Should I choose Yokoi Junhei’s suggestion, make every effort to develop palm machines, open up new markets, or draw back the main force to develop sixteen-bit computers?

This is really a difficult question for Hiroshi Yamauchi.

At this moment, Masayuki Uemura, who had been watching from the side, spoke up. He is Yokoi Junhei's deputy and the chief designer of FC. In the hardware development department, his prestige is not inferior to Yokoi Junhei, so his opinions are also very important.

"President, I think Minister Yokoi is right. We should not cut off a project that we already have some problems, but rashly carry out a project that we have no experience. And I am bluntly said..." Masayuki Uemura said it sincerely, "Mr. President, the development of the sixteen-bit computer is completely different from the development of the eight-bit computer. Even if we develop it immediately, it will take at least more than a year."

After hearing Masayuki Uemura say this, Hiroshi Yamauchi frowned even harder. He did not expect that developing a 16-bit home computer would take so long than developing a 8-bit home computer. Moreover, he had experienced the development of a 8-bit machine. He knew what Masayuki Uemura meant, and it would take a year to develop it, so the time required for finishing and testing would be at least half of the development time.

In other words, even if they are concentrating their personnel immediately, it will take a year and a half to get the first finished product that can be used commercially.

"Did you mean Sega started the development of sixteen game consoles a year ago?" Yamauchi asked.

Based on his experience in hardware development, Masayuki Uemura said without any concealment: "I think it's probably true that after the cooking game made by Mars Entertainment for them did not save their MS game console, or even earlier, I think they had already started the development of a new console, but what I worry most about is Mars Entertainment. If they had started the development of sixteen home machines, it would have almost been a disaster for us."

"So Uemura, do you think we should focus on the development of home computers for 16 people now? Or continue to maintain it on the palm of your hand?" Yuki Yamauchi closed his eyes slightly for a while, and finally spoke.

Masayuki Uemura glanced at Yokoi Junhei. Although he had a good relationship with Yokoi Junhei, he also agreed with Yokoi Junhei's saying that if he wanted to get back his disadvantages in the current situation of Mars Entertainment, the only way was to find another way, and it was a virgin land palm machine, which was their best chance.

However, home phones are always the foundation of Nintendo. If you can’t even keep your own foundation, then how can you talk about pioneering?

At this time, Yokoi Junhei also looked at Masayuki Uemura. His eyes had a clear look of request. It was not that he felt that household appliances were not important, but that in his eyes, these two were equally important. What they had to do now was not to choose one of these two, but to choose both. If they didn't do this, without such courage, the best result was to continue to maintain this situation. There was always a mountain called Mars Entertainment on his head.

Moreover, a disruptor named Sega will be added.

If this continues, maybe in three or four years, Nintendo will not even be qualified to be an opponent with Mars Entertainment. They can only join in with some people who are jealous of the huge profits of the electronic game industry and want to share a piece of cake.

And Mars Entertainment has long been ahead of its reach.

This is Yokoi Junhei's insistence. He looked at Masayuki Uemura with a pleading look. This time was the only opportunity to get Yuuka Yamauchi to agree. Only when the cores of the two hardware departments united can this chairman who has been the same since he took over Nintendo and no one dared to disobey him.

Moreover, he really cares about Nintendo.

However, Masayuki Uemura closed his eyes slightly, and after a second, he opened it again, and then shook his head calmly.

Obviously, he rejected the meaning that Yokoi Junhei's eyes were revealed.

Seeing Masayuki Uemura like this, Yokoi Kohei suddenly lost all his spirit like a loose ball. He really couldn't understand why two years ago, when he decided to march into the United States and open up a new market, his most respected President Yamauchi was so brave and enterprising. At a high-level meeting, he patted the table on the table, no matter what difficulties he encountered, he would never give up. He must build Nintendo into the best game company in the world.

How long does it take?

Could it be that Mars Entertainment is really too powerful and has caused President Yamauchi to lose such great courage?

