Chapter 45: Dachuan Gong
Because of Yu Suzuki's two advertisements, the sales of "Shenmu" have improved a little, but compared to the huge cost, it still seems unsatisfactory.
However, this is everything that Yu Suzuki can do. Although the game quality is not satisfactory, it is impossible. If you walk a road that no one has walked, you will always encounter various problems that no one has encountered before.
And in the public opinion war, he has done his best.
Advertising and soft articles on print media can only be considered ordinary methods, but this kind of advertisement that is spoken in a self-deprecating tone is not ordinary advertisements.
Unfortunately, although it has an effect, the effect is not obvious, and the effect is far from enough.
However, Yu Suzuki has not given up yet. As long as "Shenmu" has not shown signs of collapse, there is still room for anything to turn around.
However, just as he was still trying to think about how to turn the tables, someone suddenly knocked on the door and said to him, "Minister Suzuki, the president asked you to go to his office."
"I understand." Yu Suzuki gave up thinking for a while and said.
The current President Sega is also the one who made Sega take off. His name is Okawa Kou, unlike Yusuki, who was born in the 1920s.
Due to the war and poor medical level back then, Okawa Gong suffered from tuberculosis when he was young. Although the condition was well controlled with the improvement of medical level, his physical condition was not optimistic.
Yu Suzuki suddenly felt a little worried that the production of "Shenmu" he led did not achieve great success, and even faced great failures, would not make President Okawa sick in anger.
You know, President Okawa is his noble person. Without President Okawa, there would be no Suzuki Yuki now.
With a nervous mood, I walked upstairs and walked to President Okawa's office.
President Okawa's office is not as big as the offices of other companies, and is as exaggerated as the decoration. The very ordinary office layout is even slightly shabby compared to Yusuzuki's own office.
However, no one would look down on President Okawa Kou because of such an arrangement. Regardless of the shares owned by President Okawa Kou in Sega, even if he owns cash, he himself owns more than 80 billion yen.
You know, presidents like Capcom, Conami, and Bandai Namco do not have as much cash wealth as he has.
The cash wealth he owns can even rank among the top in Japan's personal wealth list.
President Koko Okawa saw Yu Suzuki at the door and asked him to come in before he could knock on the door.
Yu Suzuki looked at the president with a smile on his face, but did not feel relaxed. Because he saw the haggardness on the president's face that could not be hidden.
As an old man in his sixties or seventies, President Okawa still has no problem with his judgment, but he will inevitably lose his energy.
He watched Yu Suzuki sit down and said with a smile, "I heard that your "Shenmu" is not very successful?"
When Yu Suzuki heard this, he immediately wanted to defend himself. President Koko Okawa directly interrupted Yu Suzuki's words that he wanted to defend himself and continued, "It's okay, if you don't succeed, you won't be successful. Our console games have never been so successful. However, this time I have a new idea. Since we are not very successful this time, it's better for us to quickly start the research and development of the next generation of consoles and strive to launch the new generation of consoles within one and a half years."
President Kokoro Okawa's statement is actually an admission that this generation of Saturn's hosts has failed.
I wonder how everyone thinks each generation of hosts is replaced?
In fact, unlike most people's intuition, host replacement is often not initiated by the winners of this generation, but by the losers of this generation.
For winners, this generation has won, so they want this victory to last longer.
If it weren't for the existence of Sega, Hudson, NEC and other manufacturers, and the unremitting launch of brand new hosts, perhaps in 1998, it would still be the world of red and white machines.
This has nothing to do with whether a company is pioneering and aggressive or conservative. Even Sega, who is willing to promote the replacement of hosts, has gained advantages in the United States and tried to extend its life cycle.
Whether it is Sega or Nintendo, they pursue profits. No matter what their position is, pursuing profit maximization is the way they want to go.
It was precisely because Yu Suzuki knew this that he raised his head and looked at President Okawa Kou's eyes.
East Asians generally have smaller eyes, and when people get older, their eyelids will become loose, which will make their eyes look smaller.
Although President Okawa Kou's eyes are not big, they are embarrassing and sensual. His eyes contain the longing and fighting spirit of a young man for the future.
When Yu Suzuki faces President Okawa Kou, he always has admiration. He looked at President Okawa Kou and admitted, "President, the only "Shenmu" I only did this time has not been successful."
Regarding Suzuki Yu's sincere attitude, Okawa Kou nodded slightly. He still smiled and said, "It's okay, this time it didn't work, and there is another time. I read your report on "Shenmu", and my ideas are very good. So, I think that maybe a pilot flagship is needed for the next generation console, and you can make it? Why not just do "Shenmu 2".
"President!" When Yu Suzuki heard this, tears began to appear in his eyes.
Many people may not be able to understand the feeling of being trusted in their entire lives.
It is precisely because of this that a leader who trusts his subordinates can be loved by his subordinates.
However, although everyone knows that they can cut off gold together, not many people can do it.
The leader makes his subordinates turn into white wolves with empty hands, without giving resources or channels, but he imagines that his subordinates can do things too many things.
"I'm so old and still crying. Go back and think about what to do with Shenmue 2. I'll give you the performance parameters of the new host and the development machine to you in the near future." President Koko Okawa said that, and then closed his eyes and rested.
Yu Suzuki knew that this was a signal that the president wanted him to leave, so he stepped back to the door, bowed at the door, and gently brought the door.
The Sega employees on the floor where Yusuki's office were located seemed to be different after seeing Minister Suzuki coming downstairs.
No longer with that gloomy aura, it seemed that the wind was coming when I walked.
After the minister left, everyone discussed, "Is there any change in things?"
Chapter completed!