Chapter 575: The Birth of an Electronic Pet (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

Lin Qidong and Xia sat in Fang Mingyuan's office with puzzled expressions, and on Fang Mingyuan's desk, there was a small box.

"Fang Shao, we made something, but Lao Xia and I don't understand, what's the use of this thing?" Lin Qidong said with a puzzled look.

Fang Mingyuan opened the box, only to see that inside was an egg-shaped plastic shell toy that was two circles larger than the average watch, and in the middle was a black and white display screen...... If it is a person under the age of thirty in Fang Mingyuan's previous life, when he sees it, I believe that ten of the ** will think of that "chicken plague", that rampant electronic chicken plague

In the mid-90s, Japan introduced the Tamagotchi toy, a handheld game console that would later appear to be rudimentary. On its LCD screen, there is a small animal that moves, and as its owner, you have to take good care of it: feed it, play games with it to relieve its boredom, put and pee, and coax it to sleep. It's not idle, either, and every few hours it makes a "beep-beep" sound to remind you that it's hungry and bored. If left unattended, it may starve, die, or even die of anger. It is such a simple little toy that has taken the world by storm when it was launched. It is said that in Japan, millions of copies of this thing have been sold in just a few months

The original intention of "Tamagotchi" was just to cater to the hazy motherhood of high school girls, but I didn't expect this simplest cultivation game to get an extraordinary emotional outpouring of these owners for their own tamagoton to sleep and eat, and grief for the "death" of the tamagotchi. What's even more exaggerated is that all Japanese company employees who have electronic pets go to the toilet much more often -- to hide in the toilet to take care of the electronic chicken.

Under the vigorous hype of shrewd Japanese businessmen combined with religious Buddhist temples, there is even a unique business of "electric chicken cemetery" in Japan, which gives funerals to pet chickens that unfortunately "die". It is specially designed for those owners who accidentally forgot to fill water for feed and raised the animatron chicken "to death" to have a chance to atone for their sins.

And soon, this wave of electronic pets that originated in Japan spread to all parts of Shijie, in China, at that time, almost everyone had a baby chicken, and the night market sold all the baby chickens. However, compared with the genuine products of two or three hundred yuan, these counterfeit products are much cheaper. In many countries where Shijie has a machine at their fingertips, students have one machine at their fingertips. The government education departments and principals of primary and secondary schools in China, Thailand, South Korea, the United States and other countries have even banned them from entering the campus.

Fang Mingyuan remembered half a year ago that in addition to the hula hoop, Huaxia also had such an electronic chicken plague, in fact, its production jishu is not complicated, it is just a matter of creativity. So he asked Lin Qidong to conduct research and development, and now he has come up with a finished product.

Fang Mingyuan played for a long time, and felt that it was roughly the same as the thing in his previous life - after such a long time, he couldn't remember clearly what the original tamagotchi was.

"Uncle Lin, Uncle Xia, you have done a good job of this thing" Fang Mingyuan smiled, "Is it just such a sample?"

"It's just made like this, let's show it to Fang Shao first" Lin Qidong heard Fang Mingyuan say yes, and a smile naturally appeared on his face.

"Well, do a few more, and there are more tricks, not only chickens, but also cats and dogs. Fang Mingyuan thought in his heart that he would first send this thing to Japan to apply for a patent, and then whether he would produce and sell it himself, or simply sell it to a Japanese company and make a sum of money back. He remembered that the Japanese company in his previous life made as much as $50 million from it

Although it is said that for him today, 50 million US dollars is not a huge amount, but who will make more money if he makes a sum of money?

"Okay, okay, we understand" Lin Qidong nodded again and again.

"Fang Shao, can you tell us what this thing is for?" Xia Xia couldn't hold back and asked.

"What are you for?" said Fang Mingyuan, stunned. It's such a simple and clear thing, and these two people haven't seen it yet?

"Toys?" Lin Qidong and Xia shouted in unison, they tossed for half a year, and they dared to make a toy. But what kind of people like this thing, what chickens, cats, dogs, looking at the simple picture, and just a few simple instructions, they don't think it's fun anyway. If you have this interest, is it good to raise one yourself?

Fang Mingyuan quickly realized that Lin Qidong and Xia Weishenme were so surprised, and said with a smile: "Uncle Lin, Uncle Xia, this thing is mainly intended to be sold to the Japanese, you know, there are many small people in Japan, and the excessively small living space and all kinds of troubles that may be caused by pets have made pets forbidden in many places." But a lot of Japanese kids are very interested in having pets, so I came up with the idea of developing this electronic pet."

