The Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Exhibition is entering its second day.

More people came to the exhibition today than on the first day of opening.

Many players even brought tents and waited all night outside the exhibition gates, waiting for the pavilion to open the next day.

And the moment the door opened, these players who had lined up early rushed into the exhibition hall.

Their destination was not any one booth, but the main booth hall, located in the deepest part of the exhibition hall.

Players are so crazy for nothing other than to grab a spot in front of the main booth.

Due to today's technical limitations, the main booth is a closed exhibition hall in order to have a better projection display effect, so from the first session, it is a closed exhibition hall.

Except for media seats, spectator seats are not sold to the public, on a first-come, first-served basis, and the on-site staff will release them according to the situation until the station is full.

And today, the first press conference of the main booth will be held by Genie Entertainment.

As the most successful and popular club in the video game industry today, it's only natural that Genie Entertainment is popular with players.

But in addition to the love of die-hard gamers for elf entertainment.

There is another reason why they are so enthusiastic about attending the Genie Entertainment conference at TEPCO.

That's the badge system of Genie Entertainment.

If you look at the name, you know that it was made by Hideki Hanyu.

As a time traveler, Hideki Hanyu knows how important it is for a company to create a mature fan culture.

In the future, the loyal consumers of the companies that have done well in this area sometimes don't care about the product at all, only whether it is the product of the company.

That's why he came up with such a badge system.

For example, how many pre-orders are in place, or how many consumers who buy electronic pets at the Genie SHOW.

Colleagues who have obtained the Electronic Pet Body will receive a 'First Generation Electronic Pet Breeder Achievement Badge'.

This mode is found on the Electronic Poké Ball, which is called the 'Pokémon Trainer Achievement Badge'.

After purchasing a Pokeball 2 handheld, buying a PS console, and buying a game cartridge developed by Genie Entertainment.

As long as you trigger certain conditions, or participate in an official event, you can get the relevant achievement badge, or commemorative badge.

The badge is a simple one that can be pinned to the chest and printed with a unique pattern, made of plastic or metal.

Although the badges are beautifully designed, and they all come with different numbers.

But at first, players didn't really care too much, just treated it as an ordinary peripheral.

But with the increasing influence of elf entertainment, it is more and more loved by players.

These badges are also becoming more and more valued by players.

In particular, some rare badges that were given to players in the early days and are not left much today have been sold at extremely high prices in the secondary market.

Until now, as long as you can earn the Elf Entertainment Badge, it will definitely be enthusiastically sought after by players.

Participating in the TEPCO Exhibition, the press conference of Elf Entertainment is a way to obtain the Elf Entertainment badge.

At the first TEPCO Exhibition, the staff of Genie Entertainment presented the audience with the "Genie Entertainment First TEPCO Exhibition Witness Badge".

Then at the 2nd and 3rd TEPCO Exhibitions, Genie Entertainment also presented witness badges of different designs.

And at the main booth, or in the booth lottery to give a rarer "Elf Entertainment TEPCO Exhibition Companion Badge".

At last year's American E3 exhibition, because of the release of the PS console, there was also a "Genie Entertainment First Generation E3 Witness Badge".

These badges will only be given at the corresponding exhibition.

Therefore, for Elf Entertainment fans who want to have a badge, it is equivalent to missing it and going out of print.

Unlike other purchased products or event badges, it is possible to return to the event to earn them in subsequent events.

Although the hall of the main booth is large, it can accommodate only two or three hundred people.

It's so rare that if you miss it, you'll get out of print.

It's easy to understand why everyone is so fanatical.

Yesterday, Hideki Hanyu attended Nintendo's main booth press conference, and there was still a place for him to go a little late.

But today's press conference of Elf Entertainment at the main booth, don't say it's late, even if the exhibition hall opens a little slower, don't want to grab the position.

Not far from the entrance of the exhibition hall, Hideki Hanyu, who witnessed all this, was somewhat shocked in his heart.

Even if the idea of a badge system was suggested by him.

But he didn't expect that this suggestion would work so quickly.

He thought it might be a few more years before players would value the badges.

He looked at Koji Takida, the editor-in-chief of the game base, who was standing beside him, "When did this start?" ”

Koji Takida hurriedly replied.

