Chapter 37 Preparing for a rainy day

Over there, Huo Jianning was busy with the production of Pokemon, and Wu Ming was also entangled by Zhu Yin because of Pokemon.

After lunch, Wu Ming gathered with his friends.

Zhu Yin took Wu Ming's hand and kept shaking it from side to side, pleading: "Brother Ming, I want all the limited edition Pokemon, okay!"

As Wu Ming's little tail, Zhu Yin naturally got the moon first and got a Pokemon pet machine with a wonderful frog seed. Yesterday, I was addicted to the fun of raising small pets all day, and now I know that this thing is actually a limited edition, and the little girl naturally wants it very much.

"Good, good, good. After school this afternoon, you can go to the company with me to get it!" Wu Ming really had no choice but to agree to Zhu Yin's little girl.

When the two Gu brothers saw that Zhu Yin had successfully obtained Wu Ming's promise, they also looked at Wu Ming with a blank eye.

Wu Ming was also speechless for a while.

"Alright, alright. All four of you have a share, okay. ”

"Yay!"

The two Gu brothers cheered.

Zhou Huimin, who was sitting on the side playing with Jenny's turtle pet machine, also smiled when he saw this.

Then Wu Ming changed the topic and said with a smile.

"However, there are so many types of Pokemon, do you still want one of each of the 151 types, so you can only take three favorites per person. ”

Since Wu Ming named the electronic pet Pokemon, naturally there will not be only three types. He handed over all the 151 kinds of Pokemon first-generation Pokemon character designs to Star Entertainment, and at the beginning, only three kinds of Jenny Turtle, Little Fire Dragon, and Wonderful Frog Seeds will be released. Later, after Pokemon becomes popular around the world, the rest of them will be released one after another.

"Ahh

Zhu Yin, Gu Tianle, and Gu Tianyin all sighed involuntarily. However, they had also seen the Pokemon design drawn by Wu Ming, and knew that it was impossible to take so many Pokemon pet machines, and it was already good to be able to take three. Immediately afterwards, they happily discussed with each other about the breeding experience.

In the afternoon, after school. Wu Ming took his friends to Xingchen Entertainment.

Walk to the front of the president's office.

"Boss, you're here. ”

"Well, Secretary Liang, you take my friend to get some limited edition Pokemon pet machines, and each person chooses three. ”

After giving instructions to Huo Jianning's secretary, Wu Ming turned his head to look at his friends again.

"Xiaomin, Ayin, Gu Zai, Yin Zai, you and Secretary Liang go get Pokemon, I still have something to find Uncle Jianning. ”

Zhu Yin's little girl was not happy when she heard this, and complained.

"What, I originally brought us to get Pokemon, but now I say that there is something, and I am always busy with this and that. ”

"Alright, Ayin. Ah Ming has something to do, let's not trouble him, Secretary Liang can take us there, let's go. ”

Zhou Huimin relieved Wu Ming, pulled Zhu Yin's little girl and left with Secretary Liang.

Seeing that the four friends left, Wu Mingjia shook his head, smiled, knocked on the door and walked into the president's office.

"Uncle Jianning!"

"Xiao Ming, you're here. ”

Wu Ming sat on the sofa and stretched his waist and asked, "How is it, Pokemon is selling well." ”

Huo Jianning heard the word Pokemon, and his face showed a happy expression.

"Very good, yesterday's first day sales were nearly 20,000. And today, news came from North America and RB. There are more people who buy Pokemon pet machines today, and the specific sales will not come out until tomorrow. It is estimated that there will be no less than thirty thousand. ”

Wu Ming was also quite satisfied when he heard this figure.

"Uncle Jianning, tomorrow's sales will definitely be higher than today. Yesterday was the weekend, and many people bought Pokemon to play with themselves and communicate less with other people. Today, Monday, those students will definitely bring Pokemon to school, and by that time there will be more people attracted to our Pokemon. So, we have to speed up our production. ”

"You do have a point. Huo Jianning nodded and agreed.

"In the morning, I had already agreed with the chairman. Dole Toys will help us to produce Pokemon at full capacity, and the production should be 30,000 per day. I also said hello to Kentaro Ichimura and asked them to start production of chips immediately. ”

Wu Ming shook his head, his expression a little serious.

