Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 54 54. The decision is yours!

December 26, 1990.

Tokyo.

pokeni co., ltd.

The new year is approaching.

Everyone was uninterested in working and chatting at their workstations.

Apart from my mentality, I really don’t have anything on hand right now.

The main reason is that the future direction of the company has not yet been determined, and no one knows what President Qing’s plans are for the production of the next game.

"Nana, tell me what the president is thinking. With such good results in the Onmyoji series, you won't stop doing it again, right?"

"Who knows? It's not like you don't know the president. He only wants to go ashore."

"It's not that easy to go ashore. If you don't make any money, you always want to go into other categories. I think the president really can't figure it out sometimes."

"But that's not necessarily the case. Didn't Onmyoji 2 change from the original orthodox RPG to a galgame?"

"I hope we don't make the same mistakes again, but don't wait until the project is almost completed before making changes. I really can't stand that."

"It's unnecessary to worry about these things now. The New Year is coming soon. It's better to think about what to do during the New Year."

"Haha, that's true. The future of the company is left to the president to decide. All we can do is go all out in the direction he decides, that's all."

"That's right."

"By the way, do you want to go to the Fox Shrine to worship during the New Year?"

"I'm going to go, the fox parade is so fun."

"Where are you grabbing the lucky bag?"

"I want to go! I hope I can grab a big lucky bag this year!"

"Ah~ I'm already looking forward to it."

…

At the same time, in the president's office, Qing Zhiyuan was also worrying about the new game.

The "Onmyoji" series has now achieved very good results and has also brought considerable revenue to the company.

According to financial statistics, the available funds on the company's books now are about 300 million yuan.

The fact that pokeni can earn so much also means that DUN and the sellers as investors also earn a lot.

300 million yuan is enough to give it a go and develop a game masterpiece.

Qing Zhiyuan made a plagiarism, ah, production list on his computer.

Due to current hardware limitations, there are not many options to choose from.

Home computers are not yet completely popular, mainly because the price of PCs has not come down.

In 1990, a 486-level computer cost nearly 700,000 yen.

In mainland China, it is also a terrifying luxury item costing nearly 30,000 yuan.

Those who can afford computers are rich people.

The computer market is not mature enough, so some game types can be passed directly.

For example, shooting type.

Don't worry about playing shooting games with a controller.

The mouse and keyboard experience will be significantly better.

This kind of game is obviously more suitable for development on the computer side, but Qing Zhiyuan will not touch it at present.

Otherwise, the company has just added a platinum-level producer like Shinji Mikami, and developing "Resident Evil" on PC will better reflect his talent.

…

After removing the computer version, there are only a few platform options left:

The first one is to continue developing on FC.

After all, FC and NES are still the home machines with the largest user base worldwide.

In addition, you can choose from Sega's MD and Nintendo's SFC.

The most advanced home game console now is undoubtedly the SFC developed by Nintendo. If the FC is a horse-drawn carriage, the SFC is equivalent to a supercar.

Since the SFC was released late, it has better graphics performance than other 16-bit consoles, the Sega MD.

Mostly with the help of special effects and sound effects such as Mode 7, mosaic, and HDMA, the overall performance surpassed any 486-level PC at the time and was on par with the Pentium-level (586) PC.

Interestingly, the SFC main CPU 65c816 has a simulation mode that can perfectly simulate the 6502 chip.

Apparently Nintendo had plans to make SFC compatible with FC software, but gave up due to cost issues.

But even a game console like this cannot support action game masterpieces like Sekiro, or open world games that will be popular in the future...

According to Qing Zhiyuan's own estimation, if they make good use of Chikawa Koichi's hardware design talents, they may be able to produce game effects on SFC that are about 5 years ahead of the current situation.

The main value here is in terms of game performance. In terms of image support, since SFC can exceed 586, which is the most advanced computer level at the moment, there is no problem in supporting it to the level of "Fate".

…

If you are confident enough, you can develop it on MD and use it to snipe Nintendo.

Help Sega establish console supremacy.

The two families are currently fighting fiercely.

To be precise, it is now a three-legged situation between Nintendo, Sega and PCE.

Players have different evaluations of the three game companies. It can be seen that they are optimistic about Sega's MD and NEC's PCE at this time.

When Qing Zhiyuan learned about these actual situations, he was also secretly surprised——

When did MD and PCE crush Nintendo?

That's actually it.

Sega MD and PCE were released in 1988 and 1987 respectively. During this period, 16-bit home machines could really outperform 8-bit machines.

Nintendo later reversed its passive situation after launching SFC.

Considering his own interests, Qing Zhiyuan finally decided to develop the new work in SFC.

After all, Nintendo is at its peak. Even without pokeni, I feel that they will establish a hegemony of game consoles in the future. The battle between MD and SFC is only temporary, and there will be a battle between PS and SS in the future.

Take it step by step. Taking the largest boat is the wisest choice at this time.

…

The picture quality of Sfc can already fully present the exquisite and attractive pictures.

With Qing Zhiyuan's own painting ability, the games developed can definitely surpass all products of the same era in terms of image quality.

In order to get rid of the influence of the previous Onmyoji, Qing Zhiyuan decided to set up a new subsidiary later this year specifically to develop online games.

You can't fall into the same pit twice!

…

All that remains is to choose your games carefully.

After thinking for a long time, Qing Zhiyuan still typed on the screen——

[Diablo] A few words.

…

There are many milestones in the history of game development.

Diablo is undoubtedly one of them.

Especially Diablo 2, with its game modes, rich combat system and good numerical system, it is regarded as a classic by many game planners in the industry.

It is one of the compulsory courses that game planners, especially numerical and combat planners, must study and learn throughout their lives.

Although [Diablo] was originally produced on PC, it is now considered to be developed on the SFC platform and uses a controller to operate it. However, as long as the design is good, it will not affect the players' gaming experience at all.

Um!

The decision is yours!