The decision to package and sell arcade games as a whole, even Inoue Yanxiong and Zhang Guoqiang couldn't stand it, and they couldn't bear it.

The games I just mentioned are still the games made by Yang Yun after he became the owner of Sega, not counting Sega's original gunfight shooting, racing simulation, and other game content provided by other game companies to Sega as OEMs.

No one is willing to sell this thriving arcade department, in their opinion, Longteng's arcade machine is at the peak of its career, and the future is immeasurable!

But is that really the case?

Yang Yun was also very painful to make this decision, and finally made these classic games, and he was really reluctant to sell them, and what he was most reluctant to do was the King of Fighters series.

But arcade games are almost a sunset industry, and everyone knows that they don't make money, a famous player earns less than $10 million, and The King of Fighters 91 earns more, with thirty or forty million, but that's it, and the room for improvement in the future is very limited.

How many classic arcade games can be released next?

In Yang Yun's view, there are still Samurai Soul, Metal Slug, Dinosaur Kombat, Journey to the West, Three Kingdoms War, Caijing 1945, these six games are still worth developing, like Vacuum Cleaner Kid, Miracle Three-in-One, Captain Iron Hook, Punisher, Haoxue Temple, Thunder Dragon Those popular games, Yang Yun even lacks interest in development.

Of course, not counting the drum machines, dancing machines, gunfight games, and racing games in the large amusement halls of later generations, Yang Yun himself played very few of those things, one because it was too expensive, and the other was because it was really lacking interest, after the popularity of PC. With so many games to choose from, who would play them in an arcade?

Yang Yun remembered it clearly. After the large-scale popularization of arcade simulators on the PC side, Capcom's CPS series substrates. SNK's NEOGEO substrates are all cracked, who still goes to the arcade room to play?

The development of PCjishu has made traditional video games more popular, and it is destined that arcade games will be the first to collapse, and games on FC, SFC, MD and other platforms will be ported to PC one after another, and after 2000, these low-end video game platforms will also be discontinued one after another. Disappear.

In addition, Yang Yun didn't want to be distracted to do arcade games, because in the next two or three years, Sega would have to face another terrifying opponent, Sony's PS!

As soon as the weishenmePS was launched, it washed out Nintendo's SFC? Even the N64 has suffered one setback after another, and the entire TV game market has been preempted by Sony's PS series?

The 32-bit processor and high-performance image processing are one thing, the main point is that the PS has several thousand games. directly broke Nintendo's so-called game quality management system, so that Nintendo's game platform, which did not add up to hundreds of times, instantly became scum with a combat effectiveness of 5.

Thousands against hundreds, how can this still be played?

4000 games hit down, not to mention Nintendo. Even Yang Yun can't stand it, this Nima doesn't take the Atari bankruptcy incident in his eyes at all!

But as a rising star, the new Sony games don't have to worry about these at all. In Sony's view, Nintendo's quality management system makes monopoly profits extremely terrifying. Yamauchi has $1 billion in cash, which is unthinkable in Sony's eyes!

And Sony is from a hardware seller's background. PS will also be integrated with Sony Home Theater and Sony Multimedia Center in the future, what is a game department? It's none of their business to ruin the entire gaming industry!

Thousands of games on the PS platform will only increase sales for PS, as for the life and death of competitors, who cares?

As the performance of consoles improves, PS sales will increase, console prices will fall, and the number of games on the PS platform will increase, which is a virtuous circle.

And the preferences of players will also change dramatically, the arcade machine is destined to be popular again in the next two years, and then it will slowly go from the peak to decline, five years, ten years, and gradually forgotten.

Selling at the peak of his career and selling for a good price, Yang Yun planned to do so, so he had to find a way to convince these people!

"Calm down, please listen to me."

Yang Yun knocked on the table and said, "What I want to sell is an arcade game, not an entire department." I'm going to sell all the games that Sega and Dragon have developed and subsequent versions of over the years, and all the developers will move to other departments. ”

"Sega's hardware lab remains, and all substrates are not sold or transferred. We simply became the hardware supplier of the buyer, Model-2 and 3, as well as the 64-bit Naomi substrate research, we kept it all, and accelerated the development of 32-bit and 64-bit video game consoles, ten years later, twenty years later, 128-bit, 256-bit, how fast the CPU development, how fast our substrate research is! ”

"The software development department of arcade games was abolished, and all of them were merged into Fengyun Game Software Company, and we were fully engaged in the research and development of video game consoles, because we were about to meet another extremely strong competitor, that is, Sony Games!"

