Okawa felt he had to talk to his old friend.

My own health is not good, but Sega's reform has reached the point where it must be done.

The internal rectification of Mars Entertainment was also very effective before, in fact, the situation of Sega and Mars Entertainment is similar, but its own side is a little more serious.

But Mars Entertainment has a sufficient flow of funds, and they can solve these things just after some small twists and turns, not on their own.

The flow of funds is the most important thing, as long as there is sufficient capital in the company, then any danger can be overcome.

Okawa Gong knows the difficulty of this matter, but his feelings for Sega are very deep, he doesn't want to see this company fall in his hands, and the current situation for Sega is really like what Zhuge Liang said in the teacher's table, this Cheng is in danger of survival.

At the end of the meeting, Okawa and Hayayao Nakayama exchanged a look, and Hayao Nakayama nodded, he understood the meaning of his old friend's eyes.

No outcome was discussed.

As the arguments go on, it seems that everyone is running away from the topic of integrating Sega's secondary development department, but of course, there is another more serious topic that no one has mentioned, and that is how long Sega will go on the road of gaming hardware.

In an elegantly furnished lounge.

Okawa and Hayayao Nakayama sat opposite each other, their eyes looking at each other, for these two long-time friends, their tacit understanding was needless to say.

"My condition may not allow me to last much longer."

The first sentence of the conversation between the two was to start with a sentence by Okawa Gong to introduce his own physical condition, but there was no trace of fear in his voice, and Hayao Nakayama only nodded silently after hearing it, he knew that the physical condition of his old friend was indeed much worse than before.

"Actually, when I was young, I had a very serious case of tuberculosis. If it weren't for God's favor at that time, I probably wouldn't be where I am now. ”

Okawa Gong's tone didn't tell that he was already a seriously ill old man, but there was some feeling of reminiscing about the past years: "Actually, when I attended this meeting, my family disagreed, and so did my doctor, they advised me to stay in the hospital to recuperate, and my physical condition no longer allowed me to deal with these too exhausting things." ”

Hayabusa Nakayama still nodded without saying a word, about the other party's past. He knew that when he was young, Okawa suffered from a very serious form of tuberculosis, and after more than eight years of fighting against the disease, he was finally cured.

He knew that his old friend was also his old boss, and he really had a lot of feelings for Sega, although Sega was a big company, but compared to Okawa Ko's career, this was only a part. He is the president of the CSK Group, which is a subsidiary of the CSK Group.

"As soon as our statements come out this year, maybe there will be problems with our stock price, if something really happens that we don't want to see. So at that time, I was going to spend 50 billion yen to maintain Sega's stock price, and I didn't want to see an accident happen to Sega, a company that I've spent my whole life dedicating my heart to......"

Okawa said it in a very flat tone, but it was unquestionable.

For the character and philosophy of this old friend of his. Hayao Nakayama understands very well, and the other party is the kind of person who implements and follows the concept that "business is only the business of a generation, and what you get from your career should be rededicated to your business".

Years ago. Several of their old friends once chatted about their inheritance when they had dinner together, and most of them would say that they would donate a part, but Okawa said at that time that he would donate all his inheritance to the place where it was needed most, because he just believed that what he got from his career should be fed back into his career, and that career is the business of one generation, and what kind of career the next generation can achieve is the business of the next generation.

At that time, these old friends thought that Okawa was joking.

However, only Hayao Nakayama knew that this old friend of his was not joking, he said that it was his true thoughts.

"I've set up a foundation to deal with my inheritance......" Hearing his old friend say that the legacy was so frustrating, Hayao Nakayama wanted to interrupt him, but Okawa waved his hand and motioned for him to continue.

"I'm worried about Sega."

Okawa Ko's tone was optimistic when he talked about his body, as if he had seen through life, but when he talked about Sega, his tone became sad.

"Sega's physical condition is actually similar to mine's now, but he is better, he can still be saved, my body is clear to me, and it may not last long, so I want to talk to you today about the future of Sega, how to go." After a morning of meetings, Okawa was already a little tired.

After all, he is old and has a serious illness.

Hayao Nakayama wanted to propose to stay here today for the time being and talk about it tomorrow, but Okawa rejected his proposal.

"Now Sega can't be delayed any longer, today's meeting says a lot of things, everyone knows the current situation of Sega, but they are always looking at him, Yu Suzuki is a very pure game developer, he doesn't know the situation of Sega I can understand, but what about the others? Old friend, if I continue to sit idly by like this, then Sega will really be ruined in my hands. ”

Okawa Gong said these words very movingly.

Hayao Nakayama is also speechless, he is also very aware of Sega's current financial situation and internal chaos, it is really on the verge of not breaking or standing, if it is not broken, then Sega will really fall.

This is not only the hard work of Okawa Gong's life, but also his life's work.

But he can't be so selfless as Dachuan Gong.

"One thing I've been thinking about is, is it a mistake for us to do DC? At the time of the Sega Saturn, our predicament was obvious, and at that time we thought that it was just a deviation in our prediction of the future development of the game, and we thought that although it was only a matter of time before 3D games replaced 2D games, the early 3D games were still not comparable to 2D games due to the rough graphics. ”

"So, on the development of SS. We have adhered to a development strategy that focuses on 2D graphics. ”

"But reality has taught us a good lesson."

