When Hideki Hanyu arrived at Tokyo Big Sight, the TEPCO Show had already officially begun.

I saw that inside and outside the venue, there were crowds of people, and it was extremely lively.

The TEPCO Show is coming to the fourth edition, and the players and media who come to participate are not limited to neon locality.

It's already a festival for gaming enthusiasts and media all over the world.

It's no wonder that the governor of Tokyo was so concerned yesterday.

This kind of event not only brings fame to Tokyo, but also to economic benefits.

Of course, for Neon, which is not bad for money these days, the former is more important than the latter.

After all, for politicians, the former is the best qualification.

Nowadays, although the term cosplay has been born, the development of neon is not as common as that of later generations.

Professional COS is rare at the exhibition, but you can see a lot of game enthusiasts decorated with merchandise.

For example, the Pokémon Trainer, and the Mario Bros. hat.

Or the shield of Dragon Quest or something.

The enthusiasm and participation of players in TEPCO's exhibition is still very high.

At least the entrance is blocked.

Fortunately, Hideki Hanyu can take the staff passage, otherwise it would have been a lot of time to enter the door.

Walking through the bustling pavilion, Hideki Hanyu first went to the booth of Genie Entertainment.

As expected, as the most popular game company at the exhibition, the booth of Elf Entertainment was crowded and surrounded by water.

Especially in the experience area, the waiting queue of players is almost lined up at the door.

Hanyu Hideki, the boss, can only enter the backstage through the side door.

As a result, as soon as he entered the backstage, he saw Iwata Satoshi walking out.

"Where are Iwata-san going?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

"Come with me, the president, Nintendo's press conference at the main booth is about to begin." Satoshi Iwata replied.

"Didn't their booth show off the new handheld?"

"No, after the exhibition started, Nintendo's booth mainly displayed their disk drives, and there was also an RPG game called Earth Adventure, which was very interesting, and the player feedback was quite good."

Satoshi Iwata said what he learned in the morning, there was news about Nintendo.

"Earth adventure?"

Hideki Hanyu couldn't help but mutter to himself.

He didn't expect that Nintendo would actually develop this game.

Speaking of which, this RPG game with a special design is one of Nintendo's important IPs.

Influenced by the modern backstory, the game's popularity overseas is even greater than that of the neon homeland.

Satoshi Iwata thought that Hideki Hanyu was curious about the game, so he explained.

"Looking at the information, it's a game developed by a producer named Shigeri Itoi."

Satoshi Iwata said, and looked at his own president, "And this person and the president are also peers, both of whom are picture book writers." ”

"That's a coincidence." Hideki Hanyu pretended to be surprised.

In his previous life, he had played the first two parts of Earth Adventure, so he naturally knew who the developer of this game was.

Although it is a peer, Shigeri Isai's popularity in the picture book industry is not high.

However, Hideki Hanyu has a deep impression of Shigeri Isai.

It's all because this guy is a complete all-rounder.

Prose, Poetry, Picture Books, Game Design, Music Creation, Newspaper Writer......

Even part-time singer and entertainer.

The main thing is that this guy's current girlfriend and future wife is called Higuchi Kannanko, a famous Showa beauty.

At this time, Satoshi Iwata looked at his watch, "President, the main booth press conference is about to begin." ”

"Let's go together, then."

After Hanyu finished speaking, he left the booth of Elf Entertainment with Satoshi Iwata and walked towards the main booth.

With the two of them, it was naturally very easy to find a seat in the media area under the main booth.

But since I'm here to spy on intelligence, there's no need to be too high-profile.

With the help of the staff at the game base, they found a corner spot and stood like that, watching the Nintendo representative walk up to the main booth.

This time Nintendo's representative is not Uru Yamauchi, nor his heir Minoru Arakawa.

It's Nintendo's ace game producer, Shigeru Miyamoto.

At the beginning, Shigeru Miyamoto did not introduce the handheld that Hanyu Hideki wanted to see the most, but first introduced the new peripherals of the FC host, the disk drive.

Although on the disk drive, Nintendo was preempted by Genie Entertainment.

However, Genie Entertainment launched a disk drive, but it only regarded the disk drive as a simple game-size expansion peripheral, and did not develop derivative functions.

This is because Hanyu knows that with the development of semiconductor technology, the storage capacity of cartridges will increase rapidly, and it will not be long before the disk drive will be obsolete.

Of course, it is possible to expand the function of the disk drive, but it is obviously not possible to rely on the mouth, and it requires real money and manpower and material resources.

The most important thing is that excessive tilting of game resources to the disk drive can easily cause uncontrollable piracy problems.

