Reborn Tycoon Rise

He Guoyuan nodded and said: "If there are only Xiangjiang Cubes and Snake, I'm worried that there will be a conflict of interest between our Gameboy and family game consoles?"

Xu Zhi smiled: "Don't worry, Gameboy is taking the portable route. Although they are all the same game, the playability is not as good as that of the home console. It doesn't matter even if there are some conflicts, Tank Battle, Pac-Man or what we will do in the future It is unlikely that arcade games developed in the future will be copied to the Gameboy. The two products actually take completely different routes! It is just because we are lacking in games now that we feel there will be a conflict."

In recent months, in addition to studying home game consoles, another R\u0026D department is working hard to develop another product proposed by Xu Zhi: Gameboy!

Without Xu Zhi's intervention, Nintendo would have released its first portable game console: GameWatch in 1980. This product sold a total of 32 million units worldwide in three years, earning Nintendo huge profits.

As for this life, Nintendo has no chance, because the protagonist Yokoi Gunpei who developed this game has been poached to Hong Kong by Midea with a high salary!

Gunpei Yokoi is the president of Nintendo's first R\u0026D department and is highly valued by Nintendo's senior management. On the way to take the Shinkansen, he accidentally saw a young man playing with a calculator in boredom, which made him think that if he could develop A game console the size of a calculator will definitely be very popular.

However, the reality is cruel. His idea was rejected by his immediate boss. For this reason, he reported to the president Hiroshi Yamauchi. As a result, the president held a high-level meeting and rejected his idea.

Historically, President Hiroshi Yamauchi supported Gunpei Yokoi despite the pressure from below, but it is different now.

Because Nintendo is now more in debt than it was at the same time in history. Several arcade games developed by the company have encountered serious failures in the U.S. market. The bank debt is extremely serious, and the company's executives do not agree to invest huge sums of money to develop a new market. Products that have never appeared on the Internet.

However, Gunpei Yokoi did not give up. He understood that the cost of developing a portable game console was actually not high. The trouble was the subsequent games. No matter how portable the game console was, without high-quality games, it would be a useless board.

It is obviously impossible to specifically develop games for portable game consoles. The only way is to introduce them from existing games. Yokoi Gunpei studied many games and found that Xiangjiang Cube and Snake are very suitable.

If we can obtain the patents for these two games on future Nintendo portable game consoles, then there should be a way to convince the company's top management!

But the dilemma is: if he tells Midea about this idea, will Midea be kicked away and they can develop it themselves?

One idea is that you cannot apply for a patent, only if the actual product comes out!

The second thing is that these two games are so popular. Even if Midea has professional ethics and is willing to sell the copyright, based on the popularity of the other party's game, the copyright fee must be sky-high, and it is even impossible for our company to pay!

However, God’s will is unpredictable. Just when Gunpei Yokoi was struggling with how to contact Midea Company, someone from Midea came to the door of his own initiative!

From the moment he decided to make a Gameboy, Xu Zhi decided to recruit Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi!

This man is a wizard in the gaming world and even the innovation world. The Gameboy and the D-pad are just two of his innovations. As early as the 1960s, he created weird gadgets for Nintendo such as the Super Strange Hand, Super Periscope, and the Love Meter. Hundreds of toys, with sales exceeding one million units in many years!

After taking charge of the game, a series of unprecedented inventions brought Nintendo to the pinnacle of gaming.

Gunpei Yokoi, like most Japanese, is unwilling to leave his company. This strange workplace concept puzzles many people in the West and even other Asian countries.

So He Guoyuan directly increased his offer to three times of Nintendo's salary, and also included a huge bonus at the end of the year. He also showed him the cross key and Gameboy handheld machine that had been patented by Midea. In the end, Yokoi Gunpei agreed to go Xiangjiang!

There is nothing in this world that money cannot solve. If it can't be solved, then money is not enough!

After leaving Nintendo, Gunpei Yokoi came to Hong Kong and was responsible for optimizing the operation of Gameboy and two games. He was also very dedicated. Within one month of joining the job, he concluded the civilian LCD agreement with Sharp, paving the way for the final mass production of Gameboy. Cleared the last obstacle.

He Guoyuan made a phone call, and soon, a middle-aged man in his 30s knocked on the door and walked in. When he saw Xu Zhi, he immediately bowed 90° and said in English: "Hello, boss!"

Xu Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This little Japanese etiquette is not a good thing in the Chinese area, so he also said in English: "Mr. Yokoi, please sit down. This is Xiangjiang. Don't use Japanese etiquette in the future. Many times the culture will be different." conflicting."

Yokoi Junpei immediately nodded and said: "Okay, I understand!"

Xu Zhi asked: "How is Gameboy doing now?"

"Xu Sheng, this is the latest improved model. Do you have any other suggestions?" Yokoi Gunpei took out a milky white handheld device slightly larger than a palm from his pocket and handed it to Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi carefully took care of this handheld device. The size was much larger than what he had imagined, but it was already much better than the one that He Guoyuan sent to the United States before, which was comparable to a brick.

On the lower left side of the game is the familiar cross key, on the right there are three different buttons, and in the middle there is a small red button, which is the pause button. The middle and upper part of the machine is a whole screen, which is only about 3 inches in size. The entire body is round and smooth, and the materials are made of high-quality plastic, which makes it very comfortable to touch.

When I turn on the power button, the familiar Xiangjiang Cube screen pops up, but it always looks blurry because of the lack of clarity on the screen.

In fact, according to Xu Zhi's own idea, this kind of handheld console should be detachable, the entire body is one piece, and the game card is replaceable like a home game console. This may seem less profitable on the surface, but it can Increase user stickiness.

However, the actual development of technology is not good. Yokoi Gunpei and a group of engineers have been studying for a long time, and they have developed the handheld console requested by Xu Zhi. However, Xu Zhi cannot use it. One is that the size of the handheld console has become larger, and the other is that the handheld console has become larger. It’s just that the cost is too high, even higher than the cost of one game and one handheld console.

Considering that his company currently doesn't have many games, Xu Zhi still nodded and agreed to use this traditional model: integrating games and handheld consoles.

As for screens, Xu Zhi has no choice. We are still 10 years away from the large-scale popularization of TFT LCDs. The LCD monitors currently on the market are all printed screens, which are commonly used in calculators.

However, in terms of size...

Xu Zhi asked: "Can't the size be reduced any further?"

Yokoi Gunpei apologized: "Xu Sheng, it's difficult to shrink anymore."

"Really?" Xu Zhi walked to the fish tank and threw the game console down. Air bubbles suddenly appeared on the fuselage. Xu Zhi pointed to the inside of the fish tank, turned to Gunpei Yokoi and said, "Look , so much air means there is still a lot of space!”

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