Using discs as carriers does not mean that Gamestar will give up using cartridges.
In the future, his idea is to pursue two paths simultaneously.
One of them follows Nintendo's path from the previous world, focusing on developing interesting and innovative electronic entertainment products.
The other path is to pursue a more industrialized and large-scale approach.
The innovative path represents laying the foundation for the future development of electronic games, constantly creating new points of development.
And industrialization represents taking the industry towards maturity, with products like Red Dead Redemption 2, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The Witcher 3, Call of Duty, the entire Assassin's Creed series, etc., all being products of mature industrialized games.
Whether it's industrialization or innovation, they each have their own advantages, and Gamestar intends to have them all.
North America is more suitable for industrialized development, while Japan is more suitable for innovation. In the future, they will run parallel to each other.
If it were a normal company, they wouldn't dare to do this. They would often focus more on one point of development.
Only investment companies dare to do this because they don't have to be responsible for the products; they just need to provide money and supervise the results.
However, with the experience from the previous world, Takyuki believes they should do more.
Money is secondary; he wants to accelerate the development of the electronic game industry in this world so he can play more fun games created in this world faster.
For example, the recent 3D racing game produced by SuRui Electronics is quite good, already worth a three and a half-star rating.
In the future, GS1 will focus more on industrialization, reducing the physical production costs of electronic games as much as possible and using the excess money to develop electronic games. This is the more appropriate choice.
Anyway, for electronic games, the carrier is not important; the game itself is.
By now, the development of GS1 has progressed to about forty percent. Takyuki has already sent the first-generation prototype of the game console to North America, allowing the game development team there to adapt to the console as soon as possible.
So far, all of this is confidential within the company. If even a little bit leaks out, Takyuki will definitely pursue it endlessly.
Not being listed and having almost no additional shareholders has its advantages. There's no need to be accountable to anyone, and there's no need to disclose internal company data information. You can do whatever you want, and no one can interfere.
However, to ensure smoother development in Japan, Takyuki has negotiated favorable conditions with the Japanese government. Japan will invest a small part in the name of the government, and Takyuki can leverage the government's convenience to obtain some benefits, ensuring there will be some policy bias, so that trivial matters won't hinder their development.
One evening in August, a banquet was held in a high-end hotel.
This banquet was jointly organized by the American Retail Industry Association and the Union.
Senior executives from various large and small department store companies in the association were invited to attend the banquet.
At times like this, it was a good day for these department store companies to exchange feelings.
Although they were usually competitors, under the control of the association and the union, they would cooperate when necessary to fight for greater benefits for their industry.
David was naturally among the invited, after all, he was the business manager of Woodson Department Store Company, one of the largest department store companies in the country.
He drove his luxury car and entered the banquet hall with his female companion.
As soon as he entered, he attracted a lot of attention, and many people came forward to greet him warmly.
People of his status were equivalent to the chairman of a small department store in normal times, so naturally, they received a lot of attention.
He also politely returned each greeting.
But he noticed that there weren't as many people trying to get close to him as usual at this kind of banquet. Normally, executives from small department stores would also come up to say hello.
However, this time, the people who came up to him were mostly in inconspicuous positions, or were representatives of industry associations and unions.
But he was just a little curious and didn't think too much about it.
Medium and small department stores were completely incomparable to him, and it didn't matter if the other party didn't actively seek him out.
Soon, the banquet moved on to the routine charity fundraising segment.
Such banquets often aimed to enhance their reputation, not just to indulge.
According to custom, executives of large companies like David would donate around ten thousand dollars.
It was also normal for people from small department stores to donate a few thousand or a few hundred dollars.
David had already prepared a check and thought for a moment, feeling that five thousand dollars was enough. There was no meaning in donating so much, and it would be a waste of money.
Five thousand dollars would cover his car maintenance for a week.
After writing the check, he casually handed it to the person collecting donations.
At that moment, he faintly heard the voices of a few people discussing enthusiastically nearby.
"How about we all donate ten thousand dollars this time?"
"Well, I think we can. We've made quite a bit of money recently, thanks to Gamestar Electronic Entertainment."
"You've also made a lot of money through Gamestar Electronic Entertainment? So have we."
Originally, David wouldn't pay much attention to the idle chatter of people around him.
But the name "Gamestar Electronic Entertainment" was like a timed switch.
Once he heard this name, his heart would skip a beat.
This was because almost every day, he would receive an email in his inbox.
That email contained the daily sales data of Gamestar Electronic Entertainment, detailed to the single digit.
It was ridiculous.
Recently, the sales data for electronic game consoles and games had been tens of thousands and tens of thousands per day. The highest one-day sales had reached close to one hundred thousand.
And these were basically dispersed to dozens of medium and small department stores.
Each department store could make tens of thousands of dollars a day from this product alone.
And this was because the supply had never been sufficient. If the supply were sufficient, the sales would be even higher.
He couldn't understand why this thing was so popular. Clearly, they were all electronic game consoles, and the game consoles from the companies SuRui Electronics and Lil'Da weren't bad either. He had played them and felt they were all just toys, so what was the difference?
But unfortunately, Lil'Da and SuRui Electronics were just not very competitive; their sales were poor.
David couldn't help but glance over when he heard the voices and saw that they were the bosses of several small department stores.
Actually, they didn't earn much money usually; the ones who really made money were the large department store companies.
But recently, because Gamestar Electronic Entertainment's game consoles were only sold in medium and small department stores, customers had no choice but to go to small department stores.
In the past, these bosses would donate at most two or three thousand dollars to cope.
But this time, each of them donated ten thousand dollars. How much money did they make from the game console?
Of course, ten thousand dollars wasn't much, but when David saw that everyone could donate ten thousand dollars, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.