Takahashi looked at Yuji Kudo's sincere eyes, and he believed that Yuji Kudo had genuinely invited him to join the console camp of their joint production. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But when you join a host camp, you often don't look at feelings, or feelings don't play a decisive role.

Takahashi shook his head, expressing his refusal.

"Why?" asked Yuji Kudo.

Takahashi sorted out his thoughts a little and said, "It is impossible for the jointly developed host to succeed at all. Hudson, Taito, Namco, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba...... If you add 10,000 households, do you think you can succeed?"

"Why won't it succeed? We have better performance, we have better hardware and software R&D teams. We're going to make better video games, far better than the ones on the red and white consoles!" said Yuji Kudo with some gaffe.

Anyone who works hard for something can't stand the "slander" of others. For a person who has invested all his net worth in the coffin of his parents in "starting a business", you say that the business will fail, all the money will be lost, and it is lucky not to be beaten. That's what Takahashi is doing at the moment.

It's not that he doesn't know how to be false and wronged, and he holds it painlessly and says a few good words.

However, if good words are useful, I believe that the world has long since entered a communist (harmonious) society of great material abundance.

However, it didn't.

"But what about the price?" Takahashi asked rhetorically.

Yuji Kudo fell silent for a moment and stopped talking.

Indeed, the price is a pain point for the hosts they jointly develop.

As a software publisher, Hudson and developers such as Taidong and Namco naturally hope that the price of the machine is as low as possible, and it is better not to give money away in vain.

However, for the hardware manufacturers, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, it is their interests that are harming them, and of course they will not do it.

Even, they don't care how much the console sells. Selling one is counted as one, as long as you don't lose money.

That's right!

The initial idea of hardware manufacturers was to make a profit with hardware and try not to lose money.

Your software vendors say what performance they want, what kind of functions they want to achieve, just say it, and we'll get it for you.

However, we can't leave it to you what the final price of the machine will be, we have to decide for ourselves.

And let the horses run, and let the horses not eat grass, how can such a thing exist?

As a result, the home console with excellent performance in Kudo's mouth is priced at more than 40,000 yen, and even approaching 50,000 yen.

Who can you sell it to? Even if someone buys it, it's a small group of game enthusiasts.

In fact, the vast majority of game manufacturers don't like the group of game enthusiasts.

The reason is very simple, that is, with this group, not only the number is small, but the requirements for games are also high. For these gourmets to make games, whether they can recover the cost is a question, and it is far less cute than those white players who are like white rabbits.

A single game may also be classified as a veteran player because of the increasingly fierce competition. Give it a go, if the word of mouth rises, maybe there will be a group of white players who will follow suit and buy it.

However, a console is completely made for veteran players, and even if the console has a good reputation, the quality of the game is also very high, which makes veteran players praise it.

But......

Game consoles and games require at least 60,000 or 70,000 yen to follow the trend, and if you want white players to follow suit, unless it's a coin in the sky......

Takahashi's simple sentence hit the pain point of the joint host. On the surface, the price is too high, but the internal reason is that the heart is different and the power is not enough.

Although several cooperative manufacturers cannot be said to be ignorant of this, no one has said it clearly.

No company cares about the overall situation, don't look at them now, I'm afraid they have already begun to think about how to dump the pot.

If failure does come as expected, then a strange phenomenon will happen, and all businesses are right, but they are failures. The responsibility cannot be held accountable to the specific enterprise, and in the end, each bears a part of the loss, even if the page is turned.

"Takahashi, I'm sure you've been making games for so long, and you probably know how important it is to have your own home console platform. Join us, this platform is sure to have the features you want. It doesn't matter if it's expensive, consumption upgrades, you see that everything is rising now, a rice cooker can sell for 100,000 yen, and a game console can sell for 50,000 yen, it's not too much......"

Yuji Kudo said.

Takahashi nodded, "Of course I know how important it is to have my own gaming platform. If Nintendo didn't have its own gaming platform, and they didn't have a red and white machine, they would never have been able to make a game like Super Mario Bros. Because, at that time, all other game consoles did not implement the reel function at the hardware level.

Gaming software and console hardware themselves are complementary and interact with each other. Great games can be found without good hardware, but groundbreaking games can't.

But...... That's not why I should join your co-host...... Although the joint host is good, it is not suitable for 10,000 households.

I believe you can also see that the recent focus of Wanhu is concentrated on handheld game consoles.

Wanhu has limited energy and can't join the co-host camp, I'm really sorry......"

"Okay. Yuji Kudo nodded reluctantly, disappointed to accept the fact that Takahashi would not join the co-host.

In fact...... Yuji Kudo also wants to quit......

However, there is no way to exit.

As one of the start-up companies, Hudson invested a lot of money in co-hosting. If you quit now, the economic loss is immeasurable.

In other words, the reason why Yuji Kudo tried so hard to persuade Takahashi to join the co-host camp was because Hudson had been kidnapped by the co-host.

Just like in World War II, the reason why the invading Japanese army could not stop and could only continue to attack was because they had been kidnapped by the giant wheel of war. As long as it stops, the beautiful Great Empire will collapse in an instant.

To continue is to die after a while, and to stop is to die immediately.

It's like the way some countries deal with the economic crisis, which repeatedly releases water, even if they die, they will die later. How long can it be delayed, how long can it be delayed, after I die, it will be a flood.

In addition to the current co-hosting, various manufacturers are no longer a sweet spot for Nintendo's profits, but have become a wonderful and delicious poison, and they can deceive one when they can deceive one, whether it is for players or manufacturers, their minds are the same.

Passing (harmonious) sales, that's it.