Finally, after Nintendo announced that they also began the development of the next-generation console, Sega finally publicly admitted that their sixteen consoles had entered the experimental stage and began to welcome game developers to their new console game development plans.

And the conditions they offer are much better than Nintendo.

After Jester learned the news, he also parted with Claudia just after the New Year and rushed back to the United States from Britain.

In fact, Nintendo's premium policy is no longer as strict as it was at the beginning. In October last year, Nintendo saw many developers whose original subsidiaries jumped to Mars Entertainment, especially Capcom's defection. In Nintendo's view, it was definitely an extremely heavy blow.

Therefore, Nintendo simply re-established the premium policy, so that their new premium was almost the same as the one that Jester made based on the Nintendo premium, which soothed the hearts of some people.

However, recently, Namco and Hudson, the two most important developers under Nintendo, are somewhat inconsistent. Originally, these two companies would submit a game at the end of the previous year for Nintendo's review department to review it. In fact, for these two companies that enjoy the greatest Nintendo discounts, the review is just a formality.

But at the end of last year just passed, neither of these companies actually submitted their latest games.

Originally, this was just a small matter, and Nintendo people didn't take it seriously. Didn't they just submit new games as usual? Whose company did not delay after the end of a fiscal year, but after New Year's Day, the two companies did not seem to have any signs of submitting new games. Some newspapers said that the presidents of the two game companies and a senior executive of Nec appeared together at a famous restaurant in Ginza after the news broke.

Nintendo will no longer sit still.

For Nintendo, it has finally won a lot of share in the North American market with two consecutive shooting air combat games that are extremely in line with the taste of Americans, but it was immediately moved back by Mars Entertainment's "Super Contra" launched by Mars Entertainment during Christmas. In addition, in the Japanese local market, "Fantasy Star" released by Mars Entertainment also seized a considerable market share.

In addition to the launch of Sega's sixteen home phones, it feels like Nintendo is not singular.

But this time, Namco and Hudson got together with Japan Electric. You should know that Japan Electric is a veritable giant, spanning multiple fields, whether it is scientific research or other, it is the world's top. Even Yamauchi Hiroshi couldn't sit still after hearing this news.

They immediately contacted Namco and Hudson by phone. However, the two Nintendo-owned game companies' responses to this matter were unexpectedly consistent. They just said that because of the company's business dealings, the old man Yamauchi must not think about it. When Yuki Yamauchi asked about the new games of their two companies.

But these two families began to talk about him.

This made Hiroshi Yamauchi instantly have a bad premonition. There were too many things Nintendo encountered during this period, and he couldn't help but think about bad things. So, to be on the safe side, Hiroshi Yamauchi still asked someone to investigate the actions of Nec's recent incident to see if he could find any clues.

A few days later, the investigation report was in the hands of Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Reading the above content almost word by word, Yamauchi Hiroshi's face was gloomy. He could almost drip into water. Although there was no clear NES in this report that it would be used for home game console development, they recently dispatched personnel from the internal department, especially circuit engineers in hardware development, to set up a new department.

Since the department has just been established, there is not much news about this newly established department even within NES. I just know that it was a resolution made after a senior meeting of the group. Those who fell into this new department were also elites from other departments.

There have been several mobilizations in the group at this scale before. Basically, we have to concentrate our efforts to research a certain product before we can do this.

Combining this information shows that nec is really working on a certain product.

“What the hell is it?”

This was the biggest question in Yamauchi's mind at this time. The answer he didn't want was a home game console. If nec had already started the development of home game consoles, then the betrayal of Namco and Hudson would basically be a foregone conclusion.

When he thought of this, Hiroshi Yamauchi didn't dare to continue thinking, because Namco and Hudson are too important to Nintendo.

Moreover, if a behemoth like nec enters the market, it is impossible to say not to worry, but Hiroshi Yamauchi is not so scared. Nec - Japan Electric, no matter how powerful he is in other industries and how outstanding his ability, they are also completely newbies in game development. If there are two senior game companies in the industry who serve as guides for them.

