"We have to make an alliance with Sony."

Masayuki Uemura's voice was not loud, but in the conference room, which was almost silent and could hear a needle dropping, it was nothing less than a thunderclap.

As soon as his voice fell, Yokoi Junhei was the first to show a look of surprise.

Because he has said before, unless the price of Sony's CD-ROM system is reduced to the range that ordinary people can afford, otherwise, this thing is just a high-end toy, four or five hundred dollars of game consoles, no matter how strong the function, it is impossible to compete with two hundred dollars of the same grade of home game consoles, because the price range between the two is really beyond the ability of the vast majority of people who buy game consoles.

But after he, Masayuki Uemura and Pu Yamauchi talked, Pu Yamauchi contacted Sony as soon as possible, although Ken Kutaragi said very sincerely that he would talk to people inside Sony and would definitely be able to give them a satisfactory price.

And Sony's efficiency is also very fast, this time is also Sony's expansion period in the real sense, and the price given by Sony is also very sincere, however, for a game console, it is still too high.

Jiuduo also regretted that this was already the price he had tried his best to get, and it was impossible for the group's top management to make further concessions.

And at this time, Masayuki Uemura brought up the matter again.

Even Yamauchi Pu was very surprised to look at Masayuki Uemura, he didn't understand his favorite general, the number two person in the hardware development department could say such brainless words, if he could cooperate with Sony, he had already cooperated with them before, the problem is, the price of CD-ROM is impossible for Nintendo to accept.

"Yes."

Although he was watched by many people with surprised eyes, Masayuki Uemura's tone was still very firm.

He said his reasons in an almost non-obstinatory tone: "In my opinion, it is impossible for the price of CD-ROM to be reduced to a level that is acceptable to ordinary people in the short term. When I say short, I mean within two years......"

When Masayuki Uemura just finished saying these words, it made Yokoi Junhei and Yamauchi Pu and other Nintendo executives present puzzled, since you know the biggest drawback of CD-ROM, why do you still say that you want to form an alliance with Sony? Isn't that the opposite of the opposite? Do you want to lose money to buy a console, although Nintendo used this sales method when it released a certain model of game console before 80 years, but this method almost collapsed Nintendo, and Yamauchi Pu also issued a death order in this regard, Nintendo must not sell hardware at a loss.

Could it be that Masayuki Uemura means that?

However, even if they are selling hardware at a loss. It's impossible to directly lose half of the price, such a loss amount, even if they sell Nintendo, they can't afford to play.

However, after being surprised for a few seconds, Yamauchi seemed to have thought of something, his brows furrowed, and his face became cloudy.

At this time, Masayuki Uemura's voice continued to echo in the conference room.

"Actually, there is one thing we don't see, for Sony, reaching cooperation and alliance is their main thing. Didn't they ask us to use their CD-ROM system? We promise it! ”

Syllable!

At this time, there was a Nintendo veteran and a minister of the sales department who slapped the table angrily, and he looked at Masayuki Uemura with red eyes. He said angrily: "Uemura, you yourself just said that the price of CD-ROM is absolutely unacceptable to us. But why do you want us to make such a self-defeating decision! ”

And Yamauchi Pu looked at Uemura Masayuki very calmly, and said lightly: "You go on." ”

"Yes."

Masayuki Uemura nodded, he didn't look at the veteran of the sales department. Instead, he explained directly: "My construction is actually very simple, we promised to use the CD-ROM system on our new host, but they must do their best to help us complete the development of the 16-bit computer that uses cartridge reading, and we promised them that when the next generation of 32-bit host is developed, we will unconditionally agree to use the CD-ROM system to develop our host regardless of the price of CD-ROM at that time." ”

"What!" "How can this be!" "That's impossible!"

As soon as the words fell, the audience erupted in surprise and questioning, and only a few people from Yamauchi Pu and Yokoi Junhei sat quietly in their original positions.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

Yamauchi knocked on the table with his palm, the sound was not loud, but the noisy scene was quiet for the first time.

"You mean that when the next generation of consoles comes out, the price of CD-ROMs will be affordable for gamers?" Yamauchi Pu still asked quietly.

