Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 368 Preparing to Hit the Stock
Although colleagues outside the industry knew that Dongchuan Che intended to enter the handheld game console market, the entire gaming industry was still in an uproar after the rumor was confirmed with the official establishment of the handheld game console department at noon today.

To be honest, there are actually many game manufacturers who want to make handheld game consoles in recent years, but the only one that can really become a big player and compete with NICO is the Hawaii Game Alliance, which is now a joint venture between Giant Silver and Sugimu.

This is mainly because from a psychological perspective, the entry threshold for handheld game consoles is too high.

In reality, many people are willing to spend thousands of dollars playing mobile games and online games. This is because most mobile games and online games are [free games].

This type of game can first attract players, then use various means within the game to induce players and then harvest their wallets. However, handheld game consoles are different. Players need to pay thousands of RMB before they can play the game.

Many people still find it difficult to accept the practice of "paying before even eating the food".

Therefore, if you want players to buy your handheld game console, you must have a strong enough game lineup and a very strong reputation so that players can feel at ease and willing to spend money to buy the handheld game console.

There are very few game manufacturers that can achieve these two points.

Although Dongchuan Che has a very good reputation in the gamer circle now, and no one doubts his game production ability anymore, FGO by Holy Light Society has only been on sale for less than a month. Most people think that even if Dongchuan Che wants to make a handheld game console, it will probably take a few more years. But unexpectedly, Dongchuan Che actually started working on it without stopping!
Very unexpected!

The entire industry was full of discussions about this, but Tohru Fuyukawa naturally didn't care about what other people thought. After the meeting in the morning, he talked with Kaori Akiyama about building a factory and recruiting people.

There is no problem in building a factory, just spend money to buy land and equipment. Although it costs a lot of money, it is affordable for Dongchuan Che, after all, "FGO" is so popular.

Since its release, "FGO" has been firmly at the top of the global mobile game revenue charts. However, as it has entered the end of the version, many players have already drawn the cards they want and bought the costumes, and the revenue has begun to decline, so it has begun to hover between the second and third place.

According to conservative calculations within the company, as long as the subsequent expansion packs do not crash, FGO can at least bring him more than 1 billion US dollars in revenue a year, and if estimated with an optimistic attitude, this revenue may reach 2 billion US dollars a year! But in fact, in his opinion, Chika Ohara's financial department was still a bit conservative when making the budget.

In the past, FGO’s total revenue exceeded 63 billion USD in more than five years after its launch, averaging just over 12 billion USD per year. But!
You have to know that although the previous "FGO" was also very well made, it was completely incomparable with his "FGO" in terms of gameplay diversity and graphical expression.

His "FGO" has even more refined graphics than "Persona 5", and the exploration content of the large map is a level higher than "Genshin Impact" and "Fantasy Westward Journey". As for the "liveliness" of the entire world, with a development cost of nearly million US dollars, almost every named NPC has an independent side story related to the protagonist!
Even though the game has been on sale for a month or two, there are still many plot analyses and fan fiction videos on the Internet. The two most popular comment sections on the GOGO platform are [Environmentalists] and [Fate Cooks]. The advertising fees of these two sections are several times higher than other sections, even other company websites, and their popularity is still rising!
Such a huge prospect.

In Dongchuan Che's opinion, after super popular characters like Hei Zhen come online, if Zhuge Liang's remake is added, the revenue during that period will be an astronomical figure!
All in all, although Dongchuan Che is not the kind of super oligarch who relies on oil, resources, and political background to monopolize the industry, he is also a tycoon who can enter the Forbes rich list!
There is no big problem in building the factory, but the more troublesome part is the manpower.

Because the company had been preparing for the handheld game console before, the framework of all aspects of the system had already been completed, and the next step was just to make some functional adjustments based on the market user needs.

Toru Fuyukawa plans to release the handheld game console together with "Pokemon" in the first half of next year.

Time is very tight, so the factory naturally cannot recruit new people like the company, but needs to recruit skilled workers. This is a troublesome matter for Dongchuan Che, after all, he is not familiar with this field, but fortunately there is Akiyama Kaori.

Toru Fuyukawa has always been very trusting of his women. Although Akiyama Kaori has joined the company for too short a time and is only a department head, Toru Fuyukawa has actually given her very great power.

From personnel transfers and promotions to salary distribution, to the signing power of the factory and the right to speak within the company, she controls almost the entire handheld game console sector. Like Miyano Mitsuko and the others, she holds great power and is only supervised by the independent financial department and Fuyukawa Tetsu himself.

Although she knew that Toru Fuyukawa was a generous person and believed in his feelings for her, when it all really happened, Akiyama Kaori was still very moved. This was the complete trust she had never received in the Akiyama Group before.

Touched and excited.

So, after lunch, Sayoko and the others just returned to their office, and Toru Fuyukawa was smoking in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, talking on the phone with SATE's Managing Director Kuriyama about some things related to handheld console cooperation, when a sexy body came up from behind.

