“...... Thank you very much!"

Kazuhiko Arakawa eventually found his console.

And it was found by the young man he was boasting about before.

"But uncle, you're really lost. The young man looked at each other with an expression of "you're too young".

Kazuhiko Arakawa didn't get angry, after all, it was the other party who helped find it.

After leaving with GS, he was also relieved.

However, although Kazuhiko Arakawa breathed a sigh of relief, but on the other side, Lao Ren, they all held their breath and didn't even dare to let go of a fart.

As for the reason, it's because of their recent games...... Lost.

Not only that, but the loss of this game has led to the complete disappointment of the majority of players for NGC.

It can even be said that this incident has become the root cause of the collapse of the old Ren's overall strategy.

At this moment, in the upper-level meeting of the old Ren, a group of executives were sitting under Yamauchi Pu, not even daring to let out a fart.

"Mario...... It actually failed. Actually, Yamauchi himself was a little incredulous.

However, this is the truth.

They released "Super Yang Guan Mario" at the beginning of the year, and sales collapsed.

Super Sunshine Mario (SUPER_MARIO_SUNSHINE) is one of the main games on NGC.

This game is what Mario 64 is to N64.

The story takes place on a small southern island that resembles Hawaii. The content of the story is that Mario and his party are traveling to this famous summer resort, only to find that someone has made the beautiful island smoky and overflowing with sewage. And the prisoner actually looks exactly like Mario. In order to clear his name, Mario embarks on an adventure.

But how to say it......

The game is obviously not as innovative as its predecessor, and in the eyes of many, it is an enhanced version of Mario 64.

The game was released last Christmas, but after its release, it caused strong dissatisfaction among many long-time fans around the world.

Originally, Lao Ren was a company in the eyes of everyone that pursued the quality of the game, and even did not hesitate to jump tickets often. But the game "Super Sunshine Mario" did not let them see the sincerity.

After NGC's initial failure, last year's veteran quickly adjusted his strategy and focused on Super Sunshine Mario, which they regarded as a crucial strategic product, and began to promote it six months before its release.

This game can be said to be the existence of high expectations.

Lao Ren is just waiting to rely on it to turn the tables.

However...... It doesn't exist.

When Lao Ren's side started to open his ultimate, he first encountered XBOX.

The cover children's shoes are not a good stubble, and they are not directly aimed at Lao Ren, but their immortal fight made Lao Ren's side uncomfortable to death.

Naturally, Lao Ren can't sit still.

They organized many Mario enthusiasts to take to the streets to play Mario in various places, which in turn sparked a wide range of social topics and created a wave of momentum for Mario.

And players are also looking forward to the latest game in the Mario series, which has been released for the first time in five years.

And then......

And not then.

"500,000 copies. ”

Yamauchi looked at the executives.

He was speaking quietly.

"Our Mario has been on the market for nearly half a year, but so far, only half a million copies have been sold. In North Rice, there are only one million servings. ”

Very calm tone.

But the people below who heard it didn't even dare to squeak.

The market response to the game has been quite disappointing, and so far, the game has sold half a million in China and one million in North America.

- You know, "Mario 64" has sold 6 million copies in North America!

And that's not all, the game itself has a low rating, with FAMI Pass having a rating of 36 – a failing grade for a Mario game.

To be honest, there are quite a lot of ideas for this game.

But these ideas are very crude, and in some places they are even inferior to the works of the previous generation.

In fact, this question, in the final analysis, is very simple, that is, "time".

On the other side of the world, the game was released in July of this year, but it was also very tight, and in order to catch up with the scheduled release time, the intelligence development department lost many valuable opportunities to sharpen and adjust, and the perfunctory responsibility of the second half of the game was quite obvious.

As for this world line, not to mention, Lao Ren's rush has caused the performance techniques in the game to be too monotonous and repetitive, and many places are also very rough, even if you look at the "Mario 64" power enhancement version to buy, many have to admit that this game is really a bit ...... Subtle.

"NGC has failed. "The only person we can rely on now is Zelda." But I want you to think about the mistakes we've made. ”

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is not yet available, and the game will be announced at E3 this year.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the chances of NGC wanting to be saved by Zelda are slim to none.

It's something that can't be helped.

Because NGC's market positioning and hardware design do have fatal flaws, and what's worse is that in this era, there are also PS2, GS and the big hard over there, these three giants.

NGC is arguably the culmination of his masterpiece to date, and Genhiro Takeda has said that NGC is "a revolutionary product that has been developed by thoroughly summarizing the design flaws of the N64 hardware."

In the N64 era, because of the limitation of the cartridge capacity, many excellent creative designs could not be reflected, and even halfway through, after the launch of the PS, the N64 was beaten to the north.

Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto, the two chief designers who are responsible for the development of software and hardware respectively, also signed a joint letter to the president of the company, Yamauchi Pu, and insisted that the next-generation console use optical disc media.

This incident caused a great sensation in the company at the beginning.

