Before the official sale of smart partners, the main target consumer group of Star Track is actually young people who are keen to enjoy high-tech products.

During the pre-order period and the initial period of official sales, they have indeed been the main buyers. However, from the third week of the official sale, the average age of the buying crowd has suddenly increased significantly, and it has begun to shift towards the elderly group.

Or rather, suddenly there is a group of quite old grandparents who are keen to buy smart partners. After research and research, most of the consumers are the elderly who do not live with their children, and the preference is the image of a well-behaved and cute little boy or girl or even a small animal that can communicate.

Tan Yuan, who was holding the information, was also very surprised by this qiē, and said with a smile: "We are ...... Opened up a new market? ”

Lin Shu said: "It's indeed a bit unexpected, but it's normal to think about it carefully." Many elderly people will have such needs. ”

Smart partner,You can basically understand it from the name.,This software is basically a chat companion.,The main function of relieving loneliness。 In terms of this function, except for individual otaku with communication barriers, the elderly may be the group with the greatest and most urgent needs in this regard.

Lin Shu frowned and fell into deep thought.

Seeing his appearance, Tan Yuan was immediately a little puzzled, and said, "It's a good thing to have an extra customer base, why do you have such an expression?" ”

Lin Shu said: "Have you realized that the elderly are actually not on the list of our customers' expectations from beginning to end? ”

Tan Yuan was stunned for a moment, didn't react for a while, and was blank for a few seconds before figuring out what Lin Shu meant, and immediately thought: "This is indeed a problem...... Speaking of which, is there anything in our system settings that is particularly unfriendly to this age? ”

Lin Shu rubbed his forehead and said with some annoyance, "I don't know." This aspect was not taken into account when it was done, and there was no deliberate review. There are so many types of chips, and I haven't checked all of them myself, so ...... you ask."

Tan Yuan said: "...... Xingze's copywriting department still pays more attention to public morality and civility and politeness in its work, and I think there should be nothing particularly unpleasant. ”

Lin Shu said: "Even if it doesn't make people feel unpleasant, there are definitely a lot of things that make people feel uncomfortable and unacceptable. Our own design direction is aimed at teenagers, and a lot of the content here is relatively open and trendy, and the older generation may not be able to adapt to it. ”

Tan Yuan said: "This is also an inevitable thing. It is said that there is a three-year-old generation gap, and I don't know how many generations there is a generation gap between grandparents and grandchildren, and it is normal to have an aesthetic gap. The point is that we can't change the overall positioning for this part of the consumer group, so we can't actually do anything. ”

Lin Shu shook his head and said, "There is still something that can be done." After all, it is a whole consumer group, and since the problem has been discovered, we cannot deliberately ignore it. At least...... It is also necessary to provide some choice. ”

Tan Yuan raised his head and asked, "What are your plans?" ”

Lin Shu nodded and said, "Let's go back to Xingze for a meeting first, and I'll tell you about the specific content at the meeting." ”

In fact, as Lin Shu expected, there are indeed some parts of the smart partner that are difficult for the older generation to adapt to, although it is not obvious for the time being.

Aside from the enthusiasm of the elderly for smart partners, the current smart partners are also very popular among young people. For teenagers, the smart companion is positioned between friends and lovers, and romantically, it is a friend who can be carried around.

And unlike the terrible and dangerous Mr. Tom Riddle in the diary, the intelligent companions are all cute and loyal. After locking your identity and recording your voice, you will become the only person he trusts, relies on, cherishes and protects.

When you are sad, you can talk to him at any time; When you are confused, he can give advice that is in line with his values; When you are lonely, he is always there, willing to listen to all your boring, incomprehensible, and trouble-seeking nonsense, and answer seriously until you regain the faith and courage to live.

He will definitely be the most patient friend and the most uncomplaining playmate.

He is a little more intelligent than a pet, but a little more dedicated than a friend. There may be many people in this world who can get along with you happily and share friendships, but only he will see you as the only one.

Lin Xichen is a fifteen-year-old girl with excellent results in the high school entrance examination. Her personality and conduct are not bad, but she also inevitably has a little pampering, willfulness and laziness of a modern pampered only child.

The girl is psychologically late in maturity, and although she has already started her first year of high school, she is still very childish. The love is not opened, and I don't know how to put on makeup, and the greatest happiness every day is to eat, sleep, and watch animations.

