Chapter 143: Hideo Kojima
"Hironobu Sakaguchi said that he went to find a friend of his, named Nobuo Uematsu, a composer with some fame, I heard that you asked him to contact, originally he planned to wait until the party was over, but he talked to this friend of his on the phone, saying that his friend was going to Hokkaido tomorrow to deal with some personal matters, so he could only rush over this morning, he couldn't contact you before, so he asked me to say hello to you."
Yuxiu Yoshiro said simply, in fact, it is not a big deal, it can be said when Jester comes to the party, but after all, he agreed to Hironobu Sakaguchi, so when Jester saw that the other party was not taking the initiative to ask, it was not very suitable after all, so he still took the initiative to make this call.
Originally, Jester had just hung up the phone for less than a minute, and immediately heard the phone ring again, and the phone screen showed the number of his Japanese branch that he had just dialed before, thinking that there was something urgent, but when he heard that it was such a trivial matter, he was also a little crying and laughing.
I can only reply that these things will be said when the party comes, he eats some food first to cushion his stomach, he hasn't eaten for more than a day, he has only eaten two plane meals in almost two days, he is too hungry, and he hung up the phone when he chatted about anything at night party, and it was about this time when the door rang.
Jester put down the phone and went to see that it was the food he had ordered from the hotel.
It's not a lot, a very Japanese-style miso soup, a steak that smells very appetizing, both of which taste good, or maybe it's because you're too hungry, Jester finished eating, the amount of Japanese food is relatively small, although Jester said that the portion should be larger when he ordered the meal before, but there may be some gap between the large portion of the Japanese and Jester's understanding of the large portion.
So after eating, Jester still felt a little hungry. But I thought that the evening would be a party, so I didn't continue to ask for another one.
At present, Jester's Mars Entertainment mainly sells Pokemon electronic pet machines in Japan, and it was first released in Japan. Now basically, the new model is also five or five with the United States, and there is the first model in Japan. There will also be the first model in the United States, according to Jester's report in this regard, although the market in the United States is much larger than in Japan, but this pet machine sells better in Japan than in the United States.
It seems that the Japanese are particularly fond of this thing, and there are many people who do not consider buying it once it comes out.
In fact, this thing except for the pet inside has changed its appearance.,The other functions are similar to the previous ones.,It's just that when I painted the original painting, I drew a little cute.,It's purely a money cheating thing.。 But these Japanese people will not hesitate to buy it.
The problem is that it's just that the original painting is good-looking, and it's actually a rough model of the dot matrix mosaic in the pet machine, but it can be seen in general, how can so many people love it, anyway, Jester doesn't know much about it, although he knows that he can cheat money with this.
It's not that he doesn't want to make the image in the pet machine a little better.,The problem is that the function is there.,It's basically the same as GW's technical level.,It's good to be able to do this.。
Originally, Jester just made this thing to make a name for himself in Japan and make a little money. The accumulation of technology prepared for the development of real handheld game consoles in the future, so that his hardware engineers who are engaged in this research and development know how to make a good handheld machine.
And now it is so popular that it is beyond the expectations of many people, originally I just thought it would sell well. However, as soon as it was released, it caused a sales frenzy in Japan, and within a few days, all the stock that had been prepared was sold out.
Originally, Mars Entertainment was responsible for the development of the handheld and the work arrangements made by the pet designers in the pet machine, and a new pet machine was released every month for the first four months, but as soon as he saw this situation, the person in charge of the research and development of the handheld machine immediately waved his hand after consulting Jester's opinion.
"We're going to do four months of work in one month."
That being said, in fact, the task of the handheld R&D team did not focus on this, but on the research and development of real handheld game consoles.
According to Jester's plan, the development of handheld computers must be accelerated. Although he has not heard of Nintendo's handheld development, it is. This kind of project is also definitely to be kept secret from the outside world.
However, according to Jester's calculation based on the time in his memory, it is very likely that Nintendo has not officially developed the Gameboy yet.
So. Jester then asked the handheld R&D team to devote their main energy to the research and development of a new type of handheld, and the configuration required,Basically, it is similar to the configuration of Gameboy,The reason for this is only because GB technology is the most mature,In addition,The most important research and development of other H&D is the research of wireless communication。
This is still when Jester talked to the patriarch of the handheld research and development team about their electronic pet machine before, he thought of it in his memory, when the pet machine connection of Bandai Tuoma Gezi did not need a communication line, at that time it was possible to use infrared direct connection and interconnection, but it was the mid-nineties at that time, and it was not difficult to do infrared communication, but he didn't know if it could be done at this level now.
Of course, he has seen a TV remote control with infrared communication in his daily life, but that's all, it may be that he is lonely and has not seen other products that require infrared communication, when he told his R&D team leader about this idea, the R&D team leader listened to it with both eyes.
However, the leader of the group of high-achieving students who graduated from MIT gestured twice out of thin air, frowned and thought for a few minutes, and then denied Jester's foundation in a very regretful tone.
His original words were very regrettable, because the method of connecting with communication lines has great drawbacks, and their R&D department has recently been considering how to solve it, but there is no good solution.
