Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Chapter 751 Women are Queens

751

"Monster Hunter World sold 4.3 million copies in its first week, the highest in the history of the Monster Hunter series."

"Bayonetta sold over a million copies on its first day, and is projected to sell over three million copies in its first week. Congratulations!"

"yeah!"

Inside the Yuxing Electronic Entertainment building, cheers and celebrations resounded.

The team responsible for developing Bayonetta and Monster Hunter is very happy.

The game's sales exceeded their expectations, and player feedback was generally very positive.

The difficulty of hunting has actually been reduced somewhat in this generation of Monster Hunter World.

Firstly, the previously overly cumbersome operations have been simplified, which can be seen as a change to keep up with the fast-paced era. However, the biggest benefit of this change is that it has increased the audience.

Otherwise, if the focus is solely on the original core fans and players, the final sales will only be around three to four million at most.

This would be considered a success for a game, but within Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, such sales figures are really not impressive.

Therefore, in addition to developing the game according to Zhuyouxing's requirements, the development team also hopes that their game sales can achieve new progress.

The new progress will also bring them many benefits, and their bonuses will increase accordingly.

Monster Hunter sold over four million units in its first week, so if it maintains that momentum, breaking ten million units in sales within a year is not a dream.

As for Bayonetta, as a new IP, its sales exceeding one million on the first day are equally exciting.

Even for companies like Yuxing Electronics Entertainment, achieving high sales for a new IP series is something to be proud of.

Although there is a certain element of skirting the rules involved.

Many people are actually drawn to the character of Bayonetta simply because of her.

Some people didn't even bother to research how the game was played; they simply bought it after seeing the character's appearance.

Then, after they buy it, they will be pleasantly surprised to find that it is a game with excellent action and story, and thus they will love it even more.

"Ms. Bayonetta is so beautiful! I want her to be my wife!"

"Don't even dream about it. Bayonetta could never like someone like you. She can only like someone like me!"

"I think Bayonetta wouldn't mind if a girl likes her, so please accept my confession, Bayonetta."

When Bayonetta was released, the most discussed topic was the character Bayonetta's appearance.

Her charm is indeed very strong.

In the lore, Bayonetta uses her hair as her weapon; even her dark bodysuit is woven from her own hair. Whenever she uses her ultimate attack, her bodysuit transforms into hair to attack the enemy.

So, Bayonetta was obviously naked when she launched her hair attack.

This setup is a dream come true for any LSP.

Although this game doesn't allow you to see any explicit scenes, that doesn't stop people from fantasizing based on the plot.

This genuinely boosted the game's sales, so sales didn't drop much on the second day, and the sales performance was very encouraging.

However, for every person who likes it, there will be someone who hates it, especially a group of guys who like to stir up trouble every day.

Bayonetta has just been released, and those who were previously criticized and driven away by players are once again standing up to express their dissatisfaction.

Bayonetta is a pure objectification of women, it simply doesn't treat women as human beings.

This behavior is absolutely intolerable.

"This kind of behavior must be stopped!"

A U.S. state legislator publicly condemned Bayonetta's despicable behavior, claiming that the company would stop at nothing to achieve commercial success.

This immediately garnered some support, and his votes increased, which made him more focused on making a difference in this area. After all, votes are real and more tangible than anything else.

He then considered using his connections to influence the House of Representatives and the Senate, hoping to influence them to pass legislation on this issue.

However, he was clearly overthinking things; these kinds of things aren't so easy to push forward.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is not a rootless duckweed in the United States now.

First of all, the US headquarters of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is located in California, and the governor of California would not easily allow such people to disturb the operation of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

There have been some guys eyeing California’s interests in this area before, and the former governor of California had a showdown with these people.

At that time, those people were using Youxing Electronic Entertainment, which could have influenced local game developers and created a monopoly.

At the time, almost everyone thought that Youxing Electronic Entertainment was likely to be severely punished.

However, thanks to the connections of the then-Governor of California and the Morgan Group, Star Entertainment was protected and ultimately nothing happened.

This time, it's even less likely that it will be suppressed because of its nonsensical political correctness.

Firstly, Youxing Electronic Entertainment also contributes substantial tax revenue to the United States. Moreover, it's not that American game developers are being suppressed by Youxing Electronic Entertainment, but rather that local game developers are simply not competitive enough and cannot compete with Youxing Electronic Entertainment in game development.

So this is an industry-wide issue. If there's no legitimate reason for sanctions, it will have a negative impact on many foreign companies.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is considered a fairly obedient company in the United States. It never causes trouble and only develops within its own industry.

So this state legislator's attempt to sanction the game through political correctness didn't really make a splash.

The former governor of California was already a senior senator with a long-term seat. His power and connections were far greater than those of a mere state legislator. With just one sentence, he thwarted the state legislator's idea. Not to mention that Morgan Group's connections also followed up to protect Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. Therefore, this round of politically correct attacks failed. On the contrary, Bayonetta's sales increased again as a result.

