As the general manager of Nintendo's hardware development, Yokoi Junhei is certainly not idle. Although he has participated in the development of game software before, he is not a software developer in essence, and he can't even write code.

"It's pretty smooth. After all, we have the foundation of gw before, but the real palm game console we discussed before is still very different from our gw before, such as how to miniaturize, how to transplant some things from our game as much as possible, and it's still on paper discussion..." Yokoi Junhei heard Hiroshi Yamauchi ask, and he quickly answered.

However, he also knew that for President Hiroshi Yamauchi, who has never paid much attention to hardware, it was not easy to get him to start two huge hardware development teams at the same time.

Because only Nintendo, which owns the Japanese market, is far less financially than Mars Entertainment, which is almost dominant in Europe and the United States. Hardware development is the largest investment and the least easy to recover costs. For example, the 16 arcade basics that Jest's Mars Entertainment has just successfully developed. After his eight basics were successfully developed, he started R&D under the leadership of Jest's father. It was not until the official version was successfully developed not long ago.

The history is nearly three years, with an investment of more than $50 million.

If such an investment fails, it will be an almost irreversible loss for a company.

Yes, three months ago, Yokoi Junhei's plan for palm games was approved by Hiroshi Yamauchi, and he invested a lot of R&D funds, mobilizing a large number of developers from the group to participate in this project. This is not because Hiroshi Yamauchi saw the huge market for palm game consoles. Eight years ago, Yokoi Junhei told him that theories that some people would use the floor or other fragments of time to work and let him develop gw.

This is indeed a product that made Nintendo a hit, but this product was not very good after being sold for a while when it was first released. In the end, Nintendo no longer even released its own gw game console hardware. Instead, the patent for selling gw to the outside world has been technically licensed.

The reason why he was able to agree with Yokoi Junhei's plan again was that he wanted to expand the market for FC.

However, this time, the development priority of the sixteen game console is obviously better than the brand new palm machine in Yokoi Junhei's mouth.

However, if you want to draw personnel from the palm machine development team that you just formed, it goes without saying that the project leader Yokoi Junhei, even Hiroshi Yamauchi, felt that this was a bit difficult, because he agreed to let the hardware department concentrate all resources on palm machine development and mobilize elites from the entire group. It was the order he issued by himself.

Now, in just three months, I suddenly changed my mind when the palm machine project was just a little bit strange. Isn’t that just proof that his previous choice was wrong?

As the master of Nintendo, who is wise and powerful, how could he make such a mistake?

Therefore, he must not make the decision to reduce the palm machine development team, but it requires other people, and the most suitable candidate is in front of him.

Hiroshi Yamauchi looked up at Junhei Yokoi. Obviously, he wanted Junhei Yokoi to take the initiative to propose the development team to reduce the palm machine, and then he went down the steps, but Junhei Yokoi was obviously completely different from Hiroshi Yamauchi.

In his eyes, if you want to fight against Mars Entertainment with home game consoles, it is basically impossible to judge the current situation. In the game market, the only possibility of Nintendo defeating Mars Entertainment is to open up a brand new market. Since you can't fight in the home phone market, your own arcade is not a strong point.

So, why don’t we take the initiative to create a market?

And it was driven by this idea that Yokoi Junhei couldn't help but think of his outstanding work in electronic game consoles, gw.

It is true that gw is not a successful palm game console in terms of performance and sales. However, in Yokoi Junhei's opinion, the reason why gw's sales are not high was because gw's price was too high at that time, and a gaming machine could only play one game. If you want to play other games, you can only buy a new gw palm game console.

This form of inconvenient promotion is due to technical limitations, but for the failure of gw to become popular in the end, this is the primary reason.

Originally, Junhei Yokoi thought so, but when he saw that Mars Entertainment purchased GW's patent license, and then improved the electronic pet machine itself was popular all over the world. And now it has been released in the third generation and still has many fans, he knew that the reason why GW failed to achieve true success back then was probably not just what he thought before.

