Chapter 26: Plants vs. Zombies

Takahashi, while focused on advancing technology, was not entirely a technological determinist.

At least, in the current situation, such as the production of games and various literary and artistic entertainments, the main role is still people.

Wanhu's intelligent analysis system, although it is indeed very powerful, can grasp people's reactions to different plots.

At that time, more often than not, it was used as auxiliary materials to provide assistance to creators.

Because the biggest problem is that not every computer-generated plot can trigger people's emotional switches.

In this case, even if Wanhu can use many users to test, it is still difficult to finally decide whether to use a certain bridge.

Mature creators will be able to find the best ones from these bridges.

This is still the case for movies and TV dramas, and video games are even more difficult to generate by themselves using computer programs.

In such a situation, Takahashi will still propose some electrons from time to time, and naturally someone will realize it.

However......

So far, the most influential hit is not the game of Wanhu, but the game "Temple Run", which is produced by a small manufacturer.

In fact, it can be seen from this aspect.

The video game industry is definitely not a paper tiger, and its past glory is definitely not a fantasy.

The reason why they are facing difficulties now is that of course there are factors of bad economy, and more importantly, they cannot adapt to the market trend of the current era.

It may go against some people's perceptions, but in fact. In the golden age of the company, the electronics industry surpassed that of the United States.

The reason why the United States was able to fight back was thanks to the alliance between Intel and Microsoft.

Although most of the machines in this market are low-end machines. The x86 architecture of the computer, compared to Apple's software architecture from IBM, also has a variety of problems.

However, the alliance between Intel and Microsoft is supported by an ecosystem of millions of software.

If a person wants to use more comfortably and more conveniently, the only way to choose technology is Microsoft and Intel.

Even many professional software only have this one version.

You must know that in modern industrial production, whoever has the largest output will have the lowest cost.

The X86 alliance, dominated by Intel and Microsoft, after IBM felt that the profits were low and withdrew, actually killed all sides, and even soon after, began to attack IBM's home field, that is, the server market.

In contrast, although the technology is more advanced for the time being.

But there is no unified ecology.

Even in this market, there are three mainstream computer standards.

Because everyone wants to be the boss, and everyone wants to eat the benefits of the standard.

Unfortunately, the end result is because of the lack of a cohesive unity.

After entering the new century, all the personal computer architectures of the original have withdrawn from the stage of history, and X86 has entered the stage.

Without the support of the industry and the lack of sufficient demand, the electronics industry will naturally lose the funds and possibility to continue upgrading.

As a result, the electronics industry will naturally lag behind.

Intel, because it has an entire market, is slowly overtaking it back.

Of course, Wanhu, Samsung, and TSMC, which are catching up, represent Chinese mainland and China's Taiwan (Meow) Bay and South Korea respectively, and the lagging Yuben began to compete for the second-echelon market.

Now it seems that the best prospects are Chinese mainland.

Why?

Because Wanhu has two huge markets as support.

One is the graphics card market segment under the large system of X86.

Although for various reasons, Wanhu has no way to manufacture the CPU of X86.

However, Wanhu is the first batch and the manufacturer with the most financial strength to produce display chips.

Having the first opportunity means taking the lead step by step.

With Wanhu as the core, as well as other brands in the United States, Taiwan (Meow) Bay, and Chinese mainland, the graphics cards manufactured almost monopolized the entire X86 architecture computer display chip market.

Is Wanhu's technology absolutely leading?

No, it's not.

So why can Wanhu's graphics cards become the absolute mainstream of the X86 market?

Because 10,000 households occupy two markets for graphics cards.

One piece is the game, because there is a 10,000-household game platform developed from the 10,000-household battle platform.

Wanhu has become the largest online game distributor on X86.

In this way, Wanhu can go around to find game manufacturers to cooperate and optimize the game more deeply for Wanhu's graphics card.

This may sound a bit unremarkable.

However, when players buy a graphics card and start playing games, they find that a graphics card of the same price is more suitable for playing games than other graphics cards. Better graphics, better frame rates.

So why don't gamers buy 10,000 graphics cards?

Other graphics card manufacturers, faced with such a situation, have only two options.

One is to work with game manufacturers like Wanhu, looking for game manufacturers everywhere.

However, you don't own a game distribution platform, so why should I work with you to optimize my game unless you pay for it?

The other is to reduce the price of the graphics card.

No matter which path you take, it costs a lot of money.

In this way, they can invest much less money in the follow-up research and development of the graphics card.

In such a situation, Wanhu is naturally more ahead.

Even, when other manufacturers, in order to show their conscience, began to pile up materials.

Wanhu can already optimize his graphics card with precise knife skills.

The game graphics card only needs to have a function that supports playing games.

In this case, this floating-point operation is a knife, and the stream processor is another knife, in short, the same price of the graphics card, 10,000 households can achieve the same game performance, but the profit is at least 50% higher than that of competing products.

In this way, how can other manufacturers fight?

Because Wanhu's own LOGO is red, the color of the graphics card is also red. In order not to be sued by the anti-monopoly.

Wanhu also deliberately supported a Chinese named Jensen Huang and founded a graphics card company called Nvidia.

In addition to game graphics cards, professional graphics cards, Wanhu has a greater advantage.

It can even be said that the entire Hollywood special effects system now uses special effects software from all households. In such a situation, how can other manufacturers fight with Wanhu?

In addition, the processing chips of 10,000 mobile phones are monopolized by 10,000 households' own semiconductors.

Takahashi doesn't know much about technology, so professional things are left to professional people.

And he, in his free time, made a mobile game, this mobile game is "Plants vs. Zombies".