Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

This is just an initial screening, a preliminary selection, and then we will choose two or three qualified processor products for testing.

According to the plans of Youxing Electronics Entertainment's development department, the new game console is expected to be officially launched in three years.

A year is spent on selection, another year on design, development and tuning, and then another year on announcement and mass production.

This is the rhythm of the entire game console development cycle.

After roughly reviewing all the product catalogs, Airi Hayazawa thanked everyone and then asked them to leave temporarily while Yusei Electronics Entertainment held an internal meeting to make a decision.

Then that afternoon, Airi Hayazawa pulled Takeyusei, who was overseeing the production of the new game, into the conference room, along with several game development department heads who were temporarily free, and several executives, to discuss the design of the new game console.

“Zhuyou, we in the engineering development department have selected about three suitable processors. According to their initial quotes, the graphics processing unit, central processing unit, and AI computing processor can be sold as a package at a price that fluctuates between two hundred and thirty and two hundred and seventy dollars per unit.”

Airi Hayazawa's engineering team conducted a simple initial screening and ultimately selected processors from three companies to show to Yusei Take.

"Which of the three is the best?" Zhu Youxing asked.

"The product offered by the US-based Feixin Intelligent Manufacturing is the best, and also the most expensive, reaching $270. There's no room for negotiation; this is the lowest price they can accept."

Zhu Youxing looked at the introduction on the projection.

The description of this processor set states that it has the best integration among the three processors, and that the company has its own exclusive high-speed data transmission technology, which makes its gaming performance about 10% higher than the other two bundled processors.

Of course, besides its relatively high price, this processor also has the disadvantage of drastic instantaneous power consumption, which requires a relatively good power supply to provide a stable power supply, otherwise there is a risk of circuit breakdown.

The engineering development department can continue to fine-tune and design, but it cannot completely solve the problem.

The processor costs $270, and if you add in other manufacturing costs, the final cost will probably be close to $500.

It seems the next generation has truly arrived.

The prices of 299 and 399 are gone forever.

Fortunately, I have been pushing for flash memory as the medium for storing games, and in this respect, it has now completely surpassed traditional optical disc media in terms of cost and read speed. Otherwise, the cost would have increased even further.

"Then let's use this processor."

Zhu Youxing did not hesitate for long.

"Zhuyou, aren't you going to look at other processors?"

"No, this time, I want to make the performance as good as possible and give players a good enough product. Anyway, this is just the initial price of the processor. The price of this processor will decrease sooner or later. It's not too late to make back the money for the game console later."

Upon hearing this, Airi Hayazawa tentatively asked, "So, Takeyu, are you planning to price the game console below cost?"

"We can plan it this way for the first year, but we don't need to lower the price too much. Let's sell it for $449."

At a price of 449, the company would lose about fifty dollars for every unit sold.

This is roughly equivalent to the price of a popular game from Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

If the game console sells 30 million units in the first year, it's equivalent to losing money on 30 million units sold.

Even the senior executives in charge of the company's cash flow felt a pang of heartache upon hearing this.

However, Zhu Youxing didn't care about any of that.

This loss can be easily made up for in video games; hardware, after all, serves software.

He promotes the AI ​​industry to make games better, and he strongly supports the development of graphics processors to make games more realistic.

Without the development of video games as a driving force, Zhuyouxing would not care about hardware at all.

Chapter 943 Future Direction

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Zhu Youxing decided to use the most expensive processor.

However, this is only the initial decision made by Zhuyouxing for the time being.

The bidding process will continue, and the three companies shortlisted in the initial screening must provide their own products for hardware design.

Although the processor data they provided is quite complete, there will still be many unavoidable problems in the actual design and manufacturing stage. It depends on whether the service support from these three processor suppliers is adequate.

Zhuyouxing also doesn't want to be affected by a terrible processor manufacturer.

However, the plan to sell game consoles at a relatively low loss and then make up for it with profits from video games will not change.

Zhuyouxing still hopes to see players happily looking at a high-quality, affordable video game console, and then willingly spending money to buy games.

As we entered the second half of 2014, construction of the amusement park in Tokyo continued.

Thanks to the full support of the Japanese government, there were no obstacles in resource allocation or government cooperation, and everything went very smoothly.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government also set up a special team to liaise with other engineering teams and proactively help Yusei Electronics solve construction problems, so that Yusei Electronics doesn't have to worry too much.

So in less than a year, the foundation of the first phase of the Star Park was laid, and in 2015 it will officially enter the stage of rapid construction. If time is fast enough, Star Park can open a venue before the 2016 Olympic Games.

At that time, Yusei Electronics Entertainment also negotiated with the then Japanese Prime Minister's Office that the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics would be filmed in this new Yusei theme park, and then the Prime Minister would appear in the center of the Rio Olympic venue in the most classic Mario image to announce the location of the 2020 Olympics to the world.