Unexpectedly, Masayuki Uemura shook his head, he said simply and directly: "Because in my opinion, the advantages of CD-ROM in storage are too obvious, and for game development, it also makes it easier for designers to take advantage of it, and now there may not be much difference, but when it comes to thirty-two, this gap will be infinitely magnified, and at that time, disc games and cassette games, under the same investment, under the same technical ability, these two are no longer a grade of things at all, At that time, if you continued to use the cassette, you would really kill yourself. ”

Masayuki Uemura's remarks are just his personal prophecy, which is not recognized by the hardware development street, and in fact, cartridge storage is not useless when it comes to developing games.

However, his remarks are also very approved by some people, especially game designers, although Nintendo's technical reserves in cartridges can be called proud of the world, and even Mars Entertainment may not be as good as them, but it is an indisputable fact that cartridges are difficult to develop and difficult to card.

Even Yokoi Junhei nodded involuntarily when Masayuki Uemura said.

Obviously, he at least partially agreed with Masayuki Uemura's words.

This is a bet, for Nintendo, as long as the next console generation comes, CD-ROM can be reduced to a price that ordinary people can accept, then even if they give up the cartridge technology that is not allowed to be reserved, it is not a big deal, although it is distressing, but when it is time to give up, it must be abandoned, but if the CD-ROM has not been reduced to a sufficient price at that time, or the advantage of CD-ROM over the cartridge has not been expanded to the point that it cannot be compared at all. Then for Nintendo, it could be a disaster.

The right to make decisions about such a matter of life and death is naturally in the hands of Yamauchi Pu, and others dare not and are not qualified to make decisions for him.

Yamauchi Pu obviously knew this, he slowly closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about every word Uemura Masayuki had just said, no one knew what he was thinking, and he didn't let the people present wait too long, only a little more than a minute, he opened his eyes, exhaled, and his expression became relaxed, obviously, he had made a decision.

"Call me about Mr. Ken Kutaragi."

Kutaragi Ken since Fujitsu's hands with Sony's own PCM sound source to snatch Nintendo's FC sound source billions of yen pre-contract,It has been very valued by Sony's senior management,He proposed to cooperate with Nintendo some time ago,Sony's senior management also agreed after discussion,But because of the price of CD-ROM Sony does not intend to concede too much,So this cooperation plan was not negotiated,This also makes Jiuduo a little disappointed。

Unexpectedly, just when he was in the office dealing with some recent texts, he received a call from Yamauchi Pu himself.

Yamauchi rarely calls him, and the people who contact him at Nintendo are usually the head of a certain department, the hardware development department or the procurement department, and Yamauchi Pu personally called him, this is the second time.

The voice on the phone was familiar to him, it was the indifferent and cold voice of Yamauchi Pu who couldn't hear the slightest emotion.

"Mr. Kuta, are you free now? I'd like to meet with you, if it's convenient, why don't you come to me once?" ”

When Kutaragi Ken heard Yamauchi's words, his husband hesitated for a moment, and then immediately agreed, his sixth sense told him that maybe something very important had happened, and it was very likely, it was the thing he cared about the most, but recently, what had happened?

He's not a guy in the gaming industry, and although he's interested in the industry, his sources aren't as quick as some game companies.

But it was still very fast, and it made Jiuduo discover the problem.

He asked the secretary to find some game reports, whether it was newspapers, or publications, Japan and the United States, and it didn't take half an hour for him to know what the problem was, this was a report from a Los Angeles newspaper, and the boss of Mars Entertainment admitted that their sixteen-bit computer development plan had been going on for several years......

No one knew what Kuda and Yamauchi were talking about in the room, and no other third party was present when the two of them were inside.

The conversation was not long, only half an hour, but all Nintendo employees could see the faint smile on Kuta's face as he left Yamauchi's office, and it was clear that the conversation was very satisfying to him.

And just three days later, Sony's vice president, Norio Oga, who is known as the successor of Akio Morita, came to Nintendo in person.

"Sony and Nintendo have officially partnered on the development of home game consoles."

The next day, a newspaper with such a title appeared on Jester's desk, and Jester looked at the headline and was speechless for a long time, the history he knew, after all, had changed. (To be continued......) R1292