Chapter 865 I'll give you a chance
“We are a gaming company, and the thing we consistently do is to make the best games.”
After this meeting, some discussion content about this meeting was announced on the official website of Mars Entertainment. Of course, some things involving specific development plans will not be announced, but just roughly talk about Mars Entertainment's subsequent interruptions and plans.
First of all, of course, it is what makes players most excited.
That is, Mars Entertainment is preparing to develop a new handheld console. This handheld console will completely get rid of the name of the game wave y series and change to a brand new series. Moreover, in terms of the handheld console construction system and possible gameplay methods, it will be completely different from the current traditional handheld console. However, it will still be a handheld console, a machine used to play games.
Another thing is that it makes a lot of Mars entertainment very frustrated.
At this meeting, Jester formally submitted his resignation application and resigned from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Mars Entertainment.
It just retains the name of the general manager of the wow development team and the director-general of this game.
This means that Jester really planned to retire this time and after developing this game. This time it was not a joke, not a casual idea that Jester said on an ordinary occasion, but a choice he made clearly at an enlarged meeting of the board of directors.
Although his wife's position as chairman is still the chairman, there is no difference between him and Jester's control over Mars Entertainment, it shows that he wants to express his own attitude through this matter.
This is my choice.
Although many people express regrets, this is the reality. Eight to nine out of ten people are unsatisfactory in life.
Some people even started to review Jester's career at this time, and some celebrities from forum took the initiative to write about the history of his game with Jester.
Of course, what no one noticed was that a person who was not very famous before became the current vice president of Mars Entertainment. One thing to note is that Mars Entertainment now does not have CEO, nor does it have a president. Although Claudia served as the chairman of the board of directors, she did not serve as CEO. It is conceivable that as Claudia's identity, she would not hold this position either.
Because in this position, you must bear the necessary responsibilities.
During the Jester era, Mars Entertainment's president was Mark Seni, but now Mark Seni is specializing in technology, so he has formed the Ice Team to study some technical difficulties in game development.
So, before this meeting, Mark Seney resigned from his position as president, which is also the reason why Mars Entertainment has no president.
In the absence of CEO and the president, the position of vice president of the executive is particularly eye-catching. This means that when there is no CEO and the president, the vice president of Iwada Satoshi is currently the number one person in the administrative affairs of Mars Entertainment. In other words, in administration, Iwada Satoshi actually served as the previous roles of Jester and Mark Seni.
Although there is also a Claudia supervisor on his head.
At the beginning, although people unexpectedly announced the appointment of Satoshi Iwada as Vice President of Executive Officer, they didn't care much because they thought that Jaster would definitely appoint another president and a CEO.
But surprisingly, almost half a month later, Jester, or the current chairman of the board of directors, did not have this action at all.
Even from Jester's reaction, he had no intention of doing so.
This makes many people have a special idea.
Because of this kind of thing, as long as someone who knows the inside story, he will ask, why is this?
Yes. Why is this?
Iwada Satoshi asked himself the same question.
He felt that he had nothing special about him. Of course, if he was indeed called a genius by his friends when he was in school, but in the software industry, the most deficient thing is people who are called genius.
On Mars Entertainment, there are many people like him who grew up in the light.
So, he didn't feel that he had any advantages over others.
His job is indeed well done, and he is selected as a commendation figure in the group almost every year. However, there are so many commendations in the company every year, and there are so many people in the company. It is really not too much for one more person, and there is not too little for one less person. Moreover, he is indeed not a well-known person in the headquarters. Even as the vice president of the executive officer of this company, at least for now, he is the number one in administration.
But even so, he has been in office for more than half a month, and people will still ask who he is when they see him.
This is absolutely impossible in Japan.
You know, when he was in Japan, he was far inferior to the current vice president of the executive who was less than ten thousand people.
But Iwada Satoshi was beautiful and confused for a long time.
Twenty days after he took office, he was summoned by Jester.
He was still in the office before Jester. Although Jester no longer served as the chairman of the company's board of directors, his office was still retained. Of course, Claudia would also work here. As for Jester, he would only stay in WO's development team, and he would hardly leave if he needed to eat at the company's restaurant.
Moreover, when wow development matters occur, Jester basically doesn't care about anything.
Even if he has always liked it very much, he wouldn't do it when he took the initiative to answer some interesting player questions on the forum.
Just thinking about playing games.
His last game.
When Iwada Satoshi received the notification of Jester's meeting, he was not surprised because the environment he is in now must be recognized by Jester. Others regard him as the future president of the company, or even CEO. If Jester does not have Jester's approval, then he dares to view himself the same way.
Claudia was there as Iwada Satoshi walked to Jester's office.
But after he entered, Claudia nodded to him and left directly. Obviously, the next thing was just him talking to Jester.
Jester first let him sit, then he came out from behind the desk and sat down opposite Iwada Satoshi. The two sat face to face across a coffee table, while Claudia, who had left before, returned to the office with a tray, with two cups of coffee on it.
When Claudia put the coffee in front of Iwada Satoshi, Iwada Satoshi also stood up politely to thank him.
