Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

The world is not perfect; there will always be regrets, pain, and of course, joy.

After Zhu Youxing finished speaking, he stood up and walked to the light switch in the conference room, turning on all the lights. Then he said to everyone, "Alright, everyone needs to work hard now. Cyberpunk 2077 may be experiencing a new wave of popularity. At that time, you all need to take this opportunity to release a few side stories that are linked to this animation. The deadline is half a month. Can you finish it?"

"can!"

Several producers in charge of Cyberpunk 2077 immediately made assurances.

For them, it's just adding a small side story to the game, and there might not be much plot demonstration yet, so it probably won't even take half a month to make, just a few days.

It's just a matter of adding a few lines of code; it's a piece of cake.

Meanwhile, Zhu Youxing contacted Bob at Facebook, asking him to prepare a pre-launch campaign for Cyberpunk Fringewalkers.

Of course, TV Tokyo couldn't be left out either, so they also arranged a good time slot to broadcast the Cyberpunk Frontierwalker anime.

Both sides agreed very readily because they had both watched the animation and realized that it was definitely the best cyberpunk animation in a short period of time. Releasing it on their own platform would be a good opportunity to increase the popularity of their own platform, so they naturally couldn't miss it.

Chapter 1079 Are video games a money-making machine?

The pre-release promotion for Cyberpunk Edgewalker will last for two weeks. Two weeks later, TV Tokyo will dedicate an entire afternoon on Sunday to broadcast the anime.

This marks the first time since TV Tokyo's inception that an entire anime series has been broadcast in a single day.

Zhu Youxing himself did not force the new station director to broadcast this animation in a concentrated manner.

However, when Director Oki learned that the anime would also be available on an online streaming platform, and that the platform would release the entire series at once, he decided to schedule the anime to be broadcast in one day.

This behavior doesn't actually help maximize the animation's popularity, but it's another way to attract viewers by letting them watch it all at once.

There are quite a few viewers who are interested in the Cyberpunk 2077 game, even though they may not usually be big fans of watching anime.

But if there were an animation that could be shown all at once in one day, they might have the patience to watch it.

On Facebook's streaming platform, the animated promotional slogan for Cyberpunk Edgewalker was also featured on the homepage.

Initially, the shareholders were dissatisfied with the forced insertion of animated series recommendations, which resulted in the reduction of advertising space and advertising revenue.

The advertising and recommendation slots occupied by Cyberpunk Edgewalker are worth at least several million dollars.

But Bob defied all opposition. He was the biggest supporter of Bamboo Star. Coupled with his status as CEO and founder, and the fact that the company had always been developing very smoothly, he had a lot of say in the company. As a result, the animated series Cyberpunk Edgewalker naturally dominated the advertising and recommendation slots for several days.

Even people who aren't interested will inevitably notice this animation.

Since the animation only lasts three or four hours, they figured they might as well wait until it was released and take a look.

It just so happens that they are also Cyberpunk 2077 players, so watching this animated film is a way of supporting their favorite game and learning more about its world.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the Mekfu company is preparing for a major operation.

"Mr. Myron Case, I can assure you that this is absolutely the best work in the world. Relying on the latest AI computing power and our original random world technology, it can generate countless worlds with virtually unlimited territories. In such an infinite world, anything is possible, and players will definitely experience the ultimate fun!"

Myron Case was watching a young man passionately promoting himself in a small drawing room.

No, it should be that he's promoting his product.

His product is a video game.

A video game that looks a bit strange.

In recent years, with the maturation of industrial game development and the popularity of sandbox open-world games, more and more games are now actively creating this type of sandbox open-world game.

Even many small production teams are trying to emulate this approach.

Open-world games seem to have become the standard answer to making money.

Especially in the last year, many game companies have started to compete fiercely on the size of their open worlds.

Some of these companies have developed computer-generated worlds of almost infinite size, but these are somewhat hollow, just boring content piled up with countless data points.

Moreover, as this data accumulates, the world generated in later stages will become increasingly bizarre and completely different from the world within the normal range of understanding.

However, many people are unwilling to give up and hope to create a bigger and more beautiful world.

And now, what is presented to Myron Case is a rather impressive infinite world.

This young man seems to have found some kind of technological breakthrough, successfully generating an endless vast world.

Each world is connected by a portal that allows players to travel between them, and players can freely explore this endless world.

Then, thanks to the convenience of AI computing, since AI can already generate NPC characters that look quite lifelike, randomly generating terrain and worlds is also no problem.

No one had thought of this before, but this young man did.

"How's this game?" Myron Case didn't listen to the young man's self-praise at this moment, but turned to consult the company's game development manager next to him.

"Boss, his game concept is excellent, and the technology is very innovative. If it can truly create an infinite world as he says, it will be extremely attractive to players."

"Yeah……"

Myron Case squinted, lost in thought.

The young man, with a mix of excitement and nervousness, stood at the podium, waiting for Myron Keyes' questions.

However, Myron Case turned to the person next to him again and asked, "Is the technology you just mentioned novel? Is it a new technological approach that hasn't been researched before?"

"Yes, I guess so. Actually, this technical approach isn't hard to understand, but the important thing is that he discovered it while others didn't."

