Chapter 648: Strategic Alliance of Empire Game!

Empire Games eats meat, and other companies follow suit.

Empire Games and other Japanese games form a business alliance.

However, companies like Nintendo and Sony, which have great development potential, do not need to be pulled into this business alliance or a camp.

Yang Ming also knows that when Japanese game companies develop to a certain point, they will definitely resist. In fact, at that time, Yang Ming knows that the global game market will be a different world.

The most important thing is that Yang Ming's advantages have always been there, and he does not believe that these game companies can still turn the world upside down.

This is based on the development strategy of Nintendo in his previous life. In the early days, Nintendo developed very well, but in the late 1990s, this alliance strategy was not feasible. Many game companies betrayed the alliance,

especially Sony's rise relying on cooperation with Nintendo, which means that it is difficult for Nintendo to become the overlord of the Japanese game industry again.

Yang Ming was thinking there, writing down what he thought of, including potential opponents such as Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Namco.

Zhong Chuhong and Guan Jiahui saw the English written by Yang Ming on the side. They basically couldn't understand it. In addition to their poor English, a big reason was that some of the English written by Yang Ming might not be understood even if they understood it, because he wrote it down in other ways.

Until late at night.

Yang Ming stretched his body.

The weather in Tokyo in February is still relatively cold.

It is around 10 degrees Celsius during the day.

It drops to around 3 degrees Celsius at night.

If there are special weather conditions, it may snow.

Zhong Chuhong and Guan Jiahui yawned on the side.

"It's late, you go to bed first."

The two women went back to rest first.

Yang Ming turned off the lights in the study.

Back to the master bedroom.

There is also heating in the master bedroom. When the heating is turned on, the temperature remains at around 26 degrees Celsius, which is still very comfortable.

. . .

Rest for a night.

Early the next morning.

When Yang Ming woke up, he looked at the time. It was 7:35 am Tokyo time.

According to the time difference, it is also 6:35 in Hong Kong.

In other words, the time difference of one hour between the two sides has little impact on Yang Ming.

After Yang Ming got up, he saw that Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong, Guan Jiahui and others had already gotten up.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Master, there is heating here, it is still very comfortable at night."

Although it is very cold outside, the room has heating, so it does not feel cold.

The two chefs in the kitchen have prepared breakfast for the young master according to Ah Zhu's request.

While Yang Ming was sitting there eating breakfast, a Japanese maid brought local newspapers.

Yang Ming noticed that the Japanese maid seemed to be young, in her twenties, and dressed decently, but she didn't dare to look at Yang Ming. However, she was a little shorter than Ah Zhu and the other two girls.

In general, the average height of young Japanese women is shorter.

"Boss, she said these are the main newspapers and periodicals in Japan, and Mr. Xu asked them to be delivered."

Among these Japanese newspapers and periodicals, Asahi Shimbun is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Japan, Mainichi Shimbun is the newspaper with the greatest political and intellectual power in Japan, Yomiuri Shimbun is the most popular business newspaper in Japan, Toyo Keizai Shimbun is the most popular economic newspaper in Japan, and Daily Telegraph is the most popular English newspaper in Japan.

These five newspapers all occupy an important position in the Japanese media industry with their unique content and style.

Mr. Xu naturally refers to Xu Qingsheng.

Yang Ming has the habit of reading newspapers.

It's just that most of these newspapers and periodicals are in Japanese, because many Japanese words are the same as Chinese characters, the pronunciation is different, but the meaning is similar.

Lin Yazhen and the other two girls were next to him, just right to serve as his translators.

When Yang Ming was having breakfast, he picked up the newspaper to read it, but he didn't see any news about his coming to Japan.

It seems that he came here in a low-key manner this time, and has not attracted too much attention for the time being.

From the newspapers and periodicals, Yang Ming noticed that a piece of news was related to the Empire Game.

The Global Game Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, and Empire Game Company jointly held the first Empire Game World Championship.

Now the first Empire Game World Championship is particularly popular in Japan.

Since last year, Japan has the largest number of players signing up for this world championship.

First, Empire Game Company's agents in Japan will hold city championships in the cities they are responsible for. After the list of winners of the city championships is released, championships will be held in Kyushu, Shikoku, and this week, Hokkaido in various regions of Japan.

As it stands now, all major regions are in full swing.

After the championships in various regions of Japan are over, the selected winners will participate in the first Empire Game Championship in Japan.

From the perspective of the current grand occasion of the competition, it is unprecedented and has a huge impact in Japan.

"Boss, the newspapers are about the meaning." Lin Yazhen said.

In addition to these reports, Yang Ming is not very interested in other news.

After Yang Ming finished breakfast, he also read many of these newspapers.

Today, Yang Ming will not go out for the time being, but stay here at the Setagaya Villa.

. . .

When Yang Ming came to Dongyang for a week.

He spent most of his time at the Setagaya Villa.

During this period, Nakanishi Akio, Lan Shaojun and others came to report to him about their investigation.

Now.

When Nakanishi Akio came over again, Yang Ming, him, and Xu Qingsheng were in the study.

"What do you think of the current Japanese gaming industry?" Yang Ming asked.

