Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Are you really only in your early twenties? You look like a seasoned business veteran in your forties or fifties.

They refuse to budge an inch and frequently use various threats.

Damn it.

It's really difficult to discuss cooperation with someone like that.

However, the resources and interests they control cannot be ignored.

Right now, TV Tokyo is experiencing rapid growth thanks to its collaboration with Takeyusei.

Video game shows now have an average viewership of 23-24 percent, something they never dared to imagine in the past.

Then there's the Dragon Quest anime, which was just completed and aired a month ago.

On the day of broadcast, it achieved a viewership rating of over 27%, thanks to its million-strong player base.

An animated film, especially one aimed at children, has achieved viewership ratings approaching those of a popular national drama series—something unimaginable elsewhere.

If Takeyusei abandons this collaboration with TV Tokyo, will there be a rift in their future cooperation?

So... perhaps I should make some compromises?

It's just an animation...

Kubo fell into deep thought.

Seeing Kubo deep in thought, Takeyusei said slowly, "In my plan, the anime and the game will be released simultaneously, so I don't have much time. My game also needs to start production. You have to decide as soon as possible. If you don't agree, I'll find another TV station or the internet."

Kubo seemed to have been struck on his most sensitive nerve. When he heard that they were going to find another television station, he immediately perked up and said, "I agree. I will arrange for the production department to make preparations and complete the production as quickly as possible."

Hearing the other party's decisive reply, Zhu Youxing finally smiled: "Then I wish us a pleasant cooperation."

Chapter 158 GB Sells Well

After finalizing the Pokémon-related matters, the Game Boy handheld console was finally announced to have a price of 8000 yen, the same as the Super Famicom.

This price is far below many people's expectations.

In their imagination, a GB would cost at least 10,000 yen, so 8,000 yen was a pleasant surprise.

Surrey Electronics quickly adjusted its strategy, announcing the price of its own game console the day after the GB's price was announced, also at 8,000 yen.

Surrey Electronics' game console will have a color screen and a backlit screen, so it can be played directly at night without turning on the lights, without any obstacles.

The release date for the Game Boy has been set for August, and some pre-release promotional activities for the Pokémon games have already begun.

For example, in some places you can get limited edition Pokémon plush toys.

This was the first thing that was welcomed by many girls.

Cute creatures like Pikachu and Charmander have become the most popular gifts.

Legend has it that if a boy is lucky enough to obtain these limited-edition dolls and gives them to the girl he likes, it will increase his chances of successfully confessing his feelings.

Of course, this is all nonsense, just a marketing experiment, but it was very effective.

Surui Electronics wasn't particularly wary of this, because they thought that Youxing Electronics Entertainment was just doing some routine promotional work, and they didn't feel much of a threat just by looking at the Pokémon images.

Perhaps they genuinely find these creatures so cute that they are harmless, so harmless that they pose no competitive threat.

This is exactly what Zhu Youxing wanted; he really didn't want Su Rui Electronics to be on guard too early.

On the day of the GB's release, unsurprisingly, all stores sold out of GBs that day, leaving none behind.

This is even more terrifying than when the Super Famicom was sold.

Originally, they had already prepared 300,000 units on the first day, but it still wasn't enough. They then urgently redistributed the inventory, distributing the million GB units that were originally planned to be sold out within a week to different retailers, and then continued to sell them off in a big way.

A week later, GB's sales record broke all previous game console sales records, reaching over 700,000 units in its first week, which is basically 100,000 units sold per day, which is terrifying.

Some gamers are people who don't even own a game console like the Famicom, but they are willing to buy this game console for its portability. Most of them are not children, but rather office workers who commute long hours every day.

On weekdays, they commute by tram every day and have almost nothing to do. Apart from taking a nap on the tram, they can only read newspapers and read some scheduled text message news on their mobile phones when they are bored.

The Game Boy handheld console saved them, giving them a whole new option for their commutes.

Surrey Electronics was ultimately a step too late, even though players knew that Surrey's handheld devices would have better graphics and look more appealing.

But who can blame them when the GB was released first?

The initial release included several games, such as the handheld version of Super Mario Bros. and Megarod: Samus Returns (I just won't mention 2).

These two games were the most popular, with first-week sales of 500,000 and 350,000 respectively.

Players are just a little disappointed that there wasn't a game like Dragon Quest at launch. If there had been, they would have bought even more, as Dragon Quest is far more popular than Metroid.

Another launch title was the handheld version of Super Baseball Tournament, which was basically a remake of the same game on the Famicom. It added some new gameplay elements to the original game, making it look more complete and more appealing.

After the last baseball incident, some players who initially resisted the Super Baseball Series game because of slander now feel a sense of atonement and are willing to spend money to buy the Super Baseball Series game cartridge. Whether they will actually play it or not is no longer important.

