Chapter 577 Yang Ming proposes e-sports!
1980 6 Month 30 Day.
Monday.
Yang Ming woke up early in the morning. Azhu and Zhong Chuhong looked at him. Yang Ming swam a few laps comfortably in the swimming pool. After getting out of the swimming pool, today was Monday. Yang Ming had to go back to the Imperial Group. He still had very important things to do. Discuss with Empire Games management.
Yang Ming changed his clothes and had breakfast with his parents in the restaurant.
In the past few days, newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong have been reporting on the first-generation home game console released by Empire Games, the third-generation family game console in the world, the Famicom.
Famicoms are not expensive and can be played as long as there is a TV at home. Compared with arcade machines that cannot be afforded, and more fun than handheld consoles, the appearance of Famicoms has attracted many players.
Yang Ming finished breakfast.
Take a car to the Imperial Group.
Going upstairs to the chairman's office, Lin Xiuzhi first made the boss a cup of coffee.
Yang Ming sat there, dealing with some more important documents and contracts.
Documents like these, contracts, etc., if Melis were here, would not need to be dealt with by him. However, now that Melis is sitting in London, he must handle it personally.
10:45am.
Yang Ming took Lin Xiuzhi downstairs to the Empire Games office building.
With the release of the Famicom and Super Mario Bros. on Friday, the Empire Games office seems to be even busier now.
"You go and inform Nisikado Tomohiro, Nakanishi Akio, Matsushita Sanito, and Fujiwara Akiyoshi to come to the conference room for a meeting."
Empire Games also has a conference room.
Yang Ming came to the conference room and sat down.
Not long after, Tomohiro Nishikado, Akio Nakanishi, Sanito Matsushita, Akiyoshi Fujiwara and others came over. Looking at these all Japanese people, Yang Ming felt nothing.
Nowadays, Nisikado Tomohiro and the others are doing their jobs with all their heart.
After they sat down.
Yang Ming asked: "Fujiwara Akiyoshi, how are the sales of the Famicom and Super Mario Bros.?"
"Boss, orders for red and white machines are booming."
Historically, more than 60 million Nintendo Famicom consoles have been sold around the world, including genuine ones. Counting pirated copies or counterfeit ones from Taiwan, it’s really impossible to count.
At this time, Empire Games' agents around the world already knew that this home game console would be a hit.
Agents in Japan, agents in Country M, and agents in various European countries, especially now that Barlow is based in London and is responsible for the Empire game business in London, the sales of Empire games in Europe have greatly increased.
"Judging from the current order feedback, today is the fourth day, and the order volume in the previous three days has exceeded 3000 million units."
3000 units?
These are all orders placed by Imperial Games Agents.
However, agents in various countries proceed based on market response and customer orders.
"The order for the "Super Mario Bros." game cartridge also exceeded 3000 million sets. In addition, the sales of this game's handheld console exceeded 1000 million sets, but there were not many orders for the arcade machine."
The game "Super Mario Bros." is itself prepared for the Famicom. Playing it on an arcade machine is not as fun as imagined, but it is still very good on a handheld console.
The best-selling game in arcades in the world right now is "Street Fighter 1" launched by Imperial Games last year.
Today, we continue to develop "Street Fighter 2" this year, and sales are still very hot.
That said, Empire Games, revenue and profits are booming just because of these games.
After hearing what Fujiwara Mingyi said, Yang Ming nodded.
In Yang Ming's opinion, this still doesn't work.
"I want to ask you, what is the attitude of Japanese people towards video games?"
Yang Ming remembers that as far as game consoles are concerned, in his era, many parents were very disgusted with games. Even because of the existence of some game arcades, many people believed that playing games was related to those little gangsters.
Many children don't like going to school or their academic performance drops rapidly because of playing video games. Those parents are very disgusted with games.
It was not until 2010 that the domestic attitude towards video games gradually changed.
"Boss, I don't know what your attitude is?" Nisikado Tomohiro asked.
"I've heard that some children who play video games are strongly opposed by their parents because video games waste a lot of time and feel they are of no use."
It turns out to be this.
"Boss, the attitude of Japanese people towards game consoles, especially arcade machines, is relatively good. This may have a lot to do with the early emergence of pinball machines in Japan."
It is impossible to say that no one objects to it.
The game arcades in Japan are also monopolized by those societies. Some Japanese people, especially Japanese parents, are quite disgusted when they appear in such a place.
Akio Nakanishi, Masato Matsushita and others told Yang Ming based on what they learned.
Yang Ming nodded.
"Playing video games in normal leisure time is indeed very good. If you indulge in it, it will have a great impact on a person's body and mind. However, these should not be changed by us. In my opinion, the emergence of video games has always been The pros outweigh the cons.”
"I am ready to change the negative attitudes of those parents towards games, make them think that the existence of video games is beneficial, and further consolidate the status and influence of our Empire Games in the world."
"I've come up with an idea. If video games were regarded as an e-sports, what do you think it would be like?"
Mr. Yang treats games as e-sports?
Nisikado Tomohiro and others were surprised.
When they reacted, they were immediately shocked.
Before this, many people only regarded sports such as track and field and football as competitive sports, including the most famous World Cup, Olympic Games and so on.
They never thought that boss Sir Yang would propose that game competition is also a sport.
This proposal can perfectly solve the negative impact caused by the original game.
Historically, it was none other than Nintendo who first proposed that video games are also a competitive sport.
In 1990, Nintendo held the Nintendo World Championship, which officially opened to the world and treated Nintendo's games as a competitive competition.
This not only makes Nintendo more famous through the Nintendo World Cup Championship, but also makes Nintendo's game consoles and games more famous, further promoting the development of global games.
Now, in 1980, Imperial Games has begun to monopolize the global gaming industry, including hardware and games.
In Yang Ming's view, this is not enough. He needs to rectify the name of the game and further consolidate the status and influence of Empire Games in the world.
Yang Ming is also preparing to propose competitive competitions related to games.
Empire Games' "Space Invaders", "Hong Kong Cube", "Super Mario Bros.", "Little Bee", etc. can all be competed through scores, and "Street Fighter" is also very suitable for competition.
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