What Yamauchi Pu was thinking at this time was unknown to anyone.

It's just that from his stiff face at this time, you can know that his mood at this time is not happy, and he thinks about it, he will not be happy to be betrayed by his two most important allies.

As a bridge between Sony and Nintendo, Kutaragi Ken naturally often sees Yamauchi Pu, and Yamauchi Pu is also very familiar with the short and fat middle-aged man in front of him, this is a very shrewd, intelligent, and capable person, and even sometimes Yamauchi Pu compares his son-in-law who leads the overall situation in North America with him from time to time.

The final conclusion always made Yamauchi Pu sigh, I have to say, at least in his several comparisons, the son-in-law who was already a hero in his mind, compared to this short and fat middle-aged man, it was still a little worse, and Yamauchi Pu also vaguely proposed to Kuda Ragi Ken several times that he wanted him to come to Nintendo, and if he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, but I don't know if Kuda Raragi Ken gave it deliberately or really couldn't hear the hidden meaning of his words, whenever he said it, the other party always talked about him left and right.

In Yamauchi Pu thought about it, it was impossible for a shrewd person like Kuda Rakaki Ken not to hear the meaning of his words, thinking about it, it should be the former one, after this situation was carried out three or four times, Yamauchi Pu gradually cut off and recruited Kutara Kidun's idea.

"Are you also interested in the video game industry?"

The brazen addition of a NEC before, which has made Yamauchi Pu a little powerless, and now Sony, which is not inferior to NEC, also has a glimpse of the video game industry?

There was a gentle smile on his face, and his demeanor was very respectful, as if he was facing his elders, and said, "President Yamauchi, we are not interested in the video game industry, you know. Our Sony booth is big enough, and President Akio Morita has recently been in full swing in the United States to negotiate with those Yankees for film companies, and now we don't have enough energy to open up new industries -- this time I came to see you, and I was only entrusted by the group to ask you for something. ”

"Oh?"

Hearing Kutaragi Ken say this, Yamauchi's face suddenly showed a curious look, and after hearing that Sony had no plans to enter the video game industry, it also made him feel a little relieved, so he rarely showed a faint smile on his face, which had been rigid. Fleeting.

Only then did he ask: "The cooperation between us is intimate, and we must do our best to meet the requirements of your society." ”

Kutaragi Ken had obviously thought of his words before he came, he smiled and said: "President Yamauchi, in fact, I came this time to recommend to you our optical disc storage system developed exclusively by Sony, this new storage system, I don't think I need to explain more than the advantages of cassette. And we also heard that you are about to start the development of a new home game console, so our company asked me if we can use our disc storage in your new game console. What about replacing the old cartridge storage? ”

"Disc storage!"

After Yamauchi Pu heard Kutaragi Ken's words, he suddenly opened up, disc storage and cassette storage have their own advantages and disadvantages, but relative to the disadvantages. They compare the advantages of cartridge storage, which is too big, and the two most important ones. It is also the two biggest problems that plague all game companies and game producers, and they will be solved immediately.

First, it is the most important thing for the distribution company of the game console, the cost, compared to the high cost of the game cartridge, the cost of the disc carrier is almost negligible, if it is sold at the same price, the disc carrier will earn at least a quarter more than the cartridge carrier.

Second, one of the biggest problems that plagues game design companies when designing games is that the capacity of the cassette is too small, while the capacity of the disc is completely opposite.

But the downside......

Nintendo's biggest advantage over Mars Entertainment is their cassette compression technology, they can compress games stored on the cassette at an 8-to-1 level, and it is unknown how much Mars Entertainment can do at most, but there is certainly no such thing as 8-to-1.

Even Mars Entertainment is like this, not to mention other game companies, when making games with cassettes as the main body, in nature, they are much behind Nintendo, the same game, Nintendo can make more content and the same content, but Nintendo can make more exquisite games, which is why his third-party development company can rarely produce games that are better than Nintendo.

