game trailblazer

Chapter 352 Anxious Yamauchi
With the launch of the new version of "Legend", you can participate in novel and interesting martial arts battles, learn from Su Qin, Zhang Yi and others to join Lianheng between martial arts, or go shirtless and go directly to the front line of martial arts battles, or explore Mysterious special maps have become new choices for players.From then on, as long as every weekend, "Legend" will become full of wars, and the relationship between the various sects will continue to separate and merge in the process. At the same time, some players are shuttling on the mysterious map. To explore the secrets hidden in it.

The popularity of "Legend" is not good news for other online games. "King of Kings", which has boosted its popularity by relying on online gathering activities, has to face the situation of losing players again. Li Riyuan, the general manager of Tianxia Huacai Frowning all day long, his Internet cafe promotion plan was not successful, he spent some money, but he couldn't bring back much profit, now he can only pin his hope on the one hand and urge Lei Jue to launch "The King of Kings" as soon as possible. The new version of "The King" improves the incomplete aspects of "The King of Kings". On the other hand, he is also considering whether to hold another online gathering, and how effective it will be if he holds an online gathering.

The boring and boring leveling process of "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" made many players lose their patience to continue, and the number of online users plummeted. Added some new play points.For example, there used to be only five trainers in the five cities, and now they are everywhere. In the past, NPCs could only recover every 5 minutes, but now it is reduced to 3 minutes, in order to reduce the waiting time of players during the leveling process.Even the PK has been adjusted to a certain extent. As long as a certain number of people are PKed, a pig head logo will appear on the top of the player's head. This may be everyone's "pig".

Dr. Hu of Uchitech is very annoyed now. Under his wise leadership, of course, this is also inseparable from the more wise leadership of the boss Lee Seung-jae. The current "Dark Light" only has double-digit online numbers left. As for Dr. Hu, he had to invent a new term "maximum number of online users", which is to add up all users who have been online in a day, even including the same person who logged in at different times, so after some artistic processing, when the report came When Lee Seung-jae was here, the maximum number of online users of "Dark Light" became more than 100 people, and then when it appeared in the press release, the online number of "Dark Light" became more than 1000 people, and the outlook The development prospect of "Dark Light" is very wonderful.

Perhaps only Chen Hongzhan of Arctic Ice and Zhou Chenghu of BJ Huayi can still remain calm. Chen Hongzhan is because the agency fee of "Millennium" is not high, and the game is still in Simplified Chinese, so he can't be in a hurry.However, Zhou Chenghu believes that "Stone Age" and "Legend" are completely two types of games, and the potential user groups are also very different, so he feels that no matter how popular "Legend" is, it will not affect the future of "Stone Age". It is even possible that "Legend" has developed a market, bringing more potential users to "Stone Age".

Under the watchful eyes of many people with various moods, "Legend" continued to develop its own market in an orderly manner, and the domestic online game market gradually became more active.

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Time came to mid-December, and the news that DreamBox 12 had sold more than 128 million units worldwide made Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had been sitting on Diaoyutai, finally unbearable. He made a special trip to the Information Development Headquarters where Shigeru Miyamoto worked, and wanted to see their Where is the game development progress?

In fact, the hardware research and development work of NGC, Nintendo's next-generation game console, has already been basically completed. The comprehensive development department responsible for the research and development work, under the leadership of Takeda Genyang, transferred to the development of NGC game accessories at this time. Hiroshi Yamauchi and a team from Nintendo headquarters In order to continue to earn a lot of profits from the N64, the directors also hope to delay the payment of royalties to Panasonic. After all, Nintendo has only collected royalties from others for many years, and has never given them out, so Hiroshi Yamauchi Deliberately postponed NGC's listing plan, of course, the excuse he gave was also perfect, after all, it is impossible not to prepare enough games to support NGC when it is launched.

However, the market form is changing so fast that Hiroshi Yamauchi can’t react. First, the unconventional direct global promotion of DreamBox128 took the lead. Although Sony Computer Entertainment’s later release of PS2 did not go smoothly, it has already moved towards At this time, the N64, which Hiroshi Yamauchi had placed high hopes on, was already in decline. Although the cost of cassette media has been much lower than before, and despite Nintendo’s efforts to prepare many masterpieces, the sales of N64 game consoles and games are still In the constant decline, even the N64 game console's magic weapon of reducing the price one after another didn't work. Hiroshi Yamauchi had no choice but to turn his attention to NGC, which was temporarily refrigerated.

Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at Shigeru Miyamoto standing in front of him, and asked seriously: "Miyamoto-kun, how are you preparing?".

