As the head of hardware development at Nintendo, Gunhei Yokoi certainly won't be idle, and although he has been involved in the development of game software before, he is not a software developer at all, and he can't even write code.

"It's not so smooth, after all, we had the foundation of GW before, but the real palm game console discussed before is still very different from our GW before, such as how to miniaturize, how to transplant some things of our game as well as possible, and it is still on paper......" Yokoi Junhei heard Yamauchi Pu ask, and he quickly replied.

However, he also knew that for President Yamauchi, who has never paid much attention to hardware, it was not easy for him to start two huge hardware development teams at the same time.

Because only Nintendo, which has the Japanese market, is far less financially powerful than Mars Entertainment, which almost dominates Europe and the United States, and hardware development is the largest investment and the most difficult project to recover costs, for example, Jester's Mars Entertainment has just successfully developed sixteen arcade basics, from his eight basic research and development success, it began research and development under the personal leadership of Jester's father, and it was not until not long ago that the official version was successfully developed.

The history is close to three years, with an investment of more than 50 million US dollars.

If such an investment fails, it will be an almost irreparable loss for a company.

Yes, three months ago, Gunpei Yokoi's plan for palm games was approved by Pu Yamauchi, and a lot of R&D funds were invested, and a large number of developers were mobilized from within the group to participate in the project, not because Yamauchi saw the huge market for palm game consoles, and eight years ago, Junhei Yokoi told him that he wanted to use some people to go to work and ride the train to fall on the ground or other fragmented time, so that he developed GW.

This was indeed a product that made Nintendo an instant hit, but this product did not sell very well after a period of hot sales when it first went on sale. In the end, Nintendo no longer even released its own GW game console hardware, but sold GW's patents to the outside world.

The reason why he was able to agree to Yokoi's plan again was just to expand the market for FC.

However, this time, the development priority of the sixteen-bit console is clearly superior to the brand new handheld console in Yokoi's mouth.

However, if you want to transfer people from the handheld development team that has just been formed before, needless to say that the person in charge of this project, Yokoi Junpei, even Yamauchi Pu feels that this is a bit difficult, because it was agreed to let the hardware department concentrate resources on handheld development, and transfer elites from within the entire group. It was he himself who gave the order.

And now let himself suddenly change his course in just three months, when the handheld machine project was just a little eyebrow-raising, doesn't that prove that his previous choice was wrong?

How could the ruler of Nintendo, who is wise and martial, make such a mistake?

Therefore, the decision to reduce the development team of the handheld computer must not be made by him, but needs other people, and the most suitable person is in front of him.

Yamauchi Pu looked up at Yokoi Gunpei. Obviously, he wanted Yokoi to take the initiative to reduce the development team of the handheld machine, and then he went down the stairs, but Yokoi was obviously completely different from Yamauchi's idea.

In his eyes. If you want to rely on home game consoles to compete with Mars Entertainment, according to the current situation, it is basically impossible, and in the game market. The only way Nintendo can beat Mars Entertainment is to open up a new market, since it can't compete in the home console market. And arcades are not a strong point on their own.

So, why don't we take the initiative to create a market?

And it was under the impetus of this kind of thinking that Gunpei Yokoi couldn't help but think of his proud work in video game consoles, GW.

Admittedly, whether in terms of performance or sales, GW is indeed not a successful palm game console, but in Yokoi's view, the reason why GW sales are not high is only because the price of GW at that time was too high, and a game console can only play one game, and if you want to play other games, you can only buy a new GW palm game console.

This form of inconvenience is due to technical limitations, but in the end, GW did not become popular, which is the primary reason.

Originally, Yokoi Junhei thought so, but when he saw that Mars Entertainment purchased GW's patent authorization, and then improved the electronic pet machine by himself, it was popular all over the world, and now it has come out of the third generation, and there are still many fans, he knows that the reason why GW failed to achieve real success back then may not be just what he thought before.

To be honest, when Mars Entertainment's electronic pet machine was just released and instantly became popular in Japan, Yokoi Junhei thought that this gadget with no technical content would have a fate similar to his GW back then, but he didn't expect that he was wrong.

