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Chapter 552 456 are all for cooperation with pokeni

Chapter 552 456. They are all for cooperation with pokeni

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"What does it mean?"

After the news came back to Neon, the semi-retired Hiroshi Yamauchi in Rentendo was confused and didn't quite understand what the so-called digitalization was.

Shigeru Miyamoto explained Qing Zhiyuan's digital concept to Pu Yamauchi, and Pu Yamauchi finally understood.

"Qing Zhiyuan, this guy, likes to come up with some mysterious things to attract people's attention."

Although Hiroshi Yamauchi was smiling and didn't seem to take Qing Zhiyuan's digital idea seriously, the worry in his eyes betrayed him.

A few years ago, Hiroshi Yamauchi would not have been moved by it.

In Yamauchi's own understanding, cassettes will always exist, and this thing is the pillar of Rentendo, and it must not be changed.

However, in recent years, he has been beaten badly by Sony, which has led to some changes in Yamauchi's current mentality.

The most significant result is——

At this year's E3 electronics show, Minoru Arakawa, who is now almost the acting president, released relevant news, indicating that Rentendo will abandon cassette production and switch to CD mode.

This seems almost impossible to the outside world. According to everyone's understanding of Yamauchi Hiroshi, how could such a dictator in the game industry give up cassettes?

This is the fact. Turning to CD production is a strong signal released by Hiroshi Yamauchi and Rentian, showing to the world that Rentian will actually change.

But now, Hiroshi Yamauchi is worried about another problem:

"Good guy, CDs have only been popular for a few years. Qing Zhiyuan is going to give up CDs so soon?"

“We can’t say we should give up. According to media reports, Qing Zhiyuan currently only wants to engage in digitalization in the Omi region. As for whether it will be implemented in Neon in the future, it is actually difficult to say.

And he never said anything about giving up the CD. "

Miyamoto Shigeru hesitated for a few seconds, although at first glance it seemed that Qing Zhiyuan was bragging, and many things seemed like fantasy and not at all relevant.

For example, he said that after the game is digitized, the game can be played on a computer or DC through network transmission. However, Neon's network speed is still very slow and it is still in the dial-up stage.

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem so completely unreliable.

First of all, under the promotion of Masayoshi Son, Neon's Internet industry has now unified the ADSL standard internationally, and Son has been vigorously promoting ADSL services. SoftBank is now equivalent to Neon's largest network service provider, and has successively launched More than hundreds of thousands of users have adopted SoftBank's newly launched ADSL network service.

Although this scale is small, according to Masayoshi Son’s time machine theory, everything that is realized in the United States will eventually be realized in Neon. It is very likely that Neon in the future will also become a country where everyone has access to the Internet.

It cannot be underestimated then.

Speaking of network transmission, although Miyamoto Shigeru doesn't know much about the specific technical details, at least Rentendo is also developing games that can be played online.

Try to socialize with acquaintances in a small area.

But is it really as exaggerated as what Qing Zhiyuan said? And even if what Qing Zhiyuan said is true, Miyamoto Shigeru actually has no idea how many years it will take to realize it.

It also took several years for game consoles to develop from 16-bit to 32-bit. It is actually difficult to say clearly how fast the Internet will develop.

If a person can accurately predict the future, then this person is out of the category of human beings. That person is not a human being, but a god.

At least Shigeru Miyamoto would not think that Qing Zhiyuan has such ability.

Everyone is just placing bets for tomorrow based on their current strength.

Yamauchi Hiroshi and Miyamoto Shigeru discussed with each other for a while. In fact, there is no better way to deal with Qing Zhiyuan now, and no one knows what the future will look like.

Moreover, it is impossible for Rentendo to follow pokeni, which Miyamoto Shigeru knows very well.

He knew Hiroshi Yamauchi too well. If Yamauchi could compromise, he would not be called a gaming tyrant.

But I don't know why...

Miyamoto Shigeru always felt a little uneasy in his heart.

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"What?! Game digitization?"

Sony President Nobuyuki Idei was so angry that he laughed when he heard the news.

In other words, I didn't know whether to laugh or be angry for a moment.

Because the concept of digitalization was proposed by himself, Nobuyuki Idei decided that Sony's future grand strategy would be to take the digital route when he took over Sony.

