Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

Chapter 142 "Electronic Pets" and Inspection Work (Big Chapter)
However, while Hiroshi Yamauchi was still cursing, Zhao Ye was about to deal a heavy blow to Nintendo.

In the conference room, executives from the game development department were present one after another.

Zhao Ye looked around and said, "Gameboy's great success proves the prospect of portable game consoles. The popularity of "Pokemon" shows that people are very fond of nurturing games. In reality, Many people like to keep cats and dogs very much. So, we can draw a conclusion that people like to keep pets!"

"I called everyone to a meeting today because I want to develop a new product. Since people like to keep pets, why don't we develop an "electronic pet"? "

In the conference room, many people still couldn't understand.

Zhao Ye walked to the blackboard at this time and drew an egg-shaped "electronic pet" machine appearance, with a TN LCD black and white pixel screen in the middle, and three function buttons below it.

Zhao Ye pointed to the graphic on the blackboard and introduced: "This is the "electronic pet". It has a very cute, egg-shaped appearance. As for the gameplay, it is very simple. We can introduce a simulated breeding system. The player activates it for the first time. "Electronic pet", a small pet will emerge from the screen, and then the player has to feed, clean up, play games and other nurturing interactions with the 'pet' on the screen. "

"Of course, since we already have a super IP like "Pokemon", we can replace these pets with popular elves, grow, work, study, fight, and evolve along the way!"

"Two "electronic pets" can also communicate with each other through infrared rays, make friends with each other, visit each other, give gifts, play games, if they are a female and a male, they can even further communicate, get married, and then give birth to a baby. "

"Who stipulates that Pokemon cannot have females? Pikachu can distinguish between male and female by the difference in their tails. Xiaozhi's Pikachu is male, with a normal straight line of lightning, while the female Pikachu has a round notch at the end of its tail, just like a small heart. "

""Pokemon 2 Shan Hai Jing" needs to design more female elves!"

After a pause, Zhao Ye said, "The development of "electronic pets" is very difficult, mainly due to the rare creativity.The game development department must develop "electronic pets" as soon as possible, and then cooperate with Gameboy, "Pokemon" games and cartoons to fully capture the game market! "

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison.

In the previous life, Tamagotchi's "electronic pet" became popular all over the world, and then various counterfeit products bloomed everywhere.

Speaking of it, Tuoma Gezi still has a poor background, without the blessing of a super IP like "Pokemon", otherwise, the sales will definitely increase by a large amount.

In addition, the weak distribution ability has led to various counterfeit products to seize the market.

But these shortcomings do not exist in Wujiang Group.

Wujiang Group is fully capable of quickly selling "electronic pets" to every corner of the world!

And even if you copycat, can you beat the IP of "Pokemon"?

The most attractive thing about the "electronic pet" to be developed by Wujiang Group is its diversified growth system, that is, evolution.

The growth path of each pokemon will change every time it reaches a checkpoint, but what kind of appearance it will evolve into depends on how the operator raised it. This kind of future is unknown and will give players Bring curiosity and anticipation.

It is not difficult to imagine that such a unique growth path will definitely bring more intimate emotions to users than the stereotyped fixed feeding growth model, or that users have completely different play mentality in the face of the above two growth models of.

For the former, because operating habits will have a decisive impact on growth, users will take care of their "electronic pets" step by step, just like raising children, and will enjoy every stage of growth and provide for their pets. They are very excited to grow into different forms; for the latter, because the growth path is fixed, users can only pursue numerical breakthroughs at most, and will only secretly steal pets because their pets can be higher than others. happy.

The addition of the diverse growth system will make a simple "electronic pet" more intriguing!
In the previous life, the "Tamako" pet egg was a series of electronic pet game consoles launched by Bandai in November 1996. However, with the emergence of more diverse entertainment methods such as online games and smart phones, this kind of parenting The gameplay of electronic pets is no longer attractive.

