Pu Yamauchi and Satoshi Iwata were sitting in Yamauchi's office at this time, and at this time, there were two game consoles in front of them.

ONE IS AN XBOX GAME CONSOLE, AND THE OTHER IS A GBA PROTOTYPE.

"THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT OUR GBA IS FAR BETTER THAN THIS XBOX HANDHELD IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE. "We tested the XBOX, and in terms of game performance, the two-dimensional display was specialized - mainly in terms of color, in addition, the sound aspect was enhanced, but the performance of the game itself was not as good as ours, and this machine was bigger and heavier than our GBA, which was not suitable for carrying around." ”

The graphical interpretation logic in XBOX follows the logic of the Ark engine, and when used to make a two-dimensional word game, it works well, but that's all.

"But their cost is low! very low!" Yamauchi frowned.

Hearing the words of the old man Yamauchi, Satoshi Iwata here was also a little speechless.

That's exactly what happened, right.

The production of the other party is all done in a large eastern country, and the cost is very low. AND THEY ALSO HAVE A LOT OF EQUIPMENT THAT IS ALMOST STUCK IN THE EMBARGOED WIRE, ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS THE ACCESSORIES IN THE GBA IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE, BUT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE XBOX ITSELF IS NOT VERY HIGH, SO THIS ACTUALLY HAS NO EFFECT.

"This machine doesn't affect our sales, and according to our survey, the vast majority of people who play this machine are using it to play word adventure games. ”

There are hundreds of games in a handheld after release, and this kind of thing is actually quite explosive.

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

Am I going on the wrong line? Is it Nintendo pills?

That's not right!

After another investigation, Satoshi Iwata breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that these games are all play on words.

THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS WHO DEVELOP HANDHELD GAMES FOR XBOX, AND THEY ARE ALL FAMOUS, AND THEY HAVE A NAME IN THE INDUSTRY, THAT IS, "MYTHRIL POWER".

But the Mithril forces and Nintendo are actually incompatible.

Because people started with little butter, and Lao Ren's target users are sound children.

Moreover, many of these hundreds of games are boring.

For example, many games are released in digital or burnt versions, or in collection versions.

What does this mean?

Originally, there were two types of sales for XBOX, one was to sell the game cartridge itself directly, and the other was to sell discs with game content.

The latter, combined with a burner — for the money of a cassette — can be used to burn the contents of the game to a dedicated cassette.

This burnt 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 even want to buy this cheap version?

Don't worry, the Order of the Phoenix has thoughtfully provided a digital version for everyone, as long as you use Mithril's point card, you can buy and buy, and there are also discount promotions!

-30% saw no!

Why don't you hurry up and buy it?

"The strategy they used was, we used it at Nintendo, but they succeeded, and we failed. Pu Yamauchi's face is not very good-looking, "FC has also offered cheap flashcam tapes, but it has not been successful at all. ”

More than ten years ago, when Nintendo developed the red and white machine, it did provide a special feature for the red and white machine - that is, cheap cartridges.

Once you've finished playing, you'll be able to take your cartridge to the store and burn another game for only 500 yen.

However, they failed, and the service was short-lived, and then it passed with history.

"—because they have carriers. "The strategy for the game burning we offer on the red and white machine is to have players bring the cassette to our store and then burn the game for the players, which is like renting a game for 500 yen." ”

I'm afraid there won't be many people who like this kind of rental game feeling.

Because the Order of the Phoenix and Nintendo do not have a strong conflict, Satoshi Iwata and Pu Yamauchi can still calmly analyze at this time: "But the Order of the Phoenix is different, the Order of the Phoenix provides a cheap version, which allows players to own the game themselves, and this concept is not the same as our red and white machine." ”

The old man Yamauchi was silent, and after a while, he highlighted one word: "piracy problem." ”

Yes, this kind of game that everyone can circulate at any time, the piracy rate must not be low, right?

"Hey, we also looked into this issue, but judging by the situation, the other party doesn't seem to care about this, on the contrary, they seem to value the popularity of machines more. And according to our survey, players are willing to buy a cheap version of a game, although they are reluctant to buy an expensive game. Saying this, the expression on Satoshi Iwata's face was a little subtle.

Speaking of which, this matter is also very painful.

In other words, the cause of the whole thing is because Neon Gold hurts.

One of the characteristics of Neon Gold is that they rarely play foreign games, and most of the time they only play games from their own country.

And at this time, mud bombardment game manufacturers have also noticed this.

No matter how cheap the games of foreign game manufacturers are, Neon Gold is not very 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 then.

As we all know, the price of the game of the mud bomb game manufacturer is ridiculously expensive, not only for foreign countries, but also for domestic countries.

And one of the advantages of the Order of the Phoenix is that they are a domestic game manufacturer.

The cassette version of the game costs the same, but in the case of the cheaper version, the price is cheaper.

Of course, it's not much cheaper, it's only one-third to one-half cheaper.

But that's what the people eat in the mud!

They saw that the game was so cheap and had a good reputation, so why not buy it!

What's more, the save files of these games can also be uploaded to the network via DC-P and saved, claiming to never be lost, which is really wonderful!

"And they're putting a lot of effort into the Internet system," Iwata wondered, "and they're expanding the game to the point where people can connect and play from anywhere......

Here Satoshi Iwata is not just talking about XBOX, but about the DC-P situation of the Order of the Phoenix.

"If the game isn't played face-to-face, then there's no point!" Yamauchi interrupted Iwata's explanation in one breath, "They're evil, we don't have to worry about this!"

