Should we choose Yokoi Junpei's Jianyì to fully develop the handheld machine and open up new markets, or should we transfer back to the main force and develop the sixteen-bit machine?

This is really a difficult question for Yamauchi to decide. $

At this time, Masayuki Uemura, who had been watching from the side, spoke, he was Yokoi's deputy, and he was also the chief designer of FC, and in the hardware development department, his prestige was not inferior to that of Yokoi Junpei, so his opinion was also very important.

"President, I think Minister Yokoi is right, we shouldn't cut a project that already has some eyebrows, and rush into a project that we don't have the slightest experience, and with all due respect......" Masayuki Uemura said very sincerely, "Mr. President, the development of a sixteen-bit machine is completely different from the development of an eight-bit computer, and even if we develop it immediately, it will take at least more than a year." ”

Hearing Masayuki Uemura say this, Pu Yamauchi frowned even harder, he didn't expect that it would take so long to develop a sixteen-bit home machine than an eight-bit home machine, and he had experienced the research and development of an eight-bit machine, he knew what Uemura Masayuki meant, just to develop it will take a year, so the time required for finishing and testing will be at least half of the development time.

In other words, even if they immediately concentrate their personnel, the earliest commercial product will be a year and a half later.

"Do you mean that Sega started the development of the sixteen-bit console a year ago?" Yamauchi asked out loud.

Based on his experience in hardware development, Masayuki Uemura said without concealment: "I think I'm afraid yes, after the game about cooking that Mars Entertainment made for them didn't save their MS game console, or even earlier, I think they have started the development of a new console, but what I'm most worried about is Mars Entertainment, if they have also started the development of sixteen home consoles a long time ago, then for us." It's almost a disaster. ”

"So Uemura, do you think we should now focus on the development of home computers for the sixteenth? Or do you continue to stay on top of the palm machine? Yamauchi Pu closed his eyes slightly and thought for a while, and finally spoke.

Masayuki Uemura glanced at Yokoi, although he had a good relationship with Yokoi, he also very much agreed with Yokoi Junhei that if he wanted to regain his disadvantage in the current situation with Mars Entertainment, the only way was to find another way, and the palm machine that was still a virgin land was their best opportunity.

However, home consoles will always be Nintendo's roots. If you can't even keep your own foundation, then what's the point of development?

At this time, Yokoi Junhei also looked at Masayuki Uemura, there was a clear look of request in his eyes, not that he felt that the home machine was not important, but in his eyes, these two things were equally important, what they had to do now was not to choose one of the two, but to choose both. If you don't have that kind of courage, but the best result is just to continue to maintain this situation, on top of your head. There will always be a mountain called Mars Entertainment.

In addition, a spoiler called Sega will be added.

If this continues, maybe in another three or four years, they Nintendo will not even have the qualifications to compete with Mars Entertainment. I can only play with some people who want to get a piece of the cake with the huge profits of the video game industry.

And Mars Entertainment has long been out of the dust.

This was the insistence of Gunpei Yokoi, who looked at Masayuki Uemura with a pleading gaze. This is the only chance for Yamauchi to agree, and only when the cores of their two hardware departments unite can this chairman who has been saying nothing since he took over Nintendo, and no one dares to disobey him.

Moreover, he really thinks about Nintendo.

However, Masayuki Uemura faced Yokoi's eyes and closed them slightly, and after a second, he opened them again, and then shook his head quietly.

Obviously, he rejected the meaning in Yokoi's eyes.

Seeing Masayuki Uemura like this, Yokoi Junhei suddenly lost all his spirit like a loose ball, he really couldn't understand why, two years ago, when he just decided to march into the United States and open up new markets, his most respected President Yamauchi was so brave and enterprising, and at high-level meetings, patting the table, no matter what difficulties he encountered, he would not give up, and he must build Nintendo into the best game company in the world.

How long has this been?

Could it really be that Mars Entertainment is too powerful and has made President Yamauchi lose this great courage?