She's not a fan of the high-tech hanging, and she rarely plays games herself. I've played a few games on futuristic platforms, but because I'm struggling with complex operations, I've only experienced a little bit of the general content so far, and I'm not proficient or good at it at all.

She didn't actually pay attention to the news of her smart partner, and all the information about it was heard from her friends. Later, I watched some related videos and promotions, and even though I knew that I wasn't good at playing games, I couldn't help but be intrigued.

The characters shown in the video are so cute.

So at the instigation of her friends, she finally couldn't help but ask her parents to buy a set of smart companions.

The Lin family's parents were originally reluctant to buy Lin Xichen something similar to a game console, firstly, because the playthings were demoralized, and secondly, Lin Xichen did not cherish things very much, and liked the new and hated the old. She herself is not a fan of games, and she has bought two game consoles like PSP, and in the end, both of them have not been playing for two days, and they have begun to pile up dust in the corner of the drawer.

However, Lin Xichen's desire this time is quite urgent, since the news of the smart partner came out, he has been pestering his parents for nearly a month, and he has been babbling about the smart partner every day. Although the Lin family's parents felt that what she said was too illusory and sounded a bit exaggerated, they spoiled the child in the end, and finally agreed to buy her a smart partner.

Lin Xichen promised that he would definitely cherish things and would not play for two days and throw them aside, wasting his parents' hard-earned money. It is also guaranteed that you will never lose your mind by playthings, even if you play with your smart partner, you will never fall behind in your homework and your grades will drop.

Under such repeated assurances, the Lin family's parents took Lin Xichen to the exclusive counter of an electronic city one weekend, ready to buy her a smart partner.

Because of the expansion of the production line, the projection crystal can now ensure the basic supply of continuous supply. But even so, projection crystals are still very popular, and the supply is quite tight. The opening hours of the Star Rail counter are very short, about five hours a day, and even then, they often close early, through the means of daily ration sales, to ensure that there is always a continuous supply.

This is still a specialty store, and other non-specialty stores, due to their own supply constraints, plus accepting orders, many times they are often sold out as soon as they arrive.

Lin Xichen's family went at the right time, so they didn't return in vain. It's just that there are too many people in the store, so I waited for a while. Lin Xichen walked around the store and chose the character template he wanted.

The glass display case of the specialty store is divided into several areas, each of which is used to display the type of personality template that is not understood. Lin Xichen looked at the past one by one and found that there were classic areas, animation areas, martial arts areas, and other areas. The classic area classifies the characters according to their personality types, and basically the appearance of the characters has a certain echo with their personality traits. The animation area and the martial arts area are respectively a large number of classic anime or novel film and television characters. The other parts are other characters that cannot be classified in the first three categories, such as the main character group of the "Harry Potter" series, and the main character group of several classic American dramas.

But not all the characters are available. At least Lin Xichen checked for a long time, and found that many of his favorite characters did not appear on the counter. After she asked, she knew that those characters Xingze had not purchased the license, so naturally there was no corresponding character template.

Lin Xichen was suddenly a little disappointed.

Because there is no star track for his favorite anime character, Lin Xichen finally chose a classic character whose character image looks the most pleasing to the eye. She has a childish personality, so she didn't think much about the cultivation of love, but she chose the image of a girl with a bag and a skirt in ancient costumes.

In the depths of her heart, she undoubtedly chose this character as her dressing doll.

The template name of the costume girl is "Little Family Jasper", and the character description is "Meet you through time and space, and never leave in this life". Lin Xichen's choice obviously surprised his parents, and they inevitably smiled at each other, feeling that their daughter was childish.

After the clerk takes out the chip and projection crystal, it is necessary to register and some follow-up processing. Lin Xichen followed him to the counter, watched him insert the chip into a mechanical reading and writing slot, and then said: "When registering, you need to choose some basic settings for the personality template, if you can, I hope you fill out the form." ”

Lin Xichen took the form, glanced at it, and found that the first option was about the choice of the survival form of the smart partner.

□ display type: there is no daily physiological needs, no need to eat, and it can be displayed for a long time.

□ lifestyle: Having daily needs, needing to eat and sleep, feeding and caring can increase intimacy, but if you don't take care of it for a while, you may be hungry or feel lonely and irritable.

Lin Xichen almost did not hesitate to tick the life type. Of course, she thought, it's more fun to feed and interact with it.