Chapter 340

"President, do you really want me to come forward? Can I really walk in front of you?" Tian Jizhi asked cautiously at the door of a building.

"It's all right. Now I'm your secretary!" boss Jia said with a smile. "I know you have a good relationship with some senior executives of Nintendo. Your words are much better than me!"

"I see!" Tian Jiji nodded, relieved, and took boss Jia into Nintendo's building.

After the game production is completed, the most important thing is to pass Nintendo's audit, and then sell your own games on Nintendo's GB.

This is very important for boss Jia. Some people may wonder that boss Jia doesn't already have his own primary school bully. Why can't he sell it on the primary school bully? Why do you have to sell it on GB? Isn't this giving money to Fusang people to earn?

It makes sense that if the primary school bully is popular all over the world and there is a handheld version, boss Jia will definitely choose to sell it on the primary school bully.

But the problem is that now the primary school bully is just a fierce attack in China. Boss Jia still knows himself very well. At least before the new generation of game consoles comes out, boss Jia has no ability to compete with Nintendo for the opportunity of the world's first game console.

So boss Jia must now cooperate with Nintendo to release the whole Pokemon around the world by Nintendo's hand, so that all Nintendo users can become Pokemon players. Then when the real next generation host tide comes, boss Jia will have an interesting set of operations.

So it's very important to log in to Nintendo now. No mistakes are allowed. That's why boss Jia asked Tian Jiri to come out. He just followed Tian Jiri and played the role of secretary.

After all, in another era, this task was also completed by Tian Jizhi, so boss Jia tried not to flap the wings of the butterfly.

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

If it is an independent small company, it can directly go to a game platform such as steam, then register a developer account and upload it directly to steam through the network. Next, it only needs to wait for the other party's review, so it can directly use the steam platform to go on the shelf.

The audit of steam itself is very loose. Generally speaking, it can be put on the shelf as long as it does not involve racial discrimination or serious cyan.

But if it's a console game on the shelf, it's a headache.

Especially in 1993, when Nintendo was the dominant company, it was even more troublesome to succeed on the shelves.

First of all, you need to prove your developer's strength. In short, you need to pay a sum of money to Nintendo as a mortgage to prove that you are a powerful company, not a company that sells and runs. You can bear the follow-up game services without damaging his Nintendo reputation.

It's like the 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 give Nintendo any more development, Nintendo will return the money to you. But in practice, hey hey, it's more troublesome. Nintendo can deduct your money in 100 ways according to the contract.

Then there is the review of works. In fact, this process is somewhat complex. It can be divided into three stages.

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

There is no problem with the audit itself, but the problem is that the salaries of these 3 ~ 5 staff are not paid by Nintendo and are the responsibility of the developers.

Then there is the audit 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 according to various experiences in the game.

The full score is 100. If the final score of these game editors is no more than 60, the game will be stuck in step 2.

The third step is Nintendo's high-level audit. Generally speaking, the director of the game Distribution Department is responsible for the final audit. As long as the director nods, the audit of the game is completed.

However, it is said that Nintendo's chairman Yamauchi actually has a lot of involvement in this matter. Even 80% of the games are personally reviewed and approved by Yamauchi. Without Yamauchi's nod, a game cannot be released on Nintendo.

In Yamauchi's words, you don't have to care too much about the performance of the game console, as long as it's 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 a large number of high-quality games can it really win the market.

I have to admit that Yamanaka's thinking helped Nintendo beat SEGA and Atari, and finally became the king of the game console industry in the first half of the 1990s.

Even many competitors have to admit that you can scold Nintendo's game console for its poor performance or some of its games for being boring, but you must admit that most Nintendo games are interesting and of high quality.

This has constituted Nintendo's reputation for decades. There is no Blizzard product these days. It must be a high-quality human device, because this human device belongs to Nintendo.

Nintendo's success is due to the high quality requirements of yamanego for the game.

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

Can you imagine a game that took a year or two to develop, and finally lost the opportunity to be released on the game console because Yamauchi's sentence was too boring?

If a big game manufacturer is OK and can afford such a loss, if it is placed in front of some small independent game development companies, this sentence will immediately lead to the bankruptcy of the whole company.

Since Nintendo rejected it, can it be used in other brands of game consoles?

Of course, but Yamauchi is known as a tyrant in the industry. From his name, we can hear how overbearing Yamauchi is. If a third-party game company dares to sell its own games on other game console platforms, Yamauchi will immediately and decisively drive all other games of this company out of Nintendo platform, Then the game company and even the investors behind him are no longer allowed to release any games on the Nintendo platform.

Such rules frighten all third-party game companies. Even if they suffer great grievances and bear such losses, they will carefully serve Yamauchi Pu in order to stay on the Nintendo platform.

No way, he was rejected by shannei Pu and lost a sum of money at most.

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

Of course, such behavior didn't matter in Nintendo's heyday.

But once Nintendo has a recession and new competitors appear, it is fatal.

For example, Sony's PS came on stage and spent a lot of money on foot to compete with Nintendo for the game market. Long oppressed by Nintendo, resentful third-party enterprises have betrayed Nintendo and switched to Sony's camp, so that Nintendo almost entered the bankruptcy process.

Later, it was the stable play of the two super trump games IP, Pokemon and super Mary. It carried the pressure on GB and earned Nintendo billions of dollars in profits and tens of billions of dollars in derivative value on its own. Otherwise, Nintendo would really die.

Cough, come back to business.

At this time, when boss Jia accompanied Tian Jiri chi to Nintendo for audit, he naturally paid the deposit and conducted the first and second audit, which has passed successfully. Now he is waiting for Junping Yokai, the director of Nintendo's Distribution Department and the father of GB, to conduct the final audit.

"I hope I don't see the tyrant today!" Tian Jiji prayed with his hands folded. Junping Yokai is actually a very easy-going person, but if he meets the tyrant Pu in Yamauchi, only God knows the result.