The news of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Akihito at Kaede Shirakawa's wedding made headlines in major newspapers.

Although he refused to be interviewed by all media outlets, he also instructed his colleagues not to report on it as much as possible.

But when the appearance of the crown prince was an accident, how could such an important explosive news be covered.

Besides, there were so many guests attending the wedding banquet that there were no secrets under word of mouth.

Not surprisingly, the next day, the newspapers and TV news were all about his wedding.

Prince Akihito and his wife are witnesses to the marriage, look at how many cards there are?

In the past ten years, has the royal family had similar activities?

No! But the more this is the case, the more it brings out the extraordinaryness of Shirakawa Kaede's wedding.

Even if he himself explained that Akihito was just a visit, he was not a witness.

But the general public didn't believe it, and the media followed suit, and all kinds of suggestive words were used.

If you don't hype up such a gimmick, how can the sales of the newspaper increase?

So after two consecutive days of reports and analysis from various angles, the news that Prince Akihito was marrying Shirakawa Kaede was confirmed.

While the public secretly lamented Shirakawa Kaede's strong connections, they were also very curious about how he got involved with the royal family.

It doesn't matter if you have such curiosity, because soon the media dug up the secret that Shirakawa Kaede is a descendant of the Tozawa clan.

Some people may not have heard of who the Tozawa clan is, but the intimate media has long thought of this.

In related reports, it is also popularized by the way, the inheritance of the Tozawa lineage. The earliest can be traced back to Hengwu Licking Emperor, who is a descendant of the Ping family.

In this way, the public has some understanding, and it turns out that the descendants of the Ping family, no wonder they can have something to do with the royal family.

At the same time, this also makes people feel a little relieved, if it is after the aristocracy, then it is understandable that it can rise in such a short period of time.

After all, the family has a long history, and some heritage is not surprising.

So many people take it for granted that with his aristocratic blood, the probability of success is naturally higher than that of ordinary people.

When Bai Chuanfeng saw this statement, he suddenly cried and laughed.

What is this, according to the bloodline, I can't fight with the eight poles of the Peace Clan.

Xiaori likes to adopt a son to find an heir, thousands of years later, how can there be a blood relationship.

However, this statement is still very marketable, and a considerable number of people are inclined to this view.

Forget it, Shirakawa Kaede is too lazy to argue anything.

What he needs to do is to make the word "Shirakawa" more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people until it becomes a household name.

At that time, the bloodline theory and the aristocratic theory will naturally stop, and the influence of saying a thousand things or real things is the most convincing.

After two days of news after getting married, Shirakawa Kaede threw himself into busy work again.

It's not time to lie flat yet, especially with children, so he thinks about it more.

In June, Shirakawa Electric not only continued to promote the sales of FES game consoles, but also did not stop innovating in new game cartridges.

After more than two months of fermentation, the FES console platform has ushered in its tenth game.

And Nintendo, as a competitor, has also accumulated six games on FC.

Especially the latest work "Mario Bros.", which can be regarded as showing its face in cassette sales.

The sales volume of 500,000 in less than a month is a small win over Shirakawa Electric's "Snowman Brothers" in the same period.

"Mario Bros. is a prequel to Super Mario", and many of the gameplay and character images have a great similarity with the latter.

This game is also derived from "Donkey Kong", so naturally there will be no shortage of the name of Shigeru Miyamoto in its production team.

Speaking of this game genius, Shirakawa Kaede has not been without ideas.

However, after reviewing his background and resume, HAL had to give up such a plan.

Shigeru Miyamoto's father, Miyamoto Duo, and Nintendo's Yamauchi Pu were friends when they were young, and the two families were world friends.

With this kind of relationship, how could HAL dig up.

At Neon, sometimes bonds are more reliable than money.

So after understanding this, Shirakawa Kaede could only put down the hoe he had just raised.

However, although Nintendo won by a small margin, Shirakawa Electric did not panic at all.

Because just in May, "Gold Diggers" also achieved this achievement, and Nintendo's "Mahjong" and "Backgammon" were not left with any slag left.

In the two months since the launch of FES, more than a dozen game cartridges have sold more than 4 million copies.

Relying on these games alone, Shirakawa Electric has made a profit of more than 8 billion yen, and it is a proper gold absorber.

And like Nintendo, HAL is also developing and selling better game cartridges, its sequels or derivative IPs.

For example, "Double Dragon II", and "Bomberman", which was developed based on the villain in "Gold Diogger".

The cultivation of market IP has always been like this, and only through the continuous development of sequels can fans be slowly accumulated.

Then wait for the day when an excellent game of the same series will completely ignite the enthusiasm of fans and usher in a big explosion in sales.

Of course, in addition to the development of the sequel, HAL is also quietly accumulating strength and preparing for a big wave.

Within the development team, a project codename called "Zelda" has been officially established.

This will be the first role-playing game on a home console, that is, an RPG.

Of course, whether it will develop into an ACT+RPG game in the future is a story for another time.

