Silicon Valley

Soon, the news of Atari's merger into Firefly Games came out.

However, this is clearly to be expected.

Nintendo decided at the meeting to completely cancel the cooperation with Firefly Games! At the same time, it also issued a warning to third-party game companies on its own side. If a game company cooperates with Firefly and landed on the Atari game console platform, then Nintendo will refuse to cooperate with it!

Nintendo President Yamauchi said in an extremely arrogant and indifferent tone: "Whoever dares to cooperate with Firefly Games, we will let him get out!!!"

Nintendo is very strong to put forward a multiple-choice question for all game companies!

Choose Nintendo, or choose Firefly?

This problem, obviously, Nintendo is now the overlord of the console game platform, occupying more than 80% of the market, unmatched!

Atari has the support of Firefly, and it is equally difficult to compete with it!

Moreover, Atari has been losing year after year and suffered serious losses. I am afraid that it will not succeed in launching a new game console again!

Many game makers have no confidence in Atari.

Combined with the threat from Nintendo, the vast majority of game companies are on the sidelines.

"Nintendo has spoken. Whoever dares to cooperate with Firefly Games will not allow the company's games to be launched on the SFC platform... This is too strong!"

"It's bound to be strong, who says Nintendo is now the dominant party! SFC has such a large market share, naturally the platform's games can be sold more, all game manufacturers want to sell their own games on the SFC platform..."

"Actually, it's better to be a spoiler. Nintendo's royalty system is too annoying! If it makes money, it will take a large part of the profit, and if it loses, it will be all borne by us!"

"Yes, before each game is released, we have to pay a huge amount of game cartridge production fee in advance. If the game cartridge can't be sold, it's still ours. And Nintendo has already made money just by helping us make game cartridges. The pours are full! Think about it, it's so depressing!"

"I don't know what Atari's next game opportunity will look like, and whether it can break Nintendo's monopoly..."

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Although Nintendo has put harsh words. But it is only threatening some ordinary game manufacturers. For those well-known third-party game companies, Nintendo is actively courting them, proposing more preferential policies and canceling the royalty system. Charge less platform fees because Nintendo knows that good games are the lifeblood of consoles. Previously, Nintendo was able to develop because of good games!

At this moment, Nintendo sent people to contact Konami, Glory, Namco, Square and other game companies, and Henry also sent people to contact these four famous Japanese game companies!

A pair of competitions have begun.

These four companies are well-known in the game industry and have developed many classic games. The position in the industry is very high. Now in this situation, countless game companies are paying attention to their choices. If any of them supports Atari, then many game companies will choose to stand on Atari's side!

However, the person sent by Henry replied that these four companies were considering it, and although they did not agree, they did not refuse. Henry was not surprised to get this reply. Nintendo is now the king of the console market, and no game company wants to offend it easily. not to mention. What does Atari's new phone look like, what functions does it have, how much does it cost, and how competitive the market is. They don't know about this, and they certainly don't dare to make decisions casually!

Henry thought for a while and had to start from himself.

Being strong is the last word.

Starting with home consoles, Henry came to Atari to design the next generation of Atari game consoles.

After coming to the company, Henry called all the senior staff of the company over.

Henry took the lead. Looking up at everyone, he said with an expression: "Firefly Games has already offered olive branches to the world's more famous third-party game companies, but none of them are willing to release games on our new machine! Some of them The company told me vaguely that the game consoles made by Atari are not good, the market share is too low, if they sell games on it, not only will they not make money, but they will also lose money!" Henry paused, staring at everyone , said, "What do you think about this?"

Everyone blushed when they heard this.

Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to speak.

Henry said indifferently: "However, the more they say this, the more we have to make game consoles better. People can't be underestimated! Today, I came to Atari for a very simple purpose, to help You design 'jaguars'!"

When everyone heard this, they looked at Henry curiously.

Henry was silent for a while, and the organizational language said: "In my design requirements, the Jaguar game machine can be connected to the Internet, that is to say, a built-in network card needs to be installed, and at the same time, there must be two usb ports, one for connecting a usb mouse. , one is used to connect the usb keyboard!"

At present, usb has been recognized by some computer manufacturers, but it has not been fully popularized. And this time Henry wants to promote the usb standard to the peak! When a large number of usb mice and usb keyboards appeared on the market several times, presumably countless computer manufacturers want to get the authorization of usb!

Looking at the hesitant expressions of everyone, Henry said loudly: "Only the Internet can make Jaguars competitive! We will develop a 'TV Battle.net' platform, and all 'Jaguar' users can play with other players through TV Battle.net. Play games. When players stay at home, most of them are playing games alone. Wouldn’t it be better if they could play games with other people?”

Henry paused to let everyone think about it, and then continued: "In addition to TV Battle.net, we will also develop a TV forum website, TV Exchange! The TV forum website allows players to discuss games. And TV Exchange, the It is to let players trade commodities here, such as player accounts, weapons and equipment, etc. For example, the game level is very difficult, and if you need to buy better weapons, you can go to the TV exchange to buy weapons, and you can buy them from the system through PayPal , can also be purchased from players!"

As soon as Henry finished speaking, everyone was a little stunned.

The TV forum website is fine. After all, it is a website for players to communicate. But the TV exchange, is this an exaggeration? Everyone whispered and talked a lot...

Seeing this, Henry coughed twice to silence everyone.

"No matter what kind of game, Jaguar will record all kinds of game data truthfully. Once connected to the Internet, TV Exchange will first scan the Jaguar to get the user's game data! After the transaction is completed, among the Jaguar The game data will change accordingly! Players and players will trade through TV exchanges, and we will acquire 20% of the handling fee. 10% of which will be paid to the game development company. In this way, we can provide for the game The development company creates more profits, thereby attracting more game companies to join us! In addition, the TV exchange can continuously create profits, which will surely enable the game development company to improve the balance of the game and make the game more durable. , they can earn more!"

At this time, someone asked loudly: "Chairman, if it is what you said, then Jaguars can also be regarded as 'servers' in a sense. Therefore, security is particularly important. If someone tampers with the data, it will An immeasurable loss!"

Henry smiled and said, "That's right! Theoretically, this is the case! Therefore, we need to strengthen defense measures in two aspects. On the one hand, the TV exchange has the ability to identify data errors. Each jaguar corresponds to a set of sequences. No., once a problem is found, it will be frozen and no transactions will be allowed! On the other hand, it is to strengthen the security defense of the jaguar itself!"

Henry said lightly and confidently: "I will ask 360 McAfee, the world's most powerful security company, to help us develop Jaguars. Even if the FBI gets the Jaguars, they will be helpless!!! "

After everyone heard it, they looked at each other and were shocked.

then. Without waiting for everyone to react, Henry continued: "At the same time, I will let people develop a 'TV Simulator' platform on the computer! Entering the 'TV Simulator' platform, you can play the games on Jaguar as well as Enter TV Battle.net. And the game on the 'TV Simulator' platform is played by purchasing a registration code, and all game data will be saved in the company's server. It is bound to the game account! Naturally, this method will be more Safety!"

Henry finally said loudly: "A game can be used by both Jaguars and computers. I don't believe it. There is no game company that will not be excited!"

In fact, doing "TV simulators" will reduce Jaguar sales to a certain extent. After all, with the ability to play games on a computer, some people wouldn't buy a jaguar. That way, though, it's good for game companies, who can sell more games.

Henry's move is actually to attract more game companies.

The more game companies there are, the more Jaguar sales will increase. And many players have become "TV simulator" users, which is equivalent to potential users of Jaguar. Henry will have serious control over the "TV Simulator", and will not simulate all games. Some classic games can only be played on Jaguars. Players can't feel it when they watch it and can't touch it? Have to buy a Jaguar in the end?

After Henry finished speaking, he returned to the office and thought about the game.

No matter how good the game console is, it is useless without games.

In the previous life, "Resident Evil 1" was the birth of the strongest dark horse in history. At that time, almost everyone's attention was focused on the shocking news of the PS version of "Final Fantasy VII" released by Square. "Resident Evil I" was like an unknown flower. Famous wildflowers bloom quietly in secluded corners. The game sold less than 100,000 copies on the first day. However, the high quality of the game caused word of mouth to spread among players. It can be described as a word-of-mouth explosion. The shipments in Japan alone exceeded one million in one fell swoop. This is also the first time that the PS1 console has exceeded one million. game!

Although "Resident Evil 1" is not the highest-selling game on PS1, it is of great significance to PS1. At that time, it was almost like a savior that Sony's PS1 was killed by Nintendo and Sega!

Henry called Capcom to find out about the games the company was working on recently.

Not long after the release of The King of Fighters 1992, Capcom was already developing The King of Fighters 1993. At the same time, two other games are also in development, one is "Resident Evil 1" and the other is "Rockman X Series".

"Rockman X Series" is the second series of "Rockman".

Rockman is a game character in the "Rockman" game. Capcom has great ambitions. After the success of the first "Rockman", he also wants to follow the example of Nintendo, and wants to make Rockman a valuable character like Super Mario, so that he can continuously launch new works. , to create huge benefits for the company!

This part of Capcom is on the right track. In the future, Rockman will become the most famous video game character under Capcom, and the IP value is huge!

Henry nodded in satisfaction, then hung up the phone.

At this time, he was thinking that although there are "Resident Evil 1" and "Rockman X series", the "King of Fighters" series can also be transplanted to the home computer! However, the number of games is still far from enough!

However, Firefly Games is developing Need for Speed, which can add staff and speed up development, aiming to finish production before next year's Atari "Jaguar" console is developed, and then move it to "Jaguar" above.

This is another classic game!

"FIFA 1994" is best reissued in the 1994 World Cup, so the effect is the best. Therefore, the football game should be slowed down for a while, until 1994, it can be logged on both home machines and PCs at the same time!

Four games are far from enough. Henry sat in the office and pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of a lot of good games that could be developed.

Crash Bandicoot 1 by Naughty Dog!

rockstar, aka Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto 1"!

"Crash Bandicoot 1" was originally released on Sony's PS1, and its sales were even higher than "Resident Evil 1", reaching more than 6.7 million. Naughty Dog also formed an indissoluble bond with Sony. The final result It was acquired by Sony.

At that time, Nintendo's Mario, Sega's Sonic, and Sony's Crash Bandicoot were often compared, which shows how good Crash Bandicoot is.

"Grand Theft Auto 1" is violent and well-known. The entire series has sold more than 100 million games, which shocked the industry. It is one of the few series that can exceed 100 million sales in the world!

These two companies are very weak now, but in a few years they will develop the famous works of "Crash Bandicoot 1" and "Grand Theft Auto 1" respectively. Therefore, Henry will not hesitate to send someone to investigate these two companies, and then launch an acquisition!

PS: A little more tomorrow.

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