With the passage of time, the media no longer always publishes articles criticizing Wu Ming, after all, the world does not revolve around one person.

Don't look at the Xiangjiang River, but there are surprisingly many news events. Wu Ming is not a big star or a rich man, but there is no paparazzi to follow.

These days, Wu Ming will come to Xingchen Entertainment Game Company every day after school. While watching the progress of the development of arcades and cassettes, he led a few employees to develop a few mini-games.

"How's it going, what's the development of the Great Wall Cube and Snake arcades?"

Wu Ming came to the company's platform technology development department and asked after seeing a group of people busy.

"There are a lot of people in the development team of "Great Wall Cube", and it will be developed in about two or three days. "Snake" will be later, but it will only be one or two more days."

A twenty-eight or nineteen-year-old man wearing glasses greeted him, and it was Zhou Liang, who is now the head of the "Platform Technology Development Department".

Both Great Wall Blocks and Snake are relatively simple games that don't require overly complex designs, so this group of inexperienced newcomers can make their arcades so quickly.

When Wu Ming heard this, he was a little excited, his journey in the game industry was finally about to begin.

"After development, test more to avoid bugs. The workers recruited by the company have been idle for a few days, and it is time to start work. ”

After speaking, Wu Ming, Zhou Liang and other employees discussed some problems encountered in the development of arcade machines. Then, it's time to head to the president's office.

"Knock knock!"

Wu Ming knocked on the door and walked into the president's office.

"Uncle Jianning, have all the parts I asked you to procure?" As soon as he sat down in his seat, Wu Ming asked about the matter.

Huo Jianning nodded and replied, "It's all already acquired, but it's too expensive." Like that 6052 CPU, one will cost more than 100 Hong Kong dollars. Now the company's funds have been hollowed out, and if it is no longer profitable, it will not even be able to pay salaries. ”

Wu Ming heard Huo Jianning say this and explained it for him.

"Uncle Jianning, this is also a helpless thing, after all, other types of CPUs are more expensive, and 6502CPU is already the cheapest. The funds are temporarily insufficient, so they are drawn from the Phoenix Publishing House. After a while the arcade and game cartridges are produced, the funds can be eased. ”

"Your Phoenix Publishing House is developing very fast now, and I also followed the back part of "Hulu Brothers", which is very interesting and suitable for children. I didn't expect to sell so many copies. ”

Huo Jianning said with some sighs.

Wu Ming smiled and replied, "Uncle Jianning, don't be blushing. After the arcade is launched, Star Entertainment will only develop faster. ”

Huo Jianning also smiled in agreement. After this period of understanding, Huo Jianning is no longer a novice in the game industry, and knows very well how much potential this industry has. I am very glad that I can become the veteran of Star Entertainment, a game company with great potential.

Then Wu Ming took out a document from his schoolbag and handed it to Huo Jianning, with the two big words "handheld" clearly written on it.

This plan was written by Wu Ming in a few days, and the beginning of the book is a complete description of the development prospects of the handheld, and the content is divided into two parts.

Part of the section details what an electronic pet machine is, the market potential of an electronic pet machine and the design scheme of an electronic pet machine that Xingchen Entertainment is preparing to develop.

The other part illustrates the power of the combination of handheld and Great Wall Blocks. There is also the design scheme of Xingchen Entertainment's first-generation handheld "cube machine", which is ready to carry the game content.

I believe that many people have played or seen others play Digital Tyrannosaurus machines and domestic block game consoles.

That's right, the Digimon machine is the kind of electronic pet machine that can cultivate Digimon, and it's the boys' version of Takuma Utako. Due to the introduction of the novel system of simulated breeding and its cute appearance, these electronic pet machines triggered a worldwide craze as soon as they were launched, and its great charm created a cross-generational fan layer for them, and they are still loved by people for generations. Penguin's QQ Pet is an online version of this type of game.

The domestic cube machine is the kind of vertical rectangular black and white handheld that can be bought later down to 5 yuan, which is equipped with some Tetris, dodge racing, tanks, pinball, shooting, obstacle pinball, fill shooting and reverse Tetris and other small games. It can be said that it is a childlike joy for many people.

The few mini-games that Wu Ming is developing now are the ones carried on the cube machine.

Wu Ming does not have the strength and funds to develop a home host for the time being, so he set his sights on the electronic pet machine and block machine that are easy to develop, and make a profit in the market.

Electronic pet machines and block PCs are much simpler than handheld PCs developed by companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Sony.

Not to mention the electronic pet machine, it is just a simple program combined with ordinary hardware, and it is not too easy to develop.

