Now for Nakamura Masaya, he is also facing a very difficult choice.

He was full of ambition when he made the decision to cooperate with NEC before, which is not accurate, if it were not for the fact that Yamauchi's conditions were not so harsh, and the two sides just maintained a good relationship, then he would not have made this decision.

If Jester knew about this idea, he would definitely laugh at Nakamura Masaya's shamelessness.

Although Nintendo's royalty system is relatively harsh, but even among the six major development companies that enjoy privileges, they and Hudson are also the most privileged, and the other price privilege companies, of course, since Capcom's betrayal, there are only three left, and the premium for each cassette is 1,000 yen, and their Namco and Hudson's royalty is only a symbolic 100 yen, and Nintendo also gives them great preferential treatment in terms of profit sharing.

To be honest, when he first joined Nintendo's third-party alliance, Masaya Nakamura was very excited, and the actual report was much more than what they made just doing arcades.

But people's desire is getting bigger and bigger, when the sales of a game can't reach a limit, this kind of platform way, because all games have a certain sales guarantee on this platform, although each game needs to share profits with Nintendo, but in general, the revenue is still greater than before.

But if there is a game that is very successful, successful enough to be like their "Iron Plate Formation" back then, and then through guò this way of sharing profits, then their losses will be very large, so, in the past few years, Nanmco has been worried about this, and there is no longer a game that can be compared to "Iron Plate Formation", of course, this refers to home consoles, on arcade machines, they still have excellent works, such as the "Ridge Racing" series.

This game, many later players thought that it was the first to appear on PS, but in fact, this game was developed very early, and Namco developed this game for only one reason, that is, to compete with Sega's Sleepwalking America series and the American Rally series.

Of course, the current Sega does not have the All-American Rally series, because it has been preemptively produced by Mars Entertainment and swept North America, but Sleepwalking America has completed the production under the leadership of Yu Suzuki, and has seized a large market with its incredible physical performance, and Namco has also seen the gold mountain of racing games, and as a major arcade manufacturer, they will naturally not show weakness.

So, now in the arcade field, the three best and most popular racing games are Mars Entertainment's "All America Rally", Sega's "Sleepwalking America" and Namco's "Ridge Racing", not that Namco doesn't want to transplant "Ridge Racing" to home consoles, but that home consoles now have no way to accept this huge 3D racing game.

Namco was jealous of Nintendo and Mars Entertainment to rob a lot of profits from the franchise royalty system, and they naturally couldn't give up on their own R&D capabilities that were no worse than Nintendo's, just at that time NEC wanted to enter the video game industry, and the two sides contacted Hudson, who wore a pair of pants with Namco, and jointly launched the PC-E project.

For PC-E, both sides have high hopes, whether it is Namco or NEC, they both want to get a piece of the huge video game market, and the situation was really good at first, but they never thought that Sega would also intervene at this time.

Moreover, Sega plays the same cards as them, and even the cards are much better than them, they claim to be the PC-E of the sixteen-bit era, but in fact, it is only the display chip that uses a sixteen-bit PPU and, for the CPU that processes game operations, it is still an eight-bit one, not that the Japanese electrical side does not want to directly develop a sixteen-bit PC-E, but because they have no experience in this area before, the difficulty of developing a very mature eight-bit computer is very small, It is also possible to accumulate technology.

To go straight to the development of a sixteen-bit machine, this is not a problem for NEC with deep capital, the problem is that the development process of at least a year, whether it is Namco, Hudson, or NEC itself, is unacceptable.

At this time, Sega's sixteen-bit was born, and their PC-E could only be a joke.

The failure of PC-E also made them completely into an embarrassing situation, leaving the cooperation of PC-E, this is for sure, this more than a year, has made them extremely wolf, they Namco is okay to say, after all, there are arcade profits to maintain stability, and Hudson, they lack such a stable profit point as Namco's arcade project, which has been maintained by the profitability of the home machine project.

This time they left FC and participated in the PC-E project, and almost invested their entire net worth, and the failure of the PC-E project this time has long made them retreat.

