Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

The president’s office in the afternoon.

The air conditioner was blowing quietly, and Dongchuan Che, covered with an air-conditioning blanket, was sleeping quietly on the flat boss chair. Next to him, Ohara Chika, wearing a white dress, was sitting on a smaller boss chair, and her big peach pressed the leather cushion to release a breath of hot air.

The leather boss chair was sticky and hot and a little uncomfortable. She twisted her hips a little, then chewed her sushi bento, her cheeks slightly puffed up like a hamster, while she tapped on the keyboard with her fingers.

It was normal typing, but her big eyes, which were always calm and elegant, were full of excitement behind her gold-rimmed glasses.

She has been majoring in finance since college. Although she is really interested in the financial industry, it is like eating too much delicious food, you will get tired of it. As her working hours become longer and longer, her interest in financial work is gradually decreasing. She has begun to like novels and games more, which can bring more fantasy space. It can even be said that Ohara Nanako's love of writing is also influenced by her.

"This book is a thoroughly enjoyable read. I didn't expect this guy to like this style of story. He's really like a little kid."

As her little tongue rolled away the caviar at the corner of her mouth, Chika Ohara complained in her heart. But although she complained, her eyes were more of a smile. Strictly speaking, "Sword Art Online" is a typical online cool novel, without much depth, and even a bit of a nerd-friendly novel, but there's nothing wrong with that.

In her opinion, for most ordinary people, including herself, the greatest meaning of reading is to feel happy and relaxed from storybooks. She silently complained, just thinking that this kind of middle school story that is more suitable for teenagers is written by Dongchuan Che, which feels a bit weird.

"Starburst Air Stream Slash, tsk, it turns out that a man is a boy until he dies."

Ohara Chika was secretly complaining about the name of the move which was extremely childish, but her slender fingers were typing faster on the keyboard.

It was obvious that although she was mumbling in her heart, she was very happy typing at the moment.

While eating sushi and listening to Dongchuan Che's light snoring, she sat cross-legged in the boss's chair like a stay-at-home girl, looking at the outline and details made by Dongchuan Che, and then kept typing.

In this quiet time, time slipped away bit by bit. It was not until the sun shone through the French windows and the number of office workers coming out for lunch downstairs gradually decreased that Chika Ohara finally came out of her typing.

"Phew - time flies by so fast. I don't know if what I wrote is good enough."

Stretching lazily, Chika Ohara took a sip of the wolfberry tea from Toru Dongchuan on the table. She was not a writer, but because she was very interested in novels, she had written some short stories for columns. She thought her writing was not bad, but she didn't know if the structure and rhythm would satisfy Toru Dongchuan.

but

"It doesn't matter. If he doesn't like it, I'll just watch it myself, hehe."

I’ve been writing the novel for a long time and I’m so satisfied, Ohara Chika thought proudly while pressing Ctrl+Alt+Z to bring up the LINE window on the screen.

She was about to send the written document to her mobile phone, but soon after the window of the LINE social software popped up, as she typed her name in the search bar, her avatar and group appeared in front of her, she was stunned when looking at the laptop screen.

"Really? You're so grown up and you still want to make special groups and special notes. You're so childish."

Looking at the sweet love note added after her nickname, and then looking at the small group of "Loving Family" with only a few people, Ohara Chika smiled and wrinkled her nose, but her eyes were full of sweetness. At this moment, a pair of big hands rested on her shoulders.

"Hey~ Do you know that it is very rude to look through someone else's computer while they are sleeping?"

Dongchuan Che, who had just had a good sleep, was still a little dazed. He pinched Ohara Chika's shoulders and teased her with a smile. But men are usually the most thirsty when they just wake up. So, before he finished speaking, the big hand that was pinching her shoulders gradually slid down.

Big snow pomelo and fleshy dragon claw hands.

It should be said that because the air conditioner was turned on in the room, Ohara Chika's skin was very dry and felt very good. However, before Dongchuan Che could do anything, Ohara Chika slapped his big hands twice with a red face.

She wanted to pull Dong Chuan Che's hand away, but at this moment, she blushed again when she thought of the intimate note she had just seen. For some reason, she did not pull Dong Chuan Che's hand away, but just raised her head and glared at him unhappily.

"Hiss, stop messing around, it's time to go to work."

"What are you afraid of? At this time, you are the only ones who can come to me directly."

Just a slight slap, not stopping.

Dongchuan Che became more excited, and his big hands continued to change, causing the white summer dress to print out five rhythmic fingers, and Ohara Chika's elegant face became redder and redder, but in this blush, there was shyness, nervousness, and enjoyment.