A video game that politicians are so angry about that they want to kill it must be something special.

So they all wanted to see what kind of game could have such a huge impact.

Bayonetta's sales didn't drop much in the second week, successfully breaking the five million sales mark, and the goal of selling ten million Bayonetta seems less out of reach now.

Following the success of Bayonetta, Surrey Electronics quickly followed suit, releasing its own game featuring a female protagonist who bore a striking resemblance to Bayonetta in both appearance and form. Clearly, Surrey Electronics had discovered the secret to their success, especially after witnessing that Bayonetta had not been defeated by those politically correct charlatans, which gave them even more confidence.

Looking at market feedback, players also began to show a significant increase in interest in these visually appealing video games, leading to a sudden surge in games featuring female protagonists.

Chapter 752 Change Begins Now

752

Beautiful women are always easy to be popular.

The release of Bayonetta set an example for the entire industry.

The previously hesitant developers have seen the popularity of Bayonetta and realized that Yusei Electronics Entertainment has probably made a lot of money this time.

Previously, many game developers were influenced by those loudest people and had to make the characters as unattractive as possible, which even brought a lot of criticism to some of their works.

However, at that time, the shareholders of the game company who did not understand games did not comprehend it.

These are all things you want, so why are sales so poor in the end?

But now they finally understand.

The loudest guys aren't necessarily gamers.

Gamers don't really have that many thoughts; they just want to play some fun or visually appealing games.

In this process, players who prioritize graphics and those who prioritize gameplay are roughly evenly divided, and the simplest aspect to develop is undoubtedly the graphics.

Because this can be won entirely through technology.

Following Bayonetta, games began creating even more beautiful character designs without restraint.

"Boss, I've said it before, our game character designs need to be better-looking, because that's the only way to save our company from bankruptcy."

In a game company, a game producer who owns shares in the company finally couldn't hold back and confronted the company's boss in a public meeting.

He had long since reached his breaking point.

When the boss recruited them, he made some very nice promises, such as giving them creative freedom or letting them develop games to their heart's content without worrying about game costs.

However, in reality, not only is there a funding obstacle, but game development is never smooth sailing, and the biggest obstacle is insufficient funding.

But game development and movies have similar advantages: even without money, there are ways to make a living, as long as your idea is ingenious enough.

Isn't this how the currently booming indie game scene rose to prominence?

However, what he couldn't stand the most was another kind of setback: his superiors started restricting the direction and content of their development.

In the beginning, the boss asked them to develop the most popular games at the time, and they could no longer limit themselves to creating the good games they wanted to create.

Then, the boss started restricting them from making the characters they developed as inconspicuous as possible, because that way they wouldn't be targeted by the loudest group of guys. Making money quietly was better than anything else.

Ultimately, the game's creator completely snapped. After Bayonetta was released, he finally found a reason to confront the game company's boss.

"Boss, take a look at Bayonetta. It's certainly fun to play, but it's definitely not the most outstanding game from Yuxing Electronics Entertainment. Yet, it's incredibly popular. Don't you understand what players are looking for? They absolutely don't like deliberately uglified characters. What people seek in games is a wonderful experience outside of the real world. They don't want to bring their unpleasant feelings from the real world into the game!"

The game company's boss listened silently to the accusations from the game's creators at the conference table.

The game's creators have clearly engaged in subversive behavior, but the video game industry is a very young industry today, and it is very different from other industries.

Moreover, his company is indeed facing a business crisis, and if he doesn't make any changes now, all his investments will be wasted.

"So, what's your idea? Do you mean we just need to create good-looking character designs?"

"Of course, that's not absolute, but it can at least bring about some changes. At least it will prevent us from being manipulated by a bunch of guys who aren't even players. Those guys aren't our users, so why should we just listen to what they say and develop the game the way they want?"

The boss finally softened a bit, saying, "Then give it a try, but I don't have much money left..."

The lead creator immediately said, "Don't worry about that. With me here, I can at least keep the team going for a while, and we can work hard to develop a great game during that time!"

The boss smiled wryly and said, "If it were that easy to develop excellent games, we wouldn't be struggling to make ends meet now."

"No, boss, we were on the wrong track before, but there's still a chance to salvage it. We have a lot of excellent resources and materials that we haven't brought out yet. Now we can salvage it in time and develop an industrial-standard game."

"Industrialized standard games?"

"That's right. We also need to change the character designs and get rid of those ugly characters. This time we're going to develop the game to our heart's content, but all of this requires your permission, boss. If you don't agree, I might resign right now."

Upon hearing these words from the creators, the boss finally had no choice.

At this moment, the future of his company is probably in the hands of the key person in front of him. The only thing he can do is to provide as much financial support as possible.

Looking at the company he had worked so hard to build, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Fine, I won't restrict you anymore. Do whatever you want. But I still stand by what I said before: I really don't have any money left."

"Please don't misunderstand, our efforts to save this are not to save the company, but to save the game we have worked so hard to create."