Chapter 103: Good Momentum (1200 Votes)
"Hi Vincent, long time no see!"
Tony Cousins's full beard remained the same, he was already standing at the door of the company waiting, and as soon as he saw Li Xuan get out of the car, he greeted him and gave him a warm hug.
"Tony, look at your red face, the company has been doing a good business lately!"
Li Xuan smiled and walked into Cousins Entertainment with him.
"Hello, this is Cousins Entertainment! You're Alberton? Oh, I know, it's Mr. Alberton from Newark, tell me! Fifty "pac-mans"? Okay, our company will send it to you early tomorrow morning! This afternoon? Sorry, Mr. Alberton! The company has received a lot of orders today, and it may be too late, okay, okay, I will deliver it to you tomorrow morning!"
Li Xuan followed Cousins through the office area, and he suddenly listened to an operator for a while, until he hung up the phone, and then continued to walk forward.
"Tony, the sales of "Pac-Man" seem to be good?" Li Xuan took the coffee handed over by a chubby white lady and nodded gratefully at her before smiling at Cousins.
"That's great, you Oriental Company has unearthed a new gold mine!" Cousins smiled heartily, and then asked in a low voice, "You really bought this arcade machine from Namco?"
Li Xuan nodded and said, "That's right, I bought it out for $6 million!"
"It's so cheap, that mustache of Masayama Nakamura, I'm sure I'm going to regret it now!" Cousins made a complimented gesture of caesarean section, he had represented several Namco arcade machines before, so he also knew Masaya Nakamura.
"Let's talk about the specific sales of "pac-man"!" Li Xuan shook his head, since he had already taken advantage of others, if he still laughed at others behind his back, he would really be thundered by the sky.
"I sold 500 units last week, and I was able to sell more than 200 units every day this week, and today I sold even more like crazy, and the calls that came in were all orders for "pac-man", and I received orders for more than 300 units in half a day, and my previous inventory was almost exhausted!" Cousins waved his hand with a sad face, but he couldn't hide that smug smile.
Li Xuan did a simple mental arithmetic, Cousins Entertainment Company alone sold more than 2,000 "pac-man" arcade machines in half a month, and the popularity of this game is not inferior to "Tank Wars" and "Hong Kong Square" half a year ago, it is indeed another gold mine found by Dongfang Electronics!
"Then you have to hurry up and give birth!" Li Xuan quipped.
Dongfang Electronics began to send a batch of "Pac-Man" game motherboards to Cousins Entertainment as early as a month ago, so Cousins' company has already prepared a lot of inventory.
Dongfang Electronics' initial strategy was to build its own factory to manufacture arcade machines, but the explosive growth of orders after the launch of "Hong Kong Cube" and "Tank Battle" made the arcade factory still unable to keep up with the increase in orders.
Dongfang Electronics can only adopt the method of outsourcing, looking for foundries to produce part of the order, and at the same time encourage several large agents in the United States who have their own arcade factories to purchase arcade boards for assembly and production.
At present, the production capacity of Dongfang Electronics' arcade factory is still full of production tasks for the two games "Hong Kong Cubes" and "Tank Wars", and there is no spare energy to produce "Pac-Man" arcade machines.
In order to solve the production capacity of "PAC-MAN", Dongfang Electronics has selected a new foundry in Hong Kong to be responsible for the OEM task of "PAC-MAN" arcade machines, and on the other hand, it continues to support businessmen like Tony Cousins to directly purchase arcade boards from Dongfang Electronics to assemble and manufacture game consoles by themselves.
"Sega said they were going to snipe your next arcade machine, but you guys were so slow that they couldn't wait for your new arcade to come out. Several new games used to snipe at you have to be released in a hurry, but they can't compete with "Tank Wars" and "Hong Kong Cubes", that Jew is making a big joke this time!" Cousins said in a mocking tone of David Rosen's previous rhetoric, "Now that your new game is finally out, I wonder what the Jews are going to do to fight you again!"
"Sega chose the wrong genre, and players are starting to get tired of the flood of shooters on the market. But they are still obsessed with listing all kinds of shooting games, and the gameplay is not too new, and it is reasonable to fail!" You have chosen to pay attention to several recent games released by Sega, said the intermediary.
Cousins opened the cigar box on the desk, gestured to Li Xuan, and found that Li Xuan shook his head, before he pulled out a thumb-thick cigar for himself, picked up the sluice knife placed aside and cut off the cigar head.
Then, he struck a match and lit a cigar and took a beautiful sip: "Non-smoking men are not yet mature, this is an authentic and high-quality Cuban product, it's a pity if you don't try it!" "pac-man" is indeed a very interesting game!"
Li Xuan smiled and said, "Yes, it is a game for men and women of all ages. We're tired of playing shooters, it's time for a change of taste! I'm sure it's just beginning to show its charms, so you might as well get your arcade factory running at full capacity!"
"I believe your vision, you didn't know how difficult it was for American workers to serve! Those bedbugs in the guild are not easy to deal with! I saw that I had to go to Mexico tomorrow to get the factories there open!"
Overtime pay for American workers is not cheap, and Cousins plans to shut down the California plant when the Mexican factory is on track. Mexicans can pay much cheaper salaries than Americans. Moving factories from high-cost places to low-cost places is a matter of choice that every capitalist makes.
Leaving Cousins Entertainment, Li Xuan's mood was very relaxed. Previously, the rest of the company was afraid that "Pac-Man" would not succeed in the U.S. market, and was ready to lower the ex-factory price by $100 from "Hong Kong Cube".
Li Xuan never agreed, insisting that the factory price of "pac-man" was the same as that of "Hong Kong Cube", $1,200 for the whole machine and $900 for the game motherboard. Previously, considering the high manufacturing cost in the United States, in order to increase the enthusiasm of Cousins and others to purchase game console motherboards for their own production, Dongfang Electronics specially ceded part of the profits and lowered the price of each game motherboard by 100 US dollars.
Now that "Pac-Man" has gained momentum in the United States, the invisible pressure on him is gone.
"Let's go, please go to Fisherman's Wharf and eat lobster!" Li Xuan shouted to the beautiful assistant behind him, with a happy smile on his face.