At this time, Yuuchi Yamauchi and Satoshi Iwada were sitting in Yamauchi's office, and at this time, two game consoles were placed in front of them.

One is an xbox game console, and the other is a gba prototype.

"Our gba is far better than this xbox handheld machine, which is undoubtedly." Satoshi Iwada said their conclusion. "We have tested xbox. In terms of game performance, this machine has specialized the two-dimensional display effect mainly in terms of color. In addition, the sound has also been enhanced, but the performance of the game itself is not as good as ours. Moreover, this machine is larger and heavier than our gba, and is not suitable for carrying it around."

The graphic interpretation logic in xbox follows the logic of the Ark Engine. When used for two-dimensional word games, the effect is very good, but that's all.

"But their cost is low! Very low!" Yamauchi frowned.

When I heard the words of the old man Yamauchi, Iwada Satoshi was also speechless.

This is indeed the case.

The other party's production was completed in a major Eastern country, and the cost was very low. Moreover, many of their equipment were sent to the shipment line almost stuck in the embargo line. Although the performance may not be as good as the accessories in GBA, the performance of the xbox itself is not very high, so this actually has no impact.

"This machine will not affect our sales. According to our investigation, most of the people who play this machine are used to play text adventure games."

There are hundreds of games after a handheld console is released, and this kind of thing is actually very explosive.

When Iwada Satoshi heard the news at the beginning, he was almost shocked.

Did I go to the wrong world line? Did I have a Nintendo pill?

No!

After investigating again, Iwada Satoshi breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that these games are all word games.

There are many manufacturers who develop handheld games for xbox, and they are all very famous. They have a title in the industry, which is "Misins Power".

But the Mithril forces and Nintendo are actually inseparable from each other.

Because they started out as Little Butter, Lao Ren’s target users are healthy children.

Moreover, many of these hundreds of games have tricks.

For example, many games are sold in digital or burned versions, or they are collection versions.

What does this mean?

It turns out that there are two types of sales of xbox: one is to directly sell the game cassette body, and the other is to sell the CD with game content.

The latter can be used to combine a burner with a box of cassettes to burn the game content into a dedicated burner.

This burning version is also called the cheap version. It uses a small 8m disc with a storage capacity of 200 megabytes, but it is more than enough.

And what if someone doesn’t even want to buy this cheap version?

Don’t worry, the Order of Phoenix has provided everyone with a digital version. You can buy and buy as long as you use the Mitsunian point card, and there are discounts and promotions!-

30% saw it or not!

Why don't you buy it quickly?

"The strategy they used was that we used Nintendo, but they succeeded, but we failed." Yamauchi Hiroshi's face was not very good-looking. "FC also provided cheap burn-in cassettes, but it was not successful at all."

More than ten years ago, when Nintendo was developing red and white machines, it did provide a special feature to red and white machines, which is cheap cassettes.

After playing the game, players can take their cassettes to the store and then burn another game, which only costs 500 yen.

However, they failed, and the service was just a flash in the pan and then passed with history.

"Because they have a carrier," said Iwada Satoshi, "My strategy for game burning that we provide on the Red and White Machine is to let players bring the cassettes to our store and then burn the game for players. This feeling is the same as spending 500 yen to rent a game."

I'm afraid there won't be many people who like this kind of rental game.

Because the Order of Phoenix and Nintendo have no strong conflict, Iwada Satoshi and Hiroshi Yamauchi can still analyze calmly at this time: "But Order of Phoenix is ​​different. Order of Phoenix provides cheap versions to let players own this game. This concept is different from our Red and White Machines."

The old man Yamauchi was silent. After a while, he highlighted a word: "The issue of piracy."

Yes, if everyone can circulate games at any time, the piracy rate will definitely not be low, right?

"Hi, we also investigated this issue, but according to the situation, the other party does not seem to care about it. On the contrary, they seem to value the popularity of machines more. Moreover, according to our questionnaire, although players are unwilling to buy expensive games, they are all willing to buy cheap versions." Speaking of this issue, the expression on Iwada Satoshi's face was a bit subtle.

Speaking of which, this matter is also very painful.

In other words, the cause of the whole thing is that Neon Gold is so painful.

One feature of Neon Gold is that they rarely play foreign games, and most of the time they only play their own country games.

