For a company that aims to dominate one field, it is not enough to be strong on its own.

And now Mars Entertainment is in such an embarrassing situation, their own research and development capabilities are extremely outstanding, even if Nintendo and his third-party developers join forces do not seem to be opponents, but Jester knows better than anyone that it is not a long-term solution to maintain this advantage in this way of overdraft, and he still needs the support of some third-party manufacturers before his many independent studios grow up.

Although the local manufacturers in the United States are very enthusiastic about this, and there are also a few games that are acceptable, such as Activision, their first puzzle game in Dreambox is made well, and the sales are acceptable, but it is only a small game, and developers like Weizhen, Xuele Mountain, EA, etc., who are famous in the PC field, do not seem to be accustomed to the development rhythm of home game consoles, so far, they have reported to themselves for review. None of them have been able to meet the minimum distribution criteria he has set.

Jester believes that a good system should be learned, although Nintendo's royalty system is extremely strict, but it is undeniable that this is a system created by learning from the failure of Atari, which can effectively ensure the quality of the game, at least it will never happen again like the Atari collapse that happened in history, and players are completely dead to the game.

Most of these game developers have experienced an event that was almost a disaster for the video game industry, so they are also very conscious, just like a news that Jester watched before crossing over, because of the sanctions imposed by the United States and Russia, the price of oil fell sharply, causing the value of the ruble, the official currency of Russia, which is based on oil exports as the pillar of the country, to plummet, and the Russian stock market basically collapsed, but the approval rating of the Emperor did not fall but rose.

This is a problem that is incomprehensible in Western countries, in their eyes, the currency depreciation by half, the economy is close to collapse, this does not make their government fall, but makes them more supportive of the person who caused this qiē culprit, which is simply impossible in their country!

In fact, if Jester is asked, he may not be able to say the key for the first half of the day, but at that time he read a comment, which did not have too many sentences to analyze this issue, but just a very simple comment, which made Jester feel that the comment was almost three points - what is the reason for the depreciation of the ruble and the increase in the approval rating of the Emperor Pu Da instead of falling? It's actually very simple, but it's also cruel, because the Russians have already died once more than twenty years ago.

Yes, after dying once, you can know what it means to cherish.

Of course, Nintendo's outrageously strict royalty system Jester can't use it directly, he doesn't want to betray his relatives like Nintendo in the future, of course, he can't be as loose as the royalty system in later generations, he just imitates the royalty system of the Temple of Heaven to design a relatively less stringent, can be accepted by the current third-party developers.

This kind of relaxation and lack of strictness is only for the collection of royalties, and for the quality of the game, Jester is like Nintendo, and it is also extremely strict.

Therefore, some games that do not meet the production standards stipulated by Mars Entertainment in terms of quality can only be played back to those companies, and because of this, Jester has a poor relationship with these large game companies in North America, but Jester doesn't care about this, it is impossible for him to produce some garbage games and smash his own brand at such a juncture.

It is precisely because of this that Jester is extremely jealous of those Japanese developers under Nintendo, especially the six major software developers, especially the K Society and Capcom, because the development capabilities of these developers on home game consoles are really not comparable to these American game companies, not that American game companies can't make excellent games, but they can't make excellent console games.

In the cafeteria, Jester meets Kenzo Kanmoto for the first time, even though he has heard this legendary name in the entire gaming world more than once, both in this world and in the world before he travels through rebirth.

Neither of them spoke first, just looked at each other.

Kenzo was surprised by Jester's youth, and he wondered what he had been doing when he was his age, but it was too long ago for him to remember - but it was certainly not a good job, either as a builder or as a brick on a construction site.

And Jester was also looking at this character he had only seen in the photo, he was looking at the other party's photos thirty years later, at that time the other party was over seventy years old, very old, but his speech at a game development meeting was still loud, if it wasn't for the eyes to see, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe that he could make such a loud voice, and the person who was full of energy would be an old man of such a grade.

After taking his seat, Jester was also thinking that Kenzo's request to see him was indeed beyond his expectations, and he could guess the purpose of the other party's coming to him without the other party opening his mouth, at this time, in this case, the other party came to meet him as the president of a franchise company under the Nintendo royalty system, as long as he was not a fool, he naturally knew the purpose of the other party.

