Tokyo's Gentleman Story

Yamauchi Pu and Iwata Cong are sitting in the office of Yamauchi at this time, and the two game machines are placed in front of them at this time.

One is an Xbox, and the other is a GBA prototype.

"There is no doubt that our GBA is much better than this Xbox handset in terms of performance." Iwata Cong said their conclusion: "we have tested Xbox. In terms of game performance, this machine has specialized in two-dimensional display effect - mainly in terms of color and sound. However, the performance of the game itself is not as good as ours. Moreover, this machine is bigger and heavier than our GBA and is not suitable for portable use."

The graphic interpretation logic in Xbox follows the logic of the ark engine. When it is used to do two-dimensional text games, the effect is very good, but it is only that.

"But their costs are low! Very low Pu frowned in the mountain.

Hearing the words of Yamauchi, Iwata Cong is also speechless.

That's exactly what this is all about.

The other party's production is all completed in a big eastern country, and the cost is very low. In addition, many of their equipment are almost sent by the forbidden line. Although the performance may not be as good as the accessories in GBA, the performance of Xbox itself is not very high, so it has no impact.

"This machine will not affect our sales. According to our survey, most people who play this machine are used to play word adventure games."

There are hundreds of games after the release of a handheld, which is actually very explosive.

When Iwata Cong first heard the news, he was almost shocked.

Am I on the wrong world line? Nintendo pills?

No!

Once again, Iwata was relieved.

It turns out that these games are word games.

There are many manufacturers that develop handheld games for Xbox, and they are very famous. They have a name in the industry, that is, "secret silver force".

But the secret silver force and Nintendo are actually unable to fight each other.

Because people start with small butter, and the target users of Lao Ren are sound children.

Moreover, these hundreds of games, many of which are greasy.

For example, many games are sold in digital or recorded versions, or they are collections.

What does that mean?

Originally, Xbox sales are divided into two categories: one is to sell game cards directly, and the other is to sell CDs with game content.

The latter with a burning machine - as long as a box of cassette money - can burn the content of the game into a dedicated recording cassette.

This recording version, also known as the cheap version, uses a small 8cm disc with a storage capacity of 200 megabytes, but it is more than enough.

And what if someone doesn't want to buy this cheap version?

Don't worry, the order of Phoenix considerate to provide you with a digital version, as long as you use the point card of secret silver, you can buy and buy, and there is a discount promotion!

-30% see it!

Do you want to buy it?

"The strategy they used was, we used Nintendo, but they succeeded and we failed." Shan Neipu's face is not very good-looking, "FC has also provided cheap burning cassette, but it is not successful at all."

More than a decade ago, when Nintendo was developing red and white machines, it did provide a special feature - cheap cassette.

After playing the game, the player can take his card to the store and burn another game, which only costs 500 yen.

However, they failed, and the service was just a flash in the pan, and then it passed with history.

"- because they have carriers." Iwata said, "the game burning strategy we provide on the red and white machines is to let players bring the cards to our stores and then burn the games for the players. This feeling is the same as renting a game for 500 yen."

I'm afraid there are not many people who like this kind of rental game.

Because there is no strong conflict between the order of Phoenix and Nintendo, Iwata Cong and Yamauchi Pu can still analyze calmly at this time: "but the order of the Phoenix is different. The order of Phoenix provides a cheap version, which allows players to own the game. This concept is different from our red and white machines."

The old man in the mountain was silent. After a long time, he highlighted a word: "piracy."

Yes, everyone can circulate the game at any time. The piracy rate will not be low, will it?

"Hey, we also investigated this problem, but according to the situation, the other party doesn't seem to care about it. On the contrary, they seem to value the popularity of machines more. And according to our survey, although players are not willing to buy expensive games, they are willing to buy cheap versions. " Said this question, the expression on Iwata Cong's face is somewhat subtle.Speaking of it, this matter is also very painful.

In other words, the cause of the whole thing is that neon gold is very painful.

Neon gold has a feature that they seldom play foreign games, and most of the time they only play their own games.

At this time, mud boom game manufacturers have also noticed this point.

No matter how cheap the games of foreign game manufacturers are, neon gold is not willing to play. On the contrary, although the price of domestic games is high, they are willing to play.

And then And then there was no and then.

As we all know, the selling price of Ni Bang game manufacturers is exorbitant, which is not only for foreign countries, but also for China.

One of the advantages of the order of Phoenix is that they are domestic game manufacturers.

Card version of the game, the price is the same, but the cheap version, that price is cheaper.

Of course, it's not much cheaper. It's only a third to a half cheaper.

But this is what mud people eat!

They see that the game is so cheap and has a good reputation. Why not buy it!

What's more, the archives of these games can also be uploaded to the network through dc-p, claiming never to be lost, which is really wonderful!

"And they've put a lot of effort into the Internet system," Iwata said, puzzled. "They've expanded the game to the point where people can contact each other to play games."

What Iwata said here is not just about Xbox, but about dc-p of the order of the Phoenix.

"If the game is not face-to-face, it is meaningless!" Mountain Pu one breath interrupted Iwata Cong's explanation, "they are evil, we don't care about this!"

