Chapter 112 Negotiation

I came to Kyoto again, but this time I went to Sega headquarters.

The contract was not signed in a hurry. Komura obviously wanted to know what this game called The King of Fighters looked like.

So as soon as he entered the building, he took Zuo Zhen straight to their engineering development department. This is a department that specializes in developing game console hardware and is also under Takamura Yu's jurisdiction.

Zuo Zhen observed it, and then estimated that this Takamura Yu was probably at the managing director level, which is the class that Nakamura Akira has always longed to be promoted to, which is where Miyazaki is now.

With Takamura Yu here, everything was arranged very smoothly.

The appearance of Zuo Zhen also aroused the curiosity of many people.

They are game developers for Sega.

When Zuo Zhen was preparing to come, Gao Cunxiong had already informed these developers in advance that as long as Zuo Zhen came, they would come to learn from him.

It's rare to find a producer with more than two million-selling games.

If Zuo Zhen had not repeatedly promised that he would not join any party, Komura Yu would have spent a lot of money to invite Zuo Zhen to join Sega.

But since you can't join, let your own people come and experience Zuozhen's game development as much as possible.

What Sega does not lack most is a variety of electronic equipment.

If compared in terms of device hardware technology, Sega was actually stronger than Nintendo in the early days, and naturally it was stronger than NGS in this world.

The people who developed the Sega game console should be regarded as a group of technology geeks. They mainly focus on game console technology and have relatively weak game development capabilities.

So here, Sega's various equipment is much more complete than NGS.

NGS only has a game console test site the size of a recording studio, which contains a variety of game equipment for various tests.

On Sega's side, there is a testing base of more than 500 square meters.

There are hundreds of game consoles here, and each game console is undergoing different levels of mechanical life fatigue testing to ensure that the products they develop can withstand the test of time.

In Zuo Zhen's memory, it seems that Sega's MD series of game consoles are indeed the most reliable, and they were introduced to China in the early years, earlier than Nintendo.

The area used for game testing is divided into an area of ​​about 100 square meters, which contains not only its own game console equipment, but also game equipment from NGS.

It's just that there aren't many people who visit here on weekdays. The people from Sega are very confident in their own game consoles. In fact, they have always been holding back their anger, thinking that they are no worse than NGS. At the same time, they are unwilling to shame themselves and take the initiative to learn NGS. The advantages.

But here are some of the latest computers.

All are equipped with the most advanced performance. Komura Yu took a floppy disk of The King of Fighters from Zuozhen and asked the engineer to install the game.

After the game was installed, Komura arranged for people to experience the NGS version of The King of Fighters first.

The trial players first simply followed Zuo Zhen’s instructions to play the mode of playing against the computer, and were roughly familiar with the entire running process of the game, and then gave an answer as to whether it could run on their device.

"Minister, there is no problem in running it. It just needs a few modifications. Moreover, the game feels very interesting."

The tester gave his own report after the test, but while writing the report, he couldn't help but look at the King of Fighters interface more often.

This game...it would be great if I could still play it.

But now it's obvious not to think about it.

"Then the quality of the game is considered acceptable?"

“Those who are qualified can no longer be qualified.”

This tester would love to say it's better than the game they made themselves.

But this is a bit of a blow to the developer colleagues around me, so I thought about it and let it go.

But now my fellow developers are actually thinking the same thing.

Can you make this game yourself?

Don't think about it, there's no chance.

The game itself is not difficult to develop, but at most they can only imitate or plagiarize, and their creative ability has always been weak.

If it were not for this reason, NGS would not always be the leader.

Komura was very happy and decided to sign a contract with Zuozhen on the spot.

He originally wanted to be exclusive.

But he knew that a 19% share was actually not appropriate. If Zuo Zhen was given such preferential treatment, other manufacturers would follow suit, and it would be difficult to follow suit.

So last night he thought about it for a long time and decided not to sign an exclusive deal.

In fact, he knew that Zuo Zhen had already broken up with NGS, so unless NGS knelt down and begged Zuo Zhen, it would be impossible for Zuo Zhen to log his games to NGS again.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether you sign an exclusive contract or not.

Apart from NGS, Sega really has nothing to fear from anyone.

Neither do Japanese electrical appliances.

Zuo Zhen agreed very simply. Now Gao Cun Xiong is very sincere, and the split is divided into 30 and 70, and there is no royalty fee. Gao Cun Xiong also promised to provide sufficient publicity resources.

Unlike Akira Nakamura, Komura has a higher voice in his company, and he can guarantee that he will carry out this promise.

The next step was that Gao Cun agreed to help Zuo Zhen lobby for his own arcade development department.

Convince them to buy the high-definition version of The King of Fighters.

At this time, Komura's status was once again reflected.

At the same time, he has a very harmonious relationship with the head of the arcade department who is at his level.

Although the two of them also have a competitive relationship, they usually compete on abilities rather than connections.

This may have something to do with the fact that the company itself is still very young.

The Nintendo of this parallel world, that is, NGS, also has a history of hundreds of years. In its early years, it was also a company that developed other entertainment and DB products.

Sega started in the 1960s, and some of its ideas are in line with today's times.

Gao Cunxiong persuaded the other party to accept Zuo Zhen's request with just a few words.

In fact, it was also because the minister was also a gamer. After he played the NGS version of The King of Fighters and learned that there was a King of Fighters version with better graphics and better gameplay, he readily agreed.

However, it is difficult to calculate the revenue of arcade machines, and Zuo Zhen does not live in Japan, so there are always many inconveniences. Zuo Zhen simply requested a one-time buyout authorization this time.

The authorized high-definition version of The King of Fighters will be available on Sega arcade machines in the future. It is a non-exclusive license for ten years and the price is US$300,000. There is also an additional clause, which is to give Zuo Zhen ten arcade machines with The King of Fighters installed and transport them to China.

Zuo Zhen was quite able to accept this.

The copyright price of arcade machines is already the limit. The real money is made by home machines. The scale of home machines is much larger than that of arcade machines.

Three hundred thousand dollars can be paid today. As for the arcade machine, the production and delivery time of the arcade machine can be roughly estimated based on the time of the complete version of The King of Fighters sent by Zuo Zhen.