But Nintendo is different, Yamauchi Pu is very optimistic about the disk drive, so after Genie Entertainment preemptively developed the disk drive, he did not give up the research and development of the disk drive.

Not only did they launch the drives, but they also introduced the peripherals and functional services of the drives.

It can help players upload game data in the disk drive and help players rank points.

It also launched a game erase and rewrite service for floppy disk cartridges.

Players only need to pay one-third of the price of the cartridge to erase the original floppy game and write it into a new one.

When Shigeru Miyamoto announced the news on stage, the audience immediately burst into cheers from the players.

For players, being able to play games cheaply is something to be happy about.

As for Nintendo's doing this, will it make players who buy cassette games dissatisfied, or will it further cause the proliferation of piracy.

That's not something to think about right now.

Relying on the disk drive and related ancillary services, Nintendo's press conference can be regarded as a good start.

Taking advantage of the player's high spirits, Shigeru Miyamoto moved on to the next stage.

There is still no news about the handheld, but the introduction of a new game has begun.

Next, Shigeru Miyamoto introduced three new games of different genres from Nintendo in a row.

Among them is the RPG "Earth Adventure" developed by Shigeri Itoi, which Satoshi Iwata mentioned earlier.

In addition to Earth Adventure, Nintendo has a game that caught the attention of Hideki Hanyu.

It was a Tetris-like match-matching game called King Kong Cubes.

is different from Tetris from Genie Entertainment, similar to Yoshi's Tetris in the previous life.

The rest of the game is a side-scrolling beat 'em up action game.

The so-called beat up version is to kill all the monsters in the current game scene before entering the next screen.

It's a lot like Elf Entertainment's FC console's "Hot Blooded Hardcore", and the upcoming arcade game "Whirlwind Kombat".

From puzzles to RPGs to beat 'em up action games.

Shigeru Miyamoto also used a videotape to demonstrate the game during his introduction.

Since Elf Entertainment played this set at the exhibition, other manufacturers have followed suit.

It is clear that Nintendo came prepared and took this exhibition very seriously

After all, PS consoles are the kings and hegemons in Europe and the United States.

After its launch on neon and in Asia, it continues to encroach on Nintendo's market.

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the stock market is booming, but Nintendo's stock price is not only sideways, but even falls from time to time.

If Nintendo doesn't save the market, when it announces its first-quarter earnings next month, the stock price may plummet against the trend.

When Shigeru Miyamoto finished introducing the game, the audience cheered.

Hideki Hanyu and Satoshi Iwata looked at Shigeru Miyamoto, who had not yet stepped down, and waited quietly.

Because they all know that the next step is today's main drama.

Sure enough.

Just when the media and the audience felt that Nintendo was already very sincere.

Shigeru Miyamoto said loudly, "Next, Nintendo has a more important product to launch, but before that, I invite Nintendo's collaborator, Mr. Yamashina Castle, the president of Bandai." ”

With the sound of introduction, Shigeru Miyamoto pointed to the backstage location.

Then, in the prime of life, Smiling Yamashina Castle in a suit, walked up to the main booth.

"Good morning everyone, I'm Yamashina Castle."

After Yamashina Castle took the stage, he first greeted everyone in the audience.

Although everyone in the audience didn't know what Bandai and Nintendo had collaborated on, they still gave a round of applause in good faith.

The applause subsided, and Yamako Castle began to speak with the microphone in hand.

"I'm here today to tell all gamers who love and care about video games that Bandai has finally made an epoch-making product after a year of research and development with Nintendo, and it is ......"

Yamashina said, taking out a body made of blue transparent plastic from his pocket, with a screen inlaid in the middle, and the buttons distributed on both sides.

"The world's first color handheld computer, WonderSwan!"

As Yamashina Castle pronounced his name, he raised his handheld to all the audience.

On the big screen of the main booth, the projection of this handheld machine appeared at the same time.

The audience was stunned for a moment, and then cheered, focusing on one to save face.

Amid the cheers, Hideki Hanyu couldn't help but whisper.

"I'll go! Yokoi Junhei plus Nintendo, plus Bandai, really made up the synthesis conditions, and got this swan handheld out. ”

Although the appearance looks very different.

Noticeably heavier.

But that horizontal button layout, as well as the same name.

still makes Hanyu Hideki can't help but think of the handheld that made Nintendo extremely embarrassed in the future.

It's just that the handheld machine ten years later is the work of Yokoi Junhei backstabbing Nintendo.

But this time and space, the time is advanced, but it is the elf entertainment that people use to deal with him.