Zhu Youxing would also take some time to check on the park's construction progress.

This should be considered the largest project he led in his life.

Furthermore, if the opening of this park is successful enough, the Tokyo government hopes to undertake more park construction projects from Yusei Electronics Entertainment.

Clearly, some people in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government are already looking for a way out. Once they are promoted to a higher position in the city government, or something else, they can use their connection with Yusei Electronics Entertainment to promote the construction of more theme parks.

They even have ambitious plans to expand Starry Sky Park to the whole world, ideally with a presence in several of the world's largest cities.

Of course, this is just a hypothetical scenario right now, and whether this amusement park can actually make a profit is still a question.

If Yusei Electronics Entertainment hadn't had sufficient reserve funds, it wouldn't have been possible to complete the first phase of the project so quickly with the help of the Tokyo government alone.

The advantages of being rich are fully demonstrated here.

At the end of 2014, Zhuyouxing launched a new game development plan.

GTA: San Andreas has become a classic open-world game.

This game can be considered to have basically set the benchmark for open-world games.

Even without any originality, simply developing a game that closely resembles GTA: San Andreas can still be a bestseller.

Now, Takeyusei is planning to release a new work.

The AI ​​system within Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is now quite sophisticated, so the next generation of GTA will be a good opportunity to test the AI ​​2.0 system.

The AI ​​system in Assassin's Creed Revelations is already quite sophisticated, but it's not enough; there are still many inconsistencies in the AI.

This requires repeated iterations and trials, and Zhu Youxing also knows that it's impossible to become an expert overnight.

The repeated testing was all for the purpose of putting the most perfect form into Cyberpunk 2077.

Therefore, the development plan for GTA: Episodes of Liberty City was put on the agenda, with a development cycle of three years, just in time for the release of the new game console. Episodes of Liberty City will be announced and released as the first title at that time.

A new Zelda game will be released within the next six months.

"This San Andreas is also an attempt at new technologies. This time, we will bring out all the new technologies we have researched during the development of Cyberpunk 2077 and then give them a concentrated demonstration."

At the company's future new game development plan conference in the second half of the year, Zhuyouxing will announce the direction of its upcoming game development.

San Andreas and the new Legend of Zelda have been announced.

Among them, The Legend of Zelda is a relatively small-scale but high-quality game called The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Zhuyouxing handed it over to a new team to practice with, and at the same time, about twenty experienced employees who are good at game development and management worked with them. This was a mentorship program to help them get into the rhythm of game development as soon as possible.

The team doesn't need to develop at a fast pace. The important thing is to discover new game technologies during the development process, while also continuing to explore AI technology in depth.

If successful, The Legend of Zelda: Skybreaker can also be developed at the same time.

The highlight of the next three years will be GTA: Liberty City.

The game will be handled by a team in the United States, while a development department in Japan will also cooperate in the development work.

The game development team was set at around two thousand people. With a clear direction and three years of development time, developing a game called Liberty City Chapters shouldn't be too difficult.

Meanwhile, in the United States, several young Americans who were having a meeting simultaneously with those in Japan looked extremely excited.

"Peter King, I'm counting on you over there in the US. I hope to see you perform even better."

During the conference, Zhu Youxing briefly showcased the development details and main storyline of GTA: Liberty City, which he had prepared.

The game's development framework and main storyline alone were already impressive to those present; it truly lived up to the president's personal vision for the game.

However, this kind of self-praise has been done too many times, and it seems there's really no need to continue this boasting.

"Yes, President, we will definitely do our best to complete the tasks you have assigned, and our team will certainly not let you down!"

The young man named Peterkin spoke excitedly.

Peterkin was only twenty-three years old.

There's a reason why someone of his age would be taking over the development of GTA.

The reason he was able to gain Zhu Youxing's approval was entirely because he did something that astonished Zhu Youxing for a long time.

About six months ago, he was just a university student.

She's no different from other people her age.

His usual hobby is playing video games.

But besides playing video games, he has another hobby: he enjoys delving into all sorts of open-source games and creating new things within them.

Chapter 944 Bamboo Star's Astonishment

In short, Peter King's job is to add some interesting mods to the game.

He probably started doing this when he was around ten years old.

At the time, Zhuyouxing was actively promoting the open-source development of the core of video games on PC computers.

This open-source approach allows any non-profit organization to modify its video games.

Furthermore, if you perform well enough, the official team will provide certain rewards.

In the future, it may even be possible for your mod creations to become official products, and you'll then receive additional revenue sharing.

In fact, the Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball character costume design contest should also be considered as an expansion direction for the game mod.

In the years since Zhuyouxing started promoting this, more and more players have enjoyed creating their own game content.

They all really enjoyed this brand new gaming experience.