Chapter Eighty-Seven: Lonely and Cold
In the dark of night, Yokoi Gunpei sat alone in his study at home.
The living conditions are not very different from those in China, such as the house of Nohara Shinnosuke's family, the kind of single-family house, which is often not the most expensive and best house in the house.
Even in a place like Tokyo, it is already the cheapest type of house.
Don't look at the number of floors in a house, but the actual usable place of the whole building is less than 100 square meters, and 60 or 70 square meters is the most common situation. Even if there is a garage, the size of the garage is often not a full-size garage, but just enough to put down an economical car.
This is why in the automobile market, you will find another thing that is very different from the rest of the world.
That's the car market, the kind of mini car, the subcompact car, often has a price that is not cheap and an interior comparable to that of a luxury car.
This is completely unimaginable in other countries.
Even car reviewers in other countries are still evaluating this car, saying how good it is in the automobile industry and how good the car culture is.
Isn't that good at all?
It's just because most people have small parking spaces at home, and there are no parking spaces in big cities.
Those who want to buy a car with only a small parking space can only buy such a car.
Even, these families who buy cars have fewer opportunities to go out and drive.
Because they don't have a place to park, some people think it's ridiculous to look for reality in fantasy, but don't forget that the source of any fantasy is reality.
In the comic "Crayon Xiaoxin", or in the anime, there are not many shots of driving out.
Why not more?
It's because they can afford a car, but they can't afford to park.
If you commute to work and drive every day, it is estimated that Nohara Hiroshi's monthly salary is not as high as the parking fee, and the parking fee for a few months is enough to buy another car.
In addition to the kind of large-scale single-family mansions in the real sense, the kind of small multi-storey buildings are just for ordinary people to live in.
Even, these houses are not intended to be permanently inhabited, but have a more inexpensive wooden structure.
Of course, some people say that this is because it is an earthquake-prone country, and the wooden structure here makes it easier for the people inside to survive.
However, it is possible to achieve a reinforced concrete building that can be designed with a high seismic rating.
Of course, this cost is higher, it is more expensive, and naturally it cannot be built.
The place where Gunpei Yokoi lives is an apartment on a high-rise floor in Kyoto.
There are no poor people living in this apartment.
This is a large flat-floor apartment with a floor area of 300 square meters.
Compared to those small detached houses, this is definitely a luxury house.
And the people who own these apartments often have full-size garages underground.
Due to the trade protection policy, the tax on imported cars from overseas is particularly high.
Therefore, most of the cars seen in these places are mainly high-end cars made in China.
Of course, it is said that it is mainly domestic high-end cars, but in fact, it is only comparable to imported cars.
Although the automobile industry has been impacting the high-end.
However, there are almost only sub-brands of Toyota in recent years, and Lexus has established a recognition in my heart that is comparable to that of German luxury brands.
In a well-known comic, there is a classic line, "Deutsche Technik is the best in the world!"
Although it's just funny, I really have a strong sense of mechanical identification with the Germans.
You must know that in World War II, the Peeon Tank produced by Yuben was only a small toy compared with the German tank.
Although the car has been accumulated in technology for many years, it is no worse than foreign brands, but in the minds of the Chinese people, it is still worse than a few grades.
Toyota improves users' recognition of Lexus through luxury brands, driving texture, and a sense of class.
Honda, on the other hand, is trying to make domestic and foreign consumers recognize its own brand of cars by going to Europe for various competitions, achieving excellent results, and defeating old strong players.
Now Toyota has succeeded, through car culture, through all kinds of "soft power".
And Honda is still on the way, he is trying to succeed with "hard power".
Living in such a place where you can park a luxury car, Yokoi Junhei is not happy, why is he unhappy?
Because he was upset that no one understood him.
Although President Yamauchi is still supporting himself, how long can this support last?
No matter how many leaders of the development department are around, after so many years of working together, don't you have feelings?
He believed in the abilities of these people, but he also believed in his own vision.
He believed he would succeed, but could he really do it?
He was a little skeptical of himself now.
The ship turned around.
He and his first development department, now a big ship, have set sail, there is no way to turn around.
He has to keep doing it so that he has a chance to make the next piece of hardware, otherwise if he backs down this time, who will support him?
Even President Yamauchi's support will not be left.
Today, there was originally a research and development task, but he pushed it back, returned home, and was alone in the study in a daze.
He was a man with a family, a wife and children.
However, his relationship with his wife and children is not good.
He is already in his fifties this year, and it can be said that almost all of his youth, and most of his life, have been dedicated to Nintendo, to the president of Pu Yamauchi, who was able to be hit by the small toys he made in between his work but did not get angry, but looked at himself with his eyes.
Yokoi Junhei's feeling for Yamauchi Pu certainly has the feeling of a superior to a subordinate, but there is also a feeling of father and son.
That's right, the Father and the Son.
The so-called courtiers, courtiers.
Yokoi sometimes feels that he is a general under President Yamauchi Pu.
The president will go wherever he wants.
And now that the game boy has reached the point of decline, he has to charge on his own.
Looking at the lonely moon hanging outside the window, Yokoi Junhei felt a little lonely.
He put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the moon in the sky, hoping that the sky would give him some inspiration.
However, can the moon speak?
How arrogant a person must be to think that such a huge star will change for his small fate.
Yokoi, who didn't believe anything, looked at it for a while, shook his head with a smile, he was really ......
When he was drinking tea, he didn't notice that the tea stalk that he drank was erected in the tea just now.