CHAPTER XVII

The world is changing, and the video game industry is not changing as much.

Giants have been formed, and step by step the game is launched.

All sorts of novel game theories are constantly being proposed, but there are still very few really useful parts.

Just as in the eyes of the vast majority of businessmen, economists are poor.

Those video game theorists, it's really as powerful as they say, why not make your own games?

Even, there is a paradox, despite the fact that various universities have successively launched video game-related courses and majors.

However, the major video game manufacturers do not like these majors very much for students who have graduated from these majors.

Finally, the process of hiring them is also with ordinary graduates of ordinary majors.

The reason why this happened is because video games have been around for so short a while.

Neither the teacher who taught the course nor the compiler of the textbook itself had ever worked in the field of video games.

When it comes to game design and so on, they can say that they know nine out of ten.

The really useful part is the training in graphics, programs, and so on.

However, it's more about teaching a learning method.

Because the industry is constantly changing, all kinds of new technologies are constantly emerging, and what is taught in schools will inevitably become obsolete.

Coupled with the slight decline in the industry now, basically only video game graduates from American universities can find jobs.

Besides, even if they find a job, they can't say how good it is, they just can work.

This is not good news for those graduates who have chosen education loans and will repay them for more than 10 years after graduation.

But what can be done in such a situation where the world's economy is not very good?

At a time when video games are declining all over the world, even 10,000 households have reduced the recruitment of video game-related personnel.

However, the other businesses of Wanhu are doing well.

China in the 90s was still in a period of relative "chaos".

Over the past 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the wealth created by the people with public ownership as the core has been divided and broken one after another.

A small number of people have used this wealth to earn more money.

At the same time, various business activities have begun to become more and more frequent.

For example, the communications industry is undergoing revolution after revolution.

And now, Wanhu is also participating in this revolution.

At this time, the mainstream means of mobile communication is still analog communication in the big brother category.

This method of communication, although it has many advantages.

However, there are many disadvantages, that is, the ability to support large-scale concurrent communication is very poor.

Because the construction of the call network is not cheap, the price of Big Brother is not low.

However, people also have the need for mobile communication, so under the requirements of some departments, Wanhu has created a set of mobile communication networks with telephone communication systems as the main network.

That's right, this network was first born in Yuben, and it was also introduced in China in another world, and the communication terminal that uses this system is called PHS.

However, there are still some differences between the PHS of Wanhu and the PHS of the book.

The patent system may seem like a good system, but in many cases, patents are a hindrance.

Just when 10,000 households participated in the construction of the national mobile communication network, in the laboratory of 10,000 households, there was another new achievement that could be successfully commercialized.

This new achievement dates back to 1970.

In that year, an American scientist discovered the function of lithium-ion batteries and published a paper.

In the two decades since, lithium-ion batteries have been developed, but they are still far from commercialization.

It wasn't until last year, that is, in 1992, that Sony successfully developed a lithium-ion battery that could be used commercially.

Compared with the non-rechargeable dry batteries that were previously used on a large scale, and the nickel-cadmium batteries that can be recharged, lithium-ion batteries have a higher energy density, more cycles, and weaker attenuation.

This means that it can be used in small devices.

For example, Big Brother, which now uses nickel-cadmium batteries, can completely switch to lithium-ion batteries.

Last year, when Sony's research made a breakthrough, Wanhu immediately purchased a batch of lithium-ion batteries for reverse research.

On the basis of the accumulation in the past, after more than a year of hard work, it has finally succeeded in breaking through Sony's not strict patent barriers, and it is also able to produce lithium-ion batteries.

This is a good thing for 10,000 households, and even for China.

You must know that whether it is a lithium-ion battery produced by Sony or a nickel-cadmium battery produced by other foreign manufacturers, it costs hundreds or even thousands of yuan.

Why is it so expensive?

It's because China can't produce it.

I don't know how many of these products there are.

There is even a group of people who praise this behavior of foreign companies.

They say that this is the manifestation of high technology, and that high-tech things should be sold at this price.

You must know that in today's China, a family's disposable income may be less than 1,000 yuan a year.

A battery costs 1,000 yuan, and a big brother sells for tens of thousands of dollars.

Even if the price of the communication network falls, it means that Big Brother can only be used by a small number of people.

And now Wanhu is participating in the construction of communication networks on the one hand, and on the other hand, there is a breakthrough in batteries.

It can be said that it will not be long before the relatively cheap 10,000 mobile phones can be launched.

Of course, according to past experience, Wanhu will also sell the entire chipset or even the solution like a red and white machine.

China's market is very large, very large, and even 10,000 households will never be able to eat it on their own.

What's more, those manufacturers who produce red and white compatible machines have formed an interest group around Wanhu.

With the help of this huge interest group, many things are much easier and more convenient to do.

It's just that among the developers of mobile phones, Wanhu has encountered a little conceptual problem.

After all, Wanhu started with video games, and all of them have the intention of making video games available on mobile phones.

However, if you want to be able to play video games on mobile phones, you need a lot more circuitry, and the cost will go up a lot.

Proposals that are as radical as mobile phones to be able to play games on the go are simply not realistic.

In the end, it was Takahashi who came forward and integrated the games on the previous 10,000 video game handhelds into the mobile phone, which solved the problem of the need for games and costs.

After all, the games on Wanhu video game handheld are all games that are so simple that they can't be simpler.