Chapter 389: Kanon and Tail
Masashi Miyamoto is now in a difficult situation, and Sony has sent people over many times to negotiate that they are willing to pay a high price for FF's exclusive games, and the price offered is very tempting.
However, Sega is Square Enix's most important partner now, although Square Enix has nothing to do with Sega, but the Final Fantasy series of games, Square Enix only owns 51%, and the remaining 49% is owned by Dragon.
Masashi Miyamoto himself did not expect that the "Final Fantasy" series, which sold only 400,000 copies at its peak three years ago, would be able to create a new version on the SS platform and sell more than 3 million copies in three months, so much so that he regretted the hasty relinquishment of 49% of the rights back then.
And Square Enix's most valuable game is the "Final Fantasy" series, and the other games are so mediocre that people don't want to mention them, he hasn't figured out why Yang Yun's vision is so accurate!
The 49% rights and interests in the hands of Long Teng, although they are only all the rights and interests of the "Final Fantasy" series on the game, but if you want to transplant it to the PS platform, this right will also take effect, and the high cost of digging the wall paid by Sony will also be half of Yang Yun's!
The only thing that the "Final Fantasy" brand has nothing to do with Dragon is the adaptation rights of movies and comics, but how much do movies and comics account for compared to games?
Thinking of the movie, Masashi Miyamoto became depressed again, Long Teng invested in Pokemon movies, invested in dinosaur and Cadillac movies, invested in Tomb Raider movies, many CG animations and special effects in these games and movies were done by Square Enix, he could only watch Long Teng count hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office until he was soft, and he was envious, jealous and hateful alone.
This time, Yang Yun came just in time. Masashi Miyamoto secretly decided that if the platforming of Final Fantasy 7 was settled. Square Enix is ready to start making a CG movie for Final Fantasy!
Masashi Miyamoto paid attention to Yang Yun with his spare eyes, and Yang Yun was also pretending not to care about looking at Masashi Miyamoto.
Wait for the tea master to finish the performance. After leaving the room, everyone picked up the teacup in front of everyone, took a sip of tea, put it back in front of them, raised their heads and looked at Yang Yun together.
Old-fashioned Japanese......
Yang Yun smiled and said, "President Miyamoto, no matter what changes occur in the environment, no matter what public opinion is, is it as long as we still have common interests. Can we continue to work together? ”
Masashi Miyamoto replied with a smile: "Of course, we are businessmen and should not be swayed by the outside world and politics." We want to pursue the greatest and longest-term interests. ”
OK, that's enough.
Yang Yun didn't talk much nonsense, motioned to Wang Zhe to hand over a copy of the game copy, pushed it in front of Masashi Miyamoto, and said: "This is a copy of the CG animation script of our new game "Resident Evil", President Miyamoto. Or is it the same as before, and leave it to your CG special effects team to help with it? ”
Masashi Miyamoto had a headache, and he took this copy very reluctantly, complaining in his heart.
Not again! Although it is a paid paid cooperation. But can we not take away our company's resources to do this? Could it be that such a big Longteng company doesn't have a special effects group?
And again and again we are asked to do CG animation, and you only pay a few million dollars for a small amount of money. What you get is hundreds of millions of box office revenues, and the gap between them is huge. Isn't it intended to provoke us?
Masashi Miyamoto wanted to push down this contract domineeringly, and then said confidently: "I'm sorry! Square Enix is going to make his own CG movie Final Fantasy. I don't have time to pick up your small orders! ”
But he couldn't say that, because the company's board of directors hadn't approved the decision, and he couldn't decide it alone.
Yang Yun smiled and said, "President Miyamoto, don't be so embarrassed! In each of our games, we have a list of Square Enix's special effects team, and each contract is the highest price in the industry, and Square Enix has never been badly treated. There is a saying in China that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is meat. After completing the CG of "Resident Evil", I believe that Square Enix will definitely reach an unprecedented height in the field of game CG production, and even if he launches his own CG movie in the future, it will be a big hit! ”
Masashi Miyamoto was in a better mood, a little embarrassed, and a little puzzled and asked, "President Yang is also optimistic about the CG movie adapted from the game?" ”
Hooked......
Yang Yun definitely had a smile on his face, and his attitude and expression were extremely sincere: "Of course! Actually, President Miyamoto himself knows this very well, right? Isn't the current "Final Fantasy" series of games also adding a lot of CG animations to the game, making it similar to an RPG movie? ”
Masashi Miyamoto is very pleased, the hero sees the same thing, and Longteng's own game is also developing in this direction, the new game they have made in the past two years, the visual effects, the plot writing, is much stricter than the previous MD era, and the game is really like watching a movie, and the exaggerated game, CG can reach almost half the length of the game!
Masashi Miyamoto opened the copy and looked at it, and said approvingly: "I hope this is really the trend of game development!" ”
Yang Yun shut up and didn't speak, picked up the teacup and took a sip, proud in his heart, his face expressionless.