She liked this kind of intimate interaction, and even subconsciously rubbed her little face against Dongchuan Che's forearm, like a kitten.

It was a very intimate action, and since they had just woken up, Dongchuan Che's eyes gradually began to sparkle. But at this moment, the phone on the table rang.

"This call came at a really bad time."

Dongchuan Che rolled his eyes in displeasure at being interrupted. However, when he saw the name on the call reminder, he didn't say anything more, but just put his hands around Ohara Chika's slender waist, hugged her plump body into his arms amid her exclamations, and then sat down on the big boss chair.

The combined weight of the two people was not light, and the leather boss chair made an air sound.

Xiao Dongchuan talked back.

"You big pervert."

Especially since it was the first time for such close contact, Ohara Chika's face was red as blood. However, when she saw Dongchuan Che's funny expression that said "I have an important call to take, don't mess around", she smiled helplessly and rolled her eyes.

She reached out and pinched Dongchuan Che's cheek, but did not escape from his arms.

Dongchuan Che actually didn't expect that she would be so proactive!

However, this feeling of being clamped and twisting slightly is really good. Dongchuan Che let out a comfortable sigh, then kissed her cheek again, and then answered the phone, "Mr. Kuriyama, why are you calling me at this time? Huh? You want to set up a joint booth at the TGS Winter Show? And NICO and Kondo Ryūmenomiya are going to participate?"

Having said this, Dong Chuan Che's still sleepy eyes suddenly woke up.

The person on the other end of the line was SATE's managing director Kuriyama.

When he received the call, Toru Fukawa didn't take it seriously, thinking that there was a problem with the offline physical channel cooperation. But after hearing what Executive Managing Director Kuriyama said, he almost sat up straight!

Executive Managing Director Kuriyama didn't say much, mainly hoping that SATE and Seikansha could set up a joint booth at TGS, the winter show of the Tokyo Game Show.

The two parties are now in the honeymoon period of cooperation, so it is normal to have such behavior, but what Executive Managing Director Kuriyama said afterwards is very meaningful!

Not only SATE will be participating in the Tokyo Game Festival Winter Show this time, but NICO and Kondo Suzumune will also be participating. The three giants of the Japanese gaming industry are all here!

This is very unusual.

Although the Tokyo Game Festival is one of the three major international game exhibitions, the most prestigious internationally is the Cologne Games Fair in Germany. In comparison, the Tokyo Game Festival has somewhat declined.

Tokyo Game Festival is held twice a year.

The summer exhibition is for global game companies, and the winter exhibition is for Japanese game companies. Two years ago, Toru Fuyukawa also participated in the Tokyo Game Festival's winter exhibition. At that time, Himawari Izumi was still in a girl group, and the two even had a snowball fight on the street.

Obviously, the Tokyo Game Festival Summer Show is bigger than the latter, but even the Summer Show is not as attractive to the giants of the gaming industry now.

When Sekiro made a promotional video at the Summer Expo last year, its main competitors were only companies of the same level as NTsoft.

The reason is nothing more than traffic.

The fundamental reason why all game exhibitions and game summits, including the Oscars of the gaming industry such as TGA, can attract game manufacturers to participate is because these exhibitions have huge exposure.

This is exactly the exposure that game manufacturers want, but now is the era of self-media.

For small and medium-sized manufacturers, these exhibitions can indeed raise the popularity of their works by one or even several levels, but for companies of the level of SATE and NICO, the significance is not that great. The influence of their own game conferences is already great enough.

Therefore, the desire of top manufacturers to participate in exhibitions has been declining in recent years, the most typical example is the collapse of E3 in the United States. But at this time, the three Japanese giants are going to appear together at the Tokyo Game Show, and it is a smaller winter show.

Thinking of this, Dongchuan Che frowned slightly.

Seeing the thoughtful look in his eyes, Chika Oohara, who was nestled in his arms, lit a cigarette for him, then twisted her big peach and said, "Do they feel the pressure?"

"Well, it should be. However, this may also be an opportunity for us."

Exhaling a puff of green smoke, Dongchuan Che raised his head and looked at the ceiling. In his opinion, there was only one reason why the three giants gathered at the Tokyo Game Show Winter Exhibition, and that was that Japanese games were now on the decline.

Japanese games used to be very popular, but every era has its protagonists. With the rise of PC games, Japanese games that mainly focus on handheld and console games are now beginning to decline.

The vast majority of Japanese manufacturers cannot compete with European and American manufacturers in terms of technology. In addition, the style of Japanese games is very unique, but the scale of the Japanese game market is not too exaggerated. Therefore, the market competitiveness of Japanese 3A masterpieces is also declining.