After that, Claudia did not go out, but chose to sit next to Jester.
Iwada Satoshi couldn't figure out what Jester was going to say to him.
However, Jester did not make so many turns this time. As soon as he opened his mouth, he talked about the answer to the question that Iwada Satoshi wanted to know the most this time.
"Iwata, to be honest, I admire you very much, sincerely."
Jester smiled while saying that, his smile was very sincere, and it was like this in Iwada Satoshi's eyes.
"Why? It's very simple, because I found that we are a kind of people. We like games, play games, watch others play games, and play games. The most important thing is that we position ourselves as a game player from beginning to end, not other identities. I like what you often say, I am a player, which is very in line with my wishes."
"So. I decided to give you a chance, of course, it can be regarded as giving myself a chance."
Jester said simply.
Not much has been said, but it is enough for a smart person like Iwata Satoshi.
“Work during this period is still going well?”
Iwada Satoshi nodded.
"Actually, my meaning is very simple. I hope that you will be the company's CEO after I officially retire, but it is useless for me. I need you to show that you have the ability to take over CEO. I will give you time to show yourself and impress others. Although my voting rights are enough, I will give you appoint you directly, but I will not do this. I am optimistic about you now. I think you can do very well. What I need you to do is to prove that my views are correct."
"What do you think?"
After Jester finished speaking, he looked at Iwada Satoshi and asked.
His expression was very kind, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking now, but Iwada Satoshi's heart was like ten thousand wild horses galloping by.
However, Iwada Satoshi is not a person who likes to retreat. Moreover, he feels that since his boss looks down on him so much, he has to show his grades to prove his boss’ trust.
“I will work hard.”
Iwada Satoshi nodded vigorously.
However, Jester was not very satisfied after hearing this answer.
He shook his head and said, "What I want is not your efforts, but he can definitely do it."
And Satoshi Iwada also gritted his teeth.
"I can definitely do it."
When Jester heard what Iwada Sato said so decisively, he smiled and stretched out one hand. Iwada Satoshi also stretched out one hand, and the two of them slapped their palms hard.
"Then we'll make up for it."
As he said that, Jester paused for a moment, and then added: "Iwata, you can make any decisions about what you want, what you want to do, and how you want to reform. I can guarantee that as long as you don't do it too out of order, Claudia will stand firmly behind him to support you."
The story of Jester getting rid of Iwata Satoshi soon spread within the company.
As Satoshi Iwata met Jester, the first administrative order was to clean up and rectify the many game development studios within the company, whether directly or under the jurisdiction.
This time it seems that Satoshi Iwada means either not to do it, just do it thoroughly enough.
Although Jester adopted the method of raising a gu in the studio and carried out the best and inferior condoms, the financial pressure on the company is not huge.
But in fact, there are indeed too many studios for Mars Entertainment now. Before, Satoshi Iwada wanted to count a table on how many studios there are in Mars Entertainment now, and arranged three people to do it, but the three people counted it not exactly the same.
There are even mistakes.
Moreover, Satoshi Iwata also feels that it is no longer an era of winning by relying on massive games. Moreover, the game evaluation standards of Mars Entertainment are very strict. Some games that are not qualified are actually not qualified to be on the console. They can only go to the PC of Mars War Network to reply. In fact, it is difficult to make a return. Mars Entertainment's losses in this area are more than 100 million US dollars a year.
In Satoshi Iwata's opinion, this is completely unnecessary.
Jester created this model because the industry was immature at that time, and he needed this way of raising insects to cultivate excellent practitioners.
The current industry environment is very different from the beginning.
Therefore, reform is also necessary.
This is the first thing Iwada Satoshi has to do.
Of course, this kind of reform that touches the interests of many people on a large scale is definitely opposed by many people.
However, when others discovered that both Jester and Claudia were firmly standing on Iwada Satoshi's side, they were helpless.
Therefore, since the establishment of Mars Entertainment, there has been the first large-scale dismissal wave. This time, the number of employees disbanded exceeded 300, which is really a very huge number.
And through this incident, it also means that Jester has expressed his attitude to the outside world.
That's right, just as you expected, I do have plans to let Satoshi Iwata take over after he retires.
Many websites and magazines have reported this incident. After all, this is an amazing event in the industry. Many people contacted Jester's resignation as chairman of the board of directors some time ago. Now there are large-scale layoffs, it may be that there are problems with Mars Entertainment or Jester's capital flow.
But this is simply nonsense.
The media immediately refuted that they said that Jester was just a share of Citibank shares every year, so it was impossible for him to worry about money, and Jester's name was still on the list of Citibank's large directors.
Of course, many people also said that Jester said he resigned from the chairman of the board to concentrate on playing games. However, not long ago, a reporter from a financial magazine lined up the meeting with his wife and two other young men in a restaurant in New York. The two young men, one named Sergey Brin and the other named Larry Page.
These two young people have no particular origin.
But they are all Stanford graduates. They set up a company and are busy raising their own companies for the second round of financing. (~^~)
Chapter completed!