Chapter 1557 What Kind of Game Should Be the Escort Game for the Game Router?

Openly announcing that Finger Company would become an independent studio structure, cutting off all the previous personnel redundancies, and maintaining this small scale, continuously!

Moreover, after the game merger, Finger Company would only receive 30% of the profits. Even from this 30%, the employee salaries and various expenses of Finger Company would first be deducted before distributing dividends to the shareholders!

This was a bit excessive, because Tenda was the largest shareholder of Finger Company. After all the distribution, the dividends still ended up back in their own pockets.

Of course, it didn't matter how Tenda wanted to allocate the funds, but the key was that Finger Company only received 30% of the profits, and the majority was returned to Tenda. How much profit could there actually be then?

After all, GoG has always been a game with very cheap skins; this was tradition.

Would Tenda massively increase the price of skins after merging the two games? Not necessarily!

And at the beginning, everyone didn't believe that Tenda wanted to kill Finger Company. They thought that this personnel change was some special arrangement.

But after watching for so long, they discovered that there was no special arrangement at all. It seemed that they simply disliked Finger Company, so they wanted to clean it up and completely transform Finger Company into an ordinary overseas development project team attached to GoG!

As a result, everyone's evaluation of Finger Company's stock price naturally plummeted.

After all, no matter how much money Tenda made, it had nothing to do with Finger Company!

This situation was a bit like a listed game company with only one pillar game, and then the revenue from that pillar game was cut off, and there was no possibility of a turnaround in the foreseeable future.

In this case, the stock price would definitely plummet.

Finger Company's stock price didn't plummet so drastically, but a continuous decline was already inevitable.

To this, Pei Qian just wanted to say: "Well done!"

After so much effort, he finally made everyone believe that he wanted to ruin Finger Company and prevent it from continuing to make money!

Pei Qian was forced to do this. Otherwise, if Finger Company's stock price soared after the acquisition due to the capital market's optimism, making a fortune, that would be terrible!

He had to make Finger Company's stock price fall, making Tenda's investment go down the drain. This was Pei Qian's ultimate goal.

After reading the report, Pei Qian was very satisfied with the current situation of Finger Company. So, he simply replied, praising Eric for his hard work during this period and asking him to continue to maintain it, striving to completely transform Finger Company into an overseas research and development department attached to the GoG project team as soon as possible.

Just after replying to Eric, there was a knock on the office door.

Pei Qian looked up and saw that it was Lao Song, the acting head of Otto Technologies.

"Hmm, is there a problem with the development of the new product?"

Pei Qian was a little surprised, after all, he had just finalized the new product with Lao Song at the end of last month.

It had only been less than a week, so why was he here again? Could it be that the two new products he designed were too outrageous, and Lao Song realized the problem?

If that was the case, he would have to use a big忽悠 (hūyōu, deceive/fool) technique.

Lao Song coughed lightly and said, "President Pei, it's like this, there was a slight oversight in my work. So, I've made a special trip today to ask you for advice again."

"Last week, you finalized the final form of the two products, but there's only one thing: Doesn't the game router also need to have a launch game?"

This couldn't be blamed on Lao Song, after all, he was a product manager and didn't have a deep understanding of the game industry.

He didn't think there was any problem at the time, but after chatting with a few people in charge, Lao Song realized the problem.

As a game console, it must have a launch game as a flagship title!

They couldn't just release the console and simply port all of Tenda's games over, right? That would be too insincere and wouldn't drive sales at all.

But the launch game was not a small matter. Tenda had so many excellent games, which one should they choose?

President Pei had to make the decision.

"That's right." Pei Qian nodded and asked, "What are your thoughts on this launch game?"

Lao Song had obviously considered it briefly and said, "President Pei, my understanding of the game industry is not very thorough, so I'm just saying it casually. If there's any problem, please correct me."

"My idea is that there are actually two choices for this flagship title. First, port one of Tenda's most classic games as a flagship title. For example, the game *Struggle*. We can make a console-specific version, a remastered version, and release it together with the router, giving it away to players for free. This would give the game router a certain collectible value."

"The second option is to choose an unreleased new game as the launch title for the console, such as the game *Your Choice of the Future* that Tenda Games and Shang Yang Games are jointly developing. Isn't that quite suitable?"

"If it can be an exclusive game, that would be even better. It would definitely guarantee that our console sells well!"

Pei Qian didn't express his opinion immediately, because he felt that the situation was not good.

When the router was released, it would include all of Tenda's games and most of the games on the Dawn Games platform that supported console gameplay. This was beyond doubt.

In this case, the success of the game router already had a high risk.

If they added a significant exclusive game, that would be terrible!

Both of Lao Song's methods were very dangerous.

