Chapter 311: Everything from the Past
Nintendo's feud with a third party fully reflects the deceit of the mall, Hudson and Namco, the two best and most important partners, are not willing to just share the limited profits, so this is later, both of them secretly began to develop their own hardware systems with the intention of replacing them.
When Nakamura learned about the PC-E mainframe jointly developed by Hudson and NEC, he immediately decided to provide software support.
That's why Namco didn't hesitate to use the masterpiece "Yokai Road" developed on the SYSTEM1 arcade substrate as the first game on the PC-E console, and Nakamura Masaya himself was also very fond of the game, and even wrote the five kanji of the title by hand, so the PC-E console also maintained a level of completion comparable to that of an arcade machine.
Today, when Nakamura Masaya's arrival is true, Li Fangcheng is on guard.
The person in front of him is quite dangerous!
Yamauchi Pu was put on a few dishes by Masaya Nakamura!
Using Nintendo, Namco can be said to become the most beautiful third party, and the biggest credit for this is none other than Masaya Nakamura in front of him.
A few years ago, the Namco Headquarters in Ota Ward, Tokyo was officially opened in the summer, and the establishment of this building can be said to represent an important symbol of the rapid development of the home game industry in the video game industry around the world at that time!
Because the construction funds of this building were all made by Namco's huge profits from the release of the game "Iron Plate Formation" on the FC console.
As a result, insiders throughout the game industry have dubbed it the "Iron Plate Building".
In 85 years, Namco even ranked fourth in the industry in the survey of employment intentions of Japanese university graduates!
And among the first in the field of video games, he even surpassed Nintendo and became the first! Even now, Namuni still maintains the record of the first place in the game industry, and Li Fangcheng knows that if there are no accidents, let alone only four years, it has maintained the first record of employment intentions in the game industry for 11 consecutive years.
Back then, Masaya Nakamura divided the entire Namco company into two parts: AC and TV, that is, arcade and home machines.
And invested a lot of money in the research and development of software and hardware technology, it can be said that among the game manufacturers that have passed, the technical strength is second to none.
After the launch of the entire FC in North America, Howard Lincoln, who was the CEO of NOA at the time, Nintendo of North America, re-signed cooperation agreements with third-party manufacturers such as Namco on the grounds that FC consoles and NES consoles belonged to different products, and made detailed revisions to the terms of the contract, such as strictly stipulating that all manufacturers could only release five games per year.
The NES host,In fact, it's the U.S. version of FC.,In other words,It's actually no different from FC.,This reason was raised.,Nakamura Masaya immediately felt that his authority was damaged.,Even went to Kyoto to ask Yamauchi Pu in person.。
However, Yamauchi Pu has begun to recognize Nakamura Masaya, so for Nakamura Masaya, he is just blindly vain and resigned.
Of course, Nakamura Masaya is not without shortcomings, Nakamura Masaya, who has too much self-esteem, feels that his authority is being challenged, and in anger and shame, he loses his mind and is determined to retaliate in his own way. Under the instructions of Nakamura Masaya, Namco Managing Director and North America CEO Nakajima Hideyuki suddenly announced his retirement from the company and established his own game development club Tengen, which is ostensibly a sub-club funded by Atari, but the real behind-the-scenes financier is Nakamura Masaya, who owns 60% of the shares.
Nakamoto was initially happy to cooperate with Nintendo NOA in North America with Nakajima's industry experience, but NOA soon discovered that Tian Yuan completely ignored contract terms such as limiting the number of software releases, and was even suspected of mass-producing pirated FC console game cartridges.
Subsequently, NOA issued a warning lawyer letter to Tian Yuan, but Tian Yuan did not instigate it, but sued Nintendo in court on the grounds of monopoly law and anti-unfair competition law, and the two societies began a litigation entanglement for more than two years!
At the beginning, Nintendo was in an extremely disadvantageous position in the preliminary review stage, and many members of Congress came forward to propose sanctions against it, forcing Nintendo to relax the contract restrictions to a large number of third parties in order to gain support.
At the critical juncture, Howard Lincoln, as the president of Nintendo of North America, grasped the evidence that Tian Yuan secretly produced and sold pirated FC cartridges in large quantities, and only then did Ren achieve a reversal victory.
According to history, originally last year, the desperate Tian Yuan should have spared no expense to take advantage of the loopholes in the contract and Nintendo to compete for the distribution rights of "Tetris", of course, not to mention that this has already been cut off by the Miracle Era, even if it is really according to history, this operation, Tian Yuan still failed!
Although Masaya Nakamura has repeatedly cleared up the master-slave relationship between Namco and Tengen in public, Yamauchi already knows the truth, and what makes Yamauchi even more intolerable is that Nintendo has learned from a Japanese chip manufacturer that Namco is secretly developing a 16-bit CD-ROM game console codenamed "Namco Consumer1"!
This discovery can be said to make the climate of Yamauchi Pufu come from it!
At the beginning of this year, when the five-year contracts of Namco and Hudson were about to expire, Nintendo, or rather, Pu Yamauchi, did not invite the top management of the two companies to renew their contracts, as is customary, but sent a statement separately.
The statement stated that for the sake of fairness, the original preferential conditions will be cancelled from now on, and all third-party manufacturers will be treated equally.
In other words, Namco and Hudson have completely broken away from the identity of the second party on the bright side!
In the face of the sudden humiliation, Masaya Nakamura, an arrogant industry giant, was naturally unwilling to remain silent, and accepted an exclusive interview with the Japan Industrial News in his capacity as the president of the Japan Arcade Industry Association four days after receiving the letter.
During this interview, Masaya Nakamura suddenly changed his mind and criticized Nintendo's software policy: "Nintendo now completely monopolizes the entire market, which is extremely dangerous for the sound development of the entire industry in the future...... Nintendo should reflect on its actions!"
It can be said that all of a sudden, Namco completely stood on the opposite side of Nintendo!
PC-E,So far, there has been no improvement.,The impact of sixteen hosts,Beyond the imagination of all geniuses.,Nakamura Masaya is behind the scenes.,Finally, Annai can't stop it.,Stand up and make such a sound.,It's almost cut off the back road!
(End of chapter)