Giant of the times

"It would be fine if Nintendo is willing to be a third-party game developer, but it is so ambitious that it wants to take a share of the home game console market. This is unbearable!" Li Zetian sneered in his heart, with a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes. A cold look.

In fact, it’s no wonder that Li Zetian is so targeted at Nintendo. As the saying goes, “If you beat the snake, you will suffer the consequences.” Who made the other party so awesome in his previous life? If it develops, it will be hard to say what will happen next, and it may subvert the Flamingo. The company's dominance.

*** once said: "Strategically, we must despise the enemy, and tactically, we must pay attention to the enemy!"

In this life, Nintendo has suffered setbacks, and its financial resources, talent and technology are much worse than in the previous life. Li Zetian no longer lists Nintendo as his number one enemy, but in terms of specific tactics, Li Zetian still attaches great importance to the opponent and tries to destroy it as much as possible!

In addition, it is also a warning to other companies that are eager to enter the home game console market!

Li Zetian wants them to know that the home game console market belongs to the Flamingo Company. If any company dares to enter this market, it depends on me if I don’t kill them and let them suffer the same fate as Nintendo!

In this way, Flamingo Company has established a strong prestige. In the future, any company that dares to enter the home game console market will have to weigh its own strength.

Without competitors, Flamingo Company will be able to form a monopoly and make high profits, which is natural.

At this time, Flamingo Company and Nintendo Company were competing against each other, which had already caused a huge shock in the industry!

Third-party game developers and companies looking to get into home consoles are feeling the chills. Obviously, the Flamingo Company is very determined to destroy Nintendo. The price of FC is low, so the price of Flamingo-1 is lower than that of FC. Nintendo gives away game cartridges, and Flamingo also gives away game cartridges.

For players, there are not many games on the FC, but there are so many choices on the Flamingo-1. In addition, the Flamingo company is so famous. As a player, there is no doubt that the first choice is I will definitely buy the Flamingo-1 game console.

In fact, it is true.

After the Flamingo Company launched a promotional campaign, there was a craze for buying the Flamingo-1 game console. Nintendo's FC sales plummeted, and Nintendo was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

"President Hiroshi Yamauchi, Flamingo Company wants to kill us!"

"Yes, all methods are used to compete with Nintendo!"

"Because of the royalty system, many companies disliked Flamingo Company, and even had the idea of ​​​​setting up their own business and building their own game console platform! Nintendo launched a game console at this time, and it hit the point of the gun. Flamingo Company If you don’t take action against Nintendo, who will take action?!”

"Bagayalu, Flamingo Company is so abominable!"

"..."

Everyone cursed.

But, besides scolding, what else can they do now?

Yamauchi Pu frowned, feeling anxious in his heart. He finally understood that the Flamingo Company was determined to suppress Nintendo severely.

At this moment, Hiroshi Yamauchi felt regretful, shook his head, and sighed in his heart: "If I had known this, I would not have allowed Nintendo to enter the home game console market. Tens of millions of dollars of investment and several years of energy would have been wasted. If it fails this time, Nintendo will definitely be devastated and unable to recover!"

Hiroshi Yamauchi knew very well that if he confronted Flamingo Company this time, it would be inevitable to be banned in the future.

The office was full of quarrels, like a vegetable market.

Hiroshi Yamauchi put his hands on the table and held his chin. Looking at the chaos in front of him, he felt a headache and upset!

A week later, FC's sales totaled less than 10,000 units, which was a failure. This also led to Nintendo's failure to attract third-party game developers.

In the market, profit comes first. FC has not sold many machines, so how many games can we expect to sell on this platform?

At this moment, Nintendo is facing a dilemma. FC sales are low, but Nintendo has to spend huge sums of money to develop games on the platform. This is obviously a loss-making deal, but if it doesn't do this, where will the sales of FC be?

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Flamingo Company Headquarters, CEO Office.

Nolan Bushnell smiled and said to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, it seems that Nintendo can't afford to make any trouble!"

Li Zetian said calmly: "Don't draw conclusions too early. The Flamingo Company must remain vigilant at this moment to prevent competitors from having a chance to come back!" Li Zetian paused and reminded, "At the moment, the Flamingo Company must work hard to do a good job in the Flamingo Company." The development of the Bird-2 game console and related game software. In addition to the Flamingo Company, third-party game developers must be contacted and asked to closely cooperate with the Flamingo Company to develop games! Since the Flamingo-2 uses CD as a Game storage media naturally cannot use game cartridges. In other words, the Flamingo-2 game console is not compatible with the Flamingo-1 game console. This is our biggest trouble! Therefore, when the Flamingo-2 is released, the new There must be a lot of games, but the quality of the games must be guaranteed. If there are not enough good games, the release time of Flamingo-2 can be delayed! The brand of 'Produced by Flamingo must be a high-quality product' cannot be damaged!"