"Boss, the Japanese gaming industry is in chaos right now. Many companies see our Empire Gaming Company making money and rush to join the game. However, there are not many companies that are truly powerful now. For example, Taito Co., Ltd. has already Declined.”

During this period, Akio Nakanishi has been exploring relevant talents.

Especially in Taitung Co., Ltd., many people want to join Empire Games Company, and some even want to go directly to Xiangjiang for development.

The main reason is that the Empire Games Company in Hong Kong is really popular now, and the salary, benefits, etc. are twice those in Japan.

This was expected by Yang Ming.

"So among the Toyo game companies, who do you think will be the potential rival of Imperial Game Company in the future?"

Who are Empire Games' potential rivals?

At this time, in Xu Qingsheng's view, there was no one who could beat the Japanese gaming industry.

"Boss, I haven't noticed it yet." Xu Qingsheng said.

"Boss, if you want to talk about it, it might be Nintendo."

Sure enough, Japanese people still understand Japanese people.

Akio Nakanishi can see that in the current Japanese gaming industry, there really aren’t many players that can compete. In terms of potential, of course it’s Nintendo.

As for Sony?

Because Sony has not developed into the game industry for the time being, Akio Nakanishi cannot see it.

"Akio Nakanishi, please tell me about Nintendo."

"Boss, according to my understanding of Nintendo, Nintendo has developed the game industry very early. It has been developing both hardware and game software. However, except for the portable Game & Watch game console, other None of them worked. After the appearance of the Famicom from Imperial Games, the sales of this game console also plummeted. "

"However, Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi is very powerful. I feel that he is the same as Corgan back then. In addition, their managers Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto are also very powerful."

Historically, Gunpei Yokoi is known as the father of Game Boy. He was a key member of Nintendo in the early days and made great contributions to Nintendo's dominance. Later, due to poor decision-making, he resigned and developed Wonder Swan at BANDAI to compete with Game Boy.

Shigeru Miyamoto, a famous video game producer, director and general manager of the information development department of the world-famous game company Nintendo, and the founder of Nintendo's game culture.

Known as the "Father of Mario", he is the soul of Nintendo.

He graduated from Kanazawa City University of Arts and Crafts in 1975 and later joined Nintendo. His debut game "Donkey Kong" made a profit of US$120 million in North America.

Over the years, Shigeru Miyamoto has created one myth after another for Nintendo and the Japanese gaming industry.

Even foreign political and economic magazines selected him as one of the most influential people.

He once ranked first among the ten best game designers in the world selected by authoritative magazines.

In other words, whether it is Gunpei Yokoi or Shigeru Miyamoto, they are just like Tomohiro Nishikaku, Sanito Matsushita, and Akio Nakanishi of Taito.

In fact, these two people are even more powerful than Akio Nakanishi, Tomohiro Nishikado, and Masato Matsushita.

Historically, they have made Nintendo a success, and Nintendo has made them a success.

"Akio Nakanishi, can these two people poach Imperial Games?"

"Boss, I haven't had any contact with those two people, but I'm afraid it will be difficult."

At the beginning, if Taito Co., Ltd. had not suddenly encountered this situation, Nakanishi Akio would never have betrayed Taito and Kogan.

Xu Qingsheng smiled.

At the beginning, the boss did not believe that he could poach Akio Nakanishi and Sanato Matsushita. In fact, he succeeded in poaching them in the end.

"Boss, are you saying that you want to poach these two people?"

Xu Qingsheng is very keen on poaching talents, especially those who are favored by his boss.

"Unsurprisingly, these two people are the most important management talents of Nintendo and Hiroshi Yamauchi. They are the right-hand men of Hiroshi Yamauchi, and even the soul of Nintendo in the future. Their role is greater than that played by Akio Nakanishi and three others in Taitung. The effect is even greater.”

At this time, not only Xu Qingsheng was surprised, but Nakanishi Akio was also surprised.

"Boss, if that's the case, I want to poach Miyamoto Shigeru and Yokoi Gunpei." Xu Qingsheng said directly.

"If you can dig the best, it doesn't matter if you can't dig it out. I'm calling you here this time to prepare for the further development of the Empire Game."

Yang Ming mentions the advantages and disadvantages of appearing in Empire Games.

Except that Yang Ming himself did not bring up the advantage of understanding future games, Xu Qingsheng and Akio Nakanishi both nodded after hearing this.

"Today, there is no opponent of Empire Games yet, but a potential opponent has already appeared. It is the Nintendo mentioned by Akio Nakanishi. In this case, we cannot directly eliminate the opponent, but we can encircle the opponent. I proposed a strategic The strategy is to draw other Toyo Game companies into their own camp and form a Toyo Game Alliance. Our Imperial Game Company eats meat, and they follow suit. "

Historically, Taitung also formed its own arcade game alliance. However, it was soon replaced by the game alliance proposed by Nintendo due to the emergence of Nintendo's Famicom.

Akio Nakanishi seemed to have guessed something when he heard the boss talking about the game alliance.

He is very familiar with this. The Taidong Game Alliance was proposed and implemented by him and Matsushita Mashito. The early results were very good.

Since the emergence of Empire Game Company, the Taidong Arcade Game Alliance has been disbanded.