Chapter Seventy-Three: The Situation of Video Games in East Asia
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While the "arcade owners who don't play games" indulged in arcade machines, the arcade machines from China had already crossed the ocean and unloaded their goods at many ports in Yuben.
Fukuoka, Hakodate, Hiroshima, Kawasaki, Kure Port, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Osaka, Otaru, Tokyo, and so many other ports have 10,000 Tetris arcade containers.
Countless arcade machines are shipped from these large ports to the arcades where they are needed through capillary-like road transportation routes.
Geographically speaking, it is said to be a maritime mecca in the era of industrialization to a certain extent. The whole country is an island country, surrounded by the sea, and there are many natural and excellent ports. The cheapest form of transportation, combined with high-quality and cheap labor, and a stable political structure, made it difficult to avoid economic growth.
At the same time, the Ji (Harmony) Forest, where 10,000 households settled in China, will also be happy to have so much tax and foreign exchange earnings. Although the tax will be refunded after the export, the foreign exchange is real.
In this situation where foreign exchange is not allowed to be exchanged by ordinary people, and even the government does not have a penny of foreign exchange. Wanhu China is simply the sun enterprise of Ji (Harmony) Forest.
Originally, the local government fought for 10,000 households to be called Wanhu Ji (Harmony) Forest. It's a pity that Wanhu, as an enterprise that is also secretly observed by the central ministries and commissions, is really unable to be wiped clean by the local government.
Nowadays, this foreign exchange income compared to the export of the "Tetris" arcade machine is like a shot in the arm. The honeymoon period between Wanhu and the local government has been made even sweeter.
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Some people rejoice, and some people are naturally worried.
With the help of the Chinese branch, Wanhu has increased the production of arcade machines to 30,000 units per month, and the maximum production is expected to reach a terrifying figure of 100,000 units per month. The street factories located on the side of the street are very sad.
Although the local arcade market is very prosperous, it has little to do with them.
If you want to produce your own arcade game, even if the R&D ability is okay, the sales are also a problem. And the production of imitations of popular arcade machines, although it is also a way out. Originally, it was sold outside of Tokyo, so there was no big problem.
However, arcade profits are too large, and while large arcade manufacturers are expanding rapidly, the pace of expansion is also unusually large. The market in Tokyo could not satisfy their appetite, and they expanded everywhere, chasing down all the manufacturers who were still producing pirated arcade machines, even at the cost of doing so.
Several of Tokyo's major law firms have seen their sales increase by several percent as a result of lawsuits between arcade manufacturers and pirates.
In order to survive, pirate manufacturers can only choose to withdraw from the market that is close to their mouths, and look for a market that allows them to continue to live, even if it is far away.
Entering South Korea?
At this time, South Korea had not yet escaped from the rule of the military government.
As a latecomer industrial country, it wants to develop its own industry as soon as possible. In the case that domestic industrial products are obviously inferior to foreign ones, in order to avoid foreign dumping, a relatively closed import policy must be used.
At the same time as the rise of a group of conglomerates led by Samsung and Hyundai in South Korea, South Korea is also engaged in an era in which ordinary people will be shot even if they use a foreign match.
South Korea can have arcades, but it must be Korea's own arcades.
None of the large arcade machine manufacturers in this book can enter the Korean market. What about the street arcade machine manufacturers who make a living from piracy and look like rats? It is estimated that only the American father, who has troops stationed in South Korea and has to pay for the military in South Korea, can easily open the door of South Korea.
However, at the forefront of resistance to the socialist camp in the Far East, the American father at this time was obviously the same as the other in South Korea, mainly relying on supportive policies.
Farther away, the economy is still relatively good, and the areas where there can be an arcade game environment are Hong Kong (Harmony) Port and Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
The main market targeted by the pirate manufacturers is also dominated by them.
Further afield, Southeast Asia is politically unstable and the economic environment is poor. Brand new arcade machines are hard to play there. The arcades that are now popular there are not only the United States, but also the arcades of the 70s that have poured an unknown number of hands.
The mainstream is also the second-hand arcade machines sold to Taiwan (Harmony) Bay and Hong Kong (Harmony) Port.
It's not a maker's paradise, it's a garbage guy's paradise.
The electronic waste that was already to be destroyed has become a money-absorbing weapon again. While solving the pollution problem in developed countries, it also meets the entertainment needs of economically backward areas.
Thinking about it this way, the garbage guys are really a group of kind people.
Taiwan (Harmony) Bay and Hong Kong (Harmony) Port are two markets, and the arcade manufacturers in this area prefer Hong Kong (Harmony) Port.
Not because Hong Kong (Harmony) Hong Kong is richer, but because Hong Kong (Harmony) Hong Kong is more **** The British government has recognized the facts in recent years and has given up its extravagant hopes for long-term rule of Hong Kong (Harmony).
Therefore, they no longer care about the industrial planning of Hong Kong (Harmony) Port, as long as they make money, they can do anything. This has resulted in de facto capital freedom in Hong Kong (Harmony).
Although Hong Kong also has an electronics industry, it is said that some low-end industries have been eliminated for I don't know how many years. Just make toys, make electric fans, and want to make arcade machines, these factories in Hong Kong are really not qualified.
And the Taiwan (Harmony) Bay side is more complicated. First of all, it has a government that is a little less rotten in a bunch of.
The Jiang family also sincerely operated this island as their own property. There is Chiang's plan, and there is the help of the United States. Although the electronics industry in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay is still lagging behind the original one, it already has the ability to imitate arcade machines.
As a result, the sales of pirated arcade machine manufacturers in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay are getting worse day by day. And Taiwan (Harmony) Bay is close to Southeast Asia.
The arcade market in Southeast Asia is also being encroached upon by Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
Many enlightened street factory owners found that they could not stop the rise of the electronics industry in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, so they began to invest in the construction of factories in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay to produce pirated arcade machines.
In Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, where the electronics industry is thriving, many factories related to video games are rapidly consuming the local electronic component production capacity of Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
With the improvement of the level of production of electronic components, it is rumored that there are already compatible machines for red and white machines.
Video games are the east wind of the electronics industry, and pirated video games are the east wind of the electronics industry in Taiwan (Harmony) Bay.
"Mingxiong, look at it, I got the latest game console for Wanhu!" Ke Mingxiong raised his head, sweat flowed onto the towel, and he saw Wang Lin outside getting out of the pickup truck and walking in.
Ke Mingxiong replied calmly, "Oh, I know, I'll dismantle it later......"