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Chapter 57 Nintendo's First Heart Meeting ([-])

The next day, March 3th, Sunday, in the conference room of the ANA Hotel...

Thanks to Yuko's wake-up service, Zhang Lexing arrived at the venue on time after having breakfast.When entering the arena, Zhang Lexing noticed that Yuji Yuji and Hironobu Sakaguchi were not far behind them. They had dark circles under their eyes, looked like they lacked sleep, and yawned as they walked. Not good. Didn't come back all night.

Walking to the area assigned to KF-Panda, Zhang Lexing randomly picked a seat near the front and sat down. Afterwards, the venue was gradually filled by representatives of game developers and channel wholesalers who arrived one after another.At nine o'clock, Nintendo's 88 Spring Heart Meeting officially began.

The first person to take the stage was Shigeru Miyamoto, director of Nintendo's Information and Development Department. On behalf of President Yamauchi, he first reviewed the video game market in the past year, and then made an outlook on the development of this year. Of course, these are very important. Good, very good, pretty good crap.After more than 20 minutes, the slightly lengthy opening speech was finally finished, and everyone in the audience felt refreshed and applauded.

According to the previous process, the next step should be the highlight of the Chuxin Club - the Spring Game Promotion Conference, but today seems to be a little different. Masayuki Uemura from Nintendo's second development department came to the stage again and began to speak.Listening to his professional terminology that seems to be covered in clouds and mountains, most of the manufacturers' representatives in the audience were confused and could not understand, but Zhang Lexing roughly understood it with the timely translation of the translator.It turned out that Uemura was introducing a new generation of consoles planned by Nintendo. The main meaning of his speech was: "The CPU of the new consoles under development has finally been determined to be 65C818, which is theoretically backward compatible with the CPUs currently used by FC. , and special enhancements will be made in image processing and sound effects... The upcoming new host will be a new platform with unprecedented powerful performance and super easy game development." Yunyun.It sounded very good, but Zhang Lexing knew that the new mainframe hadn't been seen yet, at least two years away, and it was still very early before it could be listed. Suddenly, Zhang Lexing felt that he seemed to realize the true meaning of holding this meeting in Laoshan. intention.

Seeing the empty eyes of the manufacturer representatives below, Uemura Masayuki finally realized that his speech was too profound, so he began to try to express it in more simple language. This time, many people seemed to understand it.After muttering for more than 20 minutes, Uemura finally finished his game console hardware knowledge popularization lecture, the meeting was pulled back to the original normal process, and the spring game promotion conference officially started.

Shigeru Miyamoto was still in charge of the promotion work. He came to the stage again with a smile on his face, holding a pointing pen, and started the promotion of the game in front of the projection screen.

"The first game we introduced today was brought by KF-Panda America, but it is said that the development team is from ancient and mysterious China..." Shigeru Miyamoto signaled to the staff next to him to put the special FC console connected to the projector Turn it on, and the game screen will start playing on the projector under the operation of the staff.

Shigeru Miyamoto continued: "The Garden of Heaven..."88 Tank Wars"."

As the familiar game screen appeared, there was a buzzing sound in the audience. Many anxious people couldn't help asking questions to the representatives of Namco, but the representatives of Namco could only smile awkwardly.

Seeing the commotion in the audience, Shigeru Miyamoto made a quiet gesture, then gestured to the staff with his eyes to show the appropriate content, and then introduced the innovative content of "88 Tank Wars".

The screen of the game on display was constantly changing, the buzzing in the audience gradually subsided, and a surprised expression gradually appeared on the face of the representative of Namco, perhaps because the Chinese game development team can also have such a strange idea It's incredible to think about it.

The promotion conference continued, and games that had appeared in Zhang Lexing's memory were continuously introduced. Finally, the "Pro-Am" racing game developed by KF-Panda America and Capcom's "1943: Midway Island" were displayed. After "Battle", the grand finale of today's promotion conference came on stage.

Shigeru Miyamoto announced in a passionate voice: "Today's last game came to RB after untold hardships. The development team of nearly [-] people lasted more than a year. Yuji Takii led the main creation, and it was developed by Square... "

Shigeru Miyamoto prolonged his voice on purpose. The most excited people in the audience were the channel wholesalers, all nervously and excitedly staring at the curtain on the stage.Feeling that the atmosphere was almost brewing, Shigeru Miyamoto finally spit out the remaining few words: "Dragon Quest 3——The end of the legend..." At the same time, the "Dragon Quest 3" began to appear on the projection screen. The game display screen of Dragon [-] and the introduction of the innovative system.

