"real?!"

Seff Dabwart couldn't believe his ears. He really didn't expect his boss to ask him this. Although he had thought so before, when it came true, the excitement was still uncontrollable.

His boss took the initiative to suggest that he transplant this game to a home machine, and it was a new console. This was originally a very optimistic view of his game performance, although he had previously felt that his game was indeed the best one he had made in the past four or five years of making the game.

But what I think is essentially different from what others think, let alone my boss is currently an authority in the field of Hunger Games development?

"Actually, from this game, I can clearly see that your ability has not decreased, and your ideas are not outdated. The game is very interesting, the difficulty is suitable, and there is also a very hard-core feeling. So, I think you can make the big productions of the past."

As he said that, Jester's footsteps were almost at the door of the development room, but he still stopped and continued to say to Cyfer Daberwater, who had been following him: "I hope you don't make the mistakes you used to do. You should be as pious as your own children when you treat games... To be honest, after I saw the game you just now, my first thought was that you are still making home computer games, but I thought that the style of this game seemed to be very suitable for home computer style, so I asked if you want to transplant this game yourself."

It doesn't take much time to transplant the game. The arcade version of "Alloy Scepter" can be officially sold in less than half a month. However, the number of arcade games will not be too large. The overall sales volume of 100,000 substrates is considered a good result.

When changing arcade games to home machines, many things need to be re-optimized, and some content even needs to be re-made, because the performance of home machines is definitely not as good as the arcade base version of the same era. It is inevitable to make a certain degree of castration.

Such transplantation also depends on the designer's experience and level, and you must have a very good understanding of the original game to be competent.

Just like when Capcom transplanted "1942" which they had a great success in arcades, he thought that transplanting games had no technical content, so he just let someone transplant them. The final result was transplanted. However, the FC version of "1942" was criticized for being bug-free and could not be compared with the arcade version. It made Capcom lose its reputation in home machines. Later, I don’t know how much effort and energy it took to make it back.

The one who did a good job in this aspect is KS. It is undeniable that before Jester was reborn, he really liked KS. It may be because of his love for the house. He liked Hideo Kojima's "Spy Shadow of the Dragon" series very much, so he inevitably fell in love with the KS. company.

In fact, Jester has a friend who writes novels. His friend’s biggest dream is to tell stories like Hideo Kojima. Jester also agrees with this. Hideo Kojima is indeed a genius in storytelling.

The history of this world has completely changed, and the famous senior four K-society no longer exists in this world.

However, in Jester's memory, the famous senior four of KS are all arcade works at the beginning. Moreover, because KS is a Japanese company, most of their arcade games are mainly based on Japanese flavors. The problem is that these games are not very successful in the Japanese market.

Later, they shifted their goals for these games to the North American market.

They asked the original production and development team to spend a lot of effort on transplanting home machines. The final result was that although the home machine version, whether it was the system, gameplay, or the picture, had to make some sacrifices due to the home machine function, basically the players later commented unanimously after playing it, and the gap between the transplanted version and the original arcade version was so small that it was almost negligible.

This made K-She suddenly gain its reputation.

Of course, if the performance of the home machine is far beyond the previous platform, then porting is a very simple thing. You only need to make an emulator on the original platform on the new platform. For example, when Nintendo later ported the FC game to GBA, that's how they did it.

Although GBA is just a handheld machine rather than a home machine, the truth is the same.

Well, this transplant of Nintendo is also anecdote. At that time, Nintendo only used two employees and spent a whole morning and half a day to solve the problem of transplanting hundreds of FC games. They even did it to the same extent, even the bugs were exactly the same.

Time passes quickly, and a month passes quickly.

In more than a month, Mars Entertainment began to promote large-scale publicity in North America, Japan and Europe. The main body of publicity was their brand-new sixteen-bit dreambox2. It also announced that they will hold a media conference at the Anaheim Convention and Exhibition Center on January 30th to officially announce their hosts and answer all questions about the new hosts, including pricing, etc.

Sega was not willing to be outdone. Under the leadership of Kusuo Koguchi, when Mars Entertainment just started their promotional activities, they also started MD promotions at the same time. At the beginning, he did not start selling at the price as Jester expected.

But it's almost done, they're going to have a bundled sales strategy.

I selected several best-selling games with good reputation and bundled them to the md console. The price after bundling was only slightly increased. In this way, many people who were originally interested in md consoles and games on md consoles but were still hesitant would be very attractive.

This is actually just a variant of price reduction, which is not very obvious now.

What Sega reduces is the part of the premium they want to withdraw from the game manufacturers. Moreover, the main game of md is currently relying on their first party, so Sega is now using its own profits to win the hearts of players.

Jester analyzed Sega's strategy in North America and felt that if they really wanted to start selling at a lower price, they might have to wait until they announced the specific price of dreambox2 to the public. Moreover, the price announced by the other party will inevitably make them extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing.

The current price of md hosts is 250 US dollars. After deducting all the costs of materials, processing costs, transportation, sales, etc., especially now that production has just begun, the quantity is not large enough to effectively utilize the characteristics of large-scale industrial production to dilute the costs. The money they can earn may not exceed fifty or sixty US dollars.

The cost of the host of your dreambox2 is lower than that of Sega, and it is also limited.

The biggest possibility is that Sega directly lowered the downgrade to the price of 200 US dollars, and they had no money to make, and the difference of 50 US dollars is extremely attractive to those players who are hesitating and wandering between the two.

Jester really didn't have a good idea for a while, unless he directly reduced the price of dreambox2 to a level of 200 US dollars when it was announced at the beginning, otherwise he would inevitably fall into a passive state.

On the morning of the public press conference, various media came to the Anaheim Convention and Exhibition Center.

Many game media are naturally very familiar with this place. Mars Entertainment’s headquarters is in Costa Mesa, very close to Anaheim. Whether it is Mars Entertainment’s large-scale media conferences or carnivals held before, they are held here.

However, this time I came here not only to the media in the gaming industry, but also to Mars Entertainment is not just a game company. Jester has a very high status among the younger generation in the United States. Basically, even in the United States, where college students start businesses very frequently, such as Jester, who has an open net worth of billions of dollars in four years, and has always been in the top 50 people on the list of world billionaires that have been announced since 1985.

At least Bill Gates, who ranks second in the United States, has only entered the top 50 rankings on the Forbes list at the end of last year.

The main theme of this press conference is very simple, that is, the new host of Mars Entertainment.

The entire press conference was to demonstrate the performance of the new console, the first game, and some games that are being developed and can meet players immediately, the price of the game console, and of course, some questions from the interviewer need to be answered.

In such a serious occasion, Jester naturally needs to attend in person.

During the event on the rostrum, Jester did not go to the chairman himself. His personality was not as ostentatious as Jobs. In Silicon Valley, everyone knows that before Jobs left Apple, whenever Apple had any new products, Jobs would always be the one who made a big splash on the console, even if the research and development of this product did not have much to do with Jobs.

Except for Jester who made a splash on the rostrum when Dreambox was just launched, he rarely did this after that.
Chapter completed!