In June, Qingzhiyuan received an invitation from the E3 Electronics Exhibition in the United States.

Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Abbreviated as E3.

It is the world's largest and most well-known interactive entertainment exhibition.

Since its inception in 1995, it has played an important role in the global electronic entertainment industry, and has been praised by some critics as the "annual Olympic event in the electronic entertainment industry", attracting the attention of gamers around the world.

and more than 60,000 influential retailers, distributors, developers and investors, and media.

The official definition of E3 is "video game and related merchandise in production" and is a "trade show".

This means that E3 is a business networking event open to industry insiders in the gaming industry.

The main audience of the show is publishers, distributors, developers, media, etc. in the industry.

This is fundamentally different from the Tokyo Game Show, which is mainly aimed at general audiences.

The E3 organizing committee hopes that pokeni will be able to participate in the electronics fair in July this year, and has made a promise that if P participates, it will leave them a relatively spacious space to exhibit at that time.

In other words, Pokeni's booth is more luxurious, and it may be larger than other game companies.

After seeing the invitation, Qing Zhiyuan thought for a while, and then called Sony's Mr. Ken Kutaraki.

"Mr. Kutaragi, let me get straight to the point, E3 Electronics Show has sent an invitation to pokeni."

"So what?" Kutaragi Ken's heart jumped heavily,

To some extent, E3 has a certain competitive relationship with the Tokyo Game Show.

"So we're going to participate." "And we also recommend that Sony participate in this E3 electronics show. ”

"Huh?" Kutaragi Ken felt like his brain was about to burn.

"This is how we think about it, although the E3 Electronics Show and the Tokyo Game Show we hold are both for the promotion of electronic entertainment products, there are still certain differences."

"The official definition of E3 is a trade show, which is aimed at game manufacturers, publishers, distributors and players around the world, which can not only play a good role in publicity, but also be a convenient place for everyone to get together to talk about business, cooperation and communication."

There is no need for us to waste such an opportunity.

Secondly, there will be more Omics companies at the E3 Electronics Show, and they will not be the same as the basic plate of the Tokyo Game Show.

Why put all your eggs in one basket?

It would also be beneficial for us if we could have more contact, communicate more, and share each other's resources to make a larger stage and resource pool.

What's more, E3 is aimed at global players and has a good exhibition effect.

As a game production company, Pokeni has no reason to waste the opportunity to promote it.

In the same vein, I would recommend that Sony do the same. ”

Good guy, you've already made a decision to talk to us, haven't you?

Kutaragi Ken thought to himself, even if I don't agree, you can't listen to me, huh?

"In that case, whether or not pokeni participates in E3 is your company's freedom, and we have no right to interfere."

"Goodbye, E3, then." Qing Zhiyuan said.

Kutaragi Ken put down the phone, always feeling a little confused.

Isn't the youth president on our side?

……

After much deliberation, Ken Kutaragi decided to let Sony Computer Entertainment participate in this E3 electronics show.

To a certain extent, he believes that Qingzhiyuan's pattern is larger, and after internal meeting discussions, everyone also agreed that there is no need to not participate in the E3 electronics show because of the bad relationship with Ren Tianten and Sega.

Why should you have trouble with money?

In fact, if there was no Qing Zhiyuan in this life, Sony should have participated in the first E3.

The Tokyo Game Show was established to compete for the power to make rules and have a voice in the neon game industry.

Now that this goal has been achieved, as Qing Zhiyuan said, Sony has no reason to refuse the invitation of E3, even if E3 is not as good as the current Tokyo Game Show in terms of scale, but it is also a game event with global influence after all.

One more exposure, one more money.

It's also time to expand the reach of Sony's video games.

Qing Zhiyuan really thinks farther and has more patterns.

It's just that this guy's brain is too active.

Until now, Ken Kutaragi hasn't understood too much, Pokeni has offended so many industry bigwigs along the way, and he can easily change partners every time, how can he get more and more confused?

