Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Chapter 342 Finally, I can play with you.

This demonstration didn't focus much on the game's plot, but instead showcased a subsequent boss in the game.

This was an impressive boss battle. Unlike the first boss, this one clearly required a more meticulous strategy to defeat.

Moreover, this is just a demo video, which is clearly not enough to satisfy players.

The closer the release date gets, the more impatient players become.

This reminded Zhu Youxing of how he used to eagerly await some popular games.

For example, when the countdown to the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake was underway, Takeyusei remembers taking a day off and staying up all night to finish playing it.

There's also the legendary Old Man Ring, and the controversial Cyberpunk 2077.

These players' reactions were exactly the same as mine back then.

However, the release date will not change.

When the March release date arrived, other game developers seemed to have reached some kind of tacit agreement.

Even Lierda, who was the most arrogant and always wanted to bring down Yusei Electronics Entertainment, deliberately avoided Yusei Electronics Entertainment this month.

Because this month is the release date of Final Fantasy VII.

Honestly, even their own employees wanted to experience this groundbreaking game firsthand.

In these final few months of development, Zhuyouxing's remaining task is to continuously refine the game's CG, striving to bring the game's CG animation to its current pinnacle.

These CG animations, after final calculations, cost a total of 110 million US dollars.

This is truly a massive undertaking.

If we also take into account the game's long-term marketing and distribution costs, labor costs, and so on, the total development cost has exceeded 170 million US dollars, which is a truly huge investment.

Some investors from Wall Street were also keeping an eye on Final Fantasy VII at this time.

From the very beginning of Final Fantasy VII's creation, it seems to have garnered considerable attention, far surpassing its predecessor.

Although Final Fantasy VII had groundwork laid by its predecessors, it didn't have such a huge impact from the start.

At the time, Final Fantasy VII was a project that Square Enix poured all its efforts into.

They've staked almost everything on this game, and their marketing and promotion efforts are clearly inferior to those of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

On the day of release, long lines formed at all retail stores.

Even players who are not interested in role-playing are drawn in by the initial storyline experience.

They are complete story-driven players, and their numbers are comparable to those of dedicated role-playing gamers.

This shows that the plot is really captivating.

When Final Fantasy VII was officially released, people rushed into retail stores like crazy in order to snatch a copy of the game.

At the beginning, a group of people with shrewd business acumen immediately recognized the business opportunity.

They quickly pooled together some money and prepared to stake out major retail stores and department stores in advance to snatch up game discs.

In their view, such a popular product must sell very well.

However, they seem to have underestimated the production capacity of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

Or perhaps the manufacturing cost and production scale of the CDs themselves are terrifying.

As long as Yuxing Electronic Entertainment hands over the game data to the disc manufacturing plant, their factory can operate around the clock to produce the game.

To address this, Matsuhashi Minoru specifically contacted CD manufacturers in North America to temporarily increase production.

While it may be impossible to build a production base for game consoles in the United States in the short term, mass production of CDs should not be a problem.

Therefore, the supply of goods this time is quite abundant.

From the very beginning, Takeyusei decisively instructed Matsushita to prepare at least five million units of goods in the United States.

In Japan, they also prepared three million units of goods.

This is roughly half of the current sales of the GS1 game console.

With a single game accounting for half of the console's sales, the Zhuyouxing console can also be considered a gamble.

However, he was still very confident.

Because he had already confirmed one thing through player feedback from the game demo.

Final Fantasy VII is also popular in this world, and people are equally interested in its world-building.

So, all that's left is to produce as many game discs as possible.

For those shrewd guys, the so-called scalpers.

They never expected that Youxing Electronic Entertainment would have such a plentiful supply of goods, which resulted in them suffering a heavy loss.

However, this has nothing to do with Takeyusei. Takeyusei has already put the Final Fantasy VII project aside and is preparing to move on to the next new project.

However, the three teams that had already completed Final Fantasy VII were given a week off to relax and have time to experience their own game firsthand.

Even today, there are still not many people who truly understand the overall storyline of the game.

Even within the game development team, each person is only responsible for their own content and generally has very little contact with others.

