He Guoyuan nodded, and said, "If there are only Xiangjiang cubes and snakes, I'm worried that our Gameboy and family game opportunities will have a conflict of interest?"

Xu Zhi smiled: "Don't worry, Gameboy takes the portable route, although they are all the same game, but the playability is not as good as the home console, even if there are some conflicts, it doesn't matter, tank battles, Pac-Man or the arcade games we will develop in the future, are unlikely to be copied to the Gameboy, these two products actually take completely different routes! It's just because we lack games now, so I feel like there will be conflicts." ”

In recent months, in addition to researching home consoles, another R&D department has been working on another product proposed by Xu Zhi: the Gameboy!

Without Xu Zhi's intervention, by 1980, Nintendo would have released its first portable game console: the GameWatch, which sold a total of 32 million units worldwide in three years and made a huge profit for Nintendo.

As for this life, Nintendo is even more useless, because the protagonist of the development of this game, Yokoi Gunpei, has been poached by Midea with a high salary!

Gunhei Yokoi, the president of Nintendo's No. 1 R&D department, was highly regarded by Nintendo's top management, and on a ride on the Shinkansen, he happened to see a young man bored playing with a calculator, which made him think that if he could develop a game console the size of a calculator, it would be a big hit.

However, the reality is cruel, his idea was vetoed by his immediate boss, so he crossed the level to report to the president Hiroshi Yamauchi, and as a result, the president held a high-level meeting and rejected his idea.

Historically, President Hiroshi Yamauchi supported Gunhei Yokoi under the pressure below, but now it's different.

Because Nintendo is now more heavily indebted than it was at the same time in history, several arcade games developed by the company in succession have suffered serious failures in the American market, bank debts are extremely severe, and the company's executives do not agree to invest heavily in redeveloping a product that has not appeared on the market.

However, Yokoi Junhei is not giving up, he understands that the cost of developing portable game consoles is not high, and the trouble is the follow-up games, and then portable game consoles, there are no high-quality games, which is a waste board.

It was obviously impossible to develop a game specifically for portable consoles, and the only way to do that was to bring in existing games, and Gunhei Yokoi researched many games and found that Xiangjiang Cube and Snake were two very suitable.

If you can get the patents for these two games on future Nintendo's portable game consoles, then there should be a way to convince the company's top management again!

But the dilemma is: if he tells Midea about this idea, will he be kicked away by the other party directly, and then they will develop it themselves?

One idea is that you can't apply for a patent, only the actual product comes out!

And the second is that these two games are so popular, even if Midea has professional ethics and is willing to sell the copyright, according to the popularity of the other party's game, this copyright fee must be sky-high, and it is impossible for your own company to come out!

However, God's will is unpredictable, just when Yokoi Junhei was struggling with how to contact Midea's company, Midea's people automatically came to the door!

From the time he decided to be a Gameboy, Xu Zhi decided that he must dig up Nintendo's Yokoi Junhei!

This man is a genius in the world of games and even innovation, Gameboy and D-pad are just two of his innovations, back in the 60s, he created more than a hundred quirky toys for Nintendo, such as super weird hands, super periscopes, love meters, etc., which have sold more than a million toys for many years!

After taking charge of the game, several unprecedented inventions in a row brought Nintendo to the pinnacle of gaming.

Like most Japanese people, Yokoi is reluctant to leave his company, and this strange workplace concept has puzzled many people in the West and even other Asian countries.

So He Guoyuan directly raised his offer to 3 times Nintendo's salary, and at the same time came with a huge bonus dividend at the end of the year, and also showed him the cross button and Gameboy handheld that had been registered and patented by the United States, and finally, Yokoi Junhei agreed to go to Xiangjiang!

There is nothing in this world that money can't solve, and if it can't be solved, it's that money is not enough!

After leaving Nintendo, Yokoi came to Xiangjiang, where he was responsible for optimizing the operation of the Gameboy and the two games, and he was also very conscientious, and he completed the civilian LCD agreement with Sharp within a month of joining the company, clearing the last obstacle for the final mass production of the Gameboy.

He Guoyuan made a phone call, and soon, a middle-aged man in his 30s knocked on the door and walked in, and when he saw Xu Zhi, he immediately bowed 90 degrees and said in English: "Hello boss!"

Xu Zhi couldn't laugh or cry, this kind of etiquette in little Japan is not a good thing in the Chinese area, so he also said in English: "Mr. Yokoi, please sit down, this is Xiangjiang, don't use Japanese etiquette in the future, there will be cultural conflicts in many cases." ”

Yokoi Junhei immediately nodded and said, "Okay, got it!"

Xu Zhi asked, "How is Gameboy now?"

"Xu Sheng, this is the latest model after improvement, do you have any suggestions?" Yokoi Junhei took out a milky white handheld that was slightly larger than a palm from his pocket and handed it to Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi carefully looked at a large number of this handheld, the volume was much larger than in his impression, but it was much better than the existence of a brick that He Guoyuan sent to the United States before.

At the bottom left of the game is the familiar D-pad, on the right there are 3 different buttons, and in the middle there is a small red button that is the pause button. The middle and upper sections of the machine are a whole screen, only about 3 inches in size, the whole fuselage is round and smooth, and the materials are all high-quality plastics, which is very comfortable to touch.

Turn on the power button button, and the familiar picture of the Xiangjiang square jumps out, but because the clarity of the screen is not enough, it always looks very blurry.

In fact, according to Xu Zhi's own assumption, this kind of handheld should be detachable, the whole body is a piece, and the game card is the same as the home game console, which can be replaced, so that it seems to make less money on the surface, but it can increase the stickiness of users.

However, the actual technological development is not good, Yokoi Junhei and a group of engineers have studied for a long time, and it can be regarded as developing the handheld that Xu Zhi requires, but Xu Zhi can't use it, one is that the size of the handheld has become larger, and the other is that the cost is too high, which is higher than the cost of a game and a handheld.

Thinking that his company does not have many games at present, Xu Zhi still nodded and agreed to use this traditional model: the game and the handheld are integrated.

In terms of screen, Xu Zhi has no choice, and now it is still 10 years away from the large-scale popularization of TFT LCD, and the liquid crystal displays on the market are all printed screens, that is, the kind of commonly used calculators.

However, this size aspect ......

Xu Zhi asked, "Can't this volume be reduced anymore?"

Yokoi Junhei apologized: "Xu Sheng, it's hard to shrink anymore. ”

"Really?" Xu Zhi walked to the fish tank and threw the game console down, air bubbles suddenly bubbled on the fuselage, Xu Zhi pointed to the inside of the fish tank, turned his head to Yokoi Junpei and said: "Look, so much air, it means that there is still a lot of space!"

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