Chapter 93 Entering the decisive battle
"We can now determine that "Pokemon" is a very successful product. The game with sales of over one million on GB handheld consoles in Japan is only 23, and "Pokemon" is the 23rd movie. The most important thing is that its "Pokemon-Black" and "Pokemon-White" each have sold more than 700,000 sets. I believe that it will both exceed one million in a short time.
If there was no similar game of Pokemon, a Wanhu game, there is reason to believe that Pokemon would become a super popular game. It would become a game that was as popular as Tetris."
At the beginning of the meeting, Yokoi Junhei made a summary speech.
This is an unconventional meeting. The theme of this meeting is how to win the handheld war that is stalemate with thousands of households.
You should know that Nintendo's staff has always been very limited. Otherwise, it would not have attracted 10,000 employees on a large scale. Compared with limited staff, Nintendo's store is too large.
In fact, when the red and white machine was designed, the ideal sales volume of Masaino Uemura and even Hiroshi Yamauchi were about one million units.
You should know that the previous TV Game 16 and TV Game 8 sold only a few hundred thousand sets.
However, no one from Nintendo expected that such a game console that he planned to make his own games would soon exceed one million units.
The eight first games prepared, plus the new works produced by Nintendo, are far from satisfying the appetite of those newly purchased console players.
It's like getting the ducks on the shelves. Nintendo urgently found several companies that had cooperated with and invited them to make games for Nintendo.
Later, Nintendo's consoles were sold well, and every game that logged on to the Red and White Machines was also sold well. Early third-party collaborators like Hudson made a lot of money from second-trade dealers because of their distribution rights. They were called Nine Thousand Years.
The rest is that Nintendo invites more third parties to join, and the Red and White Machine has truly formed a complete game manufacturing ecosystem.
As mentioned earlier, at the beginning of making this game console, no one expected that this game opportunity would be sold so well. Nintendo himself did not expect it.
Everything is a stress response. When the system is established, even if something is unreasonable, it will be difficult to change it.
In the process of sales expansion, Nintendo's personnel construction cannot catch up with the speed of development.
The accumulated things like Yokoi Junhei, Miyamoto Shigeru and others all reached important positions. But even so, the staff was still insufficient.
Especially now, we must take into account both the old red and white machine platform, and pay attention to the redeveloped handheld machine platform, and also pay attention to the battlefield of the new generation of super red and white machine.
Nintendo really doesn't have enough manpower.
Therefore, the theme of this conference is how to quickly fight and decide, and how to solve the difficult opponent of Wanhu. Only by solving Wanhu can you solve Sega.
"I have passed the Pokemon level of Wanhu's "Pokemon". Compared with Pokemon, its quality is not bad. Not to mention which of these two games is better, I think we need to continue to expand our advantages. That is, we have more third parties, more games on our GB, and players can buy our Nintendo handheld consoles to play more games.
On Wanhu, there are basically only games launched by Wanhu. The Japanese manufacturers who cooperate with Wanhu that make electronic games are all small people who can't even enter the Nintendo system. As for the group of American game developers Takahashi found, it was even more joke.
I think we should take advantage of the craze of Pokémon to launch more games and strive to defeat ten thousand households of gg handheld consoles by number."
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When Nintendo was having a meeting, Wanhu was also having a meeting.
Coincidentally, the content of Wanhu's meeting was very similar to that of Nintendo. They were all discussing how to eliminate opponents in the Japanese handheld console market.
"The launch of "Pokemon" not only increased the sales of gg handhelds, but also successfully created the image of Wanhu handhelds in the minds of Japanese players.
Our gg handheld console finally has a very wide coverage of fist products, which can compete with Nintendo on the front.
Without Pokémon, I believe we are already the winners of this handheld war.
But so far, the darkness has not faded, and the dawn is still far away.
This meeting is to ask everyone for their opinions and see what kind of market strategy you think you can win this handheld war.”
Takahashi presided over the meeting. He sat in the chairperson's position and did it after he finished speaking.
Sun Ming stood up and said, "I have been studying the Japanese market for a long time. I think the factor that hinders our handheld consoles from getting to the next level now is that we don't have enough games. Since the launch of gg, we have launched a total of twenty-two first-party games and thirty-one third-party games. The total number of games is only more than fifty. Half of them have sold less than 100,000.
There are only more than twenty bullets with combat effectiveness. Seven of them belong to the "Sims" series.
Because our number of games is small and the game type is single, many Japanese consumers choose Nintendo game consoles that have more games when choosing handheld consoles.
So, I think if we want to defeat Nintendo, we must have enough and excellent games!”
Sun Ming sat down, and no one present disagreed with what Sun Ming said. But the truth is that one truth is not that simple to do.
It’s not like the upper lip touching the lower lip, a bunch of games will appear.
Takahashi nodded slightly.
Zhao Huangyu stood up and said, "I think there is still a problem with the promotion method. Under the leadership of the president, many of the animations produced by our club have achieved good results. Can we promote our games by launching more cartoons, so that more players can know Wanhu's games, and Wanhu's games are very fun."
"President! I think we are a little relaxed in the game competitions held on the handheld. We don't have a second game suitable for competition on the handheld. We should launch some competitive games. With competitions, we will definitely be winners with appropriate advertising strategies and rich games."
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Chapter completed!