"The development of this game is different from all the games you've developed before, because this development was done in two parts, the first part, which is the original version of the game, and the second part, which I call the DLC, download-content, add-on download package. *”

Jester started talking about the difference between the game he was going to make and the games he had done before, and everyone was listening quietly, and everyone looked at Jester with admiration in their eyes, because the video of the demo they had just seen was so shocking that they felt as if they were seeing a game of the next era.

"The so-called original version of the game, similar to the game you developed on the console before, the core is the level, but when designing the level, what I need you to do is to know that you are completing the map in a 3D, the same thing as the world we are in, you have to fully consider this, this is not a 2D world, and the second point, about DLC, I call it ' Thor Arena', this is not our main task at the moment, first of all, you have to understand, what is called DLC, as the name suggests, this is something that will be announced to the public after the original version of our game is released, that is, this is an expansion on the original game, and this expansion is the core of our game, LAN battle. ”

After Jester said this, everyone present, except for Carmack, who had known about this for a long time, everyone had a trace of doubt in their eyes, they didn't seem to understand what a LAN battle was, or they couldn't understand it deeply.

But that's not all, there are also a few senior programmers who seem to have thought of something, and their eyes are rippling.

"Huh."

Jester clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention, he wasn't afraid that the current designers wouldn't understand the concept of LAN battles. After all, this is also the first time that this concept has appeared in this world, in the original history, the concept of LAN battle, until three or four years later, was first proposed by Carmack, and completed, these people naturally can't grow up playing FPS games like he did, the core of FPS, fighting. With an understanding that they can't match.

"Now, I'm going to explain to you what LAN battles are."

Jester said this, and then began his explanation.

While Jester was giving a lesson to his brand-new development team, introducing them to what an FPS game is and how to develop an FPS game, the people at Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto were looking at a game that had just been completed.

This is Shigeru Miyamoto's The Legend of Zelda II.

Looking at the constantly flickering game images on the TV screen, Shigeru Miyamoto frowned, as if he was not very satisfied. In fact, the reason why he completed the production of "The Legend of Zelda II" so quickly was because he received a personal notification from President Pu Yamauchi that "Dragon Quest II" had failed miserably. So that now Nintendo urgently needs a great game to regain lost ground.

And between companies and third-party development companies, the best choice is Shigeru Miyamoto's "The Legend of Zelda II".

But now The Legend of Zelda II looks more like it's not so much an RPG. It's not even that it's an ACT game, and it's a bit difficult to play, but that's also a common problem with ACT games. Such a game difficulty is a matter of course.

"Minister, is that the definitive version of our Zelda?" One of Shigeru Miyamoto's subordinates said to him.

Shigeru Miyamoto moved his lips, and he wanted to say, "How is that possible!" It's just a half-finished product! But when the words came to his lips, he had to think of what President Yamauchi had said to him a week ago when he personally summoned him.

"Miyamoto, next month NEC's PC-E will be announced, and Namco and Hudson, the two traitors, will also be alive They will announce the game they will release on PC-E as soon as possible, and we have just experienced an extremely painful blow now, you know, the price we paid for Dragon Quest II is very large, so, now we urgently need a game to save the market."

Although President Yamauchi's tone was very flat at that time, Shigeru Miyamoto, who knew his boss very well, could still hear a trace of irrefutable meaning from the other party's weak tone.

And although Miyamoto Shigeru wanted to argue at the time, if this game is to be perfect, he still needs at least two months, or even three months, if it is released now, he has no way to guarantee the quality, but what he didn't expect was that before he could say this, it seemed that Yamauchi Pu had already understood Miyamoto Shigeru's thoughts.

Yamauchi Pu just waved his hand indifferently: "I won't blame you for bad sales, I understand your level, even if it is a semi-finished product, there may be three or four million sales, even if you do it perfectly, it is only six million sales, for the sales of more than two million copies, in exchange for the decline of our market share, in my opinion, it is completely worth it." ”

At this point, Shigeru Miyamoto has nothing to say.

Shigeru Miyamoto glanced at his subordinate who was questioning him angrily, and he could only nod: "Yes, this is our final version." ”

"We're going to be scolded by the players!" It seems that this subordinate still wants to argue.

But Shigeru Miyamoto could only shake his head helplessly: "This is what the president meant, the current situation of our Nintendo is very bad." ”

In fact, Nintendo's recent situation is really not optimistic, not only because of the defeat of "Dragon Quest II", so that Dreambox began a full-scale counteroffensive of the share, and in NEC took the lead in announcing that they will be officially released next month at the same time as Namco and Hudson's new games, Sega also announced that the world's first sixteen-place home game console, Sega MD will be officially released in October, and before the official release, Pre-orders will be available from next month, with free shipping and a free release from Sega MD by Yuzu Suzuki.

In other words, starting next month, Nintendo's opponent in the Japanese market will no longer be Mars Entertainment, but will join the other two, in this case, Yamauchi Pu also had to let Miyamoto Shigeru end the development of "The Legend of Zelda II" ahead of schedule, relying on new games to save the declining FC market share in Japan.

"How's it going?"

Recently, since Sega announced that they will officially sell sixteen home consoles in October, Yamauchi Pu, who rarely comes to the hardware development center, has come five or six times in a row in the past few days, and every time he comes, he will ask such a question.

Even Masayuki Uemura was a little annoyed when he answered.

"President Yamauchi, hardware development is a fixed development plan, which has been planned before, and if you want to come up with our finished machine, it will be at least February or March next year."

It just so happened that Ken Kutaragi also came to understand the situation, and he took the initiative to explain.

It could be seen that Yamauchi Pu was dissatisfied after hearing this answer, but Kutaragi Ken just smiled and said lightly: "Could it be that Mr. Yamauchi is worried about Sega's sixteen-bit machine?" In fact, there is no need to worry at all, they are just a few months ahead of us, and there has been no news that Sega is cooperating with any third-party game company, their last MS console, the only third party is Mars Entertainment, do you think, the current Mars Entertainment, will it be a third-party development game for Sega who has entered the market and is ready to fight with them? Besides, I've heard that even the game developed by Mars Entertainment for Sega was just because of a bet between Jester and Hayabusa Nakayama. ”

Hearing Kutaragi Ken say so clearly and concisely, Yamauchi Pu also realized that he was a little in the game without thinking clearly, he himself said more than once at Nintendo's high-level meetings, home game consoles are just a game platform, and the power and usefulness of this platform is not to see that the platform's own machine is not strong enough, advanced, but the games attached to this platform, whether they are good enough, especially enough.

Sega's development ability is very strong, that Suzuki Yu is also very capable in arcade game development, many best-selling arcade games have his figure, such a person, to make zuò home games, as long as you dive in to study carefully, it must be a good level, because the principles of the game are all figured out, and it is said that he also received Jester's guidance in the United States for several months.

You know, the few people who now support the Mars Entertainment Japan Branch, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yuji Naka, and a few others, were all unliterate before, and it was precisely because after studying with Jester for a period of time, they were suddenly reborn, as if they had changed a person, and made a game one by one, an incredible classic game.

However, for Sega, relying on just one Suzuki Yu will not work.

Basically, there are few players who will buy a brand new console just for a game, and who would buy a console just to play a game? It's just human nature.

Yamauchi understood this and nodded gratefully at Kutaragi Ken.

"More, more than a long time, sir."

And Kutaragi Ken also smiled modestly, waved his hand and said, "President Yamauchi is polite. (To be continued......)