"We're a gaming company, and what we've always done is make the best games we can be."

After this meeting, on the official website of Mars Entertainment, a part of the discussion content of this meeting will be announced, of course, some things involving specific development plans will not be announced, but only to talk about the next interruption and plan of Mars Entertainment in general.

First of all, and of course the most exhilarating for the players.

That is, Mars Entertainment is ready to develop a new handheld, which will completely get rid of the name of the GAMEBOY series and change to a new series, and, in terms of the construction system of the handheld and the possible way of playing, it will be completely different from the current traditional handheld, but it will still be a handheld, a machine used to play games.

Another thing is that it makes a lot of Mars entertainment very frustrated.

At this meeting, Jester formally submitted his resignation and resigned from the position of chairman ~ of the board of directors of Mars Entertainment and chief administrative officer.

It just retains the name of the head of the WOW development team and the director of this game.

This means that Jester really intends to retire when he finishes developing this game, this time not as a joke, not as Jester casually said his thoughts on an ordinary occasion, but on a clear choice made at an enlarged meeting of the board of directors that he took the initiative to hurry about.

Although his wife took over the position of chairman and Jester is still the chairman in terms of control of Mars Entertainment, it shows that he wants to express his own attitude through this matter.

That's my choice.

Although there are many people who express regrets, the reality is like this, 8~9 out of 10 people who are unsatisfactory in life.

Some people even started to do a career review of Jester's works at this time, and some forum celebrities took the initiative to write the history of his game with Jester.

Of course, what no one noticed was that a person who was not too famous before became the current executive vice president of Mars Entertainment, and there is one thing to note. Now Mars Entertainment does not have a CEO, nor a president, although Claudia serves as the chairman of the board of directors~, but she does not serve as CEO, it is conceivable that in Claudia's identity, she will not hold this position.

Because to hold this position, it is inevitable to bear the necessary responsibilities.

At the time of Jester's time, the president of Mars Entertainment was Mark. Senny, but now Mark. Saini is specialized in technology. He single-handedly formed the ice team, which specialized in the technical challenges of developing features in game development.

So, before this meeting, Mark. Saini resigned as president, which is why Mars Entertainment does not have a president.

In the absence of a CEO and no president, the position of executive vice president is particularly eye-catching, which represents. When there is no CEO and president, the executive vice president of Satoshi Iwata is the number one person in the administrative affairs of Mars Entertainment at present, that is, in the administration. Satoshi Iwata actually served as the former Jester as well as Mark. Saini's character.

Although he also has a Claudia overseer on his head.

At first, although people expected that Jester would announce the appointment of Satoshi Iwata as executive vice president, they didn't pay much attention to it, because they thought that Jester would definitely appoint another president and a CEO.

But surprisingly. After almost half a month in the past, Jester or the current board of directors ~ Schillaudia did not take this action at all.

Even, judging from Jester's reaction. He had no intention of doing so.

In this way, many people have a special idea.

Because of this kind of thing, as long as a person who knows the inside story, he will have to ask, why is this?

yes, why is that?

That's what Satoshi Iwata asked himself.

He didn't think he was anything special about him - of course, if he was called a genius by his friends when he was in school, but in the software industry, there is no shortage of people who are called geniuses.

In Mars Entertainment, there are not a few people like him who have grown up in the light since childhood.

So, he doesn't feel like he has any advantage over others.

His work is indeed doing a good job, almost every year will be selected as the group's commendation figures, but every year the company awards so many people, the company so many people, it is really not too much for oneself, one less for oneself, and he is indeed not a well-known person in the headquarters, and even as the executive vice president of the head office, at least for now, is the number one person in administration.

But even so, he has been in office for more than half a month, and there are still people who meet him and ask who he is.

This is something that would never happen in Japan.

You know, when he was in Japan, judging from the position at that time, he was far inferior to the current executive vice president who was more than 10,000 people under two people.

But Iwata Satoshi is beautiful and has been puzzled for a long time.

Twenty days after he took office, he was summoned by Jester.

It's still in Jester's previous office, although Jester is no longer the head of the company's board of directors~ chair, but his office has always been retained, of course, Claudia usually works here, as for Jester, he usually only stays in WO's development team, and almost never leaves except when he needs to go to the company's restaurant to eat.

Moreover, when it comes to WOW development, Jester basically doesn't care about anything.

Even when he has always liked to take the initiative to answer some interesting player questions on the forum, he doesn't do it.

It's just a mental game.

His last game.

Iwata Satoshi was not surprised when he received Jester's meeting notice, because the environment he was in now definitely needed Jester's approval, and others regarded him as the future president of the company, or even the CEO, if there was no Jester's approval, then he would dare to see himself as the same.

When Satoshi Iwata walked to Jester's office, Claudia was there.

But after he went in. Claudia nodded at him and walked away, apparently just talking to Jester.

Jester sat him down, then came out from behind his desk and sat down across from Satoshi Iwata, across a coffee table, the two of them sitting facing each other, while Claudia, who had left earlier, returned to the office with a tray with two cups of coffee on it.

When Claudia puts the coffee in front of Satoshi Iwata. Satoshi Iwata also politely stood up and thanked him.

