Chapter 239: Kobe's wavelet
Seeing his president ask himself, Shigema Miyamoto stood up and bowed.
"President." Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto nodded, and then said to everyone present, "It's too late to make a game now, but I'm still going to start the project of "The Legend of Zelda 2" right away, I found a lot of inspiration from "Dragon Quest", and I think I can give it a try." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, there was no need to review the plan of the number one person in the company's software development, and Yamauchi Pu directly patted the table with some impatience and said: "You have the final say in this matter, I am asking what should be done now?" Isn't it true that with so many of our games waiting to be released, don't we have the strength to fight one after another? What about so many third parties? ”
During this period of time, Shigeru Miyamoto didn't pay much attention to the games declared by other third-party game development companies, let him say, he really couldn't say it for a while, but during this time, there were very few things in the hardware development department of Yokoi Junhei, and he was extremely relaxed, and he knew a lot about the games declared by third-party game companies, and he saw that Miyamoto Shigeru was a little speechless for a while, so he took the initiative to stand up and speak.
"Recently, K Club has a few games, some interesting, not to say how good these games are, because they are all transplanted from the arcade, the style is not very suitable for our main audience, but it is very consistent with the audience of some games of Mars Entertainment, for example, one of their "Super Soldiers" is very similar to the game called "Contra" of Mars Entertainment before, but the sense of rhythm is even smoother, although the sales of the "Contra" series in our country can only be said to be average, but the players of this game are very loyal, Especially for games like this. ”
After Yokoi finished speaking, he smiled at Shigeru Miyamoto. I sat down.
Yamauchi Pu also hesitated, he felt that it was not a way to always be constantly seized by Mars Entertainment like this, and he always had to give a little counterattack. But they Nintendo are also not good at making games that are too heavy, and for these kinds of games. Yamauchi Pu is also deeply disgusted, in his consciousness, the game console is for children to play, he doesn't care about others, but he is absolutely not right to make a game that is suitable for adults to play.
This is true, in the years when Hiroshi Yamauchi was in power, Nintendo had never made only one limited game.
As for the game of K Society that Yokoi Junhei said, he has never seen it, and he has every opportunity. I have time to pay attention to every game, but since even Yokoi Junhei said that he could give it a try, and this is also an opportunity to snatch players from the hands of Mars Entertainment, it always doesn't hurt to give it a try.
Then again, there's no better way to do it now.
Then, Yamauchi nodded, he first glanced at Shigeru Miyamoto, and said in a majestic tone: "Miyamoto, you have to prepare for "The Legend of Zelda 2", I estimate that Mars Entertainment will definitely prepare a masterpiece of the same level to play against you." As for what Yokoi Junhei said, let's do what he wants and contact Xiaobo. Sue them, they decided to promote this game. ”
Konami, that is, K-she's kanji is written as wavelet, so in the Japanese game industry, wavelet is often used to refer to K-company.
In Nintendo, Yamauchi Pu is the emperor, and no one dares to disobey his orders. And the efficiency of Nintendo which felt the danger and ran at full strength. It's also pretty amazing.
In just one week, hundreds of thousands of copies have just been burned. The cartridges that were pulled directly from the factory were scattered all over Japan, and from Hokkaido to this week, wherever consoles were sold, you could see them all over Japan.
At first, the Mars Entertainment Japan branch was still a little nervous when it found out about Nintendo's abnormal behavior, but after the investigation, it was found that the game they were promoting turned out to be a game called "Super Soldier" that was incompatible with their own game style, so they didn't take it to heart.
However, the development of the time was completely unexpected by the Japanese branch.
Although "Phantasy Star" is still a crazy hit, it is a platformer shooter called "Super Soldier" that has also quietly become popular.
And by the time the Japanese branch noticed the game, it was already a month later.
They didn't even notice it themselves, but a sudden call from the headquarters, asking them to investigate the specific news about the game called "Super Soldier", and when the Japanese branch asked what the reason was, the American side was obviously not in a good mood and sprayed directly.
