Finally, after Nintendo announced that they were also starting the development of the next generation of consoles, Sega finally publicly admitted that their sixteen consoles had entered the real stage and began to welcome game developers to join their game development plans for the new console. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

And the conditions they offer are much better than Nintendo's.

When Jester learned the news, he also separated from Claudia just after the New Year's Day and rushed back to the United States from England.

In fact, now Nintendo's royalty policy is not as strict as it was at the beginning, in October last year, Nintendo saw many developers who were originally under their own umbrella have jumped to the banner of Mars Entertainment, especially Capcom's defection, in Nintendo's view, it is definitely an extremely heavy blow.

Therefore, Nintendo's policy of re-establishing the royalty made their new royalty almost the same as the one Jester made with reference to Nintendo's royalty, which appeased some people's hearts.

Originally, these two companies would submit a game at the end of the previous year for Nintendo's review department to review it, but for these two companies to enjoy Nintendo's most substantial discounts, the review is just a formality.

But at the end of last year, neither company submitted their latest game.

Originally, it was just a trivial matter, and the people at Nintendo didn't take it to heart, didn't they just not submit new games as usual? None of the companies were delayed after the end of a fiscal year, but after New Year's Day, the two companies didn't seem to have submitted new games, and some newspapers reported that they had seen the presidents of the two game companies appear together with an executive from NEC at a famous restaurant in Ginza.

Nintendo immediately couldn't sit still.

For the current Nintendo, it was not easy to grab a lot of share in the North American market with two consecutive shooting and air combat games that were very much in line with the taste of Americans, but it was immediately moved back by "Super Contra" launched by Mars Entertainment during Christmas. Moreover, in the Japanese domestic market, it has also seized a large market share by "Phantasy Star" released by Mars Entertainment.

Coupled with the advent of Sega's sixteen-bit home console, there is a sense of disaster for Nintendo.

And this time, Namco and Hudson came together with NEC again, you must know that NEC is a veritable giant, spanning many fields, whether it is scientific research or others, it is the world's top, even Yamauchi Pu was a little unable to sit still after hearing the news.

Immediately called Namco and Hudson. However, the two Nintendo-owned game companies, the reply to this matter was surprisingly consistent, they just said that because of the company's business dealings, let the old man Yamauchi not think about it, and when Yamauchi Pu asked about the new games of their two companies.

But these two began to talk about him.

This made Yamauchi Pu instantly have a bad premonition, there were too many things that Nintendo encountered during this time, and he couldn't help but think about bad places, so, for the sake of insurance. Yamauchi still asked people to investigate NEC's recent actions to see if they could find any clues.

A few days later, the report of the investigation was in the hands of Yamauchi.

Reading the above content almost word for word, Yamauchi's face was gloomy. Pretty much dripping, although the report doesn't make it clear that NES will be working on home consoles, they have recently set up a new department with internal staff, especially circuit engineers in hardware development.

Since it is a department that has just been established. Even within NES, there is not much news about this newly established department, except that it is known that the decision was made after a high-level meeting of the group, and that the people who fell into this new department are some elites from other departments.

There have been several transfers of this magnitude within the group before. Basically, it is necessary to concentrate on tackling a certain product.

Taken together, this information shows that NEC is really tackling a certain product.

"What the hell is it?"

This is the biggest question in Yamauchi's mind at this time, and the last thing he wants to answer is a home game console, if NEC has already started the development of a home game console, then Namco's betrayal of Hudson is basically a foregone conclusion.

As soon as he thought of this, Yamauchi didn't dare to continue to think about it, because the current Namco and Hudson are too important to Nintendo.

Moreover, it is impossible not to worry about a behemoth like NEC if it blatantly enters the market, but Yamauchi Pu is not so afraid, NEC - NEC, no matter how strong and capable he is in other industries, but when it comes to game development, they are also complete newbies, if there are two senior game companies in the industry to lead the way.

Well, the situation is very unoptimistic.

This is especially true for Nintendo, which regards the Japanese market as a base market.

