"We can now determine that there are only 23 Pokémon games that have sold more than 1 million copies on the handheld, and Pokémon is the twenty-third part. The most important thing is that the sales volume of its "Pokémon-Black" and "Pokémon-White" have reached more than 700,000 sets. I believe that it won't be long before both of them will break one million.

If there is no similar game "Pokemon" by Wanhu, there is reason to believe that "Pokemon" will become a super hit game. Become a game that is as popular as Tetris. ”

At the beginning of the meeting, Gunhei Yokoi made a concluding speech.

This was an unconventional meeting, and the topic of discussion at this meeting was how to win the current handheld war with Wanhu.

You know, Nintendo's manpower has always been very limited. Otherwise, it will not absorb tens of thousands of employees on a large scale. Compared with the limited manpower, Nintendo's stall is too large.

In fact, when the red and white machine was being designed at that time, the ideal sales of Masayuki Uemura and even Yamauchi Pu were about one million sets.

You must know that the sales of the previous video game 16 and video game 8 were only hundreds of thousands of units.

However, no one at Nintendo expected that such a game console, which planned to make and sell its own games, would soon exceed one million units.

The eight games that were prepared for the first launch, plus the new titles made by Nintendo itself, were far from satisfying the appetite of those new console buyers.

In order to catch the ducks on the shelves, Nintendo urgently found several companies that had cooperated with them and invited them to make games for Nintendo.

Then it was Nintendo's console that was a big hit, and every game that landed on the red and white console was also a big hit. Hudson, an early third-party collaborator, was known as Nine Thousand Years Old because he held the distribution rights and made a lot of money from second-party dealers.

The rest is for Nintendo to invite more third parties to join, and the red and white machine has truly formed a complete game manufacturing ecology.

As I said earlier, at the beginning of the production of this console, no one expected that this console would sell so well. Nintendo itself didn't think of it.

Everything is a stress reaction, and when the system is established, even if it is found to be unreasonable, it is already difficult to change it.

And in the process of expanding sales, Nintendo's personnel construction can't actually keep up with the speed of development.

The people who had accumulated before, such as Yokoi Junhei, Miyamoto Shigeru and others, all ascended to important positions one by one. But even so, there are still not enough people.

Especially now, we must not only take into account the old red and white machine platform, but also pay attention to the newly developed handheld platform, and also care about the battlefield of the new generation of super red and white machines.

Nintendo really doesn't have enough manpower.

Therefore, the theme of this meeting is how to solve the problem quickly and how to solve the difficult opponent of Wanhu. Only by solving 10,000 households can we solve Sega.

"I've already cleared Wanhu's "Pokemon", and compared to "Pokemon", its quality is not bad. Putting aside the merits of these two games, I think we need to continue to expand our strengths. It's that we have a lot of third parties, we have a lot of games on GB, and players can play more games when they buy our Nintendo handhelds.

On the Wanhu side, there are basically only games launched by Wanhu themselves. The manufacturers that make video games in cooperation with Wanhu are all minions that can't even enter the Nintendo system. As for Takahashi's finding of that group of American game developers, it is even more of a joke.

I think we should take advantage of the craze of "Pokémon" to launch more games, and strive to defeat the GG handheld of 10,000 households with a numerical advantage. ”

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When Nintendo was in a meeting, Manhu was also in a meeting.

Coincidentally, the content of Wanhu's meeting is very similar to Nintendo. It's all about how to eliminate opponents in the handheld market.

"The launch of "Pokemon" has not only increased the sales of GG handhelds, but also successfully shaped the image of Wanhu handhelds in the minds of players.

Our GG handheld finally has a very wide range of fist products that can go head-to-head with Nintendo.

If it weren't for Pokémon, I'm sure we'd already be the victors in this handheld war.

But now, the darkness has not faded, and the dawn is still far away.

This meeting is to solicit your opinions. Let's see what kind of market strategy you think will be able to win this handheld war. ”

Takahashi presided over the meeting, and he, who sat in the chairman's seat, did it after speaking.

Sun Ming stood up and said, "I have studied the market for a long time. I think what's holding us back now is that we don't have enough games. Since the launch of GG, we have released a total of 22 first-party games and 31 third-party games. The total number of games is only about fifty. Half of them sold less than 100,000.

There are only more than two dozen bullets with combat effectiveness. Seven of them also belong to the Sims series.

Because of the small number of games and the single type of games, many consumers of the book choose Nintendo consoles with more games when choosing a handheld.

So, I think if we want to beat Nintendo, we have to have enough, good enough games!"

Sun Ming sat down, and no one present disagreed with what Sun Ming said. But the truth is that it is not so simple to do.

It's not like when the upper lip touches the lower lip, and a bunch of games come out.

Takahashi nodded slightly.

Zhao Huangyu stood up and said, "I think there is still a problem with the way of publicity. Under the leadership of the president, many animations produced by our company have achieved good results. Can we promote our game by launching more cartoons, so that more players know about Wanhu's game, and know that Wanhu's game is very fun. ”

"President, I think we're a little slack off in the game competitions held on the handheld. We don't have a second competitive game on handheld, besides Tetris. We should launch some competitive games. With the competition to drive sales, with the right advertising strategy and rich games, we must be the winner. ”

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As the speech ended, Takahashi looked around and said, "You're right. All were very useful comments. There are more and better games, animations, and competitive games. I'm announcing that I'm officially starting today!"