Chapter 110 Choice Fifth Update

Kenji Ozawa brought various information about almost a dozen game consoles to Zuo Zhen.

Zuo Zhen really didn’t expect this.

It turns out that this era is not just the era of NGS.

He had always thought that the only competitor for NGS during the same period was Sega, and in the end there were Atari and Nippon Electric.

Are there actually more than a dozen game console products?

From traditional electrical appliance companies to toy companies, it seems that everyone has launched electronic game consoles after discovering this new blue ocean market.

But in the end, the winner was NGS, and it still reached a winner-take-all situation. One game console dominated 90% of the market, and a dozen other game consoles jointly grabbed the remaining 10%.

These 10% are still relatively remote markets in this era such as Europe and Australia.

Really, I can only use one word to describe it: miserable.

But in the end, to sum up, most of the dozen or so game consoles of this era are just fake.

This is the difference between the regular army and the guerrillas.

There are actually three options available.

Atari 7800, Sega's SG Mark 2, and Nippon Electric's upcoming PCE.

Among these materials, PCE has the most content.

Because this company has been promoting like crazy recently, and this company has the most promotional materials on the streets of Japan.

This is completely a posture that wants to bring NGS down.

Zuo Zhen is still somewhat impressed by this game console.

Later, it became the favorite of many senior players, and its treatment was similar to that of Sega later.

Moreover, for a long time, this game console has become the world of little butter. This leftist really has no interest. If he wants to develop on a large enough scale, he still has to follow the orthodox path, so I won’t go into details.

Ozawa Kenji looked at Zuozhen's choices and nodded and said: "Well, I also think these three game platforms are the best, and my first choice is our Japanese company, Nippon Electric, Sega, Atari, etc." It's far away, you have to go to the United States to talk, I don't know if it's convenient for you."

Zuo Zhen said: "Then exclude Atari."

Atari itself is at the end of its game, and it's really far to go there, so it's really unnecessary.

And there is no future for this company.

"Actually, Zuo Zhensang, I still have internal information, but this internal information is still blocked now, just to prevent NGS from coming up with countermeasures."

"What inside information?"

"Sega already has a new game console that is about to be released, but it will be next year. They also plan to focus on promoting it next year, catching NGS off guard. The performance of this game console is not much worse than the PCE I just told you, and it is also 16-bit. performance.”

As soon as Ozawa Kenji finished speaking, he immediately thought of a name.

Sega MD.

This is good stuff.

A machine that almost dethroned Nintendo from its throne at the time.

The subsequent decline was not because of the game console itself, but because of the quality of the games.

Sales volume itself can still be guaranteed.

Moreover, MD uses optical discs as the medium to store games. The storage capacity of optical discs is very large, far exceeding that of cassettes, and the cost is low. It is the best choice for game carriers.

"It's a new game console. What's your suggestion that I go directly to Sega?"

"That's right." Ozawa Kenji nodded, and then said a little embarrassedly, "Actually, I am also a little selfish. We, BEEP, have a good relationship with Sega."

Zuo Zhen understood instantly.

This is because they want to help their own people attract talents.

Zuo Zhen said calmly: "I will never put eggs in one basket again."

Even if Sega later became very popular, Zuo Zhen still had to leave some backup for himself.

"Of course. In fact, what I want to say is that you can go to Japan Electric to talk about it first, and then go to Shijia."

"How to say?"

"In this way, as soon as Sega hears that you have been to Japan Electric for talks, they will definitely be willing to give you more benefits."

Zuo Zhen had a strange expression: "Didn't you just say you wanted to say good things to Sega?"

"Then you have to agree. I'm still more inclined to help Zuo Zhen-san."

"Okay, I understand, thank you for your help, Ozawa."

Kenji Ozawa waved his hand.

This information was originally what they planned to publish in the magazine, it was just a matter of time.

He actually wanted to know more about the development plans related to Zuozhen King of Fighters, as well as the details of the collapse of his negotiations with NGS.

During the recommendation chat process, he had already gotten a rough idea from the few words Zuo Zhen revealed.

There is also a high-definition version of The King of Fighters, but it is not completely completed yet, but it is soon, as long as there is a game console that can meet the performance of The King of Fighters.

Ozawa Kenji took this opportunity to recommend Sega again.

He recommended Zuo Zhen to publish the game on Sega's arcade machine, which would definitely have better performance than the home machine.

Then there is the content about the collapse of NGS.

Zuo Zhen was vague about this. The main reason was that Zuo Zhen didn't want to gossip behind others' backs. That was unnecessary. He wanted to use the quality of the game to kill Miyazaki.

Of course, it would be fine if NGS could also be killed by the way. Anyway, this company is very domineering right now. Killing this company will just bring the game market into the era of contention of a hundred schools of thought in advance, which may also be a good thing for players. .

It’s just that there is not much hope of defeating today’s NGS.

Zuo Zhen said goodbye and left, and Ozawa Kenci was satisfied with getting the important information he wanted.

Zuo Zhen promised to bring him a full version of The King of Fighters next time he came back. Then he would just prepare a computer that could run the full version of The King of Fighters.

The next step is to negotiate with Sega and Nippon Electric.

In the next few days, Zuo Zhen first contacted Nippon Electric through Ozawa Kenji.

They were surprised by what happened to Zuo Zhen. They didn't expect that Zuo Zhen would give up the market like NGS and want to publish games on their home game platform.

Japanese electrical appliances are naturally very welcome.

It just happened that they needed good games to join when they released PEC. They learned about Zuo Zhen's previous games from their own channels, and the results were quite good, but this was also due to the high installed capacity of NGS itself.

But they are still very optimistic about Zuo Zhen's development, but they are a little regretful that Zuo Zhen's new work is not a sequel to the previous one.

If it is a sequel to some of these works, it should be able to attract fans accumulated from previous works.

Negotiations with Nippon Electric are very efficient. The scale of the company here is many times larger than that of NGS, and the game industry is just one of its departments.

As long as the management of this department agrees, the contract signing department has no objections. Even because of Zuo Zhen's good results before, they didn't even ask for the royalties. They just negotiated with Zuo Zhen a preliminary intention to share the June 4th, and the follow-up can be based on Let’s continue talking about the achievements of new works.