Chapter 648 The strategic alliance of Empire Games!

Imperial Games eats meat, and other companies follow suit.

Imperial Games formed a business alliance with other Toyo games.

However, there is no need for companies like Nintendo and Sony that have great development potential to be involved in this business alliance or camp.

Yang Ming also knew that when Toyo's game companies developed to a certain level, they would definitely resist. In fact, at that time, Yang Ming knew that the global game market would be a different world.

The most important thing is that Yang Ming's advantage has always been there, and he doesn't believe that these game companies will be able to turn the world upside down.

This was carried out by Yang Ming based on the development strategy of Nintendo in his previous life. In the early days, Nintendo was developing very well. However, in the late 1990s, this alliance strategy was no longer feasible. Many game companies betrayed this alliance.

In particular, the rise of Sony relying on cooperation with Nintendo means that it will be difficult for Nintendo to become the dominant player in the Japanese gaming industry.

Yang Ming thought there and wrote down what he thought of, including potential opponents such as Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Namco.

Zhong Chuhong and Guan Jiahui saw Yang Ming writing in English. They basically couldn't understand it. In addition to their poor English, the big reason was that even those who understood some of Yang Ming's English might not be able to understand it. Because he wrote it down in other ways.

Until late at night.

Yang Ming stretched.

The weather in Tokyo in February is quite cold.

It's around 10 degrees Celsius during the day.

At night it drops to about 3 degrees Celsius.

If there are special weather conditions, it may snow.

I saw Zhong Chuhong and Guan Jiahui yawning at the side.

"It's very late. You should go to bed first."

The two women went back to rest first.

Yang Ming turned off the light in the study room.

Return to the master room.

There is also heating in the master room. When the heating is on, the temperature remains at about 26 degrees Celsius, which is still very comfortable.

. . .

Have a night's rest.

Early the next day.

When Yang Ming woke up, he looked at the time and it was 7:35 am Tokyo time.

According to the time difference, it is now 6:35 in Xiangjiang.

In other words, the time difference between the two sides is one hour, which has little impact on Yang Ming.

After Yang Ming got up, he saw that Ah Zhu, Zhong Chuhong, Guan Jiahui and others had already gotten up.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Master, there is heating here. It is very comfortable at night."

Although it's cold outside, the room has heating, so it really doesn't feel cold.

The two chefs in the kitchen have already prepared breakfast for the young master according to Azhu's request.

While Yang Ming was sitting there eating breakfast, an Oriental maid brought local newspapers and periodicals.

Yang Ming noticed that this Oriental maid seemed to be young, that is, in her twenties. She was well-dressed, but she never dared to look at Yang Ming. However, she was shorter than the three Azhu girls in height.

Generally speaking, the average height of young Asian women is shorter.

"Boss, she said these are major Japanese newspapers and periodicals, and Mr. Xu asked them to be sent to them."

Among these Japanese newspapers and periodicals, "Asahi Shimbun" is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Japan, "Mainichi Shimbun" is the newspaper with the largest political and intellectual power in Japan, "Yomiuri Shimbun" is the most popular business newspaper in Japan, and "Toyo Keizai Shimbun" It is the most popular economic newspaper in Japan, and the Daily Telegraph is the most popular English newspaper in Japan.

These five newspapers all occupy an important position in the Oriental media world with their unique content and style.

Mr. Xu naturally refers to Xu Qingsheng.

Yang Ming has the habit of reading newspapers.

It's just that most of these newspapers and periodicals are in Oriental, because many Oriental words are the same as Chinese characters, but the pronunciation is different, but the meaning is similar.

The two girls Lin Yazhen were nearby and could serve as his translators.

While Yang Ming was having breakfast, he picked up the newspaper and read it. There was no news about his coming to Japan for the time being.

It seems that he has kept a low profile this time and has not attracted too much attention yet.

Looking at the newspapers, Yang Ming noticed a piece of news related to the Empire Game.

The Global Gaming Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, and Empire Gaming Corporation collaborated to hold the first Empire Gaming World Championship.

Now the first Imperial Game World Championship is particularly popular in Japan.

Since last year, Toyo has registered the largest number of players in the world to participate in this world championship.

First, Imperial Games' agents in Japan will hold city championships in the cities they are responsible for. After the city championship winners are announced, they will then hold championships in various regions of Japan in Kyushu, Shikoku, and this week, Hokkaido.

Judging from the current situation, all major regions are in full swing.

After the championships in each major region of Toyo are over, the selected winners will participate in Toyo's first Empire Game Championship.

Judging from the current grand scale of the competition, it is unprecedented and has a huge impact in the East.

"Boss, that's what the newspapers and magazines mean," Lin Yazhen said.

Apart from these reports, Yang Ming was not very interested in other news.

After Yang Ming finished breakfast, he had read through many of these newspapers and periodicals.

Today, Yang Ming will not go out for the time being, but will stay here at Setagaya Villa.

. . .

It was a week when Yang Ming came to Dongyang.

It takes up most of the time here at Setagaya Villa.

During this period, Akio Nakanishi, Lan Shaojun and others came to report to him about the inspection.

now.

When Nakanishi Akio came over again, Yang Ming, him, and Xu Qingsheng were in the study.

"What do you think of the current Japanese gaming industry?" Yang Ming asked.

