Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 78 78. The whole person is stupid
Although Pokémon is a good game, its popularity has been very rough.

Qing Zhiyuan doesn't think he has a stronger influence than Ren Tiantang, so if he wants to keep this big IP, he has to do some hard work in the early stage.

There are currently two problems to be solved:
First, the handheld platform.

The success of Pokémon is inseparable from Ren Tiantang's handheld.

Although Sega has always been strong in terms of hardware, this unsatisfactory guy is simply poor on the handheld.

Rentiantang's handheld is beautiful and light, and Sega's handheld is like a heavy brick.

We have to find a way to persuade Sega to develop new handheld products, otherwise Pokémon will not be successful just relying on the release of MD.

Second, animation.

The influence of animation on Pokémon is very important. Even players as far away as China are mostly influenced by Pokémon cartoons.

So Pokémon must be animated.

For this reason, Qing Zhiyuan had to find a reliable animation production company.

Of course, these two prerequisites are inseparable——

money.

After finally earning some money, Qing Zhiyuan realized that he was short of money when he summed it up.

……

at the same time.

1991 7 Month 3 Day.

Chicago Consumer Electronics Show.

Pre-show press conference.

The lights flickered all around, and Ken Kutaragi, a senior development engineer at Neon Sony, stood in the center of the stage to show everyone a new game console product.

"This product is the perfect cooperation between Sony and Neon's famous game developer, Rentiantian."

Kutaragi Ken looked excited, and the white suit on his body seemed to be shining.

"As we all know, the development of home game consoles has now spanned from 8-bit machines to 16-bit machines, and the performance has been greatly optimized, but the fly in the ointment is--

Limited by the size of the cassette capacity, it is difficult for the game to make further breakthroughs.

The current largest FC game cartridge has a capacity of about 8M.

Oh, no, it should be around 50M. "

Ken Kutaragi corrected his statement, mainly because a company called pokeni frantically added a chip in the game cassette to deal with memory problems.

Directly expand the game capacity of 8M to 50M.

I have to say that the hardware engineers of this company are simply geniuses.

"But such a cassette brings serious problems. After adding the chip, the cost of the cassette itself will be greatly increased."

Two years ago, Rentian wanted to solve the problem of making up for the insufficient capacity of cassette games on the red and white machine, so it invited Sony to develop a component for adding CD-ROM disc games to Super Rentian.

It is tentatively named Play Station or SFC-CD or SNES-CD.

This thing is also the prototype of the famous PS in the future.

This time at the exhibition, this game console was showcased.

"Sony has the most advanced storage technology in the world, and Rentian has the best games and players in the world."

Hearing this, there was applause below.

Kutaragi smiled and continued, "The SFC CD-rom and cassette all-in-one machine jointly developed by Sony and Renten Tendo will be a very important milestone.

Using Sony's CD technology, the 50m cassette capacity can be directly converted into a CD disc with a capacity of more than 500M or even more.

Under this premise, players will experience an unprecedented game feast. "

"The inevitable development of hardware is that more information can be compressed into smaller media.

And richer information and capacity will inevitably bring about an overall leap in game quality. "

Ken Kutaragi also used the newly developed PS prototype to demonstrate a small visual game that Sony himself used to show.

Once played, all the audience at the scene were stunned.

The picture quality of the game is good, the sound effect is good, and all aspects of performance are enough to make everyone dumbfounded.

After the demonstration, Ken Kutaragi showed a satisfied smile on his face.

"I believe that the cooperation between Sony and Rentian will bring a brand new change to the world.

Thank you for your support, and thank you players for your support.Thank you everyone! "

The following thunderous applause.

For a long time.

Kutaragi Ken glanced at the audience. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Renten Tendo, was clapping with a smile on his face while wearing a pair of sunglasses.

Kuragi Ken was moved in his heart.

Thanks to Ren Tiantang for giving him this opportunity, it is really lucky to be able to cooperate with such a big factory as Ren Tiantang.

……

However, when Ken Kutaragi was immersed in the bright future of Sony and Rentendo, a jaw-dropping thing happened the next day.

It was the next day, also at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show.

Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Rentiantang, and Philips jointly announced the CDI format multimedia host at the exhibition.

"We will work with Philips to develop a new multimedia game console.

The disc portion of the SNES-CD will be developed by Philips.

Philips is a very strong company in terms of hardware, I believe this game console will shine in the future! "

Nani? !
Kutaragi Ken, who sat below and watched all this, stared wide-eyed, completely unable to believe what was happening before his eyes.

Although some internal information has been learned a few days ago, it is said that Ren Tiantang will abandon Sony and cooperate with Philips instead.

But Sony still believes that Ren Tiantang cannot betray.

After all, a lot of money and time have been invested, and if they defected, not only would they lose the sunk cost, but it would also affect Ren Tiantang's reputation.

But I didn't expect that all of this was actually true.

Regardless of the cooperation between Sony and Renten Tendo for so many years, President Yamauchi announced the news of the cooperation with Philips at the pre-show press conference, which undoubtedly gave Ken Kutaragi a slap in the face.

At this time, Ken Kutaragi was dumbfounded, and was at a loss for Ren Tiantang's sudden betrayal.

……

(End of this chapter)