"Hi. Satoshi Iwata nodded.

"Now they're letting the game spread freely, in fact, for the sake of their share, and if they expand their share, they will be able to win - because their games and consoles don't cost anything!"

Well, a lot of the games on XBOX, especially the word game, are just fried cold rice, take the games of other platforms, and then repackage them, or reset them with the Ark engine, and the thing is done, and this porting process, as well as the technical support provided by alien technology, everything is of course very good.

HOWEVER, THE GAME IS NATIVE TO XBOX...... No.

Yes, not a single one.

Games like Snake, Zuma, and Bejeweled all have DC-P versions.

"THEIR POSITIONING IS TO TREAT THE XBOX AS AN ADJUNCT TO DC-P, WE HAVE TO ANALYZE THE REASONS FOR THE POPULARITY OF THE XBOX, BUT DON'T THINK ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THIS MACHINE AND THE HOME MACHINE, THIS IS PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE FOR US!"

“...... Hey!"

At this time, the old man Yamauchi could still see it clearly.

That's right, as he said, Senxia's goal in tinkering with this thing is to gain share, and this trick was learned by Senxia and Juhard when they promoted the INDOS system.

When Ju Hard promoted his operating system, it was to indulge piracy at the beginning, and then use the market share to empty all the enemies in the market.

At this time, everyone has grown up with a giant hard operating system, and their environment has naturally adapted, and of course enterprises have also begun to use a giant hard system.

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

And as Mr. Yamauchi said, Senxia's XBOX has a stronger flavor of DC-P, and as a game handheld, he didn't think about doing special design and planning - at least, it was like this before Senxia entered Todai.

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

WHEN XBOX CAME OUT, GBA WAS ACTUALLY ALMOST FINALIZED, AND AT THAT TIME XBOX WAS NOT IN THE EYES OF NINTENDO.

But now, things have changed somewhat.

Because the sales volume of this machine has exceeded 500,000 shipments in just one month, and it is still rising.

As a "game console" that doesn't have its own game features, it's rare for this machine to be able to buy to this extent.

Therefore, at this time, Nintendo must study this "friend" who has developed a similar machine to them, but the market positioning is not enough.

Satoshi Iwata also fell into thinking at this time.

THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO REASONS WHY XBOX IS SO POPULAR.

One is that the XBOX can input the DC-P screen and use it as a visual controller.

And the other one,XBOX can display its own content on the TV through DC projection。

And after optimization, the picture displayed on the TV has an unexpectedly good effect. FOR NOW, MANY PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN TO BUY GAMES FROM XBOX AND PLAY THEM INSTEAD OF THE HIGH-PRICED GAMES ON DC-P.

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

Only Mori Xia's comic is purely for the sake of "making the world more interesting" will do it.

And it turns out that Senxia is doing a good job of this comic.

But for Nintendo, none of this has much value.

The non-reproducibility is too great.

However, Nintendo must also pay attention to each other.

Although you are not enemies yet, you will ...... in the future. That's hard to say.

Because Nintendo also has its own plans for a new home machine.

In the face of this plan, whether it is Sony or the Order of the Phoenix, it is the enemy of Nintendo.

"I remember they went out of their way to buy the rights to the game called Snake, right?"

Yamauchi asked again.

Iwata stoshi paused for a moment.

The old man actually noticed this kind of thing?

He thought for a moment, then said, "Yes, they did. ”

On another world line, everyone remembers the snake and probably thinks of a subtle thing - Nokia mobile phone.

With the advent of Nokia mobile phones, there is a game, a game that has taken the world by storm: the snake.

But in reality, the snake was not developed by Nokia.

As early as 1976, there was a game manufacturer in the Lighthouse Nation that launched a classic arcade game, Blockade.

In this game, two players each control a character to move around the screen, and then they can build fences wherever they go.

The rules are complicated, but in reality they are two snakes that grow up with every step of the way, and they will be the last to finish - in the future Internet age, there are still people who make this kind of game, but it is not two "snakes", but a dozen snakes.

If you have to say it, the snake game "Snake" developed by Nokia is the real snake game, because this game is the game that defines the existence of "snake".

Senxia naturally wanted to make such a game, but before that, in order to prevent copyright problems, Senxia simply took the copyright of similar games one step ahead.

"This game...... It can be controlled with one hand. Yamauchi Pu suddenly said, "Their ambition ...... It's a game console that can be controlled with one hand!"

"-one-handed?!"

Satoshi Iwata was also stunned.

One-handed play?

But that's impossible!

Because of the configuration of the handheld, it is impossible to do it with one hand, unless you don't want the game performance at all!

But what's the point of a game like that?

"But this is indeed a direction, if the human hand is not limited because of the posture, such a game machine, must be the best game machine. Yamauchi said.

"That Order of the Phoenix......"

“...... Leave it alone for the time being, just figure out what they want to do and enlighten us, our great enemy...... It's Sony!"

"Hey!"

It's just that these two people don't know that Sen Xia over there is at the door of the office of a professor at the University of Tokyo at this time.

"Hello Professor Matsuda, I heard that you are studying brain science, I wonder what you think about video games?"

In front of the other party, he is a little-known professor, and in another world, the other party has not made any achievements.

But for Senxia, the identity of the other party is the most important.

Yes, what Senxia needs is just the identity of the other party.

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

Mori Xia said as he handed an envelope to the other party, and inside was a stack of Yukichi Fukuzawa.

......

Guess what Senxia wants to do~

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