As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 178 Indirect Influence (4000)

Sales of 300,000 units in a single week in the Chinese market may not seem like much.

The number of pre-orders for Apple's new products within 24 hours after their release can exceed three million units.

As an electronic product with a lowest price almost the same as Apple's pro series, Futureverse's sales seem to be mediocre.

However, we have to consider that mobile phones are daily necessities, but VR is not. Apple has been operating in the Chinese market for more than ten years, and Kechuang Future is just a newcomer in the VR industry.

Due to the higher price of Futureverse, it is obviously inappropriate to compare it with VR products such as Pico and Quest that cost around 3,000 yuan.

Even the PS5 is only half the price of Futureverse.

Data can tell a lot of things.

PS5 sold 150 million units worldwide in its first week on sale.

Considering Sony's long-established channel partners, PS5 only has more units than Futureverse.

The channel partners here refer to global channel partners. Ke Chuang Future can only build offline channels in China, and it will take time to build offline channels around the world.

Therefore, in foreign countries, Futureverse can only rely on online sales.

We have considered linking up with Dami’s overseas offline stores and selling the products through Dami’s offline channels.

However, considering that the pricing of rice is based on cost-effectiveness, especially in overseas markets, consumers' perception of brand grade is actually higher.

Therefore this option was not considered.

Ke Chuang Future has simply increased its advertising traffic on social media and hired many digital bloggers to make review videos.

In the early stage, overseas marketing was mainly carried out through online channels.

The HTC Vive, which is much cheaper than Futureverse, costs 799 yuan, and only sold 10 units worldwide in the three months after its release.

Futureverse’s first step can be said to be very beautiful.

"The data is good, and the weekly sales have met our expectations, but it is not enough."

“To build an ecosystem, it is not enough to rely solely on the current number of users holding shares.”

"We need to make good use of the existing number of players to promote word-of-mouth fission among the player community."

“I want to see Futureverse become the hottest public topic on social media in the near future.”

Li Miaomiao looked quite imposing in a suit at the internal executive meeting.

Zheng Li had already told her that Cheng Gang would gradually hand over the work in his hands to her.

Li Miaomiao said that she is unable to take care of both things for the time being, as brain-computer connection VR is the critical period of the early stage of the attack, and she is unable to take care of the scientific and technological innovation and biology side.

Zheng Li did not give her time to explain and asked Li Miaomiao to find a successor among the senior executives:

"You can delegate power to your subordinates, and you only need to make the final decision."

“There’s no need to do everything yourself.”

After Li Miaomiao agreed, he planned to find a senior executive based on his performance this time to help him with the overall management work.

Li Miaomiao continued: "I believe that the production capacity can be maintained at a stable shipment state by adding money."

"At the same time, we need to vigorously promote our overseas offline channels. We cannot just have offline flagship stores in first-tier cities in other countries."

"Without the manpower to build a wider range of offline stores, we can go through other high-end shopping malls and only display experience products offline."

“Shopping still happens offline.”

Kechuang Future only has flagship stores in first-tier cities around the world such as New York, London, Singapore, and Paris.

I hadn’t expected the momentum to be so strong, so I hadn’t considered expanding offline channels to lower-tier cities.

"Now that sales have changed from what we had before, the plan also needs to change, and we need to make good short-term strategic plans."

The popularity of Futureverse not only makes the game sell well, but also makes the VR live broadcast market booming.

The VR application specially developed by Bilibili has been launched on Futureverse's built-in application store.

In the past, anchors wearing suits might still need to put on another layer of skin, but now when live streaming VR games, they don’t even need to put on a skin from a first-person perspective.

Bilibili has also developed 3D images specifically for people who like to watch leather suits.

You can watch the 3D effect of the leather suit man live, and you can also get closer to see it. Of course, there is a minimum distance limit.

However, the most popular live broadcast is "Heroes of Doom", and Tencent has grasped the needs of players very well.

Chicken-eating games are a very mature game type, and there have been many successful cases.

Tencent combined PUBG and the magical DND, and created an excellent game balance and combat system.

Use the most traffic for promotion, and the game itself is adaptable enough to meet the needs of players.

"Assassin's Creed" and "The Legend of Zelda" are just gimmicks. If you really want to play Futureverse, you have to watch "Doomsday".

This is a famous quote from a video by a certain up-loader at Bilibili.

The most common comment on this video is not "making money", but "indeed".

The anchors who broadcast "Heroes' Doomsday" live are the most popular ones.

The anchor can always accurately capture the wind direction and broadcast Futureverse content live, and can also receive subsidies provided by the official B station.