This is a problem because the gaming industry provides a lot of job opportunities.

Whether it's the fact that the music industry is still maintaining the CD industry chain despite being [de-profitable], or that the Japanese people's temperament is not that open, but color movies are world-famous, it's easy to judge that the top priority of Japan's top leaders is to maintain social stability.

For Japan's top leaders, color movies are not used to make money, but to relieve stress for young people. After all, being a otaku is better than being a mobster, and masturbating at home is better than going out on the street and shooting a musket.

But the key to maintaining stability is still employment, and whether it is SATE, NICO or Kondo Suzumiya Yume, there are chaebols behind them.

It is obvious that the gathering of the three giants at the Tokyo Game Festival Winter Exhibition is likely to be carrying out a [political mission].

Dongchuan Che was thinking a lot in his mind, and Ohara Chika could probably guess what he was thinking.

Drinking wolfberry tea, Chika Ohara pondered: "Mobile games can't make money, and stand-alone games are also difficult to make money. Under the premise of not seeing profits, those game manufacturers may not necessarily return to the track of stand-alone games. It is better to roll up their doors and leave than to lose money. So this time SATE and others participated in this exhibition together. Either they raised the unit price of Japanese games to increase profits, or they reduced the channel commission and gave profits to manufacturers. I think it is more likely to be the former."

The Big Three are the largest distributors in the Japanese gaming industry. Reducing the percentage of their commission is tantamount to letting them bleed themselves. If this could be done easily, there would be no dynasty changes in this world.

At this Tokyo Game Show Winter, it is very likely that the Big Three will take the lead in raising the prices of Japanese games. However, this price increase is mainly to take care of some manufacturers who follow a niche track, have a specific audience, but do not sell in high volumes.

For those manufacturers whose works are of good quality and who hope to achieve a balance between price and sales, this price increase is actually a bad thing. After all, most players are still quite sensitive to price changes.

Of course, none of this is the point!

The key is that the Japanese top leaders have released a signal that they want to support the gaming industry, and what Dongchuan Che will do next is to build a PC gaming platform!

Thinking of this, Dongchuan Che's eyes gradually became excited.

He took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Now Japan's consoles, handhelds and offline channels are all occupied, but they can't beat OTTO on the PC side. If I can show potential in this market, I may get policy support!"

Policy support!

This is extremely exaggerated. Without saying too much, just slightly reducing his tax rate would be enough to make him happy.

The taxation in Japan is very heavy. First, there is the corporate tax (enterprise income tax) of 20%-30%, then there is the local tax of 10%, the consumption tax of 10%, and so on. The total tax burden can reach nearly 50%. Even some super large enterprises can exceed 50%!

When the famous cartoonist Yoshihiro Togashi was urged to update his works, he always said, "It's because the tax burden is too high, so I have no motivation to draw hunters. I might as well go out and play mahjong."

If he could take this opportunity to get preferential policy support, it would definitely greatly reduce his cost! Moreover, whether there is this preferential policy or not, he will develop the PC platform.

Chika Ohara also understood this.

Feeling Dongchuan Che's excitement, feeling Xiao Dongchuan's excitement, she shyly twisted her big peach slightly, then smiled and said: "Don't get too excited. This is not only visible to us, but also to others. The competition will only become more and more intense in the future. -- Be gentle."

Before he could finish his words, Daxueyou was caught by the dragon claw hand.

Feeling her coquettish look, Dongchuan Che smiled and said, "Don't worry, the so-called competition is just to see whose platform can attract more players. It just so happens that we are going to make promotional videos for Elden Ring and FGO at the TGS Winter Show this time. I hope there will be more competitors so that we can set a higher stage."

"You are always so confident."

Twisting her body and changing to a more comfortable position for Fuyukawa Tetsu to pinch her, Ohara Chika smiled and shook her head. At this moment, her cell phone rang.

LINE messages.

When she clicked on it, her eyebrows slightly raised, and then she held the phone in front of Dongchuan Che and said with a smile: "Don't you want an opponent? The opponent is already here."

"kindness?"

Dongchuan Che looked down, and when he saw this, his eyebrows raised.

There was no other reason. The conversation on the screen with the female secretary had a line of small words on it: [Boss! NTsoft announced a comprehensive upgrade of their PC gaming platform! They said that the platform's commission rate was reduced to 12%, and the engine commission rate was reduced to 3%. In addition, Asai had just held a press conference and announced that starting from the beginning of next year, all players who purchased games on the NTsoft gaming platform would enjoy a 20% rebate.]

"NTsoft? Asai?"