Takahashi looked at Kudo Yuji's sincere eyes, and he believed that Kudo Yuji sincerely invited him to join the host camp they jointly produced.

But joining a host camp often does not look at feelings, or feelings do not play a decisive role.

Takahashi shook his head and expressed his rejection.

"Why?" asked Yuji Kudo.

Takahashi sorted out his ideas and said, "The co-developed host will not be successful at all. Hudson, Taidong, Namco, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba... If you add Wanhu, do you think it will be successful?"

"Why won't it succeed? We have better performance and better software and hardware R&D teams. We will definitely be able to make better electronic games, far better games than on red and white machines!" Kudo Yuji said with some disobedience.

No one can stand the "slander" of others. For a person who has devoted all his wealth and parents to "start a business", you say that starting a business will fail, and all the money will be lost, and it is considered lucky to not be beaten. At this moment, this is what Takahashi does.

It’s not that he can’t be silly, he can hold it with no pain and say a few good things.

However, if it is useful to say good things, I believe that this world has long been running into a communist (harmonious) society with extremely abundant material material.

However, there is no.

"But what about the price?" Takahashi asked back.

Yuji Kudo suddenly fell silent and stopped talking.

Indeed, price is a pain point for the hosts they jointly developed.

As software publishers, developers such as Hudson, Taidong, Namco and others naturally hope that the lower the price of the machine, the better. It is best not to give it away for free. Everyone has a platform that will have a larger number of ownership, and the games they make can be sold well.

However, for hardware manufacturers, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba, doing so is harmful to their interests, and of course they will not do it.

They don’t even care how much the game console is sold. Selling one is counted as long as it is - no money is lost.

That's right!

The initial idea of ​​hardware manufacturers was to use hardware to make profits and strive not to lose money.

Your software manufacturers want whatever performance you want and what functions you want to implement, as long as you say, we will get it all for you.

However, the final price of the machine cannot be followed by you, so we have to decide for ourselves.

How could such a thing exist if the horse is letting it run away and the horse is not to eat grass?

Therefore, the home console with superb performance in Kudo Yuji's mouth is priced at more than 40,000 yen, or even close to 50,000 yen.

Who can I sell such a high price to? Even if someone buys it, it is a small group of people who are a gaming enthusiast.

In fact, most game manufacturers do not like the group of game enthusiasts.

The reason is very simple, not only is it small in number, but also has high requirements for games. Whether or not it can be recouped for the cost of making games for these gourmets is a question, and it is far less popular than those of the little white players who are like little white rabbits.

A single game may also be in the category of senior players because of the increasingly fierce competition. If the reputation increases, maybe a group of novice players will follow the trend to buy it.

However, a console is completely made for veteran players. Even if this console has a good reputation, the quality of the game is also very high, which makes veteran players praise it.

but……

The game console and games require at least 60,000 to 70,000 yen to follow the trend. If you want to let the novice players follow the trend, unless you throw coins from the sky...

Takahashi's simple words hit the pain point of the co-host. On the surface, it seems that the price is too high, but the internal reason is that his heart is different and he cannot do it.

Although several cooperative manufacturers cannot be said to be ignorant of this, no one clearly said it.

No company cares about the overall situation. Don’t look at them now, I’m afraid they are already thinking about how to blame them.

If failure really comes as expected, a strange phenomenon will occur. All companies are correct, but they fail. The specific companies cannot be held accountable, and they will eventually bear part of the losses. This part will be considered to be turned over.

"Takahashi, I believe you have been playing games for so long, and you should know how important it is to have your own home computer platform. Join us, this platform will definitely have the functions you want. It doesn't matter if it is a little expensive. Consumption upgrades. You see, everything is rising now. A rice cooker can be sold for 100,000 yen, and a gaming machine is not an exaggeration to sell 50,000 yen..."

Yuji Kudo said.

Takahashi nodded, "Of course I know how important it is to have my own gaming platform. If Nintendo had no gaming platform and no red and white machines, they would never have been able to make games like Super Mario Bros. Because, at that time, all other gaming consoles did not realize the scroll function at the hardware level.

Game software and game console hardware themselves complement each other and interact with each other. Without good hardware, excellent games can also be found, but pioneering games cannot be found.

But... this is not the reason why I have to join your co-host... Although the co-host is good, it is not suitable for tens of thousands of households.

I believe you have also seen that the closest focus of Wanhu is concentrated on the handheld game console.

Wanhu has limited energy and cannot join the co-host camp. I'm so sorry..."

"Okay." Kudo Yuji nodded reluctantly and accepted the fact that Takahashi would not join the co-host in disappointment.

In fact... Yuji Kudo also wants to quit...

However, there is no way to exit.

As one of the starting companies, Hudson invested in co-hosts with incredible costs. If he exited now, the economic losses would be immeasurable.

In other words, the reason why Yuji Kudo tried so hard to persuade Takahashi to join the joint host camp was because Hudson had been kidnapped by the joint host.

Just like during World War II, why the Japanese invaders could not stop and could only continue to attack was because they had been kidnapped by the giant ship of war. Once they stopped, the beautiful Japanese empire depicted would collapse in an instant.

Continue to die after a while, stop to die immediately.

Just like some countries' way of dealing with economic crises, they repeatedly let the water go. Even if they die, they have to die in the future. As long as they can, I don't care about the flood after I die.

Nowadays, the various manufacturers of co-hosts are no longer popular to share Nintendo's profits, but have become a wonderful and delicious poison. If you can cheat one, you can cheat one. Whether it is for players or manufacturers, they are all thinking.
Chapter completed!