"Nagao, do you know what's going on over there at the venue?"
On the day before the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show, Soichiro Hayakawa finally arrived in the United States from Japan.
He had been held back by handling coordination between multiple departments within the company, so he had only just landed today.
As soon as he got off the plane, he didn't even have time to adjust to the time difference. He hurriedly made his way to the area of the International Consumer Electronics Show and met up with Yoo's CEO, Nagao.
Nagao arrived two days earlier than Soichiro. This time, he was collaborating with SuRui Electronics, so both sides, like Gamestar Entertainment, decisively rented one of the venues together to set up their exhibits.
This time, they were also very confident, preparing to release several explosive pieces of news about new games at this exhibition. SuRui Electronics also had some electronic products that had been kept hidden for a long time, intended to increase the topic intensity based on the new gaming console.
Nagao was very happy to be in line with SuRui Electronics.
And he became more and more confident in his own success.
The technical strength of SuRui Electronics is not to be underestimated.
However, Gamestar Entertainment had been secretive all along, which indeed made people curious.
Hearing Soichiro's question, Nagao, who was still supervising the final construction of the venue, turned his head and said, "I'm not sure. I sent a few people to sneak a look before, but they were all stopped by very vigilant bodyguards. Now we still don't know what's going on over there at the venue."
Soichiro felt a sudden heaviness in his heart upon hearing this.
Dealing with Gamestar Entertainment for such a long time, both cooperating and competing, he somewhat understood Gamestar Entertainment.
Although Takayuki seems very young, he is brewing with mischief.
Especially when he's preparing to hide something, it probably means he's really preparing something big.
When Soichiro arrived at the venue and saw the situation, he felt somewhat uneasy.
The unknown is what worries people the most.
"President Hayakawa, there's no need to worry so much about this matter. That guy from Gamestar Entertainment is just playing tricks. It's just an exhibition. Can he really make a big fuss? The more he does this, the more it shows that he lacks confidence and wants to win attention through some crooked ways. This further proves our great advantage."
Nagao was very confident.
Because just half a month ago, he successfully acquired two game studios exclusively for Gamestar Entertainment's platform.
Not all game studios are completely loyal. Some studios have aspirations, but more studios just follow the money.
When he acquired the other party at several times the price, the other party hardly resisted.
Some of them took the cash and then promptly signed non-compete agreements and ran away. Nagao looked down on such people. Some, however, were prepared to continue in the gaming industry after the acquisition.
Nagao paid more attention to these people and offered them good treatment to make them feel at ease to continue developing games.
As long as the core members of these studios do not leave too much, there is still potential for the studio.
Now he has more than ten series IPs of high-quality games and more than thirty secondary-level game series IPs.
These series are a guarantee of income, which gives him a lot of confidence.
Although he still doesn't compare to Gamestar Entertainment with so many series IPs, the overall scale and strength should not be inferior to that of Gamestar Entertainment.
He even began to fantasize about when his game industry stabilized, seizing the opportunity to raise funds to develop game consoles, and then grabbing a share of the game console market.
Only those who control the channels are the wealthiest. Just making games is not very promising.
He sees this very clearly. The cooperation with SuRui Electronics is only temporary.
He also plans to let his own people take the opportunity to learn more from SuRui Electronics for future development.
He no longer respects Gamestar Entertainment as much. He even feels that as long as he wants, he can become a group that competes on equal terms with Gamestar Entertainment at any time.
But Soichiro was not so optimistic.
Hearing Nagao's words, he felt that there seemed to be some truth to it, but he still couldn't rest assured.
"Let your people try again to see if they can sneak into that venue. This completely unknown situation really makes me uncomfortable."
It's a feeling of being out of control, and he doesn't want this feeling to persist.
"Okay, but I don't think it's necessary. It's just an exhibition. We have solid products. What are we afraid of?"
Soichiro glanced at Nagao.
This guy is indeed the boss of an internet portal, and also the CEO of a company valued at 30 billion U.S. dollars, but he doesn't have the vigilance of many big company bosses.
Perhaps because this guy has been too successful.
The rapid growth of the Internet has left many people without time to settle down, and they have quickly obtained everything they wanted.
He began to feel that this kind of cooperation might not necessarily be a good thing.
Nagao still respects Soichiro. In terms of status, Soichiro is definitely higher, so he arranged for a few agile people to sneak a look at the situation in the venue according to his request.
Seeing that someone was going to inquire, Soichiro's expression improved slightly, and then he turned to look at SuRui Electronics' own exhibition area.
In this exhibition area of over 10,000 square meters, the most conspicuous are their two latest game console exhibition areas, which occupy seventy percent of the area.
In these areas, there will be plenty of trial content for players to experience, with all kinds of game types available, and all of them are of high-quality graphics.
At this moment, Soichiro couldn't help but sigh again at the power of Unreal Engine. The development team of the game personally told him that they were starting to have trouble letting go of Unreal Engine.
Because the Unreal Engine updates very frequently, each update adds more data code that is convenient for game development.
This greatly reduces the game development cycle while maintaining quite impressive graphics quality.
If you want to create a similar game engine, the first thing you need to overcome is the complex game development data.
Data is the soul of the engine. Without these core data, the efficiency of an engine developing games will be greatly reduced.
At this moment, Soichiro seemed to finally vaguely realize Takayuki's ambition.
This guy wants to create a terrifyingly large game development database, a database that would be unmatched by any newcomer.
In game development, relying on creativity and imagination might surpass Gamestar Entertainment.
But this kind of almost monopolistic game engine, it's probably difficult to surpass...