Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

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This time, employees don't need to do anything particularly independent; they just need to complete the work step by step.

Zhu Youxing was responsible for the overall planning, given the tight schedule.

Chapter 1192 Many Opinions

"What has the president been doing lately? He hasn't seemed to be at the company at all. Where has he been?"

Inside the headquarters of Youxing Electronic Entertainment Building, several game development managers were chatting together.

Recently, work at Youxing Electronic Entertainment hasn't been too busy.

Each game development project is progressing steadily. After finishing work on Final Fantasy XIII, Takeyusei began arranging the development of Final Fantasy XIV, an online game.

However, this game is still in its early stages, so there's no rush.

Most of the other games were also in their early stages, which kept everyone's mindset stable.

This also allows them to have free time to get together and discuss the latest news in the gaming industry.

And where did their president go?

"I don't know. It seems like it's been more than a month since I last saw them. Director Zhu Youcai isn't here either. Did the two of them secretly go on their honeymoon?"

"It's quite possible. The two of them haven't actually had a proper time together yet. The president is busy making games every day, and Director Takeyu Aya also likes to study game technology every day. The two of them really do have a lot in common in their personalities."

"So what should we do recently?"

"It's just normal game development, but speaking of which, there's a news story that's worth paying attention to recently."

"what?"

"That independent producer who calls himself 'Nintendo is the fucking world ruler' and former CEO of Morgan Group, Mr. Lorenzo, started a game company."

"Oh, I know that. Mr. Nintendo's games are quite fun. I didn't expect him to suddenly want to start a company, and it seems his first game is a battle royale game?"

"Battle Royale, huh? Has anyone here heard of it before?"

Everyone shook their heads.

This type of product wasn't mainstream before, and although some companies occasionally tried to produce it, most of them didn't achieve great success.

The best result seems to be that a battle royale game suddenly appeared in South Korea, but it only became popular in South Korea in a short period of time, and other countries did not particularly accept it.

Not far away, Airi Hayazawa was having breakfast when she overheard several development managers chatting nearby, and she understood the situation perfectly.

She was one of the few people who knew about Zhu Youxing's trumpet.

"This game is being promoted very aggressively, taking away a lot of our promotional resources. Could it be another powerful force?"

"Possibly. That's a company backed by the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, so it's unlikely to be short of money."

"Then we need to be careful. This independent developer is quite capable. Our game isn't competing with us now, but that doesn't mean it won't be in the future."

"If the president were here, perhaps he could give us some direction, or even lead us to develop a similar sniper game."

At this moment, the group had clearly regarded Zhu Youxing's small company as a hypothetical enemy, and even began to consider whether to snipe it.

However, without Zhu Youxing, they couldn't do much.

One of the ministers contacted Matsuhashi Minoru, the company's second-in-command, to see if he could get in touch with Takeyusei.

We still need to take our competitors seriously.

However, Minoru Matsuhashi said there was no need to worry about it, as the company posed no threat, and they should just continue developing the game according to Takeyusei's previous plans.

Upon hearing this, the ministers said nothing more.

Or perhaps they don't really care that much.

Even if this company does rise to prominence, they are confident that they will never be able to compete with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

This is the reputation and achievements that Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has accumulated over nearly thirty years, and they have almost never produced a bad game.

No matter how many large companies try to challenge the position of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, they can't.

So they went back to playing their game and ignored the matter.

Meanwhile, inside Surui Electronics, Hayakawa Ueto frowned as he looked at the latest internet news from the United States.

Yuxing Electronics Entertainment is fearless in the face of challengers, but Surui Electronics is not.

If it were just a minor incident, it would be fine, but this time the troublemakers are really something else.

With Lorenzo backing them up, if this develops, it could become another new Mickafu.

Previously, Mikeford almost dethroned Surrey Electronics from its second-place position. If Myron Case hadn't broken down mentally and decided he didn't want to continue in the gaming industry, he probably would have competed with Mikeford for second place for a long time and spent even more money.