Not only is the screen black and white, but the games on it are all simple games. With the current strength of Star Entertainment, it won't take long to develop. The main thing is the above game, and now Star Entertainment holds the magic weapon of "Great Wall Cube" plus several small game assistance, which is enough to drive the sales of the cube machine.

"Uncle Jianning, this plan is the next direction of our company's counter-expansion. ”

Huo Jianning muttered as he took the document: "Handheld, handheld?"

After Huo Jianning roughly finished reading the documents in his hand, he was very excited, patted the desk in front of him and stood up, walked left and right, and couldn't stop.

After a while, Huo Jianning finally stopped.

"This plan is too compatible with "Great Wall Cube", and now the handheld market is still blank, and there is no need to compete with those home consoles, and the cube computer will definitely be popular all over the world. ”

"That's right, this market is still a blue ocean, waiting for people to develop, and after success, there will be huge benefits. The handheld consoles on the market today can only play one game, and it is not as fun as "Great Wall Cube". Our block machine is planned to carry seven or eight different kinds of games, and while we can't replace them like home consoles, a short period of time is enough. After we sweep the market, we will naturally have a lot of time to develop a new handheld. Wu Ming continued Huo Jianning's words.

After the excitement, Huo Jianning asked with some doubts: "Can this electronic pet function be sold, will anyone like it?"

Seeing Huo Jianning's puzzled look, Wu Ming couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry, this electronic pet machine will definitely be popular." Many people actually want to have pets, but the conditions don't allow it. With an electronic pet machine, they can have pets anytime, anywhere. Moreover, the biggest sales target of electronic pet machines is girls, and these pets can fully stimulate the maternal instinct of girls. ”

Wu Ming continued to instruct: "The cube machine is not in a hurry for the time being, and then start the research and development after the development of the electronic pet machine is completed, you can save some experience." “

"The electronic pet machine will be developed from tomorrow, and the function, appearance and appearance of the electronic pet machine are all written in the plan, and I want to see the finished product that can be sold directly within a week. As for the release, I'll go home and talk to my dad about it before deciding. ”

That's right, Wu Ming is not ready to sell electronic pet machines soon, and the examples of his previous life are bloody in front of Wu Ming.

In the previous life, the pioneer of electronic pets, Bandai Company began to have no confidence in whether electronic pets could be sold hot, so there was a certain leeway in the shipment of the first batch of products to reduce the occurrence of inventory backlog as much as possible. However, everyone did not expect that the "electronic pet" was not only a great success, but also became a phenomenal frenzy that swept the world.

However, because Bandai cannot keep up with the CPU output and the strict control of the yield rate, it cannot meet the market demand. As a result, the original price of the product rose from 1,980 yen to an unacceptably high price, and the white rare limited edition was even sold for 300,000 yen.

Then more and more toy manufacturers saw the hot market and began to copy electronic pets. Due to the low technical content of electronic pets, it is very fast to copy and imitate, and for a time, various shapes, various pets, and various types of imitations produced by Bandai rushed to the market. The number of genuine electronic pets on the market has been overwhelmed by imitations, and users who cannot buy products due to price hikes and out-of-stock have begun to choose various imitations.

Although Bandai sued and won the lawsuit, the animatronic pet quickly subsided under the combined effects of wind pressure, cluttered imitations, and low gameplay. Bandai's follow-up production of electronic pets did not sell well, and a large number of spot products were backlogged in the warehouse. Until 1999, Bandai was forced to destroy 2.5 million stocks, causing a loss of 6 billion yen, which directly led to a deficit of 4.5 billion yen.

Wu Ming didn't want to be like Bandai, so he wanted to go home and discuss with Wu Bing'an and let Duole Toys Company help with the OEM. With the strength of those workers at the Tole Toys Company, it was not difficult to build an electronic pet machine. When they can skillfully build an electronic pet machine, they are not afraid that the production will not be able to keep up. Electronic pet machines can be sold.

At the same time, in his design, his animatronic pet does not die as easily as Takuma Utako of Bandai. In this way, students will not have to pay attention to electronic pets at all times during class, and it will not cause too much public opinion.

Huo Jianning proposed a plan at this time.

"Xiao Ming, I think we can open a game hall in Xiangjiang. Now that the game industry is so hot, opening a game hall can relieve our financial pressure. And I read some magazines, and I saw that RB game companies will open some game halls to collect feedback from players. We can learn about this. ”

Wu Ming nodded in agreement, and said, "I agree with Uncle Jianning's plan, tomorrow you will go to Uncle Zhang, go to the bank and use the Order of the Phoenix as collateral, you should be able to borrow 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the 500,000 Hong Kong dollars will be at your disposal." ”

Huo Jianning was also very moved to see Wu Ming believe in him so much.