[PS: I'm speechless. This matter is really rushed. One after another, there's no end to it.]
"Internal battery? Ridiculous!" Yamauchi scolded when he saw the first feature of the Qianji Transformer. "This brat. What does he know? Is a PSP with internal battery still a PSP?"
What a joke. Even his Nintendo GB does not have this feature, and his Daqian PSP has it? This is ridiculous! Does he know how to respect his seniors?!
Pu Yamauchi had all kinds of complaints in his heart, but he quickly calmed down. In fact, as the president of Nintendo, he already knew how many complaints the GB users had about the battery.
That's why Yamauchi knew that this feature will attract GB users.
"Can we produce this internal battery?" Yamauchi took a deep breath and asked Satoshi Iwata, who was standing behind him.
"Yes. There is no problem with the technology. Both Sony and Toshiba have their own solutions. Our GB can also have an internal battery feature!" Satoshi Iwata replied.
"Then our GBA must also have an internal battery feature!" Yamauchi took a deep breath. Yamauchi was very clear about the GBA that was still in development. This handheld still used a battery power supply design, and in order to minimize the size of the handheld, the original four batteries were reduced to two. Not only did the battery not increase, but it decreased by a lot.
Yamauchi could ignore this issue. But when the Daqian Transformer introduced the internal battery feature, GBA must have this feature. If not, Nintendo will not be as good as Daqian.
"But President, our GBA's cost will increase by 35 USD!" Satoshi Iwata said helplessly. He had also considered using an internal battery, but the cost was too high.
"Now, a GBA's cost is 160 USD. Adding on 35 USD … …" Yamauchi was sweating profusely.
This was not the era where lithium batteries were sold by kilograms. In this era, lithium batteries that can be charged and discharged during use were all high-tech products. Even if it was ordered in bulk, it was still very expensive.
Otherwise, why would Nintendo not use a built-in power supply when they knew that it was better? Wasn't it because it was too expensive?
One GB unit was only sold for 99 USD, and the production cost had already reached 80 USD. If you took into account the taxes and profits from the distributors, Nintendo would lose money for every GB unit sold.
It was only after the prices of various components were lowered that GB started to make profits.
The GBA, which was under design, was facing the same fate. The estimated retail price of the GBA prepared by Nintendo was 199 USD, the same price as the N64, but it was already 100 USD more expensive than the GB model.
Therefore, Nintendo was very worried that such an expensive GBA would not be recognized by the players and would they be willing to pay for it.
But to be able to reduce the price to 199 USD was already Nintendo's limit. Now, if Nintendo were to add 35 USD to the cost of the battery, the production cost would be 195 USD. If they were to sell it at 199 USD, they would not be able to make any profit. It would not even be enough to cover the taxes, let alone the profits of the distributors.
"Add!" Yamauchi gritted his teeth and said.
"Then our selling price …"
"Then increase it to 239 USD. I believe that the players will be able to afford this price!" Yamauchi gritted his teeth and said, "We can't have lower specs than the Qian Ji Shikai, or else Nintendo will lose face!"
"Hey!" Satoru Iwata replied. But just as Satoru Iwata finished speaking, a loud noise came from the monitor, which gave Yamauchi a fright.
When Yamauchi saw what was happening on the monitor, he was shocked again.
At this time, Boss Jia had opened the Qian Ji Shikai and entered the main interface of the game console. Through the main interface of the console, everyone could see that it was a colorful screen.
"Colorful! Colorful handheld game console! "
"Oh my god, it's a colorful handheld game console!"
When the players saw this scene, they were about to go crazy. Oh my god, a handheld game console can display colors. Are they blind, or is the world crazy?!
It can't be helped. Before this, all handheld games were black and white. So, the players thought that handheld games can only display colors.
When they saw the colorful screen in the Daqian's hands, they went completely crazy.
Buy it!
You must buy it!
You have to admit that a colorful screen is a huge shock to the players.
"That's right. This is the second big innovation of the Qian Ji Shikai, the new color screen. The Qian Ji Shikai will fully support color games, and let your handheld games enter the era of color!" Boss Jia said with a smile.
"This guy made a color screen too!" Yamauchi was even more annoyed. He thought that his GBA would be the one to start the new era of color games. He didn't expect the Daqian to beat him to it.
That's right, the GBA was also colored. This was Yamauchi's trump card. He wanted to use it to shock everyone when it was first released, and win the cheers of all the players.
But now, the honor of being the world's first colored handheld game console was taken away by the damned Daqian. This made Yamauchi so angry that he was about to explode.
"Not only did our screen become colored, but it's also a 240x160 color screen. This resolution is ten times better than the previous generation of handheld games! Everyone, please look at the big screen! "Boss Jia snapped his fingers, and an image was projected on the screen behind him.
Everyone who was familiar with Pokemon immediately recognized that it was Pikachu's image on the GBA. It was just a bunch of pixels visible to the naked eye.
"Let's look at the Pikachu on our Qian Ji Shikai." Boss Jia snapped his fingers again, and a new colored yellow Pikachu appeared on the screen.
When the players saw this Pikachu, their jaws dropped.
It had a colorful body, long ears, a round body, two cute little eyes, and a lightning-shaped tail.
Although it couldn't be compared to the Pikachu in the anime, it was much better than the pixels. Not to mention, when Boss Jia snapped his fingers, the Pikachu started moving. At the same time, a golden lightning shot out from its body and hit the poor little Lada in front of it.
"Cool, this is too cool!!!" All the players went crazy. This was the real Pikachu on the game console. They didn't have to complain that all the Pokemon were pixels anymore. The Pokemon on the Qian Ji Shikai was a real Pokemon!!!
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