Sony's influence is unquestionable, as evidenced by the rally in stocks that are already listed on Nikkei.

Nintendo's stock fell ugly due to various events before, but this time, as soon as the news of Norio Ohga's cooperation was broadcast, Nintendo's stock price returned to its original state in just a few days, which also made Yamauchi Pu breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he knew that bringing Sonny in was equivalent to luring a wolf into the house, or rather, driving a tiger into the house.

I don't know if Sony has it now, but in the future, they will do it themselves, roll up their sleeves, and enter the game industry, in Yamauchi's view, it is still very big, and now after Norio Oga takes over the power of Sony from Akio Morita, he must do something that Akio Morita has not done.

Moreover, from the cooperation agreement he agreed with Norio Ohga, he can see that Sony has given them their own way back, as well as their wolf ambitions.

However, he could not help but disagree.

Jester was also thinking about Sony's cooperation with Nintendo, he knew that this history was different from what he was familiar with, but he still couldn't help but want to take it out and compare it, in the original history, Sony took the initiative to use Nintendo's influence on game consoles in order to promote its CD-RPM format.

And at that time, both NEC and Sega had already taken the lead in launching their own CD-ROM systems, and Nintendo knew that its development ability was insufficient, so it agreed to Sony's proposal.

At that time, Nintendo was still a well-deserved hegemon, and since Ken Kutaragi defeated Fujitsu's FC music source with PCM audio source and got Nintendo's first contract of billions of yen, Sony and Nintendo cooperated very closely, and the reason why SFC was so successful was because Sony provided a lot of help to Nintendo in the development process.

As for the betrayal of Nintendo in the end, there are different opinions, and Jester is not interested in referring to this paragraph, because, the current cooperation between Nintendo and Sony is that Nintendo is in a weak position, which is completely different from the history he knows, Nintendo at that time was the market hegemon and could get rid of Sony without hesitation, and now, they are not qualified.

The news just said that Nintendo and Sony formed an alliance for the development of a new console, but how the alliance was formed, what the details are not available, and there can be no way, Jester has to guess for himself, this is not something that happened in history.

First of all, for them to make such a decision, according to the scale of Sony, it is first of all desirable that there must be enough benefits, both present and potential, which can be verified by the history that Guò is well known, and that is the CD-ROM system.

In Sony's eyes, the game market has great potential, but they have not yet entered, but judging from Sony's forced acquisition of Hollywood studios, it can also be known that Sony dares to invest heavily even in areas that it is not familiar with.

It cannot be ruled out that Sony has no interest in the game market in addition to its ambition to obtain CD-ROM.

In the history that Jester is familiar with, Sony decided to enter the game industry because of Nintendo's betrayal, but in Jester's view, this is just a gimmick, and on the surface it is to take revenge on Nintendo, but if the video game industry does not have a huge potential that can make the top giant Sony at the time excited, then Norio Oga, who had been promoted to the chairman of Sony at that time, would never have made such a decision.

Because Norio Oga was under a lot of pressure at the time, after the cooperation with Nintendo broke down, many people in the top management of Sony objected to it in the name of making game consoles on their own, which would damage the high-end image of our big Sony, and instead regarded Ken Kuta, who strongly advocated entering the game industry, as a heretic.

Rather, it was difficult for Akio Morita to make such a decision when he had just accepted Sony from Akio Morita when his prestige was insufficient.

However, this decision is obviously the right one, because after more than two decades, the gaming division has become one of the few departments at Sony that is still profitable, and the home appliance division, which they were proud of at the time, has long since lost money.

Gunpei Yokoi was marginalized.

The action between Nintendo and Sony is very fast, and it can't be done if it is not fast, because now the development of new consoles must be accelerated, and although Sony's developers are all elite hardware developers, it will take a while to be familiar with and understand how to develop consoles.

Although home appliances and game consoles belong to the same hardware development, even high-end home appliances are much stronger than current game consoles in terms of development difficulty, but it is extremely difficult to easily transform from an e-commerce company to a game console developer, in fact, in the history that Jester is familiar with, whether it is Nintendo at that time, or Sega, is not optimistic about Sony's brazen journey.

