ASTNovels Chapter 444 Can't laugh or cry
Chapter 444 Can't laugh or cry
Lu Xianghong and Gan Xuelin didn't rush to find someone.
The two first went to an entertainment place with video game consoles to have a quick run.Confirm the state of Japanese game consoles today.
The two also played a lot of games, bought food and drink, and passed cigarettes to the owner of the entertainment place to inquire about news.
The boss's game consoles are sold in the electrical appliance store.
There is no dedicated game hall in Country R these days, and most game consoles are located in Electric City.
Most of the game machines now are pinball machines.Didn't see any electronics at all.
Just ask to know.
These store owners, all because the electronic machine is only one board and the price is 20 yen, they feel that one board is not worth that price at all.
The pinball machine was a big one anyway, and they thought it was a good deal with so many materials.
Therefore, the market for electronic machines has never been opened, all because these new machines such as electronic boards are not worth it to these downstream bosses.
After asking the reason clearly, Lu Xianghong really couldn't laugh or cry.
I didn't expect that the electronic board would be worth a lot of money one day.
However, it's not that Lu Xianghong can't understand the thoughts of these shop owners.
No one knows if such an expensive thing is popular, and no one wants to be the first person to eat crabs, and no one is willing to take such a risk.
Besides, now even if they use pinball machines, they are still profitable, so why ask for trouble to try new things.
In fact, Lu Xianghong knew little about electronics.
Her advantage is because she came from a later age, so she knows the history of electronic development, and she is more aware that electronic games will eventually replace these old pinball machines.
Lu Xianghong can't remember a future where a game drove the video game industry.
It seems to be the shooting game she saw in the store in Xiangjiang earlier.
this day.
She and Gan Xuelin traveled to many game airports, but they didn't see the shooting game machine owned by the boss of Xiangjiang.
After a little understanding of the market situation, Lu Xianghong and Gan Xuelin went to the address given to her by the boss of Xiangjiang. It was an arcade company, and the business card on it showed that the designer was Xi Zijun.
In this era, the production department and marketing department of electronics are somewhat unclear.
After all, there is no habit of finding a foundry at this time.
Like the electronic OEM industry in country H in later generations, the industry has not yet developed to a sufficient scale.
At this time, country R still has its own production chain.
Therefore, when the two arrived at Xizijun's arcade company, they found that it was an office building, warehouse and workshop.
The office building is at the top, and the bottom floor is the warehouse and assembly workshop.
Lu Xianghong and Gan Xuelin asked Xi Zijun's office directly and went in smoothly.
This year is not like the later generations, there are some visiting procedures and a confidentiality system.
Passing by the first floor, you can see that the first floor is full of pinball machines and slot machines, all of which are electronic game machines with a sense of gambling.
Now that I think about it, the pinball machine is the most profitable game machine in country R.
Lu Xianghong knocked on the door, "Hi, excuse me."
During college, Lu Xianghong also learned several foreign languages. R language is one of them. It is not proficient, but it is more than enough for conversations with people.
"Who are you?" Xi Zijun was obviously very surprised, he would not be visited by anyone on weekdays.
Like normal buyers, they go directly to the purchasing department downstairs to distribute the goods.
Lu Xianghong smiled, "Hello, are you Xizijun? Let me introduce myself. I am Lu Xianghong, and this is my business card."
She had made preparations early in the morning, and the name card was printed with the title of general manager of Qiaohong Company, which was her name in Xiangjiang.
Xi Zijun glanced at the business card, and obviously became more suspicious, "I don't know what Miss Lu wants from me?"
Lu Xianghong smiled, with a calm expression, "That's right, I heard that your company has released a video game that shoots at each other, or is it Xizijun you are in charge of?"
When Xizijun heard Lu Xianghong talking about video game consoles, he immediately became interested. "It was launched, but it was dismissed by customer research."
Speaking of this, Xi Zijun felt melancholy for a while. This video game product was his painstaking effort, but unfortunately everyone did not buy it.
"Can you tell me more about it? Maybe we will be interested." Lu Xianghong said.
Xi Zijun saw that Lu Xianghong was still the general manager of Xiangjiang, and there was such a big company behind him, so he felt a little hopeful at the moment, and began to talk in detail. "Anyway, this is a project that has already been dismissed, and there will be no worse result than it is now."
After listening to it, Lu Xianghong deeply understood how difficult it is to launch this electronic board.
I don't know how this electronic product broke out in later generations.
According to Xizijun's current description, there is no possibility of this product being put on the shelves. After all, the results of market research are not ideal.
Under such a result, it is absolutely impossible for the company to take such a big risk to produce this product.
Xi Zijun couldn't help complaining, "The bosses of those electric arcade machines don't understand at all. They all say that this machine is a scam. How could our company cheat this kind of money. But they are not professionals. They only look at the materials and say that there is only one piece of money. The circuit board should not be so expensive. Because of the feedback from these bosses, the company had to give up mass production."
"This is Intel's 8080 and z80. The purchase price of these CPUs is already very expensive. Of course, it will not be cheap to make a video game machine."
"There's no way they understand the value of this new thing, and there's nothing I can do about it."
Xi Zijun sighed and said that he originally made this product with very high expectations, but he did not expect the market research to deal him a heavy blow.
Now because of the failure of the research on this product, his position in the company has been directly downgraded by one level.
Lu Xianghong felt that it was normal. How many people knew about the CPU? It was normal for those bosses not to want to buy such an expensive game console.
She thought about her language, of course it was impossible to speak for Xi Zijun, she wanted to win the copyright of this product.
"The appearance and packaging of your product may not be good enough, and the content design is not in place. I happen to know a very powerful video game company. I don't know if you are willing to modify this semi-finished product. Maybe it can be saved. .” Lu Xianghong said.
Xi Zijun suddenly looked at Lu Xianghong with vigilance, "You want the design of this product?! You shouldn't ask me about this matter, go talk to the marketing department."
Speaking of which, Xi Zijun already seemed to lack interest.
Obviously, he was not at all interested in Lu Xianghong's proposal.