"If you were asked to implement this technology, could you do it in a short time?"

"Boss, you mean... to steal his technology?"

“We’re not talking about plagiarism, I’m just asking if it’s possible.”

“That… of course, but I think this young man has already registered a patent, and we probably won’t be able to use this technology without him.”

The game development manager looked at the young man as he spoke, appearing somewhat hesitant.

He was actually a little unsure whether this young man was really so shrewd as to have registered the relevant patent technology in advance.

If not, then this young man is likely to be in trouble.

Myron Case wouldn't let go of such a good opportunity to forcibly seize someone else's achievements.

"I see. Then we can only promote this game. Let's bring it under our wing. You can manage it, set up a team for it, give it resources, and let it create the game to the best of its ability."

Since there was no way to find a loophole, Myron Case stopped insisting and instead had his men recruit the young man.

He saw potential in the technology developed by this young man, so he invested some money in him to inflate the bubble, so that he could earn more money and then invest more money in the development of physical electronic technology, making video games a supplement to his career.

Myron Case has never changed his views on video games, and perhaps it is difficult for him to change them easily. What he has changed is his assessment of the impact that video games can have.

He thought it would be a money-making machine, but that was all.

Chapter 1080 A Fish That Escaped the Net

"By the way, we should have a game coming out soon, right? How much revenue do you expect to make? What's the revenue margin?"

Myron Case asked the game development lead next to him again.

"Boss, according to our estimates, two months after the release of Cyberpunk 2077, the online discussion surrounding it is gradually decreasing, and more players are starting to pay attention to other games. Releasing a game at this time would be a good choice. We originally planned to release several games around Christmas at the end of the year, but releasing them early now can win over players, as players seem to really like games that are delayed. At the same time, we can make a good profit during the lull in the hype surrounding Cyberpunk 2077."

"I'll just ask you to answer how much revenue you expect to get; these are the details your game development department needs to consider."

"Okay, we expect our two upcoming key games to generate at least 130% to 150% revenue."

"A return of thirty to fifty percent... Hmm, that's still a pretty good result." Myron Case was quite satisfied.

He still doesn't have much judgment about whether a game is good or bad, and can only rely on professional developers to explain it to him.

"Won't anything unexpected happen?" Myron Case asked again, still somewhat worried. "What about Surrey Electronics? Do they also have games planned to release around this time? If so, their competition with us will affect our sales, won't it?"

"You can rest assured about this boss," the game development manager said with a smile. "Suri Electronics has a set time for the release and launch of some of its products. The Japanese like to create this kind of ritual. Once a time is set, it can only be postponed, never brought forward, because that could affect the performance of their quarterly financial report and influence the judgment of their shareholders. But we are obviously more flexible. After all, you still have the final say, Boss Myron Case. The amount of revenue in a fiscal year will not shake your position."

Myron Case's lips twitched slightly when he heard his subordinate's words.

The other person's words were a fairly good compliment.

But to his ears, it clearly didn't sound so good.

Why do I insist on keeping a majority stake? It's because I was once ruthlessly kicked out of the company I founded.

This frightened him, and he dared not easily relinquish most of the company's shares to outsiders again, fearing that he would lose absolute control.

Although he gave up 51% of his shares in order to ensure the company's stable development, and his share has decreased, he still has absolute say.

In this respect, he is indeed much better than Surui Electronics.

"Yes, that's one of our advantages, so Su Rui Electronics won't interfere at this time, right?"

"That's right, Brown Entertainment is a variable, but it has never participated in competition with other big companies in the industry. It's always wise of it to avoid releasing games at the same time as its competitors. So I think as long as we reveal a little bit of our plans to it, it will obediently give up releasing games during this period. After all, it's one of our own."

"Okay, then go and do it."

After Myron Case finished speaking, he looked up at the somewhat flustered young man.

This young man has been standing on the podium for more than twenty minutes.

No one asked him any questions during this time, and he had basically finished saying everything he could say, so he could only stand there awkwardly, feeling very uncomfortable.

More than twenty minutes later, Myron Case seemed to remember the young man and said to him, "Kid, your idea is very good. I talked to my people and I feel that there is an opportunity to cooperate well. So, my people will take the initiative to contact you, and I will also allocate funds specifically for your game development. But how far you can go is up to you."

"Yes, Mr. Myron Case! I will definitely not let you down!"

The young people were overjoyed.

Securing investment from large companies is no easy feat.

My game has finally gained the favor of a big shot.

Actually, he originally wanted to go directly to Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, because he felt that company was the holy land for all game developers.

However, Mikef was equally determined to recruit talent, as Myron Keyes was eager to make enough money from video games and was willing to spend a lot of money to attract talent.

Given that Mikeford was willing to offer more money, the young man ultimately chose to gravitate towards the higher-paying option.

At worst, I can wait until I become famous through this game before pursuing my dreams at Youxing Electronic Entertainment.

Following the conclusion of this small meeting within the Mikelford company, the official website for Mikelford's video games released a message.

Many well-known games that were originally scheduled to be released around December will be released earlier, in five, ten and fifteen days respectively.

Players who pre-order these games can now receive additional in-game virtual items as a bonus, but this is the last chance; once it's gone, it's gone.

Opportunity knocks but once.