Of course, how to retreat, neither Namco nor Hudson has thought of specific measures, but it must be withdrawn, it is a formula that has been discussed by both parties, but how to retreat? Push to Nintendo's side? Or go to Nintendo's sworn enemy Mars Entertainment? Or go to the now table xiàn strong Sega? Or is it something else?

"What are we going to do? Kudo? ”

In the private room of a restaurant frequented by Masaya Nakamura, he took a sip of sake and muttered something with a frown.

He asked people to meet with Sony's personnel before, and he was very excited about the conditions offered by Sony, but it was one thing to be excited, and it was another thing to go or not, in Nakamura Masaya's view, going to Nintendo was the last thing he wanted to choose, he was too familiar with the old bastard of Yamauchi, and if he went back, he would definitely face his ruthless and endless ridicule and humiliation.

Hudson's history is much less than that of Namco, they were only founded by the Kudo brothers in the seventies, and Masaya Nakamura's status in the Japanese game industry is too high, so they have always regarded themselves as younger generations in front of Masaya Nakamura.

This time it was only the eldest of the two Kudo brothers, Yuji Kudo, who came, and Hiroshi Kudo, the younger brother of Kudo Yuji, had something to do with Aooka, and this time the meeting was made by Masaya Nakamura in a hurry, so he couldn't come.

Kudo Yuji faced this question from Masaya Nakamura, he didn't know how to answer it, no one knew better than him about the current situation inside Hudson, the current Hudson, can never continue in this big quagmire anymore, otherwise, what awaits him is to say that he has fallen to the bottom of the quagmire, and there is no place to die.

However, how to exit, he is also facing this problem in a mess.

Faced with Nakamura Masaya's question, Kudo Yuji also knew that he shouldn't not answer, so he had to take the opportunity to pick up the sake in front of him and pretend to take a sip, in fact, he was thinking about it, but the time to take a sip of wine was so short, where could he come up with any reliable answers, so he could only talk about him left and right, and wanted to take advantage of this to perfunctory the topic.

"Nakamura-senpai, it's impossible to return to Nintendo anyway." This sentence should have been decided by Kudo Yuji a long time ago, as a high-minded and arrogant person, failure was already very aggrieved, let them go back to Nintendo to accept ridicule, which is impossible for them to accept anyway.

Nakamura Masaya just smiled when he heard it, he didn't feel strange about this answer, he and Kudo Yuji had exactly the same idea, and then he continued to ask: "What about Mars Entertainment?" If we join their development camp, we can at least get the same treatment as Capcom. ”

Capcom was the latest to be established among the six major software vendors and had the weakest development capabilities, but now? They have become almost the largest third-party game development company in Japan, and even in the arcade field, with the help of Mars Entertainment, they have also developed vigorously.

Hearing Nakamura Masaya's words, Kudo Yuji's eyes flashed with a hint of joy at first, but soon, this joy disappeared quickly, for him, joining Mars Entertainment is indeed a very good idea, and with his ability, it is not difficult to get seriously injured among the many developers of Mars Entertainment.

However, the problem is that there are too many third-party development companies under the command of Mars Entertainment, and the attraction is too strong for Mars Entertainment, which almost monopolizes the North American market, and the potential of the North American market is enough to make any game development company rush to it.

Is this just one and the second......

Thinking of this, Kudo Yuji looked up at Masaya Nakamura, who still had a gentle smile on his face, and then he sneered disdainfully in his heart, he didn't believe it, when he mentioned joining the development camp of Mars Entertainment, the other party still had such a gentle smile.

Yes, for him, Kudo Yuji, and his Hudson, joining the development camp of Mars Entertainment is not a big deal, it is his natural choice as a game company, of course, he will definitely be angrily scolded by some old-fashioned Japanese companies as a Japanese traitor, but so what?

But for Nakamura Masaya and his Namco, even if they return to Nintendo, it is absolutely impossible for them to join Mars Entertainment, as for why? It's enough to look at the list of titles that Masaya Nakamura has on top of his head now, if a character like him joins an American game company like Mars Entertainment, then what kind of face does he have to continue to carry so many titles on top of his head? R1152