meetings again and again, it seems that this year's Nintendo is particularly unsmooth, not only did not maintain the platform share of the European and American NES that was difficult to stabilize last year, but was killed in the Japanese market because of the defeat of two consecutive masterpieces in the first half of this year.

Now he has just read last month's financial report, and now their FC market share in Japan has been pressed to 69% by Mars Entertainment, you know, this is the first time since they launched FC, the Japanese market share is less than 70%, although it is only temporary, presumably as soon as their new games are released, the market share can quickly return to 70%, but it is only 10%.

Fortunately, the PC-E developed by the two traitors has not made any noise so far, and it is not bad from my previous expectations, otherwise, I may not even be able to get 69% of the market share.

It's this Sega ......

When thinking of Sega, Yamauchi Pu's mind couldn't help but think of the gloomy face of Hayakuo Nakayama, and then he couldn't help but snort coldly, he had a personal conflict with Hayao Nakayama, and at a charity party hosted by the Mitsui family, he was almost angered by Hayakuo Nakayama's deliberate provocation, which almost made him lose face in front of the top consortium in Japan.

Faced with Yamauchi Pu's question just now, the people present also looked left and right a few times, but no one stood up and spoke.

In fact, they have discussed this issue many times, and now Nintendo's situation does not need to be external, they just need to do their best, and develop their new console Super FC with Sony's joint development team, and the internal game development team will develop excellent games, so as not to lose like the previous "The Legend of Zelda II".

Well, with Nintendo, nothing else is a problem.

As for Sega, it just occupies a little first-mover advantage, as long as their own game consoles are done, they must be able to quickly regain the lost market share, which is basically the consensus of everyone, including Yamauchi Pu, but Nintendo is a listed company after all, watching its market share continue to decline, and with the decline in market share, the stock price is also falling - what kind of listed company can't withstand such an impact.

What's more, the news they found out before that Mars Entertainment has now started to develop their next-generation games, which also means that the other party's next-generation home game console, that is, the sixteen-bit machine, has basically been finalized.

They can not take Sega, who has taken the lead, in their eyes, but for Mars Entertainment, none of them dare not take it seriously. R1152