Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

The most cost-effective approach is to build a building and then leave it unchanged.

Adjusting the building's appearance later will definitely require even more funds.

Zhu Youxing approved it without hesitation.

There's no need to hesitate about this. He had already planned to do it this way. Even if the cost is high, it's not a big problem. It's just a matter of spending an extra one or two hundred million dollars.

For Youxing Electronic Entertainment right now, it's really not a huge pressure.

As for pressure, he thought of Cyberpunk 2077.

Before Zhu Youxing temporarily left the company, he remembered that the final development and promotion costs of the game totaled more than 700 million.

The document also includes a statement from the Japanese government, which once again hopes that Yusei Electronic Entertainment and several other companies will respond to their call to create more products related to Japanese culture, thereby greatly increasing the promotion and dissemination of Japanese culture worldwide.

This is just a routine post; the Japanese government tries to get big companies to help with publicity every now and then.

During a change of prime minister, the new prime minister will also do similar things in order to consolidate his position.

I also live in this country, and the cooperation with the Japanese government over the years has indeed been quite pleasant. They gave me such a large piece of land to use, and even exempted me from a lot of taxes at the beginning, so I certainly have to give them face.

However, he could only make a few more video games with Japanese culture in them. After thinking about it, Takeyusei realized that he didn't have any good ideas about Japanese culture for the time being.

But that's not a big problem. We can just have the development department find a few popular movies, TV shows, and anime with Japanese cultural elements and develop an adaptation.

There were anime like Naruto in my previous life, and there are quite a few in this world as well. This world even has its own Bushido universe of movies, which are quite famous in the world. They could all be used for a joint adaptation.

Zhu Youxing wrote his decision on a document and then moved on to the next one.

Chapter 1071 Avoiding Endless Trouble

Among these documents, one was delivered just yesterday, and it was an urgent document.

The symbols in this document represent things that may have a negative impact on the company.

Zhu Youxing immediately flipped through the page and found it to be a printed screenshot of a webpage.

That was someone's daily life shared on the Facebook social network.

Zhu Youxing recognized it as Youxing Electronic Entertainment's latest game console, equipped with some of the most advanced processors in the world.

It was precisely because of this game console that Takeyusei was able to fully unleash its potential to develop Cyberpunk 2077.

With this game console, Zhuyouxing can confidently provide the best gaming experience for the vast majority of players.

However, on this screenshot page, the person is sharing that their game console was originally playing Cyberpunk 2077.

But suddenly the screen went black and there was no response.

The player was also a bit confused and didn't know what had happened, so he asked other people online what was going on.

In the comments below, two or three other players also commented with the same question.

"My game console is also black, and I think I can faintly smell something burning. Could it be that the console exploded by itself?"

Zhu Youxing frowned immediately upon seeing this.

The game console exploded?

Quality control incident?

This is truly big news for a product.

Without hesitation, Zhu Youxing picked up the phone and dialed the Engineering Development Department.

Hayazawa Airi and several senior engineering development executives arrived at Takeyusei's office immediately.

"Zhuyou, you're finally back today. I actually wanted to go to your house yesterday, but then I thought that if it really didn't work out, we could just handle this ourselves and get these players the latest game consoles."

Zhu Youxing asked gravely, "Are you able to find out the reason for the game console malfunction that was posted on social media?"

"This... will take a little more time, because we haven't received the damaged game consoles yet. However, we have contacted the players, and some of them are willing to hand over their consoles to us. We will then replace them with new consoles for free."

Zhu Youxing nodded: "There's nothing wrong with what you're doing, but when is the earliest you can get those damaged game consoles? I'm wondering if the damage could be widespread."

"It shouldn't be... We've already done the debugging of the game console many times, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

Zhu Youxing shook his head: "We can't be too optimistic. The damage to the game console may be an accident, but it could still have a negative impact."

Originally, Zhu Youxing planned to go to the game development department to check on the game development progress after reviewing a few documents.

However, there is clearly no time to do that now.

Now he has something more important to do: to find out what's going on and figure out if he can solve it.

The game console suddenly broke down, and it looked like the internal circuit components were overheating to the point of burning, which is quite serious.

Actually, the damage to the game console might be a little painful for players, but what's even harder for them to accept is losing all the game saves they've painstakingly stored on their console.

Although Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is now actively promoting online cloud service save functionality, there are still some players who are not very familiar with it. They play game consoles simply for fun and do not enjoy studying or tinkering.

Therefore, the progress of this matter has not been so fast.

If some of these players are the type who don't have the habit of saving their progress on cloud servers, it's very likely that their hard-earned save data will be completely lost, which would be quite a blow to a player.

Zhu Youxing also had a deep feeling about this. In his previous life, the hard drive of one of his game consoles was damaged due to quality control issues. Even though the official promised to replace it with a new game console for free, Zhu Youxing found it difficult to pick up the games he had played for a long time.

Because whenever he sees those games, he remembers the save files he's played for hundreds or thousands of hours, and all the various resources he painstakingly accumulated in those save files.

"President, I feel like I might know the most likely cause of this damage."

At this point, one of the managers responsible for developing the game console hardware spoke up.

