Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 80 80. We want to cooperate with Sony

July 15, 1991.

Neon Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

Sony Corporation Headquarters.

Qing Zhiyuan brought engineer Qianchuan Hongichi and copywriter Mika Ishino to visit.

In the conference room, sitting opposite them were three men in suits and ties.

Even calling him an old man is not an exaggeration at all.

The one in the middle is named Akio Morita. He has white hair, dense wrinkles on his face, thick bags under his eyes, and wears a pair of glasses. His cheekbones appear to be very high and his cheeks are sunken.

This man is 70 years old this year and still insists on working at Sony.

Akio Morita is one of the two founders of Sony Corporation and is currently the president of the company.

Although he is not the president, he actually makes many large-scale decisions.

The other one is Norio Ohga. He was born in 1930 and is now over 60 years old. He serves as the general manager of the product department and also leads the Sony product design department.

This time, the cooperative development with Rentendo is the contract signed by Norio Ohga on behalf of Sony.

The last one was Ken Kutaragi, who had the highest exposure during Rentendo's unilateral tearing up of the agreement and was also the initiator of the entire agreement.

Ken Kutaragi, who was born in 1950, has dark hair, a broad forehead, and always has a naive smile on his face.

Ken Kutaragi, 40 years old this year, can be regarded as the mainstay of Sony. If this backstabbing incident had not happened, he would have been very hopeful of being promoted to a higher management position.

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The atmosphere at the meeting was very serious, as if a war was about to take place.

The big guys on the opposite side stared at Qing Zhiyuan, as if they were going to eat him alive in the next second.

Of course, this is just a human illusion.

The copywriting planner Ishino Mika who came with Qing Zhiyuan was so nervous that her palms broke out in cold sweat.

To be honest, this was the first time for Ishino Mika to attend such a scary meeting.

If it weren't for pokeni's temporary inability to recruit suitable biology majors, she wouldn't be here at all.

When she first heard from the president that she wanted to make a development game that required biology or entomology planning, Ishino Mika was very resistant.

But after communicating with the president, she discovered that it was a false alarm.

Pokemon is basically a pet-raising game.

And the [Pikachu] image drawn by the president is really cute.

It's fluffy and extremely cute, and it directly touches Ishino Mika's heart.

This is why she agreed to take over and create a project for it.

The only thing I didn't expect was that the president would actually be used to negotiate with Sony.

Look at Qianchuan Hongyi next to him.

This young man didn't seem to be in any better condition than her. Even though it was a hot day in July, there wasn't that much sweat on his forehead.

"President Qing, can you briefly introduce the content of the proposal?" Akio Morita smiled politely.

To be honest, Akio Morita can be regarded as a strange flower in the neon corporate world.

Whether it's Rentendo's game tyrant Hiroshi Yamauchi or Sega's iron-faced killer Nakayama Hayao, they are both very intimidating characters who can make people tremble.

But Akio Morita will show extraordinary affinity in his interactions, and he will often even make people feel like——

This old man really has the illusion of caring about others.

It has to be said that there is a reason why the media gave Akio Morita high praise.

"OK."

Qing Zhiyuan stood up and admitted, "This proposal is a cooperation proposal we put forward based on the current status of your company and pokeni."

As he spoke, everyone lowered their heads and flipped through the proposal in front of them.

The proposal contains a lot of content, and a lot of information is attached at the end.

“First of all, I think Sony has the best hardware development capabilities in the industry, and your company’s pursuit of excellent quality and perfect performance in product development is really admirable and moving.

I believe that Sony has enough capabilities to develop the next generation of console products.

Even more than Rentian.

No, it should be said that there is enough hardware strength to leave Rentiantian far behind. "

The three people opposite did not speak, but nodded silently.

Although what Qing Zhiyuan said was a certain statement, to a certain extent, it was also a fact.

At the very least, Sony still has strength in hardware.

"This report points out that Sony is indeed very powerful in hardware, but it still lacks an opportunity to enter the gaming market."

"Games are composed of two parts: game consoles and cartridges." Qing Zhiyuan said, "We have no doubts about Sony's ability to produce game consoles, but in terms of game content, it seems that we still need a partner."

Qing Zhiyuan was not wrong.

Sony's previous main business was in semiconductor hardware, especially music products.

But in the gaming field, Sony is really a younger brother.

There are no masterpieces and only martial arts skills, but if there are not enough popular games with enough weight and sales volume on the machine, then this game console will only become a failed product.

This is also the reason why Sony approached Rentian.

Sony has the technology, Nintendo has the content.

The combination of the two can be said to be invincible.

To be honest, if the agreement had not been torn up by Rentian, I don’t know what the future would have been like.

There is a high probability that Sony will take advantage of this situation and become Neon, no, become the world's largest game manufacturer, right?

Unfortunately, these dreams have now come to nothing.

I have to make Akio Morita feel extremely heartbroken.

Qing Zhiyuan clearly hit the opponent's pain point.

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"What kind of help can your company give us?" Akio Morita asked politely.

"Although Pokeni is not as good as Rentendo and Sega, nor Namco and Square, at least its current influence is not as good as theirs, but we have enough potential and strength."

Qing Zhiyuan took out a video tape on the spot, which contained video materials about the "Onmyoji" series and "Mermaid Heart", so that everyone could have a more vivid understanding of pokeni's products.

When seeing the game screen played on the TV.

Qing Zhiyuan obviously saw Kutaragi Ken's eyes light up.

"To tell you the truth, this game called "Onmyoji" is a work we developed on FC. It once received a high score of 39 points from Famiton."

"What?!"

Everyone was shocked.

Is this actually the effect that FC can show?

At this moment, Kutaragi Ken suddenly remembered——

Yes, this is the company that rudely added a chip to the cassette to process images and memory.

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