"This is the appearance of the palm machine designed by Yokoi's predecessors."

When Yamauchi carefully examined the palm computer on the table, a Nintendo employee whispered an explanation beside him, and Yamauchi's face did not change after hearing it, but nodded.

And Yamauchi Pu didn't take the initiative to speak, and the other people present were naturally not qualified to take the initiative to speak.

This situation lasted for more than ten minutes, ending with a long sigh from Yamauchi, and after Yamauchi sighed, he said with some pity: "If I hadn't insisted on going my own way, maybe the situation wouldn't have been like this, and Yokoi might not have left." ”

Almost all the people present were subordinates of Yokoi Junhei before, and they all admired such a talented senior and a person with a modest personality, and they were all extremely sorry and nostalgic for his departure.

Even when he quarreled with Yokoi Junhei over the question of which host or handheld machine to develop first, Masayuki Uemura missed his old superior very much.

Masayuki Uemura is not a jealous person, he admires Yokoi Junhei from the bottom of his heart, especially how Yokoi Junhei should be for an electronic product, what functions should it have, and under what circumstances should players use the above vision and knowledge, which he admires the most.

Although, Gunhei Yokoi didn't know how to design circuits.

It's like the shape drawings of Nintendo's handheld machine that were completed before he left, and Masayuki Uemura had people redesign them before, but the models made by Tong Guò were not as beautiful and good-looking as they were made according to this drawing by Yokoi Junpei.

"How is the performance of the handheld machine? How about the gameboy of Mars Entertainment? ”

Yamauchi Pu only mentioned a little bit about Yokoi Junhei, he didn't want to go deeper on this issue, and immediately raised a new topic, asking about the comparison between the palm machine in front of him and the palm machine of Mars Entertainment.

Nintendo's handheld machine does not have a name yet, and the internal R&D personnel also refer to it as a handheld machine.

After hearing this question from Yamauchi. Everyone's eyes were on Masayuki Uemura, because Masayuki Uemura was the designer of this handheld machine, and Masayuki Uemura did not hesitate, after he heard Pu Yamauchi's question, he only thought about it for a while, and then began to answer.

"It should be about the same, we have studied their machine, because we developed it a little later than theirs, so ours is still slightly stronger. But this advanced hardware performance, fed back to the game, may not be of much use. ”

Masayuki Uemura's words were concise and to the point, and after he finished speaking, he also looked at Shigeru Miyamoto.

Shigeru Miyamoto also nodded, expressing his agreement with Masayuki Uemura, but Pu Yamauchi still listened silently, without expressing his opinion, he picked up a palm machine. Then I pressed the power button, and now Nintendo has not designed a special game for this handheld console.

It's just that the software department developed a game clip for testing, and now there is such a cassette inserted in this handheld machine.

Yamauchi Pu was not interested in playing games, but just put it down after a few casual glances. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he continued, "Have you done some physical damage tests?" I heard that Mars Entertainment's Gameboy once mentioned it in Yokoi Junhei before it was released, and did such a test. Have you done similar tests by having the testers throw the gameboy out of the window directly from the second floor and pick it up to see if it can still be used? ”

After hearing about this test by Yamauchi. Everyone present looked at each other.

It's a well-known test in the gaming world these days, and these people have heard of it, but they haven't really done it.

As soon as Yamauchi Pu saw the expressions of his employees, he knew that they hadn't done it, but he wasn't as annoyed as before now, he just sighed and reprimanded him a little angrily: "You people, we are chasers, we have to let go of all our own products, if what Mars Entertainment can do in this regard, we can't do it, then how can we compete with them?" ”

As he spoke, Yamauchi paused slightly, and his tone became a little hateful: "Can your level of game development be stronger than Jester?" ”

Hearing Yamauchi Pu say this, Miyamoto Shigeru lowered his head in some shame.

You know, Shigeru Miyamoto's reputation was comparable to that of Jester in the original competition with Dreambox in FC/NES, but with the failure of direct competition again and again, he is now no longer qualified to compete with Jester. Lee put it together and discussed.

It's not that Shigeru Miyamoto's level is not good, but Jester's status is too high.

