Game Development Giant

In this regard, Minoru Arakawa definitely cannot sit idly by. If he can't handle this matter well, then Nintendo's North American strategy will likely face a complete failure. Needless to say, his father-in-law, Mr. Yamauchi, will not be satisfied with this. , even I can never accept this kind of humiliating failure.

But after thinking about it, Minoru Arakawa really couldn't think of a better means of checks and balances. Although Jester's means were despicable, what he said was a fact. The performance of the other party's home game console is indeed higher than that of FC. , and navs is indeed different from FC.

But the problem is that it is absolutely impossible for the headquarters to develop a new console now, and it is also the stupidest behavior. This may be what the other party wants to do most. So the question is, what should I do now?

To be honest, the last thing Minoru Arakawa wants to do, who is well aware of the unspoken rules of the United States, is to sue, because he knows that even if he is fully able to win, the other party can drag out the lawsuit indefinitely if he is willing. It could be three years or five years. By then, even if the lawsuit is won, what's the point.

The market is long gone.

Jester has made it clear that he will not sell this emulator. If the other party does not make profits in turn, the best outcome is for the other party to publicly apologize and add a small amount of compensation. This is really hard for him and Nintendo. It's too much of a loss. This matter was really too important, and he himself could not come up with a definite idea, although his father-in-law told him before he came to the United States a few years ago that he should be fully responsible for everything here. At that time, he even tried to sell iron. He was given $10 million in cash to piece together, given his knowledge of Nintendo at the time. This is almost all of Nintendo's fortune.

This shows that his father-in-law had unconditional trust in him at that time.

But today, things are different than in the past. Back then, it was a situation of burning the boat or dying without a fight, but now Nintendo has gotten out of the predicament. What we are doing is booming, and North America is the top priority for whether the company can develop into a world-class enterprise. There is no room for failure, and I cannot bear this responsibility.

Therefore, Minoru Arakawa called his father-in-law's home phone, hoping to let the Nintendo owner make a decision.

Although it was early in the morning in Japan, after he dialed the phone and rang twice, a tired but extremely calm voice came from the other end of the phone. Arakawa Minoru heard this voice. He immediately knew that his father-in-law was still awake and must be waiting for him to give him news about this CES exhibition. "Something happened?" Hiroshi Yamauchi's voice was not loud, but it sounded majestic to Minoru Arakawa. He heard his father-in-law's question at the same time. It was as if his father-in-law had really appeared in front of him, staring at him with his cold and ruthless eyes wearing dark glasses, and he immediately stood up straight involuntarily.

"Yes." Minoru Arakawa didn't dare to say anything nonsense. He replied respectfully.

Hiroshi Yamauchi on the other end seemed to be silent. Arakawa did not hear any reply for nearly a minute. It was only when he felt that the other party had hung up that his father-in-law's majestic voice rang out again.

"Then just say it."…

Hiroshi Yamauchi's words were concise and to the point, and Minoru Arakawa told his father-in-law, the real helmsman of Nintendo, the whole thing over the phone in as concise a language as possible.

After listening to Minoru Arakawa's account, Hiroshi Yamauchi fell into a longer silence. This time, his voice did not ring again until more than five minutes later. However, it was obvious that the man at the helm who had saved Nintendo in times of crisis was I couldn't come up with any better solution in this short period of time.

"Let's do as you say first." Yamauchi Pu said very calmly at first. Then his tone suddenly turned cold, "Arakawa. You have to know that in the game industry, performance is not the key, the most important thing is the game! Those people who buy our game consoles do it to play games. You have to understand this. Never lose faith.”

"Yes, President." Minoru Arakawa's tone was still respectful.

Then, the two briefly exchanged a few words about the trial sale in New York after the exhibition, and hung up the phone.

Minoru Arakawa immediately dialed his company's phone number and gave a stern order to the person who answered the phone at his company: "Send an official letter to Mars Entertainment in the name of our company and ask them to inform us about the FC simulator incident. Apologize, otherwise we will take legal action."

Just when Arakawa Minoru could only use this useless method to deal with the impact of Jester's simulator on them, Jester was facing many questions from the media or enthusiastic players.

"Will you make Sheriff Balotelli's story into a movie? I really like him so much, he is like Eastwood in my heart!" The person who asked this question was a man wearing red clothes with a belt. A kid wearing a cowboy hat, with a look of longing on his face as he spoke.

"Ha ha."

Jester smiled first, and then he answered in a very sure tone, "To be honest, I personally also want to see Mr. Sheriff show off his power and eliminate bad guys on the big screen. We have been assigned to a certain movie before. The company wanted to purchase the copyright of "Chief Balotelli", but due to various things and the fact that the exhibition was about to open, we did not contact them. However, my personal opinion is that we cannot reach an agreement with them about "Balotelli Sergeant." "Chief Lotley", we will also start filming independently."

After he said these words, the stadium suddenly burst into cheers. Obviously many people liked his answer.

Then, a person with media credentials was called.

This is a young man who is dressed very casually. He wears a pair of glasses and has red hair. He may be of Nordic descent. His appearance is quite handsome, not as rough as the Nordic people.

"I am a reporter from NBC. I would like to ask whether ATI's 16-bit image display card will be sold to other compatible computer manufacturers. If they also use ATI's display card, then buy it Can users of PCs from these manufacturers also play the next-generation games you mentioned before?”

After hearing this question, Jester pursed his lips first. He didn't know whether he should say it so early, but the other party asked this question and he replied with no comment, so he seemed a bit weak. This is not in line with his personal personality, and users who originally wanted to buy their own high-end gaming computer may change their minds after hearing this question.

Thinking of this, Jester cleared his throat and decided to reveal an irrelevant point about his next plan for his high-end brand computer.

"Yes, Mr. reporter, what you said is very good. The effect of the picture is based on the processing power of the display chip and CPU. Theoretically speaking, as long as any computer manufacturer can produce a personal computer with such specifications, Of course, you can also experience the game graphics of the next generation - if a game company will produce such a game for them.”…

As soon as Jester finished speaking, there was a buzzing sound from under the stage. They didn't understand. What if a game company would produce such a game for them? Isn’t the “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” you are planning to release such a game?

"hehe."

Jester did not explain this question directly, but smiled first. He took a sip of water from the water glass beside him and moistened his dry lips and throat before continuing to explain.

"This time we used the DOS operating system to create this simulated demonstration level because we were in a hurry and did not have enough time to make an operating system exclusive to us. However, this operating system will definitely be available in the future, that is, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" we made can only run on our operating system."

"So can you make back the cost by doing this? You know that because of the price, the sales volume of your computer will definitely not be too high, and the R\u0026D funds needed to develop such an excellent game will definitely not be A few, I have seen reports before that the total research and development expenses of your company's "Avengers" project have exceeded two million US dollars." The reporter continued to ask this question with some confusion.

"Let me correct you first. Our internally calculated total research and development costs for Avengers so far are US$3.4 million, and our total promotion budget for this game will not be lower than this number." Jess Te first corrected the author's mistake, and then continued to explain, "Also, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" will have a Dreambox version with a castrated graphics effect. This does not affect the experience of the game plot. Let me emphasize this again. , I plan to make such a personal computer specifically for gaming, because I want qualified players to feel in advance what the games of the next era will be like."

At this time, a new questioner was called. This was a beautiful reporter with long light yellow hair, fair skin, and wearing a beige windbreaker. After she stood up, she asked the follow-up to this question.