Yamauchi Hiroshi, or Nintendo, was in a miserable state now!
Since December last year, Nintendo had confidently released VB. They wanted to use the new gaming hardware and gameplay to defeat PS. Nintendo had fallen into the abyss.
It couldn't be helped, VB was too much of a scam. Although VB was the ancestor of VR, this ancestor was a primitive man. The VR of later generations couldn't even replace a single strand of hair of the game console, let alone the current VB. This kind of godly tool that could make you experience level 10 dizziness in less than 10 minutes wasn't something that ordinary people could handle.
If it was during normal times, VB's collapse was nothing. After all, Nintendo's main player, FC, was not injured. Nintendo could recover in a few months and pretend nothing happened.
But this collapse happened at the crucial moment in the competition between Nintendo and Sony. It was also the moment when PS was born. VB's failure pushed Nintendo into the abyss.
Nintendo's die-hard fans were hurt by VB, and they didn't even want to play FC anymore. Therefore, these fanatical gamers instinctively turned their attention to PS, and they couldn't help but exclaim that PS was awesome.
It couldn't be helped. In this era, the 3D effect of PS was indeed the best. You could play real 3D games on PS that Nintendo could never play.
Even if these 3D games were extremely crude in the eyes of later generations, and the character models were extremely ugly, there was no doubt that this was a real 3D game, and that was enough.
So, after Sony's PS was released, it achieved better results than Feng Yu's previous life.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Nintendo's VB was released in May 1995. That means it was released half a year after Sony's PS was released. Both consoles were not facing each other head-on.
But this time, in order to defeat Sony, Yamauchi confidently chose to release VB and PS one day apart. This was a head-on confrontation.
This is undoubtedly a very risky thing to do. If they win, PS will die in their mother's womb. If they lose, then Nintendo's monopoly of the game console market will be broken.
The result was no doubt the latter. After VB's failure, Sony's PS achieved better results than Feng Yu's previous life. 6 months after its release, Sony's PS had sold more than 1.5 million units in Fusang.
This game console was priced at 299 USD, which was three times the price of the Nintendo FC. Even when the Nintendo FC console was first released, it didn't achieve such a great result!
Although FC's console had sold more than 15 million units in Fusang, most of them were repeat purchases or bought by casual gamers. The number of hardcore gamers who play games every day and buy new game cartridges every month was only about 3 million.
299 USD, 1.5 million sales in Japan. This was equivalent to taking over half of Nintendo's core player market. This made Nintendo angry and fearful. Nintendo suddenly felt that the gaming industry that they had spent 15 years to establish was going to be destroyed by Sony.
This made Nintendo feel a huge sense of crisis. The first and most important step they took to deal with this was naturally to develop their own 3D game console. Moreover, they would invest a lot of money into the research and development of their own 3D game console at all costs.
But this will take time. According to Nintendo's internal calculations, the new console will only be launched in the middle of 1996. In this way, it was equivalent to giving PS a year and a half of vacuum. PS would not be able to find a competitor in this period of time. This would allow PS to poach Nintendo's talent. This was something that Nintendo absolutely could not accept.
In order to maintain their market share for the next one and a half years, Nintendo is left with only one last resort. That is to release a few heavyweight games to keep the Nintendo players. This way, the Nintendo players will not be taken away by Sony in the next one and a half years.
As a result, Nintendo's ace games, such as the Super Mario Brothers series, the Final Fantasy series, the Brave vs. the Evil Dragon series, and the Legend of Satar series, all released their own new works to promote. All of a sudden, various game media outlets were crazily promoting the sequels, causing all the gamers to feel a burst of adrenaline.
After the excitement, many gamers asked why there was no news about the new "Pokemon" game.
Nintendo was also curious about the gamers' questions. But Yamauchi was too embarrassed to ask until May, when Sony's PS sales reached a new high. Yamauchi could not take it anymore. He went to our Boss Jia and asked him about the second "Pokemon" game.
"About this … we are still in the process of developing it. There are some things that need some time …" Boss Jia hesitated to answer Yamauchi's question.
"Mr. Jia!" Yamauchi suddenly shouted and stared at our Boss Jia. "Mr. Jia, we are in the same boat now. Please stop arguing with me. Do you want Sony to be arrogant in front of us? Isn't Sony the common enemy of both of us? Have you forgotten the humiliation Sony had given us? "
"Errr … speaking of humiliation, I feel that I had given Sony more humiliation!" Boss Jia laughed. Yamauchi was speechless.
In the end, the winner was Boss Jia, a foreigner. A foreigner had defeated Sony in Fusang's domestic market. Yamauchi was speechless.
So, between Sony and Daqian, it was hard to tell who was the one who suffered more humiliation.
"Mr. Jia, I need a clear answer!" Yamauchi sighed and said. "Do you still want to lie to an old man like me?"
"Sigh … Since President Yamauchi has put it this way, then I will be honest with you!" Boss Jia paused for a while and said. "Actually, I am very conflicted about the second generation of Pokemon."
"Actually, creating the second generation of Pokemon is a very simple matter. All we have to do is add some story and Pokemon. However, I don't want the second generation to be so simple. I want the second generation of Pokemon to have more game graphics and gameplay. However, GB is unable to fulfill these requirements."
"Pokemon Red and Green had squeezed out all the features of GB!"
"Yamanouchi senpai, I heard that Nintendo is developing a new generation version of GB, the GBC. This is a game console with a larger capacity and a new color screen. Therefore, I hope that the second generation of Pokemon can be launched on the GBC, and not continue to appear on GB!" Boss Jia said frankly.
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