It's not that they don't know Sony's strength, but because there was the failure of NEC before, and secondly, the most important thing to make games is the third-party game manufacturer, and it is impossible to have a reliable third-party game developer before Sony's products do not have enough sales.

And all the game developers are also in the hands of Nintendo and Sega.

Yamauchi Pu even said disdainfully at a charity dinner when he was interviewed by the media that if the sales of PS can exceed one million, then he walks upside down with his head. It's a dream.

However, if they cooperate with Nintendo, then the situation is completely different, Nintendo's experience, coupled with Sony's technology, plus a large number of third-party game developers and Nintendo's own game development capabilities, no one knows what kind of energy this pair can burst out.

However, at the same time that Nintendo and Sony jointly established the development department, they have always had a transcendent position in Nintendo, especially in the hardware development department, and Yokoi Junpei, who was regarded as a god by countless Nintendo employees, was suddenly transferred to the second hardware development department.

Masayuki Uemura, who was originally the head of the 2nd Hardware Development Division, was transferred to the 1st Hardware Development Division.

The handheld development team, which had been retained before, was also disbanded by order of Masashi Uemura, who took over the first development department, and all the developers were merged into the newly established joint development department.

The new console development team, which was originally in the second hardware development department, was also adjusted to the joint development department before, and it can be said that Yokoi Junhei, after this adjustment, has become a thorough commander of the light pole.

Sony is very modest,In their newly established development team,Didn't let their own people take the most important position,The main designer is still by Nintendo's Uemura Masayuki,And Sony's deputy chief designer of Goto Zhenyou,But Goto Zhenyou is not responsible for specific hardware development,He is responsible for the industrial design of the new console。

Ken Kutaragi is the head of the joint development team, but he has already said that he will not interfere in specific research and development work, and will only be responsible for coordinating the communication and administrative issues between Sony and Nintendo.

Originally, Yamauchi Pu asked Yokoi Junhei to be the deputy chief designer of the new host project with Goto Zhenyou, because he clearly knew that Yokoi Junpei's talent, and Uemura Masayuki was far inferior to him, but this time because of the opposite decision-making, he would be marginalized.

However, Ken Kuta, who was originally very good at talking, refused on this question.

Jiuta has learned from many aspects that Yokoi Junhei was the most opposed to the hardware development of the new console within Nintendo before, and it was he who was not optimistic about the cooperation with Sony from the beginning, but wanted to make the handheld machine that had no market prospects.

Such a person who is completely contrary to his own philosophy still holds such a high position in the joint development team, and Jiuduo categorically disagrees.

In Kuta's view, the joint development team let Nintendo take the lead because in the development of game consoles, Nintendo is indeed much stronger than Sony, which has just entered this industry, and secondly, Masayuki Uemura is also the chief designer of FC, and there are successful products to prove his ability.

On top of that, he is the most supportive of Nintendo's full-scale development of next-generation home consoles, and it is said that because of the breakdown of his relationship with Gunpei Yokoi, who was the main proponent of handheld computer development, the two are basically strangers now.

Kuda doesn't care why Masayuki Uemura will fully support the development of home consoles, he wants to take the throne of the number one person in Nintendo's hardware development department from the hands of Yokoi Gunpei, he really thinks that this is the most correct thing to do, what he cares about is that Masayuki Uemura is in line with his, or rather Sony's goals.

That's enough.

And no matter how talented Yokoi Junhei is, no matter how fantastical Yamauchi Pu said, he didn't agree with the strategy of console development from the beginning is an established fact, and this cooperation with Nintendo, it was not easy for him to convince His Excellency Norio Ohga to get it, and for Kudo himself, he is absolutely not allowed to fail.

It is absolutely impossible for him to let someone like Gunpei Yokoi, who is different from such a development team in terms of ideas and concepts, hold such an important position as deputy chief designer.

And, most importantly, in the joint development team, after Nintendo's people serve as the chief designer, if the deputy chief designer is occupied by Nintendo's people, then this joint development team does not need to be called the joint development team, but directly called the Nintendo development team.

It was for these reasons that Ken Kutaragi did not hesitate to reject Yamauchi's proposal to make Gunhei Yokoi the deputy chief designer of the joint development team.

Is it because you don't know about Yokoi Junhei's talent for a long time?

No, it has nothing to do with talent. R1152