game trailblazer

Chapter 375 FC Mini and Shanzhai "Tile
What appeared in front of Minoru Arakawa was not a game project proposal in the strict sense. In fact, it could only be called an introduction to the game project, including the main content of the game, selling points, applicable platforms, and commercial sales estimates. Of course, this is not because Arakawa is surprised. Although he hardly plays games, he has been in Nintendo for so many years, and he still has some understanding of some situations in game development.What really surprised Arakawa was the two low-cost game projects mentioned in it, one is FCMini and the other is "Naruto Manufacturing".

The full name of FCMini is "FAMICOMMINI". The specific game content is actually to pick out a batch of "mentally handicapped games" with low K value from the game library of Nintendo's red and white machine (FC), and then repackage them to run on the GBA portable palm. PC and DreamBox128 game console, the "new" game is the so-called fried cold rice, and it is a complete copy of the super cold rice king type. Not only the game screen and music are exactly the same as the original FC version, even the bugs are also inherited. down (such as the famous "up, down, left, right, left, right BABA" in "Contra"), that is to say, what players experience from GBA and DreamBox128 will be exactly the same as that on the Nintendo red and white machine more than ten years ago. game effects.

"Made in Naruto" is actually a copycat of "Made in Wario" in the future. Of course, apart from Zhang Lexing, who provided the idea, no one else knows this, including Xu Yeming, who has read more detailed development materials. Naturally, Arakawa has no way of knowing. "Naruto Manufacturing" borrows the background of "Naruto Ninja" which is currently being serialized on "Weekly Shonen Jump". Players can choose Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and others to participate in ninja training. You can successfully get the ninja certificate issued by the ninja school through a series of tests of weird levels including meat, skipping rope, and skateboarding. Ninja training in Naruto is essentially a collection of mini-games, most of which can be done in five seconds.

The other games involved in the game project plan are all of the type with gimmicks and deep game content. Considering the past achievements of the game development company under Dongfang Industrial Group, Arakawa still trusts him. With the addition of Dongfang Industrial Group, Nintendo's upcoming GBA portable handheld will definitely create another brilliance no less than GameBoy.

But for the two low-cost games FCMini and "Naruto Manufacturing", Arakawa is a bit confused. What era are they now? The most popular is the 128D performance showdown between the next-generation game consoles such as DreamBox2 and PlayStation3. The most important thing is how dazzling and cool the real-time calculation CG picture is, how grand the game content is, how exciting the game's soundtrack is, and how powerful the force feedback of the gamepad is.Now if we dig out the old antiques from the era of Nintendo's red and white machines, even after adding enhanced chips, they can't compare with the current games at all. Arakawa really doubts that anyone will spend money on these old antiques. The gimmick of "Naruto Maker" is there. Taking advantage of the popularity of the popular serial "Naruto", Arakawa believes that many people will be willing to try it, but how much fun can that short 5-second game bring? How many people are willing to abandon those masterpieces and switch to this super skit game?

Arakawa glanced at Xu Yeming who was having a good conversation with Nomura Hiroshin, opened his mouth but didn't say anything, he thought about it in a blink of an eye, anyway, his main purpose of accepting the help of Dongfang Industrial Group was to get back his own At the same time, he also hopes to take advantage of the strong development capabilities of the game company under the Eastern Industrial Group. Now that the other party is willing to develop games for Nintendo's GBA portable handheld, then his goal has been achieved. As for the games developed by the Eastern Industrial Group. If he can make money, he doesn't need to think about it.

Thinking of this, Arakawa put down the document in his hand, raised his wine glass, gestured to Xu Yeming and Nomura Hiroshin, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Nomura, I hope you will have a happy cooperation in the future!"

"Happy cooperation!" The three wine glasses collided again, making a crisp jingle sound...

Rihga Royal Hotel, Kyoto, late at night...

"...Nintendo's next president has been confirmed to be Minotaur Arakawa, the relevant news will be announced in three days, and Hiroshi Yamauchi will officially step down as president and chairman of the board of directors in one month, and transfer to the company's special advisor...Arakawa In fact, he will take over as the president of Nintendo, the former vice president Atsushi Asada will take over as the chairman of the board of directors, and Hiroshin Nomura will be promoted to the position of executive vice president... The relevant cooperation plan with Nintendo has been preliminarily negotiated, and the other party promised to give up unsuccessfully NGC game consoles, the relevant patented technologies will be purchased by us at a low price, and the games that have been developed or are under development will be transferred to the DreamBox128 game platform. The main development direction of Nintendo in the future will be in the portable handheld market...Nintendo The long-awaited GameBoy upgraded version of the GBA portable handheld will be launched in the near future. We will fully support this, and Nintendo will cooperate with Oriental Industrial Group to develop the next generation of portable handheld. In return for providing game development support, we Can obtain all related technologies of the FC game console and related technology patents related to portable handhelds from Nintendo..."