Yamauchi Pu also saw Miyamoto Shigeru's appearance, he shook his head, and said comfortingly: "Miyamoto, you don't need to be like this, Nintendo has come to this point, it's not your fault, the games you make are selling very well, the fault is all mine, I'm too conceited." ”

As he spoke, Yamauchi's brows furrowed.

"By the way, did Arakawa go to the United States again? I remember spending 80 percent of my time in the U.S. these months, right? Now that our business in North America has shrunk dramatically, and our flagship stores have been withdrawn from the North American market, what else does he want to do in the United States? ”

Nintendo's FC consoles have a low market share in the United States, but they have a high market share in Japan.

Even now, in the sixteen-bit machine has been rolled out for more than a year and almost two years, the market share of FC consoles in Japan still has a share of 40%, and it is still the first single model in the game console market share in the Japanese market.

There are no restrictions on FC.

Therefore, although Nintendo is no longer continuing to develop new consoles, and sixteen-bit consoles are not continuing to be produced, FC consoles are still being sold, especially in South America, where the sales of FC consoles are still very high.

Therefore, they are still developing FC games.

On the contrary, it is a sixteen-bit game, Nintendo has not carried it out until now, and the United States or the North American market is already the era of sixteen-bit machines, such as FC, which is outdated eight-bit machines, there is no big market, so Yamauchi Pu is still extremely dissatisfied with his son-in-law, who has been running to the United States during this time.

Seeing that after everyone heard his questioning, no one answered, and Yamauchi Pu also knew that they were worried that Arakawa would really settle accounts with them afterwards.

Therefore, Yamauchi Pu only snorted and did not continue to ask.

However, he was still a little angry.

"Arakawa is getting more and more unpleasant now, I asked him to take a good look at Nintendo, not to let him go to the United States to think about his own career." The current Nintendo of North America has not been canceled, and Minoru Arakawa is still serving as the president of Nintendo of North America.

It is said that there are some rumors in the company that Arakawa has his own industry in the United States.

In fact, after the console competition after Nintendo's announcement, Arakawa Minoru had the idea of letting Nintendo completely withdraw from the game industry and then transform, and he also mentioned yì to Yamauchi Pu, but unfortunately, his mention yì was vetoed by Yamauchi Pu.

also because of this incident, Yamauchi Pu was extremely dissatisfied with his son-in-law.

In fact, the reason why Minoru Arakawa said this is also a tradition of Nintendo, because Nintendo was just a small workshop-type enterprise that produced gambling poker in collusion with Yakuza at the beginning, and later he went through several transformations, made toys, and opened hotels.

Therefore, the transformation is not a particularly difficult thing to accept for Yamauchi Pu or Nintendo, in the eyes of Minoru Arakawa.

After all, after losing the qualification to participate in the console competition, in Minoru Arakawa's view, if Nintendo wants to survive in the video game world in the future, it will have to rely on people, and his father-in-law will definitely not be such a person, so he has the previous mention yì.

However, to his surprise, his father-in-law mercilessly rejected his offer.

Moreover, he also reprimanded him severely.

This also made Arakawa a little dissatisfied, he really did it without selfishness, it was really for Nintendo, since there was no future in this industry to continue, why not give up, and still have to stick to it, this is also what Arakawa doesn't understand the most.

In Minoru Arakawa's eyes, his father-in-law has become less and less decisive.

In fact, if Jester knew about this, then he would never doubt why Minoru Arakawa made such a decision, because in his memory, the reason why Minoru Arakawa was later kicked out of Nintendo was because in the late nineties, after the NCG fiasco of Nintendo, he proposed to his father-in-law to make almost the same transformation, and his father-in-law resold Nintendo's game division to Microsoft, which had already thought of being included in the game industry at that time.

However, this incident completely angered Yamauchi, and Yamauchi did not hesitate to drive Yamauchi Pu, who had already regarded him as his successor, out of Nintendo.

This is the later Astoshi Iwata.

At that time, Nintendo was just a console, and they still had the largest game fan base in the world, and Arakawa didn't want Nintendo to continue to get involved in the game industry, let alone the current situation that no matter what Nintendo did, it was impossible to regain the right to speak. (To be continued......) R752