Therefore, everyone, including Jester, actually doesn't care whether "Shenmue" can be successful or not.

Because in the whole next-generation console war, this matter is too inconsequential.

To be honest, if Mars Entertainment hadn't come out one after another with a continuous stream of high-quality games, then in the release battle of Dreambox3, no matter how high the quality of "Hero" is, and no matter how high Jester's reputation is, it will be impossible to directly beat the other two out.

Because it's not possible.

The essence of the game platform is the game, either the first party is strong, just like the original Nintendo, and now Mars Entertainment.

Either a third party is strong, like Sony.

If these two aspects are not strong enough, then the survivability of such a platform is actually rootless, and it will not be able to withstand any blow at all.

Sega used to have arcade backings, so what if the arcade market wasn't booming?

Now the situation is in front of Sega.

That's why Sega has this go, but Jester is still not very optimistic about Sega this time, I'm afraid it will not be any different from the Sega in the original history, because Sega's business has not changed, basically the road is still the same road, so the final outcome will not be too far away.

"There is another thing, which is also about Sony, that is, in a previous interview with Ken Kutaragi, he personally admitted one thing, that is, Sony is ready to enter the handheld market."

Jester said this, everyone knew about it before, so he was not surprised.

In the current handheld market, although there are a few handhelds in Japan, such as Namco, which has a handheld with good sales, the real overlord is Mars Entertainment, which almost dominates 80% of the market share of the entire handheld, and other companies that do handheld can only drink some leftovers.

So. People didn't pay much attention to this.

Over the years, there have been more people who want to get a piece of the handheld market, but which one has succeeded?

Didn't Sega look at the handheld market and want to get a piece of the pie? The result? Stealing chickens does not make rice, and losing his wife and soldiers.

And what about Sony.

But Jester's tone was a little serious.

"I learned through my friends that Sony has indeed set up a new hardware department, which is also responsible for the research and development of the handheld, and they have great ambitions for this handheld, but it has not been officially put into development, depending on the situation of the PS3. However, some development ideas have come out......"

Jester said as he asked people to send the documents one by one to the others.

When posting these documents, Jester also took advantage of this time to make a joke.

"I said before that I resigned as the chairman of the board of directors~, in fact, I shouldn't have held this meeting, but I have been in charge of these things before, and Claudia has not participated, so I will do it for the time being, but maybe this will be the last high-level meeting I will chair. After this meeting, my role at Mars Entertainment will only be the head of development for a game. ”

Hearing Jester say this, everyone in the audience smiled.

They all knew that Jester was just joking, whether he was the chairman of the board of directors~. It doesn't really make a difference whether Claudia is in charge or not.

It's just a family affair.

They weren't there, and they even laughed.

But when they saw the information they had sent, they couldn't laugh at all. Because Sony's vision of their handheld is definitely not as simple as a handheld.

It seems that this time Sony wants to take over the handheld thing and make a handheld thing. This thing can be used to read documents, it can be used to watch movies, not just to play games, if this thing is really made by them, it will be a really big blow to their current GBA.

Moreover, it can be concluded that from the investment in PS3, as well as the recruitment of third-party studios, and the preparation of first-party studios, Sony's confidence and even ambition are great.

After all, Ken Kutaragi still wants to rely on the pedal of Sony games to get involved in the throne of Sony's president.

If you can't do good enough, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to get to this throne.

In Jester's memory, it was with the brilliant success of PS2 that Ken Kutaragi became the successor of the hottest Sony president, and he was originally only waiting for the new election after the PS3 was released, and he could take it for granted that he could ascend to the throne he dreamed of, but unfortunately, PS3 encountered an unprecedented rout, and even made Ken Kutaragi, the father of PS, and Sony's legend take the blame and resign.

It even made Sony choose a non-Japanese president for the first time in history.

But that's all in Jester's memory.

Of course, in this world, it is impossible to do it.

Jester's gaze swept over the crowd, and he could see the change in their expressions as they saw the information he had sent.

In fact, this is not the information he obtained through any internal connections.

It's just a little bit of PSP design that he said.

PSP is a very successful product, allowing Sony to enter the handheld market, expanding Sony's product line, and enhancing Sony's reputation, but if you want to say how much money this project makes, it is not necessarily, of course, the sales are very high, but PSP has a big disadvantage that because he shares too much, many people take PS and it is not just used to play games.

Moreover, because of the cracking, the vast majority of game sales on the PSP are not too high.

Of course, it's not that there aren't high, for example, the sales of GTA and MH are very rebellious, but there are always a few such games.

But it was also a fart that beat Nintendo's GBA at the beginning.

Then Nintendo, at the insistence of Satoshi Iwata, began the development of the NDS.

created a prosperous era in the handheld, which was a later thing.

