1 thought on “VB's historical revolution”

  1. The first development department of Yokoi Junping is also stepping up the development of 32 -position carrying host Virtual Boy. The imaging technology adopted by VR Boy is the latest research results launched by a research room in Qingying University in 1993. The same image stacking is composed of a three -dimensional image space composed of dot and lines, but it is limited to the technical force at that time. This research results can only use red LCD to display single colors. Yokoi Junping was very excited after learning the results of this research. He confidently believed that the technology would bring unprecedented revolution to the game industry and immediately submitted a specific development plan to this company. The veterans of Nintendo were very shocked by the new VR Boy, and almost everyone expressed strong opposition. However, because the president Yamashiko was full of trust in Yokoi's past work performance, this development case was finally passed. Yamauchi intends to replace VR Boy replace the GB, which has already become the new second economic pillar. He confidently promised at the shareholders' meeting in the spring of 1995: "VR BOY will pay 5 million units in the first financial annual year, bringing 80 billion yen profits to Nintendo, and shareholders will also get additional dividends!" R
    VIRTUAL BOY was displayed in large -scale game exhibitions in Japan and the United States in the end of 1994 and early 1995. The audience's feedback was not ideal. The original VB plan to achieve the possibility of outdoor entertainment with head cover glasses. It was later found that the head shaking will cause the liquid crystal polarization phenomenon, causing the image disorders to dislocate, and the Hengjing Army has to re -adjust the development plan. Yamauchi decided to put VB on July 15th in May 1995. In order to launch at the scheduled target, the First Development Department changed the original head cover of the VB to the compromise design of the triangular bracket flattened desktop, which completely lost the meaning of carrying.
    On July 15th, Virtual Boy was released in Japan. The first batch of shipments was 700,000 units. After two weeks of sale, 140,000 units were digested. In order to make a 30 % discount on the intermediate period, the small shop was sold for VB.
    The slanderous report from competitors has also played an important role in the sales of VB. A so -called ophthalmologist who has a close relationship with Sony published a research article in the major newspapers and periodicals, pointing out that Virtual Boy used by Virtual Boy The virtual imaging technology will seriously damage the vision of young people, and this report quickly has a significant impact in Japan. At the end of July, Nintendo President Shan Naiyu bowed to the partner and shareholders representatives at the emergency countermeasures and the intermediate shareholders' description meeting. He lost his usual tolerance and trust in the perpetrator Hengjing Junping. The failure of Hengjing Junping is undoubtedly all his enemies have been looking forward to it for a long time.
    Mascani to transfer the authority responsible for software development matters to Miyamoto Miya, while Yokoi Junping was assigned to develop a improved model of Game Boy to fill the market vacuum formed by the failure of VB. Daoshi Satoshi, a former member of the first Development Department of Paradise and later served as the COTO Club Development, described to the media at the time after the death of Hengjing Junping: "Mr. Yoko Ai is indeed all sides in Nintendo. , But the ashamed of failure is obvious.

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