At this time, Nihong's game manufacturers also noticed this.

No matter how cheap the games of foreign game manufacturers are, Neon Gold is not very willing to play. On the contrary, although the domestic games are expensive, they are just willing to play them.

And then...and then nothing happened.

As we all know, the price of games of Nihong game manufacturers is ridiculously expensive, not only for foreign countries, but also for domestic countries.

One of the advantages of the Order of Phoenix is ​​that they are domestic game manufacturers.

The same price for the cassette version of the game, but if the cheap version is, the price will be cheaper.

Of course, it’s not much cheaper, it’s just one-third to one-half of the cheaper one-half.

But the people are just taking this trick!

They saw that the game was so cheap and had a good reputation, so why not buy it?

What's more, the archives of these games can be uploaded to the Internet through DC-P, and it is said to never be lost. This is really wonderful!

"And they put a lot of effort into the Internet system," Iwada Satoshi was puzzled by this. "They expanded the game to the point where everyone can connect with each other to play games no matter where..."

Here, Satoshi Iwata is not just about xbox, but about the situation of the DC-P of the Order of the Phoenix.

"If the game is not played face to face, it will be meaningless!" Yamauchi Hiroshi interrupted Iwada Satoshi's explanation in one breath, "They are evil ways, we don't have to worry about this!"

"Hi." Iwada Satoshi nodded.

"They now allow the game to spread freely, actually because they want to expand their share. If they expand their share, they will be able to win because their games and consoles are not costly!"

Well, many games on xbox, especially text games, are just frivolous. Take the games from other platforms, repackage them, or reset them with the Ark Engine, and the matter is done. Moreover, this transplant process, and the technical support provided by alien technology, is of course pretty good.

However, the game native to xbox... does not.

Yes, none of them.

Games such as Greedy Snake, Zuma, and Gem Maze all have DC-P versions.

"Their positioning is to regard xbox as an accessory to DC-P. We need to analyze the reasons why xbox is popular, but don't think about the connection between this machine and home machine. For us, it's putting the cart before the horse!"

"……Hi!"

At this time, the old man Yamauchi could see clearly.

That's right, as he said, the goal of Senxia fiddling with this thing is to make the share of the game. This trick was learned by Senxia and Juhar when promoting the Windows system.

When Juhar promotes his operating system, he initially indulged in pirated versions and then used his share to clear all the enemies in the market.

At this time, everyone grew up with a huge hard operating system. Their environment has naturally adapted, and of course, companies have also begun to use a huge hard system.

And the giant will end up at this time, and then find those big heads, one by one, collecting "protection fees" from door to door.

And as Mr. Yamauchi said, the xbox and dc-p on Morika's side taste stronger. As a game console, I never thought of having to do special design and planning at least, before Morika entered Tokoma.

After reservation, Nintendo will launch a handheld console called "GBA" to replace the now-old GB and GBC.

When Xbox was released, GBA was almost done, and Xbox was not taken seriously by Nintendo at that time.

But now, the situation has changed a little.

Because the sales volume of this machine has exceeded 500,000 shipments in just one month, and it is still rising.

As a "game console" that does not have a completely unique feature of its own game, it is rare for this machine to be able to buy this level.

Therefore, at this time, Nintendo must study this "friend" who is similar to that they have developed but has no market positioning.

At this time, Iwada Satoshi was also in thought.

There are two reasons why xbox is so popular.

One is that xbox can input dc-p screen and use it as a visual handle.

The other one is that xbox can display its own content on the TV through the DC screen projection.

And after optimization, the screen displayed on the TV was unexpectedly good. At present, many people actually chose to buy xbox games and then replace the high-priced games on DC-P.

Not only does Nintendo not do this, Sony not do it, and Sega not do it, either.

Only funny guys like Mori Naka do it simply to "make the world more interesting".

And it turns out that Moriya is a funny guy, doing pretty well.

But for Nintendo, these are of no reference value.

It's too replicable.

However, Nintendo must also pay attention to the other party.

Although everyone is not an enemy now, it is hard to say after that...

Because Nintendo also has its own new home computer plan.

In the face of this plan, whether it is Sony or the Order of the Phoenix, they are Nintendo's enemies.
To be continued...