In Yamauchi's direct gaze, Yokoi Junhei did not flinch, he is not a person who only knows how to obey orders, for Yamauchi Pu, he has direct respect and gratitude for promoting himself from an ordinary recognized position to the hardware development director of such a huge enterprise as Nintendo, but for the things in his profession, he has identified things, and he will not give up lightly.

So, he took a breath and tried to convince Yamauchi.

"President, with all due respect, in my opinion, it is necessary to develop a sixteen-bit machine as much as possible, because the home machine market is our root, and if our roots are broken, then we will only be a big tree, no matter how prosperous it is, it will definitely die." Hearing Yokoi Junhei say this, Yamauchi nodded with satisfaction, he thought that his most proud love would understand his thoughts.

However, after Yokoi Junhei said this, his tone immediately paused, and he continued: "However, President, I think that if we are just satisfied with the current situation, just want to maintain the current situation, and have no interest in the broader American and European markets, I am in favor of reducing the size of the handheld team and supplementing the development lineup of the sixteen host R&D teams that will be established, but if we have ambitions for the European and American markets, which are several times larger than the Japanese market, I think that the handheld machine is exactly the best for us. Also the most promising weapon. ”

When he heard the sudden change in Yokoi's tone, Yamauchi knew that maybe his favorite general didn't want to act according to the script he wanted to see, but he still didn't expect that he would say it so fiercely.

What does it mean that it is impossible to obtain the European and American markets without his palm machine? What does it mean that we do not pay attention to the European and American markets? Could it be that my huge Nintendo can't play without him Yokoi Junhei?

Yamauchi Pu squinted his eyes, but he still forcibly thought out the true thoughts in his heart, now for Nintendo, Yokoi Junhei is indeed an indispensable figure, not only in terms of hardware development, even in software development, Yokoi Junhei's influence is very huge, and, Yamauchi Pu confidently thought about what Yokoi Junhei just said, it is not unreasonable.

In fact, he himself knows that it is basically impossible for them to fight Mars Entertainment in the home machine market by relying on dignified means, but doesn't he want to defeat his biggest opponent?

Of course, that's impossible, like Yamauchi Pu, a person who never admits defeat, how can he let him say that he doesn't want to defeat his enemy, this time Yokoi Junhei said, relying on the current blank, like a home machine, replaceable cassette palm machine to open a new market, so that it can definitely open up a situation in the European and American markets.

It only needs to be concluded from the popularity of the electronic pet machine that Mars Entertainment inadvertently inserted at the beginning.

However, it is also like what Yokoi Junhei just said, home consoles are their own foundation, and they must not be missed, and their basic disk is originally in Japan, Mars Entertainment is an American company, no matter how suitable their games are for Japanese players, they also need to take care of the American market, and coupled with the conservatism and xenophobia of the Japanese, Mars Entertainment has no chance to completely defeat itself in the Japanese market.

But Segaco is a different story.

Although Sega was born with a strong American ancestry, but in 84 years, after Hayato Nakayama sold Sega America, their own American blood has been completely severed, although Sega later set up its own branch in the United States again, but this company has nothing to do with the Americans who originally founded this company.

In other words, it is a business of true Japanese origin.

This is what Pu Yamauchi is most worried about, his biggest advantage for Mars Entertainment will be wiped out when he treats Sega.

Originally, if Sega only maintained their MS game console, he would not have taken it to heart, because even if the function of this console is stronger than FC, it is also limited, and in the absence of excellent development capabilities, and without a third-party manufacturer to join, this home game console is doomed to failure.

But sixteen-bit home consoles will be completely different, you know, Sega has a lot of great arcade games, but because these arcade games can't be simulated on eight-bit machines, but if this carrier is changed to sixteen-bit computers, then the situation is completely different.

If Sega is allowed to gain a foothold in Japan with the sixteen-bit machine, it will inevitably be a disaster for Nintendo. (To be continued......) R752