Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Moreover, because he is a game review media person and has a good relationship with Zhu Youxing, he was naturally able to experience the GTA4 demo for a long time, although the demo was only half an hour long in total.

This half-hour experience only includes one story segment: Nico, one of the main characters in GTA: Liberty City, is robbing a bank.

This game effectively showcases the core elements of the GTA series.

Crime, robbery, escape, shootouts with law enforcement, etc.

Because of the special nature of the games available in this experience zone, this is the only place with entry restrictions.

Players entering the game must first sign a confidentiality agreement, which stipulates that the content of GTA4: Episodes of Liberty City must be kept secret and cannot be disclosed at this time. It will be revealed and declassified in a week.

Secondly, children under the age of 18 are strictly prohibited from entering.

Whether these people have the channels and ability to buy the game when it is released is not something Youxing Electronic Entertainment can control.

However, experience stores should definitely avoid allowing minors to enter, in order to avoid some unnecessary disputes.

Kazuo Murakami had already played through this storyline three times by this point.

The demo begins with Nico putting on a hood and, along with several companions, storming into a bank to rob it.

Then, following the instructions, they took the money and fled.

You'll be chased by law enforcement officers, and you'll need to control the car while firing back. Finally, you must escape the pursuit of law enforcement officers along the designated route, at which point the entire gameplay will end.

This gameplay style also existed in the previous GTA San Andreas game.

However, the overall design at that time was not very mature.

This generation has made a very significant improvement.

The biggest improvement is in the driving experience, and the entire heist process has become much richer in gameplay content.

You need to pick the lock.

If you fail to pick the lock, you will need to force the security door open with explosives and then collect as much money as possible within a specified time limit.

Finally, you should make your escape as quickly as possible before law enforcement arrives, so as not to be blocked by them and unable to escape.

Every part of the half-hour tour was thrilling, keeping Kazuo Murakami completely engrossed.

To be honest, he has been addicted to electronic erectile dysfunction for some time now.

Moreover, his erectile dysfunction symptoms were more severe than those of the average person.

He's a game review journalist, so he needs to play even more games.

This made him more discerning about games.

Especially considering that a company like Yusei Electronic Entertainment exists in this world.

This game company, which produces only top-tier works, has also spoiled Kazuo Murakami's tastes.

He can hardly muster any interest in ordinary games anymore.

He needs more intense game content to reignite his enjoyment of gaming.

This is perhaps a common problem that players who have played many games will face.

The more games you play, the less motivated you become to play new ones.

Ultimately, such players tend to favor a few game series, and new games are unlikely to pique their interest from the outset unless backed by a well-known game developer.

Even if such games are touted as having received substantial investment and being incredibly fun, it's difficult to convince them.

Such people are generally considered unnecessary targets for appeasement by game companies.

It would be unwise to abandon more players who have only played a few games just for the sake of these players.

Kazuo Murakami now delegates much of his game review work to his employees.

This isn't because he became more lazy after becoming a boss and only cared about making money; rather, it's because he genuinely lost interest in ordinary games.

Even with the first-party games that Yusei Electronics sometimes releases, he sometimes plays them with a bit of a forced attitude, let alone other games.

However, today, even though Kazuo Murakami only played a demo of GTA: Chapters of Liberty City, he found that the fun he had previously lost was gradually returning.

The purest pleasure of video games started to release dopamine in him, allowing him to play the half-hour trial content three or four times without getting tired of it. And now, he plans to play it a fifth time!

Chapter 989 A Good Cycle

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On the first day, the activities at the Starry Night Park continued until midnight.

As the farewell fireworks burst into the sky, the opening day of the Starry Night Park officially came to an end.

The park will begin normal operations on the second day and will be open to the public. The maximum daily visitor capacity is 100,000 people. If the number exceeds this, the overall experience of the park will be greatly reduced.

This will require ongoing expansion work on the entire park over the next period of time.

"The park's total revenue on the first day was 1.3 billion yen, which is equivalent to 13 million US dollars."

"President, this is quite an impressive profit result!"

Listening to the revenue report, the managers were all beaming with joy.

The executive director in charge of managing the park was the happiest of all.

He was originally the operations manager of another amusement park, but due to the economic downturn, the park's business suffered, and he became the biggest scapegoat, eventually becoming the first manager to be laid off.

If managers are being laid off, then ordinary employees are even more likely to be affected.

At this time, Youxing Electronic Entertainment emerged out of nowhere and took over all these people.