Under Dongchuan Che's surprised and angry eyes, Akiyama Kaori rubbed against his legs like a clingy kitten, then knelt in front of him very obediently and put her hands on the belt of his jeans.

This kind of little interaction in front of the window, Dongchuan Che and the big beauties at home have played it many times, but it is the first time with Akiyama Kaori, and the attitude is so gentle and well-behaved.
Seeing Akiyama Kaori kneeling and looking up, with her beautiful curves from spine to hips fully exposed, letting the big bar press on her beautiful face, the cold touch of her face came to his heart, and Fuyukawa Che's breathing also accelerated rapidly. He didn't even hear what the executive manager Kuriyama said on the other end of the phone. He just responded with a few words and then quickly hung up. Then, his hands came to both sides of Akiyama Kaori's cheeks.
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Dongchuan Che still enjoyed the ecstatic moment in the afternoon.

After Akiyama Kaori rinsed her mouth with a red face, she pestered him for hugs and kisses. After the two of them lay affectionately in the boss chair for a while, they left the president's office, talking and laughing, and came to the parking lot downstairs.

Normally, after the meeting in the morning, there is still a lot of work in the afternoon. However, on the one hand, although Akiyama Kaori is now the head of the handheld department, she is actually a commander without troops, and all the positions in the department are vacant.

Dongchuan Che can't help in this regard, or he doesn't need help. Akiyama Kaori has been working in the field of handheld game consoles for more than ten years and has a very deep network of contacts. She is also going to meet some old friends in Kyoto and Tokyo this afternoon to see if she can recruit some elites.

Naturally, this kind of thing does not need to be handled in the company.

On the other hand, Yue Zhu Feiniao’s recording of "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" will also be completed after today.

"Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" is the hottest variety show in the first quarter of this year. It not only made many outdated artists popular again, but also brought Qiao Xinyu, the leading young actress of Sistar, to a higher level and squeezed her into the T1 circle of the younger generation.

Especially the finales of recent episodes - the appearance of classic songs such as JJ Lin's "Cao Cao", Ayumi Hamasaki's "Dearest" and Girls' Generation's "The World We Meet Again", the show Sisters Who Make Waves has completely set off the entire Japan and even affected the entire East Asian entertainment industry.

During that period, audiences who liked to watch variety shows would basically stay in front of the TV at 8 o'clock every Friday night. There was even a decrease in the number of female users over 30 years old in some shopping malls because there were too many people staying at home to watch the shows. This incident even made the news.

At that time, Yuezhu Asuka was interviewed by a TV station. The interesting thing was that because she was so beautiful, of German-Japanese descent, and had a cold personality, the funny interview video where the reporter said a lot of things and Yuezhu Asuka replied coldly with "Yeah, oh, oh" went viral on the Internet, which was similar to the "return the money" effect of the interview with the Chinese national football team in China. Many Chinese viewers even gave Yuezhu Asuka the nickname "Cold Sister".

All in all, "Sisters Who Make Waves" has indeed become a hit, and because of its extremely high number of views, Yuezhu Asuka has also successfully attracted sponsorships from big brands including MUJI and Yakult, not only making back its investment of nearly 20 million US dollars, but even making a lot of money.

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"Sisters Who Make Waves" is just a variety show after all. It cannot drive the IP value like the cartoons "Fate" and "Pokemon". The only profit point of "Sisters Who Make Waves" is to earn sponsorship fees.

When GOGO platform was short of traffic, Fuyukawa Che was still paying attention to it, but after the launch of "FGO" and the situation was completely stabilized, the only reason Fuyukawa Che paid attention to "Sisters Who Make Waves" was because of Yuezhu Asuka. After the recording of the show ended today, Yuezhu Asuka called early in the morning to act like a spoiled child, saying that Fuyukawa Che had to pick her up in person, otherwise she would stay in Kamakura and not return to Tokyo.

Dongchuan Che naturally couldn't resist seeing his woman acting like a spoiled brat.

"Come to think of it, I heard you say at lunch that you wanted Xiao Yuezhu to film a fantasy TV series?"

The dark gray BMW was driving on the seaside road towards Kamakura. Akiyama Kaori asked casually while feeling the sea breeze.

Dongchuan Che was steering with one hand, and his other hand was touching Akiyama Kaori's black silk thigh. He said casually, "It depends on the situation. If she goes out to film, it will be good for the company's business, but then we won't be able to see Yuezhu for a long time. Let's see what she thinks. If she also wants to rest at home, then let Ms. Maori find another director."

"World of Warcraft" and "Pokemon" will be released in the first quarter of next year.

Pokémon has already attracted a lot of attention due to the broadcast of the anime version, but World of Warcraft has received relatively few attention. Although this "few" is only relative, as long as it is his work, there is no lack of attention, but in his opinion, it is still a little less.

In Dongchuan Che's opinion, the work "World of Warcraft" is more like a stepping stone.

