Chapter 2171: Distressed Nintendo

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As early as 1980, Nintendo created the GameWatch, the world's first LCD screen game handheld, and sold 43.4 million sales; the introduction of the LCD screen made the screen of this real game handheld become vivid. The screen of the previous handheld game console was just a piece of light-emitting diodes.

This revolutionary improvement made Nintendo a great success, and an improved version of GameWatch was launched in 1983. Since then, the combination of the cross key and the AB key has established the prototype of the handle of the video game console together with Nintendo FC, and has become a well-deserved the originator of.

This game console is designed and manufactured by Yokoi Gunpei, one of Nintendo's three masters of technology. The whims of the calculator scene, whose names are derived from video games and digital quartz watches, respectively.

Later, when Junhei Yokoi showed the trial product to Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, it immediately aroused the latter's great interest. Mr. Yamauchi even personally participated in the design and development of GameWatch.

The first version was a completely non-expandable design. Like an electronic watch, there was only one game on a console, and the screen was a fixed single-frame switch. Then Nintendo realized that the non-extensibility of the game greatly reduced interest, and released an alternative game. However, this replacement game is different from traditional handhelds, but a panel that integrates the screen with game content. Strictly speaking, GameWatch is not an expandable game console.

The gameboy launched by Shen Long can directly replace the game cartridge. The game cartridge only needs to be vertically inserted into the game cartridge interface of the gameboy game console. That is the console battle function.

There is a communication docking interface on the side of the gameboy. Players can use the gameboy dedicated communication cable to match with other hosts and corresponding games for online battles. It can even provide a battle connector for up to four players to fight at the same time. It can make a gameboy and The other three hosts will play against each other online.

This greatly enhances the player's interactivity. After all, how interesting is playing a game? Are you happy to play together? The feeling of defeating the opponent in the battle is really wonderful.

When Shen Long's company held a new product launch conference in Tokyo, Nintendo directly fry the pot, because NEC and Sega have entered the TV game field successively, posing a serious threat to Nintendo. The second economic pillar is imminent.

Yokoi Gunpei has always been obsessed with the development of portable game consoles, and pinned his hopes on portable game consoles.

And invested a lot of R & D funds for development, but what I didn't expect was that their samples hadn't been released yet, and that magical Xiangjiang company actually bought into the ranks of game console production companies from pure game companies, and came up with such a Excellent work.

"Yokoi, how long will it take you to come up with such... no, a portable game console that is better than this one?" Hiroshi Yamauchi asked Yokoi Gunpei with a serious expression.

"Based on the current investment amount and R&D progress, it will take at least one and a half years!" Junhei Yokoi also frowned. This gameboy is almost exactly the same as the portable game console he dreamed of, and it is even better than what he expected now. Even better, how did he know that this was originally his work launched two years later.

"A year and a half?" Hiroshi Yamauchi shook his head. After such a long time, the day lily might be cold, "No, although limited by the production capacity, the game consoles of this Xiangjiang company cannot be distributed on a large scale. , but I heard that their industrial park in Xiangjiang is working overtime. After a year and a half, this game console must have occupied a large share of the portable game console market. It will be difficult for us to compete with them Already!"

In the shopping mall, whoever seizes the opportunity will occupy an extremely favorable position in the competition. If gamers all over the world are used to the gameboy, even if they can launch a better console, due to the consideration of consumption habits, consumption Investors will still tend to buy the products of that Xiangjiang company.

Moreover, a year and a half later they will launch a new game console, won't that Xiangjiang company keep up? Judging from the previous actions of this company, the young man named Fang Zhanbo is definitely not a short-sighted guy. He will definitely continue to invest in the development of the next console.

"If you double the existing research and development funds and manpower, how much time can you shorten?" Hiroshi Yamauchi asked. Now is not the time to save money. In the past, everyone did not come up with decent game consoles. We can still Hold on, but since a competitor has emerged, he must be defeated.

Yokoi Junhei silently calculated, "It will take at least a year!" The increase in funds and manpower also has a limit to the progress of research and development, and it is not that doubling the investment can shorten the time by half.

"No, it's still too slow!" Since normal competition can't be won, other methods can only be adopted. Hiroshi Yamauchi took out a patented weapon commonly used by the Japanese, "Has this game console adopted our design and technology?" ? Can we sue them for violating our patents?"

Nintendo's accumulation in this area is also strong, especially the combination of cross keys and AB keys, which is an obstacle that almost every game console company cannot get around.

However, in later generations, there are many ways to circumvent these patents, such as the design of the disc direction key, the cross key can only control four directions, and if you want to control the oblique direction, you need to hold down two keys at the same time. This kind of operation makes many game players find it inconvenient, while the disk direction key only needs to be lightly tapped on the oblique position. This design is more advanced and convenient than the cross key. Naturally, Shen Long wants to use to use.

"Yamauchi-san!" Junhei Yokoi smiled wryly and shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not a matter for us to pursue their patents now. According to my research results, this game console uses many technologies that we were originally developing but did not have a final breakthrough. , we want to develop a new host, or we have to overthrow the past accumulation, or we have to buy patent rights from them!"

This is the legendary way of following other people's path and leaving others with nowhere to go. Shen Long preemptively registered many future Nintendo patents, which made Gunpei Yokoi, the original author, start to have a headache about how to avoid these patents.

Hearing this, Hiroshi Yamauchi fell into a long silence with Junpei Yokoi.

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