Chapter 1590: Discord
The sales of 10 million is undoubtedly a huge failure for Nintendo, which is in a deep predicament and hopes to change its life with a counterattack by GBA.
Nintendo, once the world's No. 1 game company, has now lost out to PS in terms of TV consoles, with the N64 selling nearly 10 million fewer than PS in total.
As for the personal handheld, it was even worse, when the GBA exceeded 10 million units, Qianjibian was already celebrating its total sales, exceeding 100 million units worldwide, a 10-fold sales gap, so that Nintendo could not even see the slightest hope of winning in the handheld.
Originally, heaven could comfort itself that GB lost to Qianjibian because it was 10 years behind, and when GBA came out, it would definitely be able to change the world.
But the truth is so sad, in the face of this result, Nintendo once sent professionals to investigate, and then concluded that the most important reason for the GBA's fiasco was on the Steam game store.
Because of the existence of the Steam Game Store, Qianjibian has mastered almost the world's game channels, and Daqian and the platform side, as well as the 3·3·4 sharing method of the Steam game platform franchisees, and at the same time, there is no strict review of the games that want to be put on the shelves, so that all game companies can easily put them on the Steam game platform.
In this way, Qianjibian, a small handheld platform, has already had tens of thousands of different games, but GBA has landed less than 40 games so far.
Although these 40 games are basically high-quality games, in front of a two-handed console that can play tens of thousands of different games and only 40 games, a fool will make the right decision.
This is still Nintendo's decisive decision to let most of its products be released on the Steam game store 2 years ago, otherwise Nintendo's situation will only be worse.
To get back to the point, one of the choices that Nintendo is facing now is whether to let "Pokemon" log on to the Qianji platform.
Previously, most of Nintendo's products, although logged on to the Steam Game Store platform, were just selling products, and all games were based on Nintendo's game consoles to run, and Nintendo was essentially a closed game company, just using the Steam Game Store.
But now, when "Pokémon" was released, there was a voice within Nintendo, that is, not only to make a GBA version of "Pokémon", but also to make a thousand changes to "Pokémon".
This voice instantly caused a monstrous wave throughout Nintendo, and countless people jumped out to accuse Shigeru Miyamoto, who made this suggestion, saying that he was kneeling down like an enemy and surrendering and begging for mercy.
But there are also many people within the company who choose to support Shigeru Miyamoto, and their reason is simpler, if you don't log in, then Nintendo will lose money, and it will be a huge loss, the kind that will go bankrupt.
All of a sudden, the two factions argued about this, and the two sides had quarreled several times at the company's high-level meetings, and just as these people were about to convince each other again at the meeting, the chairman's secretary suddenly broke into the meeting and said to Iwata Satoshi and Minoru Arakawa, who were presiding over the meeting, that the chairman wanted to meet the two of them and hoped that they could go to the hospital to meet.
Hearing this news, everyone understood that I was afraid that this controversy had reached the ears of Pu Yamauchi, who was recuperating, and Pu Yamauchi was finally going to come forward to end this endless controversy.
When I was an hour, Minoru Arakawa and Satoshi Iwata, who were full of solemn faces, entered a hospital room that was obviously very bright, but there was an inexplicable cold smell, and they saw Yamauchi Pu lying on the bed, with a sick face and a sick face, and the whole person was already old and unshaped.
Since he fell into a coma three years ago, Yamauchi has been unable to manage a company with heavy affairs due to physical reasons, and can only rely on his relatives and son-in-law, and he has been living in the hospital to recuperate.
It's a pity that Nintendo hasn't had a single piece of good news over the years, almost all of it is bad news, and Yamauchi's situation is getting worse and worse, and it's about to disappear.
My old guy is very strong, lying down for three years, and he still has a breath, and judging from the way he met today, Yamauchi's spirit seems to be a little more energetic.
"What's going on in the company lately?" Yamauchi Pu asked lightly.
"Father, everything is fine with the company, our "Pokemon" is also a big hit, creating the best results ever, you can rest assured that we will get better at Nintendo!" Minoru Arakawa said immediately.
"yes, everything is great!" Satoshi Iwata said.
"Oh, then how did I hear that you two are about to fight within the company!" Yamauchi glanced at the two of them, and both of them closed their mouths.
I only heard Yamauchi Pu continue, "I know that you are hiding this incident from me for the sake of my body so that I can live a few more years. It's a pity that good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, you didn't tell me the news, but I saw it from other people's newspapers and magazines! ”
After Yamauchi finished speaking, he threw out the latest "Video Game" magazine, and the cover of the magazine read in large letters "Nintendo quarrels constantly, suspected high-level feud" The news came out.
"Shame, father!"
"Chairman, I'm sorry!" Minoru Arakawa and Satoshi Iwata lowered their heads at the same time and said ashamedly.
"Okay, this kind of thing is boring, you can tell your own thoughts, your argument, old man, I will make a decision for you today!" Yamauchi Pu said calmly.
And this attitude surprised Minoru Arakawa and Satoshi Iwata, under normal circumstances, when Pu Yamauchi heard the internal strife within the company, shouldn't he squirt their scolding blood, and even reward them for one person and one kick? When did you speak so gently!
However, they didn't care about thinking about this, so they could only say their thoughts according to Yamauchi Pu's request.
"Father, the big husband is not informal, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for 10 years, the most important thing for us Nintendo at the moment is to survive, reverse the company's current losses, make profits again, accumulate strength, and then fight with Jia Yapeng, that dog thief!" Minoru Arakawa was the first to say, "So we're going to sell Pokémon, and the more we sell, the better, so that our profits are the greatest." ”
"And if we can use Daqian's platform to make money through Daqian, and then use this money to develop new games and consoles to defeat Daqian, wouldn't this be lifting the enemy's stones and smashing the enemy's feet?"