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

Chapter 448 LOL

It must be said that as his relationship with Futaba Koyama reached a [negative value], Toru Fuyukawa's life became more [depraved].

There is no other reason. Although the wives had a good relationship with Koyama Futaba before, they were not sisters after all, so sometimes they were still a little shy. But now it is different.

Since everyone in the family is a family, it is of course more casual to open inpar. Moreover, the pregnancy of Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuwa also brought a lot of excitement to the other wives.

Many people have watched too many movies and think that Japanese people lose their virginity at the age of 18. But this is just like many people thinking that Japan's economic bubble collapsed overnight. They have simply read some story books.

Japan's economic bubble was actually the same as that of the East India bubble. Although there were some landmark turning points, the entire bubble bursting process lasted for more than a decade.

To give a few simple examples, Japan's mortgage interest rate was close to 1990% in 9, but starting from 1991 when the "Japanese bubble burst" as people called it, it took Japan's mortgage interest rate 10 years to drop from 9% to 1%.

Moreover, although the price of Japanese real estate fell by 1990% in the twelve years from 2002 to 53, even from 1992 to 1995, when the decline was the most exaggerated, it actually only fell by about 7% each year. After 95, the annual decline was less than 2%. It was not a sudden drop or a collapse.

Similarly, Japan's unemployment rate rose from 1990% in 2, experienced the bubble burst in 1991, and then took 10 years to reach 2000% in 5.

Of course, this 5% unemployment rate is also inflated.

When Japan was doing statistics, it divided the population into [completely unemployed population] and [unstable employment population]. The latter was not included in the unemployment statistics.

[How can they be so similar? ]

I can only say that the lines in Let the Bullets Fly are simply too classic.

Of course, this is not important. It just shows that the bursting of a bubble is always just a turning point, not something like "everything changed overnight" as described in many storybooks.

Similarly, many storybooks and movies seem to portray Japanese women as having no hymens after junior high school, but it is quite normal for modern Japanese women to not be married or have children in their thirties, or even to not have been in a relationship in their forties.

Although Chika Ohara and the others were a little entangled when talking about children before, they did not focus too much on this aspect in their daily life and work. After all, if you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken, and if you marry a dog, you follow the dog. Apart from some necessary social activities, their pace of life is the same as that of Toru Fuyukawa, which is relatively simple and not very social.

However, all this changed when Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuko became pregnant.

They originally wanted a baby, and now seeing Toru Dongchuan hanging around Miyano Mitsuba and Sayoko every day, the other wives in the family are jealous and they almost always grab Toru Dongchuan to squeeze him whenever they get a chance.

In the living room and bedroom at home, in the bathroom, in the backyard, or even on the balcony late at night; in the toilet and office of the company, even when Dongchuan Che is listening to other directors’ work reports, sometimes there is one hidden under the boss’s desk.

The frequency has increased significantly!

Fortunately, because Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuko were both pregnant, it was inconvenient. Without the two generals, the wives had no pressure at all. Every day was full of sexual happiness. While he was happy, the project of the Holy Light Society was also running synchronously.

There was less than two weeks between the release of Hearthstone, Pokémon and the GO handheld console.

There is no suspense. The quality of the GO handheld and "Pokemon" is already high. Coupled with the popularity of "Hearthstone" in the early stage, these two projects can be said to have become popular all over the world as soon as they were released.

Countless offline outlets around the world have long queues. Players from Asia, Europe, and all over the world either order online or rush to offline outlets. And Dongchuan Che didn't do any hunger marketing this time.

Hunger marketing is a common tactic in the modern business world, but it is not simply because businesses want to lure customers.

Although hunger marketing is indeed better at creating momentum and can create a phenomenon of "our products are very hot-selling", which can more easily arouse players' desire to buy, on the other hand, many companies are forced to use hunger marketing.

Yes, I had no choice.

There is no other reason, it’s mainly risk control.

The production of electronic products requires assembly lines, especially electronic products such as handheld game consoles.

The graphics memory inside these machines is often customized by the manufacturer, so it is not the case that they are bought piece by piece, and a large contract must be negotiated at one time. But the problem is, if the number of orders for these things is too large, what should we do if the assembled handheld game consoles do not sell well?

How much can you get if you remove the customized chip of Switch and sell it separately?

The same reason is that in order to avoid having too many accessories in their hands, or to avoid risks, console manufacturers often do not place large orders in the early stages when they are uncertain about the future, which will lead to insufficient supply of the machines.

However, these things do not affect Dongchuan Che.

On the one hand, he doesn't need to do any hunger marketing to raise his reputation. From the time he made "Surrounded by Beauties" five years ago until now, whether it is works such as game music or platforms such as GOGO, he has never disappointed players.