"Boss, the Japanese gaming industry is in chaos right now. Many companies are jumping into the game when they see our empire gaming company making money. However, there are not many companies that are truly powerful now. For example, Taito Co., Ltd. has already Declined.”

During this period, Akio Nakanishi has been exploring relevant talents.

Especially in Taitung Co., Ltd., many people want to join Empire Games Company, and some even want to go directly to Xiangjiang for development.

The main reason is that the Empire Games Company in Hong Kong is really popular now, and the salary, benefits, etc. are twice those in Japan.

This was expected by Yang Ming.

"So among the Toyo game companies, who do you think will be the potential rival of Imperial Game Company in the future?"

Who are Empire Games' potential rivals?

At this time, in Xu Qingsheng's view, there was no one in the Japanese gaming world who could beat him.

"Boss, I haven't noticed it yet." Xu Qingsheng said.

"Boss, if you want to talk about it, it might be Nintendo."

Sure enough, Japanese people still understand Japanese people.

Akio Nakanishi can see that in the current Japanese gaming industry, there really aren’t many players that can compete. In terms of potential, of course it’s Nintendo.

As for Sony?

Because Sony has not developed into the game industry for the time being, Akio Nakanishi cannot tell.

"Akio Nakanishi, please tell me about Nintendo."

"Boss, according to my understanding of Nintendo, Nintendo has developed the game industry very early. It has been developing both hardware and game software. However, except for the portable Game \u0026 Watch game console, other None of them worked. After the appearance of the Famicom from Imperial Games, the sales of this game console also plummeted."

"However, Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi is very powerful. I feel that he is the same as Corgan back then. In addition, their managers Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto are also very powerful."

Historically, Gunpei Yokoi is known as the father of Game Boy. He was a key member of Nintendo in the early days and made great contributions to Nintendo's dominance. Later, due to poor decision-making, he resigned and developed Wonder Swan at BANDAI to compete with Game Boy.

Shigeru Miyamoto, a famous video game producer, director and general manager of the information development department of the world-famous game company Nintendo, and the founder of Nintendo's game culture.

Known as the "Father of Mario", he is the soul of Nintendo.

He graduated from Kanazawa City University of Arts and Crafts in 1975 and later joined Nintendo. His debut "Donkey Kong" made a profit of US$120 million in North America.

Over the years, Shigeru Miyamoto has created one myth after another for Nintendo and the Japanese gaming industry.

Even foreign political and economic magazines selected him as one of the most influential people.

He once ranked first among the ten best game designers in the world selected by authoritative magazines.

In other words, whether it is Gunpei Yokoi or Shigeru Miyamoto, they are just like Tomohiro Nishikaku, Sanito Matsushita, and Akio Nakanishi of Taito.

In fact, these two people are even more powerful than Akio Nakanishi, Tomohiro Nishikado, and Masato Matsushita.

Historically, they have made Nintendo a success, and Nintendo has made them a success.

"Akio Nakanishi, can these two people poach Imperial Games?"

"Boss, I haven't had any contact with those two people, but I'm afraid it will be difficult."

At the beginning, if this situation had not suddenly appeared in Taitung Co., Ltd., Akio Nakanishi would never have betrayed Taitung and Kogen.

Xu Qingsheng smiled.

At the beginning, the boss did not believe that he could poach Akio Nakanishi and Sanato Matsushita. In fact, he succeeded in poaching them in the end.

"Boss, are you saying that you want to poach these two people?"

Xu Qingsheng is very keen on poaching talents, especially those who are favored by his boss.

"Not surprisingly, these two people are the most important management talents of Nintendo and Hiroshi Yamauchi. They are the right-hand men of Hiroshi Yamauchi, and even the soul of Nintendo in the future. Their role is greater than that played by Akio Nakanishi and three others in Taitung. The effect is even greater.”

This time, not only Xu Qingsheng was surprised, but Nakanishi Akio was also surprised.

"Boss, if that's the case, I want to poach Miyamoto Shigeru and Yokoi Gunpei." Xu Qingsheng said directly.

"If you can dig out the best, it doesn't matter if you can't dig it out. I'm calling you here this time to prepare for the further development of the Empire Game."

Yang Ming mentions the advantages and disadvantages of appearing in Empire Games.

Except that Yang Ming himself did not bring up the advantage of understanding future games, Xu Qingsheng and Akio Nakanishi both nodded after hearing this.

"Today, there is no opponent of Empire Games yet, but a potential opponent has already appeared. It is the Nintendo mentioned by Akio Nakanishi. In this case, we cannot directly eliminate the opponent, but we can encircle the opponent. I proposed a strategic The strategy is to draw other Toyo game companies into their own camp and form a Toyo Game Alliance. Our Imperial Game Company eats meat, and they eat soup along with it."

Historically, Taitung also formed its own arcade game alliance. However, it was soon replaced by the game alliance proposed by Nintendo due to the emergence of Nintendo's Famicom.

Akio Nakanishi seemed to have guessed something when he heard the boss talking about the game alliance.

He is very familiar with this. The Taitung gaming alliance was proposed and implemented by him and Matsushita Matsushita, and the early results were very good.

Since the emergence of Imperial Games, Taitung, the arcade game alliance, has also disbanded.