If you change to disc storage, then this advantage of Nintendo will be wiped out immediately.

But it's been an eventful time for Nintendo, and in Yamauchi's view, their first-of-its-kind compression technology certainly makes them stand out from the crowd, but it's less important than what you can get with disc storage.

But this kind of thing,It's not like he's going to be able to make a decision alone.,It's true that he's the emperor of Nintendo.,His orders are not false within Nintendo.,But it's about hardware development.,Before he used an almost forced way to make Yokoi Junhei half-disbanded handheld development team.,This time, if he doesn't discuss with Uemura Masayuki again.,Just let him develop the optical disc storage system with Sony.,Then even the second person in hardware development.,It's going to offend.。

Therefore, Yamauchi Pu only thought about it for a while and made his own decision.

"Mr. Kuta, I know what you said, but I still need to discuss this matter with other people in the company, so I can't answer you right now, but one thing I can be sure of is that we will always be partners with your company."

Yamauchi Pu didn't directly say whether he agreed or disagreed, and in the end his sentence was also very ambiguous, but Kutaragi Ken didn't care, he saw that Yamauchi Pu had the intention of sending off guests, and he didn't continue to stay longer, he said everything he should say, and there was no special point in staying any longer.

And he also believes that Yamauchi Pu is a wise person, he should be able to think that at present, Nintendo wants to get out of this predicament, can only seek change, if they still do it according to the old way, they are better off just maintaining the status of a second child, and now, with the sudden rise of Sega and the brazen invasion of Nippon Electric, it may not even be able to keep the position of the second child.

Could it be that Yamauchi still wants to transform Nintendo again in his later years? From poker to children's toys to love hotels to video games, how else does Nintendo want to transform?

Therefore, Kutaragi Ken concluded that Yamauchi Pu must have agreed in his heart.

Jester didn't know that Kutaragi Ken had gone to meet with Yamauchi to discuss the use of optical disk storage in their new home console, but he was really thinking about it now, and it wasn't something he had come up with, but a proposal from his home console development team.

In fact, although the research and development of the new console of Mars Entertainment is not as fast as the speed of Sega's basic finalization, it is basically close to the finalized Cheng Dù, but just recently, a designer proposed that if the previous cartridge storage is replaced with disc storage, it will greatly improve the skills of the game console, and make the cost of the game more cheap.

But the development team has always adhered to and recognized Jester's set of remarks on hardware development, thinking in parallel with mature technology, cassette technology is a very mature technology, although relatively speaking, his disadvantages are also very large, and disc technology is not mature now, although it seems that his advantages are great, and the prospects are also beautiful.

Such a construction has been approved by many people, of course, there are also many people who agree, in addition to the hardware development department, there is also a game development department, because in terms of game development, discs are much better than cassettes.

The reason why the hardware development department opposes it is not that it thinks that this construction is not good, but that it wants to suddenly change the overall system in the hardware that is about to be completed.

In the case of a dispute, Jester can only decide.

For the development of game consoles in the future, Jester is naturally clear, disc storage eventually defeated cartridge storage, and Nintendo, which has been reversing history, also clings to the NGC of cartridge storage, and finally suffers the bitter fruit of almost complete collapse.

You know, before driving a series of masterpieces on the N64, Nintendo actually almost made a comeback under the joint strangulation of PS and Sega SS, but on the N64, there is obviously a gap with the disc storage table Xiàn cartridge storage, but Nintendo insists on continuing to use this cartridge storage method on their NGC.

In the end, it completely offended the third-party developer.

And then there is the complete failure of the NGC game console, it is true that the PS2 of the NGC era is a generation of god machines, and even in a certain way, it can be compared with the original FC, but if Nintendo took the initiative to abandon cartridge storage when developing NGC, then they may not be able to survive at that time by relying on their diehards.

So, in the future, it is imperative to change the home game console for disc storage, which Jester agrees with, but not on the sixteen-bit console right away?

This is something that has never happened in history, and he needs to think about it carefully. (To be continued......) R1292