Nintendo FC game console uses cassette game program storage, which is of great reference significance in Wang Zhengguo's view, the same device, if it is to read and run game programs, it is a game console, but if it is to read and run office processors, this is naturally not a game console.

"When will this console be available? I need to buy it. The promotional poster only said that pre-orders are currently open, and the real product has not been officially sold in Xiangjiang, and Wang Zhengguo, who was anxious to get a sample, asked directly.

If you want to say that the price of the FC game console released by Nintendo, it is actually an extremely low pricing strategy, just recovering the R&D and production costs, as for the idea of making a profit, people have not pinned their hopes on the game console itself, so the initial price is only a mere $65, such a cheap game console console is indeed outrageously cheap.

The price of hardware equipment is cheap, mainly because Nintendo has already had a so-called "more high-end" profit plan, relying on the sale of a variety of different game cards is enough to bring high profits, and people can also openly say that it is a game copyright fee.

As long as FC game consoles are distributed in large quantities, the future of game cartridge sales will be the place for mass purchases, and from this point of view, Nintendo's success is mainly due to the fact that it has built a whole ecosystem, so it will sell the most basic game consoles at a low price.

This strategy is very practical abroad, European and American countries pay attention to copyright protection, Nintendo charges copyright, game cartridge system access license fees, which is all taken for granted, but the republic does not recognize these, after the cassette game console enters the country, a large number of pirated game cartridges are quickly derived, who cares whether you collect money or not, the gray industry will retreat immediately if you make a profit.

It is precisely because he knows that its price is low, Wang Zhengguo is ready to spend a small amount of foreign exchange to buy one or two to go back to reverse research, and also see how the design idea of this product is, as for the most critical 6502CPU processor, this is not a problem, and it will be available immediately.

The young employee who sold the game console at the counter looked up twice, and said disapprerovingly: "Now it's only a pre-sale, you can't buy it, at least it won't go on sale until a month later, and you'll definitely go back to the mainland, so let's go check out the others." ”

The eyes are very disdainful, the speech is very perfunctory, I don't know and I think I am shopping in a large state-run store in the country, this attitude is like carving out of a mold. I didn't plan to entangle too much with this kind of person, I shook my head and left the current counter directly, this world is not impossible to live without the game console.

The same electronic products, Wang Zhengguo does not plan to make game consoles, but there is not enough capital to set foot in the IBM-PC field, in his opinion, there are not many products that meet the requirements of "cheap" and "simple", and there is only one choice left: learning machines.

That's right,It's the learning machine that was popular after the nineties.,It's the overall design of a keyboard that integrates a variety of devices.,But this so-called learning machine because of the integration of FC cartridge interface,Later almost all learning machines became game consoles in the end.,This has to be said to be a huge irony.。

After the nineties, the learning machine that became popular, in the eighties, it can also be regarded as a personal computer, but it is a miscellaneous army independent of the IBM-PC computer system, in the eighties, you say what the personal PC computer looks like, in fact, no one can say clearly, in addition to the most users IBM-PC configuration, Apple, Wang An and other configurations are blooming, but where there is a keyboard, can input and execute programs, at that time can be called a computer.

It can be said that the learning machine after the nineties is actually a further development of the cheap teaching computer in the eighties, and many new companies interested in the consumer electronics industry in the eighties have chosen this entry-level product, the most famous of which is of course the British BBC Micro model, which integrates the host and keyboard to achieve basic computer functions through an external monitor.

The BBC Micro was one of the many flowers that flourished in the 80s, but like many other "flowers", it gradually collapsed under the powerful Wintel alliance system, but in the early 80s, it was actually quite influential, accounting for almost 80% of the personal PC market in the UK.

This kind of BBC Micro computer originated in the United Kingdom is obviously the most ideal target in Wang Zhengguo's mind, it is actually positioned between many entry-level teaching computers and IBM-PC, although its data processing power is not yet able to support the emerging graphics processing system, but some basic programs are no problem to run.

Xiangjiang as a place under the de facto rule of the United Kingdom, the sale of BBC Micro computers, which occupy 80% of the PC market in the United Kingdom, is a matter of course, almost did not go far, Wang Zhengguo found this product, unlike Nintendo game consoles, this thing is sold in stock, and the price has been on the market for three years, it can completely control the terminal price of more than 200 pounds, this kind of product, someone who is strapped for money can still afford to consume.

After calculating the funds in hand, he directly bought three units ruthlessly, this thing must be taken back for research, and the purchase fee will definitely not be saved, as for whether it can successfully incubate a personal computer from the republic, Wang Zhengguo still has a certain degree of confidence that it can do it.

"Take the things, we investigate the glasses industry without much results, but today can buy this thing, in fact, the harvest is not small, with it, we can go further and international standards, computer in the future, will be a huge industry, if you can achieve success in this industry, the achievement is limitless. ”

In the 80s, the Wintel alliance system has emerged, but it is not impossible to fight, as long as the resources at hand are rationally used, rapid development of themselves, in fact, it is not necessarily impossible to compete with it in the market, after all, there are not many heavyweights independent of the league, they want to fight against Wintel, what is missing is just an opportunity.

Yang Yong is very curious about the computer, seeing this rectangular box, and it is densely covered with various buttons, it is indeed very technological, as for making this kind of thing, he can't say why now, after all, he has never seen this kind of product in China.

"Tomorrow we're going to visit a company in Heung Kong, and they're going to make the most critical core processors that make computers, and we can make them, but at this stage, it's better to buy them first. ”

The processor used in Wang Zhengguo's planned cheap computer is the 6502 series, which is the same as the processor of the Apple computer, which is a big road product, and Intel's high-end 80X86 series processors are certainly incomparable, but compared with another famous Z-80 processor in the colleague period, the two are actually comparable, both in terms of performance and price.

However, speaking of which, the 6502 processor, which is famous abroad and almost set off a personal PC revolution, is not much valued in China, but the Z-80 series is more favored, fortunately, it is only the early eighties, everything is still in time, and there is already a mature 6502 series processor development program abroad, and now it only needs to be used for reference.