The GB's initial performance was quite good, which boosted the confidence of the Yuxing Electronics Entertainment Engineering Development Team. They then immediately set about developing a new handheld console and a new home console.

Zhu Youxing gave them a heavy task, but thanks to the sufficient incentives, they were very motivated and seemed to feel no fatigue at all.

Everything was proceeding smoothly, and soon it was September, the time when Surui Electronics would release its handheld console.

The handheld device released by Surui Electronics is named HM1.

The full English name is HAPPY MAN.

The name is somewhat similar to Game Boy from GB.

A happy man and a gaming boy—Suri Electronics clearly intends to be a benchmark for itself.

As a launch title, there is also a console remake of Sun Knights, similar to the Super Baseball Series, with added gameplay and content.

Then there's a handheld racing game and a scrolling shooting game that collaborates with the well-known domestic IP, Koshien Superman. The gameplay involves Koshien Superman flying in the sky and launching attack waves to defeat enemies one by one. It's roughly equivalent to a horizontal version of Raiden. This can be considered a small innovation.

This time, the game produced by Surui Electronics has truly developed some unique features, and players are not rejecting it, resulting in good sales in the first week.

Of course, this is only in their opinion; the first week's sales reached 50,000.

This is already much better than the previous PN game console sales, and it seems that players have finally recognized the success of the PN game console.

Then, Yusei Electronics released a brand new role-playing game series on the Super Famicom: Final Fantasy.

The game that Zhuyouxing had been wanting to develop was finally coming to an end.

It was originally planned to take a year to develop, but it was basically completed in just over six months.

The main reason is that the current group of programmers and the creative ideas they provided were really impressive, so Zhuyouxing couldn't find any fault with them in the end. So they might as well just release it directly, which would suppress the arrogance of Surui Electronics and bring Surui Electronics, which was originally feeling very good about itself, back to reality.

This Final Fantasy series departs from the usual formula of a hero rescuing a princess, instead presenting a story with a touch of tragedy.

It also adds the ability to change jobs and advance to a new job. After advancing to a new job, you will gain new enhanced attributes and skills, increasing your combat power on the battlefield.

Of course, the best thing is the story itself.

This time, the story is no longer a happy ending, but rather a story with a slightly open ending.

Warriors travel back two thousand years to save the world, then the enemy travels back two thousand years to destroy the world, and then time is forever trapped in a two-thousand-year cycle, so that evil may endure forever.

Finally, the four Warriors of Light worked together to destroy the timeline, putting time back on track. However, the future remains uncertain, leaving people full of anticipation.

Chapter 159 A Little Star Among Children

With Dragon Quest already established as a benchmark, Final Fantasy has little room for significant breakthroughs in gameplay.

The only difference is that Final Fantasy focuses on a darker storyline, giving players different choices.

Dragon Quest III has truly perfected the current gameplay, and it's unlikely to surpass it in the short term.

Of course, there are other highlights, such as the class system, which is more prestigious than Dragon Quest, and the move system.

The world-building setting already looks a bit cooler.

The Crystal Mythology sounds very sophisticated and is more appealing than the traditional Dragon Quest trope of an ancient demon king reborn and destroying the world.

That's all.

However, players who enjoy role-playing games are not picky eaters at all.

They even hope for role-playing games with almost the same gameplay, as long as the story is interesting enough.

It could be said that players who enjoy role-playing games are actually more likely to be satisfied.

Final Fantasy 1 sold 370,000 copies in its first week.

With SFC sales already exceeding one million and approaching two million, this level of sales is quite impressive.

Surui Electronics, whose neighbor just released its new handheld console HM1, was also helpless in the face of this.

Even without any innovative gameplay, the role-playing games from Yuxing Electronics Entertainment are still very popular.

However, their Sun Knight, limited by the number of game consoles sold, had no way to increase sales and could only slowly endure the situation.

It's always the same; just when things start to look up, Youxing Electronic Entertainment ruthlessly crushes your hopes.

But at the same time, it seems to leave a glimmer of hope, making you feel that you still have some potential to keep trying.

It is under these circumstances that Surui Electronics' gaming division has been able to maintain relatively stable revenue and expenditure.

……

"Please, just let me play your GB! If you let me play, I promise I'll do your homework for a week!"

In a primary school classroom, during recess, several children gathered around one child, staring intently at the Game Boy game console in the child's hands.

The Game Boy console sold a whopping 700,000 units in its first week.

But on average, the number of children who actually have it is still not that many.

Not everyone can actually afford to buy this kind of toy for their child.

In particular, some parents believe that this item will affect their children's studies, and they will not buy it no matter what is said.

In this way, if anyone in the class has a GB game console, that child will immediately become the focus of attention for countless other boys.

In this classroom, only Oda Oki owns a Game Boy console.

This is thanks to his father, who is also a gamer, and therefore has a relatively open-minded attitude towards gaming.

Oda has already made plans; his dream is to become a game developer and create the best games in the world!