Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Some players, after playing Resident Evil, have become enthusiastic advocates, actively recommending the game through their video platforms or blogs.

"Everyone, today I'm going to recommend a game to you. It's the latest game from the world's greatest game company: Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. This game has been labeled as horror, but I can assure you that there aren't that many horror elements. It's a game that's very suitable for you to play. Of course, children shouldn't play it."

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Some posts and some videos are enthusiastically recommending Resident Evil.

If someone were unfamiliar with the situation, they might suspect that this was a paid shill hired by Youxing Electronics Entertainment.

However, anyone who has actually played Resident Evil and whose fear threshold isn't particularly low will rave about the game.

Because of its tense atmosphere, the game keeps players in a high state of mind throughout the game, and it always gives players a good chance to breathe and relax, and then quickly puts them back into an even more intense combat state after they have calmed down.

This ups and downs in gameplay can easily make players become very addicted.

Hayakawa Ueto was also among the group of tourists.

Now that he's the president of Su Rui Electronics, he probably won't have much time to play games anymore.

However, he still tries his best to make time to study the games of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

You have to admire that Yuxing Electronics Entertainment sets a benchmark for the game development industry every time.

Especially for games supervised by Takeyuki Sho, one needs to take them even more seriously.

Of course, after completing the game, I was filled with emotion.

This Zhu Youxing probably also has a high level of expertise in psychology.

The game's pacing is excellent, and the content itself is very engaging. The T-virus infecting zombies is already quite captivating, not to mention the game's many interesting gameplay elements.

It combines elements of decryption, exploration, collection, horror, and more.

Can my team do the same? We clearly lack experience in this area.

This is truly frustrating. It's not something that can be achieved simply by plagiarism; otherwise, outstanding filmmakers and novelists wouldn't be so rare in the world.

However, the concept of the T-virus infecting zombies is something worth learning from.

There's no need to worry about copyright issues with this; you can simply change the name and the skin.

He has recently seen hundreds of posts discussing the T-virus online.

This only happened in the first week after the game's release.

It is more likely to generate heated discussions among players than many games released before.

Perhaps it's because the game itself is very close to reality, yet at the same time, it's also very magical.

For example, some posts discuss how to protect yourself if zombies actually appear in real life.

Or some people have started to seriously claim that they have seen similar symptoms, and that they were lucky they were not bitten, otherwise they would have really turned into zombies.

The post was immediately followed by a message urging the poster to call the police immediately, saying that zombies were spreading and attacking.

In this discussion environment, it's quite evident that players really love this game and the so-called zombie setting.

Hayakawa Ueto understood that although this game's sales seemed to be lower than some of Takeyusei's previous games, and could even be considered one of the worst-selling Takeyusei games in recent years in terms of first-week sales, the game's popularity and discussion were truly high.

Moreover, he vaguely saw a hint of it going viral, which was really absurd.

However, this gave Hayakawa Ueto an idea: he could release a zombie game at this time, which might have an unexpected effect.

No large investment is needed; simply launching a zombie game while the topic is trending will be enough to attract the attention of players who love this genre.

At the headquarters of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, Zhu Yuxing was also constantly monitoring the dynamics on the internet.

He no longer cares much about sales figures.

The game itself was reasonably well-funded, costing around 30 million US dollars. Like its predecessors, this game also provided the team with valuable experience and accumulated a lot of resources that can be reused in future games, saving them more money. Therefore, the cost recovery rate of this game should be quite good.

Moreover, given this trend, achieving a million in sales is definitely not a problem, which translates to at least 60 million US dollars in revenue. This would be more than enough incentive for Takeyusei to develop a sequel.

He'll be willing to continue as long as he can see that players love the game enough.

He was worried before the game was released that not many players would like the setting and the horror game, since they were games from different worlds and there was no guarantee that everyone would like them, especially since it was a niche game from the start.

Chapter 594 A New Round of Preparations?

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After that, Zhu Youxing didn't pay much attention to Resident Evil anymore.

He's more like a ruthless game-making machine now, eager to bring more great games from his past life to this world, so he doesn't have time to bask in his current small successes.

Then Monster Hunter 3 was officially released, another standard Yusei series, which players were already used to.

Compared to Monster Hunter 1, Monster Hunter 3 makes the character's movements smoother and the graphics are also slightly more detailed.

However, due to the limitations of the game console's performance, it is impossible to make the graphics even better. Forcing it to be too good will inevitably lead to unstable frame rates, which is something that Zhu Youxing dislikes doing.

Currently, many game companies have sacrificed a lot in pursuit of graphics, resulting in disastrous sales. Of course, this is their own doing, and they can't blame anyone else.

Monster Hunter 3 sold 500,000 copies in its first week, which is actually a pretty good result. Considering that the game had the foundation of its predecessor and the development costs were greatly reduced, it still achieved better sales than its predecessor, which is already quite impressive.

It seems that players are gradually becoming more tolerant of high-difficulty games.

