"……Thank you so much!"

Arakawa Kazuhiko finally found his console.

And it was found by the young man who was bragging with him before.

"But uncle, you are really embarrassed." The young man looked at the other person with an expression of "You are still too young."

Arakawa Kazuhiko didn't get angry. After all, the other party helped find it.

After leaving with gs, he was relieved.

However, although Arakawa Kazuhiko breathed a sigh of relief, Lao Ren on the other side was all holding their breath and didn't even dare to fart.

As for the reason, it's because their recently launched game... failed.

Not only that, the failure of this game has caused the majority of players to be completely disappointed with NGC.

It can even be said that this incident has become the source of the collapse of Lao Ren's overall strategy.

At this moment, in Lao Ren's upper-level meeting, a group of senior executives were sitting under Hiroshi Yamauchi, not even daring to fart.

"Mario... actually failed." In fact, Hiroshi Yamauchi himself was a little unbelievable.

However, this is the fact.

They released Super Sun Mario at the beginning of the year, and sales collapsed.

"Super Sunshine Mario (super_mario_sunshine)" is one of the main games on NGC.

The status of this game is like "Mario 64" to n64.

The stage of the story takes place on a small island in the south, which is similar to Hawaii. The content of the story is that Mario and his team went to this famous summer resort for a trip, but found that someone had made the beautiful island a mess.

The sewage overflowed. The prisoner actually looked exactly like Mario. In order to clear his grievances, Mario began an adventure.

But how to say...

The innovation of this game is obviously not as good as its predecessor. In the eyes of many people, this game is just an enhanced version of "Mario 64".

The game was released last Christmas, but after its release, it aroused strong dissatisfaction from many old fans everywhere.

Originally, Lao Ren was seen by everyone as a company that often skipped games in pursuit of game quality. However, the game "Super Sunshine Mario" did not let them see their sincerity.

After ngc's initial failure, last year's Lao Ren quickly adjusted their strategy and focused their attention on "Super Sunshine Mario". They regarded "Super Sunshine Mario" as a crucial strategic game.

The product began to be promoted with great fanfare six months before its release.

This game can be said to have high expectations.

Lao Ren is just waiting to rely on it to make a comeback.

However... it doesn't exist.

When Lao Ren started to use his ultimate move, he first encountered Xbox.

The Gai children's shoes were not a good person, and they did not directly target Lao Ren, but their fight with gods made Lao Ren extremely uncomfortable.

Of course Lao Ren can't sit still and wait for death.

They organized many Mario fans everywhere to take to the streets to play Mario, which triggered a wide range of social topics and built a wave of momentum for Mario.

Players also have high expectations for the latest game in the Mario series, which was released after five years.

Then……

There is no more.

"Five million copies."

Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at these executives.

He was stating quietly.

"Our Mario has been on the market for nearly half a year, but the sales volume so far is only 500,000 copies. In North America, it is only 1 million copies."

Very calm tone.

But the people who heard it below didn't even dare to say a word.

The market response to this game has been quite disappointing. Until now, the game has sold 500,000 copies in China and 1 million in North America.

You know, "Mario 64" has sold six million copies in North America!

In fact, it’s not just that. The game itself also has a very low rating. The rating of “Famitsu” is 36. For games in the Mario series, this can only be said to be a failure.

To be honest, there are quite a lot of ideas in this game.

But these ideas are very rough, and in some places they are even worse than the previous works.

In fact, this problem is very simple in the final analysis, that is "time".

In another world line, this game was released in July this year, but it was also very tight. In order to catch up with the scheduled release time, the Intelligence Development Department lost many valuable opportunities for repeated grinding and adjustment. The second half of the game

The perfunctory response is quite obvious.

As for this world line, there is no need to mention that Lao Ren’s rush to work has caused the performance techniques in the game to be too monotonous and repetitive, and many places are also very rough, even for those who want to buy it as a powerful version of "Mario 64"

, many people have to admit that this game is really a bit... subtle.

