Super Tycoon

During Nintendo's NGC pre-sale period, Zhitaxing, Suni and Sega Bandai all increased advertising costs. In many regions, you can see game console advertisements as soon as you turn on the TV. When you go to some electronic markets, you can even see large advertising curtains.

And Nintendo began to snatch third-party game manufacturers, which also turned those game manufacturers into sweet pastries. Fortunately, everyone still has some bottom line, at least to ensure that their company can make money.

During this period, the games of third-party game manufacturers sold quickly, and the royalties were also reduced. Their revenue has been greatly increased, which also gave them the confidence to develop more and more interesting games.

However, some companies lack interesting games, so they start to develop with loans, or develop a game in a hurry and launch it, hoping to sell it for a high price.

Many of these companies have lost a lot of money, and even a few companies have directly fallen into the dilemma of running out of liquidity, and have to be controlled by some game console manufacturers, or merged into other game companies.

Zhang Yang handed over these matters to his subordinates, and he came to the R\u0026D center to see the testing of the new handheld.

This new handheld was jointly developed by Zhiduoxing Group and Chaowei, Eagle Weida, SanDisk, Lianxiang and many other companies, and the appearance was designed by Zhang Yang himself.

This appearance is very similar to the gBa-sP in the previous life, a square-looking thing that opens to reveal the screen and control panel.

This design concept naturally comes from flip phones.

Flip phones have appeared now, but they haven't been completely popular yet, and the mainstream is still candy bar phones. But the flip technology has basically matured.

The characteristic of the handheld is portability. If it is easy to carry, the smaller it is, the easier it is for consumers to like it. At the same time, the buttons and screen should not be small.

At this time, the advantage of the flip cover is reflected. When it is put away, it is very small, and it is as big as a palm, so it can be put into the pocket at will. But when it is opened, the screen and keyboard are big enough for children and adults to play.

When Zhang Yang came up with this idea, the design department of the company almost blew Rainbow farts away. But the appearance of the game console is secondary, the most important thing is performance and games.

The current mainstream 32-bit microprocessor is the aRm company in Britain. In the future, they will also be favored partners of many mobile phone manufacturers. They are characterized by low energy consumption and high cost performance.

Compared with Intel and others, this company is nothing, but in the future, this company will be very prosperous in the field of mobile phone chips. They are a subsidiary of Apple.

Zhang Yang originally planned to purchase microprocessors from this company, but was persuaded by Chaowei. We are the top manufacturer in the processor industry. Are you going to purchase other companies? There is an agreement between us, if we have, you have to buy ours.

Judging from the sales of Zhiduoxing handhelds in the past, Zhiduoxing's z4 will definitely sell tens of millions of units. Even if a processor only earns two or three dollars, it can make a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars.

With these profits, it is absolutely no problem for them to develop a special microprocessor.

Chaowei did not disappoint Zhang Yang, and quickly designed a theoretical structure, so that the development progress of the z4 project did not lag behind, and Chaowei also guaranteed that not only the energy consumption was low, but the performance would not be weak.

Eagle Weida took over the work of the graphics display chip and developed a special compact graphics card, which it plans to sell to those mobile phone manufacturers.

Smartphones are not much of a thing now, and the mainstream is PDa, that is, handheld computers. They don’t have too many functions, and many of them overlap with Wenquxing electronic dictionaries. They are favored by many business people in developed countries in Europe and the United States.

Even Think Group is also planning to launch a PDa, so this participation will also encourage others to develop compact and energy-saving electronic components to prepare for their new products.

Zhang Yang is also planning that the cost will continue to decrease in the future, so that the electronic dictionary can be fully upgraded, and it can also be used as the core of a new learning machine.

Among the core parts of z4, only the screen is not produced by Zhang Yang Investment Company. Changchun Caijing will be put into production soon, but they all produce large-size LCD screens, and the screen used by Zhiduoxing z4 is only 3.2 inches.

Looking back, Changchun Caijing will definitely start production lines of more sizes. The company invested by itself cannot produce the screens of the size it needs. How can this work!

"President, this is our finished product. The shell is still found in an OEM, the price is very cheap, and it can have multiple colors, including the most classic transparent color."

"We use the latest lithium battery for the battery. Our Z4 can be used for about six to eight hours when the battery is fully charged. For 32-bit games, the power consumption cannot be fully guaranteed, and the screen should be brighter. As a last resort, backlight LEDs were used.”

"However, with this kind of rechargeable battery block, you don't need to buy AA batteries frequently. And our charging head can ensure that the power can be increased while charging and playing, and it can also be charged with a car charger."

Zhang Yang raised his head: "Playing while charging, are you sure it's safe? Didn't the battery explode or burn?"

"Ah? I didn't find it." Zhao Mingsheng was stunned for a moment, he had never heard of this.

"Arrange people to test whether the long charging time will cause damage to the battery or even cause danger. Also, will it affect heat dissipation and cause danger while charging while playing."

"Okay." Zhao Mingsheng looked at his secretary and wrote down the president's words.

"We still use the SanDisk CF card? Has the capacity not increased?"

"There is no need to increase it. For general games, a 64m card is enough, and for some larger ones, a 128m card is also enough. The largest capacity supports 1g. However, the game cartridge we originally gave as a gift still uses a 64m card. Yes, after all, what we are giving away is Super Tetris or something, and the capacity is very small."

"Okay. What about production costs?"

"At present, if two production lines are adjusted and three shifts are produced, it will be about one million units a month. We calculated that the cost of one unit is about 100 US dollars."

Hundred dollars? The price is a bit high, but considering the appearance, the size of the screen, the brightness, and the backward compatibility at home, it should be no problem to sell it for $130, or even higher.

Coupled with the sales of subsequent game cassettes, the development costs will definitely be recovered in a short time.

"President, it's not that we don't want to reduce costs. There's also shipping costs. Besides, representatives from Chaowei and Eagle Weida are also here. If their factories start production in the mainland, the cost will definitely be reduced. At least one machine will be reduced by ten." Dollars are easy, maybe more."

Zhang Yang raised his hand: "I'm not saying you didn't do well, so let's make less money first. Junsheng, how much have you prepared for the game?"

"Is one hundred styles enough?" Li Junsheng looked confident.

"Very good, the initial stage is enough. The translation is finished? Hurry up and do the test. I hope that in the fourth quarter, this will be launched globally. The company will start publicity at the end of August and early September, and we will give Nintendo another surprise! "