Coquettish Rebirth

() Yokoi Gunpei came to the United States.

He came this time, of course, to see Jia Hongjian, and Yokoi Junping knew that his journey within Nintendo had come to an end.Now it's June, and the new Nintendo n6 machine is on sale in Japan.The full name of this machine is nintendo64, and its Chinese name is Nintendo 64, because its internal cpu core is so-called 64-bit, while Sony PS and other game consoles are still 64-bit.

This machine called nintendo64, or n64 for short, is very strange. In the situation that Sony and Sega have started to use CD as the game carrier, their Nintendo is still stubbornly using cassette as the game carrier.In this way, the capacity and cost of the game are very problematic. Although Nintendo itself has Mars compression technology, it can achieve a compression ratio of one-eighth or even one-sixteenth without compromising clarity. This technology is unique to them, no one else has it!It's fine if others don't have one, the capacity of this game cartridge is smaller than that of a CD, and the n64 needs to pay attention to 3D performance, so all kinds of games must be 3D, so the capacity is larger than that of 2D!In addition, the production cost of this kind of cassette is high, and the cost has to be borne by the game company, so naturally everyone is not willing to release games on this machine! ..

This is simply a certain thing, Yokoi Gunpei doesn't know why Nintendo's high-level executives can't see it!He didn't know why those people would force him to launch the vb game console to the market prematurely, even if it took only two months.How good would it be to give him more time and let him improve the vb a bit? ..

A company that used to make him feel like a fish in water, now I don't know how it has become so bureaucratic.Even the internal hilltop competition has begun to seriously damage the interests of the company!Such a change really makes Yokoi Gunpei unable to understand it!Now that he is being forced to leave the company again, he really doesn't have much to miss!

"Hello, Mr. Jia, I really didn't expect that your Huaxia Hi-Tech has already developed into the US market, and I didn't expect your company to start developing consumer electronics products. This product is really good..." Yokoi Junping held in his hand He played with a music pod and said.

"Hehe, I personally think that the functions of portable entertainment terminals will start to integrate in the future, so it's better to enter this industry now." Jia Hongjian seemed to be hinting at something.Hearing his words, Yokoi Gunpei was a little surprised at the time. "The functions of portable entertainment terminals are beginning to merge? How about this?"

"To put it simply, Mr. Yokoi Gunpei, you are a handheld phone. You should know that it is not difficult to add a mobile phone motherboard and signal transmitter to the back of the handheld phone. In this way, it is popularized in the current g** mobile phones. In Dachao, you can make phone calls and play games. Isn’t it very convenient? Consumers don’t need to carry a mobile phone and a game console when they go out in the future, they only need to bring one.” Jia Hongjian said with a smile.

"Bring one? Hehe, it's good to have such an idea, but the game machine industry is not only based on functions and ideas, but also on the meaning of third-party manufacturers. There are not a large number of third-party manufacturers who come to help produce games and play. If there are fewer people, then it will enter a vicious circle." After thinking for a while, Yokoi Junhei said, shaking his head slightly.What he said was true, like Sega.It's not that I haven't thought about making a handheld phone, but what is the result?Their GameGear handheld is a mess, even if xing is better than Nintendo's Gameboy, but as long as Nintendo controls the third party, then Sega is out of business!

In general.This third party and the first party are a symbiotic relationship.The first-party game manufacturers want to popularize the machine all over the world, so that third parties will flock to make games on it.But if game makers can't attract third parties in advance, how can they spread the machine to the world without many games?And a new manufacturer that wants to enter the game industry, how can it be completely believed by a third party in the first place?It can be said.This game industry is a typical industry with economies of scale. If the scale cannot increase, that is, the popularity cannot increase, it will be a failure!As long as the popularity increases, it will automatically enter a virtuous circle, at least for 510 years, you can sleep peacefully!

At this time, Jia Hongjian smiled indifferently, "Yes, third-party manufacturers will always be uncles, they are just like cats, if you treat them well, they will not miss the old love... But let's talk Come back, why don't we mobilize the people of the world? Why do we have to rely on these manufacturers?" "Mobilize the people of the world? Mr. Jia, you...you...?" As a Japanese person, Yokoi Junpei, how could he not know In the 60s, the Japanese all fought together?How could you not know about the Red Army?

What is Quangongdou?What is the Red Army?That was the ideological export of Red China to Japan back then!Red China back then was a country like a lighthouse in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Back then, the Red Sezi forces and the White Sezi You forces were separated and contended. There were various people with various rightist ideas in the Red countries. There are naturally more leftists in white countries.Back then, under the call of Grandpa Mao, a group of college students from the University of Tokyo directly launched struggle activities on campus, went on strike and sprayed quotations from various Red Books on campus. Everyone will be surprised to think that they have returned to China!

