In terms of overall strength, although Xiangjiang's game companies are not as good as those in island countries, they will not be far behind with the support of Xingchen Entertainment.

In the original time and space, Nintendo, as a pioneer, followed by game companies from other island countries, gradually occupying the game market share that originally belonged to American game companies such as Atari and Activision.

In this life, the advantages of Xingchen Entertainment are far greater than that of Nintendo in the original time and space, and the strength of other game companies in Xiangjiang is not weak, so they can naturally snatch the North American game market.

"But there is no if," Wu Ming said with a smile on his face, "For American game companies like Atari, the future is dark, but for us at Star Entertainment, the future will be bright." As long as we grasp this opportunity, we can surpass Atari and win the home console market in North America in one fell swoop, and become the leader of the video game industry. ”

Listening to Wu Ming's bold words, many of the top executives of Xingchen Entertainment below couldn't help but boil with enthusiasm, and some of them even sketched in their minds a beautiful scene of Xingchen Entertainment dominating the video game industry in the future.

Wu Ming continued: "In order to achieve this grand goal, we have to start from many aspects. First of all, we want to continue to expand the market share of PSB consoles in the North American market. ”

"Uncle Jianning, what is the specific number of our North American shipments of PSB game consoles now?" Wu Ming turned his head to look at Huo Jianning and asked.

Huo Jianning heard the question, and said without thinking: "Because of the hot sales of "Gold Diggers" a while ago, the sales of PSB game consoles have been driven, and now the total shipments have reached more than 3.8 million, but North America is not our home field, and the sales volume is only more than 1.3 million. ”

When many high-level officials heard the figure of "3.8 million", they all smiled with satisfaction. When they heard "1.3 million", they all frowned again.

In today's North American home console market, although Atari does not have a complete monopoly like the original time and space, it also accounts for eighty percent of the share, with sales of more than 9 million.

Under the suppression of Atari, Atari's PSB game console has insufficient influence in North America, and its sales are only more than 1.3 million. In contrast, the influence of PSB game consoles in the island country is even greater, with sales of more than 2.2 million.

Other game companies behind Atari and Star Entertainment are even far behind, and their North American sales of home consoles combined are only about two million.

One can imagine how influential Atari is in North America.

Wu Ming nodded, thought for a while, and then said, "According to my speculation, North American gamers can't stand garbage games, and the time to resist is probably the end of this year or the beginning of next year." When the time comes, gamers in North America will abandon Atari. And if we want to get the most benefit from this turmoil, the higher the sales of PSB game consoles in North America, the better. So for the next year, I will often stay at Centron Entertainment and host the development of new games. ”

"Great!"

"Awesome!"

When the personnel of the game software development department heard Wu Ming say this, they immediately cheered. Since the establishment of Xingchen Entertainment, they have been learning behind Wu Ming. It can be said that they were brought up by Wu Ming. Moreover, Wu Ming often said some advanced points of view in his mouth, which benefited them a lot.

If it's really true, 80% of the people in the game software development department can be said to be Wu Ming's apprentices. Therefore, they all hope to develop games under the leadership of Wu Ming, so that they can learn more advanced knowledge.

And in the process of Wu Ming presiding over the development, there are generally no detours, just like knowing the game effect in advance. Therefore, Wu Ming's time to host the development of a game is far less than the time that others host the development of a game.

Wu Ming saw the cheers of the people below, smiled slightly, and said happily: "The task of the game software development department, I will explain it in detail later." Now I would like to give you the task of the Platform Technology Development Department. ”

After listening to this, the personnel of the platform technology development department all looked at Wu Ming seriously.

Wu Ming's fingers tapped lightly on the conference table for a while, and then looked at Zhou Liang, the minister of the platform technology development department. "Now that a 16-bit reduced instruction set CPU has been developed, it's time for our company's 16-bit home mainframe to be on the agenda. ”

As soon as these words came out, the following suddenly became lively, and everyone whispered and discussed the matter of the 16-bit game console.

Zhou Liang was stunned when he heard this, and said in shock: "Our company's 8-bit game console has only been on the market for a year, and the ARM16 chip has only been developed for a short time, is it too early to develop a 16-bit game console now?"

"Yes, boss!" retorted Vice President Jin Hongmao, "It's too early to develop a 16-bit game console." You must know that there is only the Intellivision home game console launched by Mattel the year before last on the market, which uses a 16-bit processor. But its sales are not good at all, and after nearly two years on the market, it is only more than 600,000. This shows that 16-bit home consoles are simply not suitable for the market in recent years. ”

Huo Jianning also opened his mouth to persuade: "Ah Ming, it's really too early to develop 16-bit home consoles now, home game consoles can only be regarded as semi-finished products, and they are not really 16-bit home consoles." And didn't you say that the price of home consoles must be cheap to occupy the market, and if a 16-bit home game console is developed, the price can't be lowered at all, how can it be sold?"

8 home hosts are followed by the era of 16 home hosts, and this matter is recognized by everyone in Xingchen Entertainment. But in the hearts of everyone, that time will come, and it will be many years away.

Wu Ming smiled and explained: "Of course, I know that in recent years, 16 home consoles are not suitable for sale. Prepare for development now, just prepare for a rainy day. After all, the development of a 16-bit home console is much more difficult than that of an 8-bit home console, and it will take two or three years to say the least. And it takes even more time to make our products perfect.

It's too late for other companies to launch first. We can't be the first game company to launch an 8-bit home console, but we also have to be the first game company to launch a 16-bit home console. In this way, we can seize the market when the era of 8-bit home consoles ends in the future and the era of 16-bit home consoles opens. And stay ahead of the curve without falling behind other gaming companies. ”

Hearing Wu Ming say this, the others all frowned and thought about it.

I'm really sorry, I haven't written for so many days, my mind is in a mess, and I don't know what to write. Yesterday I sat in front of the computer in a daze for a long time, and I didn't know how to write at all. I watched the previous plot again today, and I thought about it for a long time before I slowly regained my feelings. Tomorrow should be able to fully regain its previous form.