Chen Guoqiang always felt that it was inappropriate for Suzuki Yu to participate in the plan to destroy Sega.

"Ayuan, have you ever thought about it, if Mr. Suzuki really... leaks the secret, then the Han Dynasty will lose the guidance of a top game production master."

What Liu Zhiyuan fears most is that Suzuki Yu will leak the secret. He is not afraid that the secret will be leaked. What he is afraid of is the nature of the matter. He will not only lose Suzuki Yu, but also the most loyal development team.

With Hayao Nakayama's stubborn character, he was not afraid of being thrown in the face by Twelve Zodiac Adventures. He was 100% stubborn and continued to develop Sonic, and then he was so confident that he punched Nintendo and kicked the Han Dynasty.

Sega's ability to become second only to Nintendo from the 1980s to the early 1990s was due to the character of Hayao Nakayama.

But Sega withdrew from the first party in 2001 because of the character of Hayao Nakayama. He was too arrogant and believed in Sega too much. He was extremely confident in Sega's development technology.

When Hiroshi Yamauchi saw the second generation of Gremlins, he immediately stopped the subsequent development of gb without saying a word, even if he lost money. What about Hayao Nakayama? He insisted on releasing gg if he didn't believe it.

If the economic crisis hadn't caused Sega to panic, and Hayao Nakayama would have dared to use GG to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fight him, he wouldn't be afraid of a handheld war. He was confident that GG could occupy a certain market. Would he be afraid of Zodiac Adventures?

Sonic has gathered all the power of Sega. It can be said that this is the game that Sega attaches the most importance to and invests the most resources from top to bottom in Sega's history. Hayao Nakayama is definitely in a state of explosive self-confidence, and he is not afraid of anyone.

"Except for Suzuki Yu, we actually don't have any masters to show off. You don't have time to teach the newcomers in the Han Dynasty. They can't keep up with the development speed of the Han Dynasty by relying on self-study."

Chen Guoqiang said worriedly.

"Why don't you let Mr. Suzuki go back? Although it hurts his face a little, he should be able to understand."

Liu Zhiyuan shook his head and rejected the proposal.

"He already knows about Zodiac Adventures, and he can leak the secrets if he wants. Also, this game is just a step to disintegrate Sega. It is very important, but compared to confirming Suzuki Yu's loyalty to the Han Dynasty, it is still less important.

One chip."

No matter how you say it, Sega is second only to Nintendo. Although Han Dynasty is the most profitable game company, its overall strength is not as good as these two. The reason is very simple. There is no heavyweight home console.

Want to kill Sega with just one game? It's too easy to think. If a game could kill Sega, Sega would have died 800 times ago. Why is it still trying to do this now?

Sega's profit structure is actually the same as that of Han Dynasty. Gremlins seems to be very popular and its profits are also very good, but it depends on the comparison object.

The sales volume of hundreds of thousands of arcade machines seems to be incomparable to the sales of Elf, which can easily reach tens of millions or hundreds of millions. However, it is relatively profitable, and arcade machines can crush Elf.

Similarly, the same was true for Sega in history. Sega was actually very powerful in the home console market. Although it made some money, there was no way to compare it with the profitability of arcade machines.

Otherwise, how could Sega, which has only succeeded in one and a half consoles in more than ten years, become second only to Nintendo? Sega's 8-bit consoles SG-100 and SMS are completely money-losing products.

At that time, Nintendo accounted for about 90% of the global console market, and the remaining 10% was not owned by Sega, but shared by others. In this case, it would be a waste to make money.

But Sega still managed to survive the advent of MD. What did it rely on? Arcade machines. Without arcade machines to provide blood transfusion to the console, Sega would have been finished long ago and would not be able to complete the development of MD.

Even if MD, the most successful console in Sega's history, does not make much profit, it is not enough to support the financial needs of a world-class game company.

After that, the 32-bit console Saturn SS had a good start, but then it continued to decline. Later, faced with the encirclement and suppression of PS and N64, there was almost no sales.

But Sega still has the money to develop higher-level consoles. Where does the money come from? Arcade machines, the 128-bit console DC, which is the world's first 128-bit console.

But this console, which Sega spent its last efforts on, directly outperformed the PS2. If arcades had not declined, Sega could actually survive for a while longer.

But at the end of the 1990s, arcades were no longer twilight. It was a completely cold night. Without the blood transfusion of the arcade market, coupled with the failure of the console market, Sega directly withdrew from the first party. It can be imagined how much the arcades meant to Sega.

importance.

Arcade machines accounted for the majority of the profits of the Han Dynasty. Arcade machines accounted for 60% of the US$10 billion in assets! One unit was worth tens of thousands of dollars in profit, and 10 units was worth hundreds of thousands.

100 units is worth millions, and 100,000 units is worth billions of dollars. How many units must be sold to make so much money? No one in the world can catch up.

He said that he started targeting Sega early, not just consoles, but arcade machines. He didn't know how much Sega's assets were at this time in history, but they were definitely far more than they are now.

Because the arcade market has been monopolized by the Han Dynasty, Sega asked Capcom to develop and launch all game types that appeared on the arcade, and the prices were low.

Nowadays, the few arcade machines that Sega still has in the arcade market are all left by Yu Suzuki, including Sega Motorcycle Race, Space Harry, and Outrun.

After focusing on Sonic, he was about to start with these games. For Space Harry, he couldn't find any competitive games for the time being. The investment was too big and unnecessary. Sega couldn't handle it with just this arcade machine.

Motorcycle racing is easy to say, and the violent motorcycle arcade version can definitely squeeze its market. As for outrun, once Need for Speed ​​is put into the arcade, it will have nothing to do with it. The two are not on the same level at all, and Need for Speed ​​is an outside game.

It's an arcade machine, not a joystick control.

"This matter is settled like this, just keep an eye on it and go back."

After saying that, Liu Zhiyuan waved and left.

Chen Guoqiang looked at Liu Zhiyuan's retreating back and sighed, muttering to himself.

"I'm afraid I will also be put on your untrustworthy list."

He knew Liu Zhiyuan's temper very well. Once the news about the twelve zodiac adventures got out even a little bit, his group would be marginalized from now on. In the future, the really important business of the Han Dynasty would probably not even be seen, let alone get started.

As the leader of this group, even if he is one of the founders of the Han Dynasty, even if he and Liu Zhiyuan are close friends, the end will not be too good. The worst outcome is to be kicked out of the Han Dynasty, and the best outcome is

Let’s retire in the Han Dynasty from now on.

(ps: I strongly recommend everyone to watch the videos of Space Harry, Sega Motorcycle Racing, and uotrun. Watch the arcade, not the console. These are two completely different games. It was scary to make such a game in 1985.

Suzuki Yujin was ahead of his time, and Sega’s arcade machines deserved to be the most powerful in the 1980s.)

(Baidu search: Best Sega classic arcade games, the one at Station B,, these 3 games will definitely let you see how awesome Suzuki Yu is. In my opinion, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto is not worthy of giving Yu Suzuki shoes.
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