On the other hand, he is always very decisive in dealing with things that he has made a decision on. He may think for a long time about whether to enter the handheld game console industry, or even spend more time to test it, but once he is sure to enter the handheld game console industry, he will go all out.

Therefore, there is no shortage of GO handhelds, but.

There’s no way around it, the GO handheld console is too popular, and “Pokemon” is also too popular.

Even if there is a constant supply, players who are eager to play "Pokemon" and get the GO handheld console as soon as possible will still run to line up at the door of offline outlets before dawn.

Especially as time goes by, as more and more players discover that the GO handheld is indeed as cost-effective as Dongchuan Che advertised, and as more and more players discover the unparalleled quality of "Pokemon", and as word of mouth gets better and better, more and more people are no longer on the sidelines, but have joined the buying army!

Like a snowball, the GO handheld game console and its flagship title "Pokemon", which were already very popular on the first day of their release, not only did their daily sales not decrease, but instead increased as word of mouth spread!

Colleagues around the world are amazed and lament that the handheld game console industry has most likely left the era of two giants competing for supremacy, and the next step is a three-way competition!

Of course, the release process of the GO handheld was not that smooth.

The day when the GO handheld game console was released was actually also the day when NICO and the Hawaii Game Alliance’s handheld game consoles were released.

Although the machines they released were not new generation machines, but just upgraded versions with features like [enhanced battery life] and [enhanced screen], they chose to release their machines on the same day as the GO handheld, with the intention of squeezing out the living space of the GO handheld.

To this end, NICO and Juyin also bought some soft articles from various news media and internet celebrities.

This is actually normal.

Information in modern society flows at a very fast speed, and everyone receives much more information than previous generations, but even so, modern people are still in an information cocoon. This leads to the situation that whoever has the right to speak can create a god.

The simplest example is European and American game awards such as TGA and IGN.

To put it bluntly, 99% of the players don’t know which organizations make up these awards, and what criteria are used when these awards are selected. 99% of the players know nothing about these awards.

But when all the information around you tells you that this is the [Oscars of the gaming industry] and the [most authoritative gaming award in the world], most people will think so.

It may sound like ordinary people are being treated as fools, but that's the truth.

Let’s use a hypothetical example.

如果有个人，从婴儿时期开始，周边的一切人或事都告诉他1+1=3。那么最后这个人就是会觉得1+1=3。

The essence of this is that ordinary people simply cannot access first-hand information. At the same time, their knowledge reserves are not enough to distinguish between what is true and what is false.

In other words, the knowledge reserves of ordinary people are not enough to support them in pursuing the truth of the world, nor are they enough to allow them to push this logic to its root.

人人都知道1+1=2，但1+1为什么等于2，有几个普通人能答上来？

If the derivation process cannot be restored, how can we prove its authenticity?

Ordinary people know that 1+1=2 because teachers and scientists say so, but what if the teachers and scientists are wrong, or to be more sinister, what if the teachers and scientists are lying?

In the final analysis, everything ordinary people know is told by others. And this leads to the fact that whoever has the right to speak can create a god.

Of course, except for a few regions in modern society, no one party has the final say. If you listen to more opinions, you can gradually tell which party is right.

Games are not that important.

When most ordinary players hear that TGA and IGN are famous, they will subconsciously think that they are indeed famous and authoritative, but they will not dwell on specific issues such as [why are they so authoritative], [what is their voting mechanism], [where do their interests come from], and [whether it will affect fairness].

These questions can be found by searching online, but games are not that important. Players watch them for fun and don’t care about whether the game ceremony is fair, authoritative, or whether the game promotion video was paid for. This gives a huge space for manipulation.

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Although it is said that public opinion cannot package shit as gold, otherwise the feudal dynasty with strict public opinion control would not last more than 2077 years, and the previous "" would not have exploded in reputation after its release. But as long as it can occupy the ears of players, public opinion can still package a work with a score of or to more than .

At the beginning, due to the massive promotion of Juyin and NICO, many players were still hesitant among the three handheld game consoles, and some even gave up buying the GO handheld game console because the NICO and Juyin Sugi handheld game consoles were older and more famous. But as the GO handheld game console gained popularity, the new handheld game consoles from Juyin and NICO were soon submerged in the tide.

But it's okay.

Although Juyin and NICO both wished that Shengguang Club would go bankrupt today, they were not fools. The prestige that Dongchuan Che had built up over the past five years had already made them wary enough, and they themselves did not really believe that their machines, which were not new versions but just upgraded versions of the old ones, could outperform the GO handheld. Therefore, the soft articles they bought did not do anything to "praise one and criticize the other", but just to strongly praise their own machines.

It must be said that this move by Juyin and NICO is very smart.

