Yokoi Junhei sat in his office, looking a little lonely.

More than a month ago, he was the most prestigious and influential figure in Nintendo, second only to Yamauchi Pu, and even the president of Nintendo of North America, who is known as Yamauchi's successor, and the son-in-law of Mr. Yamauchi Pu, Minoru Arakawa, has a slightly inferior status in the head office.

Not to mention Shigeru Miyamoto, Masayuki Uemura and the like.

These people don't even have the qualifications to compare with themselves, it's not that Yokoi Junhei is angry, he is not this arrogant and rebellious character, he is sorry for Nintendo.

Yes, this collaboration with Sony, or rather an alliance, can indeed get Nintendo out of this dilemma for a while, but what about after that? With the end of this collaboration, after learning about all the experience of developing game consoles, we had a good start to working with Nintendo's third-party games.

Will Sony, with its rich and powerful wealth, just be willing to be an ally of Nintendo and a bystander to the growing video game market?

Yokoi Junhei feels that behind Sony's humility now, there must be an astonishing greed.

Moreover, even if it relies on Sony to survive the crisis of this new generation of consoles, Nintendo is still facing such a situation, and it is simply unable to snatch more market share from the increasingly powerful and mature Mars Entertainment, and even has to face the eyes of Sega, a rising generation in the home game industry.

Sega, on the other hand, is not a company that knows nothing about the video game industry, they are the well-deserved veterans of the entire Japanese game industry, one of the founding members of the Japan Arcade Association, and almost all Japanese game development companies are now except for their own Nintendo. are all members of the Arcade Association.

In the eyes of Yokoi Junhei, there is only a new market to open up, a market that others have never touched. to be able to redeem Nintendo's disadvantages as a whole.

If this time President Yamauchi can listen to his own advice. Willing to take this risk, maybe Nintendo can really be pulled back to the same situation as Mars Entertainment......

It's a pity.

With a sigh, Yokoi Junhei also knew that now that Nintendo and Sony had formed an alliance, his idea was categorically impossible to realize, and he was also treated coldly as he had never been, even President Yamauchi, who had always valued him, did not come to explain to him.

"It's time to leave."

I don't know how, such an abrupt idea. It suddenly appeared in Yokoi Junping's mind, lingering for a long time, and becoming clearer and clearer, he subconsciously rejected such an idea, but there was nothing to make up.

Why did he think like that? His feelings for Nintendo, no one knows better than himself, he is just an ordinary worker, without Nintendo, without the favor of President Yamauchi, there would be no Yokoi Gunpei today. He is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and as long as Nintendo does not live up to him, then it is absolutely impossible for him to live up to Nintendo.

Not to mention leaving. Even if he was asked to return to the workshop to work as a front-line worker in production, he would be willing.

However, it is no longer for him to think so.

Since I was assigned to the second hardware development department, I have been the commander of the light pole, and my daily work is to sign in at the point, and then leave at the point, and the daily work is to come to the office, read the newspaper purchased by the company's administrative department, and drink a few cups of coffee. Then leave.

Every day, it seems that he has become an idler.

If the company is so idle, it would be fine. But every time he left the office, he always saw a look. The footsteps are all Nintendo employees in a hurry, some of these employees are familiar with themselves, and some of them have only seen a few unfamiliar faces, but he can see from the movements and expressions of these people that Nintendo is extremely busy now.

And what about yourself?

Although I don't know if it's a psychological suggestion, Yokoi Junhei always feels that people look at him with a strange color, he can't tell what this kind of gaze is, in short, it's a very uncomfortable gaze for him.

After returning home and eating the food cooked by his wife, Gunpei Yokoi locked himself in his house.

And his wife also knew that her husband had been in trouble lately, and wanted to say comfort, but she always did not know how to speak, and when she thought of the words and was about to speak, she saw that her husband had already gone to his room.

Yokoi Gunpei waited for half a month, but President Yamauchi didn't contact him as if he had forgotten him as a person, and he didn't even have a phone call, and he didn't give instructions to attend the development meetings of the joint development team in the last few times.

It's true that I'm not allowed to join the joint development team, but according to my position in Nintendo's hardware development department, it's okay to sit in and listen, and even if I don't allow myself to participate in development, I can always give my opinion, right?