Shigeru Miyamoto's face changed slightly. He actually received some rumors before. Originally, according to the plan, Nintendo would first launch the GBA to consolidate the monopoly in the portable handheld market, and then launch the NGC, and use the linkage plan of the GBA and NGC. to promote.However, N64 has gradually faded away, unable to support this blank period. DreamBox128 is still expanding rapidly, and even PS2 has already sold the machine to overseas markets. Shigeru Miyamoto estimates that the company's top management may not be able to persist. , It's just that he didn't expect this day to come so soon.

"President Yamauchi, our next-generation 'Mario' is still in the early stages of development, and we will definitely not be able to produce a finished product in the short term. Perhaps only Konno-kun's "Louis' Haunted House" will be faster, and the development progress has reached 75% look..." Of course Shigeru Miyamoto knew exactly what Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted to ask, so he answered very simply.

"Hmm..." Hiroshi Yamauchi pondered for a moment, and he remembered the young man Konno Hideki that Shigeru Miyamoto had mentioned.In fact, Hideki Konno is not a newcomer. He remembers that Hideki Konno seems to have joined Nintendo more than ten years ago, but he has been cooperating with others in the past. No Hideki served as the main designer for the first time.

Hiroshi Yamauchi remembered that he had seen the development screen and game materials of "Louis' Haunted House" at the beginning of the year. In the game, Mario was not used as the protagonist, but the Wannian bench was promoted, and Mario's brother Luigi was promoted to play the leading role. Even the game mode Both are completely different from previous Mario series.Louie’s main props in the game are a vacuum cleaner and a flashlight. First use the flashlight to fix the ghost, and then use the vacuum cleaner’s “suck” and “spray” to take the ghost down. It’s a bit like an old movie "Ghostbusters".In order to enrich the fun of the game, Konno Hideki also introduced elements such as water and fire. According to him, these elements can be used to solve some difficult ghosts and solve certain puzzles.

From the perspective of Hiroshi Yamauchi, "Louis' Haunted House" is undoubtedly very interesting. Konno Hideki even proposed the idea of ​​3D games. The so-called 3D games are not the common plane simulation 3D, but real The 3D game screen that can be seen through the eyes is just considering the lack of necessary display equipment (3D TV and the like), Yamauchi Hiroshi rejected the unreliable idea of ​​​​Konno Hideki, but for Konno Hideki to continue to develop "Louis's Haunted House", Hiroshi Yamauchi is still very supportive.

Thinking of this, Hiroshi Yamauchi ordered Miyamoto Shigeru in an unquestionable tone: "Miyamoto-sama, I don't care what method you use, whether you add people or replace people, I will give you one month, and you will be able to do so." Must finish Louie's Haunted House."

"In this case, the degree of completion may be..." Shigeru Miyamoto tried to buy some more time, but when he saw Hiroshi Yamauchi's frosty face, his voice became quieter unconsciously.

"Miyamoto-kun, I have always believed in you, and this time is no exception!" Hiroshi Yamauchi suddenly became very amiable again, patted Shigeru Miyamoto's shoulder lightly, and said in a tone full of expectation: " Miyamoto-kun, the future life and death of Nintendo is all up to you."

Shigeru Miyamoto sighed slightly in his heart, and could only reluctantly agree, he also knew that this might really be a matter of Nintendo's life and death...

After arranging Shigeru Miyamoto's information development headquarters, Hiroshi Yamauchi turned his attention to the North American region. The current RB market has been almost divided by DreamBox128 and PS2, but there is still some room in the overseas market. Rising again from the North American market, Hiroshi Yamauchi intends to repeat the success of the past, hoping that NGC can create miracles like the original N64.

But if this is the case, can the personnel adjustment of the North American company continue? Hiroshi Yamauchi is a little hesitant. He knows the strengths of his son-in-law. Mirai Arakawa is in charge of NGC's North American marketing, and perhaps he can really create a miracle again.However, Hiroshi Yamauchi did not want Arakawa to continue to thrive in North America. According to his vision, the future of Nintendo is likely to enter a difficult period. The helm needs to be calm and pragmatic, but not to take risks easily. This is also Hiroshi Yamauchi. The main reason for gradually alienating Mino Arakawa.

Now, if Minoru Arakawa is used again for the release of NGC, Hiroshi Yamauchi is very worried that he will no longer be able to suppress the brilliance of his son-in-law. If Minoru Arakawa takes over the board of directors again with the prestige of NGC's success, his personnel adjustment plan will no longer be possible. If it goes on, it may become more difficult to completely control the purpose of Nintendo North America.

At this moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi couldn't help hesitating...

(End of this chapter)