These employees and managers aren't incompetent; rather, people are simply less willing to go out and have fun due to the overall economic downturn.

More people will think about cutting back on food and clothing.

Unless, of course, there is something that is so appealing to them that it piques their interest and draws them over.

The gimmick of the world's first amusement park dedicated to video games is more than enough.

Moreover, the park has been promoted by the Japanese Prime Minister.

Coupled with the promotional activities for the Rio Olympics, Star Park has become one of the most popular destinations right now.

On Facebook, since the opening date of the amusement park was announced, related search terms have consistently ranked in the top three.

At the same time, the average number of passengers on flights to Japan in a short period of time has increased by more than half.

Therefore, given the size of the amusement park, it is indeed possible to absorb those laid-off park employees and help them find new jobs.

Coincidentally, the Japanese government also had one less group of ordinary citizens who were protesting against them because of unemployment, so it gave Yusei Electronics Entertainment the green light for some of its actions and applications.

After listening briefly to the information about the amusement park's revenue, Zhu Youxing didn't take it seriously anymore.

He wasn't too worried about his financial income.

Originally, the world's top amusement parks were all profitable.

The most distinctive feature of these parks is that they are backed by several popular and highly regarded IPs.

Universal Studios features several top IPs, including Transformers, Harry Potter, and DC Comics.

Disneyland features IPs such as Mickey Mouse, Disney princesses, fairy tales, and Marvel.

Thanks to the support of these IPs, these parks can maintain a balance of revenue even if they only cater to die-hard fans of these IPs.

As for himself, he should already be considered the company with the most top-tier IP series in this world.

Super Mario, Final Fantasy, Pokémon, Street Fighter, Uncharted.

These are all top-tier IPs created by combining the resources of many of the world's top gaming companies.

Now that the entire world has been brought together into one company, even if Youxing Electronic Entertainment doesn't make any games, it can live comfortably for decades just by selling licenses for these IP series and derivative toys.

Zhu Youxing even wanted to bring more grand legends and novels from the original world, such as Lord of the Rings, into this world.

However, his energy was limited, and he only read these literary works once or twice, far less than he could play a game for dozens or hundreds of hours at a time.

The following week saw the park's peak visitor count, with an average of 100,000 visitors per day. According to statistics, if the park can maintain this level of popularity, it may be able to recoup its costs within three to four years, which is an almost unbelievable achievement at this time of year.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government was envious of this situation.

We initially agreed with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment that the park would be completely tax-free for one year in order to support its development and construction.

In their calculations, the park's most optimistic estimate was only around $100 million in revenue per year, given the global economic downturn.

But they didn't expect that the players' spending power would be quite surprising.

They all willingly paid up, as if video games possessed some kind of magic.

Or rather, Youxing Electronic Entertainment knows very well how to please video game players.

They always manage to create the best game products for players, and their park construction and design are very different from conventional parks, greatly satisfying players' imaginations of the park, and they are even more generous when it comes to spending money.

Many players thought that since they were already here, they might as well go all out and be generous, and at worst they would have to be a little more frugal in the coming year.

Seeing the park revenue reported by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, and with so much cash flow and profits going to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment for the entire year while the municipal government gets nothing, the tax authorities are really envious.

However, the city government quickly came to terms with it.

The park can't generate tax revenue, but the people who come from afar to experience the park don't just spend money there.

They will stay in hotels, they will eat, and they will also take the opportunity to visit and spend money in other parts of Tokyo, which is equivalent to indirectly increasing the city government's tax revenue.

Having figured this out, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government once again began to vigorously promote the amusement park, seeing it as their best chance to increase tax revenue in the near future.

Moreover, after a year, the park's tax revenue will officially begin, at which point the city government will see another surge in tax revenue.

With money, there are more things you can do.

Meanwhile, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has already established a department specifically for managing the theme parks.

Next, they will proceed with the construction of the second and third phases of the amusement park in an orderly manner.

The money earned now will be immediately reinvested in the construction of new theme parks, striving to complete all subsequent theme parks as soon as possible, and perhaps usher in an even stronger wave of revenue before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Bamboo Star has already planned the second phase of construction, and the theme of the second phase will be the Final Fantasy series.

This series is comparable to Super Mario in terms of total game sales, and since Final Fantasy VII, the subsequent titles have almost all sold tens of millions of copies. Such a huge user base definitely needs to be taken care of. The theme parks to be built in the third phase and subsequent projects will be decided by online players through a vote to determine the order in which the theme parks will be built.

Chapter 990 Linear Trigger