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Nintendo didn't know that its engineers had become other people's masters, and they were still immersed in the dream of selling N64.

One month after the release of N64, the total reservation volume of N64 has exceeded 5 million units, which is almost equivalent to the sales of PS in one year.

Such a refreshing victory naturally made Hiroshi Yamauchi extremely proud, and he became extremely confident again, and the name of a tyrant returned to this world.

Originally, after PS surpassed Nintendo, Yuki Yamauchi was extremely angry, but he was silent all over, and even his attitude towards third parties improved a lot, and even improved in many policies.

Obviously, Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted to stabilize the confidence of those shaky third parties by relaxing Nintendo's policies. However, after the amazing result of N64's reservation of 5 million units per month, the arrogant Hiroshi Yamauchi came back.

On May 3, Nintendo suddenly welcomed a joint visit from representatives of more than a dozen third-party game manufacturers in May.

More than a dozen third-party manufacturers appeared together, which was something that had never happened before. Obviously, these more than a dozen manufacturers were planning to join forces to put pressure on Nintendo.

Upon hearing this news, Yamauchi Hiroshi didn't even intend to see them. After Miyamoto Shigeru and Iwada Satoshi persuaded him at the same time, he met the representatives of these third-party manufacturers.

After meeting, the attitudes of these third-party manufacturers were very tactful and humble. First, congratulations to N64 for its amazing initial sales, and then said that he would always be on the same mind as Nintendo. Anyway, it was after all the rainbow farts that these third-party manufacturers made some humble requests.

That is, I hope that the future improved version of N64 will be able to use optical disc drivers instead of cassettes.

To be honest, these third-party manufacturers have been tortured by cassettes and are in ecstasy.

First of all, the cassette has difficulty programming due to its small capacity and the game content cannot be too much. The key is that the cassette is facing another extremely serious problem, that is, the cost is too high.

The cost of a CD is very low, and the retail price is only 200 yen per card. However, the cost of a game cartridge is much higher.

Originally, the game cartridges in the FC era were already very expensive, and they cost 1,000 yen per piece... Anyway, Nintendo's burning fee said.

A third-party manufacturer also accepted this.

However, in the N64 era, third-party manufacturers could not stand it anymore. Because the capacity of game cassettes increased from 4mb to 64mb, the production cost of cassettes was also increased immediately. So Nintendo told all third parties that all cassette burning costs will be increased to 3,000 yen per plate in the future, and the remaining costs will be equally distributed by Nintendo and third-party manufacturers.

This made all third-party manufacturers furious.

The average selling price of a game cartridge was 5,000 yen, so after deducting 1,000 yen of burning and cassette costs, third-party game manufacturers can also get a share of 2,000 yen, so everyone can barely accept it.

However, when the recording cost of the game cartridge is increased to 3,000 yen, if it is still sold at a price of 5,000 yen, the profit of the third-party manufacturer will be only 1,000 yen, which is almost half-cut.

Some people say that you can maintain profits by increasing the price of the game!

But the problem is that since the launch of PS, the price of the game 5,000 yen per serving has dropped to around 4,500 yen per serving, which is also the reason why all players have praised it.

But if the price of N64's game cartridges does not decrease but rises, the impact on players will undoubtedly be extremely huge. Players will tell you their choices with practical actions.

Therefore, these third-party manufacturers have proposed the requirement that they can change the media from cassettes to CDs, so that the cost of burning will be reduced and their profits will be preserved.

To be fair, the requirements of these third-party manufacturers are reasonable, because the CD completely crushes the cartridges in terms of capacity and cost. The only thing that Brukanay has is about the reading speed. However, this means that the game will be a little slow when reading the discs. When the game really starts running, the speed will not be much slower.

"I know everyone's ideas, I will consider them. Please come back!" After hearing the requests of these dozen third-party manufacturers, Hiroshi Yamauchi said expressionlessly.

No one here is fool. What is the difference between Hiroshi Yamauchi's attitude and rejection?

Go back and wait! I'm afraid that the CD will not be able to wait until the sky is dark.

"President Yamauchi, all our manufacturers are anxious. Please give us an accurate answer today so that we can feel at ease and develop new games for Nintendo!" said one of the representatives.

"Sorry, I have to consider this issue from all aspects. It is impossible to give you an answer in a short period of time. And even if you want to change the CD, will the current N64 not be sold?"

"So according to industry practice, it will take two or three years to launch an improved version of N64. Then consider the CD issue!" As soon as Hiroshi Yamauchi said this, he was in an instant.

Two or three years!

Two or three years later, the daylily became cold.

"President Yamauchi, there is no need to replace the equipment. We can use plug-in CD-ROM. As long as we plug it in, we can directly use the CD to read it directly. It is not troublesome at all, and we can do it immediately!" a voice said.

"Shut up, are you teaching me how to do things?" Yamauchi's face suddenly changed into gloom. He stared at the guy who was talking fiercely. "I remember you, you are the president of Trojan Games, right? I'm very happy to notify you that all games in the future will not pass our Nintendo review!"

Yamauchi said bluntly.

"You...you..." The president of the Tuanfu changed his face at first. He knew Hiroshi Yamauchi's temper. Once he ordered the ban on himself, he would really be banned by Nintendo.

But so what if he was banned by Nintendo? This world is no longer the world that was 5 years ago, and it is not the only one that is dominated by Nintendo. He has no other way out.

So this guy simply turned his back and said, "So what if you teach you how to do things! You are so stupid, you really think you are a tyrant, and you will be the only one. Let me tell you, if you don't have CDs today, then all our third parties will leave you in the future. I think you are the only one of your Nintendo headquarters, how can you sell games in the future!"

"Today is the day when you Nintendo is heading for defeat!"

"Please invite President Chuanfu out for me!" Yamauchi Hirou didn't even look at this guy and invited the other party out at once. There were a lot of other representatives who were astonished as if they were chilling at the scene.

"Who else you want to teach me how to do things can be like him. We, Nintendo, don't need to be a partner with us!"

"..." There was silence in the audience, and no one answered.

"Okay, since everyone is unwilling to talk anymore, let's break up. Don't mention CDs in the future. Cassettes are the ever-changing choices of the host. CDs and other things are just temporary benefits, and they will eventually be abandoned by the market in the future."

Hiroshi Yamauchi almost said that Nintendo would insist on cassettes and would not waver for 100 years.

However, Nintendo in history is indeed the case, because until 2020, Nintendo's physical game release still used game cartridges, and Nintendo has indeed persisted for 100 years without wavering.

After all, someone will invent TF cards in the future.