"Hi." Iwata Cong nodded.

"They are now allowing the game to spread freely, in fact, for the sake of their share. If they expand their share, they will be able to win - because their games and game machines have no cost!"

Well, many of the games on Xbox, especially Word Games, are just fried rice. Take the games from other platforms and repackage them or reset them with the ark engine, and then everything will be done. Moreover, the transplantation process, as well as the technical support provided by alien technology, is certainly very good.

However, the original Xbox game No,

Yes, none of them.

There are dc-p versions for games like snake, Zuma and gem maze.

"Their positioning is to regard Xbox as an accessory of dc-p. we need to analyze the reasons why Xbox is popular, but don't think about the connection between the machine and the home computer. For us, putting the cart before the horse!"

“…… Hi

It's the time for Laozi to watch.

That's right. As he said, the goal of senxia playing tricks is to occupy a share. This move was learned by senxia and Juqiang when they promoted the windows system.

When giant hardware promoted its own operating system, it indulged in piracy at the beginning, and then used its share to clear all the enemies in the market.

at this time, everyone grew up with the operating system of giant hardware, and their environment has naturally adapted, and enterprises of course have begun to use the system.

And giant hard will end at this time, and then find those big heads, one by one, door-to-door collection of "protection fees.".

And just as Mr. Pu said in Yamauchi, the Xbox on senxia's side has a stronger flavor with dc-p. as a game console, he didn't want to make special design and Planning - at least, before senxia entered Dongda.

Nintendo is scheduled to launch a handheld called "GBA" to replace the old GB and GBC.

When Nintendo came out, it was not in the eyes of gbox.

But now, things have changed.

Because the sales volume of this machine has exceeded 500000 in just one month, and it is still rising.

As a "game machine" that does not completely belong to its own game characteristics, it is rare that this machine can buy this kind of degree.

Therefore, Nintendo at this time must study this and they developed similar machines, but the market positioning is unable to play eight pole "friend".

Iwata Cong also fell into thinking at this time.

There are two reasons why Xbox is so popular.

One is that Xbox can input dc-p image as a visual handle.

On the other hand, Xbox can display its own content on the TV through DC projection.And after optimization, the picture displayed on the TV is surprisingly good. At present, many people actually choose to buy Xbox games, and then replace the high price games on dc-p to play.

This kind of thing, not only Nintendo will not do, Sony will not do it, the original Sega will not be wrong.

Only senxia, who is purely for the purpose of "making the world more interesting", will do it.

And it turns out that senxia did a good job.

But for Nintendo, none of this has much to learn from.

It's too hard to replicate.

But Nintendo must also value each other.

Although we are not enemies now, but after That's hard to say.

Because Nintendo also has its own new home phone plans.

In front of this plan, both Sony and the order of Phoenix are enemies of Nintendo.

"I remember they went out and bought the copyright of the game named snake?"

Pu asked again.

Iwata Cong Leng for a moment.

Did the old man notice such a thing?

He thought about it and said, "yes, they did."

In another world line, we remember the snake, I'm afraid you will think of a subtle thing - Nokia mobile phone.

With the emergence of Nokia mobile phone, there is a game, a popular game in the world: snake.

But in fact, snake wasn't developed by Nokia.

As early as 1976, lighthouse country has a game manufacturer to launch a classic arcade game blockade.

In this game, two players control the movement of a character on the screen, and then they can build fences where they go.

The rules are very complicated, but in fact, the two greedy snakes that grow up every step of the way will be finished. In the future Internet era, some people have made this kind of game, but it is not two "greedy snakes", but a dozen greedy snakes.

However, if you insist on saying that the snake game developed by Nokia is the real snake game, because this game is the game that defines the existence of "snake".

Naturally, senxia wanted to complete such a game, but before that, in order to prevent copyright issues, senxia simply took away the copyright of similar games in advance.

"This game It can be controlled with one hand. " Shannei Pu suddenly said, "their ambition It can be controlled by one hand

"- one hand?"

Iwata Cong was stunned.

One handed game?

But that's impossible!

Because of the configuration of the handheld, it is impossible to achieve single handed, unless the game performance is not required at all!

But what's the point of that game?

"But it's really a direction. If people's hands are not limited by their posture, such a game machine must be the best one." Mountain Pu said so.

"The order of the Phoenix..."

“…… Don't worry about it for the time being. Just figure out what they want to do and what they enlighten us. Our enemy It's Sony! "

"Hi!"

However, these two people still don't know. Senxia over there is at the door of a professor's office at Dongda University.

"Hello, Professor Matsuda. I heard that you are studying the field of brain science? What do you think of video games? "

In front of each other, there is an unknown professor. In the other world line, the other side has not made any achievements.

But for Mori, the identity of the other side is the most important.

Yes, it's just the identity of each other that moriha needs.

"Professor Matsuda, do you think there is any connection between brain science and video games?"

Mori said, but also handed an envelope to each other, inside is a stack of Fukuzawa Yuki.

……

Guess what senxia wants to do ~