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Sega was defeated by the lack of third-party development companies.

Now it's my turn?

Fortunately, he only learned this from a very secret channel. This news has not spread in the industry yet. If this news spreads, then it goes without saying that the other things are just Nintendo's stock price may plummet.

Hiroshi Yamauchi is a person who never begs for mercy, and he is arbitrary and uncompromising.

Moreover, even if he bows to Jester, or Ken Kutaraki, or Shinto Nakayama, they may not necessarily accept him again. However, if he is really completely excluded? He really wants Nintendo to join their Lawshi Association as an ordinary member?

I could ignore the Japanese Arcade Association because I didn’t have a large share in arcades, and my main market was home machines. However, although I still accounted for 60% of the market share in the Japanese market, Mars Entertainment, Sega and Sony, combined, can also account for 40% of the share, and their share is still rising. In addition, in the European and American markets, Mars Entertainment has an overwhelming share.

Just think about it, if you are a third-party game developer, you will never be able to resist the temptation of choosing a platform to make games on a home game market that accounts for 80% or even 90% of the world.

"what to do?"

Since learning this news, Hiroshi Yamauchi has been sitting here for five or six hours, but his mind is just a mess and he doesn't know how to solve it. It seems that there are only two solutions in front of him, one of which is to put down all his figure, dignity, honor and persistence. After the establishment of their so-called World Electronics Association, he applied to join, but the treatment he could get was not superior to the three of them, which was difficult for him to accept.

The second method is to completely abandon the game platform from now on, and just become a game developer. However, losing the game platform means losing the most important voice in the home computer industry. This is also difficult for Hiroshi Yamauchi to accept, but it is undeniable that this is indeed the most suitable practice for the current practice.

What you do when building a platform is influential in the industry. It really depends on games to make money.

Neither of these two methods is what Hiroshi Yamauchi most hopes. In fact, he has a third plan, but the difficulty coefficient of the third plan is too great. That is, to refine his own game style more, and then specialize in the business of some of the younger players and insist on building a platform.

However, this is the most difficult. Once it fails, the Nintendo company may be over.

In fact, although Mars Entertainment, Sega and Sony have established the World Electronic Games Association, it seems that the three companies are planning to cooperate now, but this is only temporary. Mars Entertainment's position is stable and its advantages are obvious, so the other two companies will be the leader, but what about it later? Sony is not an easy person. They will never be willing to fall under the influence of an industry. The dormant now is just for the future takeoff.

After rubbing his eyebrows, Hiroshi Yamauchi felt a little tired. After all, he was already sixty years old. He was not in his prime and could not sleep for several days in a row, thinking about how Nintendo should develop in the future.

The most important thing is that he has not found a suitable successor, which is what worries him the most.

Perhaps the most suitable person to take over now is his son-in-law Mirakawa, but Aarakawa does have a high talent in business. If Nintendo is a pure company, it would be completely fine to call it into the hands of Mirakawa.

However, Nintendo is not a game company, not a pure, simple game company.

If he formally handed over the power of Nintendo to Mi Arakawa, the biggest possibility of Nintendo's future is that he will sell all Nintendo's game companies, and Nintendo will have nothing to do with the game industry.

Just like what I did back then.

Is this really good?

Hiroshi Yamauchi himself often asked himself in this way. To be honest, it is not realistic to let him lead Nintendo to transform again at his current age. Moreover, he himself has no decision on whether the transformation is the most suitable choice.

A mess.

This is the state in Yamauchi's mind now.

The meeting between Mars Entertainment, Sega and Sony's heads is secret, but there is no strong airtight in the world. Although the discussion is extremely secret, many people still have found out a lot of specific information. As for the content of the secret meeting of several people, because there are only four people present, it is impossible for the outside world to know the specific negotiation process.

But what was negotiated was decided before.

At first, only industry brains like Hiroshi Yamauchi had heard about this, and then, the news spread in the gaming industry.

Especially in the Japanese gaming industry, it was an earthquake of magnitude 7 or 8.

If these three companies really want to consider establishing a world-wide video game association, then why would Nintendo be excluded? This is very worth pondering.

Especially those game developers that have maintained good cooperative relationships with Nintendo, such as Enix. Enix just announced that they will launch their new work "Dragon Quest" on the Super Nintendo console. The game development has begun and the script has been written.

And Yuji Oui said more than once during the interview that Nintendo is the most suitable platform for "Dragon Quest". As long as Nintendo has one day and as long as he is the producer of "Dragon Quest" for one day, the game "Dragon Quest" will only appear on Nintendo's console.

This game can be said to be the killer weapon of Nintendo's new console at present, because this game is called one of the two major national RPGs by the Japanese and has a large number of fans. These people are willing to buy a console for a game. This game has such power.

Hiroki Imano is a member of the new work development team of "Dragon Quest" and is in charge of the program. As soon as he arrived at the company today, he felt that the atmosphere was a bit abnormal.

In the development team, the team leader Yuji Oui had a gloomy face and said nothing.

Others are also doing nothing in their own position and are not busy. Usually, when he came, there would be planning or art to come to him to discuss things in the game. However, today's atmosphere is completely different from usual. No one talks or no one takes the initiative to talk to him about anything.

Everyone sat there listlessly, looking into the distance with no eyes.

A few days ago, he just came back today because he had something happening in Hokkaido's hometown, so he didn't know what he posted. However, he has been reading newspapers for a while and has not seen any bad news. He didn't know why he had just left for a few days, and the atmosphere of the development team was completely different.

"Imano is back!"

Yuji Oui looked up at Hiroki Imano, and a smile squeezed out on his face. Although he looked ugly, he greeted Hiroki Imano with a weak tone: "Have you heard about some recent things?"

"No...no."

Hiroki Imano answered truthfully.

After hearing Hiroki Imano's answer, Yuji Oui sighed first, and his expression became even more listless. However, after more than a minute, he didn't say anything. This made Hiroki Imano who wanted to know the whole story was a little uncomfortable.

"The leader of Yuji Yuki was just scolded by the president in the morning, and the leader is sulking now!"

Someone said something more at this time, but this made Hirohiro Imano even more strange, because he had followed Yuji Oui for a long time, and was considered a veteran in the game series "Dragon Quest". Others don't know, but he knew very well, but the president of Enix valued Yuji Oui. Since he followed Yuji Oui for more than three years, it goes without saying that the president scolded Yuji Oui, even a dispute had not happened.

The president unconditionally agreed to all the opinions of Yuji Group Leader Okui.

Why did you suddenly scold Yuji Yuki now?

Before Hirohiro Imano asked his doubts, Yuji Oui finally spoke. He lit a cigarette first, then took a sip and spit out a cigarette ring. Then he said a little desolately: "Maybe our "Dragon Quest" project team is about to be cancelled. This game can only be done."

"What!"

Hearing his team leader say such a sentence, Hiroki Imano said that it was no less than seeing a thunder on the ground. He couldn't believe what his team leader said. How could it be possible to cancel the "Dragon Quest" project team? You know, this is the best game series sold on the entire FC. In Japan, there are millions of fans of this game. I wonder how many people are looking forward to the release of this game on the new generation console day and night.

As long as this kind of game is released, it will inevitably be a million-level game. How can it be possible to cancel the project?
Chapter completed!