Zhu Youxing immediately looked over and said, "Tell me about it."

"I retrieved the last records of these players' network accesses, and they all had one thing in common: they were all playing Cyberpunk 2077."

"Cyberpunk 2077? Could it be that game caused this? But this game shouldn't be able to damage the console's hardware. It's just a game."

"Director Hayazawa, you may not know this, but Cyberpunk 2077 takes the performance of game consoles to the extreme. This game has squeezed every last drop of performance out of our latest game consoles. So, I suspect that the game console's redundant resources are completely filled, which eventually leads to the game console's performance being unable to support it, and some chips are scrapped and burned."

"But if that's really the case, we also have the protection mechanisms of game consoles, so it's definitely impossible for it to develop to the point where the game console explodes and burns."

"That can only serve as a buffer and reminder. If players insist on continuing to play, we can't completely stop them."

Zhu Youxing fell into deep thought.

"You think it's because of Cyberpunk 2077?"

The senior executive said, "I can only say that this is the most likely possibility."

"Then contact the chip manufacturer and call them over. Also, bring over the damaged game consoles as soon as possible for disassembly and research. In addition, emphasize in the official announcement that players should be careful not to over-push the performance of Cyberpunk 2077. Once a warning message appears, it is recommended that players temporarily refrain from playing Cyberpunk 2077."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

Hayazawa Airi immediately left with her people.

Zhu Youxing's expression had been very serious since the beginning.

It is clear that Zhu Youxing cares a lot about this matter, and if it is not handled properly, it could indeed have very negative consequences.

As for Zhu Youxing, his previously relaxed attitude vanished completely.

Online, there aren't many players experiencing similar situations right now.

Zhu Youxing understood that he had to nip this trouble in the bud from the very beginning, otherwise the consequences would be endless.

Chapter 1072 Saving the Players' Hard Work

"President, we've found out the specific reason."

Three days after some game consoles were damaged or exploded, the engineering development department finally found the specific cause of the problem and immediately reported the situation to Zhuyouxing.

What are the specific reasons?

"It's a problem with the chip yield rate. The latest AI chips we use are relatively new, and some details are not mature enough. Our Cyberpunk 2077 game can utilize the full performance of any processor chip to the extreme. Some AI chips, due to slightly poor quality, have burned out."

A manager from the engineering development department showed Zhu Youxing several photos.

Those were damaged game consoles that players in the United States had obtained.

The engineering development team in the United States immediately disassembled the game console.

The final disassembly revealed that the most severely damaged area was the AI ​​chip area, and some components that provide auxiliary functions to the AI ​​chip also showed some damage and short circuits after testing.

"The people at the US branch recorded and repaired the damaged game console and finally determined that Cyberpunk 2077 originally used more than 130% of the AI ​​chip's performance. Even with normal overclocking, our existing AI chips could hardly withstand this pressure, and in the end, the chip inevitably burned out."

The photo shows what a burned chip looks like.

One area on the motherboard was burned black; that's where the AI ​​chip is located.

"Is it because the AI ​​chip manufacturer provided substandard quality?"

"That's part of the reason, but not the whole reason, because even a small number of AI chips that are barely qualified still can't meet the performance requirements of Cyberpunk 2077."

"What did the chip manufacturers say?"

"They have already sent people to the US branch and to our side. They promised to help us solve the problem as soon as possible. Actually, these are not big problems. The biggest problem is that Cyberpunk 2077 pushes the performance limits too hard. Many game consoles probably can't handle this kind of performance pressure."

This was truly an unexpected event.

Cyberpunk 2077's graphics and performance requirements are indeed somewhat insane.

In its previous life, Cyberpunk 2077 was also the benchmark for graphics quality games for a long time.

But that's not enough to kill the game console outright; it's just that Zhuyouxing's requirements for Cyberpunk 2077 are higher in this world than in his previous life.

The game itself is undoubtedly excellent, and it can be considered one of the world's top games.

However, the downside of this improved graphics quality is that the game console's performance can't keep up.

At this moment, Airi Hayazawa spoke up: "Takeyu, I think we should release a patch update for Cyberpunk 2077 to reduce the current performance consumption, and at the same time, provide some compensation to the players who have suffered losses. That should be acceptable."

Airi Hayazawa already has many years of industry experience, and she is quite familiar with some of the industry's common practices.

Reducing the game's performance consumption appropriately and issuing a public clarification would be the most reliable solution.

Zhu Youxing looked up at the others and asked, "Is that what you all think too?"

"President, this is indeed the most cost-effective and lowest-cost solution. Then, when we launch a newer game console in the future, we can further improve the performance required for the game."

Zhu Youxing said, "Reducing performance consumption should mean reducing the AI ​​processor, right? This means that the AI ​​effect of the random NPC characters in the game will be reduced."

Airi Hayazawa nodded: "Yes, we only need to reduce the effect of artificial intelligence, because the biggest power consumption is the AI ​​chip. In addition, AI processor chips are still a new technology. The technology in this area is not mature enough worldwide, and there are still flaws. So it is normal for some unexpected situations to occur."