Zhu Youxing was delighted to see this, because with players' increased tolerance for high-difficulty games, he would have more games to create in the future, such as the Souls-type game that is so difficult that it makes ordinary people want to cry.

It will definitely be possible to make it in the near future.

In fact, players are happy to play good games, and Zhu Youxing is also happy to see players happy. For Zhu Youxing, players are like his own game. He carefully cultivates players' aesthetic sense and their tolerance for high difficulty, just like the numbers in the game.

This is also a very fulfilling thing.

Following Resident Evil came the release of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games.

As classic series, as long as neither game makes any major mistakes, the player base will remain stable.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is now like a high-speed machine, producing games according to Yuxing's various game development plans.

Su Rui Electronics sometimes feels hopeless. It seems that Youxing Electronics Entertainment never runs out of inspiration. Their territory is too stable and difficult to conquer. To date, Su Rui Electronics' market share is only over 20%. Not to mention other companies, Youxing Electronics Entertainment holds more than 70% of the game console market share in most regions.

After the release of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, Yusei Electronics seemed to enter a period of silence once again.

Surui Electronics, a company with extensive information channels, naturally knew what Zhuyouxing was doing: they were developing a new game console.

After learning about it, Hayakawa Ueto had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow suit.

Based on information from various sources, Surui Electronics can roughly estimate the performance of the next game console from Youxing Electronics Entertainment.

Previously, Yuxing Electronics' gaming consoles outperformed Surui Electronics even when their performance was inferior. If Yuxing Electronics were to completely outperform Surui Electronics in performance, Surui Electronics' current market share would likely be at risk.

However, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment certainly won't go too far; at least on the surface, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment doesn't seem to have that terrifying dominance yet.

After all, the current situation has led many countries to frequently conduct anti-monopoly reviews of Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Unfortunately, Youxing Electronic Entertainment has developed purely based on its own strength.

Moreover, this is not the result of the collective efforts of everyone in the company, but the result of one person.

Others mostly play a supporting role.

You could say that Yusei Electronics can do without anyone, but if Yusei Takeyusei were to leave, Yusei Electronics would immediately collapse.

The biggest contributor to Yusei Electronics' market share of over 70% is only one person, Yusei, which is extremely unreasonable.

Therefore, even if some countries want to forcibly break up Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, it won't make much difference, as Yuxing Electronic Entertainment will still be able to maintain its current advantages.

YOO is a case in point.

They spent an unknown amount of money, but could only barely get a small share from Youxing Electronic Entertainment. The ratio of effort to reward was very low.

Fortunately, Hayakawa Ueto was the president of Surui Electronics, and through his company's integration capabilities and his own influence, he was able to continue pushing forward the production of the new game console.

However, his strategy was slightly different.

He decided to directly launch a performance upgrade version of his current game console.

This time, he finally realized just how important the versatility of Yusei Electronics' game consoles really is.

Backward compatibility of game consoles allows a newly launched game console to have a very solid base of users from the very beginning.

Then, as older consoles gradually release games with better graphics that they can no longer fully handle, players will automatically choose to buy better consoles. This smooth upgrade is a win-win situation for both companies and players.

Therefore, Hayakawa Ueto did not make any major changes to the appearance of the new game console, nor did he change the design structure of most of the internal motherboards. The main upgrades were to the processor and graphics chip.

This can save a lot of material costs and also save on the cost of making molds for new game consoles.

At this point, he finally realized that he couldn't waste money anywhere and had to exercise restraint.

The console war between the two sides seems to have temporarily stopped, and both sides have tacitly refrained from releasing any more powerful first-party game lineups, instead releasing sequels from their respective second-tier game lineups.

Everything seemed to foreshadow a new round of bloodshed and violence.

However, during this same period, in a certain region of the United States, a message quietly appeared on the internet.

This news comes from the most authoritative news newspaper in the United States.

Although the news was very short, the accompanying picture and text were quite sensational.

The article's title is "Suspected Zombie Virus Appears in *State? Is a Biohazard Crisis Really About to Happen? Is a Joke from a Game About to Come True?"

Below this title is a somewhat blurry photo.

The photo shows a person with a ferocious expression lunging at the photographer in a dark environment.

And this person with the ferocious expression really does look very similar to a so-called zombie.

At the same time, the article began to report on this matter in detail.

A reporter from a newspaper went to a state to conduct a report one day. After his car broke down on the highway that night, the reporter was attacked by a mysterious person.

In a state of extreme shock, the reporter took this terrifying photo.

However, the reporter did not seem to be seriously injured, only suffering some minor cuts on his arm, and after some treatment, there were no major adverse reactions.

Chapter 595 The Spread of Rumors Intensifies

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This should have been just a very insignificant news story.

But the timing was perfect, just when the Resident Evil game was already gaining popularity online.

Ordinary people might not think this is a big deal, but most netizens are the kind who love to watch the drama unfold.