Chapter Eighty-Six: Yokoi's Dilemma
Just when everyone was opposing, Yamauchi Pu suddenly raised his hand.
As an iron-blooded cleanse of the old man in Nintendo, now his oldest Yamauchi Pu, as the president, of course, is the most majestic.
As soon as he raised his head, the chatter stopped, and everyone looked at Yamauchi.
"I, support Yokoi Junhei. What Yamauchi said was unusually simple.
Of course, he won't give no reason at all.
That kind of unfathomable and profound superiors are actually pretending to be profound most of the time, because they are not capable enough, so they will feel that the power of heaven is unfathomable, and they will let the people below know and be in awe.
Yamauchi said slowly, "I know you guys think the game console you made this time is a bit too much. However, I would say that I support him.
Why should I support him?
Because we Nintendo, we came out of the crisis of bankruptcy by relying on toys and video games.
Whether it's a game watch or a red and white machine, I support it, and I also support the game boy.
Wasn't that too much at that time?
Before the red and white machine, was there such a powerful home game console?
No.
Behold, what you say is good is mature, and what you say badly is old.
I don't want to accept new things anymore.
I, Pu Yamauchi, I'm older than all of you, but I can accept this new thing, and I support it.
Because, I know that the foundation of our Nintendo is to keep innovating, constantly innovating.
Everyone must know that only innovation can we Nintendo survive.
We're not like Sega, we don't have that much technical prowess.
We are also not like Wanhu, almost all the parts can be made by themselves, and no one is stuck in their necks.
We at Nintendo can only rely on ourselves, and those hardware that others can't get stuck on our necks.
If we follow the current trend of throwing more and more money, we Nintendo can't beat them!
So, I support Junping!"
I don't know if people will talk a lot when they get old, if it was three years ago, no, a year ago, Yamauchi Pu would not have said so much.
However, he has been through so much in this year.
His son, the eldest son who should inherit Nintendo in the future, did a bad job in this year, except for big things.
And his son-in-law, he always felt that it was not good.
At this time, Game Boy has entered a period of decline, and sales are gradually declining.
Although the sales of the super red and white machine are okay, there is only one pillar product, which makes Yamauchi feel worried anyway.
When everyone heard Yamauchi's words, they also began to reflect.
Actually, everyone has that tendency, from radical to conservative as they get older.
Are we really what the president said?
The crowd began to reflect.
Shigeru Miyamoto, as the person Yamauchi Pu liked, he began to speak.
"I also support Yokoi's predecessor's VB project, but I feel that there are a few points that need to be addressed.
First, I don't think it's okay to only show red. Players have embraced color since the red and white machine. Even if GB is a grayscale display, we have now launched a color version of GBC for GB. So, I think VB needs color.
The second is weight and volume, how to solve this. If it can't be solved, I don't think it can be used as a portable game console, maybe as an arcade machine. However, the arcade is very heavy on sharing ......"
Yokoi Junhei listened to Shigeru Miyamoto's words, of course he knew all these problems.
In fact, problems have always been easier to find than to solve.
He also asked the people at Keio University how they could achieve a color display.
The people at Keio University replied that in addition to the need for a control system that is several levels more complex than the monochrome reality, it is also necessary to have other colors of light diodes.
However, this light-emitting diode technology is in the hands of 10,000 households. If it's an experiment, it's okay, but if it's commercial, it can't be used if it is not sold.
As one of the people who pushed Nintendo to fight with Manho in the first place, he naturally had no hope that Manho would cooperate with Nintendo.
Even the two are still competitors in the handheld market, and Wanhu will really supply Nintendo with other colors of LEDs?
As for the second question.
First of all, the space is small, the three-dimensional space is small, and the shock is not enough.
Even if you add lenses, it won't make players feel that this three-dimensional world is dazzling and fun.
In addition, the miniaturization of light-emitting diodes is a big problem in this era4.
It's that big, and if it were Sony, it would probably develop a new, ultra-small light-emitting diode on its own.
However, although Nintendo is rich, although it is the largest company in terms of market capitalization, it is useless to have money.
Nintendo is an asset-light company, he does not have a dedicated basic hardware research and development department, if it wants to develop it, it can only entrust research and development to other companies, and this cost is skyrocketing.
"The problems will be solved. Yokoi said.
The others said something as well.
In short, the meeting ended in a not very friendly atmosphere.
The reason why other people are not friendly is because this game console made by Yokoi Junhei will definitely take up a lot of resources.
And Nintendo's internal resources are limited, he Yokoi Junhei needs more resources, and the resources of other people are not less.
You know, there is competition between Nintendo's several development departments.
For various reasons, Yokoi was the head of the First Development Department, but many people were not convinced.
Yokoi Junhei didn't expect that he would be in such a lonely state in the company.
After the technical meeting, Gunpei Yokoi began the process of continuing to develop the machine.
And, I'm ready to let my own machine start to promote it in the media.
When Takahashi got his hands on Nintendo Power, he smiled at the sight of the familiar tripod and huge blindfold on it.
Virtual reality has not been fully commercialized and popularized in the second decade of the 21st century, and Yokoi's efforts, while useful, are doomed to fail.
It has no problem as a high-end console, but as a popular model, a platform that requires an installed base.
Even if the technology is mature, it is not necessarily a good end.
Not to mention the fact that after 20 years, the technology has not yet matured.
Thinking about the lonely ending of Yokoi Junhei's last life, Takahashi suddenly had some bad taste.
He wrote a handwritten letter in which he said that he could provide other primary colors of light-emitting diodes, and disclosed the progress of developing diode miniaturization.
He was very curious about Hengjing Junpin's expression when he saw this letter.