But at this time, Lao Ren made a mistake, they developed a special DVD drive, but forbade it to be compatible with CDs, and the Panasonic technicians in charge of the development once hoped that NGC would be compatible with DVDs and CDs, but they were sternly refused.

Pu Yamauchi once ridiculed Sony's PS2 next door: "The essence of games is entertainment, and those who use video and sound as a selling point will be eliminated!"

But...... He was slapped in the face and hurt.

After Sony, DC-P quickly followed up with the DVD function, and also quickly followed up with the video playback function, and they even further enhanced the network system to allow people to play games online.

And the capacity of NGC is actually only 1.5G - even one-third more than DC's GD. And this is another reason why NGC was cheated.

In addition, Lao Ren's support for online games is also the most clumsy. Because NGC can only dial-up to the Internet, and because it does not support hard disks, once the online game is updated, the data disk must be replaced, which is very cumbersome, and in this regard, they are simply the perfect foil for DC-P.

I have to say that the success of DC-P, Lao Ren and Sony actually helped a lot, and when it comes to the GS era, this masterpiece, not to mention punching PS2, but at least kicking NGC, is not a problem at all......

Oh, by the way, the PS2 has learned the lessons of the original version, and now the new version has started to learn from the competitor next door to broadband, so in terms of network performance, the PS2 has also beaten NGC in seconds.

Now, NGC has become a shame for Lao Ren to abandon it.

The only thing to be thankful for is that everything is good on the GBA side, and it can even be said that God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha.

"The Order of the Phoenix is developing a handheld. However, at this time, Yamauchi Pu left a sentence. Then he went on to add: "It's a real handheld, not as petty as before." ”

Hearing this, these executives also have some directions.

In fact, everyone didn't care much about the Order of the Phoenix at first. Their handhelds, performance is simply not good.

However, it turned out that they were overthinking.

Because the power of the Order of the Phoenix is simply suffocating.

The game "Brain Platinum" directly made XBOX's sales explode.

At first, everyone didn't care, but the other party did gradually show enough technical ability, and with the launch of GS, the situation became more obvious.

The other party obviously wants to gnaw a piece of meat in the handheld market.

And Yamauchi's channel has already learned the fact that the other party is developing.

Of course, because of the strict secrecy at the top, all he heard was from the bottom, and many of them were actually from suppliers - compared to his own company, it was too simple to break through the supplier's mouth.

"The other party is planning to develop a handheld with touch function. ”

Hearing this, the executives panicked.

"Leaked?!" someone shouted in shock.

——Yes, the new handheld that Lao Ren also wants to develop has the function of touch screen.

And this handheld is also an NDS that "once" left a heavy mark in history.

This handheld has two screens, a large screen on the top and a resistive screen on the bottom.

The development of this machine has actually begun - and in fact, the NDS did predate the PSP (in another world)

It is not an exaggeration to say that the NDS series is the most successful handheld series of Lao Ren, before NS, NDS was the most popular handheld, there is no one.

Although it seems that there is some inconsistency in a large eastern country, in the international market, the NDS is very strong, and the second-place PSP cannot be compared with it at all.

The success of the NDS series handheld also lies in innovation.

Although it is not another world line, the old Ren of this world line has actually realized this.

The failure of NGC made them realize the fact that they had been too conservative in the past.

Of course, Lao Ren's innovation ability is actually quite strong, N64 is the world's first real 3D home machine, and the first VR game console - yes, real VR - is also Lao Ren's Virtual_Boy, although this product is very short-lived.

Therefore, Lao Ren is conservative and innovative at the same time, which is also reflected in the NDS handheld.

And for the current veterans, NDS is their confident work.

This machine's upper and lower dual screens and touch gameplay, and even dual card slots, are all their most satisfying existence.

In this day and age, this is the most interesting and fresh creative way to play.

However, at this time, they actually found out that there was a similar ...... next door

"No, the other side seems to have been developing earlier than us. "It was Satoshi Iwata who spoke.

Pu Yamauchi is already preparing to retire this year, so now Satoshi Iwata has begun to take over the affairs here.

Therefore, Pu Yamauchi is losing his temper now, which actually helps Iwata Satoshi internally to deter others and let him take the position well.

"I'm in trouble...... someone muttered.

Because of the loss of "Super Sunshine Mario", many people have already put it down.

"It's okay," Iwata said, "we're not alone, in fact, Nokia has already made contact with us. They are willing to exchange technology with us with piezoelectric touch screen technology. In exchange for our game development on their platform. ”

"Piezoelectric touch screens?"

Satoshi Iwata explained a little, and everyone knew that this is an upgraded screen for the resistive screen.

"Part of the information we get comes from this. "The Order of the Phoenix is looking for low-power chips, and they have invested in a number of LCD panel manufacturers in Duwan, and they are also in contact with Sharp in China." Predictably, they are indeed preparing to develop a real handheld. ”

Yes, a real handheld.

It's no longer the petty fight it used to be.

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