In Jester's eyes, the eyes of everyone present became serious, because they can all see Sony's courage and ambition from this information, if this PSP that Sony is conceiving comes out, then their GBA may really be defeated, and they will not even have any resistance to be wiped out by the other party.

"We also need to restart the development of our new console. It's no longer an expansion on GB, but a brand new handheld, which is different from the current one. ”

Speaking to Gunhei Yokoi, he is still the head of the handheld development department and, of course, one of the vice presidents.

Hearing him speak, Jester nodded, motioning for the other to continue.

"Actually, you know that, boss, we've done handheld design a few times before. However, it is only a variant of GB, so it has not been adopted, so this time, we plan to put aside the design idea of GB and start the design again, it doesn't matter how unconventional it is......"

Yokoi Junhei said a lot, all of which made perfect sense, and Jester also nodded silently.

However, there is one more point that needs to be clear.

"In fact, there is one thing that must be clear in the development of a new handheld. So what exactly are we making, a pure hand-held gaming device like GB? Or is it a PDA like a PSP that can be used for more entertainment? If this problem cannot be clarified, it may be difficult to continue the development of a new handheld. ”

Jester's question is indeed the crux of the key. It's also where many people argue.

After that, it was time for debate, with some supporting pure handheld consoles, while others supporting a design scheme similar to Sony's PSP.

The two sides are at loggerheads.

Nothing came out of the discussion for more than an hour.

Jester was just listening, he wasn't participating. When others asked him for his opinion, he just nodded his head, for both sides. So the crowd didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing that everyone was discussing like this was not a good idea, and there was no way for Jester to let them continue to argue like this.

So, he coughed.

attracted everyone's attention, and then said, "I'll say a few words. ”

However, although Jester said that he said a few words, he did not say it directly, but asked the others about it.

The first is Yokoi Junhei, he insists that a handheld is a handheld, that is, a handheld game console, and should not add other functions that are useless at all, and all the functions should be used in the game, so that he can make the best game on this handheld, and his theory is also very simple.

The space of the handheld computer is small, and the functions that can be accommodated are already small, and the already weak functions should not be wasted to let them do other things.

"Yokoi, you're so against Sony's idea?"

Jester asked with a smile, but there was no way to tell from his face that he was inclined to this question even a little, and Yokoi Junhei didn't think much about it after hearing it, and immediately replied: "No, because we are not Sony, Sony is not just a game company, games are just a part of them, and games are all we have." ”

It was very simple, and Jester nodded as he listened.

Of course, he had been nodding his head before, and he couldn't conclude that he agreed with Yokoi's statement just by virtue of this action.

Then, Jester asked the other party what he thought, and he nodded the same thing.

In the end, Jester first groaned, as if he was engaged in a fierce battle of ideas, which lasted for a long time, and even Jester only spoke when reminded by Claudia beside him.

"To be honest, at the beginning, I really appreciated Sony's development plan, which completely changed the attributes of the handheld and made it no longer just a handheld - which is very useful, and even unceremoniously said, it can quickly increase the sales of the handheld and expand the number of potential players for us."

At this, Jester paused.

"So, I'm also inclined to this kind of handheld of PSP, but I've been thinking about this for a while, and I suddenly found a problem, that is, what Yokoi said just now, Sony is not just a game company, he does PSP not just to play games, and what about us? We are a gaming company, and our goal in handheld games is to make players play better games. ”

"And if you add other functions to the fixed function of the handheld, then it will inevitably reduce the function of the game, you may say, even after the reduction, you can make a good game, but why not reduce the function and make the game better?"

"We've always been a game company, and our philosophy has always been to make the best games, and that's what was engraved on our walls on the first day of our company's existence, and that's our credo, what we believe as game developers, so I think the design of our new handheld is still a handheld console that plays games, and all of its performance has to serve it."

After Jester said what he thought, the people on Yokoi's side laughed.

The other side was a little disappointed though.

But I can't help but say that Jester has a point.

"But my opinion is like this,How specific still needs to be discussed,And,Another very important reason why I don't agree with Sony's design scheme is that we don't give up on the hardware at most.,It's not enough to make money.,It's mainly about making money from games.,And users like Sony's PS who are extended.,They don't necessarily buy games.,Although it's a potential user.,But it's not big.。

Jester's words are actually a bit strong.

Because everyone knows that getting someone else to buy your hardware is the first part, and the second part is getting someone else to buy your software.

Although there are many hardware purchased for the purpose of buying software, such a situation is not typical and does not have universal reference significance, and it is more necessary to divide it into two steps.

Being able to get more people to buy hardware is the first step of this two-step process, and with the first step, we can better promote the second step, otherwise, we can't even do the first step, let alone sell games to make money in the second step.

However, it is precisely because of this that it is clear that Jester wants to convey a signal.

That is, he does not agree with the development idea of using Sony's PSP, but supports the design idea that Yokoi Junhei's game console is a game console, and he should use it to play games specifically. (To be continued.) )