Because of the huge amount of publicity and promotion funds invested by the two companies, the public opinion on the morning of the GO handheld game console’s release was indeed not completely focused on the GO handheld game console, and discussions were held on all three handheld game consoles. But before the afternoon came, there was only one voice in the market: the GO handheld game console is really awesome.

The GO handheld game console and "Pokemon" became completely popular, but what's interesting is.

Amidst this huge wave, a dark horse emerged within the Holy Light Society - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The project of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was launched three years ago, and the head of the studio was Yokotani, who previously worked at Shengguangshe. At that time, Yokotani went to Kamakura to discuss with Fuyukawa Tetsu, and then got an investment of more than one million US dollars.

To be honest, Dongchuan Che really likes playing farming strategy games like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Civilization", but the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series.

It is a typical example of a product with a big reputation but low sales.

The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series is very well-known in the domestic gaming circle, but the total sales of the 14 works in this series are only million copies.

Yes, total sales are just under 900 million.

The best-selling one is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 4", with 66 copies

It's very counterintuitive, right? But it's true.

Although Japan always likes to create works with Chinese elements, in fact, except for Japan and South Korea, users in other places are not that interested in Chinese elements.

The Monkey King is very well-known in China, Japan and South Korea, but after the Black Monkey came out, few people abroad can recognize Sun Wukong.

Of course, this does not mean that Chinese elements are not attractive, but that they are not promoted.

If it weren't for the Aesop's fables, the Grimm's fairy tales, the Greek mythology story books, the games like the "God of War series", or the cartoons like "Hercules", how many people in China know the relationship between Zeus, Poseidon and the gods of war?

One reason.

Black Myth: Wukong made many foreign audiences know about Sun Wukong, but Black Myth: Wukong was able to do this mainly because of its high quality. It is not a 100% masterpiece, but it is definitely an 85% masterpiece. And there is no doubt that with the popularity of Black Myth: Wukong, foreign players will definitely be more willing to try Chinese immortal-themed works in the future. But Three Kingdoms is different.

The Three Kingdoms is extremely well-known in China, Japan and South Korea, but it is not well-known at all in Europe and the United States, which is the world's largest stand-alone game market.

Therefore, although Dongchuan Che liked playing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" very much, he didn't pay much attention to it after he invested in Yokogaya. In his original imagination, Yokogaya, a native without cheats, would probably need to make several "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" works to get the hang of it and make the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series have a certain influence.

At that time, he would increase his investment and give careful guidance. But what he never expected was that Yokogami was really a talent. He just followed his [Total War: Three Kingdoms] PPT guidance of several thousand words and actually did a good job!

Yes, Total War: Three Kingdoms.

This PPT guide is a [strategy] given by Toru Fuyukawa after integrating Koei's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and CA's "Total War" series.

However, it is called a guide because he didn't pay much attention to it at the time, so the instructions he gave were very vague. It was mainly based on his own imagination, combining the characteristics of the two games, but the content was particularly vague.

In his opinion, this is just to give Yokotani a direction. It is estimated that Yokotani will have to fail on several works before he can slowly find the way, but Yokotani's talent is far beyond his imagination!

In one week, sales exceeded 1.3 million!

The sales of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1" exceeded million in just one week.

Although this number is a drop in the bucket compared to his work, for a new IP from a new studio, this sales volume is already very good! And more importantly, the company's game department can finally generate its own revenue!

The production cycle of the game is very long, and the success rate is very, very low. Although there have been executives who have left their original positions and set up studios under the company in recent years, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also the first game that he did not personally lead, and he made a lot of money!

Everything is on track!

Dongchuan Che was very happy. Not only did he praise Yokogami at the celebration banquet, he also gave him a very generous bonus! In addition to their original salary and performance, all members of the Yokogami Studio were rewarded with 200,000 US dollars! And there is no doubt that such a generous reward has also begun to make more cadres of the Holy Light Society eager to set up their own studios!

However, things are not that easy.

If the managers simply want to go solo, then they only need to pay the liquidated damages in the non-compete agreement. But if these managers do not want to go solo, but want to do as Yokogani Studio does, to pay part of the money themselves and then seek investment from the company, then their game plans will be strictly reviewed, with different investment amounts and different approval levels, and the highest level may even be directly reviewed by Fuyukawa Che.

Super high rewards come with extremely high entry barriers.

There is no doubt that this has further increased the enthusiasm of the Holy Light Society staff to work hard and study hard!

The atmosphere in the company was positive, but a few days later, when the sales of "Pokemon" exceeded 25 million, causing an uproar in the outside world, another more important news came from within the Holy Light Society - Toru Fuyukawa's new work "League of Legends" will be released in the first half of next year!