Chapter 193 191 Pressure Is on Sega First Update
Final Fantasy.
For the first time, this game has entered the scope of NGS.
Yamauchi allowed everyone who knew something about the game to try out the game that day.
The overall content of the game is also very rich, and the story is also very profound, which is deeper than the traditional stories of brave men, dragons and princesses.
And this game is different from Dragon Quest.
This game uses a third-perspective turn-based game similar to Heavy Mechs, so it seems to have the ability to compete with Heavy Mechs.
Yamauchi himself is not good at playing games. After everyone's experience was over, Yamauchi just waited for everyone's evaluation reports.
The end result is a game with a quality level that is no less than that of Dragon Quest today.
However, the story of Dragon Quest is simpler and less complicated. Both works are stories about brave men.
Final Fantasy still tells a time travel story similar to science fiction.
In addition, this game also has a very rich career system, and the content is richer than the current Dragon Quest.
The final conclusion is that this game is very suitable for promotion.
"Okay, very good, then spend money to promote this game."
Everyone's evaluation is comparable to the current Dragon Quest, which proves that this work also has considerable potential.
"President, this game does not belong to us, but to a third-party company. Our hard-working publicity actually feels like making a wedding dress for others."
Yamauchi said: "What can we do? Now our game department can't produce a work that can compete with the heavy-duty mechs in a short period of time, so we can only use this to promote it."
Here, Yamauchi also vaguely expressed his disappointment with the game development department.
He has already blamed the promotion of the Juggernaut on poor development in the gaming department.
However, as a superior, he would not directly accuse someone, as he would easily lose the support of the people.
With Yamauchi's approval, there will be no obstacles to promoting the game.
The first one to be replaced was Famitsu Game Magazine, which had close cooperation with NGS.
NGS also followed Sega's lead and launched a guide column for Final Fantasy.
You can have columns for your heavy-duty mechs, and we will arrange them too.
There are also columns in comic magazines. I also have connections here and arrange them.
Finally, there are TV shows.
This is a bit troublesome. Unlike Sega, NGS has a relationship with a TV station.
But what NGS lacks most now is money.
Since you have no connections, spend money.
How much does Sega pay to create a program? We pay three times.
When the TV station saw how generous NGS was, they simply stopped showing it. The more money you give, the better you are.
They simply canceled Sega's game column and replaced it with NGS' game show.
Anyway, for players, the difference between changing to another game platform for promotion is not particularly big.
For Square, the company behind Final Fantasy, this is simply a blessing from heaven.
As the president, Ishii went to the NGS headquarters to stand up almost on the same day, saying that he would stand firmly on the side of NGS.
NGS is simply his reborn parent. In the future, he can even develop games only for NGS.
Naturally, NGS would not refuse this kind of surrender, but it just wouldn't refuse.
NGS also has its own development team. It was only because the current game department did not develop a similar game to compete with Heavy Mechs that they chose Final Fantasy.
If it weren't for this reason, they probably wouldn't pay much attention to the existence of Final Fantasy in a short time.
Therefore, after that, Final Fantasy was scheduled to be released on December 10th.
The relevant cassette production plan has been arranged for this game before, and now it is just right to increase publicity.
As a result, such a scene appeared on the market.
In a video game store, on one side of the window glass in front of the door is a promotional poster for Heavy Duty.
On the other side is a framed even cooler Final Fantasy poster.
NGS has no other requirements except to make the Final Fantasy work as eye-catching as possible.
As long as it can be done, then the publicity funds will be sufficient.
When it comes to burning money, who does NGS have to fear?
The Final Fantasy game itself seems to be in line with the players' aesthetics. After they have played Juggernaut for a long time, they are naturally thinking about whether to change to a new role-playing game.
In the United States, this situation is even more extreme.
Some video game stores directly replaced the previous Sega promotional posters with posters provided by NGS.
Sega was furious.
"How's it going? Did you ask what happened?"
At this time, Takamura Xiong stayed in front of the phone almost 24 hours a day, waiting for the latest news.
Not long ago, they finally managed to break into the American market a little bit through heavy equipment.
However, this advantage was eliminated by NGS's moves within a few days.
"Director Gao Cun, we have asked several department stores and supermarkets, but they are not willing to advertise for us anymore."
"What's the reason? What I want to know is the reason!"
"The reason...this may be a little hurtful to say."
"explain!"
"We spent some money to get some information from the people in charge of department stores and supermarkets. They said that NGS instigated them to do this. If they continue to choose to run Sega ads, NGS will cut off the supply of game cartridges and game consoles to them. But now... NGS's game cartridges and game consoles are mobile gold mines, and they are unwilling to give up their gold mines to help us."
Takamura was furious.
NGS is simply overbearing.
They have already understood the dominance of NGS before.
But in the past, because Sega's own level was not good, no matter how hard it tried, it really couldn't beat NGS, so it resigned to its fate.
But this time, it was obviously an opportunity to rise, but it was still suppressed by NGS.
This made him very uncomfortable.
He really wanted to have a real fight with NGS right now.
But just thinking about this kind of thing can only make me depressed for a while, but I can't do anything extra.
"Let's go ask some more department stores and supermarkets."
"The directors are not good. We are asking about chain department stores. If this department store cannot be promoted, then its other chain department stores must not be able to do it either."
“What about the non-chain ones?”
"They are willing to help with publicity, but they want more money. They say it is a loss to help Sega and lose the NGS gold mine."
"unacceptable!"
Komura couldn't help but roar.
They are not willing to give the other party money to help promote it. If they want more money, they still claim that it is additional loss caused by their publicity.
This really doesn't sound good.