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Chapter 272 Join

After hesitating for a moment, Yokoi Junhei suddenly laughed.

Just when Jester was wondering why the other party suddenly laughed, his palm was held up by Yokoi Junping.

Then, Yokoi Junhei's voice rang in Jester's ears.

"Actually, when I was at Nintendo, President Yamauchi asked me what I would do later. I was very confused at the time because I was just interested in designing some strange things. So I told him, I went back to make what I said, the palm machine that you rejected, proves to you that what I said was correct, but what I didn't expect was that you, you have actually started researching this aspect long ago."

As he said that, Yokoi Junhei let go of Jester's palm. He smiled bitterly again, and then sighed, "But fortunately my suggestion was rejected by Mr. Yamauchi. I absolutely expected that others would also be conducting research on handhelds, and even the R&D process would be more than half completed. If President Yamauchi really adopted my suggestion to temporarily slow down the development of home consoles and develop handhelds to open up new markets and use the profits obtained from the new market to make up for the competition of traditional home consoles, the final result is that not only will the previous market be snatched by emerging home console manufacturers such as Sega, but they will also lose the initiative in the new handheld market and eventually fall into a dilemma."

Speaking of the end, Yokoi Junhei also sighed.

For Jester, being able to get Yokoi Junhei was almost the biggest victory he had in his direct confrontation against Nintendo, because no one in the world knew better than him that this man, who was called the God of hardware by countless game developers in the future, had such powerful inspiration in the development of game consoles, especially palm consoles.

For Jester, the ability to obtain Yokoi Junpei not only in an instant to enhance the soft power of his palm machine development, but also indefinitely weakened the hard power of Nintendo's palm machine development. When Nintendo saw his palm machine launch, he swept out a brand new game market with irresistible momentum. When he regretted it, he wanted to re-enter the development of his palm machine, but without Yokoi Junpei, could they still come up with an excellent enough palm machine in a short time, comparable to himself?

Yes, after Junhei Yokoi left, Nintendo did use the strength of his palm to make up for their decline in home phones. Although there were times when they were beaten to a terrible surprise by Sony's PSP, there were also invincible world after the 3Ds was released.

But the problem is that after losing Junpei Yokoi, who is now and in the future, who has no knowledge of the development of palm machine, no longer can the palm machine machine development team led by this hardware development master for more than ten years, and countless development elites, can they still make a difference in palm machine?

Jester didn't know. But he knew that he had obtained Yokoi Junpei.

Less than a month after leaving Nintendo, Yokoi rejected the invitations from Japan Electric and Sega and joined the news of Mars Entertainment. Once again, he became a front page figure in some magazines.

Nintendo refused to comment on this, just wishing Yokoi Junhei a smooth career in his future.

However, the reality is not the case at all. After learning that Yokoi Junhei joined Mars Entertainment, Yuki Yamauchi once again held an emergency meeting of senior management in Nintendo, which also made him feel very funny. He felt that more senior management meetings have been held in the past two months than he has held in the past few years.

Yokoi Junhei was the second-person inside Nintendo before, and his ranking was above Yamauchi Hiroshi's son-in-law Aarakawa. He had a clear understanding of Nintendo's internal affairs. Such an absolute senior executive joined Nintendo's direct enemy, and it was impossible not to cause Nintendo's shock.

However, Hiroshi Yamauchi also knew that since the moment he agreed to Yokoi Kohei leave Nintendo, he had to endure this problem.

But before that, he didn't know that Yokoi Junhei would definitely join Mars Entertainment.

"When he left the company, he promised to sign the terms of competition, and he would not participate in any game program development work." Seeing the company's senior executive with a somewhat ugly face, Hiroshi Yamauchi said lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the senior executives of these companies looked a little better.

Although Yokoi Junhei is a hardware development engineer, the development of the new generation of home hosts by Jester's Mars Entertainment has entered the final stage according to their own statement. At this time, according to the management of hardware development, it is unlikely that senior personnel who enter the development will be arranged because there is no need.

According to Yokoi's status in Nintendo, after he joined a new company in his industry, he could not join a development team as an ordinary developer.