It is naturally very attractive to small anchors.

Hero Doom provides two live broadcast modes: first-person perspective and third-person perspective for data streaming.

Many live broadcast audiences are not very good at playing games themselves, but they are also excited to see the anchor killing everyone in the game.

Using the first-person perspective, this sense of immersion is even stronger.

The first-person perspective of LOL doesn’t give you a strong sense of immersion because you don’t have to operate it yourself and you can look at your phone and do other things at the same time.

You won't feel like you are playing this game yourself.

VR is different. After you enter the live broadcast room and switch to the first-person perspective, you can only follow the host to start his journey of survival.

The sense of immersion is extremely strong.

Especially like some horror games on Steam, watching the host play with VR at night can scare you so much that your heart beats faster.

Brain-computer connected VR is not only popular for games, but also for the live broadcast ecosystem.

According to internal statistics, the average daily usage time of Futureverse, which has been turned on and activated, is as high as three hours.

The data satisfied the shareholders, and Tencent realized that it had made the right move again.

"How do you evaluate the first-week global sales of Futureverse exceeding one million?"

“Thank you for the invitation. I can only say that Boss Zheng is so terrifying.

It is obvious that Ke Chuang's brain-computer connection VR will become a milestone product in the VR field.

There is even a hope that this digital product will become a milestone. If we lower the standard of a milestone, it already is.

Sales in the first week exceeded one million. If the subsequent reputation does not collapse, there will be no problem in exceeding ten million in annual sales.

You should know that the annual sales volume of PS2022 in 5 will only be 1500 million units.

The sales of 1000 million brain-computer-connected VR devices will reach billion RMB, and the service fees will not be less than billion RMB.

Judging from the data, the new entertainment ecosystem can be said to have been successfully created.

Users who spend 3000 yuan to buy a pico may not be willing to spend 10000 yuan to buy a VR game masterpiece, but users who are willing to spend yuan to buy Futureverse are definitely willing to spend yuan to buy a VR game masterpiece. I hope that domestic game manufacturers can give some effort and make a masterpiece. "Black Myth Wukong" has not yet been released, so you can directly consider using the VR platform.

The style of Black Myth is very compatible with VR, and there is no need to worry about incompatibility with operating requirements when connecting the brain-computer to VR.

My only fear is that the brain-computer connection VR in China will become a launcher for "Heroes' End".

Domestic game manufacturers do not have the confidence to compete with Tencent and simply give up considering the risks are too high.

Friends around me who bought Futureverse may play other games out of curiosity at first, but after the novelty wears off after three to five days, most of them only play "Heroes' End".

I have to say that Tencent is really good at grasping the psychology of players.

For the three shareholders of Ke Chuang Future, the success of brain-computer connection VR is equally significant.

The moat of Ke Chuang Biotechnology is getting deeper and deeper, and here comes another representative product around brain-computer connection.

This is enough to prove its monopoly in the field of brain-computer connection. Other manufacturers will not be able to catch up even if they spend ten years. What about you: Neuralink?

I now want to know whether brain-computer interface prostheses can be included in this year’s centralized medical procurement, otherwise it is indeed a bit expensive.

The stock price of Ke Chuang Biotechnology still has room to rise. The moon is not the limit, and Mars is barely acceptable.

For Tencent, once is a coincidence, twice is luck, and three times is indeed strength.

I always feel that Tencent has grabbed the ticket to the new era and is the first to get on board, waiting to see how the Internet giants behind it will compete with each other.

With the boat ticket in hand, the world is mine. Tencent's vision is indeed great.

As for Da Mi, I can only say that I also want to have a junior brother like Zheng Li to help me show off and fly.

Where can I find such a junior who can easily help me make hundreds of billions? Tell me if you find him.

Mr. Lei can now feel a little relieved. Even if the Rice Auto fails, there is the success of brain-computer connection VR to hedge.

Making cars, especially new energy vehicles in this era, is a life-and-death struggle.

This is a huge benefit to all three companies, and we can also see it from the capital market.

The upstream and downstream industries are also benefiting. Futureverse's annual sales are expected to reach 100 billion RMB, and the market value of the upstream and downstream industries it leverages will not be less than 1 trillion RMB.

If it can be developed into a complete VR ecosystem in the future, it will inject new impetus into the electronics industry in the Yangtze River Delta.

There have been rumors that Jinling, Jiangcheng, Shenhai and even Yanjing all hope that Kechuang Biotechnology can move its headquarters there.