To be honest, when the electronic pet machine of Mars Entertainment was just released and became popular in Japan in an instant, Yokoi Junhei thought that this gadget with no technical content would have a similar fate to his gw back then, but unexpectedly, he was wrong.

In the eyes of Hiroshi Yamauchi, Junhei Yokoi did not retreat. He was not a person who only knew how to obey his orders. For Hiroshi Yamauchi, he looked respectful and grateful to him for promoting himself from an ordinary recognized hardware development supervisor in a huge company like Nintendo. However, he would not give up on things that he had recognized in his professionalism.

So, he took a breath and wanted to convince Hiroshi Yamauchi.

"President, I am frank, in my opinion, it is necessary to develop sixteen-bit computers as soon as possible, because the home computer market is our roots. If our roots are broken, then we will only be a big tree, no matter how prosperous it is, we will definitely die." Hearing Yokoi Junhei said this, Yuki Yamauchi nodded with satisfaction. He thought his most proud beloved general understood his thoughts.

However, after Yokoi Junhei said this, his tone immediately paused and continued: "However, President, I think if we are only satisfied with the current situation and just want to maintain the current situation, and have no interest in the broader America and the European market, I agree to reduce the scale of the palm machine team and add the development lineup of the sixteen host R&D teams to be established. However, if we have some ambitions for the European and American markets that are several times larger than the Japanese market, I think that palm machine is our best and most promising weapon."

When he heard Yokoi Kohei's tone suddenly change, Hiroshi Yamauchi knew that his favorite general might not want to continue to perform the script he wanted to see, but he still did not expect that he would speak so fiercely.

What does it mean that it is impossible to obtain the European and American market without his palm phone? What does it mean that we do not pay attention to the European and American markets? Could it be that my huge Nintendo will not be able to play with Yokoi Junhei?

Hiro Yamauchi squinted his eyes, but he still forcibly thought out the true thoughts in his heart. Now for Nintendo, Junhei Yokoi is indeed an indispensable figure. Not only in hardware development, but also in software development, Junhei Yokoi has a huge influence. Moreover, Hiro Yamauchi confidently thought about what Junhei Yokoi just said, which was not unreasonable.

In fact, he himself also knew that it was basically impossible for them to fight Mars Entertainment by relying on dignified means in the home computer market, but doesn’t he want to defeat his biggest opponent?

Of course it is impossible. How could a person like Hiroshi Yamauchi who never admits defeat, let him say what he doesn't want to defeat his enemy? This time, what Yokoi Junhei said is still blank now. It can replace a cassette-type palm machine to open up a new market, which will definitely open up a situation in the European and American markets.

You can only draw a conclusion from the popularity of the electronic pet machine that Mars Entertainment was unintentionally inserted into the willow.

However, as Yokoi Junhei said just now, home computers are their own foundation and must not be lost. Moreover, their basic plan is originally in Japan, and Mars Entertainment is an American company. No matter how suitable their games are for Japanese players, they still need to take care of the American market. Moreover, coupled with the conservatism and xenophobia of the Japanese, Mars Entertainment has no chance to completely defeat itself in the Japanese market.

But Sega is completely different.

Although Sega had a strong American bloodline in its birth, in 1984, after Shirooshi Nakayama sold Sega America, they had completely broken down their own American bloodline. Although Sega later established his own branch in the United States, the company had nothing to do with the Americans who originally founded this company.

That is to say, this is a truly Japanese-born enterprise.

This is what Yamauchi Hiroshi is most worried about. His biggest advantage for Mars Entertainment will disappear when dealing with Sega.

Originally, if Sega had just maintained their MS game console, he would not have taken it seriously, because even if the function of this console is stronger than that of FC, it is limited. Without excellent development capabilities and without third-party manufacturers joining, this home game console is doomed to fail.

But the sixteen-bit home computer will be completely different. You know, Sega has a large number of excellent arcade games, but because these arcade games cannot be simulated on eight-bit machines, but if this carrier is replaced with the sixteen-bit machine, the situation will be completely different.

If Sega relies on sixteen-digit phones to gain a foothold in Japan, it will definitely be a disaster for his Nintendo. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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