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Chapter 341 Nintendo's Tyrant

"President, did you really let me come forward? Can I really walk in front of you?" Tajiri Tomoya asked cautiously at the entrance of a building.

"It's okay, now I'm your secretary!" Boss Jia said with a smile, "I know you have a good relationship with some senior executives of Nintendo. If you come forward, you are much better than me!"

"I understand!" Tajiri Tomo nodded, breathed a sigh of relief, and took Boss Jia into Nintendo's building.

After the game is completed, the most important thing is naturally to pass Nintendo's review and then release your own game on Nintendo's gb.

This is very important to Boss Jia. Some people may wonder. Boss Jia already has his own primary school tyrant, so why can't he be sold on the primary school tyrant? Why do you have to be sold on the GB? Isn't this money to the Fusang people to earn?

To be honest, if primary school tyrants are popular all over the world and there is a handheld version, then Boss Jia would definitely choose to sell them on primary school tyrants.

But the problem is that now the primary school tyrant is just a fierce attack in China, and Boss Jia is still very self-aware. At least before the new generation of game consoles comes out, Boss Jia does not have any ability to compete with Nintendo for the world's first game console.

So Boss Jia now has to cooperate with Nintendo, and through Nintendo's hands, the entire Pokémon has been released worldwide, so that all Nintendo users can become players of Pokémon. Then when the real next-generation console tide comes, Boss Jia will have an interesting and slutty operation.

So it is very important to log in to Nintendo now, and no mistakes are allowed. So Boss Jia let Tajiri Tomoe take action, and he just followed Tajiri Tomoe as a secretary.

After all, in another era, this task was also completed by Tomota Tajiri, so it would be better for Boss Jia not to flap the butterfly's wings as much as possible.

In later generations, it is actually very simple to release a computer game. If it is a big company, it has its own distribution channel.

If it is an independent small company, go directly to a game platform like Steam, then register a developer account, and upload it directly to Steam through the Internet. Next, you only need to wait for the other party's review and you can directly use the steam platform to list it on the shelves.

Steam's review is very loose. Generally speaking, as long as it does not involve racial discrimination or serious cyan, it can be passed and put on the shelves.

But if it is a console game on the shelves, it will be a headache.

Especially in 1993, when Nintendo was the dominant player, it would be even more troublesome to successfully make it available.

First of all, you need to prove your developer's strength. Simply put, you must pay a sum of money to Nintendo as collateral to prove that you are a capable company that is not just a seller and can take on subsequent game services and will not damage Nintendo's reputation.

It's like a deposit given to the landlord when renting a house. If you damage Nintendo's reputation, Nintendo will deduct the deposit.

Well, in theory, if you don’t continue to develop this money for Nintendo, then Nintendo will return the money to you. But in actual operation, hehe, that’s more troublesome. Nintendo can deduct your money based on the contract.

Then there is the review of the work. This process is actually a bit complicated and can be divided into three stages.

The first stage is the game's stability review. Nintendo will send 3-5 staff members. Their task is to constantly play your game repeatedly and play various tricks to determine the stability of the game and whether there will be a large number of vicious bugs.

There is no problem with this review itself, but the problem is that the salary of these 3 to 5 staff members is not paid, and the developer is responsible for it.

Then there is the review of professional game editors. These two steps are actually together. The 3-5 staff members are professional game editors. They make a basic score on the game based on the various experiences in the game.

This full score is 100 points. If the final score of these game editors does not exceed 60 points, the game will be stuck in step 2.

The third step is the review of Nintendo's senior management. Generally speaking, the director of the game distribution department is responsible for the final review. As long as the supervisor nods, the review of the game will be completed.

However, it is said that Nintendo's chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi actually interferes a lot in this matter, and 80% of the games were reviewed and approved by Hiroshi Yamauchi himself. Without Hiroshi Yamauchi's nod, a game would not have been released on Nintendo.

In Hiroshi Yamauchi's words, you don't have to pay too much attention to the performance of the game console, as long as it is enough.

What really determines the sales of a game console is the game in the game console camp. Only when it is full of interesting, stable, and high-quality games can it truly capture the market.

It has to be admitted that Hiroshi Yamauchi's thinking helped Nintendo defeat Sega and Atari, and eventually became the king of the game console industry in the first half of the 1990s.

Even many competitors have to admit that you can call Nintendo's consoles bad performance, or some of them boring, but you have to admit that most of Nintendo's games are fun and of high quality.

This has constituted Nintendo's reputation for decades. There are no Blizzard's products these days, and they must be a fine character because this character belongs to Nintendo.

It is precisely because of Hiroshi Yamauchi's high-quality requirements for games that Nintendo's success is achieved.

But everything is a double-edged sword. Yamauchi's extremely high requirements for games have caused great pain to game developers in Nintendo's camp.

Can you imagine that a game that took one or two years to develop was lost in the end because Hiroshi Yamauchi's words were too boring and he lost the opportunity to be released on the game console?

If it is a big game manufacturer, it is okay to be able to suffer such losses. If it is placed in front of some small independent game development companies, then this sentence will instantly lead to the entire company going bankrupt.

So since Nintendo has rejected it, can it be used on other brands of gaming consoles?

Of course, but Hiroshi Yamauchi is called a tyrant in the industry. You can tell from his name that Hiroshi Yamauchi is such a domineering person. If a third-party game company dares to sell his own games on other game console platforms, Hiroshi Yamauchi will immediately and decisively drive all other games out of the Nintendo platform, and then no longer allow this game company, or even the investors behind him, to publish any games on the Nintendo platform.

Such rules make all third-party game companies frightened. No matter how much they suffer, they will suffer such losses, in order to stay on the Nintendo platform, they will carefully serve Hiroshi Yamauchi.

There was no way, but he was rejected by Hiroshi Yamauchi and lost at most a sum of money.

But if it is rejected by the Nintendo platform, the company will go bankrupt completely.

Of course, such behavior didn't matter at the heyday of Nintendo.

But once Nintendo experiences a recession and new competitors appear, it will be fatal.

For example, Sony's PS came out later, and he made huge investments in hiking to compete with Nintendo for the game market. Third-party companies that had long been oppressed by Nintendo and were full of resentment all betrayed Nintendo and turned to Sony's camp, so that Nintendo almost entered bankruptcy.

Later, the stable performance of the two super ace games, "Pokemon" and "Super Mary", was the one who stood up to the pressure on GB and earned billions of dollars in profits and tens of billions of dollars in derivative value for Nintendo. Otherwise, Nintendo would have been dying.

Ahem, get back to the point.

At this time, when Boss Jia accompanied Tajiri Tomoto to Nintendo for review, he naturally had already paid the deposit and also conducted the first and second steps of the review, which had been successfully passed. Now he is waiting for the final review by the head of Nintendo's distribution department and the head of Yokoi, who is also known as the father of GB, to conduct the final review.

"I hope I won't see that tyrant today!" Tajiri Tomoto prayed with his hands clasped. Yokoi Junhei is actually a very easy person to get along with, but if he meets the tyrant Yamauchi Hiroshi, then only God knows the result.
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