Although the hardware design team of GameBoy-2 did not understand the reason why Li Xuan asked for an infrared communication device, since the big boss had given the order, they naturally had to obey unconditionally.

Du Wenqiang's vision is obviously much higher than these designers, and he immediately understood the significance of adding communication devices to the handheld to fight online. No matter how classic a game is, after playing it a hundred or a thousand times, there will always be times when you get bored.

However, if the handheld can achieve online battles, it can add a lot of new fun, such as face-to-face PK between friends. And the desire to win among players is often the best way to increase user stickiness.

After all, people are social animals and have the instinct to show off and conform to the herd. Those who win the battle can get spiritual satisfaction from the victory, while the loser will be ashamed and courageous. This kind of direct competition can greatly extend the time that everyone is enthusiastic about game consoles.

However, Du Wenqiang has a lot of doubts about the level of infrared communication technology made for four or five dollars. It is never easy to connect two handhelds into a network perfectly.

However, as long as there is a direction of research and development, even if the wireless networking method does not work, it can also be replaced by wired networking. Just add an additional data transmission interface to the handheld, and then use a data cable to connect the two handhelds.

Du Wenqiang is not too worried about hardware problems, and the company has strong technical reserves. What he is more interested in now is what is the content of the new game that Li Xuan is planning about?

In Li Xuan's memory, "Pokémon" or "Pokemon" is definitely the best-selling handheld game of all time. Not one of them. "Pokémon" is a huge IP with an output value of tens of billions of dollars in another time and space. It has formed an industrial chain that includes games, animation, toys, movies and many other fields.

As early as last year, Li Xuan had already begun to organize a dedicated team. to develop the Pokémon project. However, Li Xuan did not start with games, but prepared to start with cartoons and comics. (By the way, the word "IP" has been so popular by the media recently that celebrities like Director Feng have to follow the fashion and ask others what IP means?)

The so-called IP is the abbreviation of English intellectualproperty, and the literal translation into Chinese is intellectual property protection. Of course, a more appropriate understanding should be to extend an intellectual property to maximize profits and form a large industry. For example, a novel can be adapted into a comic book and movie script. It can be made into an online game. ）

The Japanese have stopped celebrating the New Year (lunar calendar) since the Meiji Restoration, so this Spring Festival holiday, two good friends, Shigeru Miyamoto and Tomotoshi Tajiri, did not return to Japan, but went to Singapore to play together for a few days.

On the second day of work after the holiday, they were assigned a special task by the president of the company. Yesterday afternoon, the president of the company suddenly handed him and Shigeru Miyamoto and Ken Sugimori to the office, and then handed them a stack of materials, asking them to read them in a few days.

"Miyamoto-kun, what do you think His Excellency the President meant yesterday? The pulleys of the seat glide nimbly towards Shigeru Miyamoto's position not far to the left.

Tajiri is still a young man who has just turned 20 years old, and his personality is a little less old and a little more lively. And Shigeru Miyamoto is more than ten years older than Tajiri Tomo, but the two have become friends without a generation gap. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto was fifty or sixty years old. Dressed like a young man in his twenties and thirties. He has another heart that is eternally young and full of whimsy!

However, Shigeru Miyamoto is a little absent-minded now. At this time, he was most concerned about what would happen to the sales of his self-developed "The Legend of Zelda" after it was released? The Legend of Zelda will be available worldwide with the FC-2 console.

The Legend of Zelda was Shigeru Miyamoto's first game for which he served as the main mastermind. If it can be an instant hit, it will be a big sale. As the main creator, Shigeru Miyamoto can not only receive great honors, but also according to the company's reward and punishment incentive rules. He is likely to also receive a huge dividend.

"Maybe!" replied listlessly.

"I think this project called Pokémon is very interesting, I have always loved collecting insect specimens since I was a child!" Tajiri said to himself, not noticing Shigeru Miyamoto's abnormality.

"Oh!" Miyamoto replied very perfunctorily.

Tajiri finally noticed the other party's abnormality. He looked at his friend with a sad face, and didn't know how to comfort the other party. Although Tajiri was also involved in the entire production process of The Legend of Zelda from head to toe.

But he always thought that this was Shigeru Miyamoto's game, and he was just helping him to add some details. In fact, he is quite envious of the other party, having the opportunity to independently host a creative group, and their game has also been favored by the company's top management, becoming one of the first main games for the FC-2 console.

Competition within Oriental Games is actually very fierce, with no less than 100 new game development proposals submitted every month, and no more than 20 projects can be approved in the end. Excluding projects that should be cut for various reasons during development, there will be no more than 10 games that can be finally made.

Tajiri has always wanted to have the opportunity to independently curate a game of his own. Because once the game is successful, the creator can not only become famous, but also reap huge real-life benefits. For example, after the huge success of "The King of Fighters", the game's creative team shared a whopping $5 million in rewards.

This time, the president of the company suddenly gave him these materials, which are said to be the creation materials of an anime, but Tajiri suddenly felt that he seemed to have grasped something! He stayed awake all night yesterday, and countless ideas came to his mind, so as soon as he arrived at the company today, he couldn't wait to discuss with Shigeru Miyamoto the various game ideas he had thought about last night.

That's right, Tajiri guesses that the company must be preparing to turn this anime into a game. Otherwise, there is no need for Your Excellency the President. Solemnly let them study this information.

And Tajiri feels that the plan for this project has just begun, and the company must not have decided on the main creator. Otherwise, I would have interviewed them yesterday. will be the specific person in charge of the project. In Tajiri's view, this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

The new headquarters of the Eastern Bloc. The Oriental Building is still under intense construction, and it is estimated that it will be completed in half a year, and it will be completed and put into use by the end of next year. At present, the main office address of Oriental Group is still Glouce Brown Building on Pedder Street in Central.