Just when Yamauchi was at a loss for the predicament that Nintendo was facing, Jester also returned to Costa Mesa.

He didn't rush back to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment in the first place, but drove directly to his company, which was also located in Costa Mesa, for the secret development of handheld computers.

In fact, in a game console, whether it is a home console or the research and development of a handheld machine, in the initial stage, there will be no shape design, because after all, in the absence of a specific finished product, there is no specific finished product parameters, in this case, the shape design, it is a bit of a snake.

For example, the story of PS4's appearance design is very classic, PS4 was not determined a week before the official announcement, and at this time, Yoshida Shuhei, who replaced the resignation of Kutaragi Ken as the president of SCE, asked the designer to come up with four alternative plans, and they were all made into real products in his office.

And he looked at these four PS4 consoles with completely different shapes and styles for a day and a night, and finally made his choice.

However, SCE did not announce the shape of the remaining three PS4 consoles, so others do not know what kind of alternative Shuhei Yoshida chose the shape of the PS4 that is known to the public, but in Jester's eyes, the PS4 is indeed much better than Microsoft's XBO.

But this time Jester did the opposite, he was familiar with the classic shape of the handheld of later generations, and there was no need for his designers to think about it, but he came up with a design that didn't suit his heart.

In fact, an excellent electronic product, especially such a consumer-grade electronic product, is also very important for the industrial design of the shape, look at the later generations of Apple, or look at Sony before Apple, from these two companies that have represented the pinnacle of electronic product engineering, we know how rare it is to have an excellent industrial design team in this industry.

The same product, excellent work, can at least increase the sales of this product by 10%, which is definitely not a false statement.

After more than 20 years of development, the handheld game consoles of later generations can be said to have a variety of shapes, and some of the handheld games have been recognized by players and have excellent design.

For example, the Gameboy at the beginning, Sega's Game-Gear, the PCengine-GT released after NEC entered the game field, and the PSP that later swept the handheld world, of course, the classic clamshell dual-screen NDS series cannot be missing.

The shape design of these handheld computers has its own advantages.

And the design proposed by Jester this time,It is based on PSP as the design prototype,Referring to some of Sega's GG handhelds,Designed,In fact, his original intention was to directly copy PSP's extremely classic,It is also his favorite handheld shape,But the current process is not up to par,Want to make Zuò out of PSP-like shape,The cost is too high,I can only endure the pain。

As for why I didn't choose the vertical shape like the Gameboy, it's very simple, because when this kind of shape is operated, the feeling it brings to the player is far less excellent than the horizontal handheld, since Nintendo's GBA began to use this horizontal shape, to NDS continues to improve the horizontal shape, it can be seen that they also agree that the horizontal design is much better than the vertical design.

"How's it going?"

Jester's time was very tight, as soon as he came to this development company that sold dog meat with a sheep's head, and came to the office of the person in charge of handheld development, he did not greet him, and directly inquired about the specific development progress of the handheld.

"As with the plan made by our team, now we have achieved the No. 3 test machine, and there is no problem in operation, but we still need to continue to miniaturize, and now the size and weight of our handheld machine cannot meet your requirements for us."

The person in charge of this project was originally a veteran of the hardware development department of Mars Entertainment, but because of the lack of manpower in the development of the headquarters, the previous person in charge was also transferred back to the company, and the current person in charge was recommended to Jester by the previous person in charge.

He is a Ph.D. student at MIT, and he is also his junior brother, who is very interested in hardware development, and the previous person in charge is also his senior brother, and the two have studied under the same mentor before.

"Actually, the boss ......" After the young person in charge answered Jester's question, he did not stop talking, but said directly, "I think we can completely introduce the infrared communication function that you have used on the electronic pet machine in Mars Entertainment to our handheld, compared to the communication line of the two handhelds to communicate with each other, it is much easier to use infrared communication." ”

"Infrared communication?"

Jester's eyes lit up when he heard the young person in charge say this. (To be continued......) R1052