"President, although I would like to say that we should carry out both at the same time, but unless our hardware development department is doubling, otherwise, we will not be able to do it, both of which are very important in my eyes, if I have to choose one of them, then I choose the development of a new sixteen-bit home game console, because temporarily shrinking the palm machine, for us is just missing a sum of money in the prediction and is not sure if there is a profit, if our sixteen home consoles are too late than others, I'm afraid it's a matter of life and death for us. ”

Masayuki Uemura replied to Yamauchi.

Although he knew that the hope was very slim, but Yokoi Junhei still looked up at Yamauchi Pu, hoping that before he really made a decision, he would reconsider his opinion, the current Nintendo, is not without the ability to start two large hardware development teams at the same time, but such an investment will be very huge, and it will inevitably draw funds from the software.

In Yamauchi's eyes, software is the soul of a game company, and hardware can keep up with the times.

This is also extremely disappointing for Yokoi Junhei, at the beginning, Yamauchi Pu was not like this, at the original FC development project meeting, President Yamauchi once gave the development team a death order, he asked for a game console that other game companies could not replicate in a year.

Yamauchi Pu is indeed quite contradictory now, he is not that he does not pay attention to hardware, but he thinks that a game company should focus on software, because players will buy your game console to play the games that you have on the console, not because of how powerful your console is - without a great game console platform, no matter how powerful it is, it is meaningless.

However, Yamauchi Pu unconsciously ignored one thing, or this is still in the beginning stage of video games, the eight-bit era has not yet passed, and the current game practitioners, even if they know, the next-generation console will have a great performance advantage over the old console, but how big can this advantage be

No one can say for sure, because no one has really experienced the so-called next era in the true sense.

From Atari to Nintendo and Mars Entertainment, it is just an evolution at the level of an octabit, and such an evolution is far from being a next-generation era.

What Yamauchi overlooks is that when the function of the game console is improved at the next generation, the quality of the game will also be improved at the next generation level, and the result is that no matter how good the game you make in this era, the difference between the game and the game of the same level running under the next generation is simply a world of difference.

For example, GTA5 on PS3 and GTA5 on PS4 are not at the same level at all.

Facing Yokoi's almost begging gaze, a hard-hearted Yamauchi Pu was also a little soft-hearted, he knew that Yokoi Junhei was sincerely for Nintendo's good, but, as a decision-maker of a huge game company, he needed to consider it holistically, and his decision could not be supported by everyone, he had his considerations.

"Yokoi, when you go back, you're going to transfer sixty percent of the human beings from the humans who were previously dispatched to give it to Uemura, so that he can be fully responsible for the development of our new console."

Speaking of this, Yamauchi also paused slightly, he decided to give Yokoi a little comfort, so he continued: "You can recruit fifteen percent of new employees to add to your handheld development team, but it is a sure thing that you need to tighten your development plan, so set your development level at the maintenance level for the time being." ”

Hearing Yamauchi's final decision, Yokoi Junhei still slowly closed his eyes, he can have today's status, all thanks to Yamauchi Pu's favor, he has great respect for Yamauchi Pu, and this time he took the initiative to oppose Yamauchi Pu's ideas, also because he felt that now is the best opportunity for Nintendo to get them closer to Mars Entertainment.

However, this does not mean that after Yamauchi has made his own decision, he will rebel against President Yamauchi's decision, which is something he will never do.

Needless to say, taking on the responsibility of this time is basically equivalent to disbanding the handheld team, even if it is a greater fault, if he needs to bear it, he has no hesitation, just more than ten years later, because of the failure of VB, in order to preserve Yamauchi Pu's prestige in Nintendo, Yokoi Junhei took the initiative to take all the responsibility for VB's failure, and resigned.

"Okay, I'll do it in a week."

After finishing speaking, Yamauchi nodded, waved his hand again, and let Yokoi Junhei leave, leaving Masayuki Uemura alone.

And after getting the order from Yamauchi Pu to let him leave, Yokoi Junpei bowed slightly, turned around, and left Yamauchi's office without heading, as for President Yamauchi in his room, if he wants to talk to Masayuki Uemura, it is not something that Yokoi Junpei wants to pay attention to. (To be continued......) R752