On the contrary, the special effects team learned about the game's plot in advance because of their work on the special effects, and they are now feeling saddened because they knew the plot ahead of time.

"Thank you all very much for your hard work. Today you can finally relax. I'm giving you a week off. Go back and enjoy the amazing game you've created, and savor the gaming feast we've brought you."

After the game was officially released, Zhuyouxing distributed a game disc to each employee who participated in its production.

Upon hearing that Zhu Youxing had granted them a holiday, they cheered immediately and excitedly grabbed the CDs, ready to go home and have some fun.

As the head of a development team, Uesugi was most passionate about Final Fantasy.

Besides being a producer, he also prefers to call himself a gamer.

He still vividly remembered the words that Zhu Youxing had said a long time ago, which was the famous quote from his previous life, Brother Cong.

Now, having received the complete Final Fantasy VII disc, he felt quite emotional.

This game was created by myself.

Everything inside bears its own mark.

Although he already knew the entire plot of the game and was very familiar with the gameplay, he still couldn't wait to put the complete version of the disc into his GS1 game console after he got home.

As the familiar melody of Final Fantasy Crystal Prelude played, a few tears welled up in Uesugi's eyes.

It's finally time to play with you, my old friend.

Chapter 343 A Calm First Day of Release

This is the most serious game that Uesugi has ever been involved in producing.

The huge investment proposed by Zhu Youxing at the beginning put a lot of pressure on him.

This forced him to work tirelessly with his two partners from the very beginning to ensure the smooth development of the game.

As time went by, he found himself gradually becoming immersed in this new worldview.

In this world, everyone seems to have come alive.

They have rich emotions and different life trajectories.

When the entire game development was completed, he and the heads of the other two development teams felt somewhat lost.

A sad yet unforgettable story was finally born from her own hands.

When he officially began controlling the protagonist Cloud in the game and embarking on his adventure, his entire mind was completely focused.

Even though he already knew all the plot details and the entire gameplay, he was unwilling to give up any detail of the game.

Meanwhile, in the United States, many people who had gotten their hands on the first Final Fantasy VII discs couldn't wait to return home, quickly insert the discs into their GS1s, and the game officially began running.

This time, the adults were engrossed in playing the game with the controllers, while their children patiently watched their fathers' adventures.

"Dad, why does this main character look so strange? His hair looks like a hedgehog's."

"This is probably just the designer's weird sense of humor, but that's not the point."

As a father, this man had become obsessed with the exquisite game CG animation from the very beginning.

To make the opening animation alone appealing, Takeyusei invested ten million US dollars.

The total length of this CG is only three minutes, a total of 180 seconds, which means that the cost per second is almost $500,000, which is quite astonishing.

It is precisely because of this excellent opening animation that it has attracted many visual enthusiasts.

Previously, the graphics of Yuxing Electronics Entertainment were slightly inferior to those of other products released at the same time.

Sometimes you have to admit that excellent image quality can indeed compensate for other shortcomings to some extent.

Unless the game's other flaws are truly beyond redemption.

Previously, all of the games from Yuxing Electronic Entertainment were fun, interesting, and innovative.

But when the GS1, a high-performance gaming console, was born, all the rules changed.

The GS1 quickly became the most advanced gaming console.

Its performance certainly can't compare to top-of-the-line PCs.

However, due to its self-contained system and the ability to dedicate all the chip's performance to game computation, the actual demonstration effect is not much worse than that of a traditional PC.

At this moment, people finally experienced the feeling of the next generation.

The beautiful scene was truly unforgettable.

Even though many of these players had already seen the CG animation in advance through the game demo.

But when I played it again, I was still amazed by the animation.

Similarly, Hayakawa Ueto, who was also working with him, had already picked up the controller and entered the world of Final Fantasy VII.

He had to admit that this product from Yuxing Electronics Entertainment was truly powerful.

No game company had ever dared to spend such a large sum before.

Because the low-cost, small-scale game development model was pioneered by Youxing Electronic Entertainment, other companies, being too conservative, have always wanted to follow suit and develop games in the footsteps of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.