Because infrared communication is not a new technology, he studied this aspect when he was a student in Massachusetts.
However, if infrared communication technology is used in the pet machine, then because a special standard identification chip and a special circuit need to be added, it will inevitably increase the volume of the pet machine, and the increased heat generation is also difficult for them to solve at present. And Jester has set the standard for their research and development in the research and development area.
However, the R&D team leader immediately changed his voice after speaking, according to him, although not now. However, this is highly operational, and it is not possible to do it now because of the internal technical problems. But technical problems are the easiest problems to solve, and after a few years of technical improvement, they will not be a problem.
In the case that the function and appearance cannot be both, it is necessary to give up the function and choose the appearance, because the consumer is those gamers, they will not know how high the function will be with this chip, what they can see is that this palm toy machine is really good-looking. This little thing is so cute.
When people see something beautiful, they will unnaturally develop a kind of possessiveness, which is the truth that Apple taught the world in later generations.
In fact, in Jester's eyes, Apple's design concept is very similar to Nintendo's, which attaches importance to the application of mature technology, and rarely or simply does not use all kinds of new technologies that seem to be scummy, because new technologies represent instability.
Sony is doing the opposite, all kinds of big black technology.
But Apple's strength over Nintendo is that they care very, very much about the user's experience, so each of their franchise stores or directly operated stores will have a special experience area, and will ask some dissatisfaction after the user experience, and then Apple will rectify it according to these opinions.
A product that is more in line with the user's new ideas. The level of industrial design, coupled with the above-standard performance, has caused Apple's popularity.
And Nintendo later did completely die. only knows how to fry cold rice and rely on diehard loyalists to make money, they have only one attitude towards players, that is, they love to play and not to play and roll, and the world that Nintendo remembers in Jester's memory can't complain about others at all in the later decline.
However, it is also relieved to think that Nintendo is a family business that has been inherited for 100 years, and it is a company in such a conservative place as Kyoto.
Of course. Sony, as one of the two industrial design freaks on the same level as Apple, uses the best technology. The reasons why the best work will go all the way down after the new century is too complicated.
The place chosen for the evening party was not a high-end luxury hotel, but a traditional Japanese restaurant specially selected by Tamahideyoshiro. The owner of this shop is a friend of Tamahide Yoshiro, and it is because the food here is so delicious that Tamahide Yoshiro often eats before the two met.
Jester personally doesn't like Japanese food very much, but sometimes it doesn't matter if you eat some, it's not that it's not delicious, but you don't like the atmosphere of eating Japan, after all, the public taste buds of human beings all over the world have the same understanding of deliciousness, just like almost everyone thinks that Sho stinks, sugar is sweet, and pepper is spicy.
Therefore, under the same conditions of taste buds, and each of them develops, the various genres of dishes that look different on the surface, and the various cooking techniques of cooking raw food, are nothing more than the same.
As far as the world's cuisine is concerned, most of them are in line with the basic dietary characteristics of human beings, because people can distinguish whether the ingredients are delicious or not by their taste buds.
It's like before Jester was reborn, he liked to soak in some food forums and watch all kinds of star-picking landlords post to introduce delicious foods around the world, but there are always some Chinese food blowers who like to open the map cannon to ridicule, what food is garbage, where food is not good and so on.
For Chinese food Jester is naturally full of praise for it, the eight major cuisines have their own subtlety, the taste of Sichuan cuisine, the versatility of food has Cantonese cuisine, and the cooking is exquisite Shandong cuisine, each of which has been passed down for hundreds of years of delicious inheritance, but the problem is, some delicacies you haven't even eaten before you open a real husband?
Jester liked a quote he saw on this kind of forum, when the foreign food is not delicious, go and pick ten or twenty stars first.
When Jester arrives at the Japanese restaurant, which is written in Japanese but he doesn't understand the meaning, Tamahideyoshiro gets the news in advance and comes out with everyone to greet him, but Jester doesn't care much about it, he doesn't like this kind of etiquette that is too formal.
There wasn't much to say outside, and the group returned to the restaurant.
However, the young man with a pair of black-rimmed glasses and short hair suddenly caught Jester's attention.
Seeing that he was with the Japanese branch, he must be an employee of the Japanese branch, but Jester always had a familiar feeling when he looked at the appearance of this young man, but he couldn't remember the name for a while, and it seemed that the name stopped at the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say it anyway.
So as soon as he entered the restaurant, he found an opportunity to ask Tamahide Yoshiro, who had been following him.
"What's that young man's name?"
Tamahide Yoshiro also wondered why his boss would be so curious about an ordinary employee, and he didn't ask anything and directly asked about the newcomer he had just recruited without today's information.
Despite his doubts, Tamahideyoshiro replied simply.
"His name is Hideo Kojima, he is an intern at a university, and he came to apply for a job when he saw our job posting for game developers a few days ago, and many people I interviewed thought he was the best one, and during the interview, he designed a very interesting game, so he was asked to work, what, do you know?"
Hearing Tamahidejiro's explanation, Jester shook his head and said perfunctorily.
"I don't know, but it's a little bit like a friend I used to know very well, you know, there are very few Japanese students in the United States, so I'm more impressed." (To be continued) R580