The impact of this sales has been sensational, and it represents another powerful force involved in the camp of carving up the big and sweet cake of video games. %

However, neither Mars Entertainment nor Nintendo have made the slightest indication about NEC, which has made a good start.

In fact, Jester did not regard NEC's PC-E as a formal opponent, and it is very simple that it is the same as what Kutaragi Ken said to Yamauchi Pu at the beginning, that is, except for Namco and Hudson and a few small companies that are not enough, NEC NEC has not recruited enough third-party development game companies.

Just before, Yamauchi Pu listened to Ken Kutaragi's advice and renegotiated the royalty contract with their third-party game companies under Nintendo, and Nintendo was forced by pressure from all sides, whether it was from outside Mars Entertainment, or from NEC, Sega, or internal pressure from their ally Sony, to greatly improve their agreement with your third-party game company.

And Jester is naturally worried that the third-party game company he established in Japan with great difficulty at this time has been dug into a corner, so he privately values the few that he values the most, maybe promising a lot of benefits, as for the rest, Jester doesn't care much, and Jester also believes that the other party will not spend too much money to dig up these little-known development companies.

Not everyone sees it that way, though.

Facing their own good start, whether it is NEC itself or Namco or Hudson, it seems that they see a bright future waiting for them in the near future, and the fruits of victory seem to be picked up like a bag, just when they are having this kind of sweet dream, a sudden release of news woke them up from their sweet dream.

Mars Entertainment made a move.

They take the lead. In the United States, it was announced that they will be releasing their new console next month, and Mars Entertainment made a special note that this is not the sixteen-bit console in development, but a very special console.

Coincidentally, the release time coincided with the day Sega announced the official pre-sale of their MD 16-bit.

Finally, under the questioning of many reporters, Mars Entertainment revealed more information, about their latest game console is not a home game console, but can be held in the hand. A game console that can be played anytime, anywhere.

This statement can't help but remind many people of ** years ago,Still in Nintendo's Yokoi Junhei made the not very successful handheld game console called GW,Although this handheld game console is not very successful,But the classic D-pad setting on this handheld game console,But it has become a great invention recognized by all game practitioners today。

And the most critical thing is that just a few months ago, Junhei Yokoi, who had just resigned from Nintendo due to internal discord, just a week later. officially joined Mars Entertainment and went to the United States, after which Yokoi Gunpei basically did not appear in the public eye.

And when many reporters found out about this, they began to collect all the news from Gunhei Yokoi to Mars Entertainment. At this time, they suddenly discovered that in the past few months, Yokoi Junhei seemed to have disappeared from the earth, and there was not even a trace of news and reports about him.

Not even the gossip.

And with the announcement of Mars Entertainment, the handheld machine will be on sale. The most stunned is said to Yamauchi Pu, he knows that Yokoi Junhei fell out with him because of the handheld incident, and he also knows that Yokoi Junhei joined Mars Entertainment is likely to be for the development of handheld.

But Yamauchi would never believe it. The R&D strength of Mars Entertainment was so strong that it was able to come up with a finished product within just a few months of Yokoi Junhei joining, because Yokoi Junhei had quarreled with him about this matter when he did not leave, according to Yokoi Junhei, even if Nintendo concentrates all its R&D efforts, it will take at least a year of events to be able to produce results.

Thinking of this, Yamauchi's face suddenly became gloomy.

"Could it be that Gunpei Yokoi didn't tell me the truth at that time?" However, as soon as this idea appeared, it disappeared without a trace, because this was nonsense, and if Yokoi Junhei had said that the research and development could be completed in a few months, then he would not veto the development plan of the handheld computer anyway.

I really can't figure it out, Yamauchi Pu had to let Uemura Masayi come to inquire before, and Uemura Masayuki is now in the joint development team between Nintendo and Sony is in full swing in the development of Super FC, because the news of Sega's sixteen home game consoles on sale has put a lot of pressure on them, although they have said that Sega has completed the research and development of sixteen-bit machines, but after all, there is no physical object, the pressure is not too big, maybe it's just a smoke bomb on the part of Sega, but now Sega will take out the actual products for sale, It is simply impossible to say that there is no pressure, no tension.

