November 3rd.

A total of three issues of "Hulu Little King Kong" have been sold, and this comic continues the consistent style of "Hulu Brothers", and a new character of Little King Kong formed by the combination of the seven Hulu brothers has appeared. makes "Hulu Little King Kong" not only inherit the original old fans of "Hulu Brothers", but also attract many new fans.

The total sales of each issue have been maintained at about 200,000 copies, and it has almost reached the peak of Hong Kong comics. After all, the population of Xiangjiang is so large, and "Hulu Little King Kong" is still a short comic for the sub-supply, and the teenagers who like to read this comic are a minority after all, and it is impossible to increase sales much more.

"Go Boy" has become more and more popular as the plot develops, and the total sales of the fourth issue reached 170,000 copies. In particular, most of the people who like to read this comic are not like the Huluwa series, and many teenagers also like to watch "Go Boy". By the time the second half comes, sales are estimated to surpass the gourd baby series.

At the same time, Xingchen Entertainment's arcade machines are also in full swing, in Xiangjiang because "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" have reached the point of being well-known, so they sell very fast, and many people come to buy them with cash bills every day, and a total of more than 2,000 units have been sold. However, the market in Xiangjiang is so big, and if it sells about one or two thousand units, the market should be saturated. As for the Aomen area next door, the total population is more than 200,000, and it is almost the same to sell hundreds of units.

Overseas sales have also been rising with the help of Tole Toys, from a single digit at the beginning to more than 500 units now. I believe that after the fame of "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" spreads in Europe, America, RB and other places, it will be easy to sell tens of thousands of units a month.

There are more and more electronics factories that OEM for Xingchen Entertainment, after all, there is no OEM for the products in their factories to make money. The daily production of arcade machines has now doubled and can reach more than 300 units.

Although in another week, the market in the Xiangjiang area will be full and unable to sell, and these arcades will be in excess of demand. However, Wu Ming and Huo Jianning did not reduce the speed of production, but continued to increase the number of foundry electronics factories to speed up production. is just to save some more inventory, and save time after "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" become popular in Europe, America, and RB regions, there is not enough inventory to sell.

Galaxy Century Video Game City, a subsidiary of Xingchen Entertainment, has also blossomed everywhere with the injection of a large amount of funds, and there are already 25 chain stores in the entire Xiangjiang combined. Wu Ming is not ready to increase the number of chain stores, after all, he is doing a high-end video game city instead of a low-level game hall with a miasma, there is no need to compete with those gang members for business, this number is enough. In the end, Wu Ming was not disappointed, and many office workers and students were reluctant to go to the game halls opened by those gang members, and they all came to the Galaxy Century video game city to play.

There are also some girls who thought that the arcade was a very messy, dirty and unsafe place. So although I have played "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" in some supermarkets or movie theaters and like to play games, I still don't want to play in the game hall. It wasn't until I learned from some friends or newspapers that there was such a clean and safe chain of video game stores, so I didn't have to wait in long lines at the supermarket or movie theater. Even some gang members come to Galaxy Century to play in order to save face, instead of playing in their own game halls.

At this time, Wu Ming was in the platform technology development department of Xingchen Entertainment Game Company, inspecting the research progress of the cube machine.

"How's it going, how long does it take for the cube machine to finish?"

Zhou Liang, the director of the platform technology development department, scratched his head and said, "It will take about a week to produce the finished product." ”

Wu Ming nodded, and then asked, "How much does it cost?"

Huo Jianning was also very interested in this question, and also stared at Zhou Liang to know what kind of number he would say.

Zhou Liang thought about it carefully and replied, "It's about one hundred and forty or fifty Hong Kong dollars." ”

Wu Ming frowned, and after a while, he dispersed again.

"It's still a bit expensive, and most people in Xiangjiang can't accept this price, but fortunately, our target is the whole world. ”

Huo Jianning continued Wu Ming's words and said: "Indeed, such a price is cheap for developed countries such as Europe, America and RB. ”

At this time, a man in his thirties interjected.

"In fact, the main reason is that the price of the CPU is too expensive, and the cost of other parts has almost been reduced to a minimum. ”

Wu Ming, Huo Jianning, and Zhou Liang looked over, and it turned out to be Wang Xiaocheng, deputy minister of the platform technology development department.

Wu Ming smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Wang Xiaocheng with interest, and asked, "What do you say?"

