Chapter Ninety-Eight

Although the entrepreneurs are angry, the atmosphere is angry enough. Something like Hudson's ban on Takahashi hasn't happened.

It's not that they don't want to do it, it's that making video games is a no-brainer. Except for the very large royalties collected by Nintendo, there is basically no money for others.

Since this industry is an asset-light industry, everyone doesn't want to be like Hudson, and it will be troublesome to recruit new people like that.

Besides, their headache is not those "defector" members, but the one who provoked you and this giant that day.

As the first household appliance and the first, Nintendo really does whatever it wants.

They say you have to pay to review the game, and you pay to review it.

They say you have to pay in advance to make the cassette, and you have to pay.

They say that the price of memory has risen, so if you want to make up for it, you have to make up for it.

They say that if you want to divide it into fifty or fifty, you have to divide it into fifty and fifty.

Originally, everyone thought that the responsibilities and rights were equal, and the benefits and risks were the same. But by doing so, Nintendo completely shifted the risk to a third party, and the main profit from making the game was Nintendo's.

Don't think that Nintendo can become the largest company in terms of market capitalization because Nintendo has only a few thousand employees.

Nintendo's commission for games released on its own platform is as high as 50%, and it does not take risks, which can be said to be a drought and flood to ensure income.

And in addition to this 50% share tax, there are various hidden fees.

It's like the cost of making a cassette, it's not transparent, Nintendo says it's going to go up, it's going to go up, and you have to make up the money.

Even if it is really according to the market price, the largest customer in the memory market is Nintendo, and Nintendo can eat up basically eighty percent of the world's memory production capacity. ,

In such a situation, it is not that Nintendo will raise the price when it says it will raise the price.

Since ancient times, there have been rebellions in the face of tyrants, and the game manufacturers who choose to rebel are not one, but a group of people who appear like a spring after a rain.

But although the spring bamboo shoots are delicate and cute, their strength is also weak.

The third party of the platform of the iron beating.

The vast majority of third parties have gone from strength to death after leaving Nintendo's platform, while Nintendo's selected small businesses have been able to rise in a short period of time.

Until the first variable emerges - 10,000 households.

The company has never gone head-to-head with Nintendo, and they almost never intend to join the melee in the home console market.

But it was such a side knock that made Nintendo suffer a lot of losses.

Therefore, Nintendo has always regarded Wanhu as a major problem.

Other manufacturers want to learn when they see that the methods of thousands of households are effective, but they can't learn it.

There is no other reason, it is that the way of Wanhu is too wild.

Creativity is important in the video game industry, but it's not so easy to trigger.

It's not easy for people like Wanhu to be able to continuously make good games and novel games.

Generally speaking, what game a manufacturer is good at making, it is good at making games.

There are really not many companies like Wanhu or Nintendo that let them make any game genre that is not bad, or even very fun.

Therefore, many manufacturers who could not rebel finally returned to Nintendo under the pressure of survival.

It's a tough day, but it's okay to get by.

This is also the reason why by the time the last game "MapleStory 4" came out, there were more than 1,300 games in total.

Even if most of them are mediocre, as long as they are so one percent fun, there are dozens of them.

This is far from being matched by other platforms.

However, the undercurrent is still surging.

For example, Sony is constantly contacting those manufacturers who are willing to rebel.

However, manufacturers who have approached Sony are also cautious.

Don't look at Sony as the No. 1 electronics company, but so what?

Like what the United States Microsoft has also come to do, isn't it also a disgrace.

Each of these manufacturers paints a picture of the future, as if they were able to achieve extraordinary things in the field of video games.

But ah, they all failed.

Each defection allowed to return to Nintendo, but it faced more harsh conditions.

Therefore, even if there is a rebellion, everyone is actually looking for a suitable opportunity and a suitable manufacturer.

Sony's contacts are also in a hurry, and they also have performance appraisal goals.

You game company gods are here, so how can you make a salary for your contacts?

So, in order to get the year-end bonus, a certain contact person told the manufacturer he contacted about the terms that he knew were different in the contract between Sony and Nintendo.

As long as someone with IQ reads this clause, you can know that Sony will also be able to get the right to manufacture this machine in the future, and even the right to publish games.

To put it bluntly, don't you believe us Sony? Now that we Sony have the same authority as Nintendo, or the same platform as Nintendo, do you want to join?

Such an explosive clause naturally immediately attracted many manufacturers to join.

And the liaison also received his own year-end bonus.

But don't think that Nintendo is a mallet, and don't think that manufacturers who try to rebel are monolithic.

There are also two or five boys in the game manufacturer!

Game producers have bad guys, too!

So this news reached Nintendo's ears again and again, and when Nintendo heard the news, it exploded.

Starting with Yamauchi Pu, all of them were furious.

The optical disc media reader, which was originally a collaboration with Sony, was also announced to fall through, and the next generation of machines continued to use expensive memory as a cassette.

In this series of turmoil, even VrBoy, a product that is on the rise, Nintendo doesn't seem to pay so much attention.

Sony is also confused, you must know this trap, in fact, most of the Sony people involved in the project do not know.

After all, if you want to fool your opponent, you have to fool yourself first.

And the contact person who revealed the news and just won the year-end bonus also immediately entered the retirement department.

The job of going to work every day is to count beans every day in a small room on the tenth floor of the basement, under the illumination of incandescent lamps.

This is where Ben, as an old capitalist country, is humanized, saying that employees will not be fired, and employees will never be fired, all of them are employees who consciously apply for resignation.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the employee who entered the retirement department to submit his resignation.

And Sony's senior personnel, who are responsible for liaising between Nintendo and Sony, Ken Kutaragi, are also furious.

As a contact person, he doesn't know anything about the pit in this contract!

He and Yokoi Junhei, Masayuki Uemura, Shigeru Miyamoto and others are all really good friends!

Now that the partnership has collapsed, where does Sony's video games division go from here?