Chapter 31: Pursuit

Compared with the relatively pure and monolithic Hong Kong game market, the mainland game market is relatively chaotic.

First of all, in the mainland,The most popular game console is still the red and white machine compatible machine,That's right, this model has been launched for fifteen years,In China's vast number of backward third-tier cities, counties、Towns and even rural areas still have great vitality。

In the first and second tier big cities, in addition to being able to play the latest arcade machines, you can also see the latest generation of game consoles.

However, these latest consoles don't come cheap.

For the price of a game console and several game cartridges, it's easy to get the price of a semi-suite.

Therefore, in addition to the rental of game consoles in the charter room, the people who buy them are genuine local tyrants.

And the rich people in China in this era have relatively simple channels to make a fortune.

Although the propaganda caliber is mostly ordinary people, they have created a lot of wealth from scratch.

However, the mainstream rich people in this era are either in the era of the dual-track price system, relying on approval slips to obtain a large number of goods that do not need to pay cash at all for sale, or they are the ones who buy the original state-owned enterprises at low prices in the bankruptcy stage of state-owned enterprises.

It's hard to talk about either thing in depth, because there are so many aspects involved.

When some people do these two things to accumulate wealth, it is a lie to say that it is not bloody.

There was a joke that later circulated that as long as everyone in China gave me a dime, I would be a billionaire.

For those who spread these jokes, it's just a fantasy. But for the wealthy who have risen in large numbers in this era, it is a true portrayal of them.

They have shared the huge corporation that was originally built by all the people.

It is said that it is to reduce staff and increase efficiency, and it is said that it has eliminated non-performing assets, but it has turned losses into profits in a very short period of time. How this is done, whether the latecomers are strong, or the original people deliberately let the company lose money, this is very debatable.

However, despite all the security and economic problems, China is still getting richer little by little.

It is not that this is not the case that the reform of the economic system really has a great effect, but that China has encountered a new opportunity, that is, it can carry out economic construction with export trade as the goal.

For advanced industrial countries, some low-end industrial products make little money from production, so they don't like to produce.

But for those countries that have not entered the modern era of industrialization at all, they cannot do mass production of these things.

At this moment, China has a large number of young people with knowledge brought about by universal education.

These young intellectuals may not be able to carry out some high-end research and development work, but it is very suitable to produce products on the assembly line.

They tend to have higher education than people who do the same work abroad, but the price is cheaper.

The other way to do that is that everyone can make more money for business owners.

Even the semi-abducted child labor from Sichuan and other places is far more useful than the adult labor force in countries where education is not universal.

However, it is probably only a former socialist country like China that can so brazenly kill chickens and eggs and use these child laborers with basic cultural knowledge.

Although the use of child labor may seem to cost little, it is actually not cheap.

How high is the cost of a universal education system that covers almost 90% of the country, and if you take money to do things, it is estimated that China will not be able to do it until 2200.

Relying on the enthusiasm of educators and the guidance of policies, New China established this set of education system, but it only took two or three decades.

At the same time as the education network, there is actually an identification with the new China.

No matter where the textbook is, it will mention Tiananmen Square, and it will always mention Beijing. You will learn similar texts and similar histories.

New China uses textbooks to construct a collective identity for the new generation of New China.

Perhaps these texts and knowledge will gradually be forgotten in adulthood, but having such an education will not make people in China feel that they are not Chinese.

However, these things are also changing.

In the new era, some people choose to strengthen the national identity of ethnic minorities for personal gain.

Even people of certain nationalities are sent abroad en masse to learn the advanced culture of that nation-state abroad.

As a result, many new problems were born, and a unified perception of China was broken.

However, these are not so important to Wanhu.

Wanhu does not have the strength to promote its games to those regions for the time being, and Wanhu's latest games can only gain a foothold in China's first-tier cities.

In China's second-, third- and fourth-tier cities and villages, the most widely circulated games for 10,000 households are still those launched by 10,000 households in the era of red and white machines.

However,Although Wanhu has never carried out the sinicization of red and white machine games。 However, Wanhu's red and white machine games have also been translated by pirated game translation organizations such as Alien Technology and the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.

In fact, compared with foreign companies, Wanhu can more easily sue these translation companies for pirating games.

And Wanhu's legal department is also like a wolf.

However, as the highest decision-maker of Wanhu, Takahashi has no intention of liquidating these pirated games.

In fact, Takahashi is not particularly averse to pirated games. Even if his game is pirated, he can understand it to some extent.

In fact, the vast majority of pirated users either don't know that there are pirated versions of games, or they can't afford genuine games.

For the former, the effective approach is to strengthen publicity, while for the latter, the practice of 10,000 households is to wait for them to get rich, or even help them get rich.

Takahashi believes that video games are not only a tool to make money, but also a form of entertainment that brings joy to people.

Is it because some people have no money that we should deprive them of the pursuit of happiness?

Takahashi is not the kind of person who thinks that only money is equal, and only in front of money is everyone equal.

Everything he is doing now can be said to be not for the first purpose of making money.

Even, many projects Takahashi have very low requirements, as long as they don't lose money.

That's right, as long as you don't lose money.

It's also interesting to say, perhaps it is because of Takahashi's approach that Wanhu can continue to develop healthily. It's not like those peers who just want to make quick money in front of them, after a short period of glory, they have entered a period of rapid decline.

And those Chinese game companies that started with pirated games have also begun to explore their own path to genuine games.