With the announcement of the number of game reservations, the scenes of human tragicomedy kicked off, and Zhang Lexing sat in his seat and watched coldly. Those who should go are gone, and those who should stay are all negotiated and signed with the channel wholesalers separately, Zhang Lexing got up and prepared to go back to the room to rest, when Masayuki Uemura of Nintendo's second development department appeared in front of him.

Uemura bowed and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhang, please stay." ”

Zhang Lexing asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"President Yamauchi has something important to discuss with you, so please come with me." Uemura made a gesture and motioned for Zhang Lexing to go to the elevator.

Zhang Lexing said in his heart, this time the original intention meeting is really not so simple, this time I am afraid it is the main topic, so he nodded and walked to the elevator with his entourage. Following Masayuki Uemura to the elevator, the group went up five floors, and soon came to the door of a small conference room.

"Mr. Zhang, this is it." Uemura made a gesture to come in.

Zhang Lexing pushed open the door and walked into the conference room, and found that there were still a few people waiting inside, most of whom didn't know each other, but looking at the sign on his chest, it should also be someone from Nintendo, and Yamauchi Pu, who had never appeared today, was also among them.

Seeing Zhang Lexing and others coming in, Yamauchi Pu bowed and greeted warmly: "Mr. Zhang, I have been busy with affairs these days, and I haven't been able to find time to greet you, it's really rude, please forgive me!" ”

Zhang Lexing said a few polite words, and then went to the conference table with his entourage and sat down on the right hand side of the mountain Uchipu.

Today's topic seems to be very important, and Yamauchi Pu did not say a few words of greeting as usual, and when he saw that everyone was seated, he directly introduced today's topic.

"Today we're going to talk about the possibility of Sega launching a new generation of consoles, and what are our ways to deal with it......"

Listening to Yamauchi's introduction, Zhang Lexing finally completely understood Nintendo's thoughts. Sega can be said to be Nintendo's old rival, in the original arcade era there was no big collision between the two, but after the success of Nintendo's Game&Watch handheld, Sega also tried to use its own Game&Go handheld to get a piece of the pie, but unfortunately the materials used were not up to par, and Nintendo took the opportunity to completely beat down, and since then the two have become feuds, and began a long road of pinching each other.

Not long after the FC game console released by Nintendo first went on sale, Sega was not to be outdone, and took out the SG1000, which also belongs to the 8-bit console, to directly confront, but because of the first foray into the home console market, the lack of experience set a high price, and as a result, it fell into a strange circle of less console sales and less software. IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS, SEGA WAS NOT WILLING TO LET GO OF FAILURE, AND LAUNCHED A SERIES OF IMPROVED MODELS SUCH AS THE SG1000II, MARK III, AND MASTERSYSTEM, TRYING TO BEAT NINTENDO'S FC CONSOLES BY RELYING ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONSOLE PERFORMANCE. But what's funny is that in a few years, Sega has launched 4 consoles, and all of them have lost to FC game consoles without exception. I'm afraid that other companies have already given up on this market, that is, Sega's perseverance (to say that the ugly point is that the cheeks are thick enough), have lost four times in a row, if you count the earlier handheld battle, it has been five times, and it is still persevering in formulating a new host plan, which is really quite a bit of the courage of someone who has been defeated repeatedly during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, this time Sega has obviously learned some lessons and is more prepared, they intend to directly abandon the 8-bit game console (the ruler FC of the past few years, the new PC-E launched by NEC last year, and several consoles that Sega failed in a row, these are all 8-bit game consoles), and directly launch a new generation of 16-bit game consoles, in their opinion, small repairs and small repairs can no longer solve the problem, and they must directly deliver the strongest blow.

Although Sega is secretive and there are not many details announced about the new console, Nintendo is already nervous about this part of the information that has been made public, after all, it has crossed a generation, a leap from 8 to 16 bits. According to some technical details revealed by Sega, the new host will use Motorola's MC68000 chip as the main processor, and its main frequency is about 7.16Mhz, and this 16-bit CPU is also the processing core used by most of the arcade motherboards now, the new host is equipped with a dedicated sound processor is Z80, which is also used by many arcade manufacturers now, and the combination of dual CPUs is also the biggest gimmick in the promotion of Sega's new console. Considering Sega's status as a major arcade manufacturer, its future game software development strategy is simply imminent. If a large number of arcade-quality or even approximate games were ported to Sega's new console, it would be a disaster for Nintendo, and the current average FC games would simply not be able to compete with it. Yamauchi's heart was full of worries, he felt that Nintendo's dominance was beginning to show some cracks, and if he couldn't come up with appropriate countermeasures, maybe his country would fall apart in the near future.