"It only appeared last year, because badges were really valued, and it was last year that the game base did a special report on this, listing the rarity of all badges."

"President, when you made this suggestion, we all thought it didn't make much sense, but now it seems that we are short-sighted people who can't understand your foresight."

Hideki Hanyu is the first "dogleg" of Elf Entertainment Juntashi Kusamura, and he sends a sycophant at the right time.

Qianyuan Zhensheng, who has always liked to raise the bar with Kusamura Junzhong, is rare not to refute, but to say with a look of approval.

"Chairman Hanyu's eyes are always farther than we see, and I don't know how much it has helped our sales department with such a small badge, but now as long as the promotion and the commemorative badge are related, consumers will not have to worry about paying."

After listening to the words of several people, Hideki Hanyu hurriedly emphasized, "The reason why the badge is sought after is because of its rarity, and if it is issued indiscriminately, no one will pay attention to it." ”

"I know, I'll pay attention to that." Qianyuan Zhensheng said seriously.

"In fact, one badge cannot be issued indiscriminately, but it does not mean that we cannot issue multiple badges, and the role of badges is not only used as a souvenir."

Hideki Hanyu spoke.

When Qianyuan Zhensheng heard this, he immediately put on a deaf hearing, "Please teach me." ”

"We can release a variety of different badges, but each one has a limited number, for example, next year's fifth anniversary badge can be a 5th anniversary badge campaign.

At that time, the third generation of electronic pets had been listed, and players who got badges could go to the elf show to redeem a unique out-of-print pokemon card or evolution card with the unique code of the badge. ”

Maemoto Zhensheng said. "I see."

Hideki Hanyu said, "I'm just suggesting that your sales department should expand your own thinking." ”

"Yes, President." Maemoto replied.

Hideki Hanyu looked at his watch and saw that it was about the same time, "Let's go, the audience is in, we should go in too." ”

He didn't forget to smile and said, "And Iwata-san is going to see how well Iwata-san is prepared." ”

Inside the backstage of the main booth.

When Hideki Hanyu arrived with a group of elf entertainment executives, he found Satoshi Iwata holding a piece of paper and looking at it.

Seeing the arrival of Hideki Hanyu and others, Satoshi Iwata immediately greeted him.

Hanyu Hideki looked curiously at the paper in the other party's hand, "What are Iwata-san looking at?" ”

"It's a speech." Satoshi Iwata replied.

Today, Hideki Hanyu was going to announce in public that he was the president of Elf Entertainment, and he was a little nervous in his heart, and decided to prepare what he wanted to say in advance.

Hanyu Hideki nodded, "It's time to prepare, the opponents have already made a move, we can't be too polite." ”

"Can't be too polite?"

Satoshi Iwata thought to himself, what does it mean that we are not holding a conference at an exhibition, not a debate with our peers.

But before Hanyu Hideki could explain to him, the staff at the main booth had already come to remind him that it was time to go on stage.

When Hideki Hanyu heard this, he neatly matched the plaid shirt and jeans, as well as the black-framed glasses on his face that made his appearance much more low-key.

Then he said to Satoshi Iwata, "I'll go first," and strode towards the main booth.

Whoa—

Amid warm applause, Hideki Hanyu walked briskly to the main booth.

Players and the media are no strangers to Hideki Hanyu, but everyone didn't expect that he would be the one to preside over the press conference today.

After all, Hideki Hanyu has not made a public appearance at the TEPCO since the first Tokyo Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Raising the microphone, Hideki Hanyu spoke the first sentence. "I haven't seen anyone at the TEPCO for two years, and it seems that I am still very popular."

When the words fell, the audience immediately resounded with the cheers of the players.

Hideki Hanyu's outfit today, coupled with his status as a top game producer, undoubtedly makes players a lot closer to him.

But immediately after, Hideki Hanyu said, "But even if it's me, it's impossible to give you more badges." ”

It also attracted laughter from the scene.

Hideki Hanyu, "Actually, I miss everyone too......"

The audience immediately interrupted him with cheers.

Hideki Hanyu reached out and grabbed it, and said with a smile, "I received everyone's enthusiasm."

