Chapter 157: Fragmented Capcom (Four Watches)
By the way, and Chun-Li and Sangirf!
These two characters are also present in Street Fighter 2, which has not yet been released, and will also be in Weishenme?
Sheng Tiancang didn't have time to take a closer look at the characters of these two people, but it is certain that the similarity is extremely high! If plagiarism is really involved, Capcom can be with Fengyun Company, then it is really life-and-death and entanglement!
This news was quickly passed to Capcom's headquarters, and Kenzo Tsujimoto and Yoshiki Okamoto looked at each other, and neither of them had the heart to care about the development of Street Fighter 2 until they got the base board of the King of Fighters game and saw the scene described by Morita Kura.
New Year's Day is the most important holiday in Japan, but there is no festive atmosphere up and down Capcom, and everyone is covered with dark clouds over their heads, and the storm is about to start!
SEGA's press conference has finally taken place, and the world's first true 32-bit arcade game board has been officially launched!
Looking at the detailed data of the substrate on the manual in their hands, the reporters' eyes lit up, they were excited, and they praised it unanimously, while their peers smiled bitterly and retreated, and they dispelled the idea of independent research and development of the host.
That's right, who wants to go up against Sega's 32-bit substrate?
Does Capcom dare? Does SNK dare? Does Hudson dare?
Even, does Nintendo dare?
When Nintendo came out of 8 places, Sega sold 16 places, Nintendo finally came out with 16 places, Nima didn't arrive for half a year, and Sega 32 places came out, which is a slap on Nintendo's face!
How else to play?
Capcom spent 1 billion yen to develop the CPS1 substrate, which is claimed to be the strongest 16-bit substrate, and then launched Street Fighter. It only took two years to become the originator of fighting games!
SNK spent 1.8 billion yen to develop the NEOGEO substrate. Ambitious to get out of the booth separation, ready to enter the video game market. As a result, half a year has not yet arrived, and before even a decent fighting game has been brought out, I saw the Sega 32-bit substrate come out, which is simply laughing at their 16+16!
In a quote from Hayao Nakayama's press conference, "Our 16-bit KTM substrate was really a thing that was eliminated 5 years ago, so we introduced the 32-bit Model-1 and that's it!" ”
In fact, he still hasn't said a word, but everyone understands that it is, if he is not convinced. Welcome to the battle!
Only those with broken brains will fight hardware research and development with Sega! Even Nintendo has fallen into disadvantage, who else dares to fight with Sega?
So many game manufacturers instantly dispelled the idea of entering the hardware industry, and honestly developed games, and like SNK, they are now riding a tiger, and they have just been scared for half a year, and their most haode things have been compared to slag!
The official launch of the 32-bit arcade board means that it may not be more than two years before 32-bit home consoles will soon become popular. With high-standard hardware and highly playable games, Sega will knock the former king Nintendo to the ground, and it may become a hell!
There was also a game ordering session for The King of Fighters 91 at the press conference. and the promotion ceremony of the Global King of Fighters Fighting Championship organized by Longteng Company.
The base plate of the King of Fighters 91 is expensive, twice the price of the original KTM, in the early stages of successful development. In order to return to the cost as soon as possible, this price difference is $4,000 a piece!
This is a common practice in the hardware industry. The cost of R&D is quite high, and the price of new things that have just been launched will be very high. With the passage of time, the price will come down after the production of new jishu, the increase in sales, and the dilution of R&D costs.
But even so, $4,000 can't resist the enthusiasm of arcade hall owners, 99.99% of arcade hall owners have purchased this substrate, and at the same time choose to update Sega's new game console shell.
This data makes people fall through the glasses, the $4000 King of Fighters substrate, there is no need to worry about not being able to get back to the original, the owners of the game machine hall are shrewd, the famous generals and the round table samurai duo game, a person will take 10-20 minutes to GameOver, and the King of Fighters, hehe, 3-5 minutes to solve the battle!
Another big news is the convening of the Global King of Fighters Fighting Championship, starting from January 1, 1991, setting aside one month for the world's King of Fighters players to practice jishu, before February 14, Sega will provide travel expenses, invite 24 of the best gamers to Tokyo for the finals, and participate in the press conference on February 14!
Provocation! This is Chiguoguo's provocation!
A month of preparation, I have to hold the finals before Valentine's Day, and the press conference is the day when the results of Capcom's bet with Fengyun are announced, which is to let his fans see with their own eyes how Street Fighter was trampled under the feet of the King of Fighters, and how Capcom bowed down to Fengyun Game Software Company with a disgraced face!
This kind of provocation cannot be tolerated by the people of Capcom.
If it weren't for the security guards, the members of the Street Fighter project team might have rushed out of Capcom and collectively went to Fengyun to settle accounts!
Ken Tsujimoto filed a lawsuit against Fengyun Game Software Company in court, accusing The King of Fighters Games of plagiarizing Street Fighter 2.
