Super Tycoon

"President, Capcom rejected our request to purchase the Resident Evil series of games. They said that unless we give a guaranteed sales volume of 3 million copies, and at the same time give half of the advance payment, and follow-up games, they will not be delivered. We sell it exclusively."

Satoshi Matsudajiri's tone on the phone was a bit depressed. Capcom is also the world's top game manufacturer, and it started out with Street Fighter.

Later, Rockman and Onimusha were also very popular. And their Resident Evil series are best-selling all over the world and have a very high reputation.

Of course, Zhiduoxing hopes to have more popular games on its own game platform, especially if such games can really drive console sales.

At first, Capcom had an agreement with Souni and Sega Bandai. At the beginning, it was authorized to Sega Bandai and sold on Saturn. Later, Souni signed an agreement with better conditions.

Sunny does not require a complete exclusive buyout, but an exclusive distribution right for a certain period of time. Relying on this game, Sunny's Ps game console did not sell less at the beginning.

This is also Souni’s routine. It doesn’t look like an exclusive buyout, so the price is lower. In fact, many people play games just for fresh ideas, and they can’t help but buy the game at the early stage of release.

Later, when it came to the second game, Capcom also saw through Suony's routine, so they shortened the exclusive release period, and because Sega Bandai's Uranus was released first, So Suuni was actually released by the second company. This game can also be played on the follow-up Nintendo NGC.

Capcom took the initiative back and made more profits. It was only when they were developing the third movie that they got stuck.

Sunny developed the Ps2, and they developed it according to the Ps1 platform, so the game performance has declined. As a result, the word-of-mouth of the game has declined, but fortunately their PC version sold well.

At this time, the industry's number one game console manufacturer wanted to buy their series of games, and Capcom also offered a high price. They know that Zhiduxing is competing with several other game console manufacturers, and their Resident Evil series of games have many loyal game fans.

So Capcom is waiting for the price, thinking that Zhiduoxing will either agree to their conditions, or companies such as Sunny will increase their conditions.

In fact, their fourth game is already under development, and it is based on the Ps2 platform, so they have to pay a lot of research and development costs to change the platform.

It's just that their asking price is too high, and Matsutajiri has calculated that it will definitely lose money. Unless the follow-up game can sell well, they have to be given exclusive distribution rights.

Conditions are not agreed,

Matsutajiri Satoshi felt a little frustrated, and hurriedly called to report to the president, and apologized at the same time.

"It doesn't matter. Isn't it just a zombie game? It's a bit scary and makes people feel nervous when playing. The design is also average. It's not worth mentioning. The plot is good."

"Well, let's just develop a zombie game ourselves. Let them see it. If you don't sell it to us, it will be their loss!"

There are several game development teams at the Zhiduoxing headquarters, and they all have projects in their hands, while the island country also has new projects at this time, developing some new development and collection games, and some for special markets. 18 of that game.

Zhang Yang called Li Junsheng over: "Junsheng, one person will be selected from each group, and we are going to develop a new zombie game, a strategy game."

Li Junsheng thought for a while: "President, the zombie genre is now mainly shooting games, and there are also some escape games, strategy games, are these features combined?"

"No, our game is different from traditional zombie games. What we want is not horror, but cuteness."

Li Junsheng thought he heard it wrong, zombie games have become cute, so can anyone like the game? The contrast is too big, right?

"I said, write it down. First, classify the zombies. Divide them into ordinary zombies, zombies with defensive tools, zombies with special skills, etc."

"Different zombies can resist different degrees of damage. When the damage reaches a certain level, the zombies will die. Zombies can wear some protective gear, such as football protective gear, etc., and they can even have corpse kings, who can summon other zombies .”

"We designed the game as a defensive strategy game. Zombies are responsible for attacking, and players control some plants for defense."

"Wait a minute." Li Junsheng's writing pen stopped, "President, what kind of defense did you just say? Plants?"

"Yes, use plants. Some plants can launch some offensive things to hit zombies. For example, peas can spray peas to attack, watermelon vines can smash watermelons, etc."

"We use different plants to make different attack weapons. While defending, we can kill zombies at the same time. The location of defense can be set as our own home. Zombies attack from various angles, which can be the front yard or the back. A pond, could be a roof."

"It can be during the day, or at night, or even in foggy weather, etc. In China, there are legends about zombies, which are similar to zombies."

"Zombies are generally afraid of sunlight, so we collect sunlight as currency to buy plants. The more sunlight, the more types of plants we can buy, and the stronger the resistance."

"What can produce sunlight? Let's choose sunflowers, which are always sunny. But at night, you can get some mushrooms or something. Mushrooms like darkness, so let's design a sunshine mushroom."

"When a zombie enters the house, it means that the owner of the house is killed and the game fails. The number of zombie attacks is limited. When all rounds are completed, the game is over."

"Zombies will eat plants by gnawing them when they come to plants. Some products can be designed to protect plants. Plants not only provide sunlight and offense, but also can be used for defense and to block zombies' attacks."

"If you encounter some particularly powerful zombies, you can design some powerful plant weapons. For example, pumpkins that can smash zombies, cherries that can blow up zombies, or peppers that can burn zombies."

Li Junsheng's hands were shaking while recording, what did the president say. How can cherries explode? Chili will give people a hot feeling, but it will not burn.

Zhang Yang talked for nearly half an hour, discussing with Li Junsheng while talking, or answering some questions raised by Li Junsheng.

"Okay, that's all for now, let's make a simple version and let me have a look, and then consider how to upgrade and increase the difficulty."

"President, what is the name of this game? Guard the yard? Zombies surround the house?"

"No, no, the name of the game, of course it should be simple and straightforward, it's called Plants vs. Zombies!"