Wang Xiaocheng replied: "In fact, the cost of MOS6502 is not high now, and it will not exceed $10 at most. It's just that those manufacturers sell more expensive. ”

Wu Ming said a fair word from the perspective of the manufacturer.

"That's understandable, after all, they're also going to make money. Don't people destroy the heavens and the earth for their own sake!"

Then the topic changed, "However, it also reminded me that if you can produce it yourself, you still have to produce it yourself." In this way, we will not be stuck by others, after all, we are all Chinese, maybe that day we will be targeted by companies from Europe, America, RB and other countries. ”

"So, when we made enough money from the arcade, we went to buy the production license for the parts. Zhou Liang, Wang Xiaocheng, tell me what parts need to be produced independently. ”

Zhou Liang and Wang Xiaocheng discussed and said: "The others are not very important, only chips and screens are best produced by themselves." ”

Wu Ming nodded, indicating that he knew.

"After we open the European, American and RB markets, we will have enough funds to build our own production chain. ”

Wu Ming thought for a while and asked, "Did you encounter any problems when developing the block machine?"

Zhou Liang replied, "That's really there, boss." Even though you just took out the blueprints and asked us to follow them, we couldn't figure out why we were doing that. ”

Wu Ming understood at this time that he was a little lacking in consideration, the cube machine was indeed a successful product in later generations, but people in this era didn't know it. If you continue to do this without saying anything, give them the blueprints and let them do it every time. In the future, they will become their own puppets, with no sense of innovation at all, and they cannot develop products on their own.

Wu Ming clapped his hands, asked the people in the platform technology development department to stop what they were doing, and then started to lecture.

"You may have some doubts about my block machine blueprints, so I'm going to explain them to you. Handheld, as the name suggests, is a handheld game console. This type of console must be as short as possible, as small as possible, as light as possible, and as thin as possible. ”

The four words short, small, light, and thin seem to be taken for granted in the eyes of later generations, but in this era, for hardware engineers who are still very new to handhelds, these four words can be said to have a guiding role in outlining the leader. Therefore, all the developers present nodded their heads repeatedly.

"At the same time, we want to use mature technology as much as possible, because maturity means cheapness, and only cheap products can win the favor of customers. And those immature technologies, no matter how good they are, their shortcomings and expensive prices will scare customers away. That's why I designed a product like the block machine, because it's already the best that can be done with the current technology. ”

Everyone also suddenly realized, and many doubts in the past were understood. For example, I understood why the block player only had a black and white screen instead of a color screen. Not only because of the cheapness of the black and white screen, but also because of the stronger battery life of the cube machine.

In this way, Wu Ming slowly said some of the views of later generations, so that the thinking of these developers was as close to himself as possible. And retain their own sense of innovation.

After the lecture, Wu Ming asked Huo Jianning to gather all the employees of Xingchen Entertainment Game Company.

After a while, all the employees had already assembled, and they looked at Wu Ming curiously, wondering what Wu Ming, the little boss, was doing when he summoned everyone.

Wu Ming saw that everyone was here and spoke.

"You all know that I am a cartoonist and have published several very popular comics. I also know that I have a good father, a rich second generation. So you're going to be wondering why I'd start a game company instead of having fun. ”

"The global gaming market is in its infancy, but the future is predictable and limitless. And my purpose is nothing else, just not to waste this great development opportunity, I want to rush to the world, and make Star Entertainment a world-class game company. ”

"As you all know, our company's arcade machine is now a big hit, thanks to everyone's efforts. I won't say much else, but in the future, the salaries of all employees of the company will be doubled. In addition, those who participated in the "Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" arcade projects will have bonuses, with a total bonus of 5% of the net profit, and the specific amount will be distributed according to the contribution of the participants. ”

Hearing what Wu Ming said, everyone cheered loudly. The employees who participated in the arcade project jumped even more excitedly, they knew how profitable the company's arcade machine was now. In just one month, he has earned nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and five percent is 1 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not less. What's more, the popularity of the arcade can last for a long time, and they can get even more.

"Don't be discouraged if you don't get the bonus, all the projects of our company will take out a part of the profits as bonuses to the participants of those projects. So I hope you can work harder in the future and make your own contribution to the discovery and growth of our company!"

All the employees around them showed excited expressions when they heard Wu Ming's promise.