Video Game Tycoon in Tokyo-Chapter 900: It Must Be Kept Secret

The overall development progress of Sekiro is quite optimistic. Unless something unexpected happens, it should definitely be announced by the end of the year. Takayuki also reviewed the current state of Sekiro; the first level has been basically completed. However, the character models and scenes in the game still require more refined production.

This will require pure time investment to complete, and fortunately, the industrialization of game development can be reflected in this aspect.

At this rate, Takayuki believes that Sekiro should have a playable version finished by August or September. This would be a perfect opportunity to negotiate with the Japanese government to promote the game together.

Since the Japanese government is willing to help with promotional efforts for free, how could Takayuki not take advantage of that? It would save a significant amount of promotional costs, which is quite a good deal.

"By the way, what's the date today?"

After reviewing Sekiro's development progress, Takayuki suddenly asked a question unrelated to the game.

"Uh... it's April... 13th. What's up, President?"

"April 13th?"

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"President, are you estimating the specific release date of our game? I think it should definitely be fine around Christmas."

Takayuki shook his head and said, "No, it's not about the game release date. I was just reminded of something else."

"What is it?"

"Japan, is it going to win the Olympic bid?"

"Olympic bid?" Rinto paused for a moment and then suddenly recalled a news segment he saw on TV. He replied uncertainly, "I think there's indeed something about that."

Rinto couldn't quite remember clearly, since recently his mind had been fully occupied with how to improve the game. Even when he was resting after work, he often thought about how to make Sekiro even more perfect.

Other game development teams were working intensely, and it looked like they were pushing themselves hard, so he didn't want to fall behind.

The Olympic bid wasn't as important to him as the work itself, and he wasn't particularly interested in sports.

"This might also be a good promotional opportunity, don't you think?"

"A good promotional opportunity? Do you mean... tying Sekiro to the Olympics for promotion?"

"That's definitely not it," Takayuki said with a smile and shook his head. "I just happened to remember it, and it has nothing to do with Sekiro."

"Oh, so are you planning to develop an Olympic-themed game to ride the wave of this momentum?"

An Olympic-themed game, in simple terms, would directly incorporate many standard Olympic events into the game.

For Gamestar Electronic Entertainment today, developing such a game would be quite easy. Some departments could finish all the development in just six months if they seriously focused on it.

If Takayuki planned to develop it with a focus on quality, it could probably be completed in a year.

Developing an Olympic game while capitalizing on the Olympic excitement would definitely at least break even if Japan wins the bid.

"Olympic game? You know, I almost forgot about that. It's something we can consider, but we can discuss it again in 2019. There's no rush for this kind of game; I'm just thinking about other things right now."

At that moment, Takayuki suddenly remembered when he first saw the Tokyo Olympic promotional video online.

That was during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics.

As per tradition, the next host country usually makes a promotional effort to increase excitement for the upcoming Olympics.

At that time, Japan surprised everyone with a promotional video for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

They gathered Japan's most popular games, anime, and movies into one big spectacle.

Super Mario was the center of it.

The Japanese Prime Minister appeared as Super Mario, emerging from a pipe on the ground of Japan, leading to Rio's main Olympic stadium wearing a red hat.

At the time, Takayuki was extremely excited when he saw this promotional video.

It was the first time in history that the Olympics, such a large-scale event, had openly promoted video games.

Super Mario was the centerpiece of the Olympics, marking a milestone for video games.

Even though video games hadn't yet made it into the Olympics as a competitive event, their presence in the Olympics showed that society was gradually accepting the value of video games.

Takayuki remembered how his father was just as excited as he was, and they had made plans to watch the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony together to see how Japan would present its proudest video games and anime to the world.

However, reality didn't live up to expectations.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, initially planned with a large budget, ended up a complete mess due to the pandemic and some of Japan's own issues.

Even the opening ceremony became one of the most bizarre Olympic ceremonies in history.

If it had been shown to children, it could have scared them.

It's hard to imagine what was going through the mind of the opening ceremony director at the time.

If possible, Takayuki would have loved to see an Olympic ceremony full of video game and anime elements.

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That would have been a milestone too.

In the original world, he certainly didn't have the ability to change anything.

But in this world?

Could he change it?

At least it should be easier than in the original world.

"Alright, Rinto you keep working. I hope Sekiro can stand out more. Of course, the fun of the gameplay should not be compromised either."

"Okay, President."

Rinto still had some questions he wanted to ask, but now Takayuki seemed distracted.

Could it be related to the Olympics, as Takayuki mentioned earlier?

How exactly did Takayuki plan to leverage the Olympics for promotion?

Rinto couldn't quite figure it out at the moment.

The President always seems to come up with special ideas at strange times.

Wait a minute.

Takayuki just mentioned Japan winning the Olympic bid?

But it's only April, right? He remembered the results hadn't come out yet.

So how did Takayuki know the results?

Hmm... maybe Takayuki has a close relationship with the Japanese government, and they might have quietly leaked the result to him in advance.

After all, hosting the Olympics seems to be a competition between a few countries, but with the arrival of the new era, fewer countries are eager to host the event, and the competition is dwindling. Since Japan has hosted the Olympics before, it wouldn't be surprising if they succeeded again.

Rinto thought to himself that he should keep this information to himself and not talk about it with anyone else.

After all, it could affect Takayuki's plans.