What the company is currently doing is digitizing music content, that is, making a walkman device that can read and write. Users can download music and listen to it according to their own preferences.

If you feel tired of listening to it, you can delete it.

This is actually the same as the concept of game digitization proposed by Qing Zhiyuan.

It's just that music is actually easier to make, because the capacity of a song is only a few MB or even smaller. All the technologies are actually quite mature, and it is not difficult to make it.

But games are now a growing trend.

"If the music is smaller, it is actually easier to digitize it. However, the capacity of the game is so large. If we digitize it now, we will definitely encounter a lot of problems." Nobuyuki Idei said with a wry smile.

hateful……

He got the better of him.

It was obviously my theory, so why did Qing Zhiyuan just copy it?

"You can't expect players to download several gigabyte-sized games through the Internet, right?" Kutaragi Ken nodded in agreement, feeling that Qing Zhiyuan was crazy.

At least this concept seems a bit immature when it is proposed now.

Of course, deep down in his heart, Nobuyuki Dei agreed with Qing Zhiyuan's approach.

But it takes time to lay the groundwork. The construction of the basic network and the improvement of network speed are the most important prerequisites. Otherwise, it will take several days to download a game, and players would really rather just buy the disc directly.

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Both pokeni and Sony are hyping the concept of digitalization, but the biggest beneficiaries are not themselves.

There are several biggest beneficiaries, and the first one is Microsoft.

Microsoft, which has just invested in pokeni and completed the equity swap with pokeni, is basically regarded by the outside world as being tied to pokeni.

And not long after they announced their in-depth cooperation, pokeni announced that they would go digital.

Many people will inevitably have associations and speculations, wondering whether Qing Zhiyuan's news was already discussed with Bill Gates, and then broke out at this point in time.

Microsoft's stock rose again in response.

There are two reasons for the increase.

The first is that Microsoft is the second largest shareholder of Pokeni. This wave of digital concepts is actually very favored by capital. It is believed that the game digital concept proposed by Qing Zhiyuan is very consistent with the big wave of digitalization. This is the future development. The trend will definitely create huge market potential.

People lie, but money doesn't.

Capital has always developed and flowed in a profitable direction.

So when the concept of digitalization was born, Microsoft's stock price naturally went up.

The second is that digitization is actually closely related to Microsoft. The support of the operating system and the formulation of formats are the top priorities. It is obvious that pokeni's future digitization is based on windows, so it is reasonable for Microsoft's stock to rise. Something happened.

Another beneficiary is Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank. First of all, he is vigorously promoting online banking and online payment functions, which are complementary to the concept of digitalization.

On the other hand, Masayoshi Son has just obtained the license and has become Neon's largest ADSL network service provider. The Internet is also one of the important contents they are vigorously promoting.

With the continuous development of technology, everyone thinks that Neon is likely to reach the current Internet level in the United States within the next few years.

It can even be said that the network gap will become smaller and smaller in the future, and the network environments and network speeds in many countries will reach a similar level.

It can be seen that pokeni’s digital concept is very advanced.

This is actually complementary to the digitization that Qing Zhiyuan wants to do.

It was as if Qing Zhiyuan had discussed it with Bill Gates and Son Zhengyi in advance, and the occurrence of various things was too coincidental and it was unavoidable to make people think.

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"Don't you think this is too strange? Two months ago, Microsoft deeply tied up with pokeni and exchanged equity. Now pokeni has directly launched the digital function of games.

I always feel that things are not that simple. "

"Does that need to be said? It's obvious! I don't believe that Qing Zhiyuan would dare to make such a big gamble before reaching a consensus with Microsoft. What if others don't buy it?

You must know that the current mainstream is still dominated by CDs. "

"Not to mention Masayoshi Son. The two of them have been wearing the same pants since a long time ago. SoftBank directly owns 30% of P-net's shares, which is no joke.

But these can't mean anything, they can only mean that everything is premeditated.

And the big guys all gathered together.

It seems that both Bill Gates and Masayoshi Son are very optimistic about pokeni. "

"Ah...it seems to be true. If they had planned it before, then everything would make sense.

No wonder SoftBank is building a network here, engaging in online banking and ADSL.

