However, the current situation is that pet love is still on sale. It has become the originator of this type of game recognized in the hearts of players around the world. Even if Nintendo has the heart to come up with similar games, it will take a year or two to go to court with us. After a year or two, even Moore’s Law has passed one and one third rounds, not to mention the results of a game console.
Considering this, I nodded: "It's okay to develop the game, but now that we have agreed to cooperate, please show your sincerity."
Howard's old fritters naturally thought of something, but he thought more crookedly: "Do you mean that you need to share the production costs."
I shook my head. At present, apart from Resident Evil and various large-scale somatosensory machines, the development of games has only seen input but no output, and I feel that people will pay for it from the beginning. We Qilu Electronics currently does not have it. Such a big face.
"Cooperation means cooperation. We can develop games for your company that we think are most suitable for your company."
"That's great."
"Don't rush to thank me. You also know that our development department currently lacks talents, so we would like to ask you how many people can help."
"Talent?" Howard was visibly dumbfounded: "Like you, Mikami, Mizuki-san, who is not the producer of the famous move, do you still lack talents now?"
"Don't you want us to develop games for gameboy and n64? I think if you have someone from your company, you should be able to get twice the result with half the effort." I smiled and said how sincere it is.
"Then, do you need that kind of assistant." Howard thought for a while, and the strong man said with a broken wrist.
"Just like Tajiri Tomo." I didn't ask Howard why Yokoi Junhei is very simple. Yokoi-kun has joined our development team four months ago, and now he is fooling around with the tri-ace that develops Xinghai. . Although I know Howard also knows these people joined, but to be honest, I'm robbing people now, and what can he do with me, it's not me begging anyway.
"If it's him, well, I'll tell him when I go back." Although Howard was wondering about something, he quickly agreed to my request.
Of course, if Howard said a few words and I believed it, then I would be too kind. Some Sagon had already discussed the details of the cooperation with him, and the signature was also signed by Sagon. After all, I still cannot be responsible for civil actions. People.
Seeing Sagon and Howard talking, I smiled and pressed it to the back of the leather chair, thinking that Old Man Yamauchi was full of confidence and affection at the performance presentation meeting in the mid-94 year to face everyone sitting there. Shareholder representatives said that if some home appliance manufacturers use cd-rom 32-bit machine sales to exceed one million units, he will resign as president and walk upside down!
As a result, ps broke through a million units, and his old man neither resigned nor had the idea of changing life perspectives. This irresponsible attitude really makes people have to sigh that this is the real industry elite, of course, the skin is thick. Nothing to say.
Yokoi Gunpei’s resignation was also thanks to him. At that time, Yokoi Gunpei’s first development department was also stepping up the development of a 32-bit portable host virtualboy. The imaging technology used by vrboy was launched by a research laboratory at Keio University in Japan in 1993. The latest research result, its technical principle is to superimpose the same images in both eyes into a three-dimensional image space composed of dots and lines, but limited to the technical power at the time, this research result can only be displayed using red "color" and "liquid" crystals. Single "color" color. Yokoi Junpei was very excited when he learned of the research results. He confidently believed that the technology would bring an unprecedented revolution to the game industry and immediately submitted a specific development plan to the agency. The veterans of Nintendo were shocked by the unconventional vrboy. Almost all of them expressed strong opposition. However, due to the trust in Yokoi’s past performance, the development proposal was finally passed.
And Yamauchi Pu intends to let vrboy replace the gb that is already at dusk and become the new second economic pillar. At the shareholder meeting in the spring of 1995, he confidently promised that'vrboy will ship 5 million units in the first financial year of the sale, bringing Nintendo's 80 billion yen in profits, and shareholders will also receive additional dividends! '
In view of the fact that Mr. Yamauchi had said this to investors with affection before, we have every reason to think that Mr. Yamauchi’s level of not opening the pot and mentioning the pot has unknowingly reached the earth-shattering ghosts and gods. The actual level is also the same. Virtualboy was shown in large game exhibitions in Japan and the United States in late 1994 and early 1995, but the feedback from the audience was not ideal. At that time, 32-bit cd-rom hosts such as ps used exquisite cg animations. Under the background of the times as a selling point, the monotonous dotted line graphics can no longer attract the attention of consumers. And the developers of imaging technology also discovered a fatal technical problem. The original vb plan to achieve outdoor entertainment with hood glasses is the possibility of "sex", but after actual inspection, it is found that head shaking will cause the phenomenon of "liquid" crystal polarization. , Causing the image to be seriously disordered and misplaced.
So Yokoi Gunpei had to readjust the development plan. However, Master Yamauchi suddenly and arbitrarily decided to put vb on the market on July 15th in May 1995. The main reason that prompted Master Yamauchi to make this wrong judgment is of course that the market sales of the two 32-bit consoles, PS and ss, are much higher than expected. , And ps broke through the million sales mark at the speed of light, which made Yamauchi, who had made a heavy oath before, felt dull. He was eager to use his unique tricks to stifle the scenery of ps in the cradle. Another reason is that July 15th coincides with the summer vacation of Japanese schools, and it is also Nintendo’s peak season for merchandise sales over the years. Yamauchi believes that choosing to launch vb during the summer business war is naturally safe.
Yokoi Junpei’s defenses in every possible way still couldn’t change the president’s decision. In order to meet the scheduled target launch, the first development department finally had to change the vb's original hood glasses design to the compromise design of the tripod flat tabletop, which was completely lost. The meaning of carrying. In the general environment of the TV game industry at the time, the reasonableness of the existence of vb is indeed questionable. Most people's attention is focused on the sfc-like super-large work group and the freshly released 32-bit console, Nintendo Broadcasting Department The focus of publicity is on the 64-bit home console that is ready to come out. Only Yokoi Gunpei uses his personal connections in the industry to run around for help. The preparations for the vb software were also inadequate. Shigeru Miyamoto refused to let the intelligence development department participate in game development on the grounds that he was fully committed to the n64 game. Only dozens of people from the first development department were busy day and night. Among the third-party software vendors, there are not many participants who truly agree with the concept of vrboy. Even square, which was gradually ill-suited to Nintendo at the time, also used the excuse to promote it.