But in this life, if the "electronic pet" was launched in 1987, it would have been popular for at least 15 years!
It is expected that the sales volume of "Wujiang Electronic Pet" will far exceed that of Tamagotchi!
The structure of this "electronic pet" is very simple. The main electronic components are "Kirin 1 chip + circuit board", and it can be bonded and packaged, so that it does not rely on imported packaging machine equipment. The cost is low and there is one less process in the process. , the product is more affordable!However, the chip soldering technology of the bonding package makes the maintenance personnel hate it. The pins and even the entire chip are covered by black glue. Basically, it is impossible to re-solder for repairs.Because the appearance resembles a cow's cake, it is called a "cow dung chip" vividly!
Domestic chip packaging technology is not very advanced.

Wujiang Microelectronics is also developing chip packaging technology, but in order to reduce the production cost of "electronic pets", they can use bonding technology to make "bull shit chips"!
Repair "electronic pet"?Sorry, if it breaks, just buy a new one!
Anyway, the first generation of "electronic pets" was like this. After all, it was a monopoly, and users had no choice but to buy Wujiang Group's "electronic pets".

The second generation of "electronic pets" may be improved.

In the afternoon of the same day, the "Wujiang Electronic Pet" project was officially established, and a development team of 20 people was formed.

The development time is expected to be completed within half a year.

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The arcade development department of Wujiang Group.

"Boss, this is the arcade game motherboard we designed!" Wang Jizhi was introducing to Zhao Ye at this time, "It uses a 16-bit Kirin 2 chip processor, which has powerful functions, fast processing speed, and low power consumption. The color of the picture is bright and clear, and the sound adopts stereo surround sound technology to make it more three-dimensional..."

While listening to Wang Jizhi's introduction, Zhao Ye looked at a delicately structured circuit board on the table.

Wujiang Group has the development technology of PC motherboards and home game motherboards, so it is basically not difficult to develop arcade motherboards.

The size of the arcade machine is very large, and the size of the mainboard will not be too limited, so developers will be more calm when developing arcade mainboards.

"Boss, here is a removable game card slot, as long as you insert the game card, you can run the game!"

Nowadays, many arcade machines are almost a game and a motherboard.

If you change the game, you need to directly replace the game motherboard.

The arcade motherboard developed by Wujiang Group aims to create an arcade platform that allows other games to be transplanted to the arcade.

Of course, there are also some arcade motherboards with removable game card slots on the market.

However, various arcade brands are highly competitive and incompatible with each other.

This is the case primarily because there isn't a single strong arcade brand that dominates.

Well now, Wujiang Group is here.

The dominance of the arcade market must not be given up immediately.

Many games independently developed by Wujiang Group, especially fighting series games, are very suitable for porting to arcade machines. Therefore, Wujiang Group has great advantages in making arcade machines.

What's more, many game developers are begging for food on the "Qongqi Game Console" platform. Wujiang Group asks to port your game to the arcade. How can you refuse?

Besides, there is almost no need to refuse.

Borderless Arcade is popular, and these games can also make a lot of money when they are ported to the arcade platform.

Zhao Ye saw that there was only one removable game card slot on the main board of the arcade machine, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, whether it is possible to get a few more game card slots, so that one arcade machine can play several games...

Dual card slots suitable?Or three card slots are suitable?
The more game card slots, the better, and the cost will be high.

Although the video game room business is very good, and every arcade machine is making money at the moment, then, the single card slot arcade machine is the most cost-effective.

Although the business of the electronic game room is not good, it is more cost-effective to buy arcade machines with multiple card slots. You can play the most popular arcade games on the market with just a few arcade machines. Bosses create value.

So... both single-slot arcades and multi-slot arcades can be developed.

Zhao Ye immediately pointed to the detachable game card slots, and said to the people around: "Think about it, everyone, if we add a few more detachable game card slots here, will the product line be more abundant, and can also Increase the sales of game cartridges? After all, the more card slots, the more game cartridges we sell!"

Adding a few card slots is not a difficult problem.

It's just that everyone didn't think of it.

People's thinking is often solidified, and it is taken for granted that an arcade machine should have a game card slot.

This layer of window paper was pierced by Zhao Ye, and everyone suddenly realized.

Immediately, they cast admiring gazes at Zhao Ye.

……

Whether it is "Borderless Electronic Pet" or "Borderless Arcade", the screen will use STN LCD color screen.

