Chapter 990: He didn't have the guts
The forced palace of the third-party manufacturer faced by Heaven was over, and it was over.
And after the end, Iwata Satoshi found Yamauchi Pu with some concern, and euphemistically said that Yamauchi's attitude should not be so tough, maybe it should be gentle.
"Gentle!" Yamauchi Pu sneered and said, "These guys are like geisha in Edo, if you are gentle with them, you will get nothing but spending money." But if you are a little more violent, they will strip naked, whatever you want, they are just such a bunch of sluts! ”
Hearing his boss say such a lewd analogy, Satoshi Iwata could only pretend that he couldn't hear it, and then worried, "Then if these third-party manufacturers switch to PS, I'm afraid we will really ......"
"You don't have to worry, these guys won't turn to PS!" Pu Yamauchi began to laugh wildly, and said confidently, "In a year and a half, a total of 8 million units have been sold. And in one month, we ordered 5 million units, and our Nintendo is still the well-deserved king of the console industry! ”
"This already says it all in terms of the order quantity, even fools can see it, otherwise those guys wouldn't have found me to force the palace, don't they just want the CD and the platform, do they have both?"
"Although I have rejected them now, they will definitely continue to stay on our platform for the sake of the game's future revenue and sales, 5 million units a month, and I don't even know if I say it, why should I refuse Nintendo, hahaha!" Yamauchi was very proud.
"It's the president!" Hearing Yamauchi's words, Iwata Satoshi knew that he couldn't convince Yamauchi no matter what, and he wouldn't be scolded by Yamauchi Pu, so Iwata Satoshi chose to keep his mouth shut about this matter.
"But President, there's one more situation I need you to confirm!" Satoshi Iwata said instead.
"What's the situation?" Yamauchi asked curiously.
"It's the order situation of "Pokemon Gold and Silver", not only our N64 console has already had an order of 5 million units, but the order volume of "Pokemon Gold and Silver" has also reached 5 million copies!"
"This ......" Yamauchi Pu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this data, he ordered 5 million units of N64, and as a result, he also ordered 5 million copies of "Pokemon Gold and Silver", so doesn't this mean that all those who ordered N64 also bought a copy of "Pokemon Gold and Silver".
Thinking about it further, is the reason why N64 has such sales because of "Pokemon Gold and Silver"?
Well, you can't think too much about this question, thinking about it, Yamauchi Pu is about to explode.
"How many pre-orders do we have for Super Mario 64?" Yamauchi asked instead.
"It's less than 2.5 million copies of ......," Iwata said, bowing his head.
"Yaga!" Yamauchi couldn't help but scold.
"President, I think it is necessary for us to get in touch with Jia Yapeng, he and his game are very important to us now!" Satoshi Iwata continued.
"How do you want to trap him?" Yamauchi asked rhetorically.
"Daqian Games' WCG, the global esports competition, is about to start after the E3 game show, we rejected him last time, I think this time we can ......"
"There's no need, aren't we also preparing for our own game?" Yamauchi Pu didn't want to veto it, and he didn't know.
"But our own game ......" said Nintendo's own game, and Satoshi Iwata was bitter.
Nintendo in January 96, there was already a Nintendo e-sports tournament, using Nintendo's own games, and they also said the same as Daqian, simply said that this time the competition would be held as a global championship.
However, after only two games in Fuso, Nintendo completely gave up.
The first is that the ability to organize the game is not good, Nintendo did not invite a special event company to host the competition, but decided to go on its own, and then it was a tragedy.
First of all, there is the problem of venues, Nintendo decided to build a gymnasium to host the game like Daqian, but the gymnasium in Fuso is more troublesome, and it needs to communicate with the local government three months in advance, and it is necessary to obtain permission and signatures from nearby residents.
But Nintendo only arranged the gymnasium two weeks before the game was about to start, which was directly messed up, and the gymnasium could not be obtained at all.
In the end, it was Satoshi Iwata who stepped forward and used his connections to borrow the home court of a professional baseball team to play, but it only took two days.
In other words, there are only two days from the setting of the arena to the whole competition.
This is not the worst thing, the staff did not pay attention to the weather, the weather forecast was not read, and there was no plan for the weather conditions, so that when the day of the game began to rain wildly, the game could only be held in the rain.
Even if it is held in the rain, people can wear a raincoat to barely resist it, but all kinds of equipment in the open air will not work, after a rush, the game finally officially started, and the equipment crashed because of the water, and the whole game could not be carried out, let alone do any live broadcast.
So Nintendo had no choice but to announce the postponement of the game, and then let those players who braved the rain to participate in the game leave the game by themselves...... Yes, that's right, Nintendo didn't care about these players, and when people came in the rain, they just let them go in the rain, and they didn't even have a comfort product.
In the end, there were even seven or eight players who got a bad cold because of the rain, and Nintendo didn't even have any care, and they didn't even go to the hospital to take a look.
This instantly made all the players burst into great anger, and when the Nintendo competition was reconvened after two weeks, only 10% of the players who had registered for the competition had arrived, and 90% did not come at all.
At the same time, Nintendo also ushered in a huge notoriety because of this competition, everyone was crazy about Nintendo, and the news media also complained about all kinds of complaints, so that several manufacturers who were originally determined to sponsor temporarily withdrew their sponsorship, and also filed a claim against Nintendo, because Nintendo's bad behavior led to the damage to the reputation of their brand, which is written in the contract and can be compensated normally.
Anyway, because of the poor performance of these two games, Nintendo basically gave up the idea of doing some e-sports competition, and from January to now, there has been no mention of e-sports events.
So Iwata Satoshi also proposed to want WCG to envelop our Boss Jia, after all, Nintendo itself no longer wants to engage in competitions, so it is a good choice to hand over the game to Daqian, so that not only can Daqian be wooed, but Nintendo can also use the competition to attract the interest of young audiences and players.
It's a pity that in the eyes of Satoshi Iwata, this harmless suggestion was still vetoed by Pu Yamauchi.
"We don't need to coax anyone!" Yamauchi Pu said proudly, "Daqian and Jia Yapeng, as well as his "Pokemon", can only walk with us Nintendo in this life, don't forget, he has signed a contract with us, if he dares to breach the contract and put Pokemon on the PS, it will be 1 billion US dollars in compensation!" ”
He didn't have the guts!