Then, the situation is very unoptimistic.

Especially for Nintendo, which regards the Japanese market as the basic market.

Just when Hiroshi Yamauchi was at a loss about the current dilemma facing Nintendo, Jester also returned to Costa Mesa.

Instead of rushing back to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment at the first time, he drove directly to his company in Costa Mesa, which was established to secretly develop a palm machine.

In fact, in the development of a game console, whether it is a home console or a palm machine, the appearance design will not be carried out at the initial stage, because after all, there are no specific finished products and there are no specific finished products parameters. In this case, the appearance design will be a bit extra.

For example, the story of the appearance design of PS4 is very classic. PS4 did not determine its appearance a week before it was officially announced. At this time, Yoshida Shuhei, who replaced Ken Kutaraki who resigned, became the president of SCE, asked the designer to come up with four alternative plans, and all made into real products and placed them in his office.

He looked at the four ps4 consoles with completely different appearances and styles for a day and a night, and finally made his own choice.

However, SCE did not announce the appearance of the other three PS4 consoles, so others didn't know what alternatives Yoshida Shuhei chose the public-known PS4 style. However, in Jester's eyes, P4 is indeed much better looking than Microsoft's Xbo.

But this time, Jester went the other way. He was familiar with the classic appearance of handheld machines in later generations, and there was no need for his designers to think hard, but he came up with a design that was not as good as his wishes.

In fact, an excellent electronic product, especially consumer-grade electronic products like this, is also very important for industrial design in appearance. Looking at Apple in later generations or Sony before Apple, you can tell from these two companies that represent the peak of electronic product engineering and engineering, how rare it is to have an excellent industrial design team in this industry.

The same product, excellent workmanship, can at least increase the sales of this product by 10%, which is definitely not a false statement.

After more than 20 years of development, the palm game consoles in later generations can basically be said to be varied in shape, and some of them are recognized by players and have extremely outstanding designs.

For example, the gameboy at the beginning, Sega's game-gear, the pcengine-gt released after Nec entered the game field, and the psp that later swept the handheld console industry. Of course, the classic NTS series with a flip-up dual-screen is also indispensable.

The appearance design of these handheld machines has their own advantages.

The design proposed by Jester this time was designed based on PSP as the prototype, referring to some Sega's gg handheld consoles. In fact, his original intention was to directly copy the PSP's extremely classic, and it is also his favorite handheld console shape. However, the current technology is not up to standard. If you want to make a PSP shape, the cost is too high, and you can only bear the pain and give up.

As for why we didn't choose a vertical shape like Gameboy, it's very simple, because when we operate this shape, the feel that the player feels far less than that of the horizontal handheld machine. From Nintendo's GBA, we started to use this horizontal shape, and to NDS continued to improve the horizontal shape, it can be seen that they also agree that horizontal design is much better than vertical design.

“How is the progress?”

Jester was very tight. As soon as he came to this development company with sheep heads hanging but selling dog meat, he came to the office of the person in charge of the development of the handheld machine. Without greetings, he directly asked about the specific development progress of the handheld machine.

"Just like the plan our team made, we have now achieved the No. 3 test machine. There is no problem in running it, but we still need to continue to miniaturize it. Now the volume and weight of our handheld machine cannot meet the requirements you have put forward to us."

The person in charge of this project was originally a veteran of the hardware development department of Mars Entertainment, but because the headquarters was short of staff, the previous person in charge was also transferred back to the company, and the current person in charge was recommended by the previous person in charge to Jester.

He is a PhD from MIT and his junior brother. He is very interested in hardware development. The previous person in charge is also his senior brother. The two of them studied under the same tutor before.

"Actually, the boss..." After answering Jester's question, the young person in charge did not stop talking, but said directly, "I think we can introduce the infrared communication function you have already used on the electronic pet machine in Mars Entertainment to our handheld machine. Compared with the two handheld machines on the communication line to communicate with each other, using infrared communication is much simpler."

“Infrared communication?”

When Jester heard the young person in charge say this, his eyes immediately lit up. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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