At this time, Zhao Ye rushed to Wujiang LCD Factory to inspect the development progress of STN technology.

Ouyang Zhongcan, the person in charge of the LCD department, led Zhao Ye to visit the factory's production workshop, and then went to the laboratory.

"Boss, our developers have perfectly absorbed and digested TN liquid crystal technology, and are currently attacking STN liquid crystal technology, and have achieved some results!"

While talking, everyone walked into the laboratory.

There are a total of more than 120 engineers in the laboratory, and the scale is not small or large.

At this time, Ouyang Zhongcan showed Zhao Ye the results of the development team.

Zhao Ye was very interested, and pretended to be listening.

Ouyang Zhongcan asked the laboratory researchers to take out an stn LCD screen they developed independently, and then connected the device to show it to Zhao Ye.

"Boss, we have developed an ordinary STN. Due to the different liquid crystal materials and the interference of light, this kind of STN LCD screen mainly displays light green and orange colors."

In the demonstration, the color of the STN screen produced by Wujiang LCD Lab is indeed quite different from that of Sharp STN.

Zhao Ye thought for a while and said, "This color is too bad, and it's almost a monochrome STN liquid crystal display. If we can add color filters to the STN liquid crystal display, it should be able to improve a lot."

Ouyang Zhongcan smiled, nodded in agreement and said, "Boss, you are very right! We have also found a solution. If we add a color filter to the monochrome STN liquid crystal One pixel is divided into three sub-pixels, which respectively display the three primary colors of red, green, and blue through color filters, and then through the reconciliation of the ratio of the three primary colors, the color of the full-color mode can be displayed!!!”

"Well, yes, this is indeed the solution!" Zhao Ye agreed.

However, Ouyang Zhongcan said: "The larger the STN LCD screen is, the worse its contrast will be. At present, the development team is still looking for ways to improve the STN type, so as to make up for the lack of contrast! Wang Jizhi previously contacted I asked whether the STN screen developed by the LCD factory can be applied to arcades. I think it is still not good. However, the STN LCD screen with color filters can be applied to "Borderless Electronic Pets", BB machines, and handheld games Gameboy, Imagine typewriter..."

Zhao Ye nodded, feeling very satisfied in his heart. So many products under the group can use the LCD screen produced by himself, which can greatly reduce the production cost.He smiled at Ouyang Zhongcan and said, "The research and development of the STN is going well. Let's keep working hard to improve the technology and apply it to the big screen as soon as possible!"

"Well, we will!" Ouyang Zhongcan said confidently.

"The market for STN liquid crystals is huge. It's time for us to expand the factory and sell STN liquid crystal displays to the outside world, and then seize the market from Japan, Europe and the United States!" Everyone walked out of the laboratory, Zhao Ye suddenly stopped, and said to Ouyang Zhong beside him. Can explained.

Self-produced and self-sold alone cannot satisfy Zhao Ye's appetite. He must sell LCD screens all over the world to make a lot of foreign exchange, and suppress Japanese LCD factories by the way.

Japanese liquid crystal factories earn less money, which will lead to a reduction in research and development funds, which will affect the development speed of Japanese liquid crystal technology.

When it comes to price wars, Chinese companies have never been afraid.

If your product sells for 100 yuan, I dare to sell it for seven or eighty yuan, or even five or sixty yuan.

Zhao Ye paused, and made a final decision: "Invest 10 billion RMB and build the largest LCD factory in China first!"

In the previous life, BOE was known as the "maniac of building factories", and the LCD factory under Wujiang Group was not far behind, even more powerful than BOE, striving to become the world's largest LCD screen supplier in the 90s!
When Ouyang Zhongcan and others heard this, they were all surprised. At this time, the purchasing power of RMB is very strong, and 10 billion RMB is an astronomical sum, and it must be a sensation.

"Boss, you're really big. You've got 10 billion people in your hands. If this news spreads outside, I'm afraid the investment promotion departments in major cities will be overjoyed..." Ouyang Zhongcan said with emotion.

Hearing this, Zhao Ye smiled faintly, waved his hand, and bid farewell to everyone...

PS: There is still a big chapter in the evening, continue to code words.

(End of this chapter)