At this moment, Yamauchi was extremely enthusiastic towards Jia Yapeng. He personally brought Boss Jia to visit the entire North American branch of Nintendo. He even showed Boss Jia a lot of confidential things.
For example, the SGB, which is the Super Gameboy, is an improved version of GB. The biggest feature of this product is that it can run GB games on the SFC platform by plugging in a GB game cartridge. It is considered an official game platform converter.
Yamauchi told Jia Yapeng that this is a weapon that will be released next year. It is estimated that it will bring Nintendo more than a billion USD in revenue. At the same time, it will bring in at least 5 million USD in sales for Pokemon.
Yamauchi told this to Jia Yapeng because he wants to tell him that following Nintendo will bring benefits. He wants to tell him not to think about weird things.
Boss Jia naturally kept praising SGB on the surface. However, in his heart, he was very disdainful.
History has proven that SGB is a piece of trash. It sold less than 200,000 units. Even Nintendo was hit hard. After all, tens of millions of USD in research and development and hundreds of millions of USD in production costs were all lost.
Actually, SGB's failure is something that even an idiot can imagine.
This is different from console games being ported to PC platforms. There is no point in porting GB games to console platforms.
After all, the main feature of GB games is that they can be played anytime, anywhere, without any limitations.
But an SGB would limit GB games to the TV. If that's the case, why don't I just play FC games, or buy modified cartridges? No matter how you look at it, it's more worth it than spending a lot of money to buy a new console.
Therefore, SGB's failure was destined to be a failure from the moment it was developed.
At this moment, Jia Yapeng noticed that Minoru Arakawa, who was standing behind Yamauchi, did not look very excited. Instead, he looked very worried. Obviously, Minoru Arakawa also noticed the problem with SGB.
However, Minoru Arakawa did not dare to argue with Yamauchi.
However, what Boss Jia didn't know was that when Yamauchi Hiroshi decided to develop the SGB, Minoru Arakawa and Yamauchi Hiroshi had a huge argument. Akira Arakawa vehemently opposed SGB's research and development, but the stubborn Yamauchi wouldn't listen to his son-in-law's words. He insisted on joining SGB. Akira Arakawa was so angry that he even said that he wanted to make the North American branch independent, which greatly shocked Yamauchi. This also caused a deep rift between the father-son-in-law pair.
"Jae-kun, next, I'll show you Nintendo's biggest secret!" However, SGB didn't seem to be Nintendo's ultimate trump card. In Yamauchi's sky, there seemed to be another trump card.
"Then I'll wait and see!" Boss Jia said expectantly.
At this moment, Ivanka Ivana's eyes widened. She originally thought that accompanying Boss Jia was just an ordinary business meeting. However, Ivanka now realized that it wasn't a simple business meeting. It was a confidential consultation of the world's top gaming company.
Ivanka was also very curious about Jia Yapeng's identity. This seemingly ordinary and very perverted guy, what kind of identity did he have? Yamauchi Hiroshi actually took the initiative to bring him to Nintendo's absolute secret.
Under Yamauchi Hiroshi's lead, Jia Yapeng entered a laboratory with layers of security. Finally, he saw the device that Yamauchi Hiroshi called the Ultimate Trump Card on a messy experiment table.
It was obvious that this device was still in the experimental research and development stage. There were many wires connected to the computer. There were also a few researchers sitting around nervously, constantly adjusting the device.
"Could this be …" When Jia Yapeng saw the Ultimate Trump Card, he was immediately stunned.
Take note, this wasn't an act. Boss Jia was really shocked because he never thought that he would be able to see such a revolutionary product in Nintendo's laboratory.
Compared to Boss Jia's shock, Ivanka was a little curious because there was a strange-looking thing on the table that looked like a helmet.
It looked very ugly. Ivanka couldn't help but doubt the aesthetics of this game console's designer. How could this device be Nintendo's ultimate trump card?
"Jae-kun, do you know what this game console is?" Yamauchi Hiroshi asked Boss Jia proudly.
"This is a head-mounted virtual 3D video game console!" Boss Jia spat out a word in shock.
To put it simply, it was a VR helmet.
"Huh …" Yamauchi Hiroshi was stunned. He originally wanted to answer his own question because he thought that Boss Jia didn't know how revolutionary and revolutionary this game console was.
However, what Yamauchi Hiroshi didn't expect was that Boss Jia actually said a series of names. Although the names were very different from the ones Nintendo had decided on, if one carefully analyzed the meaning of each word in the names, they could perfectly express the characteristics of this machine.
"Jae-kun has already seen this machine in advance!" Yamauchi Hiroshi asked in fear. This was the first time that Yamauchi Hiroshi had taken out this machine and let a third party appraise it. If Boss Jia said that he had already seen this machine in advance, Yamauchi Hiroshi would definitely cause a bloodbath in the company.
"No, President Yamauchi, you've misunderstood. Don't you remember that I still have Dengeki Bunko? Currently, the best-selling novel in Dengeki Bunko is called 'Sword and Saber God's Domain.' In the future game world, the game equipment that all the players commonly use is almost exactly the same as this set of equipment in front of us! "Boss Jia exclaimed.
"There's such a thing!" Yamauchi Hiroshi was stunned for a moment. Then, he remembered that when he was incognito, he did seem to have seen a novel called The Sword and Saber Divine Realm. However, he wasn't interested in reading it at all.
Therefore, Yamauchi Hiroshi looked around with a questioning gaze. Then, a big boss who was following Yamauchi Hiroshi said with a bitter smile, "President Jia is right. The Sword and Saber Divine Realm does use the same equipment. In fact, the idea of developing this set of equipment came from the novel, The Sword and Saber Divine Realm."
"Compared to the Subliminal Stealth Helmet in the novel, our current equipment is still a little too crude. It's far from the level described in the novel. However, I believe that if you give me another 20 or 30 years, I'll definitely be able to create the equipment described in the novel!"
"This must be Mr. Yokoi. You're too humble. My novel has only been on sale for five months, but you were able to develop a product that only existed in the novel for 30 years into reality in just five months. You're truly a god!" Boss Jia exclaimed.
Yes, that's right. You didn't read it wrong. In 1993, Nintendo had already developed VR equipment.
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