Chapter 155: FC Mini and the Copycat Tile
What appeared in front of Minoru Arakawa was not a game project plan in the strict sense.,In fact, it can only be called a brief introduction to the game project.,Including the main content of the game.、Selling points and applicable platforms.,And estimates of commercial sales.,Of course, this is not because Minoru Arakawa was surprised.,Although he hardly plays games.,But after so many years in Nintendo.,How much do you know about some of the situations in game development.。 What really surprised Minoru Arakawa was the two low-budget game projects mentioned, one was FCMini and the other was Naruto.
The full name of FCMini is "FAMICOMMINI", and the specific game content is actually to pick out a batch of low-K value "mentally handicapped games" from Nintendo's red and white machine (FC) game library, and then repackage it into a "new" game running on GBA portable handheld and DreamBox128 game consoles, which is the so-called fried cold rice, and it is a complete copy of the super cold rice king type, not only the game screen and music are exactly the same as the original FC version, Even bugs have been inherited (such as the famous "up and down, left and right, right BABA" in Contra), which means that players will experience the exact same game effects from GBA and DreamBox 128 as they did on Nintendo Red and White more than a decade ago.
"Made in Naruto" is actually a copycat of the future "Made in Wario", of course, this is clear to no one other except Zhang Lexing, who provided the idea, including Xu Yeming, who has seen more detailed development materials, and naturally Arakawa is even more impossible to know. "Naruto Manufacturing" borrows the "Naruto" that is being serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" as the background, and players can choose Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and others to participate in ninja training, and find a way to pass a series of bizarre levels including eating bananas, cutting meat, skipping rope, skateboarding, etc., in order to successfully obtain the ninja certificate issued by the ninja school. The ninja training in Made Naruto is essentially a large collection of mini-games, and most of them can be done in 5 seconds.
The other games involved in the game project plan,All are gimmicks、The game content is very in-depth of the type,Considering the past achievements of the game development company under the Oriental Industrial Group,Arakawa Minoru is still more trusted,He believes that with the addition of the Oriental Industrial Group,Nintendo's upcoming GBA portable handheld will definitely be able to create a glory no less than the GameBoy。
But for FCMini and "Naruto", the two low-cost games, Arakawa is a little incomprehensible, what age is it now, the most popular is the 3D performance duel between DreamBox128 and PlayStation2, these next-generation game consoles, what is important is how dazzling and cool the CG picture of real-time calculation, how grand the game content is, how exciting the game's soundtrack, and how strong the force feedback of the gamepad is. Now if you look at the old antiques from the Nintendo red and white machine era, even after adding the enhancement chip, it can't be compared with the current game at all, and Arakawa suspects that no one will spend any more money on these old antiques. The gimmick of "Made Naruto" is there, and taking advantage of the popular serialized manga "Naruto", Minoru Arakawa believes that there will be many people willing to try, but how much fun can that short 5-second game bring, and how many people will be willing to abandon those masterpieces and switch to this super sketch game?
Arakawa Minoru glanced at Xu Yeming, who was talking happily with Nomura Hongshen, opened his mouth but didn't say anything, he thought about it in a blink of an eye, anyway, the main purpose of his acceptance of the help of the Oriental Industrial Group was to get back what belonged to him, and at the same time, he also hoped to use the strong development strength of the game company under the Oriental Industrial Group, and now since the other party is willing to develop the game for Nintendo's GBA portable handheld, then his goal has been achieved, as for whether the game developed by the Oriental Industrial Group can make money, He didn't need to think about it anymore.
Thinking of this, Minoru Arakawa put down the documents in his hand, picked up his wine glass and gestured to Xu Yeming and Nomura Hongshen, and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, Mr. Nomura, I hope you will cooperate happily in the future!" ”
"Happy working together!" The three glasses collided again, making a crisp clanging sound......
RIHGA Royal Hotel Kyoto, late night ......
“…… The next president of Nintendo has been confirmed to be Minoru Arakawa, and the relevant news will be announced in three days, and Yamauchi Pu will also officially step down as president and chairman of the board of directors in a month and become the company's special advisor...... Minoru Arakawa will take over as president of Nintendo, former vice president Atsushi Asada will take over as chairman of the board of directors, and Hiroshi Nomura will be promoted to senior vice president...... The relevant cooperation plan with Nintendo has been preliminarily negotiated, the other party promised to abandon the unsuccessful NGC game console, the relevant patented technology will be acquired by us at a low price, and the games that have been developed and are under development will be transferred to the DreamBox128 game platform, and Nintendo's main development direction in the future will be in the portable handheld market...... Nintendo will soon launch the long-awaited GameBoy upgraded GBA portable handheld, which we will fully support, and Nintendo will cooperate with Dongfang Industrial Group to develop the next generation of portable handhelds, and in return for providing game development support, we will be able to obtain all the related technologies of the FC game console from Nintendo and the related technology patents related to the portable handheld......"