At this time, Yamashina Castle on the stage began to introduce the information of the handheld after showing the shape of the WS handheld.

"This handheld has an unprecedented landscape layout, which is more convenient for gamers to operate, and it has a 2.6-inch, 16-color color screen ......"

Every time Yamashina City introduced a configuration, the audience cheered.

When Yamashina Castle introduced it to the end, he said the topic that interested Hideki Hanyu the most.

"This handheld computer can not only use the AC power supply system, but also comes with the latest model rechargeable battery provided by Panasonic, so that everyone does not have to buy batteries ......"

Hearing the word Panasonic, Hideki Hanyu knew the response plan they had planned before.

It's completely out of play.

They can't attack Panasonic's batteries in order to attack Nintendo and Bandai's handhelds.

Just when Hanyu Hideki wanted to know the battery life of the rechargeable handheld, Yamashina Castle deliberately avoided talking about it.

Instead, the topic changed, "In addition to the charging model, in order to meet everyone's battery life needs, we have also launched a battery model, which only needs four batteries to allow WonderSwan to have a steady stream of energy." ”

"It's endless, how much do you mean by endurance!"

Hideki Hanyu wanted to directly grab the microphone of the reporters in the audience and question Yamashina Castle.

But Yamashina City once again deliberately did not mention battery life, but handed over the conversation to Shigeru Miyamoto, who was also on the stage, and was introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto, a game launched with this handheld.

As soon as Shigeru Miyamoto spoke, the players in the audience completely climaxed, completely leaving Yamashina Castle behind every talk about battery life.

Because, Nintendo used the copyright of Takara and Bandai to directly develop a fighting game called "Super Robot Wars: Transformers VS Gundam".

"Gundam" is linked to "Transformers".

In today's era, two of the most popular super IPs.

Two rivals in the toy world, catch and fight each other in the game.

How to describe the degree of its explosion?

It is equivalent to seeing DC's Justice League and Marvel's Avengers in the same movie in the same movie.

With this game in the past, Shigeru Miyamoto subsequently announced that the previously announced Tetris-like elimination game "King Kong Cube".

and Nintendo's "Digital Monsters", which "borrowed" from Elf Entertainment's "Pokémon", was rebuilt to develop a battle game.

will be synchronized when logging in to the WS handheld platform.

Players don't care at all.

In particular, Yamashina Castle was on stage with Shigeru Miyamoto on the stage, using data cables to connect the two handhelds on the spot, demonstrating the battle between Optimus Prime and the Ancestor Gundam in the color screen.

On the big screen, it is also accompanied by the release of the video.

In good conscience, watching those two people demonstrate on stage, Hideki Hanyu himself wanted to buy one to play.

The excitement of ordinary players can be understood.

Listening to the uncontrollable cheers of the players in the audience, Hideki Hanyu and Satoshi Iwata glanced at each other, and at the same time saw the solemnity in each other.

They understand that this time Elf Entertainment is going to encounter unprecedented challenges.

From the three high-quality games introduced by Shigeru Miyamoto, to the colorful WS handheld of Yamashina Castle, to "Super Robot Wars: Transformers VS Gundam".

Hanyu had to admit that he was feeling a lot of pressure.

Although he has been working hard to gather wool.

But you can hold down your opponent for a while, but you can't hold down your opponent for a lifetime.

Genie Entertainment has great advantages, but it does not mean that Genie Entertainment can sit back and relax.

None of the elites of this era eat dry food.

What's more, he has cards in his hand.

People have it too.

He can seize the IP, but he can't get rid of the copyright owned by others.

People want to cooperate, and Elf Entertainment is powerless to stop it.

In another time and space, Nintendo is the only one in the world, which is even more exaggerated than today's elf entertainment.

There are also Sega, Sony, Atari, Microsoft and other challengers.

Hanyu Hideki is not so arrogant that he thinks that the advantage that Elf Entertainment has achieved now is enough to scare off all opponents.

That's it.

Nintendo and Bandai, as well as Takara, are already open.

Genie Entertainment is next.

What's more, Hanyu Hideki keenly captured that when Yamashina Castle introduced the WS handheld, whether it was a rechargeable version or a battery version, he deliberately did not mention the battery life.

Lenovo's battery technology in today's era, and the terrifying power consumption of color screens.

Hideki Hanyu realized that Genie Entertainment had an opportunity to break the game.

Maybe at this point.

The new computer is installed, and I forgot to export the input method font library of the old computer, and the speed of the code word plummets, so I can get used to it.

(End of chapter)