Chapter 774: Before the Sale Date
Of course, this matter cannot be rushed, and needs to be considered in the long run.
For Jester, money is not very important to him anymore, everything he is doing now is for the development of the whole game business, and forming a foundation like this to support independent games will be the best choice.
He will give a lot of people who are full of dreams and are interested in game development, but do not have enough start-up capital, this fund may not be much, but it is enough to solve a lot of troubles that need to be solved in the game development process.
Now what he's thinking about is, is he going to do it himself, or is he going to do it in the name of the company?
Or do you want to contact other game companies and do it in the name of the World Video Games Association? Jester really doesn't think much of the income that this kind of independent game foundation can bring to him, he has no shortage of money at all, and for him, it is the best for him to get some good reputation through this matter.
Thinking about it, Jester remembered some charitable foundations, which were basically things made by some rich people who were poor and bored, no matter what their starting point was, whether it was tax avoidance or inviting names, they always used the money to charity and help people in need.
Jester suddenly thought of this, could this foundation of his do the same?
Of course, supporting indie games isn't a philanthropic act.
But Jester can do that, and make a profit by supporting indie games. It can be used for charity - as for what kind of charity, this is too simple, and the favorite thing of those charitable foundations in later generations is to choose a certain disease. And then funding the patients with the disease, or the medical care of the disease, that's a better way to go.
Take, for example, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Jester had seen a story about the disease in his last life, and this hereditary disease affects mostly men, and boys who carry the gene for the disease develop before the age of 4, causing their muscles to lose strength. Atrophy ~ shrinkage, which eventually affects all of his normal life - to this day, even in the future. There is no cure for this disease.
There are many wealthy people, and their original intention to set up this kind of foundation may be because they or their relatives suffer from this incurable disease. Invest in the treatment of this disease. On the one hand, it is to be able to treat their relatives as soon as possible, and secondly, it is also to be able to make future patients with this disease no longer suffer from the suffering of patients.
For example, the famous NBA superstar Magic Johnson, because he has AIDS, has been funding AIDS treatment for decades, not for anything else, but for his own long-term life.
There are many people who say that AIDS is not terrible, and that it is not even as problematic as hepatitis. To live a few more decades, the example is usually given by Magic Johnson. It is said that Johnson has had AIDS for more than 20 years and is still alive and well, but these people are completely ignorant of the disease, because these people have no idea that there are several people in the world who can be like magicians who have been fully supporting HIV since the 90s.
And He Dayi, a Taishan Beidou-level leader in the HIV industry, plus the world's strongest HIV research institute to do new drug research and development, will give him the latest drugs at any time.
This allowed him to start with his illness in the nineties and live alive until twenty or thirty years later.
You know, He Dayi is not an ordinary person, he is the first person in the world to discover the case of AIDS, but also the first person to discover the pathogenesis of AIDS, and at the same time the person who has the most say in the treatment of AIDS, the famous cocktail therapy was invented by him, and he is also the director of the Allen Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University, an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Overall, he deserves the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the fight against AIDS.
Compared with AIDS, Jester is still more interested in the funding of the disease of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which has a very famous charity in later generations, but not now, this disease is not famous, at least relatively speaking, far less famous than AIDS and cancer, and those rich people are more fond of funding AIDS and cancer treatment.
Because, themselves, they are the most likely to suffer from these two diseases.
As for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, it is a genetic disease, and the chances of developing it are too small for them to make such an investment in research and development.
However, in the future, Duchenne muscular dystrophy will be financed by a special charity, and the amount of funding is very large, because the founder of this charity is a big man, Prince Albert II of Monaco.
As for the reason, it is not much different from what I said above, because his youngest son was born with this incurable disease.
However, according to Jester's understanding of the time, Albert II's charitable foundation's funding for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the famous one-of-a-kind watch charity auction should not have been established now, Jester can do it himself, these things are very messy, Jester thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, but he felt that this was a cause that he could do with all his strength instead of making games in the future.
Although it is a bit hypocritical.
But Jester also understands a little why so many rich people in the future, after becoming famous and retiring, many of them will do charity.
But this is a matter for the future, and the most important thing I need to do now is to develop the final planned game, and there may be something I suddenly want to develop, which is not certain.
Of course, the success of the Dreambox3 launch is naturally the top priority of everything.
After Mars Entertainment unveiled Dreambox 3 and Heroes at the Cologne show, there were discussions everywhere in the gaming world. Although things have not been quiet at all in the past few months, first Sony took the lead in responding to the launch of Dreambox3, that is. Anyone who has previously purchased a PS1 can use the new device as a discount to buy a PS2 at a lower price.
Then Sega immediately followed up, and they immediately did a similar sales to their Sega Saturn.
This kind of sales method, Mars Entertainment can't say anything, because it was before the establishment of the World Video Game Association. Because the price of the Dreamnbox2 is much more expensive than Sega's MD, he also uses this way to compete with Sega by reducing prices in disguise.
