"Are you worried that the New Japan Project will join Sony?"

Mark Senni has long disliked this company that is engaged in the third-party development alliance of its own Mars Entertainment. Mars Entertainment has not made much effort in their game development. This time they have close contacts with Sony. Not only Mark Senni doesn’t like it, but many people in Mars Entertainment don’t like it.

Moreover, the fact that New Japan Project wanted to develop its own arcade substrate has made Mars Entertainment even more angry.

It is not that Mars Entertainment does not allow its third parties to make arcade substrates, but that it must be notified in advance before doing it. After all, if you release an arcade substrate, it will definitely affect the development of the game on the home platform. In fact, among the third-party franchise companies of Jester, one of them has made a way to make arcade substrates by themselves, which is just Capcom.

And Capcom went to make the arcade base version, which was agreed to by Jester at the time.

"I'm not worried about this. The New Japan Project is just a clown. Their president has an old grudge with Kenzo Masato. He saw that Capcom is so successful in arcades now, it can almost be compared with Namco. Moreover, although their development ability is good, they do not have the same results as Capcom at all."

Jester simply evaluated the New Japan Project. In fact, for the New Japan Project, domestic players may have the first time they come into contact with their games, which is probably the "King of Fighting" series. In essence, the "King of Fighting" series is not a very milestone work in the history of fighting games. His first work and the most sales work are his first work - "King of Fighting 1994", but sales can only be considered fair. There is still a big gap between the two benchmarks of Capcom's "Street Fighter" and Namco's "Iron Fist".

For domestic players, "kof94" is not the earliest game they have come into contact with in the "kof" series.

In fact, there is a bit that frustrating domestic players. "King of Fighting 1997", which once dominated the entire arcade hall in China, is not so pleasant, especially the operators of the New Japan Project. The sales of this game may be a bit unbelievable. Well, its actual sales are only one-quarter of that of "kof94".

The reality is so cruel, it is actually a relatively failed work.

The peak of the new Japanese project was this period. Of course, there were many fighting games they had made. It can be said that in the early 1990s, their influence in small arcades was unparalleled. Of course, it has a lot to do with the reason why Namco and old arcade manufacturers such as Capcom saw the sluggishness of this small arcade market and regained their energy from the arcade market.

It's just that there is no empty tiger in the mountains and the monkey is dominating the king.

"So what are you worried about!"

Seeing Jester denied that he was worried about the development companies that were being attracted by Sony like the New Japan Project, Mark Senni was even more confused. He really couldn't understand what Jester was worried about, and he really couldn't figure out what was there to worry about. Anyway, based on his experience to analyze, he didn't know how to see any future crisis in this incident between Nintendo and Sony.

Jester still pursed his lips.

The reason he knew was not to say that he could not tell Mark Seni how confident Sony would make this time, and how difficult Ken Kutaraki would be in the future. Even many of his methods of managing Mars entertainment were learned from Ken Kutaraki. Even if he said it, Mark Seni would only think that he was whimsical.

So Jester could only sigh and said, "You don't understand, that's Sony. Not Japan Electric."

Regarding Jester's insistence, Mark Seney could only shrug and express his discomfort. He had thought Jester's ideas and views countless times before, and he really couldn't understand why Jester was so stubborn.

The next day, Nintendo held another press conference.

Yesterday, after they announced that they had officially terminated their hardware development cooperation with Sony, they would forcibly expel Sony's R&D personnel who had always placed the development center in Nintendo's joint hardware development center. Because it was the reason for Nintendo's sudden attack, almost all R&D materials were sealed by Nintendo. Of course, Sony had taken away several prototypes before, and it was not considered as having nothing left.

At the same time, Sony also submitted an indictment to the Kyoto District Court, formally suing Nintendo for breach of contract.

Nintendo also submitted an indictment, with Sony breach of contract first, so they have the right to terminate the contract according to the agreement. As for the previous joint research and development results of the two parties, it needs to be discussed separately.

Because in the contract, it only stipulates that after the new host is completed, the equity sharing between the two parties is shared. As for the ownership of the R&D product, there is no provision on the contract. Of course, theoretically, the new host should be shared by both parties, but it is not clearly stated in the original contract, so Nintendo will have roundabout capital.

At this press conference, Nintendo reiterated their ownership of the new console, and they changed the name of the new console from the previous ps to Super Nintendo, while Nintendo was responsible for the remaining development tasks. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be released in the first quarter as much as possible. Of course, now, the possibility of nothing unexpected happens is not very high.

At least most media, players, and people in the industry are not optimistic about Nintendo's ability to release this console in a short period of time.

Of course, Sony cannot let Nintendo take such a big advantage in vain. They also held a press conference at their headquarters as soon as Nintendo's press conference was held. At this press conference, the contents of Sony and Nintendo's previous press conference were almost the same. They both reiterated the ownership of the ps console and clearly stated that they did not breach the contract before, and Nintendo's brazen termination of the agreement was an intolerable betrayal.

Of course, both parties have different opinions and argue endlessly. It is basically impossible to resolve this matter by verbalizing. It can only be placed on the lawsuit. However, it is foreseeable that ending this lawsuit cannot be done in a short period of time. It will inevitably be a long-term lawsuit. Just as at the press conference when Dreambox was just released, Jester used an emulator to mock Nintendo's so-called best game console in the world. This is infringement, but after Nintendo sued Mars Entertainment in the United States, this case has not been officially completed with the efforts of the team of Jester's group lawyers.

Of course, the winner and loser of this lawsuit has no meaning to Mars Entertainment and Nintendo.

But now, for both companies, Nintendo and Sony, is it in the interests of both parties to temporarily suspend the release of this next-generation game console jointly developed by both parties?

"We must ensure the release of Super Nintendo, which is a condition that cannot be backed down. In fact, Sony only joined when we have completed 30% to 40%. Although their joining has put a lot of effort into it, our own R&D team is not idle. For both public and private, it is beyond doubt that we have most of the ownership of Super Nintendo."

As the main designer of the Super Nintendo, which has just been renamed, or the main designer of the console called Ps by Sony, he was extremely opposed when Sony people forced it to change it to Ps. For this sixteen second-generation console, for Masayuki Uemura, it was like his child, changing the name for the child who had already prepared his name, and changing it to a name that had no sense of identity, and it could not express the name of Nintendo blood. Needless to say, Masayuki Uemura, even the entire Nintendo team involved in the research and development at that time, he was very dissatisfied and humiliated.

However, due to the critical situation at that time and the environment, Yamauchi Hiroshi gritted his teeth and accepted Sony's name change from the overall situation. This huge concession also made people from outsiders. This was the beginning of Sony's official transformation from equal status to dominance in their alliance with Nintendo. It seemed that Nintendo, which had always been stronger before, became a vassal of Sony afterwards.

No matter what news is released about the new host, it has been led by Sony.

Hearing Masayuki Uemura's speech, there was no expression on Hiroshi Yamauchi's face. He looked around. The Nintendo executives who were sitting down their heads under the scrutiny of Hiroshi Yamauchi's blade-like eyes. Many of them did not agree with the decision made by Hiroshi Yamauchi this time, because they had just announced that they had terminated their cooperation with Sony. Nintendo's stock, which was listed on the Tokyo Exchange, had been falling continuously, and the declines in the past two days were quite heavy.

Among them, many people have Nintendo's dividend options, and the decline in Nintendo's stock has suffered a huge loss for them.
Chapter completed!