In the media, the Asahi Shimbun was the first to comment on Capcom's postponement.

The newspaper wrote very seriously: "If all kinds of strange reasons for procrastination are only due to their own fear of fighting, then this will only make people look down on them even more and will lose everyone's support!" Remember, in the Japanese spirit of bushido, there is never a place for a coward! ”

This sentence is very serious, and it is said in the spirit of bushido, and no Japanese dares to refute it.

The Asahi Shimbun is forcing Capcom and SNK to come out and fight, if they don't fight and continue to delay, then they don't deserve to be called a samurai at all, and they are not qualified to participate in the battle at all.

There are only two ways to end up with Zuihou's two companies, if you want to save face, you can only commit suicide by breaking your stomach, or you can quit the arcade industry completely and simply admit defeat.

For this news, Sankei Shimbun was the first to stand up and refute it, and published a 1,000-word editor-in-chief remark, strongly supporting Capcom and SNK, and at the same time criticizing Sega and Fengyun for being shameless, using the usual black dragon method.

However, the Asahi Shimbun only used a picture and a small press release of more than 300 words to leave the Sankei Shimbun speechless.

This picture is the scene where a Sankei Shimbun reporter induces Nobuo to say something unfavorable to Sega, but Zuihou is scolded by Nobuo as superficial, with a shocking title: "Superficial media peers, and lost the moral bottom line!" ”。

The content of the press release is a brief interview conducted by the Asahi Shimbun with the consent of Nobuo.

Nobuo blames himself for being harassed by Sankei reporters, the unfair treatment he received, and the extraordinarily high treatment he later received at the Sega celebration venue. He told everything in great detail, which immediately aroused the interest of the Asahi Shimbun reporters. Finally compiled into this news with pictures.

After the graphic news came out, it caused an uproar in the national media. The Sankei Shimbun is really completely shameless.

For the sake of news effect, many reporters have more or less moved some thoughts, and even done some things that are more inferior, but in the heart of every journalist, there is a moral bottom line, which can also be said to be the bottom line of being a person.

It's not uncommon to induce an interviewer to make unfavorable remarks, but to induce an underage child is unconscionable. This is to break through the bottom line of morality and become an unforgivable felony in journalism!

In the midst of the verbal criticism of his peers, the president of Sankei Shimbun had to personally come forward and kneel to the people of the whole country in front of the camera for the public to induce an underage child for his reporter to induce an underage child during an interview.

And the team of reporters who followed Sega all the year round were also resigned and became a piece of shitty shit in the press, and no one dared to take them in anymore.

So under the accusations of the media. Tsujimoto Yanro and Takado Yoshihiko are now riding tigers, and they can't move at all, and under the spotlight of the media, whatever they do. Any remarks made will be magnified countless times!

In addition to their two companies, the second company to be hit hard. Of course, it's Sega's sworn enemy, Nintendo!

The roof leak happened to rain overnight. The ship was late and had a head wind, which is the true portrayal of Nintendo's recent times.

Pu Yamauchi. Shigeru Miyamoto, Junhei Yokoi, Minoru Arakawa, and some other section leaders and team leaders sat around the conference room, each with a mournful expression.

Misfortune does not go alone, Nintendo's giant ship, starting from the summer of 1989, has lasted for two whole years, and almost nothing has gone smoothly.

Yamauchi Pu is 64 years old, as the emperor of Nintendo, no one has ever dared to question his decision, even if his decision is wrong, others can only obey and find a way to fill the hole from other aspects, no one dares to oppose him face to face.

But he is indeed old, compared with the 24-year-old Yang Yun, whether it is physical strength or energy, he is a big step behind, just flying everywhere with Shijie, and discussing cooperation with various companies, Yamauchi Pu can't do it.

"In 1989, our FC occupied 90% of the global market, and the GameBoy sold 4 million units in half a year. Yamauchi's voice was hoarse, but everyone heard from it the glory of the past, as well as the pride that belonged to him.

"But in the next year, Sega MD took 20% of the market share in North America, launched GameGear, launched the popular Pokemon, and what new games did we launch ourselves? We just shared the Super Mario patent with Tetris, and gave Konami Contra to Sega! Yamauchi was a little disappointed, although he made the decision.

"President, this is forced by the external environment, we have to make such a choice!" Yokoi Junhei thought that Yamauchi Pu was blaming himself, and comforted him.