After "World of Warcraft" has established the influence of its IP, he will start developing "Hearthstone", as well as "Honor of Kings", "League of Legends" and "Overwatch" under the perspective of World of Warcraft.

"Honor of Kings" is the most popular game under Tencent in the past, and it is also the most profitable mobile game in the world. Moreover, the gameplay of this game is naturally compatible with handheld game consoles. If it is operated properly, it may become a new ballast stone for its own handheld game consoles.

However, the background story of "Honor of Kings" is not good, so it is difficult to further develop the IP. But in this regard, Dongchuan Che can just replace it with the background story of "World of Warcraft"!

By then, with "Pokemon" in the left hand and "Honor of Kings" remade based on the World of Warcraft in the right hand, he doesn't believe that he can't snatch a share of the handheld game console market from NICO and Giant Silver!
As for League of Legends.
In fact, Dongchuan Che initially considered "DOTA2", but after repeated consideration, he decided to use the design of "League of Legends" as a blueprint and replace the character backgrounds with those of World of Warcraft.

This doesn't mean that "League of Legends" is more fun than "DOTA2".

In his previous life, Dongchuan Che started playing DOTA in the early 2000s, and then he got into League of Legends. In his opinion, both games have their own advantages and disadvantages, but LOL can replace DOTA because, on the one hand, LOL has reduced the entry threshold, canceled the denial, the death penalty, the setting of pulling wild monsters and blocking the line of soldiers, etc., which are not friendly to newcomers, making it easier to get started, and the more cartoon-like style of painting has also attracted many female players. There is a joke in the online game industry, that is, [pulling one female player is equivalent to pulling three male players].

At the same time, although LOL has reduced the entry threshold, it has also added more gameplay after going deeper. A large number of LOL skills are non-specified skills, so the upper limit of operation is actually higher than DOTA, which has laid the foundation for LOL's e-sports.

E-sports is also a field that Dongchuan Che will inevitably enter in the future. Maybe he can even set up a small team and go to Incheon or Paris.

Another reason for not making DOTA is that there are already similar competing products on the market.

DOTA was launched in 06, while League of Legends was launched in 11. In the first year or so after its launch, League of Legends did not steal many users from DOTA. Many League of Legends players actually did not play DOTA in depth.

However, even highly random competitive games like MOBA have a lifespan.

This is just like World of Warcraft. From its birth to before he traveled through time, there had never been a real competitor that could threaten World of Warcraft's status, but World of Warcraft still declined because players were tired of it. This world, the most popular competitive MOBA game, is closer to DOTA in terms of overall settings.

In this case, he can only choose to move closer to the design direction of "League of Legends" to give players more freshness. However, the premise of all this is to first promote the influence of the IP of "World of Warcraft".

By then, "World of Warcraft" will become one of the heavyweight IPs in Dongchuan Che's hands, just like "FATE" and "Pokemon". If you want to expand the influence of IP, film and television works are naturally one of the best means of promotion.

He plans to make a TV series of "World of Warcraft" according to the specifications of "Game of Thrones", and the first part is the story of the filial son Arthas killing his father.

He had discussed this matter with Yue Zhu Feiniao last year, so Yue Zhu Feiniao has actually been communicating with the screenwriter team of "World of Warcraft" during this period, but filming requires him to run around outside every day.

During the filming of Sister Lang, not to mention Yue Zhu Feiniao missing him, he also missed this cute and beautiful girl who seemed aloof but was actually very gentle.

Let’s see what Yuezhu Feiniao thinks when the time comes.

Fuyukawa Che was thinking so, and while chatting with Akiyama Kaori, the two of them soon arrived at the shooting site on the seaside in Kamakura.

Today is the recording site of the last episode of "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves". The dark gray BMW just stopped beside the seaside highway. Dong Chuan Che got out of the car with a cigarette in his mouth. A gust of sea breeze blew by, and he looked up and saw a group of beautiful girls in bikinis playing in the water on the beach.

It was summer now, and although it was not midsummer yet, the temperature had already risen. Under the afternoon sun, Dong Chuanche, who was wearing jeans, felt a little hot, and when he saw the sexy figure lying lazily on the beach chair holding the director's microphone, he felt even hotter inside.

"This guy is really relaxed. This is the first time I've seen a director direct like this."

Dongchuan Che rolled his eyes and complained slightly.

Hearing his words, Akiyama Kaori also covered her mouth and laughed. There was no other reason. The famous director lying on the beach lounge chair, showing off his beautiful figure in a bikini, was Yuezhu Asuka.

Although the participating guests of "Sisters Who Make Waves" are all female artists and singers, and there are not many men in the director team, Yuezhu Asuka's posture at this time is still too enchanting. And Akiyama Kaori knows very well that Dongchuan Che is the type who gets jealous very easily.

"Will he spank Xiao Yuezhu? Spanking, I have never experienced it before."

Following Dongchuan Che, Akiyama Kaori felt a little bit of anticipation in her heart. She didn't know what embarrassing thing she thought of, but as she thought about it, her face suddenly turned red.

(End of this chapter)