Now, Sony is on the side with Sega. It's just to treat others the way they do.
Of course, Sony and Sega's new games are also being launched one after another, and their two heavyweight titles are also released on the first weekend of December.
It's for Dreambox 3 and Jester's games.
Seem. All of a sudden, the two companies understood. Their biggest rival is actually Mars Entertainment, not themselves, the two companies have been fighting for more than half a year and suddenly died down, all quietly waiting for Mars Entertainment to officially show their fangs - of course, with the Dreambox3 first game debuting in the past few months, the pressure on these two companies is even more inexplicable.
In addition to "Heroes", which was first unveiled at the Cologne exhibition, Mars Entertainment began in the second half of the year. Started going out and spread the word about them in December and January. A new game will be released on Dreambox 3.
Of course, it was originally in Jester's vision.
In the starting game lineup, there will be its own "Hero", there will be the latest work of Yuji Naka's "Sonic", there will be Kojima's "Hidden Dragon Gun", and there will be "Zelda" by Shigeru Miyamoto...... However, after all, people have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete, and it is impossible for everything to be as perfect as planned, although, Kojima, Miyamoto Shigeru and other people's games cannot be put on the shelves on time.
But the strength of the lineup in the starting game is still amazing.
First of all, it is natural that Jester has high hopes that with Balotelli's signature, he will easily be able to sell 10 million copies of the game, "Made in Balotelli".
For this game, Jester is not worried at all.
Because this game is sure to be successful - and most importantly, this is also the Dreambox 3 was not announced at the Cologne show, and the biggest difference compared to Sony and Sega's machines is that the Dreambox3 supports the Internet just like the computer console.
In other words, players can share the joy of "Made in Balotelli" with others on the Internet.
This is also the biggest playable thing about this game.
Jester believes that this will be the biggest weapon and capital to help them attack the Japanese market, and Sony, which is now very successful in the Japanese market and has the atmosphere of Nintendo again.
Because the Japanese love Balotelli so much.
He still vividly remembers the first, second, and third generations of Super Balotelli when they were released in Japan.
It's fair to say that even his own games have not been as successful in Japan as the Super Balotelli series - of course, even in the entire world, Super Balotelli is still the most successful game, and there are currently more than 100 million games in his three main sequels and two racing games, which is a number and record that is hard to believe.
That's an average of 20 million copies sold in one game!
In fact, Super Balotelli sold the highest number of copies in its original life, reaching an incredibly staggering 42 million units, and his sales continue to grow.
This is even more terrifying data and results than the "Super Mario" in Jester's original world.
And,So far,In addition to "Superhorse",There is no other game,Can sell more than 20 million sets,Jester's game,The best selling is the first generation of "Fire Emblem",A great work that opened the precedent of ARPG games,It can be said that with its own strength,It's not the same as SRPG and ARPG two games,And the first equipment grading system in it,It gave birth to the Diablo series after the yearใ
But the total sales of such a game so far are only 17 million units.
Moreover, the game's sales momentum is almost empty.
It is almost impossible to reach 20 million sets.
In fact, even in the original world, after "Superhorse" and "Tetris", the next game with a single game to reach 20 million will have to wait until 15 years after the advent of "Superhorse", that is, "GTA3" for 2,000 years.
Of course, the "Duck Hunting" that comes with the game doesn't count.
It's not the same as the "WII Sport" that comes with WII, otherwise, it's too bad to count sales like this, and in this way, the sales of "WII Sport" of 80 million must be unprecedented.
In fact, even the sales of Tetris are not strictly calculated.
In Jester's original world, Tetris sold 30 million copies on GB, but the problem is that the game comes with GB.
IT'S THE SAME AS WII'S "WII SPORT".
In fact, 20 million-level games began to appear in large numbers, and that would probably wait until the PS3 hit the market.
In general, Jester is still satisfied with his company's first game prepared on Dreambox3, although it is not as perfect as he envisioned, but with Yamauchi Kazunori's "Gran Turismo Brigade", with the football game "FIFA1996" that has just been established by the football studio, and the first six generations of the collection of high-definition resets prepared by Hironobu Sakaguchi - not because he doesn't want to release FF7, but because the setting of FF7 is too large, and it is unlikely to be completed within the year.
There is also its own "Hero", the company's reset "Thor's Hammer Ultimate Edition" that can be played online, as well as Yuji Naka's "Sonic 3", Itagaki Companion's "Tekken Console Version", plus Capcom's "Resident Evil", and the third-party manufacturers that need to revolve around Mars Entertainment, followed by the games that will be launched in the next few months, Jester believes that if Sony or Sega can't come up with effective countermeasures.
It should be a matter of course that I can't take care of myself because of my own combination of punches.
As the release date approached, Jester became more and more excited. (To be continued......)