After hearing the name of "Dragon Quest 3", the channel wholesaler representatives in the audience didn't stare at the screen at all. What's so interesting about the game introduction? Everyone knows that the "Dragon Quest" series is RB's national level. RPG games, as long as they are put on the shelves, they will basically be sold out very quickly, especially after it was announced the year before last that Square Enix would be produced by the country, and the game has not even started to be produced, so there is almost a wave of pre-orders.This time to participate in the Chuxin meeting, many channel wholesalers are here for this upcoming game. What they are most concerned about is whether the game will be released at this time. Now that they have known the exact news, the rest is to compete for shares There is a problem, the representatives of the channel wholesalers are on guard against each other, and at the same time they start to secretly calculate the chips in their hands.

The game developers in the audience were in a mixed mood. Developers who had successfully passed Nintendo’s review and obtained listing qualifications for several games were naturally happy. When watching the game display screen of "Dragon Quest 3", most of them were purely appreciative. Those developers who were a bit dirty with Nintendo or failed the game review looked at the excited Square representative and game creator Yuuji Uji with a kind of jealousy, and their hearts were full of disdain, "Hmph, if it wasn't for shit luck, they would be killed." If someone else chooses, even your company has already become history...", but when they think of Square holding the "Dragon Quest" series development right, these developer representatives can't help but feel a burst of sadness in their hearts. Sighing: "Why did my company have no financial problems at the beginning, why didn't anyone come to see us, alas..."

With the end of the "Dragon Quest 3" game display, the game promotion conference is coming to an end, and the next is the meeting time between representatives of Nintendo and channel wholesalers, while the game developers voluntarily leave the meeting room ,, stepped into the banquet hall downstairs, ate some buffet, and waited for the final verdict. As for the developers who didn't even show up on the game screen, except for a few aliens with super psychological quality, most of them left the ANA Hotel in a hurry. I went to find a new way out for my company.

Zhang Lexing held a slender glass wine glass, gently shaking the dark red wine in the glass, but he was thinking about Nintendo's thoughts and his own coping method in his heart.The representatives of KF-Panda USA and Square beside them were slowly drinking the red wine in their glasses while exchanging space for future cooperation between the two parties.On the other side, Dijing and Sakaguchi were chatting excitedly. From their expressions, it can be seen that both of them are a little drunk. While talking, they kept gesticulating with their hands. Sometimes they got together and whispered. Whispering, after saying a few words, he put his shoulders on his shoulders as if in tacit understanding, and snickered wretchedly.

Many developers nearby looked at the circle of KF-Panda with complex eyes of awe, disdain or envy, with mixed feelings in their hearts.Some people sat alone in a corner and tasted the liquid in the glass alone, and the taste in their hearts was like wine, either sour or sweet or sweet with some bitterness.Some people get together in twos and threes, or communicate happily, or comfort each other.

After waiting for quite a while, after the staff delivered meals to the banquet hall twice, the developers finally got the news that they could go upstairs. Everyone began to walk up the stairs in twos and threes, and Zhang Lexing also followed to the upper floor. the venue.

As soon as I entered the venue, I found that the inside had been cleaned up, even the projectors on the stage had been put away, and all the previous channel wholesalers had left.Seeing that almost all the developers who could come were present, Shigeru Miyamoto walked onto the stage with a stack of papers and began announcing the number of pre-ordered games for this spring.

"Number of pre-orders for "88 Tank Wars" in Tianzhiyuan... 10 copies"

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"The number of reservations for Helad's "Xunlei Action"... 1 copies, which has not reached the minimum reservation amount, and we will withdraw from the promotion list of this year."

The expression of the representative of the Helad agency froze for an instant, and then quickly collapsed, as if he had lost his support.

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Following Shigeru Miyamoto's announcement, the expressions of many developers were different. Some small companies were lucky to have more than 2 copies, and some representatives of large companies immediately became clouded after receiving only thousands of orders. Of course There are also a few companies that have received more than 10 orders calmly, which is basically the treatment that only some established development companies can enjoy.

Gradually, Shigeru Miyamoto's introduction is coming to an end.

"KF-Panda US "Pro-Am" pre-orders... 18 copies"

"Capcom's 1943: The Battle of Midway preorders... 20 copies"

"Well, next is the pre-order status of the last game for today..." Shigeru Miyamoto made a small pass here.

"Square's "Dragon Quest 3 - The End of the Legend" preorders... 100 million copies..." Shigeru Miyamoto's voice suddenly became high.

Immediately there was a buzzing sound from the audience, and the eyes of many developers looking at the representatives of Square and KF-Panda changed immediately, especially the eyes of representatives of Square, full of envy and jealousy.The number of pre-orders announced is about the same as Zhang Lexing estimated. What is more surprising is that Tianzhiyuan's "88 Tank Wars", a modified version of an old game, still has 10 copies. It seems that the efforts of everyone in Tianzhiyuan will soon be There will be returns.

After the pre-order situation is announced, the rest is for the developers on the list to sign contracts with the Nintendo channel wholesalers and negotiate supply details. Merchants can only leave sadly.

(End of this chapter)