At this time, Yamauchi Hiroshi thought of the development plan of the palm machine mentioned by Yokoi Junhei.

It is absolutely impossible to say that Hiroshi Yamauchi is not moved by this plan at all. Before Sega was exposed to the news that 16 new home consoles were released, he agreed to Yokoi Junhei's development plan for the palm machine, and also mobilized more than half of the hardware elites from the entire company to participate in the research and development.

Because he was very moved by the brand new game market described by Junhei Yokoi and the market hidden in this market.

However, as soon as the news of Sega's new console was exposed, in Yamauchi Hiroshi, this is a choice to take the least of the two evils. In his opinion, home consoles are the foundation of Nintendo. If he cannot launch his sixteen consoles as soon as possible, then the situation he finally settled in Japan is likely to be completely occupied by Sega, the disruptor.

On the other hand, what Junhei Yokoi said was that opening up a new market is very attractive in terms of the prospects described, but it is just a prospect. No one can be sure that the market for palm phones is really as big as Junhei Yokoi said.

Although Mars Entertainment relies on the hot sales of electronic pets to prove that using the principle of fragmented time to develop similar game machines is the right decision, it is still questionable how big this potential market size is. If it can only be as large as the electronic pet market.

In Yamauchi Hiroshi's eyes, it is not worth the risk.

The most important thing is that if Nintendo wants to continue to move forward in the electronic game industry, he will never take risks. This is completely different from the situation when he just led Nintendo into the electronics industry. At that time, he started a business from scratch. In the electronic game industry, everything Nintendo had zero, so he was able to make crazy decisions that seemed extremely risky to outsiders.

But now, it's completely different.

He wants to ensure the normal operation of Nintendo. In other words, in the eyes of Hiroshi Yamauchi, it is much more important to maintain his existing market share and not be occupied by Sega who just joined, than to open up a market that is sufficient to symbolize himself and Mars entertainment.

Because between these two, one is life and death, and the other is not.

The question is, does Mars Entertainment also think that the market for palm phones has great potential? They have the data on how many years of electronic pets sold as a basis, and it is not impossible for Yokoi Junhei to use his convincing words to convince the other party.

At this time, it was impossible for Hiroshi Yamauchi to restart the suspended palm machine plan, because Yokoi Junhei left first and second, the development elites of the entire company are now cooperating with Sony to develop the next generation of consoles. They have no ability or possibility to start the research and development of palm machine again.

However, Hiro Yamauchi made his own decision at the end of this meeting.

"Yoshii Junhei's departure was just because it was inconsistent with the policies and guidelines we have set now. His talent was beyond doubt. In fact, if it weren't for Sega's sudden intrusion, then he would definitely be one of our colleagues now, and I agree with the statement that the palm machine would definitely occupy an extremely important position in the future game console market."

This is the first time that Yamauchi admitted his attitude towards the palm machine in front of the entire senior management after denying Yokoi Junhei's palm machine development plan.

Therefore, his remarks also made many people a little puzzled.

Because of this, it is not much different from Hiroshi Yamauchi to a certain extent, admitting his mistakes.

Sure enough, after Yamauchi Hiroshi said this, he suddenly changed his voice and continued: "However, the matter is prioritized, and this is the biggest conflict between me and Yokoi, so I decided that after the development of the new host is completed, I will restart the development of the palm machine. This can be included in the plan. I don't know what everyone has to say."

Unexpectedly, Masayuki Uemura, who had always opposed Yokoi Junhei, immediately stood up after Yuushi Yamauchi said this, "I agree with the president's opinion. In fact, when the president decided to mobilize all the development elites within the group to develop a palm machine, I personally supported it. I even talked with Yokoi all night for several days to talk to Yokoi about how to develop a palm machine and what functions should it have. The reason why I opposed Yokoi Junhei before was just because I felt that the development of a new home console was more important."

Before Shigeru Miyamoto became famous in his development of "Donkey Kong", he was a subordinate of Yokoi Junhei. The reason why he was able to develop "Donkey Kong" was because Yokoi Junhei recommended to Hiroshi Yamauchi, so he had a lot of opinions about Yokoi Junhei's departure.
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