The game sold like crazy in the United States.
Jester is passive right now, seriously, Cypher. Darkwater's next game "Super Contra" has been made to the final end, and it has been a long time since the last "Contra" was released, and the car gun ball is the favorite game type of North American players, simple and rough, full of refreshing, and the taste of North American players has been very high recently, and it is easy to get tired of playing masterpieces like RPG and ACT, plus those shooting games whose quality can only be said to be average, There is indeed a need for an excellent shooter game in the market today to liberate the needs of this player, and Super Contra is a great gift he is preparing for players in North America at the end of the year.
But what I didn't expect was that in my own let Seifer. After Tubwater preemptively produced "Contra", the original maker of this game, Kobe's Xiaobo actually made a new game "Super Soldier" that was not inferior to "Super Contra" after referring to "Contra".
When Jester got his hands on the game that Nintendo had just released, he knew something was wrong.
It's not that he's afraid that his market share will be lost too strictly, his advantage over NES in North America is much greater than Nintendo's Dreambox in Japan, and in the North American market, NES's market share basically doesn't exceed 15 percent, and even if there is, it's very little time, almost negligible.
What he was worried about was that when "Super Contra" was released at the end of the year, it would not have the effect he expected before.
The North American market is extremely hungry for excellent shooting games, and when Kobe's Xiaobo's game called "Super Soldier" landed in North America, it detonated the enthusiasm of many North American players at the first time.
In North America, Contra fans are very, very large, and these people are extremely keen on gunfight games, and maybe it is rare for the average player to buy a game specifically for a game, but for these die-hard people, this is not a problem.
The sales curve of K Society's "Super Soldier" is very similar to the "Phantasy Star" just released by Mars Entertainment, and it was also after the average sales in the first few days, and then it suddenly broke out, and even the sales with NES also ushered in a blowout, but compared with the original Dreambox shipments in the United States, although the sales of NES have risen sharply, and even reached 17% in a week, which they have never reached, but Mars Entertainment still relies on stable sales, Their market share has been repressed to less than 15 percent.
Faced with the questioning of the U.S. headquarters, the Japanese branch realized that it had made a huge mistake.
They just began to hastily collect information about "Super Soldier", and it didn't matter if this collection was made, the game had quietly sold nearly 200,000 copies in the past month.
You know, this is a platform shooter, in Japan, this kind of game is not very popular with the Japanese, their "Contra" has been produced very well, and the final sales in Japan, up to now, have been almost two years, and it is only a little over 300,000 copies, and this is already a result that Jester is very satisfied with.
But Kobe's Xiaobo's same game sold 200,000 copies in a month, which was too much beyond the expectations of Mars Entertainment Japan's branch, you know, when they just released "Contra", in the Japanese market, the sales in the first month were only tens of thousands of copies.
Of course, there is a reason why Dreambox had just been released at the time, and its market share was not worth mentioning.
After gathering enough information about this game, and there is a very important one, Kobe's other new game, which is very similar to the "Shamanro Snake" they have released before, is also preparing for release.
Kobe's wavelets have had an arcade version of this game before, so it's not difficult to investigate the content of this game, this game is very "Shamanro Snake" style, and even in some places, there are a lot of improvements compared to Jester's "Shamanro Snake", although in Japan, this kind of game is not mainstream, but there are also many die-hard players.
Jester received this return, and he could only sigh.
He had thought before that even if he made those classics in advance, it was also a double-edged sword, for himself, of course, it could bring a lot of monetary benefits, many players and fans, but for those who are also proficient in this kind of game system, such as Kobe's Xiaobo, a game company is not intended to be an inspiration, after having their own enlightenment, they are absorbing and comprehending their own innovation in this game.
Then it is only natural that they make even better games.
Or is it something he worried about a long time ago, they have the strength, the technology, the platform, the genius, why won't they succeed? (To be continued) R655