Chapter 77 Xiaomei
Defensive games are not tower defense, but games launched based on commercial defense.
The arcade market is changing rapidly, and almost no manufacturer can determine what the next hot game type is, how long can the most popular game type last? I am not sure that the games they make will be successful. Nowadays, first-tier and quasi-first-tier manufacturers have rich defensive product lines except for tens of thousands of households.
The struggles of Chinese Internet companies in later generations are similar. When your Sina Weibo becomes popular, I will use Tencent Weibo to defend. When your WeChat becomes alive, I will launch Yixin defense. When your xx mobile assistant becomes popular, I will issue xxbao. Do you do payment? I also do payment. When you do novels, I also do novels.
Are these companies doing useless work? No, no. Most products that seem half-dead in the eyes of users are defensive products. Although they are useless, if this field really has a broad prospect, they will immediately add additional investment.
Although it may not necessarily win in this war, it can at least ensure that all of your own users will not go to other people's platforms.
The same is true for arcade games today. Different arcade manufacturers have different characteristics and different fans.
Like "The Tower of Magic", which Wanhu, started with, is not a game for the public, but it has a huge number of fans in the "niche".
Although other imitators can also be diverted from the players of "Magic Tower", they can only learn the superficial game in the short term, but because the number of players is below the critical point, the game will be delisted early.
The defensive work that the middle-aged man of Sega is actually a competitor of Wanhu's "Tetris", a game of eliminating the whereabouts of similar types.
The middle-aged people in Sega made almost the same time. Korami, Namco, and Capcom all had similar defensive plans.
Although the final game of the defensive plan may not be really launched. If Tetris dies suddenly, they will not have the reason to waste their own similar arcades and waste valuable arcade halls. It is just a technical reserve.
If Tetris becomes popular, they will immediately start the production and manufacturing mode and quickly produce similar games to make money.
When manufacturers are intriguing each other, players are much more simple.
Players play games with one thing: happiness and the other is victory.
Although the arcade version of Tetris, compared with the original Tetris, the casual attributes are reduced and the confrontation attributes are increased.
But it is still a very homogenized arcade market, a rare and delicious stream.
Other manufacturers are not launching innovative games, but each game is actually innovative when you look at it carefully. However, this kind of "micro innovation" in details is like letting a row of faces, slightly move the knife and observe for dozens of minutes before you can find subtle differences. Most players will not notice it at all, and the players who notice it don't care.
Xiaomei is a 22-year-old white-collar worker. Although she only graduated from high school, it is enough for Japanese girls. More than 80% of the men of her age are not college students. If she goes to college and puts pressure on boys of the same age, how should she get married?
Originally, she was not interested in the increasingly popular arcades in the past two years. To her, the arcade hall was simply a gathering place for garbage.
People who often visit arcade halls must be low-income groups, and some gangsters and beggars are even more involved.
Although there is no need to worry about safety, even if the exhaust fan is turned on to the maximum, it cannot dispel the heat, smell of sweat, and smell of smoke that cannot be dispelled, which really makes her unable to like it.
However, since the last time she went shopping, she saw an arcade hall that opened a women's zone. It was non-smoking, the environment was elegant, and there were few people. The most important thing was that the arcade games inside looked soft and cute, and it was not the kind of stupid game that boys played.
I went in and tried it, and the moderately difficult "Bubble Dragon" quickly attracted her fans. Although she and her best friend had never played arcades before, they spent more than 10,000 yen in just over an hour. However, Xiaomei felt that the cost was very worth it.
She bought a bunch of useless support items that she bought for her idols, and she could spend 100,000 yen every month. It was not too much for her to spend only 10,000 yen on arcade games.
In Japan in the 1980s, women with the same income would always live freely more than men. First of all, they did not have the pressure to get promoted, because they went back to be housewives as soon as they got married. Even if they were promoted and still stayed in the company, they would soon be unable to do it due to public pressure.
Secondly, there is no worry about buying a house and car and taking a loan. Women are born for consumption. If they are not beautiful, even if they have a house and a car, they will not be able to find high-quality men.
Is a man willing to be with a beautiful and weak girl, or a man who looks more like a man than he looks, the answer is simple and self-evident.
Therefore, girls spend more money than boys. The market that originally appeared for men, after seeing women's strong consumption power, naturally spared no effort to develop the women's market.
This is the product of women's special arcade hall. The games here are so cute, and the air here has a faint fragrance. You don't have to worry about perverts' salty hands playing here.
In short, female players are God here, and the more money they spend, the better God they are.
Even Xiaomei always went to the arcade hall, and the number of claw machines inside was almost as large as the game consoles. There were also many female players who specialized in crawling cute dolls.
Today, Xiaomei came to the arcade hall again.
"Welcome." said the young and handsome service guy gently.
Exchange 10,000 coins. Xiaomei took out her noble gold membership card and handed it to the service guy. The service guy took the card and processed it. The machine next to her dropped a hundred coins of one hundred yen.
The service guy first returned the receipt and the gold membership card with both hands, and handed Xiaomei the small basin filled with coins with both hands, and finally gave her a sweet smile.
OK, the full service is over.
Xiaomei, who spends at least 10,000 yen every time she comes, is already very familiar with this service guy. As long as a person is beautiful, the whole world will treat him better.
The beauty who loves beauty not only loves her own beauty, but also loves others' beauty. She took the small basin, boldly pinched the service boy's hand, and then asked, "Is there any fun new game recently?"
The service guy is no longer surprised by the female players' robbery. He is a man who was once poached to be a cowherd. He can easily deal with the small body touches of the arcade hall.
He said to Xiaomei, who seemed to be Mobile Kingsoft in her opinion, "Wanhu just released a new game called Tetris, which is the company that produced "Bubble Dragon".
Xiaomei was so happy when she heard the service brother telling her favorite game accurately, but she still said, "Tetris? It sounds so rustic! Why not call it Tetris? It should be so romantic."
Chapter completed!