After that, Claudia did not go out, but chose to sit next to Jester.

Satoshi Iwata couldn't figure out what Jester was going to say to him.

However, Jester didn't turn so many corners this time, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he talked about the answer to the question that Satoshi Iwata wanted to know the most this time.

"Iwata, to be honest, I admire you, sincerely."

Jester smiled as he spoke, his smile genuine. In the eyes of Satoshi Iwata, it is like this.

"Why? It's simple, because I found out that we are the same kind of people who like to play and like to make games. We love watching other people make games, we love playing games, and most importantly, we position ourselves as gamers from start to finish. And not anything else, I like what you often say, I'm a gamer. It's very much to my heart. ”

"So, I decided to give you a chance, and of course, a chance for myself."

Jester said simply.

Not much to say, but enough for a smart person like Satoshi Iwata.

"What is the work going well during this time?"

Satoshi Iwata nodded.

"Actually, my meaning is very simple, I am optimistic that you will serve as the CEO of the company after my official retirement, but it is useless for me to be optimistic, I need you to show that you have the ability to take over the CEO, I will give you time to show yourself, and also to impress other people, although my voting power is enough for me to directly appoint you, but I will not do this, I am optimistic about you now, I think you can do a good job, what I need you to do is to prove that my views are correct."

"What do you think?"

After Jester finished speaking, he looked at Satoshi Iwata and asked.

His expression was kind, and he couldn't see what he was thinking now, but Iwata's heart was like ten thousand wild horses galloping by.

However, Iwata Satoshi is not a person who likes to hold back, and he feels that since his boss thinks so highly of him, he has to show his achievements to prove that his boss's trust is not wrong.

"I'll try."

Satoshi Iwata nodded vigorously.

However, Jester was not very satisfied with this answer.

He shook his head and said, "What I want is not your effort, but that he can definitely do it." ”

And Iwata Satoshi also gritted his teeth fiercely.

"I can do it."

Hearing what Iwata Satoshi said so categorically, Jester also smiled and stretched out a hand, and Iwata Satoshi also stretched out a hand, and the two clapped their hands heavily.

"Then we'll settle our minds."

As he spoke, Jester paused slightly, and then added: "Iwata, you can make ideas about what you want to do, what you want to do, how you want to reform, I can guarantee that as long as you don't do too much, Claudia will stand firmly behind him and support you." ”

The news that Jester would dismiss Satoshi Iwata quickly spread within the company.

And the first executive order that followed Satoshi Iwata's meeting with Jester was a large-scale cleanup of the company's many game development studios, both directly and subordinately.

This time, it seems that Satoshi Iwata meant either not to do it, but to do it once and thoroughly enough.

Although Jester has adopted the method of raising Gu in the studio, the method of winning the inferior is not too great for the company's financial pressure.

But in fact, there are indeed a little too many studios of Mars Entertainment now, before Iwata Satoshi wanted to count a table of how many studios there are in Mars Entertainment now, and arranged for three people to do it, but the three people did not count exactly the same.

There are even mistakes and omissions.

Moreover, Iwata Satoshi also feels that it is no longer the era of winning with a large number of games, besides, the game evaluation standards of Mars Entertainment are very strict, and some games that are not qualified enough are actually not eligible to be on the host, and they can only return to the cost on the PC of Mars Battle.net, in fact, it is difficult to make a return to the cost, and Mars Entertainment's loss in this area is also more than 100 million US dollars per year.

In Iwata's view, this is completely unnecessary.

Jester created this model because the environment in the industry was immature at that time, and he needed this way of raising Gu worms to cultivate enough good practitioners.

The environment in the industry is very different from what it was then.

Therefore, reform is also necessary.

That's the first thing Iwata Satoshi is going to do.

Of course, this kind of thing, this kind of large-scale reform that touches the interests of many people, must be opposed by many people.

However, when the others found out that both Jester and Claudia were firmly on Satoshi Iwata's side, they were helpless.

Therefore, since the creation of Mars Entertainment, there has been the first large-scale wave of layoffs, and this time the number of dismissed employees has exceeded 300 people, which is really a very large number.

And through this incident, it also represents Jester showing his attitude to the outside world.

That's right, as you expected, I do have the intention of having Satoshi Iwata take over after I retire.

Many websites and magazines have reported on this matter, after all, this is a great event in the industry, many people have contacted Jester who resigned from the board of directors ~ some time ago, and now there are large-scale layoffs, it may be that there is a problem with Mars Entertainment or Jester's capital flow.

But this is simply nonsense.

Immediately, the media retorted, saying that Jester was only a share of Citibank's shares every year, so it was impossible for him to worry about money, and Jester's name was still in Citibank's list of directors.

Of course, there are many people who say that Jester said that the purpose of resigning from the board of directors ~ was to concentrate on the game, but not long ago, a reporter from a financial magazine lined up for him to meet with his wife and two other young men in a restaurant in New York. Bryn, another nickname is Larry. Page.

These two young men don't have any special backgrounds.

But they're all Stanford graduates, they've started a company, and they're busy raising a second round of funding for their company. (To be continued.) )