He immediately summoned his subordinate in charge of the game department and ordered him to guard against the rise of this new company called Nintendo.

Since the other party is preparing to develop a battle royale game, we shouldn't fall behind.

This happens to be a blind spot for Youxing Electronics Entertainment in terms of game types, so there might be a chance to make some profit from it.

The gameplay of battle royale is relatively fixed: a group of people fight to the end until only one person or team survives.

As for how to achieve such a goal, how to force players to fight each other, that is a science in itself, and at least in the short term, no one has come up with a good idea.

However, there are quite a few talented people in Su Rui Electronics. They quickly proposed using restrictions on life resources to force players to fight each other.

For example, various strongholds can be added to the map. These strongholds are controlled by the computer, and players need to obtain resources such as food, water, and weapons from them, and then everyone must survive to the end.

Some people suggested incorporating popular zombie elements, citing Resident Evil from Yuxing Electronics as an example, which popularized the zombie theme. Adding zombies to the game would increase its tension.

Once game development becomes procedural, game ideas can also be imagined procedurally. In just a few days, Surui Electronics established the tone for their battle royale game, and all that was left was to speed up development.

As for Mickford, they've already given up.

Myron Case has lost interest in the gaming industry; he focuses more on his own electronics business.

Fashionable yet luxurious, high-class – that's what Myron Case wants to do: make money from brand premium.

Video games?

Sorry, we're not familiar with each other.

I'm about to sell it and you're telling me there are competitors.

However, he envied the company's money.

Lorenzo initially announced that he would invest one billion.

He truly deserves his reputation as the former richest man.

But isn't he overestimating this indie game developer?

What methods did this independent game developer use to convince a big shot like Lorenzo to invest in him?

Rely on that battle royale game that clearly has no future?

I really don't understand.

If you had that money, it would be great to invest in me; I'm sure I could develop much faster.

Or you could simply buy out your game division, which you're planning to spin off, for a billion dollars.

Chapter 1193 is finished just like that?

There's been a lot of discussion about this new company, mainly because of Lorenzo and the fact that it involves an investment of over $100 million.

As for the game's creators themselves, they seem to have become almost invisible.

Many self-proclaimed game industry professionals have been analyzing the situation on various media outlets.

From the company's initial capital reserves to the resume of its core producer, Mr. Nintendo, and then to the size of the company's workforce.

The final conclusion was that this company probably wouldn't make much money.

Even if you make money, it might take decades to break even.

This investment of hundreds of millions of dollars is somewhat of a loss.

These professionals are implying in the media that other big investors can invest in them, that they have greater potential than Nintendo, experience in developing large-scale games, and ample manpower, unlike Nintendo, which has to gather enough people before starting a company.

Moreover, it is said that most of the people gathered here are recent college graduates.

That's it?

A game company like this makes the audacity to claim it's going to make a big-budget game right from the start; many people would burst out laughing if they heard that.

Returning to the battle royale genre, no company has been able to make money from it yet. It seems a bit ridiculous for a new company to claim it's profitable right from the start.

While the outside world was full of skepticism, the newly established company Nintendo remained calm.

The company's employees had no interest in paying attention to the discussions outside.

If you don't finish your work, it might affect your bonus.

Putting aside what kind of game this company will make, the fact that there's no overtime, you finish your work quickly, and you get bonuses is something other companies can't easily offer.

This kind of boss is still very good.

Except for one thing that is very confusing.

That is, the boss has been wearing a smiley face mask headgear since we met.

Isn't he hot?

Everyone was skeptical.

Why is Nintendo so mysterious? Even their voice seems to have been altered.

It's fine to keep things hidden from outsiders, but why hide them from your own company as well?

I don't understand, I really don't understand.

Of course, the boss is still a good boss.

"The limitation imposed on players is that the map is shrunk every so often, forcibly pushing players towards a certain central position."

Zhu Youxing, wearing a huge smiley face headgear, was guiding game development from behind a programmer.

"Shrink the map? Does that mean destroying the entire map? That's technically quite difficult."