I want to make a game

When the alliance between Han Dynasty and Sony became the focus of the gaming industry, one company was at a loss.

At the 3DO headquarters, several directors were sitting with sad faces.

"what to do?"

After hearing the question initiated by Tripp Hawkins, the 3DO, the remaining people didn't know how to answer at all.

If there was no Han Dynasty, if they had not seen the promotional video of the Han Dynasty console, they would confidently answer, "Just do whatever you want."

But now, they have seen it! 3DO's console is obviously not as good as Han Dynasty's in performance. After sleepless research, the R&D department found that the gap between the two is astonishingly more than 2 times!

You must know that the reason why they have great confidence in 3DO is the performance of the 3DO console. They have already thought of the slogan, next-generation console!

It means the next era, and they are aiming to dominate the next era of the gaming industry.

But... the performance of the console of the Han Dynasty is twice that of theirs. How can this be called the next generation? How can it rule by function?

But these are actually not what they are most worried about. What they are most worried about is the Han Dynasty game and Liu Zhiyuan’s promotion!

Although they attach great importance to the performance of game consoles, they understand one truth, that is, game consoles are used to play games. If the games are not fun, no matter how powerful the console is, it is just a decoration.

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At first they were not worried about this problem because Tripp Hawkins, the founder of 3DO, was very energetic.

For example, EA was founded by him. Yes, it is the EA of EAGAME, whose full name is Electronic Arts.

With this relationship, not only Asian game manufacturers, but at least European and American game manufacturers will support 3DO's game lineup to some extent.

“We can only make a fuss about the price.”

Tripp Hawkins spoke slowly.

"The performance of the Han Dynasty host is so strong, the cost will definitely not be low, at least it will be higher than ours."

Next, he began to analyze it with several people present.

"If Liu Zhiyuan wants to make money, the price of this console must be astonishingly high. This is our only chance."

With Tripp Hawkins' analysis, everyone gradually regained their confidence.

"Our console is no longer the only one, so we have to lower the return to $700! The Han Dynasty's console cannot be lower than this price."

"Can..."

Someone raised objections.

"However, the price of game consoles has never exceeded US$700. The highest price of the Sega MD was only US$599, and it did not last long at all."

Tripp Hawkins immediately retorted.

"This is different from MD, understand? This is a true next-generation console. This is a console that will usher in a new era of gaming. US$700 is already very cheap."

"MD's products can be sold for $599, why can't ours?"

"But MD was the only 16-bit console on the market at the time, and our opponent was the Han Dynasty."

"So, haven't we lowered the price? Look, Liu Zhiyuan will not let his console go below $1,000."

"..."

On January 1, 1993, Liu Zhiyuan smiled happily while watching a TV show.

"This is a home console that is not inferior to the Han Dynasty, and its price will definitely bring huge surprises to players!"

On TV, Tripp Hawkins said confidently.

"For $700, buying a next-generation console is absolutely worth it. I'm sure no one will sell a console with this kind of performance at this price."

3DO is still as desperate and inexplicably confident as ever. For a console priced at US$700, he can only say that the ignorant are fearless.

Today was the launch of the 3DO console. How could he miss it? Not only did he not miss it, he also brought most people in the Han Dynasty to watch this 3DO death conference.

By the way, it also made the senior officials of the Han Dynasty have a long memory. They can't decide on a plan just by patting their heads, so let's do an on-the-spot investigation!

"Ayuan, how much are we going to sell our host for?"

Chen Guoqiang became a little nervous when he heard the words "$700 and great value for money."

"Don't listen to this lunatic's nonsense, $700? No one has a lower price than him? Let's sell it for $299 and let him go about his dream."

"Is it too much to pay?"

Chen Guoqiang looked pained, but what Tripp Hawkins said actually makes sense. As a console that is about to cause changes in the gaming industry.

US$700 is really not expensive, because the cost is there. He doesn't know the cost of the 3DO host, but he knows the cost of the Han Dynasty.

The cost of the host and controller is close to US$400 each!

"How about going up? How about 499 US dollars? How about 399 US dollars? At least the capital is guaranteed. The sales volume of Tiger Talisman will not be too low."

"Is it going up? Ask Sony if it's going to go up. If they go up, I won't... I won't go up either."

The price of $299 is not set randomly, it is the price of PS1 in history!

He didn't pay attention to 3DO at all. Its performance was not as good as Hufu, its game lineup was completely different from that of Han Dynasty, and there was a president who was full of high-end sales ideas.

If it weren't for the purpose of tricking 3DO, he would have announced the price of the Tiger Talisman long ago.

Sony, no, it should be called Sony Alliance now. This is the biggest opponent of the Han Dynasty’s next-generation console, and it is also the only opponent!

He is prepared to sell it for whatever price the PS1 sells. It will only be lower than Sony, but not higher. He will accept any compensation!

As long as the Sony alliance is defeated, the reward will be... The Han Dynasty officially ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor! From now on, he has the final say in the home game industry.

Haven't there been people who have always wondered how amazing the profits would be if we monopolized the gaming industry? When the time comes, he will let these people see how terrifying the profits of monopolizing the gaming industry are!

Because of his reason, Hufu's cost of US$400 is considered cheap. Otherwise, Hufu would have to achieve nearly double the performance of PS by relying solely on the Han Dynasty's own research and development.

The cost was absolutely sky-high, a sky-high price of 1,000 U.S. dollars! He was already content with paying 100 U.S. dollars for a console.

Don’t expect Sony to make money from the PS. Historically, Sony didn’t make money from the PS in the early days, let alone now.

The performance of Hufu is here. Sony will definitely try every means to improve the performance of PS, but the cost will rise geometrically. Maybe the cost of PS will exceed Hufu.

If Sony dares to sell it for more than $299, he will be so happy that he faints. Anyway, he has no intention of changing the price of $299.

Unless the PS is sold for less than $299, but... this is difficult. It is normal to sell the console at a loss, but there is a limit to this loss.

If he pays US$100 for a console, if he dares to do it, the sales volume of Hu Fu will definitely exceed 10 million units, which is a loss of US$1 billion!

50 million units is 5 billion US dollars! This is 5 billion US dollars! Not Zimbabwe dollars!

In this era, there are many companies with assets of 5 billion US dollars. This is equivalent to directly losing a world-class company.

And if the sales of Tiger Talisman reach his target, the losses will be astronomical, US$10 billion!

“Sony’s console won’t sell for $299, right?”

Chen Guoqiang really doesn't believe it. Even if their console is a little worse than the Han Dynasty, it can't be sold for only $299, right?

If the Han Dynasty could afford to pay, can Sony afford to pay? Even if Sony has the technology to lower costs, it will definitely lose money at US$299.