Originally, Oriental Group only rented the top five floors of the building, but as the company continued to expand, the Gloucester Building is now home to Oriental Group offices from the 20th to 43rd floors.

On the ground floor of Gourmet Setar Building is a nice pastry room where the pastry chef is a French chef who makes very good mousse cakes.

"Li Sheng. I still think that the configuration of the GameBoy is too backward, and its simple graphics are difficult to perfectly show the various lifelike baby shapes in "Pokémon"! On the contrary, it is more appropriate to put this game on the FC-2 platform!" Taking advantage of the afternoon tea time, Du Wenqiang and Li Xuan drank coffee together in the pastry room on the ground floor.

"You have been making games for so many years and still don't understand that the success of a game is not determined by whether the graphics of the game are exquisite, it can only be the icing on the cake!

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "The core of the creativity of this new game I planned can be summed up in eight words. 'Collect, breed, add, exchange'. And it's precisely the GameBoy handheld that can take these eight words to the extreme!"

These eight words naturally did not come up with by Li Xuan himself, but the four elements of the "Pokémon" game summarized by Nintendo's Yamauchi Pu in another life. And these four elements have deeply influenced the development ideas of countless games later.

"Let's start with the first point of collecting, which is an innate part of people's nature. Anyone has some so-called 'collecting fetish' to a greater or lesser extent. Some people like to collect insect specimens, some like to collect doll toys, and some like to collect stamps. The best part of the fun is collecting antiques!

And one of the big selling points of this Pokémon is that players can collect a variety of Pokémon. According to my plan. In the first version of the game, there were no fewer than 150 types of Pokémon. Fully give players different novel choices.

In the future follow-up versions, a steady stream of new Pokémon will be added to keep players fresh!" Li Xuan said, taking out a gadget from his pocket and putting it on the table, "Do you know what this thing is?"

"My family has been obsessed with this electronic pet lately, and last time I accidentally starved it to death, and she refused to talk to me for a whole day!" Du Wenqiang couldn't help but feel a little funny when he thought of his wife, who was already a mother, and was still keen on this kind of gadget.

"The last time I had dinner with Han Lao, I heard him say that many female employees in the company almost have an electronic pet. The human resources department of the group even held a special meeting to discuss whether to prohibit everyone from playing with this thing during work hours!" Li Xuan also said with a smile.

This electronic pet is a new electronic toy that has recently become popular in Hong Kong. It's the size of an egg, and the central LCD screen shows the player's digital pet. Once the animatronic pet is activated, the player will need to do a series of tasks such as feeding, cleaning, training, and medical care.

If the player forgets to feed them, the animatronic eggs will also emit an audible prompt, as if the pet is calling for its owner. If not fed on time, pets can quickly get sick or even die.

The QQ pet of later generations is actually the online version of this electronic pet. Li Xuan remembered that in another time and space, this kind of electronic pet was first invented by the Japanese. But now it first appeared in Hong Kong, and it has a lot to do with Li Xuan.

The inventor of this electronic pet is a male student from the Hong Kong Polytechnic. His parents run a small toy factory that includes a sounded rag doll that is a replica of a Barbie doll. After installing the battery, this rag doll will make a variety of children's milky sounds, such as wanting to eat when hungry, wanting to sleep when sleepy, and so on.

The boy was inspired to invent an animatronic pet that the player would need to feed and care for like a baby. And his initial business plan was recognized by the Oriental Entrepreneurship Incubation Park, and he received the first venture capital fund.

Now this entrepreneurial project has completed the initial incubation, has received three rounds of venture capital, the first mature electronic pet product has been listed in the world after receiving the channel support of Oriental Commercial. And this kind of electronic pet is not only popular in Hong Kong, but also in Japan, North America, Europe and other places, it also sells well.

Li Xuan feels that his greatest contribution to Hong Kong in recent years is not to create a huge electronics group out of thin air, but to lead an atmosphere and environment of courage to start a business in Hong Kong.

There is a saying that the master is in the people, but most of the masters in the folk do not have a platform to show their exquisite skills, and in the end they can only stand out among the people. Why Silicon Valley has been a global leader in innovation. The most important reason is that it has the strongest venture capital in the world, which attracts groups of young people with entrepreneurial dreams to seek investment there.

Hong Kong's economy was turbulent in the past two or three years, and the property market and stock market were hit hard, so Li Xuan timely guided a large number of safe-haven capital to devote himself to the high-tech industry.

Among them, a large number of excellent projects such as electronic pets have given investors huge returns. Hong Kong is becoming the "Silicon Valley of the East", and a number of American venture capital firms have begun to set up offices in Hong Kong to look for high-quality investment projects.

"In my opinion, although this kind of electronic pet can be all the rage, it actually has obvious shortcomings. The timing urging sound of electronic pets can easily affect the player's normal study and work. And after the initial enthusiasm and novelty fade, the boring, unchanging care process will quickly make players lose interest!

Of course, in "Pokémon", a series of trivial things such as feeding, cleaning, and medical care are naturally unnecessary, and we will focus on the combat training of pets.

Players can train and fight the Pokémon they collect anytime and anywhere, so as to gain experience upgrades and keep their pets evolving. And only a handheld that can be carried with you can make the most of the players' fragmented idle time!" Li Xuan explained.

This is one of the important reasons why he firmly chose the handheld platform to develop "Pokémon"! (To be continued......