"President Lee of Mars Entertainment has a vision of the game industry that is difficult for others to marvel at, his eyes are as amazing as if he can see through the future, and he even prefers to release the console a year later for better 3D effects, we are all people who have been immersed in this industry for many years, and we all know what this decision represents."

"It's a bet, a very harsh bet."

"President Lee thinks that 3D games will definitely replace the mainstream of 2D games in a short period of time, but we are the opposite, even if it is Ken Kutaragi of Sony, he may not have such a great faith in President Li as 3D games."

"The winner of this gamble in the end was President Lee. Mars Entertainment still dominated the industry in the last console generation. ”

"But now the situation is different, Sony has a new console with extremely powerful functions and DVD function, and President Li obviously saw the pressure that Sony brought him, so he took out the secret somatosensory system, and what about us? Nothing, just a console that is a little more powerful than the previous generation, with some changes. ”

"Indeed, the sales of game consoles are better than games, and our R&D strength is not weak. But what about Mars Entertainment? Their first-party capabilities are several times higher than ours, and Sony has been very effective after ten years of first-party construction and has considerable development capabilities. What about third parties? The number of third-party companies in Japan and the number of third-party parties in Europe and the United States of Mars Entertainment are simply not something we can compete with, on the first side. Third parties, we have little advantage in hosting. We have a clear disadvantage in the case. ”

"We're still out of DC."

"What we can do is to let DC go on sale in advance, hoping to take advantage of the time to complete the accumulation of sales first."

"Does it really work?"

"Have you forgotten what we do on Saturn? We're still a year ahead of Mars Entertainment, and we're still having a very big sales advantage in this year, but what about after that? ”

Speaking of this, Okawa Gong's expression darkened a little.

The battle of the three consoles of the previous generation was originally thought to be an earth-shattering battle of the century, just like the original Mars Entertainment and Nintendo's Mars collided with the Earth, but unfortunately, Mars Entertainment proved with their unrivaled strength that at least in the current field, they have no opponent.

"We made "Shenmue" and hope that he will become "Hero", but just like Yu Suzuki told us at the beginning, the success of Dreambox3 does not depend on just a "Hero", not to mention whether "Shenmue" can reach the height of "Hero", even if it reaches the height of "Hero", we have our own Hideo Kojima, our own Hironobu Sakaguchi, our own Yuji Nakamoto, and our own Shigeru Miyamoto?"

"Do we have Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Sonic, Super Balotelli, Zelda, and so on? Do we have so much money to attract so many third-party development companies like Sony? ”

"We don't have any of that, and we don't have an advantage."

"To be precise, we're a disadvantage, a very big disadvantage."

"At the meeting just now, I sorted it all aside, and found that it was not a wise move for us to develop DC, there was not much time left for us, there was about a year left, and the release time of the new consoles between Sony and Mars Entertainment was basically determined, and Ken Kutaragi said at the internal meeting of Sony Computer Entertainment that they would officially release their PS3 at the end of this year."

And Satoshi Iwata, the new president of Mars Entertainment, also mentioned that he has made the best preparations for the release of Dreambox4 at the end of the year.

"Although we are a year ahead of schedule, Monofilament, I am not so optimistic about what our future holds, and if we still end up like Saturn last time in a year, then Sega ......"

The last few words were not spoken, but there was no need to say them, and Hayabusa Nakayama understood what he meant.

"Now if we want to carry out internal reforms, the turmoil will be very serious, and the time left for us is very urgent, a year's time, we need to occupy the market share as much as possible, this is our only window period, to occupy the market share, what we need is a large number of games to support, we have no advantage in the third party, although Capcom promised to develop a "Resident Evil" for us, but we don't know when they will be able to complete the development."

"Our first party is the most important now, if we rectify it now, then almost all of our strength may be wasted in internal reforms, it is difficult to develop many games, and this year's window period will be wasted by us."

After Hayakuo Nakayama finished speaking, Okawa Ko also fell into a long silence.

At the meeting before, the reason why both of them were reluctant to mention this matter was that if this matter was forced, then the dumping of the seven subsidiaries would not have to do anything this year.

"If, a year from now, the situation is not optimistic, what is the use of us doing this kind of integration?"

Okawa Gong's voice was low.

Hayao Nakayama shook his head: "Old friend, do you think it's useless to rectify it now?" This rhetorical question was extremely sharp, and it suddenly made Okawa Gong speechless.

"Really going to take that step?"

After being silent for a long time, Okawa Gong first asked this rhetorical question, but his tone was hesitant, and it seemed that it was difficult to make a decision.

Hayabusa Nakayama nodded.

"It was a tough decision, we had been working on consoles for more than a decade, and it was time to quit."

Okawa Gong silently pondered the words of Hayao Nakayama.

For half an hour, the two of them didn't say a word, until Okawa Gong's voice sounded again, and his tone was full of exhaustion.

"Let's wait another year, it's not bad for this year anyway, if we can still hold on after a year, then let's stick to DC and finish this generation, if we can't hold on......"

"That's all there is to it."

Hayao Nakayama also said in a low tone. (To be continued.) )