"Do you call this an electronic pet?" Summer pondered for a moment, this name is really an image, chickens, kittens and dogs, not all pets.

"To put it bluntly, this animatronic pet is a replacement for a real pet. Modern people, especially city dwellers, have long since stopped for the sake of practicality. If someone's cat really catches a mouse, the owner will probably have a headache about how to disinfect it, right? Therefore, raising pets is actually more to meet people's spiritual needs: the lonely elderly keep pets like children to relieve loneliness, and children treat pets as playmates, and meet the needs of loving and being loved through communication between humans and animals. However, keeping pets is not a simple matter for Japanese city dwellers, as it is expensive and expensive, as well as various regulations in the apartment, and pets are all troublesome. And this kind of electronic pet doesn't have such trouble."

"Hmm......" Lin Qidong and Xia nodded, Fang Mingyuan still had some truth in what he said. It's just that for them, it's really unimaginable, even in the city, how can it be difficult to even have a cat and dog?

"Uncle Lin, Sister Lian, did they like dolls when they were young?" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile.

"I like it, how can I not like it, holding a doll, but I don't even let go of eating and sleeping, and they are still fighting with each other, zuihou can only be one person, this is Ansheng. Lin Qidong replied immediately.

"It's like a doll, and it's stronger than those dolls, it's able to communicate with you through graphics, through sound. Isn't it more popular with children than a model that relies on human imagination to communicate? Don't underestimate it, I dare say that its future profit will not be less than 30 million US dollars," Fang Mingyuan said with a smile.

"Three...... Tens of millions of dollars" Lin Qidong and Xia have seen the world in the past few years, and they were still so shocked by Fang Mingyuan's words that they almost jumped up from the sofa. With a profit of 30 million US dollars, then the sales will undoubtedly be even more considerable, such a large amount of money, is such a simple thing can be created?

They were really unbelievable, but what Fang Mingyuan said made them have to believe it

Looking at the half-believing appearance of the two, Fang Mingyuan smiled secretly in his heart, they would not understand how strong the need of the younger generation to love and be loved would be in the future

Although Tamagotchi has only been popular on Shijie for two years, it is finally abandoned by players because it is too simple to operate, and it will be boring for a long time.

But the animatronic chicken is just the ancestor of the electronic pet Shijie, and then the electronic dog and the electronic dinosaur followed.

And with the development of the Internet jishu, the kind of electronic pets that are carried with them gradually lose their appeal and gradually take a back seat. Internet electronic pets are quietly rising again. In the previous life, there were many websites that provided netizens with a variety of different types of Internet pets. Even in many games, the role of pets has been added to meet everyone's psychological needs.

However, Fang Mingyuan believes that time will tell, and when the animochi becomes popular all over the world, as the creators of the animachi, Lin Qidong and Summer will inevitably leave a mark in the history of electronic pets.

"Uncle Lin, Uncle Xia, okay, this thing can be over for the time being. Next, in addition to paying attention to the production of MD, I hope that you can draw a group of elite soldiers from the jishu personnel in the factory and prepare to take over the SS production line" Fang Mingyuan said solemnly, "Chairman Uda Zhong has officially informed me that just this Christmas, or New Year's Day, Sega Co., Ltd.'s new game console, SS will be launched"

Lin Qidong and Summer couldn't help but be overjoyed, although they already knew that Sega Co., Ltd. is currently developing a new game console after MD, and it is said that the performance has been significantly improved compared with MD, but they also did not expect that at the end of the year, if the production line that can get SS will be launched, then for the electronics factory, it will undoubtedly jump to a new level

Fang Mingyuan looked at the two with a smile, in fact, in the previous life, the official sale of SS was not until November and December of 94, but due to Fang Mingyuan's involvement in the operation of Sega Co., Ltd., and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Fang Mingyuan wantonly searched for a group of experts from the Soviet Union in the name of Sega Co., Ltd. and Station Company, which greatly enriched the strength of the two companies, coupled with Cameron's support in the United States, so the release of SS Saturn was a full year ahead of schedule

And its main competitor in its previous life, PS, is said to have not been completely finalized at this time.

To be honest, Fang Mingyuan is looking forward to the day when PS is officially released, to see if the king in his previous life can continue to defend his throne, and whether the Three Kingdoms War between Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo will evolve into a four-nation battle in the future?