Jia Hongjian's phrase "mobilize the people of the world" sounds like something that Mao Zedong could say. Doesn't this surprise Yokoi Gunpei?At this time, Jia Hongjian smiled slightly, "Yes, Mr. Yokoi, you should know that our music pod has an online function, that is to say, it can be downloaded and purchased online. Our normal quality music is about 3m in size The game on a GB is only a few hundred kilobytes in size, so why can’t we put the game on our online platform and let players pay to download it?”

These words really shocked Yokoi Gunpei!You must know that Junpei Yokoi is one of the big tentacle monsters in the Japanese game industry, but he usually thinks about the design of future handheld phones, and he always thinks about how to "play" interestingly or how to give the first The three parties wanted to provide functions that might lead to more interesting games, but never thought about the problem of this kind of carrier.After all, this handheld is different from the mainframe, so it is impossible to use a CD?Then use the cassette all the way!But what Jia Hongjian said.Possibly even a direct no-cost carrier?Possibly without a cassette?Install a memory card inside the machine to store games?God!This is a game revolution!

But when Junhei Yokoi’s shocked head went blank, Jia Hongjian said again, “I believe that as a game mechanism author, you should understand from the previous competition with Sega that Sega’s games are too The core direction, to put it bluntly, because Sega is transformed from an arcade manufacturer, the goal of their games is to make games for gamers. They only provide games for advanced players, so their games are too difficult for ordinary players to learn, which is why As a result, they can't make rpg role-playing games, and they can't make games with the largest sales in the market. They only make fighting games and various clearance games, which limits their own market. After all, ordinary people in the world are big Most. Similarly, in such a market, can we assert that .LT is the winner, and this kind of lightuser, that is, light players, is the main group of people who spend money, the kind of core-oriented games developed for testicles , Ordinary people don’t like to play it too much. So, why don’t we open our music pod system to the world? Let programmers all over the world can develop a small game, upload it to our system, and then Make money from downloads? To tell you the truth, the self-uploading function of our music pods has actually been done long ago, but it’s just not open..."

Shock!Junpei Yokoi must be shocked!No matter how stubborn he is, he must admit that good ideas actually come from a huge population base!No matter how genius.Everyone will have their own misunderstandings and their own fixed patterns.But among the ordinary people, who knows if someone will suddenly think of a method that is completely different from a genius, which is very interesting, but just doesn't have the corresponding technology or energy to develop it?You must know these game talents in Japan now.Basically, they were selected from young people through various game making competitions in the 80s!If Jia Hongjian and the others really open up this function, not to mention how many good games ordinary programmers can make, but at least the game industry will prosper at once, and a lot of new talents will appear at once, which is the so-called talent blowout!And after the talent blowout.That will definitely lead to more and better games!

At the same time, because there are such a large number of programmers from all over the country to develop, as long as they find that they can make some extra money by uploading games after work, their enthusiasm will be mobilized.After they are mobilized, even if third-party manufacturers are not optimistic about Huaxia Hi-Tech, this Huaxia Hi-Tech still has the strength to expand the sales of its own game consoles!And the download mode without cost will definitely attract some third-party manufacturers to join!This, this is really a game revolution!

That's right, revolution!It can be said that it has completely broken through the existing operating mode of the game industry and directly created a new mode!And this new model is obviously full of vitality and competitiveness compared to the previous model!After all, the creativity of the people is limitless!Maybe in the future, there will be specialized creative talents and programmers and artists to combine to create their own semi-professional game studio, plan and make their own games after work, and then upload them, and finally earn a lot of money!This model of blooming everywhere is much better than the current monopoly model of giants!

Moreover, this blooming mode is aimed at light players.According to Ri's own investigation and research, Ri himself spends most of his time playing with handheld phones, which is when he is on the train or the subway. They usually don't have much time to play during their breaks!It is because of this that the handheld games such as gb can record at any time, even in the maze!You must know that in console games, mazes cannot be recorded!Because the goal of game manufacturers is to prolong the game time of players!And handhelds are portable because they want to play anytime, anywhere, and they can’t play anytime, anywhere, so they must be able to record at any time!

But isn't it more appropriate to play small games that can be played anytime, anywhere?Big games require too much experience and investment, and it doesn't matter if small games are launched at any time!As long as there is a good idea for this kind of small game, even one person can make it. Even the picture and rules can be very simple, as long as it is interesting!Isn't this what Nintendo used to aim for in gaming?The game doesn't need too many gorgeous shells, it just needs to be simple and interesting!And Jia Hongjian's model, isn't it just to promote fun?

At this time, Yokoi Gunpei looked at Jia Hongjian with a look of shock.He felt that he saw the overlord of the game world coming in an era in the future! (To be continued.)