That's still not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that after he was excluded from the second hardware development department, there was a faint rumor in the company, because Nintendo's cooperation with Sony made a big concession, not only agreed to all the requirements put forward by Sony on hardware development, and even allowed the independent production of authorized new consoles after the completion of the new machine, and even, allowed Sony to contact third-party development manufacturers, giving them the right to develop games on the new console.

You must know that these rights have always been regarded as fundamental to Nintendo until now.

Such a number of constructions are simply a great shame for the current Nintendo, that is, now in the upper echelons, there is a voice that someone needs to be responsible for this.

When this kind of building has not been publicized to the outside world, the vast majority of people don't know, so this kind of voice is still relatively small, but when these news are gradually made public, then the pressure that Nintendo needs to bear will be very great, that is, one person needs to come out and be responsible for why Nintendo did not start developing new consoles in advance.

This is a very simple reason, if Mars Entertainment is also not developed in advance, then this is not a problem. But if Mars Entertainment's own new consoles are about to be finalized, it will be a very important thing for Nintendo.

And Masayuki Uemura. This FC chief designer is now the chief designer of the modern console, so. It is impossible for him to be pushed out of the top cylinder, although the delay in the development of the home machine should be the responsibility of him, the minister in charge of home development.

Next is President Yamauchi, the most authoritative in Nintendo, Yamauchi Pu can't have flaws, and there can't be mistakes, that is, because of his analysis of the strategic level, he didn't let the development department take the lead in the development of new consoles. It also can't be pressed on Yamauchi's head.

However, it is necessary to come up with a sufficient amount of people to come out and take responsibility for this matter, so it is obvious who it is.

Thinking of this, Yokoi Junhei, the lonely look in his eyes became more and more heavy, could it be that President Yamauchi hasn't seen him for a while, just to make himself think of this, and then take the initiative to take this responsibility?

After the lonely eyes, it is a kind of unwillingness.

Because the development of home consoles has not been his main responsibility, although he is the number one person in Nintendo's hardware department. I'm sure I'm going to be exposed to a lot of things about the development of home machines, but it's always been Masayuki Uemura's responsibility.

But now, he needs to come out and give an explanation to people who don't know the truth from the outside world.

Oh, yes. People from the outside world don't know the truth.,I only know that I'm the head of Nintendo's hardware.,So there's nothing wrong with this incident to make me take the blame.,Thinking of this,Yokoi Junpei laughed miserably.,It turns out that in the eyes of President Yamauchi.,It's also a chess piece that can be discarded anytime and anywhere.。

With this in mind, although he was unwilling to leave Nintendo like this, Gunhei Yokoi made his decision.

He took a breath. He took out a blank piece of paper from the drawer and picked up the pen on the table. Start writing something on top of the white paper, on top of the white paper. In the position on the head, three words of resignation are written.

The next day, Yokoi Junhei came to Yamauchi's office with a calm expression, and the Nintendo employees he met on the way, he also greeted each other with an unusually calm expression, and he couldn't see at all that he was a person who was about to leave.

Yamauchi's palms trembled a little as he looked at the letter that Junhei handed him.

He is not a person who allows himself to be weak, although he very much wants to say to Yokoi Junhei, stay, I have no intention of letting you leave, I haven't seen you for this time, I want you to calm down.

But after hesitating for a few seconds, he dropped the words out of his mind.

Yes, now Nintendo does need someone to come out and take the blame, but even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter to Yamauchi Pu, in Yamauchi's opinion, his own prestige is still enough now, as long as he is still there,. No one would dare to chew their tongues inside Nintendo.

Moreover, he knows about Yokoi Junhei's talent, it is a genius in the true sense, and he is absolutely unwilling to let the other party go so simply.

But what can be done if he is not reconciled, he knows that Yokoi Junhei is a very decisive person, as long as he has determined something, then it is impossible for anyone to make him change his mind, just like the reason why he was so insistent on the development of the handheld machine before.

Yamauchi Pu finally looked up at Yokoi Junhei again, in the other party's eyes, there was only a look of no hesitation, at this time Yamauchi Pu was thinking, if he could see even the slightest intention to keep himself from the other party's eyes or looks, then he would not hesitate to break the bottom line he had set for himself before.

Because Yokoi Junhei deserves it.

He didn't see it, though.

"Okay."

Without persuasion, Yamauchi signed his name at the end of the letter.

And at the moment when he lowered his head, he didn't notice that a trace of loneliness and disappointment flashed in Yokoi's previous firm and decisive eyes.

For him, his Nintendo career ended like this. (To be continued) R466