Masayuki Uemura hurried to Pu Yamauchi's office after finishing some of the tasks of the development center, and in the face of Pu Yamauchi's question, Masayuki Uemura thought for a while before he sighed and said: "President, I'm afraid we thought about the wrong reason why Yokoi-kun joined Mars Entertainment before. ”

Hearing Masayuki Uemura say this, Yamauchi Pu was puzzled, he frowned, and asked out loud, "Why do you say that?" Could it be that there are other game companies besides Mars Entertainment that are interested in the handheld console he mentioned? ”

"It's not." While speaking, Masashi Uemura shook his head, frowned and said, "Indeed, in addition to us, that is, Mars Entertainment Club is interested in the handheld project, and Mr. Jester has also said more than once, on different occasions, that he admires Yokoi-kun's talent very much, but in the end, Yokoi-kun joined Mars Entertainment, maybe Jester showed him, they Mars Entertainment, for the results of the development of the handheld, so that he was able to make a decision within a week." ”

At this time, Yamauchi Pu suddenly realized.

"Do you mean that before Junhei Yokoi joined Mars Entertainment, Mars Entertainment had already started the development of handheld machines, and it had already achieved high results?" When he said this, Yamauchi Pu was a little surprised, he never thought that Jester would actually think of a place with Yokoi Junpei.

And, most importantly, Jester has not made any of the judgments he has made in the video game world at the moment.

"I'm afraid so." Masayuki Uemura nodded a little heavily, and he saw Yamauchi Pu's somewhat gloomy face, so he enlightened, "Actually, the president doesn't need to worry, it is precisely because we judged that before Yokoi-kun joined Mars Entertainment, Mars Entertainment had made great achievements in the development of the handheld machine, and according to the time of this release, it may be that when Yokoi Junhei joined Mars Entertainment, the handheld machine of Mars Entertainment was basically formed." ”

Masayuki Uemura's words gave Yamauchi a hint of enlightenment.

"Uemura, what do you mean ......"

"President." Nodding, Masayuki Uemura did not deny it, and continued, "Even the handheld machine made by Yokoi-kun will definitely be able to catch fire, and even form a huge market that is not inferior to home machines at all, it is true, we really listened to Yokoi-kun's construction at that time, and went all out to develop the handheld machine, so according to Yokoi-kun's judgment, we have to come up with the actual product, at least next year, and even wait until our Nintendo's centennial celebration, and Mars Entertainment, they have come up with the product now." ”

"In terms of the first opportunity, we have lost, even if this market is vast, close to a year of time interval, it is enough for Mars Entertainment to occupy this market, and, if we put all our energy into the development at that time, then we are now developing at the most critical point in time, get the news that Mars Entertainment is selling a handheld machine, so do we continue to plan or abandon the plan?"

"If we continue with the plan, then we will have to face the fate of not only being snatched up by the newly rising Sega in our most important home console market because we do not have a new next-generation sixteen-bit home game console, but also because we have also been preempted by Mars Entertainment in the handheld console, and the result is that we have nothing to gain."

"Now, on the other hand, although we may lose the extremely attractive handheld market described by Yokoi-kun, we can at least take out our sixteen-bit machine before we lose it in the home phone market, so that we don't even lose the sixteen-bit machine, which is already the best choice."

Masayuki Uemura said very earnestly, very seriously, and his analysis was also very organized, Pu Yamauchi nodded again and again when he heard it, he was just a little flustered because of Mars Entertainment's sudden announcement of the news, but now when he heard Masayuki Uemura say this, he once again calmed down the panic in his heart.

Just three days later, Mars Entertainment bought an entire page of the New York Times and the Yomiuri Shimbun, and published a brief message, or advertisement, in both newspapers, which had one of the largest circulation in their respective countries.

This ad has only two very simple words, or rather, it's just a new word that combines two words.

There is no description and no accompanying pictures.

It's just a simple black word that occupies the entire page.

gameboy！

And this word has once again caused a heated discussion among countless people, what is this gameboy? (To be continued......)