Chapter 228: The Nintendo camp collapses across the board

The 1992 Sega Carnival was destined to become an important watershed in the history of Shijie games.

Sega Co., Ltd., which took two years to turn defeat into victory, has become a model for Japanese, European, American, and even Chinese counterparts to worship and imitate.

The Nintendo camp collapsed across the board, the Nintendo Six Tigers, which were once the most valued by Yamauchi, Taidong Company switched to karaoke machines, Namco was forced to develop in the peripheral fields of games such as Gundam, Hudson and Jaleco were deeply trapped in the vortex of NEC's self-developed consoles and could not be separated, Konami was reduced to a second-rate company, and Capcom was acquired by Longteng.

Among the new allies and helpers added by Yamauchi, Enix betrayed Nintendo, SNK was exposed to a scandal of 6 billion yen being inflated to 24 billion yen, and there was still an empty shell left in the HAL Research Institute, and all the personnel jumped to Fengyun Games.

Now Nintendo's right-hand men have all been cut off, everyone has betrayed their relatives, and Yamauchi has become a loner!

Nintendo can get its hands on the games, only the Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Fire Emblem, Athena, and the Legend of the Hungry Wolf are left, and Super Mario and Tetris have to share patents with KTT.

Let's take a look at the Sega camp's side, Saloman Snake, Contra, Expendables, Dragon Warrior, Tank Wars, Mega Man, SLG Three Kingdoms, Light and Liliang, Legend of Heroes 12, Ys 123, Final Fantasy 1234, Dragon Quest 12345, Flappy Bird, Pokemon, Famous General, Round Table Samurai, Snowman Brothers, Battle of Red Cliffs, The King of Fighters, Street Fighter, and more than a dozen games in development......

When quantitative change was transformed into qualitative change, Nintendo's downfall became faster. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a thousand miles.

Trees fall macaques scattered. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and Yamauchi Pu was surrounded by him except for a few core backbone members. I can't find anyone to use!

"Weishenme will do this?"

Yamauchi Pu muttered to himself, with a tremor in his voice: "Haven't found any problems before the weishenmeSNES goes on the market?" weishenme RPG game battle will be my Waterloo? ”

No one can answer this question, Minoru Arakawa, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Gunpei Yokoi really didn't expect that Sega, which had been fighting Capcom SNK, couldn't see much of a threat to Nintendo before November 1991.

However, after November, Capcom was sold, and SNK was on the verge of bankruptcy. At the critical time when Nintendo released SNES, Sega made a move.

Just one move, it's very simple, 10 RPG games are collectively listed, like a huge wave, knocking the unsuspecting Enix and Nintendo into the sea and rolling them into the sea at low tide.

Hitting the snake and hitting seven inches, this trick, Yang Yun called it a rioter's encirclement. Puppy tide, stinging snake tide, very simple individual insect sea tactics, directly submerged Nintendo.

Nobody thought of it. 10 RPGs can be so powerful.

When Nintendo executives heard that 10 games had sold 40 million boxes worldwide in half a year, they were stunned.

40 million boxes were smashed. They are all high-quality RPG games with beautiful workmanship, which is enough to influence the hot interests of players around the world. It is conceivable that in the next two or three years. The most popular and popular on the TV game console platform are RPGs.

It's just that the giant producers of RPG games have all entered the Sega camp, and none of them have left Nintendo except for the glorious company, which is still suffering.

"Do we have a way to deal with it?" Yamauchi finally had nothing to do, and he had to turn to these loyal subordinates for help.

Shigeru Miyamoto tried his best, he ported Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda on the GameBoy platform, but he still couldn't stop GameGear's offensive.

Yokoi did his best, he retained dozens of game production companies, and spent a lot of energy to attract new companies, but as soon as people heard that Nintendo was going to sign an exclusive game agreement, he turned around and left without saying a word, and by the way, he sneered, "Sega doesn't have such an agreement!" ", making him miserable.

Indeed, Sega does not need to sign an exclusivity agreement, because Longteng firmly holds the ownership of the classic game and directly controls those big companies, what else is needed for an exclusivity agreement?

Minoru Arakawa tried his best, he worked hard for the North American market, his mental strength was exhausted, and the past two years have been more tiring than the previous ten years, but he can't stop the joint efforts of Sega and Longteng, cards, toy peripherals, handhelds, consoles, arcades, comics, animation, and even movies, and the all-round blow makes Arakawa Minoru have no power to fight back at all, and can only retreat.

"Don't you have any ideas?" Yamauchi Pu looked at the indifference of his subordinates, and he was heartbroken!

Minoru Arakawa spoke: "President, maybe we should ...... Find a way to ease relations with Sony or Philips......"

"Looking for them?" Yamauchi Pu was quite reluctant to hear this, but he endured it and did not get angry on the spot.