Speaking of this, everyone was surprised, Yang Yun waved his hand and said, "We'll talk about Sony later." Now I want to talk about arcade games for sale jihua. I think so, there are still 2 years to go, and I will lead you to develop six new arcade games, in addition to the King of Fighters series, the Three Kingdoms series, and the development of subsequent versions of these arcade games will not stop. ”

Wang Zhe was taken aback: "Two years to develop eight arcade games? This is not in line with the style of arcade game companies at all, even if you have a good idea, you can launch up to two games a year, and many companies can't make one in two years for a high-level and high-quality game like our Dragon! ”

Zhao Yongping thought thoughtfully: "I understand, that's why Weishenme wants to sell it within two years, make our arcade games the highest peak in the industry, and then sell them as a whole, sell them at a sky-high price, and then pull out and compete with Nintendo and this Sony game!" ”

"That's right!" Yang Yun was very satisfied, and sure enough, Zhao Yongping was the first person to understand what he meant: "Don't be blinded by the prosperity in front of you, the decline of large arcades is an inevitable trend, and there are also voices in the Japanese media calling on teenagers to stay away from arcade halls, our arcade department has not been able to increase profits, why bother holding on to it and not letting go?" ”

Hayao Nakayama was still not angry, and said angrily: "If you really want to sell, I and Director Kobayashi will buy it privately!" ”

Yang Yun hahadaxiao: "President Zhongshan! My offer is not cheap! At the peak of the arcade business, the price was not as cheap as tens of millions of dollars or two. Have you ever considered it, within two years, we will crush the arcade games of Capcom and SNK, force all the competitors in the arcade game industry to death, and wait until we become a monopoly company, and then put it up for sale, and the final price must include this market monopoly price! ”

Everyone shuddered when they heard it, when they thought of that scene, the vest was a layer of cold sweat, the global arcade market size was also billions of dollars, and the only monopoly overlord sold it as a whole, what is this not a sky-high price?

But who can eat such a big handicap?

"Who are you going to sell to?" Hayao Nakayama was a little discouraged, billions of dollars, he couldn't afford it.

"That's it, Mr. Yang, since we can all monopolize it, even if the arcade machine reaches a recession period, then let's just keep until this industry dies, why sell it?" Wang Zhe has a headache when he thinks about it, and finally makes the arcade bigger and stronger, and it has become the pinnacle of the industry, this Mr. Yang actually wants to sell, is this a rapid retreat, or a reckless resolution?

Yang Yun smiled: "When the time comes, whoever bids high, who I sell to, one company can't eat, I will split it into multiple companies, and sell it according to the type and quantity of the game, which is higher than the overall package!" ”

In fact, Yang Yun most wants to sell to people in the Nintendo and Sony camps, or simply some red-eyed hardware manufacturers, such as Philips and Panasonic, no matter how bad it is, he will split up all the arcade departments and sell them back to China, so that many companies in the animation and game industry park can take over, so that they can squeeze out a little residual heat in the arcade industry.

In my memory, before 2000, the arcade game hall business in China was very hot, but there was a special reason for this.

Chinese arcades are basically CPS and NEOGEO motherboard games, and there are almost no games in the Sega Model series because these two low-end motherboards are easy to crack, and Chinese piracy experts are the best at doing this kind of thing, cracking almost all Capcom and SNK games.

Many people have played a street fighter that consumes fuel and releases 10 qigong waves, or the dinosaur Kombat with unlimited bullets, or the Battle of the Three Kingdoms Chibi with a holy sword at birth, these are the credits of piracy.

China's economy has lagged behind the developed capitalist countries for ten or twenty years, and the game has been backward for so long, and the arcade machine that has become an obsolete industry in Japan, Europe and the United States has been developing in China for 10 years, until the ban of seven ministries and commissions after 2000.

Now Yang Yun's rebirth has changed this pattern, Capcom and SNK's good games have basically been snatched away by Sega, the substrate of the Model series, until 2014, has not been cracked, the game has not been simulated, and the PC emulator cannot find a place to download, which means that in the Chinese domestic market, there is no possibility of large-scale pirated arcades, and if you want to play arcades, you can only sell genuine Sega substrates.

In addition, Tian Haoqiang's gang of copycat cracking experts have been co-opted by Yang Yun, and China's animation and game industry has been supported by the state, who would dare to risk going to jail to pirate Longteng's products?

Unless Yang Yun splits and sells the arcade division to domestic companies, it is impossible for arcade machines to become widely popular in China, which is the butterfly effect brought by Yang Yun! (To be continued......)