As soon as Jester's words came out, of course, everyone was shocked.

They had seen why Claudia had gone against the norm for so many years, and it was a little strange to follow Jester to this meeting this time, but when they heard Jester say this, they suddenly realized.

She is Jester's wife, and Jester wants to put down the company's clutter and concentrate on making games, and it is also the right thing to hand over the company to her.

Moreover, she single-handedly created the European branch in Europe, and she did a very good job, and everyone knew her ability, so there was no doubt about this appointment, of course, even if there was an opinion, it was useless, because Jester and Claudia, plus his family, were enough to decide this matter, after all, the vast majority of the voting power was in their hands.

Although some people tried to persuade Jester, judging from Jester's tone, he had made up his mind.

"I think very clearly, when WOW is developed, I will officially retire, I estimate that this game will take four or even five years to develop, and by that time I have been working on games for almost twenty years, and it is time to retire."

Jester said it lightly.

Everyone was silent, and no one persuaded them, because they had persuaded them countless times before, but it had no effect at all.

They also all know that there is basically no way to change the decision Jester makes.

"The second thing, and it's also an appointment."

After looking around at everyone with a smile, Jester stopped his gaze on Satoshi Iwata, who was sitting in the corner, and then said, "Mr. Satoshi Iwata, I have decided to nominate you to be the executive vice president of the company, mainly responsible for helping my wife and handling some daily affairs in the company, I don't know what you think?" ”

Hear Jester say that.

The people present immediately looked at Iwata Satoshi with some surprise, because they were a little strange. Why would such an important position be given to this little-known person?

Of course, it's not that Satoshi Iwata isn't famous, he's the vice president of the Japanese branch, but it's just one of them, and he's in charge of part of the work, and I've worked on game development before, and I've only done a few best-selling games, especially on handhelds.

He is rewarded by the headquarters almost every year, and it has been reported that he intends to take over the Japanese branch.

But I didn't expect it. This time, Jester directly asked the other party to come to the headquarters to take such an important position as the vice president of administration.

It's no wonder they're different.

Even Iwata Satoshi himself was taken aback, he knew that he would definitely be reused if he was summoned to the headquarters by Jester himself, but in his mind, it was very likely that he would be given a minister~director-level position, for example, John of the development department recently resigned because of some personal matters, and the position of the director of the development department~ has been vacant, so he originally thought that he would give himself this position.

But he never expected that the other party would directly give the position of executive vice president.

"This ......"

It's impossible to say that Satoshi Iwata is unhappy in his heart.

After experiencing a battle between heaven and man in his heart, he finally nodded. He stood up and bowed.

"Thank you, President."

He is Japanese, so it is natural for Jester to be called president.

Jester nodded. Let him sit down first, and the matter will be decided.

Of course, there is a reason why he decided to promote Satoshi Iwata, and in the original world, Satoshi Iwata has proven one thing in every way, and that is that he is the president of a very good game company. His time in office was Nintendo's most critical moment, and the century-old store was in danger, but at the time of his death. Nintendo has passed the most critical moment.

Moreover, his love for gaming is purely genuine.

There are a lot of game designers, but there aren't many people who can handle many things of the company well, and there are not many people who are sensitive and direct to the game industry.

And like Satoshi Iwata, there are even fewer of them.

Therefore, now letting Satoshi Iwata serve as the executive vice president is just the first step, Jester has already considered it, and after he officially retires, he will let Satoshi Iwata officially take over Mars Entertainment, which is also the best candidate.

"The next thing is about Sony."

Jester smiled as he opened a file, glanced down, and groaned.

It seems to be thinking about something.

The people present have made preparations before, of course they know what Jester wants to say, Sony is now paying more and more attention to the game market, and the R&D investment in game consoles is also very high, and Sony's own R&D strength is very strong, they are old electrical companies, and it is natural that they are strong in this regard.

Especially this time with the PS3.

From all the information they obtained, they knew that the performance of this console would be very powerful, and Sony even spared no expense to mobilize the best software and hardware developers for this console.

Dedicated processing areas and image processing chips have been developed specifically for this game console.

It seems that even the system for reading discs has been further optimized.

According to Ken Kutaragi who is courting those third-party developers, they can guarantee that their console, this time, is definitely the most powerful in terms of 3D processing, whether it is Sega's console or Mars Entertainment's console, in this regard, there is no way to compete with them.

At the beginning, the people of Mars Entertainment thought that it was Kutaragi Ken blowing nonsense.

But later, as more and more data about the PS3 was revealed, they no longer had any way to think that this was Ken Kutaragi blowing nonsense.

Because PS3 does have the capital to say so.

Of course, Jester knows that PS3 is the original PS2, and even Sony's attention to the game department is now more than the original world, who made Jester double the current market for video games than in the original history.

In a market of tens of billions, it is impossible for Sony not to be jealous, and it is impossible not to want to get as much of the pie as possible.

Moreover, the market share of Mars Entertainment is actually gradually declining, and it can be seen that these generations will definitely have more and more choices for players, and it is estimated that it will be the next era. Being able to maintain a 50 percent market share is a success, but in the next era, it may be a great thing to have a 40 percent market share.