"That's not enough, according to my estimates, Pokemon sales are estimated to exceed 1 million per month in the future, or even reach 2 million. At the current production rate, it will definitely face a shortage of goods at that time. Especially for chips, Ricoh alone can't fully meet our needs, so we still have to take precautions. There are also screens, and the screens on the market now are not at all enough for us to consume. ”

Huo Jianning's brows furrowed, according to him, Wu Ming's words were not unreasonable. Originally, he thought that Pokemon would sell hundreds of thousands of units a month, but if it was true that Pokemon sales would exceed 1 million or even reach 2 million per month, the chips and screens would really not be enough at that time.

"Then wait for a while, a week at most, and if it's really as you said, Pokemon has that potential, then I'll go to RB again and find other companies to place orders. ”

After talking to Huo Jianning about Pokemon, Wu Ming then went to the platform technology development department to look at their development process, and then went to the game software development department to see the development progress of the classic game "Tank Wars".

"Tank Wars" is a classic game released in 1985 by the famous RB game company Namco, and I believe most of them have played this game. In fact, most people in China play the copycat version of "90 Tank" developed by Smoky Mountain Software in 1989, but this time the real Li Kui met the fake Li Ghost, but it was the fake Li Ghost of Smoky Mountain Software's "90 Tank" that defeated the real Li Kui of Namco. The copycat version of "90 Tank" actually sold more than 30 million copies, although it is because the price is cheaper than the original one, but it is also remarkable.

In fact, Wu Ming originally wanted to copy another classic game "Pac-Man" from Namco, but "Pac-Man" has already been established in Namco in April this year, and it will be released next year. If he were to develop the game, Namco would have enough evidence to prove that he had plagiarized it.

"Boss, now that the alpha version of the game is ready, you can try it out. ”

Cao Yongping, the head of the game software development department, looked at Wu Ming with a smile on his face, and he really admired Wu Ming, the little boss.

It should be said that everyone in the game software development department admires Wu Ming very much, and he developed such a great game as "Great Wall Cube" alone at such a young age. Later, they developed so many mini-games one after another, although none of them were as good as "Great Wall Cube", but they were also very remarkable.

Wu Ming tried to manipulate the joystick for a while, and it was not much different from what he remembered, only some small places still had some flaws.

"Very good, nothing is a big problem anymore. You test as soon as possible and find out the bugs and fix them. I want Tank Wars to be released next month, no problem. ”

The prototype of "Tank Wars" "Tank Battalion" will be launched in 1980, and Wu Ming is also afraid of crashing next year, although he is not afraid that Namco will accuse him of plagiarism, after all, "Tank Wars" is still very different from the original. But it's also a troublesome thing, and I guess Namco will say that he stole Namco's game design. So Wu Ming asked "Tank Wars" to be released as soon as possible.

Cao Yongping nodded confidently and replied: "There is no problem, the remaining small problems are not very difficult to solve." Guaranteed to make "Tank Wars" available next month. ”

Wu Ming walked around and didn't find any major problems, so he went home with his friends.

Pokemon sales are getting hotter day by day, as Wu Ming expected, and both North America and RB are going crazy for this little electronic toy. Especially in each school, every day when students arrive at school, they ask each other "How is your Pokemon?"

On the second day, the sales reached 30,000, and on the third day, it reached 34,000, and in this way, it rose by a few thousand a day, and by the beginning of December, it had risen to 60,000 a day, and the supply exceeded demand every day.

Those big shopping malls, small toy stores and dealers in North America and RB have come to Xiangjiang with banknotes to grab goods, and Xingchen Entertainment's inventory has been snatched up. And those businessmen who didn't grab the goods have been waiting in Xingchen Entertainment, waiting for Xingchen Entertainment to ship. The new goods that have just been produced every day do not need to enter the warehouse of Star Entertainment at all, and they have already been taken away.

Huo Jianning also hurriedly went to RB to find those chip manufacturers and screen manufacturers to place orders, and those companies saw that Pokemon sales were so hot, and they were not worried about Xingchen Entertainment's ability to pay. In the end, a contract for 20 million chips was signed at a unit price of $9 per piece, and a contract for 40 million screens was signed at a unit price of $0.5 a piece.