Nintendo, on the other hand, had no idea that its engineers had become someone else's master, and they were still immersed in the dream of the N64's bestseller.

A month after the N64's release, the total number of N64 pre-orders has exceeded 5 million units, which is almost equivalent to a year's sales of PS.

Such a hearty victory naturally made Yamauchi Pu extremely proud, and his whole person became extremely confident again, and the name of the tyrant returned to this world.

Originally, after PS surpassed Nintendo, although Yamauchi Pu was extremely angry, he was silent a lot, and even his attitude towards third parties was much better, and even many policies were improved.

Obviously, Yamauchi wanted to stabilize the confidence of those crumbling third parties by relaxing Nintendo's policy, but after the astonishing results of 5 million units a month for the N64, the arrogant Yamauchi Pu returned.

On May 3rd, Nintendo suddenly welcomed a joint visit from more than a dozen representatives of third-party game manufacturers in May.

More than a dozen third-party manufacturers appeared together, which had never happened before, and it was clear that these dozen manufacturers were planning to join forces to put pressure on Nintendo.

Hearing the news, Yamauchi didn't even plan to meet them at first, but under the persuasion of both Miyamoto Shigeru and Iwata Satoshi at the same time, he met with the representatives of these third-party manufacturers.

And after meeting, the attitude of the representatives of these third-party manufacturers is very tactful, and they are also very humble, first congratulating N64 on achieving amazing first sales, and then saying that they will always have one heart with Nintendo, anyway, after all kinds of rainbow farts are enough, these third-party manufacturers put forward their own somewhat humble requests.

That is to say, in the hope that future improved versions of the N64 will be able to use disc drivers instead of cassette.

To be honest, these third-party manufacturers have been tormented by the cassette.

First of all, the cassette is difficult to program because of its small capacity, and the shortcomings of the game content cannot be too much, but the key is that the cassette is facing another very serious problem, that is, the cost is too high.

The cost of a disc is very low, and the retail price is only 200 yen per disc. But the cost of a game cartridge is much higher.

Originally, game cartridges in the FC era were already very expensive, costing 1,000 yen each...... That's what Nintendo's burning fee says anyway.

In this regard, third-party manufacturers also recognized.

But in the N64 era, third-party manufacturers can't stand it. Because the capacity of the game cartridge has been increased from the previous 4MB to 64MB, the production cost of the cassette has also increased, so Nintendo told all its third parties that in the future, all the burning costs of the cassette will be increased to 3000 yen per disk, and the rest of the cost will be divided equally between Nintendo and the third-party manufacturer.

This makes all the third-party manufacturers fry.

Previously, the average price of a game cartridge was 5,000 yen, so after deducting the 1,000 yen cost of burning and cassette, the third-party game manufacturer can also get a share of 2,000 yen, so everyone can barely accept it.

However, when the cost of burning the game cartridge is increased to 3,000 yen, if it is still sold at the price of 5,000 yen, the profit of the third-party manufacturer will only be 1,000 yen, which is almost halved.

Some people say that you can keep profits by increasing the price of the game!

But the problem is that since the launch of PS, the price of the game that used to be 5,000 yen a copy has dropped to about 4,500 yen a piece, which is also the reason why all players have praised it again and again.

However, if the price of the N64's game cartridge does not fall but rises, it will undoubtedly be a huge blow to players, and players will tell you their choice with practical actions.

Therefore, these third-party manufacturers have put forward the request that they can change the media from cassette to CD, so that the cost of burning will be reduced, and their profits can be saved.

To be fair, the demands of these third-party manufacturers are reasonable, because the disc completely crushes the cassette in terms of capacity and cost, and the only thing that Brucana is about is the read speed. However, this is also the fact that the game will be a little slow when reading the disc, and when the game actually starts running, the speed will not be much slower.

"I know everyone's thoughts, I'll think about it, everyone, please come back!" After listening to the requirements of more than a dozen third-party manufacturer representatives, Yamauchi Pu said expressionlessly.

None of you here are fools, what is the difference between Yamauchi's attitude and rejection?

Go back and wait! I'm afraid that when it gets dark, I won't be able to wait for the CD.

"President Yamauchi, our manufacturers are anxious, please give us an accurate answer today, so that we can feel at ease and devote ourselves to developing new games for Nintendo!" One of the delegates said.

"I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to think about this question in all aspects, and it's impossible to give you an answer anytime soon. And even if you want to change the disc, then the current N64 will not be sold? ”

"So according to industry practice, it will be two or three years later at the earliest, and the improved version of the N64 will be launched, and then we will consider the problem of optical discs!" As soon as Yamauchi Pu said this, he instantly fried the pot.

Two or three years!

After two or three years, the daylilies are cold.

"President Yamauchi, we don't need to change the equipment, we can use the external CD-ROM, as long as we plug in the line, we can directly use the disc to read, it is not troublesome at all, we can do it immediately!" A voice said.

"Shut up, are you teaching me to do things?" Yamauchi's face suddenly changed into a haze, and he stared at the guy who spoke viciously, "I remember you, you are the president of the Trojan Horse Game, right, I am happy to inform you that all your games in the future will not be approved by our Nintendo!" ”。

Yamauchi Pu said bluntly.

"You...... You ......" The president of this pastor first changed his face greatly, he knew Yamauchi Pu's temper, once he ordered himself to be blocked, then he would really be banned by Nintendo.

But what about being banned by Nintendo, this world is no longer the world of 5 years ago, and it is not the only world dominated by Nintendo, and he is not without other ways out.

So this guy simply turned his face completely and said, "What about teaching you how to do things!" You old fool, you really think you're a tyrant, and you can't say anything. I'm telling you, if you don't go on the CD today, then all of our third parties will leave you in the future, I think you only have your Nintendo headquarters, how to sell games in the future! ”

"Today is the day when your Nintendo is going down!"

"Invite me out, the president!" Yamauchi Pu didn't look at this guy and invited the other party out, leaving a large number of other representatives at the scene who were shocked.

"If anyone else wants to teach me how to do things, you can be like him, we Nintendo don't need to be partners with us who are not of the same heart!"

"......" There was silence in the audience, and no one answered.

"Okay, since you don't want to talk anymore, let's break up, don't mention any CD in the future, cassette is the eternal choice of the host, CD or something, it's just a temporary benefit, and it will be abandoned by the market after all."

Pu Yamauchi almost said that Nintendo would stick to the cassette and not waver for 100 years.

However, it is true that Nintendo in history is also the same, because until 2020, Nintendo's physical release of games still uses game cartridges, and Nintendo has indeed managed to persist for 100 years.

After all, someone invented the TF card in the future.