Capcom: Does he want to get? There is no doubt that getting Capcom will not only make Nintendo lose a big boost, but also make the strength of his third-party development camp climb up like a rocket, and even the thought of those geniuses gathered around him by Kenzo Mimoto, Jester is hot.

To tell the truth, Jester also had people contact Kapu's Okamoto Yoshiki when he wanted to poach before, but the young man who was dismissed by the K Society didn't even have the opportunity to let Yuxiu Yoshiro say his conditions, and he had already heard of the loyalty of these employees of Capcom, and when Atari impacted, Kobe's Xiaobo fired a quarter of the employees, including Okamoto Yoshiki, and at that time, Kenzo Mimoto was busy forming his Capcom, and he was constantly recruiting people from the people who were dismissed from the K Society. This is also the reason why Capcom's early works have such a strong K-Society style - because the people who make zuò games are the same people.

At that time, Kenzo Kanmoto personally interviewed the other party, not because of how important Yoshiki Okamoto was at that time, but because Kenzo Mimoto had to interview every employee who joined Capcom.

Jester saw the first meeting between Kenzo Mimoto and Yoshiki Okamoto in a book that was once a bestseller in Japan, "How to Reflect Your True Worth".

Kenzo Kanmoto didn't even look up at Yoshiki Okamoto, who came to the interview, he just asked a question that he would definitely ask during the interview: "How much is your salary at Konami per month?" When asked, he was still looking at a company's development plan.

And Yoshiki Okamoto's answer was also very honest, and he replied very quickly: "150,000 yen." ”

Kenzo had no doubts about the salary, and he must have done some research on the salary in the field of game development before hiring, so he just continued to ask, "So what do you want to be paid when you join the company again?" ”

"Three hundred and fifty thousand."

After hearing this answer, Kenzo Mimoto raised his head suddenly, his face was full of dissatisfaction and surprise, you know, the monthly salary of 350,000 yen at this time is almost equal to the salary of the manager in charge of large trust groups such as Toyota and Panasonic, and it is absolutely impossible to give such treatment to a young man like Yoshiki Okamoto, at least in the eyes of Kenzo Akimoto.

However, Kenzo Mimoto did not express his dissatisfaction at the beginning, he just stared at Yoshiki Okamoto for a while, and then ruined it in the same slow-moving tone as before: "What is your reason?" ”

Yoshiki Okamoto respectfully presented him with both hands the book he had carefully prepared for two weeks, and then said, "If Your Excellency can read this thing carefully, you may believe that I am completely worth the price." The rest of the story is already known to everyone, and Yoshiki Okamoto joined Capcom and became the leader and soul of Capcom's early game development.

It can even be said unceremoniously that without Yoshiki Okamoto's joining, Capcom might still be too small a company to be small.

Jester withdrew his thoughts from his own memories, and his eyes as he looked at Kenzo Kanmoto sitting in front of him became softer and softer, which made Kenzo Kanmoto a little uncomfortable, but neither side seemed to want to speak first, so the scene was a little awkward for a while.

For Jester, Capcom's coveted lesson wasn't just a Yoshiki Okamoto, he knew nothing more than just a united and powerful game company that Capcom was and how strong they were, and the strength of their personalities that belonged to the three of them that brought together so many talented people, something he coveted.

And in Jester's memory, now or in the future, those geniuses in Capcom's history, in addition to Yoshiki Okamoto, there are also Kitaka Funamizu, who is not inferior to Yoshiki Okamoto, who has the ability to compete with Yoshiki Okamoto, Tokuro Fujiwara, who has shown his talent in "Demon World Village" through guòBT, Takashi Nishiyama and Ryo Nishitani, who will become the two heroes of Street Fighter in the future, Juan Nishimura, the master of original painting of Street Fighter, Yoko Shimomura, the classic music producer, Shinji Mikami, the "father of Resident Evil", and "the first ghost talent of CAPCOM" Hideki Kamiya, the father of "Mega Man" and "Ghost Warrior", Keiji Inafune, the discredited Zuò maker Yuyuki Kobayashi, the new generation of biochemical Zuò Jun Takeuchi, and the late bloomer "Father of Reversal Referee" Qiaoshu...... These characters, who have joined or have not joined Capcom, have become thunderous names in the gaming world. R1152