Before brain-computer VR comes out, their willingness may be 8. After brain-computer VR comes out, this willingness will exceed the upper limit of 10.

If Ke Chuang Bio doesn’t come, Ke Chuang Future will come.

In the past, Ke Chuang Bio's products tended to be single-handed and were not able to drive the development of upstream and downstream industries.

Even super metal lithium materials are product suppliers and are part of the industrial chain.

Unlike brain-computer connection VR, the role of Ke Chuang Bio is to integrate the entire related industrial chain.

This process will inevitably lead to the concentration of technology and talents, and the iteration of technology.

This is vital everywhere.

Zheng Li hasn't come back yet, probably because he doesn't want to deal with these trivial matters.

From my point of view, I still hope that science and technology innovation can improve the realism in the future. It would be best if electrical signals can be converted into brain nerve signals and provide feedback.

As for when the Polish Witcher 4 will be released? It would be best if they could make a wand-style controller.

Or there are domestic game manufacturers making magic VR games.

There are no other requirements. Just recreate the Stockholm Concert Hall and let players play the role of Merlin. That would be so cool.

It’s a pity that I am not cut out for this, otherwise I would definitely devote myself to the mining of magic coin.

Finally, let me talk about my experience. As a senior game enthusiast and a single person with no family pressure, I naturally bought a brain-computer VR device as soon as possible.

I can only say that it exceeded my expectations. When using it, I didn't feel at all that I was controlling you with my brain.

It can really accurately recognize your thoughts and it can identify your intentions without you having to think about it very deliberately.

The brain-computer connection is even better than I thought.

At the same time, there is nothing to complain about the picture, sound effects, and touch.

What surprised me most was the sense of immersion in brain-computer connected VR games.

VR games that used to be operated by hand, required the body to turn, or even required you to actually walk in reality to move seemed stupid.

Before I used Futureverse, I didn’t realize there was anything strange about VR that required me to turn around, but after experiencing brain-computer connection VR today, I never want to go back.

By connecting VR to the brain-computer, you only need to lie on the sofa with the handle to enter the virtual world and start today's adventure.

What a pleasant thing it is, you don’t have to stand stupidly on the empty ground to play VR.

Being able to play VR while lying down also allows you to use it for a longer time. Standing for an hour might make you tired.

Since I bought Futureverse, I haven't turned on my computer for three days.

Anyone who plays Hero's Doom can add my ID and play with me in the evening. I mainly play the battle mage and hope to form a fixed team. "

There is a lot of discussion on Zhihu about brain-computer connection VR.

The discussion is not only heated on Zhihu, but also on Weibo and Xiaohongshu.

As a result, Hero's Doom attracted hundreds of thousands of followers in just seven days, all of which were posts seeking to form a fixed team.

Heroic Doom is a 4-player team-eating chicken game mode, and the skills of different characters can be coordinated.

Therefore, team stability is particularly important.

It is possible for four noobs in a fixed team to defeat a Pinduoduo team led by a great player.

What Zheng Li did not expect was that the popularity of brain-computer VR indirectly led to a sharp increase in Neuralink's valuation.

"Musk has once again raised the price of the next round of venture capital, this time it will be at least 500 billion US dollars."

Young's subordinates reported back after attending Neuralink's internal investment exchange meeting.

Young exclaimed:
"Why? Neuralink just made a brain-computer connected phone, and it can only survive in the mid-range market."

"I don't think Musk thinks that the brain-computer connection VR that is now selling well all over the world has anything to do with him."

The subordinate whispered: "He really thinks it has something to do with him."

"He said that Kechuang Biotechnology has explored more possibilities for brain-computer connection, letting the industry know that there is a broader space for brain-computer connection to make a difference."

"As one of the top three companies in the field of brain-computer connection, Neuralink should naturally enjoy a higher premium."

Young was speechless about Musk's wild talk. "The problem is that his No. 2 ranking is a world away from No. 1."

"The number one company in the field of brain-computer connection has an annual profit of more than 50 billion, and it is expected to exceed 100 billion this year. How much is Neuralink's annual profit?"

"Even for a high-tech company, a valuation of 500 billion US dollars is still too high."

The subordinate asked, "Then do we still vote?"

Young was about to refuse, but changed his mind and said, "I will make a decision after I get some information from someone. Don't reveal our own inclinations in the report to the board of directors."

In my previous book, Extraterritorial Life Parasitic Diary, I wrote that the suit host would become very popular.

I didn’t expect it to become such a hit, but the logic behind it was different from what I speculated in the book.

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