Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Although this is largely based on many previous games, it can no longer be considered entirely new game content.

However, this form of presentation is still refreshing.

To completely recreate the historical scene is something no one has ever tried before.

Furthermore, to ensure the game's historical accuracy was convincing, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment spared no expense in inviting several world-renowned historians with extensive knowledge of the Crusades to participate in its development.

Having professionals do professional work gives this game a unique significance.

Furthermore, this game was developed with the participation of the game master, Zhu Youxing.

Furthermore, news reports have mentioned the game's initial purpose and future development plans, leading many to believe that Zhuyouxing has a very ambitious vision.

Assassin's Creed was created through the collective thinking of countless people, and Zhuyouxing promised everyone that all revenue from the first game, apart from the necessary cost recovery, would be pooled into a game development fund.

The same will be true in the future.

These funds will be used entirely to incentivize developers who dare to create innovative gameplay, as well as independent game developers.

As long as they have ideas and are very creative, they can receive a portion of the revenue from the first Assassin's Creed game after being approved by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment and several other well-known game producers.

Everyone knows that Zhu Youxing doesn't just want his own company to grow; he also hopes the entire industry will thrive. It would be a real shame not to buy and play a game developed by someone like him.

Therefore, the game easily surpassed one million in sales in its first week of release.

Following this, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment also announced that the game will be available on more gaming platforms in the future.

You can log in to either a former competitor's platform or your own platform.

The ultimate goal is to ensure that this first game can be played by as many people as possible, without being limited by platform barriers, and to allow the game's funding to grow further to support future game developers.

Chapter 800 A Bold Idea

800

Inside the headquarters building of Surui Electronics in Tokyo, a new round of personnel changes is taking place at this moment.

This round of personnel changes mainly revolves around the entertainment industry.

Several senior executives at Detroit Film Group were replaced because the company's profits had been declining recently. Hayakawa Ueto believed it was necessary to replace a group of conservatives and bring in people with fresh ideas to strive to create works that fit the times.

On the other side, Surui Electronics also has its own record company. In order to adapt to the changes of the new era, it also decided to make some personnel changes. However, the record business is a relatively stable revenue department, so not many people were reassigned. Only two younger executives were assigned to see if they could make some changes on the existing basis, while trying to protect the current foundation and prevent it from collapsing suddenly.

Besides its film and television company and record company, Suri Electronics' third entertainment industry is the gaming industry.

Unlike the previous two companies, gaming has always been a department directly under Surui Electronics.

This was also the department where Hayakawa Ueto firmly established the company's position.

Hayakawa Ueto has always been very supportive of this department.

Even when the video game industry experienced a period of collapse, he strongly advocated for its preservation.

However, perhaps the executives in the game division have finally become somewhat complacent and are no longer as proactive as before. Even as the revenue of the game division gradually declines, they have no intention of making any changes. In the end, Hayakawa Uehito made a tough decision: regardless of whether any of the executives were close to him or whether any of them were his confidants, he decided to carry out a thorough overhaul.

All heads of the gaming departments were replaced with young people.

These young people are a group of people who have each founded their own game studios or have gained some fame while independently developing games.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment was naturally very interested in these people and extended an invitation to them. However, the money offered by Su Rui Electronics was too much, and Youxing Electronic Entertainment itself did not lack these talents. Moreover, Zhu Youxing felt that directly monopolizing talent was not a good idea, so he did not insist.

These people naturally stayed at Surui Electronics.

Later, in the game department of Surui Electronics, they indeed demonstrated a very surprising game development capability.

Each of them has their own unique skills, which has indeed helped some of Su Rui Electronics' games gain a certain player base and no longer be as bad as before.

After a year or two, they proved their abilities, and Hayakawa Ueto decisively promoted all of them during this major reshuffle.

In other departments, he might not have been able to carry out such a decisive and large-scale reshuffle.

Because other departments also have connections with other shareholders, he couldn't simply replace everyone in order to accommodate these shareholders.

But in the game department, he really has all the power.

From the very beginning, this department was managed entirely by Hayakawa Ueto, and no one else could interfere. Later, as the game department gradually became less important, even fewer people wanted to get involved in it.

This also contributed to the great success of his blood transfusion.

Those who were reassigned from senior management positions were not to be dismissed directly, so Hayakawa Ueto simply assigned them a bunch of idle jobs to loaf around and wait to die.

Even under Japan's lifetime employment system, it would be impossible for Suri Electronics to lay off so many people.

Today is the day that all the newly reshuffled personnel officially start their jobs.

They seemed more motivated than ever before.

With Hayakawa Ueto's approval, his abilities at Surui Electronics are no less than those at Yusei Electronics Entertainment.

Moreover, there are many talented people in Youxing Electronic Entertainment. They might not have a chance to stand out and end up just another ordinary person, but here they at least have the opportunity to become senior executives.

"President, thank you so much for your attention and guidance. I will work hard to create more excellent games in this position in the future!"