"President, although I really want to say that we should do two things at the same time, unless our hardware development department is doubled, it is impossible for us to do it. Both are very important in my eyes. If I have to choose one of them, then I will choose the development of a brand-new sixteen home game console, because temporarily shrinking the palm of your hand will only reduce the profits in the predictions and are uncertain whether there will be any profits. If our sixteen home machines are much later than others, it may be related to our life and death."

Masaino Uemura answered this to Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Although he knew that the hope was already very slim, Yokoi Junhei still looked up at Hiroshi Yamauchi, hoping that before he really made a decision, he would consider his opinions again. Nintendo now has the ability to start two large hardware development teams at the same time, but such investment will be very huge and software funds will inevitably be drawn.

In Yamauchi Hiroshi's eyes, software is the soul of a game company, and hardware is enough as long as it can keep up with the times.

This also made Yokoi Junhei extremely disappointed. At the beginning, Hiroshi Yamauchi was not like this. At the project establishment meeting of FC development, President Yamauchi once gave a dead order to the development team. What he wanted was a game console that other game companies could not replicate in a year.

Hiroshi Yamauchi is indeed quite contradictory now. He is not that he does not pay attention to hardware, but that he thinks that a game company should focus on software because players will buy your game console to play the games on your console, not because of how powerful the functions of your console are - without an excellent game console platform, even if the functions are strong, it is meaningless.

However, Hiroshi Yamauchi unknowingly ignored something, or it was still in the beginning of electronic games. The eight-bit computer era has not yet passed. Today's game practitioners, even if they know that the next-generation console has a great performance advantage over the old host, how big can this advantage be

No one can tell clearly, because no one has truly experienced the so-called next era in the true sense.

From Atari to Nintendo and Mars Entertainment, it was just an evolution at the eight-bit computer level. Such evolution is far from being called a next era.

What Yamauchi Hiroshi is that when the performance of the game console has been improved by the next-generation level, the quality of the game will also be improved by the next-generation level. The result is that no matter how outstanding the games you made in this era are, when comparing the same-level games running under the performance of the next-generation, the gap is simply a world of difference.

For example, gta5 of ps3 and gta5 on ps4 are not of the same level game at all.

Faced with Yokoi Junhei's almost begging eyes, the stern heartfelt Hiroshi Yamauchi was also a little soft-hearted. He knew that Yokoi Junhei was sincere in making Nintendo's good. However, as a decision maker of a huge game company, he needed to consider it comprehensively. His decision-making could not be supported by everyone, and he had his considerations.

"Yoki, after you go back, you are planning to draw 60% of the people you sent to the previous persons and hand them over to Uemura, so that he can be fully responsible for the development of our new host."

Speaking of this, Hiroshi Yamauchi paused a little, and he decided to give Yokoi a little comfort, so he continued: "You can recruit 15% of new employees to join your palm machine development team, but it is certain that you need to tighten your development plan. Please set your development level at the maintenance level for the time being."

Hearing the final decision made by Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yokoi Junhei slowly closed his eyes. He was able to have the current status and was entirely based on Hiroshi Yamauchi's favor. He was extremely respectful to Hiroshi Yamauchi. This time he took the initiative to oppose Hiroshi Yamauchi's ideas because he felt that it was the best opportunity for Nintendo to bring them closer to Mars Entertainment.

However, this does not mean that after Hiroshi Yamauchi made his own decision, he would still disobey President Yamauchi's decision. This is something he would never do.

Needless to say, taking on the responsibility of basically disbanding the palm team this time. Even if it is a bigger mistake, if he needs to memorize it, he will be determined without hesitation. Just over ten years later, because of the failure of VB, in order to preserve Hiroshi Yamauchi's prestige in Nintendo, Yokoi Junhei took the initiative to take on all the responsibility for the failure of VB, just like resigning due to blame.

"Okay, I'll do it within a week."

After saying that, Yamauchi nodded, waved his hand, and let Yokoi Junhei leave, leaving Masayuki Uemura alone.

After receiving the instructions from Yamauchi Hiroshi, Yokoi bowed slightly, turned around, and left Yamauchi Hiroshi's office without any hesitation. As for what President Yamauchi wanted to follow Masayuki in his room, it was not something Yokoi wanted to pay attention to. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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