But I'm here this time because I have something to tell all the members of the Elf Entertainment family.

As we all know, since the resignation of Ms. Eri Kitahara, the position of president of Genie Entertainment has been vacant.

And today, Elf Entertainment will determine a new parent, and I believe that under his leadership, Elf Entertainment will continue to bring happiness to everyone. ”

Speaking of this, Hideki Hanyu stretched out his hand and pointed backstage, "Please join me in welcoming the new president of Elf Entertainment, Mr. Satoshi Iwata." ”

Hanyu Hideki's voice fell, and Satoshi Iwata, who had been waiting for a long time, walked out of the backstage amid the applause of Hanyu Hideki and all the audience.

For Satoshi Iwata, in fact, after he was transferred back to Neon, he exercised the power of president with the support of Eri Kitahara and Hideki Hanyu.

But at this moment, when Hideki Hanyu officially announced that he was the president.

Or on such a grand occasion.

In Iwata's heart, it is still difficult to avoid feeling excited.

At a young age, he became the helmsman of an enterprise with an annual turnover of trillions of yuan.

This kind of miracle in neon can only happen in a young club like Elf Entertainment.

For Hanyu Hideki's kindness and unreserved trust, he is impressed.

And what he can do, as Hanyu Hideki said, is to serve the club wholeheartedly and continue to bring happiness to everyone.

Compared with deliberately low-key, plus Hanyu Hideki, who imitates the dress of some bigwigs in later generations.

Satoshi Iwata, who is in a suit and leather shoes, undoubtedly looks much more stable and mature.

After taking the stage, he first thanked Hideki Hanyu for his cultivation and trust.

Then he began to give his acceptance speech to all the players and the media in the audience.

Every sentence of Satoshi Iwata comes from the bottom of his heart.

After all, he really enjoys working at Genie Entertainment.

Especially with Hideki Hanyu, a far-sighted boss who is willing to share benefits.

Let all the employees of Elf Entertainment have extraordinary enthusiasm in their work, an unprecedented sense of belonging, and a pleasant and healthy competitive atmosphere has been brewed.

This young club has a completely different corporate culture from other neon clubs.

"Now that you know President Iwata, let's talk about what we should say at the exhibition, and everyone in the province thinks that we will use this as a promotion press conference."

Hanyu said and asked Satoshi Iwata, "President Iwata, which of our products would you like to introduce to you next?" ”

Satoshi Iwata replied with a smile on his face.

"Originally, the main product of Genie Entertainment at this exhibition was an interactive shooting arcade machine developed based on the EGP arcade system, but after watching the press conference of friends yesterday, I felt that it was necessary to introduce the upgraded version of the Pokeball 2 handheld first."

While Satoshi Iwata was talking, a staff member had already delivered him a handheld computer.

Satoshi Iwata picked up the handheld and showed it to everyone.

Outwardly, this is no different from the original Pokeball 2.

But then, through Satoshi Iwata's introduction, and the data projected onto the big screen.

Everyone understands that this turned out to be a Pokeball 2 with an upgraded body performance and display, as well as battery life, with a switchable backlight.

According to Satoshi Iwata, this Pokeball 2 can last for eight to ten hours, even with a backlight.

When Satoshi Iwata introduced this Pokeball 2 upgrade, a few people under the main booth were visibly relieved.

They were the people sent by Bandai and Nintendo, as well as Sega, to find out the information.

After all, Hideki Hanyu cares about his peers.

It's also normal for friends to care about elf entertainment.

After all, the WS handheld is just putting pressure on Genie Entertainment.

But for Nintendo and Bandai, the Pokeball 2 handheld is a huge mountain range in front of them.

For the WS handheld to succeed, it has to climb over this mountain range.

Now they see that the so-called upgrade of Pokeball 2 is nothing more than the addition of a backlight.

Next, as long as the price announced by Satoshi Iwata is not too outrageous.

Then they have nothing to fear.

But at this time, after Satoshi Iwata introduced the backlit Pokeball 2, he did not announce the price at the first time.

Instead, he took another Pokeball 2 handheld from the staff.