However, a reply was quickly received and the case was not filed.
weishenme? Because Street Fighter 2 has not been officially launched at all, the game that came out later accused the game that came out first of infringement and plagiarism, did Capcom take the judges for fools?
However, Kenzo Tsujimoto and Yoshiki Okamoto did not give up, and made a relationship in private, forcibly filed a case in the Kyoto District Court, and provided the original code of the Street Fighter 2 game.
Fengyun Game Software Co., Ltd. took the notice of court and notified the media of the matter very contemptuously, which immediately detonated the verbal and written criticism of the media throughout Japan.
At the same time, SNK is also having trouble sleeping, and their hungry wolf legend is also suspected of leaking, and Terry's red vest baseball cap image appears in The King of Fighters, you know, the character of this protagonist was determined before the New Year!
Three fighting game production companies, Fengyun with one enemy and two, easy to deal with, no arguments, no complaints, on January 10, Yang Yun, accompanied by a lawyer, walked into the Kyoto District Court!
Because of a bet. As a result, it was seen in court, which means that it is impossible for the two companies to reconcile. And the losing side will never be able to hold its head up in the gaming world.
Kenzo Tsujimoto after seeing the King of Fighters game. Knowing that his Street Fighter 2 is impossible to match, he can only make this decision, which is the idea of finding a backing when he is dying.
If the court rules that Capcom loses the lawsuit, Kenzo Tsujimoto does not dare to imagine his end, will Capcom really go public and expel Yoshiki Okamoto? Will it really be like Yang Yun said, close the company and go home to retire?
Kenzo Tsujimoto himself is not a person who is good at power tricks, and he is obviously the president of IRM, but he will eventually be forced out of the company by Yoshihiko Takado, a shareholder who entered later. It can be seen from this incident.
Let him preside over game development is a good hand, in real history, famous generals, samurai of the round table, dinosaur Kombat, these classic arcade games are all he is optimistic about and dominate.
But now he ran into Yang Yun again, and when the whole company was provoked and almost rebelled, Zuihou He actually broke the matter and went to court. is known all over the world, and there is not even a little room for maneuver, which shows how low his emotional intelligence is.
Maybe this is his fate, and he has Resident Evil in the afterlife. Capcom, which is a hot-selling game such as Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter, may be strangled to death by Yang Yun in the embryonic stage!
The court is in session. After entering the judicial process, there is no way to recover!
And daoqian. Admit defeat and drive out Yoshiki Okamoto. Capcom may have a chance to make a comeback!
The media waited outside the courthouse gates, anxious, not knowing what was going on inside.
Time passed minute by minute, and finally, the sharp-eyed people were the first to see the people of Fengyun Company come out first!
Fengyun walked out first, and those pro-China media reporters hurriedly rushed over and quickly asked: "How did the judge decide?" ”
Yang Yun smiled faintly: "Of course, the crime is not established." Sorry please let me go, I still have something! ”
Wow......
The media are crazy, this short answer is equivalent to directly pronouncing Capcom's death sentence!
One sentence was enough, and the reporters saw Kenzo Tsujimoto being carried out of the courthouse by ambulance, while the rest of the Capcom personnel walked out of the courthouse with their faces drooped and dejected.
"Mr. Okamoto! How did Fengyun dismiss your complaint? ”
"What evidence did the judge accept?"
"Will Capcom continue to fulfill its Valentine's Day bet?"
"Mr. Okamoto! Please answer our questions! ”
“……”
No one in Capcom was willing to be interviewed by reporters, and what happened in the Zuihou court was still exposed by someone with a heart.
Fengyun Company only provided one piece of evidence, and that was the development notes of The King of Fighters!
This handbook records in detail every step of the game from scratch, there is time, there are witnesses, there is a schedule, the judge believes that the evidence is detailed, and after listening to the jury, he dismissed Capcom's complaint on the spot!
Lift a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, the winner of Zuihou is still Yang Yun!
Capcom fell into a chaotic situation with no leader after Kenzo Tsujimoto was admitted to the hospital, and Okamoto Yoshiki, a ruthless man, felt faceless to face all the employees of Capcom, and was even more unwilling to apologize to Chiba Akihara on Valentine's Day, and entered Fengyun Game Software Company as a low-level programmer, which was humiliating for him.
So he chose a sunny day, jumped from the top of the Capcom building, and ended his life!
Is it cruel?
Before making a decision, why don't you think about how you treat Chiba Akihara? How dare you personally lead the police to break into the headquarters of Fengyun Company?
Is it sad?
The only person who can afford to let go is a hero, Yang Yun's original intention was to poach Yoshiki Okamoto from Capcom to work for himself, even if he can't get his heart, he can make Capcom lose his arm.
But this person, his heart is too small, he will use this way to end the fight, Yang Yun did not feel sad at all, but felt that this person was useless!
This major event was quickly recorded in the history of global games, and it lasted for two years before it ended.
Yang Yun didn't stop the pace, although the Valentine's Day bet couldn't be made, but he still remembered that another company had made a bold statement, saying that they were the king of fighting games!
Hum! Joke! (To be continued......)