Nolan Bushnell nodded and said: "Well, okay, Mr. Li, don't worry, I will take care of these things."

Later, Li Zetian and Nolan Bushnell talked about Flamingo Company’s overseas development layout.

Nolan Bushnell said that so far, Flamingo Company has established game development centers in 28 countries and regions around the world, including the United States, Canada, RB, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and France. branch. In addition, we have established cooperative relationships with many film and television companies to adapt movies into games, or adapt games into movies and cartoons.

Li Zetian nodded frequently after hearing this, very satisfied, thought for a while and said: "Flamingo Company can try to diversify its development. It is not just a game development company. I hope that Flamingo Company can fully realize the value of a game." For example, establishing your own toy company and manufacturing its own game character toys; such as establishing your own film and television company to create movies and animations belonging to the Flamingo Company; and establishing a Flamingo Game Park and establishing game novels and comics. Magazine publishers, etc. What we want to do is to build a huge game entertainment empire!!!"

After listening to Li Zetian's heroic words, Nolan Bushnell was very excited and his heart was surging, "Mr. Li, Flamingo Company will definitely become a very great company!"

"I hope so!" Li Zetian smiled faintly and reminded, "However, what I said before needs to be done gradually and not too hastily! Don't forget the essence of Flamingo Company! This is a company with games as its core , the better the game quality, the easier it will be for us to create game IP!!!"

"Um!"

The word IP was actually very unfamiliar in the 1980s, but because it was often mentioned in Li Zetian's mouth, it became a hot word.

Creating value around IP has become a business consensus!

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Three days later, the Flamingo Company summoned more than a dozen subsidiaries including Namco, Konami, and Koei Co., Ltd. for a meeting and asked them to develop new games for the Flamingo-2 game console.

As the news spread, the industry couldn't help but be shocked.

"Uh, Flamingo Company's new game console has been developed so quickly?! It is said to be the world's first game console equipped with a 16-bit processor with super performance!!!"

"I heard from people that the second-generation Flamingo game console made huge disruptive innovations, which shocked all the people in charge of the Flamingo subsidiary at the time!"

"My friend works as an assistant to the CEO of Namco. She said that she saw the appearance of the second-generation Flamingo game console with her own eyes. It was so cool, like a flying saucer! She also said that the second-generation game console The machine was designed by Chronos Li himself!!!”

"Wow! Chronos Li has taken action again. The Flamingo-2 game console must be very awesome!!!"

"Haha, needless to say!"

"..."

Nintendo was struck by lightning. It took several years to develop the FC, which was only an 8-bit game console. In the blink of an eye, Flamingo's 16-bit game console was about to be released!

FC's only performance advantage will soon be overtaken. How else can Nintendo compete with Flamingo?

Some third-party game development companies that had "rebellious intentions" and were secretly collaborating with Nintendo saw the situation of Flamingo Company, and even the 16-bit game console was about to be developed, and the fire in their hearts was immediately extinguished. I immediately shamelessly contacted Flamingo Company and offered to be a "third-party game development worker."

Nintendo Corporation, Headquarters.

"How is this possible?!" Hiroshi Yamauchi's eyes were bloodshot. He had just received news that almost all third-party game developers had abandoned Nintendo. At the same time, Flamingo Company announced that all game consoles and game cartridges owned by Flamingo Company that are within one year and are not damaged can be exchanged for new ones, and users only need to compensate for an additional part of the funds. As soon as the news spread, it was like dropping an atomic bomb among the players, causing a huge sensation. The sales of Flamingo-1 skyrocketed, while FC was basically unsalable.

The previous confrontation has made Nintendo very uncomfortable, and now it has used the big trick of "replacing the old with the new". It is so powerful that it almost makes Nintendo feel desperate!

"Flamingo Company is replacing old ones with new ones, aren't you afraid of losing profits?" Hiroshi Yamauchi said angrily and threw a blue and white vase on the table.

If Li Zetian knew his question, he would like to tell him.

"If you lose your sister, can't you sell the used goods in South America and Africa? Not only can you make a lot of money, but you can also cultivate potential users and build the company's brand! In addition, it won't be long before piracy is rampant in mainland China, and used goods will be repurchased. Package it and sell it in China. The price is cheaper than pirated game consoles such as Xiaobawang. It can not only combat piracy, but also make money, killing two birds with one stone!"