Compared to the backlit model just now, this Pokeball 2 has the same appearance, but the case has been changed to a transparent plastic style.

In fact, long before the WS handheld, the Pokeball 2 was launched as a derivative of the transparent case.

After all, in this era, the transparent chassis that reveals the circuit board can be equated with high-tech to some extent.

"In this exhibition, in addition to the backlit Pokeball 2, Genie Entertainment also has a new Pokeball C model to introduce."

As he spoke, Satoshi Iwata turned on the handheld in his hand.

At the same time, the big screen of the main booth also lit up the video of the boot screen.

The players in the audience suddenly burst into exclamations.

As they have seen, this turned out to be a colorful version of the Pokeball 2.

After Nintendo and Bandai teamed up to launch a new model, Genie Entertainment also announced its own color upgrade Pokeball 2 handheld the next day.

Pokeball C。

This is the Pokeball Color.

"Some friends say that they are the world's first color handheld, and I want to say that who is the first, not determined by who developed the development first, Genie Entertainment's research and development of Pokeball C is enough to trace back to ......"

As soon as Satoshi Iwata said this, in the corner of the booth, Hanyu Hideki, who silently gave up the middle position, thought to himself, this is not very polite, what did you pretend to be "don't understand" just now.

However, when Hanyu Hideki complained in his heart, Satoshi Iwata was still beating his friends.

Whether it is the performance of the handheld, or the color of the screen, especially the battery life problem that the WS handheld avoids talking about, it was talked about by Satoshi Iwata.

He took the initiative to admit that this color handheld is good at everything.

The biggest problem is that the battery life is not ideal, and even if it has been optimized, it can only support four hours of gaming.

I also sincerely warn everyone that if you have requirements for battery life, please think carefully before buying.

Offstage, representatives of Nintendo and Bandai already felt bad the moment they saw Pokeball C appear.

After all, they launched the WS handheld with the intention of competing with Pokeball 2 differentially.

Now that Pokeball C is out, the differentiation is directly gone.

When they heard that the Pokeball C could last up to four hours, fine beads of sweat suddenly oozed from their heads.

You must know that the WS handheld can only last for two hours when using the battery.

And the charging model can't even reach two hours of battery life.

Tight R&D time, insufficient optimization, and technical limitations are all reasons for the short battery life.

In fact, at the beginning of the research and development, Junhei Yokoi, who was in charge of the research and development, warned that the use of immature color screens was destined to sacrifice battery life.

Yokoi Junhei suggested that instead of making a color version at first, you can start with a monochrome long-life version.

But Yokoi's idea was vetoed by the top management of Bandai and Nintendo without hesitation.

In their opinion, monochrome screens have no gimmicks at all.

If you don't open the gap with Pokeball 2, how can you beat Genie Entertainment, which already has a huge handheld market share.

The ambition to defeat the handheld of Elf Entertainment overwhelmed everyone's rationality.

This is the same time and space that Sega launched the Sega Nomad handheld that could not be used without AC power.

However, the two of them couldn't think about decision-making issues at this time.

Because Satoshi Iwata on the stage is ready to announce the prices of the two handhelds after introducing the two handhelds.

"Players who support Elf Entertainment, please count down with me and uncover the retail prices of these two handhelds......"

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9

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Under the leadership of Satoshi Iwata, everyone at the scene counted down together, and on the projection big screen, the Arabic numerals changed together.

Eventually, when the countdown is over, the prices of the two handhelds are projected on the screen for a split second.

In the entire main booth hall, the cheers and screams of the players sounded like a mountain and a tsunami.

The Pokeball 2 backlit version retails for 9,999 yen.

Pokeball C, retail price 12,999 yen.

I originally wanted to write about Hanyu Hideki and Satoshi Iwata talking about cross talk on stage.,By the way, the feeling of DS friends.,But after writing a lot.,I found that it didn't fit the character of the protagonist.,I had no choice but to delete it all.,Delayed a lot of time.,I'm sorry.,So there's only so much.。

I haven't seen the backstage for a long time.,After sending this chapter, I found out that the limit was free.,I'm going.,My fault.,The benefits for everyone are not full.,Tomorrow I guarantee more updates.,Ten thousand more starts!

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