10 million sales was a huge failure for Nintendo, who was in deep trouble and wanted to use the GBA to change their fate.
Nintendo, once the world's number one gaming company, had lost to PS in the TV console market. The N64 had 10 million less sales than PS.
As for the PDA market, it was even worse. When the GBA market broke 10 million units, Qian Ji Bian was already celebrating that its total sales had broken 100 million units worldwide. With a 10 times difference in sales, Nintendo had no hope of winning in the PDA market.
Originally, Nintendo could comfort themselves that GB lost to Qian Ji Bian because of a 10 year difference. Once the GBA market was released, it would definitely change the world.
However, the truth was so sad. In the face of this result, Nintendo sent professionals to investigate and concluded that the most important reason for the GBA's fiasco was the steam game store.
Because of the existence of the steam game store, Qian Ji Bian controlled almost all the gaming channels around the world. The Daqian and Taipans, as well as the steam game platform's franchisees, split the profits by 3, 3, 4. At the same time, they did not have to strictly review the games that they wanted to release. This allowed all the gaming companies to release their games on the steam game platform easily.
Because of this, Qian Ji Bian, a small platform, had more than 10,000 different games. But until now, the GBA market had less than 40 games on it.
Although these 40 games were basically the best, in front of a platform with more than 10,000 different games and a platform with only 40 games, even a fool would make the right decision.
This was because Nintendo made the decision to release most of its products on the steam game store two years ago. If not, Nintendo's situation would be worse.
Back to the topic, Nintendo was now faced with a choice. It was whether to release Pet Spirit on the Qian Ji Bian platform.
Previously, most of Nintendo's products were released on the steam game store platform, but they were only used to sell products. All the games relied on Nintendo's console to run. Nintendo was still a closed gaming company, it was just using the steam game store platform.
But now, when "Pet Spirit Pet" was released to the market, there was a voice inside Nintendo. That was, not only did they want to make a GBA version of "Pet Spirit Pet", they also wanted to make a Thousand Machine version of "Pet Spirit Pet".
This voice instantly caused a huge uproar within Nintendo. Countless people jumped out to criticize Shigeru Miyamoto, who made this suggestion, saying that he was kneeling and begging for mercy to the enemy.
However, there were also many people in the company who chose to support Miyamoto Shigeru. Their reason was simple. If they did not log in, then Nintendo would lose a huge amount of money, to the point of bankruptcy.
For a while, the two factions argued endlessly. Both sides had already argued several times in the company's high-level meetings. Just as these people were about to persuade the other side again, the chairman's secretary suddenly barged in. He told Iwata Satoru and Arakawa Minori, who were hosting the meeting, that the chairman wanted to see them and hoped that they could meet at the hospital.
Hearing this news, everyone understood that this argument had probably reached the ears of Yamauchi, who was recuperating. Yamauchi was finally going to come out and end this endless argument.
An hour later, Minoru Arakawa and Satoru Iwata entered a room that was clearly brightly lit but inexplicably cold. They saw Yamauchi Hiroshi lying on the bed with a sickly look on his face. Yamauchi Hiroshi seemed to have aged beyond recognition.
Ever since he fell into a coma three years ago, Yamauchi could no longer manage the company due to his physical condition. He could only rely on his relatives and son-in-law, and he had been recuperating in the hospital.
Unfortunately, there was no good news for Nintendo these years. Almost all of it was bad news. Yamauchi's situation was getting worse and worse, and it looked like he was going to die soon.
This old man was very strong. After lying in bed for three years, he was still breathing. Moreover, from the way he looked today, Yamauchi's spirit seemed to have improved.
"What's going on in the company recently?" Yamauchi asked faintly.
"Father, everything is going well in the company. Our Pet Spirit is selling very well, and it has achieved the best results in history. You can rest at ease and recuperate. Nintendo will slowly get better!" Arakawa Minori said immediately.
"Yes, everything is going well!" Iwata Satoru said.
"Oh, then why did I hear that the two of you are about to fight in the company?" Yamauchi looked at the two of them, and they both shut their mouths.
Yamauchi continued, "I know that the two of you are hiding this from me for the sake of my health, so that I can live for a few more years. Unfortunately, good news never leaves the house, but bad news travels a thousand miles. You didn't tell me this news, but I saw it from other people's newspapers and magazines! "
After Yamauchi finished speaking, he threw out a copy of the latest Video Game magazine. On the cover of the magazine, it was written in big words, "Nintendo is quarreling non-stop, suspected of discord among the higher-ups."
"We are sorry, father!"
"Chairman, we are sorry!" Arakawa Minori and Iwata Satoru lowered their heads and said in shame.
"Alright, there's no point in talking about this. Why don't you tell me what you think? This old man will make the final decision for you today!" Yamauchi Puo said calmly.
His attitude surprised Arakawa Minori and Iwata Satoru. Under normal circumstances, when Yamauchi heard about the internal strife in the company, shouldn't he have scolded them and even rewarded them with a kick each? Since when did he speak so gently?
However, they didn't have time to think about this. They could only follow Yamauchi's request and speak their thoughts.
"Father, a real man doesn't care about trifles. It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. The most important thing for Nintendo now is to survive, reverse the company's current losses, become profitable again, and accumulate strength. Then, we will fight that bastard Jia Yapeng!" Arakawa Minori was the first to speak. "That's why we have to sell Pet Spirit. The more we sell, the better. That way, we will benefit the most."
"Moreover, if we can use the Daqian platform to earn money through the Daqian platform, then use the money to develop new games and consoles to defeat the Daqian, wouldn't we be shooting our enemy in the foot?"
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