"Yes, I suggest it too...... "Maybe we can get the CD standard as soon as possible, significantly reduce the cost of game production, give game makers more favorable terms, and expand our game sales, so that we can compete with Sega!" ”

Gunhei Yokoi also participated: "President, maybe we really should ...... Lowered his profile and cooperated with the two of them. ”

Yamauchi snorted coldly: "Do you think it's really that simple? Now that all the companies are in the league with Sega, are Sony and Philips still willing to work with us? ”

A few people didn't dare to pack tickets, and Arakawa Minoru stubbornly said: "I'll go and communicate with Philips again, and restart the suspended Jihua." And Sega will only choose one of the companies to cooperate with at most, we should still have a chance! ”

Yamauchi Pu closed his eyes, he had no more choice, he could only do this.

All of this was brought on by themselves.

Interests, everything is because of interests, and the root cause of the initial failure of cooperation is in the distribution of interests.

Nintendo has finally tasted what it means to fail, they used to be too arrogant and arrogant, thinking that they had taken the lead in the market and could do whatever they wanted, pointing fingers, setting standards, and suppressing dissent.

They were wrong!

There is also a time when the overlord has a halberd, and the gods will also fall one day, and the back waves push the front waves, which is an eternal truth, and no one can change this fact.

"Then join forces with Sony or Philips to fight against Longteng together!" Yamauchi Pu gritted his teeth and said: "I will also let them taste failure in two years!" ”

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Yang Yun spent a week arranging the tasks of the R&D department.

In 1992, 15 games were to be developed, and the handheld part of "Sonic" and "Kirby of the Stars" had already begun, and the script design of "Reversal of Judges" was handed over to Fengyun Games, looking for a suitable producer in Japan to help design the plot.

In arcade games, Longteng headquarters developed "The King of Fighters 93" by itself, supported four domestic companies to produce four other arcade games, and contributed Capcom's CPS1 substrate, cooperated with the official animation and game industrial park, and launched the jihua of China's domestic arcade game league, public teaching, telling the use of 16-bit substrate CPS1 development package, zuihou game quality management system transplanted by Longteng company to control quality, and accept the game inspection of any enterprise nationwide.

The cost of inspection and testing, personnel training costs, and substrate profits, the state official has obtained quite a lot of income from it, so it is very supportive of this jihua, and it is also sparing no effort to crack down on pirated CPS1 low-end substrates.

Like Yang Yunjihua, Longteng did not spend much effort to obtain official support, and used the CPS1 substrate as a shield in front of him, protecting the security of the MD host and the 32-bit Model1.

In the video games, Legend of Heroes 3, Final Fantasy 5, these two games, Yang Yun personally pointed out.

Final Fantasy keeps improving, nothing needs to be changed, and Legend of Heroes 3 is a non-existent version, after two days of discussion, Yang Yun stubbornly added a new map, connecting the Kakabu continent into a line.

In the PC game, "Dragon Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2" and "God is Crazy 3" can be made by the original team.

The production of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" began after the production of Legend of Heroes 2 was completed, and the person in charge was Zhang Jian, who was also the person in charge of two projects.

However, he is a master of Hong Kong man's planning, so Yang Yun is very relieved, he deliberately did not make a request, just to see what level Zhang Jian can make "Smiling Proud Jianghu", so that he can decide who the fairy sword should be handed over.

After the explanation, the only games that really need Yang Yun's personal efforts are the video games "Heartbeat Memories" and "Dune 2", these two games Yang Yun is ready to be his own focus in 1992, and he has already set Jihua.

Before the Spring Festival, Yang Yun deliberately flew to Los Angeles.

This time he didn't let anyone pick him up, and after walking out of the passage, he saw the tall and slender figure at a glance, and the big boy with a sunny smile next to her.

"Brother Yun, this way!" Lin Zhihong waved his hand vigorously and took Yang Yun's suitcase.

"I'm sorry for the delay of the plane, so I made you wait for a long time!" Yang Yun smiled.

Lin Zhiling took advantage of his brother to pull the suitcase for Yang Yun, and stuck out his little tongue at Yang Yun, making Yang Yun laugh.

The siblings got their parents' approval to travel to the United States during the winter break, and their first stop was Hollywood.

One of the siblings went to National Taiwan University, and the other was still in a girls' high school in Canada, but Lin Fannan still allowed the two of them to travel in the United States because he heard Yang Yun's name from the mouths of the two children.

Children's shijie, let them go, how could Lin Fannan not understand these careful thoughts? Yang Yun is so good, so the two adults didn't stop them, and even brought some encouragement in it.

After enjoying the food that had been waiting for a long time, the Lin family brothers and sisters couldn't wait for a long time, so they took Yang Yun to the hotel room and asked about the exclusive game that Yang Yun promised for the brother and sister. (To be continued......)