……

"Huh? Are we going to E3 this time? ”

After hearing the president's words, Kazuma Takahashi, the director of the operations department, was a little confused.

"Well," Qing Zhiyuan nodded, "You can help prepare, make a list of the games that will be released in the second half of this year, and ask the relevant project team to produce the corresponding CG for the exhibition."

I'm going to take them to E3. ”

Weapons are important.

Qing Zhiyuan also took into account that the current P Society has a good background, and has stocked up on many different games, and as far as he knows, it has now entered the final stage, and there are several games that can be released.

For example, Pokémon Racing, Pokémon Adventure, and "Border" developed by the subsidiary of Mi Guo

Not to mention anything else, just "Border" is enough to shock the entire E3 electronics show.

"And what about Sony?" Kazuma Takahashi was a little worried, "We participated in E3, which is equivalent to exposing the game first, and then what will we do at the Tokyo Game Show."

And will Sony be unhappy that we rushed to E3?

In a sense, E3 and Tokyo Game Show are in competition, right? ”

"Childish."

Qing Zhiyuan said, "In this world, the electronics exhibition itself is a publicity channel, one in July, the other in September, and there is no conflict in the schedule, in fact, it is just one more exposure channel."

There would be no competition at all. And ......"

President Qing smiled, "I have already called Sony to say that Sony will also participate in the E3 electronics exhibition at that time." ”

"Huh?"

When Kazuma Takahashi heard the news, he couldn't help but be shocked.

But after a few seconds of thinking, he immediately understood again.

"As the president, I can easily do things that others can't imagine."

The Tokyo Game Show is an annual game show hosted by the Neon Electronic Entertainment Industry Association, which was established under the leadership of Sony, and according to normal people's perception, Sony is the core of the Tokyo Game Show.

You may even subconsciously think of the Tokyo Game Show as belonging to Sony.

It's unthinkable to let Sony participate in E3, and if you put it in ancient times, it would be equivalent to making the emperor of one country bow down to another country.

But after Qing Zhiyuan's reminder, Takahashi Kazuma came out of the misunderstanding of thinking.

Although Sony is leading, the president of the Neon Electronic Entertainment Industry Association is rotated, Sony last year, Konami this year, and the future may be pokeni......

It's an interest group that collectively manages the gaming industry, and it's not all controlled by Sony.

And just like Qing Zhiyuan said, one more channel will give one more exposure, so why not go?

In addition to being a member of the Neon Electronic Entertainment Industry Association, Sony Electrographics is also a producer of game consoles and video games, and they also have a strong influence in the United States region.

If analyzed as an ordinary game manufacturer, Sony has no reason to refuse E3's invitation.

The same is true for pokeni.

Not only is P, Konami, and Square Enix all the same, with multiple identities, and from the perspective of practical interests, those shrewd guys may weigh the pros and cons, and maybe they are already actively preparing for E3.

Awesome, President!

All of a sudden, the company's multiple attributes are analyzed in place.

Qing Zhiyuan said that sometimes, don't look at what the person says, but what the person does.

In the shopping mall, whether others treat you well or not, whether you have friends or not, many times it also depends on your strength and status.

If Pokeni didn't have the actual combat power now, he had made many hits and accumulated the name of his own game overlord, he would have already been eaten by the bigwigs and there would be no scum left, let alone being a three-surnamed slave like Lu Bu.

From Rentendo to Sega to Sony.

Qing Zhiyuan relies on [strength]!

Strength, strength!

……

In fact, everything was said by Qing Zhiyuan.

Soon after, the organizing committee of the E3 electronics show announced a list of participants in advance.

Among them, companies such as Konami and Square Enix are impressively listed.

Kazuma Takahashi admired the president even more.

Qing Zhiyuan is like a god.

……

On July 8, 1997, the E3 electronics exhibition was held at the Atlanta World Congress Center in the United States.

