At this time, Jester also thought of the Nintendo-Sony cooperation incident in his mind.

This collaboration did not come true, because Nintendo's unilateral breach of the contract did not become a reality, and the biggest impact of this incident was that Sony, who thought it had been tricked, entered the video game industry with all its might in annoyance, and then dominated an entire era with the momentum of sweeping the world.

At that time, the reason why Nintendo and Sony cooperated to develop the next generation of consoles was only because NEC and Sega at that time successively sold an external CD-ROM system on their home consoles PC-E and Sega MD, that is, a disc storage system, and Nintendo felt that it was inferior to these two in terms of research and development strength, so it found Nintendo to cooperate, and Nintendo's idea at that time was the same as now, mainly for its own CD-ROM disc format.

Are they really interested in the video game industry?

Jester doesn't know, because the history in his mind has long been a fantasy, and neither Sony nor Kutaragi Ken has admitted that they have hidden their dead hearts in the beginning of their cooperation, but they have left a back door in the agreement with Nintendo, and the terrible power that their CD-ROM can have once it succeeds, makes the stubborn Yamauchi finally back down.

This period of video game history is an indelible public case, and it directly influenced the progress and development of video games in the next two decades.

Later, Jester looked at some materials, which included a speech by Ken Kutaragi at Sony's internal meeting at that time, which comprehensively explained the reasons why they cooperated with Nintendo at that time, which can be said to be insightful.

“…… The market positioning, is the future of home digital entertainment terminals, through guò and Nintendo's joint promotion, to achieve complete agreement, home entertainment computer specifications of the unified purpose, the final strategic concept, is combined with Sony's first-class technology for all-round development, the first stage of tactics, is the use of Nintendo's hardware, popularization, the second stage is with the marketing of CD, LD, etc., and to the third party promotion, and then extended to publishing and education and other fields...... As long as the CD-ROM standard is established, Sony will be invincible in the future. ”

However, Sony, including Ken Kutaragi, insisted on making the main mechanism of the PS series zuò a real home digital entertainment terminal, but the PS3 made zuò with this goal made Kuta resign, but it was only the pure game mechanism zuò's PS, PS2 and PS4 have achieved brilliant success, which has to be said to be a kind of irony.

It's a pity that Microsoft later embarked on Sony's old path again.

Thinking of this, Jester also made a decision, although in addition to Sony's CD-ROM format disc format, Philip also had a CD-L format, and later Nintendo used CD-L development with Philip as an excuse to completely fall out with Sony.

Moreover, Nintendo's thing is extremely unauthentic.

The person in charge of his home computer development was called to his office, Jester first listened to their opinions, in fact, their internal opinions said that there was a contradiction, but the contradiction was not in whether to use CD-ROM, but in what to use CD-ROM, some people think that the cartridge system that has not kept up with the trend should be completely abandoned, and the CD-ROM system should be used directly on the second generation of sixteen-bit hosts.

And the other part is more realistic,They also think that CD-ROM large-capacity storage plus low manufacturing costs will inevitably be the mainstream of future development,But now the second generation of the host has almost been finalized,If you suddenly change to a new reading specification now,Then the entire machine qì has been completed circuit diagram to be redesigned,The previous efforts cannot be said to be all in vain,But it is also a waste of hard work。

Most importantly, time waits for no one.

Seeing that the person in charge present did not answer his question just now, Jester also knew that their argument was inconclusive, so he spoke directly: "First of all, I am in favor of joining the CD-ROM system, because his advantage over the cassette is too great, which represents the future, but I don't think now is the best time to launch a pure CD-ROM system host." ”

Jester didn't care much about the reactions on the faces of everyone present, but after he finished saying this, he still quickly glanced at the expressions on the faces of the people present, most of the departments were happy, and the number of disappointed ones was only one-third, which also made Jester a little happy, after all, in the development team, the majority of people who had similar opinions to themselves.

Still, Jester was going to explain to everyone that he was doing it for a reason.

"The reason I did this was simply because time didn't allow it." Jester said very directly, after he finished speaking, he stood up and bowed slightly to everyone, and said apologetically, "In fact, the time is so tight is the reason for my personal judgment that there is a problem, I thought that our R&D project should be the earliest, so it is natural to think that it is the fastest, and I think the life cycle of the eight-bit machine is at least five years, so the research and development of the sixteen-bit machine is not too urgent, however, this time the change is something I did not expect." ”

The people present were also extremely ashamed to hear Jester say this, Jester was right just now, they were the first to start the development of sixteen-bit consoles, and although Sega didn't know when they started research and development, he could see from the MS game consoles they released more than a year ago that their sixteen home console research and development projects must be much later than their own.

But it was in this case that they took the lead in completing the actual machine.

Jester's words are not so much about his prediction mistakes, but also to say that they have no other corporate intentions during this time, of course, although Jester also said that the research and development of sixteen-bit machines does not need to be too nervous, to ensure the performance of the game console as much as possible, the development speed is not the most important, the performance of the game console is the first priority.

Jester also saw the slightly ashamed looks on the faces of everyone present, he actually didn't mean to blame everyone, but everyone can think so, it is also conducive to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the R&D team, so he didn't explain, but continued to continue the above words: "I said before, the characteristics of our hardware, that is, to use mature technology for parallel thinking, when we just carried out the sixteen-bit computer research and development project, the CD technology is not mature, even now, is the CD technology mature?" Some people say it's mature, but the reality is that no game company has ever launched their games that use a CD-ROM system, and have you ever thought about it, it's true that discs are much cheaper than cassettes, but what about CD systems? ”

This sentence knocked on everyone's heads like a slap in the head, because the controversy broke out very suddenly, and there was not enough time for discussion, so the discussion was limited to a small range, and the members of the discussion did not have enough time to diverge their thinking to think about other aspects, at most they only thought of the cheapness of CDs, and the reason why Jester was able to think of this was that when he was thinking before, he suddenly remembered that the sales of MD's CD-ROM system were not good.

The reason for the poor sales is not that the Sega zuò is too inferior, but because the price of the CD-R0M system for external MD is too expensive, the price of an MD is only more than 200 US dollars, but the price of an external CD-ROM device is as high as 400 US dollars, such a price, no matter how good the game console is, there is no competitive value.

"I often say why we should use mature technology for parallel thinking, before I only said that it is because mature technology is stable, in fact, more importantly, the price of mature technology is low, we make goods, the lower the cost, the more competitive we are."

Jester continued to talk, he looked around, and saw that everyone was listening very seriously, and then he smiled: "Although the price of the external system will definitely be very high at present, but I think that in a few years, its price will come down, so we have temporarily given up the use of CD-ROM this time, after the finalization of our new host, you will also immediately start the development of our sixteen-bit external CD-ROM system, and I don't expect to make money from it, Rather, it is to give us the technical accumulation of 32-bit computers in the future. ”

When he said about the thirty-two game consoles, Jester's eyes suddenly lit up, which made everyone present look a little inexplicable.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Jester felt that it was harmless to say it, and probably no one could know what kind of power the thing he thought of would explode in the future, so he smiled and said: "In my imagination, if the processing core of our game console reaches thirty-two, then his new film with one million integrated loops is enough to carry out extremely complex calculations and simulations, that is, in that era, The game will get rid of the current situation of 2D planes or guò modeling to fake 3D, and become a real 3D game. ”

However, it was not the people who were developing the game, but the hardware engineers, and even if some of them could understand what Jester said, no one could really understand what Jester meant by real 3D games compared to the video game industry. R1152