Chapter 124 ‘Little Surprise’ (17)

Natsume Yasutaka has always been a relatively conservative person.

This has both advantages and disadvantages.

Takeyusei just smiled and said: "Electronic games are an emerging field, and there must be some differences from the past, so don't stick to those details. In your eyes, I am a president, and in my own eyes, I am a game producer, but deep in my heart, I have always believed that I am a player."

Several people in the conference room seemed touched.

They also like games, and they agree with Takeyusei's words.

Only by considering yourself as a game player can you have a deeper understanding of what players want.

Takeyusei continued: "So, on TV, I will not regard myself as a president or something like that. I will always regard myself as a player, and I am proud of my identity as a player."

In fact, what Takeyusei said just now was taken from a famous saying of one of his most admired people: Mr. Satoru Iwata.

This person has made great contributions to Nintendo and is the biggest contributor to Nintendo's long-term prosperity after the millennium.

This person is also widely welcomed by players.

Even competitors and peers admired him.

When this gentleman unfortunately left the world, gamers and industry leaders all mourned for him. No one could deny the changes he brought to the game industry.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Iwata is the Steve Jobs of the video game industry.

Takeyusei has made a decision, so there is no need for others to stop him. After all, the company belongs to him. Now Takeyusei has absolute dominance over the entire company. There is not even a second shareholder who can influence the company's will, and others certainly can't say anything.

Takeyusei said again: "Okay, everyone, get ready. I need enough content for the face-to-face meeting in half a month, which is content other than the release of the game console."

The section chiefs of several game development teams were excited.

They reported the corresponding games prepared by their groups one by one.

Among them, three of the five groups will produce a first-party boutique game before the official release of SFC.

At the same time, the picture quality and sound effects of the first-party games on the original red and white machines will be upgraded to a higher level, and they will be launched on the new game console, which is almost equivalent to a screen reset version of the game.

Old players only need to bring the old version of the cartridge and add 500 yen to replace the new version of the game cartridge on the SFC.

The old version of the cartridge will be refurbished and repackaged and sold at a lower price, which is equivalent to the official replacement of the cartridge.

Zhu Youxing knows that the sale of second-hand cartridges is unavoidable, so it is better to do this business himself.

The official replacement of the cartridge with official endorsement will have a better quality and will be more popular with players.

In addition to these, Zhu Youxing actually prepared another unexpected surprise.

A surprise that is a fatal blow to Surui Electronics.

After listening to the reports of several team leaders, Zhu Youxing looked at Hayazawa Airi.

"Airi, has the battery issue of the second engineering development team been solved?"

Just now Hayazawa Airi has been waiting for Zhu Youxing to call her.

Now that it was finally brought up, she immediately became energetic and said happily: "It has been solved! According to your requirements, we can ensure at least 25 hours of battery life."

"Good, then let's officially release it. Next, let's discuss in what way to release it so as to cause the greatest response."

Hayasawa Airi was very happy. She has been following up on this project. She and several other people have started planning it half a year ago, earlier than the SFC planning time.

At the beginning, Takeyusei had asked them to solve the problem of battery energy balance as much as possible.

In order to solve this problem, from the beginning of battery research to now, they have finally kept the battery life for more than 25 hours, which is exactly the minimum required by Takeyusei, and it can be regarded as barely achieving the task.

And this product is Game Boy, referred to as GB, which is a handheld game console. Its performance is slightly worse than that of the red and white machine, but its biggest advantage is that you can play games on a very small screen, so that electronic games can be truly enjoyed anytime and anywhere.

Its portable features, long-lasting battery life and relatively low price immediately captured the hearts of players once it was released. Even though there were many competitors at the same time, it was difficult to compete with GB.

That was really the era when Nintendo dominated the world.

In the previous life, Takeyusei's first handheld game console was GBC, which was considered an upgraded version of GB handheld game console.

At first, Takeyusei wanted to develop this game console directly, skipping the first generation of GB handheld game console to make the game console perform better.

But if this is done, the price will increase a lot, resulting in the actual sales of the handheld game console itself may exceed 10,000 yen.

Players of this era may not be able to accept such an expensive game console, so it is decided to expand the number of players first, and then consider upgrading the game console.

In the end, it may be possible to skip GBC and directly develop GBA.

And Takeyusei has also finalized the game lineup for GB.

These include Metroid, which should have been the second generation, Tetris, a Super Mario game, and the latest Super Baseball Tournament game.

In the previous life, GB's starting lineup also had four games, but two of them were just for show, namely Breakout and Mahjong.

But the games he planned to release were all luxurious, and Zhu Youxing also wanted to see if he could break Metroid's highest sales record under this circumstance.

Generally speaking, first-run games often have certain advantages.

Among the first-run games in the red and white machine, Gobang has reached a sales volume of 500,000, and other similar board games cannot compare with it. This is the advantage of the first launch.

Regarding how to promote these things in the direct meeting and how to announce them to achieve the greatest effect, everyone began to discuss enthusiastically, and Zhu Youxing did not intervene too much. Anyway, there was still plenty of time, and it was okay to make a decision on the last day.

"Okay, you can discuss the details after the meeting. Let's adjourn."

Everyone left the meeting and walked out in twos and threes to continue discussing.

This direct meeting is still very important. It is an opportunity for the company to show its capabilities to the outside world.

Perhaps manufacturers such as Su Rui Electronics have known about the release of SFC in advance, but they don't know the price yet, but they definitely didn't expect that there would be a super blockbuster after SFC.

I don't know what their expressions will be when they see this blockbuster.

Well, it's decided. Let GB appear at the last minute of the direct meeting and give some competitors a little surprise.