He is only responsible for sowing seeds, as for watering and fertilizing, when Square Enix sees that the box office of the movie adaptation of the Dragon Game is getting higher and higher, they themselves will not be able to bear it and take the initiative to give birth to this seed.
This summer, the movie "Tomb Raider" was released, and at that time, Square Enix should have just finished the CG of "Resident Evil", and then saw the box office of "Tomb Raider" envied.
Next, it should be logical to do your own thing, right?
When the time comes, hehehehe......
"Oh yes!" Yang Yun remembered one thing: "The movie casting for "Resident Evil" is also going on, I wonder if President Miyamoto would like to make a cameo appearance with me and play a zombie?" ”
Masashi Miyamoto couldn't help but laugh: "What? Let me be a guest cast? Play as a zombie? ”
Yang Yun asked with a smile, "Isn't it cool?" ”
Masashi Miyamoto was speechless, and Wang Zhe excitedly took over the words on the side: "Mr. Yang, I also want to play a zombie!" ”
Yang Yun waved his hand: "No, ordinary people are not qualified to be extras!" President Miyamoto. Are you really not interested in acting? ”
Masashi Miyamoto shook his head again and again, he was really in no mood to discuss these at this time. Where does he still care about movies now? He'd rather hurry back to the company and sign this damn contract. Then let his subordinates finish it, and then he persuaded the board of directors to the diehards that the sooner they entered the CG film production, the better!
After spending three days at Square Enix, Yang Yun was sure that the CG special effects team had thoroughly understood what he meant, so he left Tokyo and flew to Europe with satisfaction.
Of course, before leaving, he didn't forget to meet Feng Qi quietly, and Yang Yun was indescribably grateful to this comrade who was fighting on the secret front.
"Mr. Feng. You are alone in hardship, the world may misunderstand you and do not understand you, but I hope you can hold your ground and not be defeated by the cruel reality! Personally, I support you very much, if the company has no money, you must sue me......"
"Mr. Yang, thank you very much for your cultivation, I will dedicate my life to the cause of GalGame and HGame, and my loyalty to the cause is absolutely undoubted!"
"Of course I don't doubt it. You've done a great job. Well, I've already licensed you the film adaptation rights for "American Pie", but I can't license the "Heartbeat Memories" series to you. When I'm gone, you can take a good look at the Kanon script. I hope you can carry forward this collection and go one step further. ”
Mr. Yang...... I really appreciate your ...... Don't worry, when I'm done with Kanon in the first half of this year. In the second half of the year, we will make "Tail Line" ......"
"Thank you! I will ask Wang Zhe to send you the latest 3D game engine, you must pay attention to secrecy. This is the core technology of Longteng, you know how to do it, right? ”
"Rest assured! I'll wrap the engine in its entirety. Makeover, and tightly manage the code to ensure that it does not leak out......"
Until Yang Yun got on the plane, he was thinking about it.
In addition to being used in single-player games such as Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, or Mjolnir and CS, 3D game engines are also widely used in HGame.
To put it bluntly, on the 3D character model control zhì, the technology of "Tail Line" is completely better than the "Resident Evil" series!
Because this is a commercial requirement, "Tail Line" is an adult game with 18 prohibitions, in which those restricted male and female actions, 3D animation table xiàn out of the stereoscopic image is very similar to real people, so that it will be infinitely close to the truth, so as to get high praise from players, in order to sell fire, and make more money.
That's why Yang Yun secretly asked Feng Qi for help, asking for a number of things about women and 3D modeling technology, which is a typical specialization in the art industry, and he can't accept it.
It's just a pity that Feng Qi and SZone company, because of some people's habitual views, they can only endure independent development, and they also have to bear the infamy, and many games can only be sold in Japan in the future, and even the European and American markets cannot be entered.
Yang Yun can only silently pay tribute to the fighters who are fighting on the front line of GalGame and HGame!
Thinking about the game industry I entered, although it is a little better than Feng Qi and them, I can't get rid of the extreme views of the world.
Many people have a hostile attitude towards games, they only see how the game is, and the playthings are demoralized, and how many people are broken, even if some people are tolerant, they only see the surface of the game, thinking that the game is just an ordinary commodity.
Who can see the hard work behind the scenes?
Games are also software, in order to please players, game software is always the most updated and diligent type of software, always leading the most advanced technology research and development, and in addition to constantly innovating in software, major game companies have to spend huge sums of money on hardware updates and research and development.
For example, now, Longteng is likely to invest billions of R&D funds in the Loongson project every year, but what about the CPU and GPU? And what about memory? Who can see the story behind this?
When he was thinking nonsense, Yang Yun closed his eyes and rested, when he arrived in Europe, he still had a very important task to do, the casting of the "Resident Evil" movie, and the design of the movie script, had to start again.
It's going to be busy again! (To be continued......)