Under the bright lights in the guest room, Xu Yeming typed the last character on the keyboard, moved the mouse and read the entire email from beginning to end, feeling that he had explained everything he wanted to say clearly, so he selected He went to his boss, his boss's boss, and related personnel, and then clicked the send button. Seeing the message "Send OK" on the screen, he breathed a sigh of relief, and drank the steaming coffee next to the monitor.

More than seven hours later, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, China...

After returning from morning exercise, Zhang Lexing took a shower, changed into a comfortable outfit, and went to the bedroom upstairs to take a look. Chen Zishan and the two babies were still sleeping very soundly. He closed the door carefully. , walked lightly to the terrace on the third floor, drank a few sips of freshly squeezed corn juice with some snacks, then sat down and turned on the laptop on the table.As soon as he logged into the office system, Zhang Lexing noticed that several work emails had accumulated in it, so he moved the mouse to click on them one by one.

"... Star Media has raised its offer for the acquisition of Dow Jones Corporation from US$26 billion to US$32 billion, and the other party has indicated that it is acceptable, and relevant agreements have already been signed..."

"...The foundation stone laying ceremony of Shanghai Jiading Commercial Plaza was held yesterday. The general manager of Orient Real Estate Co., Ltd. and the vice president of the group company attended the ceremony, as well as the main leaders of the Shanghai local government..."

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"...Oriental Industrial Group signed a cooperation agreement with Nintendo yesterday, and the relevant cooperation details will be announced soon..."

After reading the last email and attaching his opinions one by one, Zhang Lexing picked up the cup and took a sip of the still warm corn juice. He was just about to log out of the office system when a notification that a new email had arrived suddenly appeared on the screen, so He clicked the icon and opened the email that just arrived.

"...As of 35.7:22.3 p.m. today, the acquisition of 10% of Nintendo's shares has been completed through the Osaka Stock Exchange and the U.S. OTC Group...According to information disclosed in the public market and secret investigations, the Yamauchi Family Shareholding Association controls 16.7% of Nintendo's shares. % of Nintendo shares, converted according to the internal distribution of the Yamauchi Family Shareholding Association, Hiroshi Yamauchi personally holds 2.5% of Nintendo shares, other members of the board of directors hold a total of 1.4% of Nintendo shares, and RB local financial institutions hold 21.4% , 16.7% in the hands of the RB government, and the remaining 1% are tradable shares... The goal of controlling Nintendo has not been achieved. The plan starts from two aspects, one is to find a way from the 1% in the hands of board members, and the other is to think The way to disintegrate the Yamauchi Family Shareholding Association...It is estimated that it will take [-] to [-] and a half years to complete the entire plan..."

This is a work email from the United States. It is an action against Nintendo arranged by Zhang Lexing more than a year ago, hoping to achieve the goal of completely controlling Nintendo through stock market actions. Of course, on the surface, the shareholders meeting and the board of directors are both It is normal, and a major shareholder holding more than 50% of the shares will not appear immediately. This is also to reduce the resistance of Nintendo's old courtiers, including Arakawa who has just been promoted to the throne of president.After all, the hard work of these people is indispensable for Nintendo to have what it is today. If it is known that Nintendo has been completely acquired by other groups, it will be difficult to guarantee that they are still willing to stay in Nintendo. What Zhang Lexing needs is not an empty shell of Nintendo, but what he wants. It is a complete Nintendo, so we can only take it slowly, which is different from treating Sega.

After closing the last email and exiting the system, Zhang Lexing leaned back on the chair, slowly drinking corn juice from a cup.Sega has already taken it down. Although it is a bit of a pity that the core cadres of AM2 Research have run away, but with the R&D strength of our own group, there should not be much difference. Next, we only need to slowly split it according to the plan. .The problem on Nintendo's side is no longer a big one. With a group of offshore companies controlling 35.7% of the shares, coupled with the board of directors' internal alliance and Arakawa Minority's coming to power, I believe it will become something in the pocket sooner or later.

"It seems that we need to prepare more surprises for Sony Computer Entertainment..." Zhang Lexing thought to himself, as long as Sony Computer Entertainment is dealt with, there will basically be no serious opponents in the home video game market. At that time, perhaps the unified format of home game consoles will not be just a dream.

In fact, this dream had existed before Zhang Lexing was reborn, and it was not just his dream alone. Many home game console players had imagined that one day there would be a unified home game console, so that everyone Don't worry about not being able to play your favorite games anymore.The fierce competition among several home game console manufacturers has brought prosperity to the home game console market, but it has also brought about something that the majority of players hate—host barriers, especially when their favorite games become available on other game consoles. This feeling is especially obvious when playing exclusive games, even players who only play pirated versions will inevitably have to make trade-offs between different game consoles. If home game consoles can be unified on one platform, perhaps this distress will be eliminated. Much less.

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