Tokyo Video Game Tycoon: Chapter 342 caught off guard

Chapter 342: Caught off guard

Matsuhashi Minoru is not a person who is good at playing games.

 She is almost always filled with work and is a well-known strong woman in the industry.

 There are some areas where she works harder than men, and it is precisely because of this that she has always been respected by her peers in the gaming industry.

Aiden doesn’t think much of technology leaders like Takeyusei, but he appreciates Minoru Matsuhashi very much. He often looks for opportunities to contact Minoru Matsuhashi and promises super high returns and shares, hoping that the other party will come to Surui Electronics.

If you have such a powerful fighter at your disposal, Surui Electronics will definitely develop faster.

It’s a pity that Matsuhashi Minoru didn’t respond to him at all.

It's normal to think about it. She is the person in charge of North America in Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. When she comes to her side, she can only be inferior to others. In addition, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has high potential and the money she earns is definitely not less than that of Surui Electronics. She has no Reason to come.

However, even if Matsuhashi Minoru is not good at playing games, when she stood on the podium at the press conference, holding a brand new controller, she started playing very smoothly.

The demo content this time is a tennis game.

The game overall seems to be a bit lacking.

However, through the capture of the motion sensing camera, the approximate position of the handle remote control and the player can be accurately captured.

People looked at this new form of game expression with a little surprise.

 Previously, Youxing Electronic Entertainment only explained the general direction of somatosensory games.

 But without the leakage of actual machine demonstrations, no one knows what a real motion-sensing game will look like.

 But now they know.

Through the motion-sensing camera and special remote control, players can already use the game to exercise, just like really playing tennis at home.

 In addition to tennis, there are also somatosensory games such as golf and baseball.

　　It seems that sports games have suddenly opened up a whole new world because of somatosensory effects.

 The reporters in the audience were naturally very happy.

 Because this is a brand new technology, their news mission can be completed today.

 As for some colleagues who came here, they quickly came up with ideas about somatosensory in their minds.

Several companies that own game consoles, such as Hongguo, Lierda, and Suri Electronics, are all studying the feasibility of somatosensory games.

 “Luke, can this somatosensory game be implemented on our game console?”

 A manager of Hongguo Company immediately asked an engineer who came with him.

 They also had their own promotional products today, but after hearing about the news from Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they immediately brought an engineer over to get information.

 After seeing the actual play scene of the somatosensory game, almost no one will doubt the fun of this thing.

 Sports and adventure may be some innate instincts of human beings.

Video games became popular in the first place because of the charming adventures in them.

Whether you are a brave man, a soldier, or a plumber who saves the princess, it is a form of adventure.

This fully explores the adventurous gene in human instinct.

ˆVideo games are already successful products simply by satisfying people’s need for adventure.

 Now, this product has a new development direction, somatosensory games.

Regarding the inquiry from his company's boss, Luke thought quickly for a moment using his knowledge as an engineer, and then said uncertainly: "It is indeed possible, but the cost will be very high. If it were me, I would consider directly creating another one." A new game console, rather than adding this feature to the original game console.”

This boss doesn’t understand the technical thing, but Luke said so as an engineer, which means that it is almost impossible to add this function to current game consoles.

His face is somewhat ugly.

 The game console developed by their Hongguo Company has been sold for more than a year.

 But more than a year is simply not enough time to recover the capital.

Now if he is asked to talk to the senior management about developing a new game console, isn't he waiting to be severely scolded?

 Obviously, they will miss this rare opportunity.

But he was still a little unwilling to say: "What if we forcibly implement the somatosensory function on our current game consoles?"

Luke said: "Then we have to create a new peripheral core hardware and adapt and adjust it to the current game console chips, so unpredictable vulnerabilities may occur. In this case of constant exploration, We may spend a lot more time than we think, and it's not necessarily more cost-effective than developing a new game console."

Luke has said it very bluntly, but if his boss really wants to do it, he can do it, and he will not be the loser anyway.

 So far, purely technical engineers like them have not received much attention. In fact, he has no sense of belonging to Hongguo Company for a long time.

 He still misses the time when Myron Keys was still around.

At that time, Myron Keyes at least respected technical talents like them. Even though the salary was not high at the time, it still made them willing to work.

 But after the new leadership came up, their good days came to an end.

 The company has fully shifted to commercial marketing, and is even more economical on the product itself.

They engineers have been complaining for a long time, but to no avail.

Now he is just lying down, whatever his boss does, he just takes the money and does the work.

 Other than Hongguo Company, Lierda is almost the same.

However, Lierda's own new machine has been sold for two or three years, and it is almost time to develop a new game console. It is just right to add the somatosensory function at this time.

 But if we really want to mass-produce somatosensory products, we may have to wait another year or two.

  Comparatively, Surui Electronics has the most advantage.

Suri Electronics has always had an advantage in the development of new technologies. In addition, their PN2 game console has been sold for several years and is also in a replacement period.

 If we speed up the pace, it may even be possible to catch up with the pace of Upstream Electronic Entertainment and not be left too far behind.

Hayakawa Ueto decided to invest new funds in somatosensory research and development almost without thinking.

As Suri Electronics has gradually gained a certain audience in the gaming market, the restrictions he faces at the company headquarters have gradually been reduced, the funds at his disposal are slowly increasing, and his right to speak has become stronger.

  At the end of the demonstration, a somatosensory experience area has been set up on the test site, waiting for players to truly experience the new somatosensory form.

At the same time, in addition to the new somatosensory technology, there is another thing that attracts a lot of attention in the game experience area, and that is the follow-up demonstration content of the new Final Fantasy 7.

 (End of this chapter)