Yamauchi Pu, who was in a different mood, finished introducing the current situation, and his face was full of gloomy expression, but when he faced Zhang Lexing again, his face returned to his usual smile and said: "Mr. Zhang, we also have a new host development plan for our company, but unfortunately the progress has not kept up, in this case, if we want to balance Sega's new strategy, we must adopt some extraordinary measures." ”

"President Yamauchi, just say it, if we can help, our company will definitely consider it."

"Mr. Zhang, according to our assessment, the current FC games developed with ordinary technology cannot be compared with the new Sega console with arcade processors in terms of graphics and music. The first is to enrich the content of the game and make the game more attractive to players, which I believe everyone is working on. The second is to develop a game that goes beyond the expression of ordinary FC games, and thanks to the technology that your company developed the FC function enhancement the year before, I believe that the finished product should be available soon. The third is that we can speed up the development of our own new consoles as soon as possible. ”

"President Yamauchi, our company's Super Mario 3 has been completed, and we have submitted an application this time, I wonder why it didn't appear in the list of recommendations this time?"

"Mr. Zhang, considering that the launch time of Sega's new console is scheduled for October 29, we want to put a special game like Super Mario 3 until the second half of the year, which is just right to suppress Sega, and I hope it doesn't bother you."

Zhang Lexing smiled secretly in his heart: "This old mountain is really this trick, it seems that the Sega company is still a little tender, at least they can't make too many waves in the Japanese market." ”

As a staunch ally of Nintendo on the surface, Zhang Lexing certainly wants to express something, and since Yamauchi Pudu has clearly put forward this request, he naturally wants to echo two sentences.

"Since President Yamauchi has such an idea, of course, our company will support it. However, the postponement of the release of this game has also had a great impact on us, and many of our development plans have to be adjusted, which is very troublesome to ......," Zhang Lexing said as he looked at Yamauchi with a sad face.

"Mr. Zhang, we apologize for the inconvenience caused to your company, I don't know if there is anything we can help with?" Yamauchi Pu was full of smiles and a kind look.

"President Yamauchi, since my hardware engineers developed the FC function enhancement chip, there hasn't been much progress in this area, and now they're basically a bunch of idlers. In the final analysis, it is still up to the new console to defeat Sega in the end, and these hardware engineers are idle anyway, so it is better to come and participate in the research and development of Nintendo's new console. I don't have anything else in mind, I just hope that the new console will be developed as soon as possible, and then I hope that our company will have an understanding of the technology used in the new console as soon as possible, so that the efficiency of card games will be higher in the future. President Yamauchi, we're all counting on your host to make money. "In fact, Zhang Lexing's hardware engineers are not so idle now, they have been busy researching FC function enhancement chips, and now they have achieved the fifth generation MMC5, but the cost of this chip is still relatively high, so for the time being, it is still mainly MMC3, but as the research comes to an end, it will indeed slowly become idle, and you need to find something new to do. Zhang Lexing's purpose is not actually to use the development tools of the new console as soon as possible, although it is true that you can make money with a gadget, but Zhang Lexing's ultimate goal is actually to cultivate his own game console design team, as for this, of course, he will not say.

Zhang Lexing's request may have been a bit unexpected by Yamauchi Pu, he didn't speak, the expression on his face was cloudy, and he was probably weighing the pros and cons in his heart.

"Of course, I hope Nintendo can bear the living expenses and accommodation expenses of these engineers who came to help, and it can be regarded as helping me reduce my burden, President Yamauchi, do you think it's okay?"

It seems that it is more important to fight against Sega, of course, maybe Yamauchi Pu didn't expect that there was anything unfavorable to Nintendo, he finally nodded and agreed, as for the specific details of the next cooperation, there are naturally more professional people to be responsible, no need for Zhang Lexing and Yamauchi Pu to continue to worry about their brains. Now that the two companies have preliminarily finalized a deeper cooperation plan, the relationship between the two sides has of course gone further, and the atmosphere at the venue has become more harmonious.

Under the leadership of the cunning Yamauchi Pu, the participants continued to discuss how to check and balance the specific actions of Sega, and even the new console publicity plan that Nintendo was originally prepared to undertake independently was opened to Zhang Lexing's company, of course, this is also because Yamauchi Pu fell in love with a computer CG production company set up by Zhang Lexing in Hong Kong, hoping to come up with something shocking during the promotion. Under the secret planning of a group of big and small foxes, Sega's new console has not yet been launched, and many huge barriers have been erected in front of it, and the future of Sega has become bumpy again.

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