But the current first generation of works, within HAL, is the definition of an RPG game.

It will have a rigorous game background and story setting, with characters that grow up, and the props are diverse and complex.

In addition, the game cartridge will also support the storage function, and the game progress will not be lost after the power is off.

There is no doubt that this is an ambitious and epic game that will surely leave a magnificent chapter in the history of video games.

However, such a complex game content and setting will also require a huge amount of research and development costs and development time.

At present, HAL internally expects to officially launch this game around 85 years.

In order not to affect the development progress of other games, HAL has also divided into 6 development groups, which are responsible for different game development.

With the development of the game console business, the scale of HAL has slowly expanded.

Of course, in addition to the game cartridge, the FES game console also officially reached the achievement of one million sales in June.

Millions of sales, even if FES sells cheaper. But for a product, it's already a big deal.

And when it comes to millions of sales, reporters are reminded of the flag that someone once set.

No, I finally got the opportunity, and the reporters stuffed the microphone into Yamauchi's mouth.

"Yamauchi-san, you once said, 'If Shirakawa Electric's FES sells 1 million units, you will walk upside down with your head down,' is this true?"

These reporters also don't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and they pick on the soft underbelly of Yamauchi Pu.

In the face of the reporter who made trouble, of course, Yamauchi Pu would not respond directly.

He hurriedly tried to squeeze out of the crowd with a black face, and it was better to run away as soon as possible at this moment of slapping his face.

"Yamauchi-san, what do you think of the statement that the FC is inferior in performance and graphics compared to FES, so it sells poorly?"

Yamauchi Pu, who had already made up his mind and didn't say a word, couldn't help it when he heard this.

Just kidding, Nintendo's console was developed with the aim of content being king, supplemented by hardware.

In terms of content, Nintendo does not admit that it is worse than Shirakawa Electric.

For the role of hardware, Yamauchi himself is also very disdainful.

Without even thinking about it, he turned around and retorted, "The advancement of game technology is not necessarily a good thing.

Consumers will not be interested in so-called luxury masterpieces with more advanced graphics, sound, and story.

The simpler the game, the better, and most importantly, fun. ”

Good guys, and there are people who deny technological progress.

Even if journalists don't understand games, they understand that technological progress is definitely positive for games.

But there are people who have a negative opinion on this.

The reporters were happy, and lo and behold, just after the last flag was slapped in the face, Yamauchi-san actually set up another one very intimately.

"Yamauchi-san, do you think that technological progress is hindering the development of the game?"

"Yamauchi-san, do you think that games don't apply to the positive feedback that technological progress brings?"

To say that it is worthy of being professional, the hat reporter is more slippery than the other.

Unexpectedly, in the face of reporters' questions, Yamauchi Pu still left the scene deafly.

Although I haven't won with a mouthpiece, if I apologize, I will lose.

As long as I don't admit it, then I will always win.

This set of gameplay of the flag can be regarded as being understood by Yamauchi Pu.

Of course, after this incident, it was not that no one asked Shirakawa Kaede's opinion.

To this, he just smiled and responded, "If Yamauchi-san had said that the number was 10 million units, maybe there would not be such troubles as now." ”

After receiving his response, the reporters couldn't help laughing on the spot.

Not only secretly ridiculed a wave of Yamauchi Pu's rat eyes, but also raised Shirakawa Electric's FES target to 10 million units.

Look at people's ambitions, 1 million units are not within the target range at all, it's too low~

Because of the sales of game consoles, the newspapers are also lively with you and me.

That's interesting, if everyone is in harmony, what do ordinary people see?

However, Shirakawa Kaede only paid a little attention to this matter, and stopped paying attention to it.

In June, another SIC achievement was officially commercialized.

It was the summer vacation, and Casio unveiled two new products that caused a sensation at the electronics exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka, the TV Watch.

And the reason why it is a sensation is just like its name "TV Watch", which is a watch that can watch TV programs.

Two watches, one in color and one in black and white.

Their watch body has two independent screens, the upper screen is an ordinary electronic watch TN screen, which can watch the time, set alarms, calendars, stopwatches, etc.

The color of the lower screen is the TFT screen, and the black and white screen is the STN screen.

Among them, the color TV watch has a screen size of only 16.8x25.2mm, which is less than 2 inches. It has more than 60,000 pixels in total and is priced at 120,000 yen.

A black and white TV watch with a slightly larger size of about 2.5 inches. It has more than 30,000 pixels and costs 70,000 yen.

A watch that allows you to watch TV shows on the go? And color black and white?

The people present were stunned, they had never seen such a brain hole product.

In the '80s, it was almost like something out of a science fiction movie, and it was dizzying.

Imagine being able to watch a TV show anytime and anywhere on your way to work or in the wilderness.

Although it is expensive, it can't resist the temptation of its sci-fi features.

The crowd went to experience Casio's TV Watch, and the long queue alone extended directly to the gate of the venue.

So how did this unique TV watch come about?

Ahem ~ SIC said low-key, this is just a small scene.

(End of chapter)