It turns out it was to cooperate with pokeni. "

"As a player, this doesn't matter, right? What we are more concerned about is when the digitalization mentioned by Qing Zhiyuan will be realized, and what it will be like in the end.

In fact, it is still hard for me to imagine that I can get the game to my own machine through the Internet.

Wouldn’t it mean that we no longer need to buy cassettes and CDs? "

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"Qingsang! Why didn't you tell me earlier when you were going digital? What do you mean now? Are you going to stop using dealers in the future?

Now that games can be transferred over the Internet, are cassettes and CDs still necessary? "

After the news spread back to Neon, Torun's president Hiroyuki Hattori couldn't sit still.

You must know that as Neon's largest game distributor, he is different from Rentiantian and Sony. He does not rely on technology to make a living. He specializes in channels and makes money by selling games.

Now it's better for you to go directly to digital. Hiroyuki Hattori can't even imagine that without cassettes and CDs, what's the need for dealers to exist?

After realizing this, Hattori Hiroyuki directly [invited] Qing Zhiyuan to dinner. In fact, he came to raise an army to question the crime.

"Hahaha, President Hattori, don't be so anxious and angry. Let me explain to you first."

Qing Zhiyuan smiled and reassured, "Well, let me tell you the conclusion first."

"The conclusion is -

Cassettes and CDs will continue in new forms in the future. "

real or fake?

Hattori Hiroyuki blinked his little eyes and said, "Don't treat me like an idiot."

"I know. The new form is what you call digitalization. In other words, hard drives will be the most valuable in the future. As long as the hard drive capacity is large enough, who will buy game discs?"

"No, no, no," Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile, "Hard drives are definitely needed, but media such as game cartridges and optical discs will not disappear, and the new forms must also be some kind of storage media.

Whether cassettes or CDs, the capacity will become larger and larger in the future. "

Hattori Hiroyuki looked at Qing Zhiyuan without saying anything, with a look on his face: "Look, do I believe it?" 】Looks like.

Qing Zhiyuan patiently explained, “Plug and play, this is the advantage.

Although we have proposed digitization now, and after Omi promotes it in the future, the games downloaded by players must first be installed on the local hard drive, because if they are not compressed, the size will be too large, which is not conducive to network transmission.

However, cassettes and CDs integrate the game itself and do not require installation. They can be played after being put into the game console. This advantage is not available in digital games. "

But if the network speed is fast enough in the future, for example, if it has reached the point of instant play, no need to download, and network traffic alone is enough to support the game, in fact, the advantages of cartridges and discs will be completely lost by then.

But this day is actually quite far away, at least he hasn't seen it yet in 2023 before Qing Zhiyuan traveled through time.

But do you think digitalization has any impact on these traditional carriers?

There must be some.

Except for Neon, a group of players who are naturally protected and have been accustomed to CDs and cassettes since childhood, many countries in the world actually prefer to download games through the Internet.

Especially after the emergence of smart phones that can play games, mobile phones have truly replaced the functions of many game consoles and will be more convenient. The impact formed at that time was like a landslide and tsunami.

Think of smartphones…

Qing Zhiyuan thought that he had to make arrangements early.

If the future mobile platform does not enter, it will end up like Microsoft. A huge empire will turn from prosperity to decline because Microsoft has not achieved results on the mobile side.

As a time traveler, Qing Zhiyuan will definitely not miss it.

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"Moreover, cassettes and CDs also have collection functions, and this part of the value is also given by the company. Think about it, why do so many players buy multiple copies of the game?

Obviously one game is enough to play.

To put it bluntly -

Among the physical values, a very important part is the collection value. "

After Qing Zhiyuan's explanation, Hattori Hiroyuki felt a little calmer.

Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep at night.

"Besides, President Hattori, haven't I already provided you with something more profitable?" Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile.

"Huh?" Hattori Yuichi looked confused.

"Point card, virtual currency, do you remember?" Qing Zhiyuan reminded.

"Ah!" Hattori Hiroyuki's whole body was shocked.

Yes, click the card!

When Yuichi Hattori thought about the money-grabbing ability of Dim Cards, he is still afraid even now.

From this perspective, Qing Zhiyuan actually started taking care of him more than a year ago.