Chapter 91: The Exhibition
The vast majority of video game exhibitions are not ordinary players, and the same is true for consumer electronics shows, and most of the people who come to visit consumer electronics shows are not ordinary people.
Of course, this does not refer to the specific number of people, but to the influence.
For example, many exhibitions now have a media open day the day in advance, and what these media experience at the open day will eventually be turned into paper reports or video reports.
The reason why Gunhei Yokoi chose the Consumer Electronics Show instead of the game show is actually to allow VrBoy to attract attention on a larger scale.
You must know that the protagonists of consumer electronics shows in this era are basically TVs, digital cameras, refrigerators, washing machines, and even mobile phones have not been widely concerned because of their price.
The pavilion where VrBoy is located is with a display device like a TV.
And Yokoi Junhei's positioning of VrBoy is also a future game console based on future display technology.
On the first day of media interviews, many members of the media came to experience VrBoy.
Don't think that Nintendo is just a video game company, know that it is also a game console manufacturer.
In this world, there are not many electronic products that sell more than 10 million copies of a single model.
There are several models in the Nintendo family, starting from the red and white machine, to the game boy, and then to the super red and white machine, all of which are the existence of a model with sales of more than 10 million.
If you count the derivatives of each series, even the sales of these three series exceed 30 million.
No matter which company has such sales, it is one of the well-deserved consumer electronics giants.
However, Nintendo didn't think so before, and didn't go to any consumer electronics shows.
But the media has never felt this way, if Nintendo had participated before, they might not be so excited, but this unprecedented first time, just like the first time for boys and girls, is an extremely cherished existence.
VrBoy is a game console that is indeed different from all previous game consoles and all consumer-grade display devices, and the three-dimensional picture conquered almost all the reporters present.
Reporters are actually much easier to handle than people inside Nintendo, because reporters only care about big news, they just blow it, no matter how good or bad the last 6 sales of this thing are, it has nothing to do with them.
But that's not the case within Nintendo, where developing the VrBoy requires resources that other departments can have, and the same goes for promoting the VrBoy.
You know, there are only so many places to put up posters in each store, and the energy of each potential player is limited.
The best places are to glue the VrBoy poster and put the VrBoy machine, then the sales of other game consoles will definitely suffer.
It's a natural thing to do.
Therefore, they naturally have stricter requirements for VrBoy.
Even VrBoy stillbirth is a good thing for them.
Journalists are different, you must know that various exhibitions are not easy to report, if this year's products are innovative, it's fine, but most of the time there is no innovation.
It's not easy to attract people to see something that is the same.
Something like the registration parameters, although it can also fill in some space, but the audience doesn't like to watch it.
This time at the Tokyo Consumer Electronics Show, it is still Sony that is the absolute protagonist, after all, Sony in this era almost represents the highest achievement of electronic products and is an electronic product empire.
However, Nintendo's VrBoy is in the limelight more than any of Sony's products.
"It's an amazing experience, I never thought I could play a game like this, it's amazing.
Especially the feeling of playing tennis, I really feel that the tennis is going to hit my face!"
A young female reporter said with a microphone.
Other media people, or take pictures or notes.
Gunhei Yokoi went to the exhibition site today to introduce and demonstrate the VrBoy machine to the reporters present.
In fact, this kind of opportunity for reporters to promote their products for free without receiving benefits and the media without receiving benefits is hard to come by, but for Nintendo and for Yokoi Junhei, their products have always been good enough.
On the contrary, it is not that their products need to be promoted with the help of media traffic, but that the media relies on Nintendo's products to maintain traffic.
The relationship between supply and demand is reversed, so things like uncrowned kings asking for red envelopes and gifts are not seen here at Nintendo.
Guntai Yokoi, who is already in his fifties, is actually tired of these reporters, but for the sake of his own products, he must be on the front line.
The assistants around him kept helping Yokoi to wipe his sweat, and Yokoi would bow respectfully after every reporter finished playing.
In fact, when it comes to playing, there are still very few things that can be played at this exhibition. There is only one unfinished baseball game, and it is not accurate to even say that it is a baseball game, just a fragment of a baseball game.
There is only one set of hits, and the player is limited in what he can control.
There's no way around it, and VrBoy still has some problems with real-time input.
You know, there will be a delay in any input method, just high or low, such as the operation delay of the red and white machine is actually very large, but it can use the technical means in the later stage to make the player feel small.
But VrBoy can't do this, once the latency is too high, it will greatly increase the probability of the player's stun, so now and this baseball game is the only game that can have almost no stun display.
This kind of product in the display stage will always have all kinds of problems.
This is true for companies all over the world, and there is no doubt about it.
Reporters are not going to pour cold water now, they have to wait for the product to blow up, and then pour cold water.
This is the survival of the media, and it is also the routine of the media.
There is always a big news, and there is always an unconventionality.
When a thing is not famous, it blows desperately, and after it becomes famous, ordinary people feel that it is normal for this thing to be famous and then belittle it desperately.
The media do this not because they want to, but only because they can only do it, because only if they differ from their audience's opinion can they be opinion leaders, lead trends, and live.
Like the curious media, Sony people are also very curious about the VrBoy console.
You know, Sony is an electronic product empire, and an electronic product empire has never had a decent game console platform, which is actually a pain in Sony's heart for a long time.
Reporters affiliated with Sony Media also experienced the VrBoy machine for the first time.