A man who looked to be in his early thirties spoke to Hayakawa Ueto with great gratitude.

He has been working in the gaming industry for many years, and his current position as a senior executive in the gaming division of Surrey Electronics is a huge leap forward.

Meanwhile, other executives who had also been promoted expressed their gratitude to Hayakawa Shigeto and pledged their loyalty to him, vowing to go through fire and water for Surui Electronics.

Hayakawa Ueto abruptly interrupted the polite exchanges, saying, "I don't need your thanks. I only have one purpose in promoting you to your positions: I hope you can revitalize the entire game department with brand-new ideas. And if any of you are particularly capable in the future, you will have the opportunity to become my successor and the new president of Surui Electronics. That's my guarantee, as long as you do a good enough job."

Hayakawa Ueto's words immediately stunned everyone present.

There were unexpected benefits too?

If I do well enough, will I still have a chance to become the company president in the future?

Some people might be able to remain relatively calm.

But some people clearly started to have a glint of fire in their eyes.

To become the CEO of Surui Electronics.

If we're just talking about commercial standing, it probably wouldn't be weaker than Yusei Electronics Entertainment, right?

If you could become someone who stands on equal footing with your idol, that would be pretty great.

At this moment, someone couldn't help but say, "President, I've actually had an idea that might be beneficial to our game department."

Upon hearing this, Hayakawa Ueto immediately looked over. It was a game producer who had just been promoted to the game development department by him.

"Oh? Tell me what your thoughts are."

"I actually learned this from a course I took before. I benefited a lot from that course, and I've always wanted to try this method. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity in the past, but now I feel that I might be able to give it a try, although it may require a considerable price."

Hayakawa Ueto didn't say anything, he just looked at the other person and waited for him to continue.

Without wasting words, the other party went straight to the point: "President, I would like to increase the number of people in my development team, starting with all professional aspects such as art, music, programming, modeling, motion capture, etc. The development team should ideally reach a thousand people."

A thousand people? Just a development team? Hayakawa Ueto narrowed his eyes.

Chapter 801 Bold Ideas

801

"Why do you need so many people?" Hayakawa Ueto asked, looking at the other person with a calm expression.

Currently, Surui Electronics has more than a dozen game development teams.

Each team now has an average of about two hundred people.

This is a company with a fairly large number of employees compared to all other game companies.

Without such a large development team, it would be impossible to compete with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in the game market; they would probably have been completely crushed by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment long ago.

Hayakawa Ueto also knew that a sufficient number of developers were necessary to improve the quality of the game.

However, there is also a certain upper limit to the number of people required for game development. At present, a development team of 200 people is considered normal. There should be no need for more than that.

This person immediately wanted to increase the development team to over a thousand people, which is a bit too much.

"This... is related to a game class I once participated in."

"Game-based learning? What game-based learning?"

"Um... I hope you don't mind, President. It was a game class I attended at Yusei Electronic Entertainment. I even had the honor of meeting Takeyusei in person during that class."

This person spoke cautiously, as if afraid that mentioning attending a lecture at a competitor of Surui Electronics would displease Hayakawa Ueto.

However, Hayakawa Ueto remained quite calm.

Attend classes at Youxing Electronic Entertainment?

So what? I participated myself.

Although he attended secretly, no one except Yuxing Electronic Entertainment knew that he had attended that class.

Hayakawa Ueto, who attended that class, knew that Takeyusei was truly capable. Attending his class could indeed teach one a lot, and one didn't need to mind the competitive relationship between the two and stop learning the other's advanced ideas.

That would only lead to stagnation and complacency.

Come to think of it, these were all words that my father had once said.

Hayakawa Ueto calmly gestured, "Go on."

"In that class, I learned a new game development concept, which is game industrialization. Everyone has their own role, and in this process, all repetitive and tedious procedures are solved in the simplest way possible, so that everyone can have time to think about more details and gameplay in the game. A thousand people can quickly develop a standard game, and at the same time, a thousand people also have a thousand ideas to fill in the gameplay and details of the game in more detail."

Simply put, this is just relying on accumulating a large number of people to achieve a qualitative change.

"President, I know this might increase manpower costs, but I think it's an opportunity for transformation. By the way, have you been following the Assassin's Creed game recently released by Yusei Electronics?"

“Assassin’s Creed? Of course I know it, it’s been quite popular lately,” Hayakawa Ueto blurted out.

This game is already quite well-known in the gaming community.

However, perhaps because he had heard so much about Zhu Youxing that he was tired of it, when he heard that Zhu Youxing was involved in the development of Assassin's Creed, he subconsciously assumed that success was inevitable.

The man said somewhat shyly, "Actually, I also participated in the development of this game, but the time spent on it was very short, but it was still an honor for me."

"Huh?" Hayakawa Zhito was stunned.

The person in front of me was also involved in the development of Assassin's Creed?

"Why? Why did you get involved in the development?"