Under the bright light in the guest room, Xu Yeming typed the last character on the keyboard, moved the mouse and read the whole email from beginning to end, feeling that he had explained everything he wanted to say clearly, so he selected the boss and the boss's boss and related personnel among the recipients, and then clicked the send button, looking at the prompt on the screen to send OK, he breathed a sigh of relief, and drank the steaming coffee next to the monitor.
More than seven hours later, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, China......
Zhang Lexing, who returned from the morning luck, took a shower, changed his comfortable outfit, and lightly came to the upstairs bedroom to take a look, Chen Zishan and the two little babies were still sleeping very sweetly, he carefully closed the door, and lightly came to the terrace on the third floor, drank a few sips of freshly squeezed corn juice with some small snacks, and then sat down and opened the laptop on the table. As soon as he logged in to the office system, Zhang Lexing noticed that there were several work emails in it, so he moved the mouse to open them one by one.
“…… Star Media has raised its offer to acquire Dow Jones & Co. from $2.6 billion to $3.2 billion, which has been said to be acceptable, and the relevant agreement has begun to be signed......"
“…… The groundbreaking ceremony of Shanghai Jiading Commercial Plaza was held yesterday, and the general manager of Oriental Real Estate Company and the vice president of the group company attended the ceremony, as well as the main leaders of the local government in Shanghai......"
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“…… Oriental Industrial Group signed a cooperation agreement with Nintendo yesterday, and the details of the cooperation will be announced in the near future......"
After reading the last email and attaching his opinions one by one, Zhang Lexing picked up the cup and drank a sip of the still warm corn juice, and was just about to exit the office system, when suddenly a prompt appeared on the screen that a new email had arrived, so he clicked on the icon and opened the email that had just arrived.
“…… As of 5 p.m. today, the acquisition of a 35.7% stake in Nintendo has been completed through the Osaka Stock Exchange and the U.S. OTC Group...... According to the information disclosed in the public market and the results of a secret investigation, the Yamauchi Family Holding Association controls 22.3% of Nintendo's shares, and according to the internal distribution of the Yamauchi Family Holding Association, Yamauchi personally holds 10% of Nintendo's shares, and the other members of the board of directors hold a total of 16.7% of Nintendo's shares, with local Japanese financial institutions holding 2.5%, the Japanese government owning 1.4%, and the remaining 21.4% being outstanding shares...... Failing to achieve its goal of controlling Nintendo, the plan was to find a way to dismantle the Yamauchi family's shareholding from the 16.7% of the board of directors, and the other was to dismantle the Yamauchi family's shareholdings...... It is expected to take 1~1 1/2 years to complete the whole project......"
This is a work email from the United States, which Zhang Lexing began to arrange for Nintendo more than a year ago, hoping to achieve the goal of complete control of Nintendo through actions on the stock market, of course, on the surface, the shareholders' meeting and the board of directors are normal, and there will not be a major shareholder holding more than 50% of the shares immediately, which is also to reduce the resistance of Nintendo's old courtiers, including Minoru Arakawa, who has just been put on the throne of president. After all, Nintendo can have the efforts of these people today, if you learn that Nintendo has been completely acquired by other groups, it is difficult to guarantee that they are willing to continue to stay in Nintendo, Zhang Lexing needs not an empty shell of Nintendo, what he wants is a complete Nintendo, so he can only slowly figure it out, which is different from treating Sega.
After closing the last email and exiting the system, Zhang Lexing leaned back in his chair and slowly drank corn juice with a cup. Sega has already taken it down, although it is a bit of a pity to run the core cadres of AM2 research, but with the research and development strength of its own group, there should not be much difference, and then it only needs to be slowly spun off according to the plan. Nintendo's side is not a big problem, through a group of offshore companies to control 35.7% of the shares, coupled with the board of directors and Arakawa Minoru to power, I believe that sooner or later it will become a bag.
"It seems that we have to prepare more surprises for Sony Computer Entertainment...... Zhang Lexing secretly thought in his heart, as long as Sony Computer Entertainment is done again, there will basically be no enough opponents in the home video game market, and at that time, perhaps the format unification of home game consoles will not be just a dream.
In fact, this dream existed before Zhang Lexing's rebirth, and this is not just his dream, many home game console players have fantasized that one day a unified home game console will appear, so that everyone no longer has to worry about not being able to play their favorite games. The fierce competition between several major game console manufacturers has brought about a boom in the home game console market, but it has also brought something that the majority of gamers hate - console barriers, especially when their favorite games become exclusive games on other game consoles, this feeling is particularly obvious, even if only pirated players will inevitably have to make trade-offs between different game consoles, if home game consoles can be unified on one platform, perhaps this distress will be much less.
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