During the farewell ceremony, Hayakawa Ueto and Takeyusei talked for a long time.
Even Hayakawa Ueto himself never thought that he would chat with Takeyusei for a long time.
The main content of the conversation was related to video games. He remembered the suggestion made by one of his subordinates to increase game development manpower and try to develop more standard industrial games.
Originally, he was quite hesitant. Even though he had played Assassin's Creed and marveled at the game's completion and production cycle, he was still not sure whether this development model would work.
Obviously Zhuyouxing would be a good person to consult.
In this regard, Zhuyouxing did not hide any secrets, and simply explained all the characteristics of industrial development very clearly.
Because industrial game development requires a large enough scale.
He alone cannot sustain it.
Originally, there were only seven or eight companies with over 10,000 employees in the world that could barely support the entire game industry.
There must be enough people.
Seeing Hayakawa Ueto's confused and eager look, Takeyusei seemed to have guessed something.
If a large company is not in the stage of crazy expansion, it will not be easy to recruit people on a large scale.
I don’t know how many companies are eager to reduce their employees, and Surui Electronics is probably in this situation.
I'm afraid Hayakawa's implantation is also under a lot of pressure.
But Bamboo Youxing was helpless. This was a matter for their own family.
But suddenly Zhu Youxing thought of a way.
"Hayakawa, if you have a headache because of recruiting employees, I have a compromise. Just go and acquire the studio directly. They have mature game development experience. If you acquire a few more people, you can add up the number of people."
Isn’t it?”
"Acquiring studios? This is one way, but I'm afraid there are not many studios that meet the standards. Even if there are, they may be from all over the world."
"Do you want nearly a thousand employees to work together?" Zhu Youxing asked.
Hayakawa Ueto nodded and said: "Of course, to develop a game, do we need people from all over the world to develop it together?"
"Why not?" Zhu Youxing asked.
Hayakawa Ueto was stunned.
"To put it bluntly, video games are just a bunch of data composed of 0s and 1s. These data are not like the products of the physical industry. If they are not gathered together, there will be huge logistics costs. But digital products do not need to consider those. Why can't they be distributed around the world?
employees to develop games together?”
Hayakawa Ueto stood there blankly, feeling as if a new world had been opened to him.
He really had never thought about developing games all over the world before.
Mainly because few companies in the world have done this yet.
Youxing Electronic Entertainment still has most of its teams working together to develop games.
But actually this is not necessary.
It's just that Zhuyouxing has not acquired studios on a large scale, and its recruitment of employees was initially concentrated in the United States and Japan, but in the future it will inevitably embark on the path of developing games together with studios in multiple places.
Hayakawa Ueto is currently restricted by other senior management of the company, and it is not that easy to expand his staff, but acquiring a studio, a curved way to save the country, is much more logical.
"Zhuyou, if we adopt this multi-studio model, is it possible to develop a game like Assassin's Creed?"
Zhu Youxing said: "It's not that it's possible, but it can definitely be developed. The game itself is not difficult to develop."
Is it really not high?
Hayakawa Ueto had serious doubts.
I'm afraid that this low level is only true of Zhu Yuxing himself. If other people want to develop such a game, it will definitely not be so easy.
But this should at least make the development of current games much easier.
Hayakawa Ueto took a deep breath and gradually calmed down: "Takeyu, thank you very much for your suggestion. Without you, I might have more detours to take."
Zhu Youxing waved his hands and said: "I'm just saying this by the way, and now we should be considered an alliance of some kind, because we have a common enemy, don't we?"
"Common enemy?"
Hayakawa Ueto was confused for two seconds, and then he immediately reacted, nodded slightly and said, "Yes, we do have a common enemy."
Myron Keys attempts to erode the soil of video games with other forms of entertainment.
Then let him understand the charm of top games.
Myron Keyes relied on the mass production of smart products to achieve expansion, so video games used a similar method to fight back.
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Kentaro Hayakawa's farewell ceremony ended, and Surui Electronics became active again.
Hayakawa Ueto himself began to personally contact many already well-known game studios around the world, and discussed acquisitions and equity investments.
Surui Electronics executives were opposed to it at first.
But they were quickly convinced.
Because Hayakawa Ueto personally showed them the social response to Assassin's Creed.
This is the most standardized industrial game template. Hayakawa Ueto is confident that as long as there are enough manpower, he can develop works of similar quality.
This kind of work is a model that can guarantee harvests despite droughts and floods, and can still make small profits without losing money, or even have the opportunity to make big profits. With Hayakawa Ueto's repeated assurances, the plan to acquire the studio was quickly approved.
However, these are still in the confidentiality stage and will not be revealed in a short period of time. It is not a secret from the game colleagues, but a secret from Mickford in order to take it by surprise in the future.
Even the handheld business, which had been shut down, was quietly restarted.
As for Youxing Electronic Entertainment, Zhuyousing has also begun planning for the next step.
The formulaic game has proven its success. Next, there will be a dedicated team of thousands of people to continuously launch works in the form of new year products to maintain the popularity of this series of works. As for Zhu Yuxing himself, it is naturally impossible to be idle because of this.
There are already two new goals on the huge whiteboard in his office where he usually plans his future.
The first priority is to promote the research and development of the switch. Zhuyouxing hopes to release it as soon as next year, and then another new project.
There is a particularly prominent word on the whiteboard: cinematic narrative benchmark.
The formulaic sandbox game already has Assassin's Creed. After this series of works cultivates talents, we can plan for bigger works. But before that, there is another type of game that has also reached the time to be launched, which is cinematic narrative.
game.
Zhuyouxing has tried to promote cinematic narratives in Metal Gear Solid and several other games before, and has also used real stars to star, but these are not full versions of cinematic narrative games.
Looking at the word "film narrative game benchmark", Zhu Youxing picked up a pen and wrote the name below: