Chapter 180 Everyone Wants to Succeed, Sixth Update

"Handheld? We have some direction for this, but it's not the main plan right now."

Zuo Zhen said: "Then I think you should consider the handheld console. In fact, NGS should have entered the middle stage of the development of the handheld console. By the end of next year, their new handheld console will most likely be released."

"What? How did you know?...Oh, yes, you were a developer at NGS before, or you were cared for by someone in the game department, so you knew about the handheld console, right?"

Gao Cunxiong was surprised by the news Zuo Zhen told him just now.

NGS was still waiting for a big move. In addition to occupying a dominant position in the home machine market, it also wanted to have its own say in the handheld field.

This is quite understandable.

The handheld console market is still completely blank right now.

Thinking of this, I suddenly became more anxious.

It is very likely that NGS will have a market that is also not on the scale of home computers in the future.

Regarding Gao Cunxiong's speculation, Zuo Zhen just smiled and did not respond.

Akira Nakamura was planning to tell Zuozhen that he was going to develop a handheld console, but at that time it was just getting started, and the specific information was not clear.

Zuo Zhen learned this news entirely through the experience of later generations.

Judging from the timeline, the release of this game console should be next year or the year after.

Of course, if the game process in this world is accelerated due to his own influence, the release of the handheld console may also be advanced.

NGS may urgently need a new market to prove its dominance.

But this is just a guess and cannot be 100% reliable.

"So Takamura-san, you should speed up your pace. Do you still have time to make plans in the handheld market?"

"This... this requires a new R&D team, but our new home machine has already taken up too many resources."

Zuo Zhen answered simply: "Then my suggestion is to find a way to release the new game console now. Of course, the premise is to ensure that the performance of the game console is stable and there will be no quality problems, and then... it is to enter the handheld console immediately R&D, I don’t think you want to keep chasing the footsteps of NGS? You also want to be at the forefront of the world, right?”

Gao Cunxiong was very excited after hearing this.

Being at the forefront of the world describes Sega as if it is about to enter a glorious era.

These are some of the experiences of the times brought by Zuo Zhen from later generations.

There was only so much advice he could give.

The main reason is that he doesn't want to stay in the eight-bit era to develop games anymore.

The average capacity of current eight-bit console games is really too low.

Although there are also those fun retro eight-bit pixel games in later generations, they are only similar in style, but the games themselves are all real games of later generations, and they are all pixel games with several GB or more than ten GB. Even now. It’s really something that I can’t even think about.

So in the final analysis there is still a huge gap.

"As for the release of this new game console, I will go back and study it with the board of directors. As for Zuo Zhen-san, do you mean you don't plan to develop eight-bit console games for us anymore?"

Zuo Zhen shrugged: "I don't want to think about it anymore. You see, PCE has released its own 16-bit game console. Although this is not a complete 16-bit game console, the picture performance is already quite good. Let's go back to the past. I really have a bit of indigestion.”

If you want to play, play a big one.

If Zuo Zhen hadn't already had a shaky foundation, he would have even wanted to start building game consoles himself.

However, there are too many steps in the overall development and release of game consoles, which are not something Zuo Zhen can handle now.

They currently have less than ten people in the company.

"Okay, let's do what you want. We will consider sending the game console development kit to you in advance as appropriate."

Now this is Zuo Zhen's own decision that he no longer wants to be around in the eight-bit computer era.

At least I don’t want to get stuck in the eight-bit era of home consoles.

As for handheld consoles, you can still consider it.

In the handheld era, there are also many popular handheld works, some of which are enough to bring influence to the world.

And he now has a killer weapon like Tetris on hand.

Tetris should actually have half of the credit for the success of Nintendo's handheld gameboy back then.

This game has extraordinary magic.

That night, Komura found a way to contact his country in Japan.

At this moment, the international communication business has been gradually established, and it is no longer as difficult as it was last year to make a phone call.

This can also be regarded as one of the signals of the development and progress of an era.

Komura Xiong notified people in his country of the news about him in China.

The management in Japan didn't sleep well all night and have been studying Zuo Zhen's proposal.

The development of new home consoles has come to an end.

The reason why they chose to release it in Japan in October next year is actually because it happens to be Halloween and Christmas, which are days that can naturally increase sales.

If the popularity of the product itself is not enough, using this kind of festival to launch the product to boost sales can also give an explanation to shareholders.

So if it is really possible to compete with NGS through new home machines and win, it is not impossible to enter the new era in advance.

But some board members expressed doubts.

"Takamura, I do think that Zuo Zhen-san's game development level is very good, but regarding the development of game consoles and the problems of the game industry, will his suggestions be appropriate?"

Komura pondered for a moment and then replied: "I think it is appropriate. You can all see his game development level. All his games have achieved good results, and this is just for releasing games on our old platform. If it comes On the new platform, I think there will be more room for him to play.”

"Um……"

Hearing that several board members on the other end of the phone seemed hesitant, Komura Yu suddenly became anxious. He shouted: "President, are you here? My meaning is clear now, I hope the game console can be released in advance."

"But as a result, our funds will be very tight, and more funds will be invested for early release."

“But to achieve extraordinary results.”

Just these words made everyone present fall silent again.

Extraordinary results.

This word is really quite tempting to them.

Everyone wants to be successful, and also achieve extraordinary success.

Even if he ends up being shattered to pieces, he still leaves his mark on this world.

It's just... As I said just now, there will be financial problems.

However, in the end it was the president who made the decision.

"We need to respect professionals, and Takamura and Mr. Zuo Zhen are professionals. Listen to them and invest more funds, even if they are diverted from the arcade business, to speed up the development of new home machines."