"Bastard! Even if you share Super Mario and send out Contra, as long as you do better, how can we Nintendo suffer defeat after defeat? "Yamauchi Pu is angry, he will never admit his mistakes, even if he makes a wrong decision, if Miyamoto Shigeru and they speed up the porting of games such as The Legend of Zelda and Castlevania to the GB platform, they will definitely have a fight with Pokemon.

Yokoi Junhei's face was flushed, and the others were submissive, looking at this old man and getting angry, and didn't dare to say anything more.

Everyone has seen the big things that happened in the next two companies.

Sega has launched a series of hot-selling new games, attacked the North American market several times, and used MD to suppress FC, and gradually regained a lot of market share.

Although SFC was successfully released in Japan, it was a long time late, at that time consumers' minds were focused on Pokemon, and Sega arcade games, the Japanese market is Nintendo's consistent self-reserved place, SFC listing can not even recover Nintendo's decline, the first month of 1.9 million sales in front of GameGear can not raise their heads at all.

"Weishenme Sega can multi-industry development? PC, arcade, handheld, video game console, anime, movies, weishenme they do everything well? ”

Yamauchi looked at his subordinates with murderous anger, Yokoi Junhei in the handheld department, Shigeru Miyamoto in the video game console, Minoru Arakawa, the person in charge of the game peripherals and the North American market, and the other department heads who seemed to be busy to death, but were actually waste.

He roared, "Weishenme we Nintendo can't do it? Where is your negotiating power with Sony? Where is the ability to negotiate with Philips? ”

It was Yamauchi's decision to abandon Sony, but he blamed the problem on the poor negotiation of his subordinate staff, and he believed that it was precisely because of Nintendo's concession that Sony felt that there was an opportunity, so the lion opened his mouth and put forward conditions that were difficult for him to accept, forcing him to abandon Sony.

And now with Philips, it was a good haode partnership, but I don't know weishenme, the other party's attitude suddenly became ambiguous, the two sides cooperated a little reluctantly, at the critical juncture of CD-SFC research and development, Philips actually began to take Joe!

Minoru Arakawa was sweating profusely on his forehead, and his body was tense.

It was his offer to reject Sony, and in 1989 the two companies signed a research and development contract, and Yamauchi didn't notice anything at the time.

But when the MIT graduate saw the contract, he decided that once the CD-SFC was developed, Nintendo would lose its dominant position in the gaming industry, and cultivate Sony as a rival, giving up some of his profits to Sony, which had done almost nothing.

At his prompting, Yamauchi realized the seriousness of the problem, rejected Sony in advance, and switched to Philips.

But now the situation is even worse, and their partnership with Philips is likely to break down!

President...... Let me go to Europe, and I'll fill the gap myself......" Minoru Arakawa gritted his teeth and prepared to take on the heavy responsibility.

But Yamauchi Pu was even more angry, he looked at this uncompetitive son-in-law, if it weren't for the presence of so many subordinates, he would definitely rush up and make Arakawa's life unbearable!

"Can you save Nintendo by going?" Yamauchi's words were full of sarcasm: "It's your idea to reject Sony, and it's also your idea to choose Philips, you have so many ideas!" If you can really solve our big trouble, the position of president will be left to you! ”

"Nope! That was not what I meant! Arakawa's face turned white with fright, this is an allusion that he wants to give orders according to his own wishes, and he is peeking into the throne of the president of Nintendo!

"Baga Crush!" Yamauchi roared like a lion: "Isn't it possible that without Philips, we Nintendo would definitely die?" Now it's a life-and-death stake! I want each of you to give full play to your strength, innovate and make games, port excellent works, expand our software catalog, prove yourself in the North American SNES release, and suppress the arrogant Sega games! ”

What the!

Everyone raised their heads and looked at Yamauchi Pu in disbelief, this is the rhythm of even Philips and insisting on continuing to do cassette games?

Everyone knows that in the future, it will definitely be the world of CD and other disc media, and the high-cost, capacity-limited cassette game has almost lost its meaning of existence, Nintendo has painstakingly laid out a few years in advance, and Sony Philips cooperation, just for this CD-SFC!

But Yamauchi was carried away by anger, and after being hit hard by Sega in the software market, he even ignored the hardware, and wanted to use software to fight against the increasingly crazy Sega Legion, is this stupid or wise?

No one can persuade this Nintendo emperor, after being stimulated by Sega, Yamauchi Pu felt a great shame, he was like Mewtwo at this moment, blinded by hatred, and wanted to defeat Sega and regain the encroached market! (To be continued......)