After three days of consideration, Keigo Higashino agreed to go to the United States.

Michael Steinif quickly took out his script, but after reading it, Jester was not very satisfied. He decided that the only script was the best or bad of a detective game. Of course, only scripts were not enough. He was also very satisfied with Michael Steinif's previous performance in the company, so after he rejected the game script written by the other party, he simply said to him.

"Kego Higashino will be here in a few days. We will discuss it together at that time."

A few days later, in the Mars Entertainment conference room, Jester and Michael Steinif had a long discussion with Keigo Higashino who had just arrived in the United States. The main reason was that Michael Steinif and Keigo Higashino had a more detailed discussion on this game called "Reversal Referee", while Jester was just correcting some mistakes.

I have to say that Keigo Higashino's ability to write game scripts is far above Michael Steinif. In a very short time, he briefly told a general story.

The whole story starts with a small case, and then progresses layer by layer, and the difficulty of solving it becomes increasingly deeper and deeper. It seems that he is learning without a teacher. Keigo Higashino completed a place that is almost perfect in Jester's opinion. After all, it is the work of a master of the future mystery novel. Although the other party's style has not been fully formed, his thinking about reasoning is far beyond what he or a layman like Michael Steinif.

"No word is easy."

Jester pressed his hand on the table and said to Keigo Higashino very seriously. When Keigo Higashino heard Jester say this, he looked at Jester unexpectedly, with a look of incomprehension in his eyes. He wondered why Jester made such a choice at this time.

Michael Steinif also nodded. Through the communication just a few hours, he was completely impressed by Keigo Higashino's talent in mystery novels. He was not very detailed about Keigo Higashino just now, but he could never say it was a complete plot that was simply said. At least he, or the people he knew, did not have such ability.

After previous discussions, Keigo Higashino also became very interested in this game called "Reversal Referee".

When he heard Jester say he wanted to use the plot he just said word by word, Keigo Higashino was also surprised, and then he smiled, while Jester and Michael Stanif looked at Keigo Higashino in confusion. They were a little confused, Keigo Higashino laughed.

However, Keigo Higashino was not a person who kept it in hiding. After smiling, he immediately said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Michael, in fact, the story I just thought of was just a rough idea in the past few days. Many places can still be improved. You say that this is not easy. It's not too arbitrary." Keigo Higashino's words surprised Jester and Michael Stanis.

They could never have imagined that such a script that was already very perfect in their eyes could only be regarded as a draft in Keigo Higashino's eyes.

"Then..." When Jester saw Keigo Higashino responding to him like this, he knew that the other party must have agreed to his invitation.

Sure enough, Keigo Higashino nodded seriously and said solemnly: "I am very willing to participate in the development of this game, improve the game script as soon as possible, and through the chat with Mr. Li just now, I have a lot of inspiration, so I feel it deeply." Keigo Higashino's tone was also a little excited, and it didn't seem like a lie.

Jester knew why. He just inadvertently said that after ten years of maturity, Keigo Higashino's style of writing will naturally make Keigo Higashino, who is still in the transformation period and has not even touched the doorbar during the exploration period, feel deeply touched.

However, Jester does not have a deep understanding of mystery novels, so he can only briefly talk about it and cannot explain it in depth.

Keigo Higashino agreed to write a script for the game, which also made Jester feel relieved.

In this way, the development team of "Reversal Referee" was established with Michael Stanif and Keigo Higashino as the core.

The next few months went by dull. After the pre-sale popularity, Sega's md was still very popular when it was officially released. It only sold hundreds of thousands of units in just ten days. Moreover, Sega chose to transplant its own arcade games due to the shortcomings of third-party game manufacturers. You should know that Sega is still the overlord of the entire Japan or in other words, the entire world's arcade market.

Even those who have won many achievements in the arcade market, such as Mars Entertainment or Namco, are not Sega's opponents.

Sega has a large number of fans of arcade games. When these arcade games can be played on home machines, these people are naturally excited. Therefore, the sales of md are very popular, and even so popular. Jester had expected this, because in the world in his memory, when Sega released md, it was much better than the current situation. At that time, the market was the only one that dominated, so Sega was able to attract many small game companies that were not satisfied with Nintendo's premium policy.

However, Nintendo is far less domineering than the world that Jester remembers. At its peak, it once dominated 90% of the entire electronic game market. Therefore, their premium policies for those small game companies were extremely strict, which also gave Sega an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time. However, now, Mars Entertainment is in a strong position. After drawing on Nintendo's first premium policy, Mars Entertainment gave it very relaxed to join a third-party game development company. Therefore, Nintendo's strict policies naturally could not be maintained.

In this way, Sega certainly had no chance to recruit development companies like those in Jester's memory.

But just like Sega did in Jester's memory, in this world, Sega still did this, that is, the transplantation of arcade games. Sega has accumulated over the years of arcades, and they have no shortage of games and players, so they can become famous in one go.

On the contrary, the PC-e developed by Namco, Hudson and Japan Electric quickly entered a state of turmoil after the climax that was just released. Although Namco also has many arcade games, their arcade games cannot be compared with Sega in terms of quality and quantity, and their transplant capabilities are far inferior.

As for development capabilities, perhaps no other game company can compete with Sega except Mars Entertainment and Nintendo.

"Everyone, what do you think?"

Hiroshi Yamauchi himself forgot that this is the first time he has held such a high-level meeting this year. Since Sega was revealed that they developed 16 home machines, he has held such high-level meetings again and again. It seems that Nintendo is particularly unsuccessful this year. Not only has it not maintained the platform share of European and American nes that he had finally settled last year, but it was killed in the Japanese market because of the two consecutive masterpieces lost the losses in the first half of this year.

Now he has just read last month's financial report. Now their FC's share in the Japanese market has been reduced to 69% by Mars Entertainment. You know, this is the first time since their release of FC, the market share in the Japanese market has been lower than 70%. Although it is only temporarily, I believe that as soon as my new games are released, the share will be able to quickly return to 70% but it is only 10%.

Fortunately, the PC-e developed by the two traitors has no sound yet, which is exactly what I expected before. Otherwise, I might not even be able to get a 69% share.

This Sega...

When he thought of Sega, the gloomy face of Shizuo Nakayama could not help but appear in his mind. Then he snorted coldly that he had a personal conflict with Shizuo Nakayama. He was almost angered by Shizuo Nakayama's intentional provocation at a charity party hosted by the Mitsui family, and almost made him lose face in front of the top consortium in Japan.

Faced with the problem that Yuki Yamauchi just now, the people present also looked at each other for a few times, and no one stood up and spoke.

In fact, they have discussed this issue many times. Nintendo's situation now does not need to be external. They just need to do their own thing, develop their new console Super FC with Sony's joint development team, and develop excellent games within the game development team. Go to the next step not to lose as much as before "The Legend of Zelda II".

Then, for Nintendo, nothing else is a problem.

As for Sega, it just has a little first-mover advantage. As long as their own game console is done well, they will probably be able to quickly regain their lost share. This is basically the consensus of everyone, including Hiroshi Yamauchi, but Nintendo is a listed company after all. Seeing its market share continue to decline, as the market share declines, the stock price is also falling - any listed company can't withstand such impact.

What's more, the news they found before was that Mars Entertainment has now begun to develop their next-era game, which means that the other party's next-era home game console, that is, the sixteen-bit computer, has basically been finalized.
Chapter completed!