Chapter 44 Why?
The visa was completed in the afternoon, and in the evening, Takahashi and Yuji Kudo boarded the plane to the United States.
Crossing the Pacific Ocean.
The engine that drives the turbine is noisy, but fortunately the whole journey only took only twelve hours.
United States of America, San Jose, California, San Jose International Airport.
The people from Broadbond Company are already picking up the plane.
Yuji Kudo spoke Japanese English and communicated with the person who picked up the plane with difficulty.
Although Japanese English is considered English by Japanese, other English users may feel very painful. Although they are not completely unable to understand, it is still difficult to figure out some sentences.
Of course, not only Japanese English is like this. English in any country or region in the world has its own accent.
American accent, British accent. If the accent comes from London, it might be called London accent in the United States.
Takahashi thinks that his English accent has a strong Chinese flavor, which is not a shame. It is enough to make people understand it.
Silicon Valley, the birthplace of information communications around the world.
Takahashi sat in the seat behind the driver. Ford made in the United States may have too much labor costs in the United States. Although the materials are good materials, the assembly process is a mess.
He slightly turned his head to the window and looked at the scenery of Silicon Valley, which reminded him of the legend of the birth of Silicon Valley.
Why Silicon Valley was born, or why it was Silicon Valley. There are many different opinions, among which Takahashi agrees more that the birth of Silicon Valley is a feast for the transformation of technology into the civilians.
Silicon Valley's technology comes from the military, and there is no doubt.
Those garage legends after garage can't be said to be fake. They are indeed true, creating one vivid image after another that conforms to the American dream.
However, without the general background of electronic technology to the military and civilian transformation, those entrepreneurs who may be great in the eyes of some people may still be able to become great, but they are definitely not in the electronics field.
Electronic information technology is constantly decentralized, from the military to enterprises, and then from enterprises to individuals.
Finally, in the earliest and largest market in the United States, the first and largest, masterpieces in the consumer electronics field such as Atari 2600 were born.
However, due to the negligence of Atari's senior management, the wrong business strategy, fraud of consumers, etc.
The growth rate was originally higher than that of Google and Facebook, and they even ended up losing their parent company Time Warner to a little bit of bankruptcy.
BroadBond Company, although it is the four major computer game publishers in the United States, is only a two-story building.
"Welcome." A young blonde man stood at the door, beside him a woman of the same hair color. I think this pile is Broadbond's founding brother and sister.
Kudo went up and gave the young man a hug in an American manner. After letting go, he said, "Hello, I am the president of Japan's Hudson Company - Yuji Kudo. This is our employee Takahashi who can telegraph you."
"Hello, hello. The worker is in a state of pain and is too climax." Perhaps for Americans, both Japanese and Chinese names are too difficult to pronounce. The names of Yuji Kudo and Takahashi have changed their taste in his mouth.
"I'm Brown, this is my sister Alice." Brown introduced himself and his sister.
The twelve hours of the plane, and the time difference between this place and Tokyo is almost the same. Therefore, it is just a hiding place in the evening.
As the Brown brother and sister entered the room, Kudo Yuji said without any implicitness, "I'm here to talk about the issue of the Red and White Machine Version of "Gold Digger".
"We know." Brown nodded, "I admit that the picture of "The Gold Digger" produced by your company is much better than ours. However, my question is very simple. Is it still a gold digger with such a big change?"
"Do you have a TV?" asked Yuji Kudo.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Then let's demonstrate our "Gold Digger"! No matter how much you talk, it doesn't make sense. I want to speak with facts." Kudo Yuji said.
Takahashi opened the suitcase he carried with him and took out a red and white machine from it.
The red and white machine was serialized on TV and the game began.
Yuji Kudo, who is familiar with "Gold Digger", found that the game was different from when he saw it in Japan.
"What's wrong?" asked Yuji Kudo.
"The output standards of TVs are different." Takahashi replied in English.
Takahashi carefully added relevant knowledge, because the red and white machine images need to be realized, so it is necessary to use these. Logically speaking, it will not be like this. Japan and the United States use the NTSC standards formulated by the US National Television Systems Commission.
This TV obviously uses the PAL standard, and this standard is generally adopted in Europe, China, and Australia. There should be no problem of incompatibility in the TV standard in the United States.
"This is a German TV." Brown said at this time, "The game can run, start to hide it. You can speak English well, please."
Takahashi played and commented, "The fax sent to your company before has explained the reason for our change. The game has also been mailed to your company. However, we think that only such on-site commentary can be more convincing.
We take the opposite attitude towards the statement that the screen display will reduce the gameplay in this way.
Because, at the beginning of the game, we will give a shot of all the scenes of the game, and in the game, we can solve the player's control over the overall situation by pausing and pressing the arrow keys. We believe that this method of handling does not affect the puzzle solving."
Brown nodded without comment.
He asked almost all the questions he had said in the fax, and then turned to Yuji Kudo and asked, "We have played this game too. In fact, we think your approach is acceptable. But there is a question I want to ask you in person, is the agreement in your fax true? Why are you sure you can sell a million games?"
Yuji Kudo is also prepared for this. After all, in the view of Broadbond, his company has a straight-line distance of more than 1,000 kilometers.
If your company dares to boast about Haikou, it is a dare to say that, but if you buy less games, you can go bankrupt and run away from such a distance.
Brown asked why he could sell a million copies, but in fact what he wanted to say in his heart, why should we trust you?
Chapter completed!