What Wu Ming said is indeed very reasonable, if it can be the first company to launch a 16-bit home host before other companies, Xingchen Entertainment will definitely be able to take many advantages. If it is developed by other companies first, then Xingchen Entertainment will fall into passivity. Therefore, the sooner you prepare for R&D work, the more beneficial it will be to Star Entertainment.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but nod.

Huo Jianning smiled and agreed: "Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment." Boss, you have a long-term vision than we do, and it's time for Star Entertainment to prepare to develop 16-bit home consoles. ”

With Huo Jianning speaking in favor first, most of the other people also spoke up to express their agreement.

Wu Ming saw that everyone no longer objected, and a smile appeared on his face, and he said happily: "Then this project is decided, the PSB game console is an 8-bit home console, and it is also our first generation of home console." The next 16 home hosts are the second generation of home hosts of our Star Entertainment. It is named 'Phantasy Star Box 2', abbreviated as 'PSB2'. ”

Then Wu Ming looked at Zhou Liang and instructed: "Minister Zhou, you will make preparations for the development of PSB2 next, and when you are in April, you will lead the host development team to officially start work." ”

The platform technology development part consists of three parts, the console development team, the arcade development team, and the handheld development team. The most important person in charge of the host development team is Zhou Liang, the director of the platform technology development department.

Zhou Liang nodded when he heard this, and replied with a smile: "No problem, I'll start preparing after the meeting." ”

Wu Ming smiled and said, "That's good." ”

Wu Ming thought for a while, and then said: "The task of the home host part has been explained, then I will start to arrange the task of the handheld team." In the past year and a half, the sales of our company's block machine have been rising, and now the total sales have exceeded 20 million.

But in fact, the sales growth rate of the cube machine is not as fast as before, and the monthly sales can only be maintained at about 800,000, and it is still declining. So as with PSB consoles, it's time to consider the next generation of handhelds. ”

"The sales of the cube machine are indeed not as hot as they were at the beginning," Huo Jianning then changed his voice, "But the cube machine, like the Pokemon pet machine, is a product that can be trickled down to a long time, and there is still a lot of potential to be explored." If you sell it for a few more years, the sales volume will increase by 20 or 30 million, which is not a problem. Don't be in such a hurry!"

"Uncle Jianning, what you said makes sense," Wu Mingwan said with a smile: "However, the games on the PSB console can't be ported to the block machine to play, and it's much worse than the real handheld computer in my mind." ”

As a simple handheld computer, the block machine can only play those pixel games, such as "Great Wall Block", "Snake", "Racing" and so on. Until now, excluding those games of the same kind, the total number of games on this platform is only forty-three, and it is estimated that there will not be much increase in the future. After all, it's much harder to develop a fun pixel game than it is to develop a normal game.

In contrast, the Game Boy developed by Nintendo in the future, or the PSP developed by Sony, will have many more games that can be played on it. After a year or two of development, there are hundreds of games for players to choose from. Games on home consoles can be ported to these handhelds relatively easily.

After a pause, Wu Ming continued: "And Uncle Jianning, don't forget, the technical content of the block machine is too low, and it is very easy for others to pirate." Now those backward countries and regions are full of pirated block machines!"

Huo Jianning's expression was stunned, and then he smiled bitterly: "The truth is indeed as you said, almost all the block machines on the market in some Southeast Asian countries are pirated. ”

Wu Ming smiled: "So we should develop a handheld that can play console games, so that we can detonate the sales frenzy again." And if others want to pirate, it's much more difficult. What's more, Nintendo has not given up until now, and has been coveting the handheld market and promoting their Game atch. ”

Huo Jianning frowned: "This is indeed a problem, now some players who are tired of playing the games on the block machine have started to buy Game atch again." ”

Wu Ming looked serious and said with a straight face: "We should pay attention to any threat." Nintendo has experience in developing handhelds, and if they develop a new generation of handhelds, they will snatch up the handheld market that we occupy. ”

Huo Jianning groaned and said slowly: "Then do what the boss thinks!"

Game Atch can't change cartridges, can only play one game, and can't play console games. But it's definitely a bit more fun than most pixel games. Therefore, under the suppression of the block machine, it can still maintain a decent sales situation. So Nintendo did not abandon the project, but stuck with it.

Until now, there are more than a dozen models of Game atch, and Nintendo has accumulated a lot of experience in developing handheld consoles. If you want to let it go, Nintendo may go all out to attack the handheld market under the pressure of Star Entertainment and develop GameBoy in advance.

In order to keep Nintendo under it and prevent it from growing as rapidly as the original time and space, Wu Ming naturally had to hurry up to develop a new generation of handhelds.

Wu Ming looked at a young man of about twenty-eight years old in a suit and ordered, "Next, your handheld team can put the block machine aside, and you don't have to follow the people from the game software development department to develop pixel games." All of you in the group can focus on developing a real handheld. ”

This young man is none other than Zhang Zihao, the leader of the handheld development team. This person, like Zhou Liang and others, is the first batch of veterans of Xingchen Entertainment, and was pulled from the university by Huo Jianning.

Zhang Zihao's face was full of excited smiles, and he said excitedly: "Our handheld team has been looking forward to the new generation of handheld computers you said to the boss for a long time, and now we can finally start the development of this project." ”

Wu Ming's employees in the Centron Entertainment and Game Software Development Department have spent the longest time together. After all, he was a programmer who was proficient in programming in his previous life, and he didn't know much about hardware development. Therefore, the personnel of the game software development department have received the most advanced knowledge from Wu Ming.

However, although Wu Ming does not know hardware development, he knows the development direction of game consoles very well. In front of the staff of the platform technology development department, I often talk about the future development direction of some home consoles, handheld consoles, and arcade machines. Therefore, the employees of the handheld team have long known what the handheld will be like in the future.