Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 25 Dragon Quest
Chapter 25 Dragon Quest
The next day, Airi Hayazawa woke up in a daze.
Stepping out of the bedroom, she once again saw Zhu Youxing sitting on a chair in the living room, operating a computer, seemingly doing some work.
“Boss, yawn, when did you get up?”
“Me? A little earlier than you.”
Zhu Youxing answered indifferently.
In fact, he didn't sleep all night.
But my energy is surprisingly good and I don’t have any major problems.
In this case, Zhu Youxing didn’t want to give up this good opportunity, so he started writing the prototype of the next game at night.
As for what the next game will be, Zhu Youxing has already made plans in his heart very early.
There are about forty or fifty classic games in the Famicom. Apart from these classic games, the sales of other games can only be said to be average.
Of course, any game that sells more than 100,000 copies on the NES basically makes a profit.
However, since Zhuyouxing intends to squeeze out the value of the entire red and white console from the beginning, then there is no need to consider those with sales of less than one million for the time being. At most, it will be supplemented by the way, such as backgammon and chess. This kind of thing.
The second game Zhuyusei plans to produce is Dragon Quest.
Thanks to his rich experience playing Overlord with his father when he was young, he has played almost all the most classic games of the Famicom.
This makes him still remember many classic games of the Famicom no matter how many years have passed.
Dragon Quest is one of them.
In his memory, Dragon Quest was also a super hit IP that became popular throughout Japan.
In the world of my previous life, it once became a phenomenon-level game.
The first generation of Dragon Quest allowed players to truly realize that the game could still be played in this way, and that they could really play a brave man to fight evil demons.
Then it became popular throughout Japan in the second generation.
The third generation of Dragon Quest was sold out on the day of release and became an indelible memory in Japanese history.
Now, Zhu Yuxing plans to make Dragon Quest 1 first as an appetizer.
Super Mario was launched, Dragon Quest was sold as an extra, and then a few games that were relatively simple and could also be sold at a cheaper price were supplemented by other games.
If a game console only has one or two launch games before it is officially released, it would be too shabby.
Hayazawa Airi walked downstairs with a clatter, then curiously leaned behind Takeyusei and looked at the contents in front of Takeyusei's computer.
Writing a program is really not beautiful until it is completely completed. A layman may even feel confused for a while.
So Airi Hayasawa gave up after just a brief glance, and went to wash up and start the day's work.
“Zhuyu-san, what are we doing today? Will we continue to recruit employees?”
“Today, you continue to be a small supervisor, and I will be responsible for employee recruitment.” Zhu Youxing said while saving the computer data and shutting down.
The production of Dragon Quest is now halfway through.
Since he already had the production direction in his mind, the overall production speed did not take too long. He even did the dubbing himself. Anyway, it was all electronic synthesized sounds plus some simple rhythms to compose the music. good.
People in this era do not have a particularly intuitive concept of music in video games, so the requirements are not too strict, and they can barely solve the music problem by themselves based on memory.
It’s just that I’m not very good at painting, so I’ll have to find a professional to do it at that time.
The former official painter of Dragon Quest was Akira Toriyama. Even in the past more than 20 years, nothing has changed. The painting style of Dragon Quest has also become its iconic element.
However, with the little money Zhu Youxing has on hand now, it seems that it will not be easy to find such a well-known painter.
Hey wait a minute...
Zhu Youxing suddenly remembered something.
It seems that I can really find such a royal painter.
Half an hour later, the two set off for the office building again.
After a day's recruitment work yesterday, the initial number of employees responsible for assembling game consoles has reached about 20 people.
His plan is to bring in about fifty employees first.
If the speed is fast enough, one employee can assemble more than 20 units a day, and fifty people can assemble nearly a thousand units a day.
That’s 30,000 per month.
It’s just that Zhu Youxing couldn’t be satisfied with this at all.
He has to find a way to expand the production line process even more, either by finding a real assembly factory or by building one himself.
However, dealing with the early stage is not a big problem.
Today's recruitment and decoration work went quite smoothly. Throughout the day, Zhuyouxing recruited more than 20 employees responsible for assembly, and the decoration progress was basically completed. The rest is to do it again tomorrow. After acceptance, everything can basically be settled.
At the same time, Hirohito Chida also sent a message telling him that the price of 650 yen can be finalized, and Takeyusei only needs to pay a 5% deposit in advance.
Originally, according to the company's rules, at least 10% must be paid first.
However, after some lobbying by Hirohito Chida, the company's boss finally agreed to a 5% deposit.
Because this is a very rare order, if Zhuyouxing does not show enough sincerity, Zhuyouxing may find a new company at any time.
After confirming the deposit, the factory immediately started the production process. All processes were simplified, because Zhu Youxing specifically requested that he have a batch of goods that need to be released early, and the factory also had to rush.
Fortunately, the circuit board itself is not complicated and only requires simple factory briefing before you can get started.
ˆ Zhuyusing also contacted the factory for the plastic casing, and the final price was maintained at a cost of only 400 yen for a set of game console casing and accessories.
In this way, the motherboard of the game console is 650 yen, plus the casing of 400 yen, and then an additional cost of about 700 yen for labor and rent, etc., the cost price is from the two I imagined in advance. The price of 1,500 yen has been reduced to 1,750 yen.
For this cost price, Zhuyouxing still feels that there is room for compression, but it is still acceptable now.
And there are only three or four days left before the delivery date agreed upon with Daejeon, which can be said to be just right.
Sold out ten game consoles, it would be two million yen, and then waited for another ten days to give his first partner Ohta Masaru ample opportunity to make money, and then he would officially start selling the second batch of game consoles.
So far, everything is still within Zhuyouxing’s plan.
(End of this chapter)