"NGC has failed." Hiroshi Yamauchi said, "The only one we can rely on now is Zelda. However, I hope everyone will think carefully about the mistakes we made."

"The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker" is not yet on the market. The game will be announced at this year's E3.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the possibility of NGC being saved by Zelda is very slim.

This is also something that can't be helped.

Because there are indeed fatal flaws in NGC's market positioning and hardware design. What's even worse is that in this era, there are still three giants: PS2, GS and the giant hardware over there.

NGC should be regarded as Lao Ren's highest masterpiece so far. Takeda Genhiro once said that NGC is a "revolutionary product developed by thoroughly summarizing the design flaws of n64 hardware."

In the n64 era, due to the limitation of cassette capacity, many excellent creative designs could not be reflected, or even fell by the wayside. After the launch of PS, n64 was beaten to nowhere.

Therefore, Genhiro Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto, the two chief designers responsible for software and hardware development respectively, jointly submitted a letter to president Hiroshi Yamauchi, insisting that the next-generation console use optical disc media.

This incident caused quite a stir within the company at first.

But at this time, Lao Ren made a mistake. They developed a special DVD drive, but prohibited it from being compatible with CDs. The Panasonic technicians responsible for the development once hoped that the NGC would be compatible with DVDs and CDs, but they were sternly rejected.

Hiroshi Yamauchi also once laughed at Sony's PS2 next door: "The essence of games is entertainment, and those who use images and sounds as selling points will be eliminated!"

But...he was sore from being slapped in the face.

After Sony, dc-p also quickly followed up with DVD functions, and also quickly followed up with audio and video playback functions. They even further strengthened the network system so that people can play games online.

Moreover, the capacity of NGC is actually only 1.5g, which is even one-third more than the GD of DC. This is another reason why NGC is cheated.

In addition, Lao Ren's support for online games is also the most annoying. Because ngc can only dial-up Internet access, and because it does not support hard drives, once online games are updated, the data disk must be replaced, which is very cumbersome.

In this regard, they are simply the perfect foil for DC-P.

I have to say that Lao Ren and Sony actually helped a lot with the success of DC-P, and in the GS era, this masterpiece, not to mention punching the PS2, but at least kicking the NGC, has no problems at all...

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Oh, by the way, after ps2 learned the lessons of the first version, the new version has begun to learn from the competitors next door and has adopted broadband, so in terms of network performance, ps2 has also surpassed ngc.

Now, for Lao Ren, ngc has become useless and a pity to discard.

The only good thing is that everything is going well on the GBA side. It can even be said that God will kill God if he blocks it, and Buddha will kill Buddha if he blocks Buddha.

"The Order of the Phoenix is ​​developing a handheld console." However, at this moment, Yamauchi Hiroshi said something. Then he continued to add: "It is a real handheld console, not a small game like before."

After hearing these words, these executives also felt a little better.

In fact, everyone didn't care much about the Order of the Phoenix at first. Their handheld console didn't perform well at all.

However, it turns out that they thought too much.

Because the power of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​simply suffocating.

The game "Melatonin" directly caused the sales of Xbox to explode.

At first, everyone didn't care about it, but the other party did gradually demonstrate sufficient technical capabilities. With the launch of gs, the situation became more obvious.

The other party obviously wants to take a bite out of the handheld market.

And Hiroshi Yamauchi's channels have already learned the fact that the other party is developing it.

Of course, due to the strict confidentiality at the top, all the information he got here was from the bottom. A lot of it actually came from suppliers. Compared to his own company, it was too easy to break the supplier's mouth.

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"The other party is planning to develop a handheld console with touch function."

After hearing this, the executives panicked.

"The secret was leaked?!" someone shouted in shock.

Yes, the new handheld console that Lao Ren is also developing will have a touch screen function.

And this handheld console is also the nds that "once" left a heavy mark in history.

This handheld machine has two screens, a large screen on the top and a resistive screen on the bottom.
To be continued...