E3 can be said to be a preview of the game industry's annual business war, where major game manufacturers will exhibit the most important products of the year, and whether they can succeed at this show or not represents the market prospect of this product to some extent.

However, since the day E3 was born, it has been inextricably linked to the Tokyo Game Show.

In the timeline of this world, due to the influence of Sony and pokeni, in the previous two E3 electronics shows, although world-class game manufacturers such as Sega and Rentendo were invited, due to the absence of many influential neon video game manufacturers such as Sony and pokeni, E3 has always lost a lot of color.

In terms of scale, the difference between the two is not very big.

One is based on the manufacturer of Omi, plus Ren Heaven and Sega, which can barely be regarded as the World Cup in the game industry.

On the other hand, although there is a lack of Ren Heaven and Sega, there are also a number of neon giants such as Sony, Pokeni, Konami, and Square Enix.

In a sense, at this point in time in '97,

The world's gaming field is the world of neon.

The best game is also neon.

Although there are also things like Westwood and Blizzard that are good at making real-time strategy games, there are also EAs that do racing and competitive games, such as Need for Speed, NBA, Major League Baseball, etc......

However, in terms of overall sales and popularity, there is still a little lacking.

So E3, which only Ren Heaven and Sega participated, always felt that something was missing.

However, this time the E3 electronics exhibition seems to have some changes from the previous two years.

Because of a group of neon game manufacturers, such as Ren Heaven, Sega, Square Enix, Konami ...... and a large number of other game manufacturers,

Even Sony has joined in.

E3 has also become the largest number of video game manufacturers in the past few years.

Many players shouted that they couldn't understand the E3 electronics show this time.

But at the same time, I feel very excited and happy to have so many game manufacturers, especially neon video game producers, come together.

……

Among the participants, one company attracted the spotlight.

That's pokeni.

The E3 organizer must first determine the list in order to better organize and arrange the corresponding exhibition area, as well as coordinate the order of the pre-show press conference.

So when the official list was announced, players all over the world were shocked.

"What?! pokeni is also going to participate in this year's E3 electronics show? ”

"Not only Pokeni is going to participate, but Sony is also going to participate?"

"I always thought that these video game manufacturers in Neon were reluctant to participate in E3, and I didn't see them much last year or the year before that."

"yes, this time it was a bit of a surprise."

"The most surprising thing is pokeni, right? I really like Pokeni, a game company.,The previous two years were absent in a row.,I thought there would be no more this year.。

I didn't expect to see it in the end, it's really not easy. ”

Pokeni has been suppressed by Ren Heaven in the neon homeland, and people don't think too much of Pokeni is the king in their subconscious.

Neon players, the general impression of P Society is-

This is a young game production company with a lot of potential.

The games produced by the company are all high-quality and good at making high-quality games.

Judging from intuition, even if P Company's revenue last year has surpassed that of many game manufacturers and successfully climbed to second place, second only to Ren Heaven, everyone doesn't seem to have a real sense that P Company should be in second place.

However, the treatment of Pokeni in the Omi region is very different.

In the minds of Omi players, P Society is now a well-deserved little overlord, a pioneer and leader in the game industry.

Whether it's the Diablo series, the Witcher series, or the Pokémon series, they have all gained great popularity in the Omi region.

It even reached -

There must be a degree of pokeni game in every family.

Last year, a large wave of Pokémon intensively occupied the game market.

This year's The Witcher 2 has successfully brought the game of P Society to the altar again.

In the Witcher Demon Egg, the weird and calm dark narrative style, coupled with the excellent plot and first-class combat performance, directly made the players in the Omi region crazy.

So this time, when they heard that POKENI's name would appear at the E3 electronics show, players in the Omi region were going crazy.

"Waterfack?! Pokeni is also coming to E3? Oh my God, I want to buy a ticket to see it. ”

"It's great, this year's E3 Electronics Show, I can actually invite pokeni, I really want to go to the scene to have a look."

"What kind of games will POKENI bring this year? I'm looking forward to it. ”

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