The former was to choose a classic old game from Tenda and make a remastered commemorative version as the launch flagship title. The characteristic of these classic old games was that they had been tested by time and were deeply loved by players. They would definitely not fail, making it a very safe choice.

The latter was to use Tenda's new game, *Your Choice of the Future*, a true AAA game, as the launch flagship title, and it would be best to make it an exclusive.

If it became an exclusive, would it lead to a situation where buying the game would include the console? This was very likely!

So, it was best not to choose either method!

Pei Qian shook his head and said, "I don't think either of them is particularly suitable."

"Using an old game with a commemorative remastered version as the launch flagship title seems too insincere! Tenda Games hasn't reached the point where it needs to rehash old content."

"As for the game *Your Choice of the Future*, although it has enough weight to be a launch flagship title, the timing doesn't seem quite right."

"According to the original schedule, the game router will be released more than two months earlier than the game *Your Choice of the Future*."

"It wouldn't make much sense to wait for more than two months before releasing it."

"Moreover, our game console has just been launched, so it's not suitable to directly use an important AAA title as an exclusive. This is not very friendly to many of our long-time supporters."

"They would feel that we are forcibly promoting the console and that it has the suspicion of forced buying and selling."

"I think it's best for the game *Your Choice of the Future* to be released on all platforms, and there's no need to affect the release of the game router because of this game."

Lao Song was a little confused: "Then, President Pei, are you saying that the game router shouldn't have a launch flagship title? Just port the games on the Dawn Games platform?"

Pei Qian coughed lightly twice: "I don't mean that either. As for exclusive games, let's just develop another one."

"Moreover, since it's an exclusive game, we should develop it as much as possible to target the characteristics of the game router, so that the hardware and software are truly matched. This is the most sincere thing for players."

Lao Song was stunned for a moment: "Develop another game? But as far as I know, all of Tenda's game departments already have projects, right? We don't have any extra research and development resources. Do we really have the energy and manpower to develop a new exclusive game?"

Pei Qian thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Tenda Games, Shang Yang Games, Late Arrival Studio... all the game departments directly related to Tenda Group currently had their own game development tasks.

They couldn't put aside their current projects to develop an exclusive game for the console, right?

But this couldn't stump Pei Qian. After a little thought, he had an idea.

"Who said we don't have any extra research and development resources?"

"There's one department you forgot."

"The Dead-End Project and the Independent Game Incubation Base!"

"With so many producers, how can you say that we don't have extra research and development resources? We clearly have plenty of research and development resources!"

Lao Song was completely shocked. His eyes widened slightly, and his face was full of incredulous expressions.

He never expected that President Pei would even include the independent game producers in the Independent Game Incubation Base in the scope of Tenda's research and development resources?

But even he, a layman, knew that this was not the same thing at all!

What the game router needed now was a significant AAA flagship game, and a so-called AAA game definitely needed many people to work together and make joint efforts. It not only needed a strong main designer as a leader, but also an entire set of mature design teams to support it.

There were indeed some excellent producers in the Independent Game Incubation Base. They had ideas and abilities, but the production processes of independent games and AAA games were vastly different.

For example, if independent game producers were special forces, better suited to performing special tasks in small groups, then AAA game production teams were like regular armies, fighting large-scale, organized battles.

Would gathering all the special forces together achieve the same effect as a regular army? Definitely not.

Although these independent game producers were all good at designing games, they each had their own ideas. How could they be integrated together? This seemed like an impossible task.

Not to mention developing a AAA game that could be the flagship title for the game router, it was doubtful whether the game could be successfully made.

Lao Song persuaded, "President Pei, why don't you think about it again? I don't think it matters much if this console is released two months earlier or two months later. Let's just wait for the game *Your Choice of the Future*, even if it can't be an exclusive game, at least it has enough weight and it's unlikely that anything unexpected will happen."

Pei Qian chuckled: "Don't worry about this, go find Qiu Hong to handle it."

Pei Qian didn't bother to talk nonsense with Lao Song, because Lao Song wouldn't understand even if he said more.

It was better to leave this matter to Qiu Hong. Qiu Hong was a game producer himself, so he should be able to imagine President Pei's intentions and at least develop this game smoothly.

Moreover, the Independent Game Incubation Base had already been exposed, so there was no need to hide it.

Of course, it was really hard to say what kind of state this flagship game would be in once it was developed.

It was very likely to be a deformed product pieced together from the ideas of many producers.

But this was exactly what Pei Qian wanted. He didn't want the game router's launch game to be too excellent, otherwise it would definitely become a hit, wouldn't it?

Even if the game router was going to be a hit, Pei Qian didn't want it to be a hit in this cycle. It would be best to wait until this year was over.

Anyway, Pei Qian had already made a big haul by then, so he wouldn't care so much about these things.

Lao Song hesitated, but finally nodded: "Okay, President Pei, then I'll go discuss it with Qiu Hong."