Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

Most people appreciate that the game is really fun.

Putting aside the plot for now, the gameplay alone is enough to keep many players entertained for hundreds or even thousands of hours.

Zhu Youxing spent about a week, roughly a hundred hours, slowly playing through the entire game.

However, this only allows Zhuyouxing to experience a small portion of the game's content.

The entire city is open to exploration, and countless secrets await players to discover.

In terms of detail, this game surpasses most previous games.

Even picking up trash on the street seems interesting.

In Liberty City, you can become a member of the elite and do all sorts of jobs.

You could become an unknown nobody, or even a beggar on the street.

While this won't significantly impact the main storyline, the identity of a game character will still affect other side quests and the attitudes of AI characters towards the player character.

If you become an upper-class person in the game, your walking posture will be noticeably different, and you will occasionally be recognized by people on the street, who will then approach you and try to make contact with you.

If you become a homeless person in the game, you will be despised by the AI ​​characters. They will even deliberately avoid the protagonist and not want to appear in the same place as the protagonist.

However, the connection between this content and the main storyline is not very good, which is a minor flaw.

But this was actually an experimental function.

The protagonist's different social status will elicit different reactions from other characters.

This feature will be further developed and expanded in Cyberpunk 2077.

The Cyberpunk 2077 story originally set up several identities from different social classes, but this content was quite disconnected from the main storyline. Zhu Youxing hoped to try in advance to find a better way to integrate it with the main storyline.

It seems there's only one way: to simply divide the main storyline into several parallel storylines. We can't take shortcuts and use only one storyline.

Returning to the main storyline of GTA: Episodes of Liberty City, many players love this story because it emphasizes realism.

This story in GTA: Liberty City feels like it actually happened... no, maybe it really did happen, just presented in a game format.

Soon enough, a group of researchers began to study the prototype of the game's main storyline.

Originally, Zhu Youxing didn't have a prototype for this game, but sometimes real life is even more outrageous than fictional stories.

The resourceful netizens actually found some stories in American history that were very similar to GTA: Liberty City, and even seriously called it a concentrated display of the American Dream.

Then some people thought that Zhu Youxing was quite a god.

In the past, when they called Takeyusei the God of Games, it was just a nickname, a nickname for an industry leader. Not many people really regarded Takeyusei as a god, except for a small number of Japanese people.

Some Japanese people really like to deify individuals, and there are indeed people who enshrine images of Takeyusei (the god of the sea) in their homes, which is quite absurd.

Most people know that the title "God of Games" for Bamboo Star is a form of respect and a joke.

But this time it was a little different.

Someone who has lived in Japan for many years has such a deep understanding of the lives of the lower classes in the United States.

Take a look at this GTA: Liberty City chapter; there are many details that are hard to truly understand without experiencing them firsthand.

Then some players in the United States were a little disappointed.

What disappointed them was that the game wasn't created primarily by Americans, but by the Japanese.

Logically speaking, people living in the United States are more likely to create such a captivating game, but it was Takeyusei who made it.

With this level of popularity, GTA's sales exceeded five million within a week, leaving all other games released at the same time far behind.

The same latest Yusei electronic entertainment game console is also selling quite well.

With its enhanced performance, the new console is poised to deliver a more complete experience of GTA: Chapters of Liberty City, ensuring strong sales.

Moreover, GTA wasn't the only launch title.

GTA is not an all-ages game; it's a top-tier age-restricted game, only playable by those 18 and older.

Regardless of the final age of the player, it is absolutely necessary to carefully examine the age of the buyer during the sales process.

The release of the new game console also includes the latest Zelda and Mario titles, which are truly evergreen games, games for all ages, and have the widest reach.

Some kids might be thinking about playing GTA: Liberty City, but they'll definitely promise their parents they'll play games like Mario or Zelda.

Final statistics show that GTA: Episodes of Liberty City sold 5.3 million units in its first week, while the latest game console sold 7.6 million units in its first week.

The economic downturn has clearly not dampened players' love for great games.

Then, there is another relatively interesting piece of data.

Some gamers buy the latest consoles but don't buy any launch titles because they think launch titles are too expensive.

They buy the latest game consoles so they can experience older games at higher resolutions and frame rates.

Older games from the previous era can be made compatible with newer game consoles.

Many older games are available at great discounts, and playing them on a new console after purchase is just as fun as buying a launch title.

Yuxing Electronics Entertainment originally expected the game console to sell around five million units in its first week, but unexpectedly, this additional factor led to a significant increase in sales.

As the head of Yusei Electronics Entertainment, Minoru Matsuhashi immediately arranged for the factory to speed up production and add more production lines to meet the needs of players.

If players get impatient while waiting, and the economic downturn reduces their desire to spend, they might not be able to make any money.

Surrey Electronics and Mikefu, two other manufacturers that also produce game consoles, were extremely envious.

Youxing Electronic Entertainment is making money way too fast, almost monopolizing the entire video game market in a short period of time.

However, given the current enormous size of the overall gaming market, there are always areas that Youxing Electronics Entertainment cannot reach. Surui Electronics and Mikefu can take advantage of this trend and get a small share of the profits.