And Jester knows better than anyone what the function of the PS2 in history is.

It was from this console that he became a supporter of Sony.

A generation of gods.

The name that can be called is only two and a half in the entire history of game consoles, and one is naturally FC. This console that saved the entire video game and started the video game frenzy will certainly be one of them.

The other half is Nintendo's later WII.

Although this game has revealed a new game genre to players and shocked the entire gaming industry, this is mainly the contribution made by the game, and it is really good to return to the WII console.

And the other one, it's PS2.

This is the most powerful console of its generation, carrying Sony's most powerful R&D strength.

"I know there's a lot of pressure about Sony's consoles, but we're almost two years away from the next console generation. And, while we're a little bit worse than the PS3 in terms of functionality, it's not too much worse, at least in terms of game development. I think it's still on a level, and the most important thing is our physical feelings. ”

"I'm a firm believer that the feeling will help us win this console battle, and I never doubted it. After all, game companies still have to rely on games to speak, although powerful consoles can allow developers to develop better games. But to develop the best games, you don't necessarily need the most powerful consoles. ”

For Jester's remark, everyone present nodded their heads.

They also knew Jester was right.

In the middle, the logistics staff came to change the coffee, and everyone in the conference room also took a little rest, and the matter about Sony was not finished.

In fact, now Mars Entertainment has basically reached a consensus, that is, in the next generation, their main opponent will be Sony, as for Sega, although it seems that it is still the big three consoles, with strong research and development strength, and classic games are emerging in endlessly, but, people who have a keen insight into the game market have long seen it.

The current Sega is actually a curse.

It's just that it hasn't erupted yet.

Sega's game development strength is indeed strong, many Mars Entertainment designers are fans of Sega, Sega likes to develop hardcore games, that is, their games are really designed for players who are willing to study the game in depth.

For those who are light gamers, Sega's games are less friendly.

In the original history, Sega and Yuji Naka, a generation of grandmaster-level figures, developed Sonic to attract many light players, and then let these light players slowly transform into hardcore players.

But in this history, Sega did not have Yuji Naka.

And a developer of the level of Yuji Naka, which is hard to come by.

Although Sega has long been aware of this problem, and they have developed some light games to attract players, however, none can compare to Yuji Naka's Sonic.

So, in this regard, Sega in this life, is very unsuccessful, of course, Suzuki Yu's development ability, game knowledge is still strong, when Sega began to have some shortcomings, the development of the epoch-making "VR Warrior", completely redefined the fighting game, breaking the arcade fighting game market, there is always Mars Entertainment's "Street Fighter" monopolistic situation.

Even when VR Fighter was at its most popular, Street Fighter was unpopular.

Even the "Iron Fist" developed by Itagaki Companion is said to be able to compete with "VR Warrior", but it is only qualified.

In terms of market share, there is still a big gap with "VR Warrior".

Relying on the hot sale of "VR Warrior", Sega survived the first crisis of their home console market shrinking ~ shrinking, of course, this also has a lot to do with Sega's lack of attention, because at that time Sega actually just felt that the games on the home console were mainly used for arcade transplantation to make a second money, plus the arcade market was hot at that time, and they were not too worried about the failure of the home console market.

Because their core is on top of the arcade market.

However, in recent years, the share of the arcade market has begun to shrink ~ shrinking, and Mars Entertainment began to gradually withdraw from the arcade market a few years ago, leaving only the most profitable large-scale somatosensory arcades, and Sega didn't think that the arcade market would be so fast, so after Mars Entertainment gave up this part of the market share, they fought a very bloody market white-knuckle battle with companies like Namco that also care about the arcade market.

The success is so strong that it has a lot of shares.

But now, the arcade market is shrinking year by year~ in furniture, and Sega itself has discovered this situation.

It's also obvious that the focus of the gaming market is shifting more and more to home consoles.

In the past few years, Sega has obviously increased its investment in the development of home console games, and it can be seen that they are also a little anxious......

Whether it is out of the host in advance or "Shenmue", in fact, they want to fight in the home machine market.

However, Sega's biggest drawback is very fatal.

That is, their R&D strength is too scattered, although Mars Entertainment also has many independent development studios, but Sega exists in the form of a branch, and their branch can be used to develop games in any aspect, while Mars Entertainment's is a studio model, and what games to develop need to be reported to the headquarters.

HQ won't interfere with your development, and it won't let you develop games casually.

For example, if the company already has two studios that develop racing games, and another studio wants to develop a racing game, then at this time, it needs to be stopped.

But that's not the case with Sega.

Their seven development companies are all strong enough to develop any type of game, and there are no constraints at all.

It often leads to a waste of resources, and even internal competition.

There is another one, and that is the lack of a third party.

Mars Entertainment has the backing of third parties in Europe and the United States, and Sony has recruited almost all the Japanese third parties that can be recruited in the past few years.

And Sega missed the best opportunity, and the gap in the third party was too big.

Therefore, everyone is not very optimistic about the future prospects of Sega.

What if "Shenmue" was a big hit?

It's not more than a decade ago that just one game can't save a platform that wants to dominate the world. (To be continued.) )