Takahashi and the players all left the court, and the audience left the arena in an orderly manner.

In the open space outside the Tokyo National Stadium, in front of the temporary sheds erected by 10,000 households, there are several long lines of hundreds or thousands of people.

Every viewer who wants to buy a Tetris handheld is lined up in the planned aisle. Everyone is like a node of the snake, and the snake's body is still getting longer.

Different from the orderly on-site sales here, the telephone ordering over there seems to be a chicken.

I have been queuing for an astronomical number of times, and I have cultivated (abused) the habit of queuing, and the on-site queuing can be orderly without too much organization.

However, telephone ordering is different, and the waiting tone on the phone is far more negative than a long queue, increasing the anger value.

"Is your address 1-6-1 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo?" said Manto's telephone attendant, holding the phone with his head to the left and a pen in his right hand, repeating the address he had just written down word by word.

"Yes!"

"Then please rest assured, we will arrange the delivery as soon as possible. Cash on delivery, please pay when you sign for it. ”

Looking at this person alone, it doesn't seem to be chaotic.

However, if you zoom out to the entire office, it becomes confusing.

"Kid, do you want a Tetris machine, can you get your parents to answer the phone?...... No, I'm sorry, but we are temporarily refusing to allow children under the age of 12 to order separately. ”

Another operator took the phone far away, and the child who sounded no more than seven or eight years old on the other side of the phone was still howling at the top of his throat.

The operator is not their parent, so naturally they will not really send them the "Tetris" handheld because they are coquettish.

Although Tetris handheld is a video game console for children, even if it is a toy for children to play with, it does not mean that children will buy it when they order it.

Some time ago, there was a lawsuit in TV shopping where a child ordered millions of yen indiscriminately. The merchant intends to sue the buyer for the return postage and depreciation of the goods on the grounds of malicious mail order, and the parents of the child, under the guidance of the lawyer, plan to fight back on the child's incapacity.

In such a context, Wanhu should naturally be cautious.

The all-paper office looks a little chaotic, and everywhere you can see, there are folders one after another, and the phone rings one after another, representing one order after another. Although I thought it was enough to prepare, it didn't seem to be enough now.

The popularity of the Tetris handheld far exceeded the expectations of 10,000 households.

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"This is Wanhu's new handheld?"

"Yes!"

"Let the technical department take it apart and take a look. ”

"Yes!"

……

"This Tetris handheld computer uses a new type of printing LCD screen technology, which can effectively reduce energy consumption. The processing chip it uses is not a common processing chip, but a chip that has not yet been seen. However, judging from the wiring of its input and output ports, the processing power is not very strong, but running Tetris does not get stuck, indicating that it is not using a generic architecture, but a circuit specially made for Tetris.

We are still calculating the cost of the whole machine, but with the price of 6,990 yen including tax, we think the profit is very low.

Even if we imitate it immediately, it will be difficult to beat the price of 10,000 households......"

The technical department of a friend reported after dismantling the "Tetris" handheld of 10,000 households. 、

At the same time, all the video game and toy-related manufacturers who got the 10,000 "Tetris" handheld consoles for the first time felt a headache about the profit margin of the 10,000 "Tetris" handheld consoles after dismantling.

Tetris is not technically difficult, but it is almost impossible to achieve a price of 6,990 yen.

The cost of the display, plus the cost of the circuit, plus the cost of the shell, plus the cost of labor, transportation. With the blessing of many costs, based on 1 million units, the cost of a single machine is as high as more than 5,000 yen. Add to that the profits from tax deductions and terminal sales, and the astonishing 100 yen business law, can this machine really make money?

Even some manufacturers already feel that Wanhu is losing money and making money. Although I don't laugh at Wanhu, I am also thinking about where their real means of profit are.

The appearance of a dedicated handheld machine will definitely affect the performance of arcade and red and white machines.

Could it be that Wanhu wants players to practice like crazy on the handheld and then face off against others in the arcade?

Yes, yes, but the idea of this use scenario is too naïve. There is no guarantee that users will be able to play according to this idea.

There is no such thing as a losing business.

Nowadays, red and white machines are so profitable, and many second- and third-tier manufacturers can only afford Nintendo's royalties after they have scavenged their families.

After that, the cassette production costs that need to be paid in advance for the game, except for giants such as Wanhu, Konami, Namco, and Taidong, the rest of the manufacturers are almost all paid by loans.

Larger manufacturers may receive loans with lower interest rates, after all, they have a successful experience in the past.

However, those small manufacturers who have just paid the royalties have never been out of the red and white machine games, so naturally no financial institutions are willing to give them loans at normal interest rates.

Making a game is like opening a treasure chest, not all chests can open treasures, and it may also open a pile of stones.

Therefore, small manufacturers use short-term loans with high interest rates to pay for the upfront funds that Nintendo needs. The interest rate of this short-term usurious loan is at least 20% annualized and the highest is more than 50%.

For these manufacturers, releasing games on red and white machines is gambling. If they win the bet, they can repay the principal and interest to continue making the game, and if they lose the bet, they will immediately quit the industry.

Although it will not sink into Tokyo Bay, I am afraid that I will have to take out a large loan in the next few years.

Nintendo has no requirements for the source of funds, and a very small number of manufacturers can even get low-interest loans from Nintendo. Of course, there is a price, that is, in the future, you can and can only make games for Nintendo.

The rapid growth of red and white machine sales has made Nintendo, a century-old small workshop, swell rapidly.

The big third party is like a slave working for Nintendo, while the small third party is worse than a slave, and you have to sell yourself to be qualified to work for Nintendo.

As for Takahashi, the president of Wanhe, who knows the secret of the price of Wanhu's "Tetris" handheld, is not calm at the moment.

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