Chapter 1009 Old Friends Reminiscing

1009

"Zhuyou, you really do have a mountain of gold but are reluctant to show it off."

In a luxurious private villa in the Hollywood area of ​​the United States, Tukarev, with a regretful expression, personally poured tea for Zhu Youxing.

"Here, this is the best tea I bought. I heard that you Japanese people love this stuff, although I never really understand what's so good about it."

Zhu Youxing casually leaned back on the sofa, then picked up the teacup without ceremony, tested the water temperature, and drank it all in one gulp. Zhu Youxing simply regarded tea as a beverage and didn't think it was anything special; quenching thirst was the most important thing.

A day earlier, Takeyusei arrived in the United States from Japan on a private plane.

His main purpose in coming here was to personally inspect the latest proposed location for the US branch and see what the site was like.

After all, this land cost over 300 million US dollars to buy, and then a lot of money was spent to build a headquarters with a similar number of floors to the one in Japan.

The United States is now essentially the second headquarters of Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

In the game, the American Dream is depicted in a very bleak way, but it also has its positive aspects.

That is to say, there are indeed many talented people gathered in the United States.

The United States, as an old-established empire, has its own inherent strengths; otherwise, if it were truly as completely dark as GTA: Liberty City, it wouldn't be the real American dream.

Yesterday, after adjusting to the time difference and visiting the second headquarters, and then checking on the situation of several game development teams here, Zhuyouxing naturally also wanted to visit his old friends in the United States.

Tukarev is considered Zhuyouxing's partner and also a very good friend.

Sometimes, when making friends, you should look for people who have a collaborative relationship with your industry, rather than looking for colleagues in the same field.

Making friends with people in the same industry will inevitably lead to competition and conflict sooner or later, once things develop to a certain point.

Su Rui Electronics is still in a cooperative relationship, but it is absolutely impossible for Zhu Youxing to become friends with Hayakawa Ueto; at most, it can be considered a mutual appreciation.

But Tukarev is different.

Tukarev has always focused on his film and television business and hasn't ventured into other fields. The film and television industry happens to complement video games, and this is how their good relationship has continued.

Just now, Tukarev felt sorry for the bamboo star.

To date, Youxing Electronic Entertainment has been very cautious about adapting its own IP works into film and television dramas, and will absolutely not easily release its own products for film and television production.

Logically speaking, with the current influence of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, any film or television series based on one of its IPs, even if it's poorly made, would definitely have a group of die-hard fans supporting it, allowing them to rake in money wave after wave.

This kind of money is practically free. Even if the film and television dramas have a bad reputation, it will not affect the status of Youxing Electronic Entertainment in the hearts of players.

At most, they'd make a sarcastic remark occasionally, saying that while Yuxing Electronics Entertainment is good at making games, they should probably skip making movies and TV series.

Even so, as long as Yusei Electronics Entertainment wants to continue licensing films and TV series, and as long as they aren't absolutely terrible, players will still buy them.

This is not just Tukalev's random guess; it is supported by solid evidence.

Surui Electronics has actually done a very good job in this regard.

They already have four or five very well-known video game IPs under their umbrella.

Surui Electronics happens to own a Detroit Film Group.

Surui Electronics simply handed over the IP of its game to its own film and television group for development, and made a lot of money from it.

If Su Rui Electronics' game adaptations into TV dramas can make a lot of money, then Youxing Electronics Entertainment's game IPs must be just as profitable and will definitely make even more money.

Zhu Youxing laughed and said, "Didn't I already agree to authorize you to make some derivative films and TV series based on this IP? What? Aren't you satisfied yet?"

Tukarev still has that Santa Claus-like appearance, with a long beard that completely covers his chin, but his smile is quite approachable.

He said helplessly, "I have to complain to you about this. Look at the IP derivative works you've licensed to me? WarioWare animation, Need for Speed ​​spin-off series, Contra spin-off animation... Nine and a half out of ten of the IPs you've licensed to me can only be expressed in animation form. Not a single one is a top-tier IP. At least give me some big IPs. Don't you trust our company's capabilities?"

Zhu Youxing shook his head: "No, it's not that I don't believe in your company's capabilities."

"then you……"

"I don't trust the capabilities of all film and television companies."

"..."

That's a bit too arrogant. Hollywood has so many top directors, screenwriters and actors. It's just a game IP, what's the big deal?

He refused to believe he couldn't film it well.

Adapting games into movies and TV series is a trap, and Zhu Youxing is well aware of this. Whether in this world or the original world, there hasn't been much improvement, and he himself doesn't have high expectations for it. He still wants to preserve his integrity in his later years. If a terrible IP derivative work is produced, he himself won't be able to get past it.

Zhu Youxing said, "Besides, didn't I also authorize you to make a Resident Evil spin-off movie? Wasn't that movie pretty good? How can you say I'll only give you some small IP works?"

Tukalev immediately complained, "Look, you said it yourself, the Resident Evil movie was pretty good, doesn't that prove that adapting games into movies and TV series can be a good business? How about this, we can sign a performance-based agreement, if my adaptation is not good, you can unilaterally breach the contract and revoke the naming rights, and I will issue a public apology, how about that?"

Tukalev adopted a very humble stance, and the reason he did so was because of the huge success of the Resident Evil movie.