Chapter 54: Christmas Eve

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Like the "Catch the Ball" R&D meeting, the "Catch the Ball" ceramic shell meeting also adopted the "boiling eagle" mode.

At the meeting, every detail was finalized, rights and responsibilities were determined, no matter how big or small, which company was responsible for what, which company was responsible for production, and all were finalized.

Doing so avoids later ramp-ups. After the meeting, we were able to start production as much as possible.

In the end, it was decided to use three types of ceramic shells, bone china shells, black pottery shells, and white porcelain shells.

Black pottery and white porcelain shells are available for fifty cents each, and bone china shells require grinding bone meal for cost reasons, and sixty cents each.

Shanqi Ceramics Seventeenth Factory, Qunli Porcelain Factory, Great Wall Porcelain Factory, these three ceramic manufacturers were selected, Huaxia Factory will give these three factories a "patent fee" of five cents per unit for each purchase of a bone china shell, black pottery shell, and white porcelain shell.

Of course, the wool comes out of the sheep, and the five cents are deducted from sixty cents and fifty cents.

The purpose of this is to encourage research and development. If the people who develop research and development have no benefit for a dime, and those who use it make a lot of money, who will go to research and development.

Without R&D, there will be no progress, and without progress there will be no development.

Yu Sheng got the news that some small factories in Guangzhou have begun to imitate water-powered game machines, and the price is lower, only half of the price of the water-powered game machine of Huaxia Factory.

Yu Sheng learned a little about it and got a few finished products, and the quality of Guangzhou-Zhou products was much worse than the hydraulic game machine of Huaxia Factory. It is said that the wages of workers are also low, and they can only maintain a minimum standard of survival.

This method of lowering the price of workers and reducing the quality of products can indeed reduce the price of finished products and greatly improve competitiveness.

Solve it first before you can say whether it is good or not.

However, this is not a sustainable path.

If you do the first year of junior high school, others can naturally do the fifteenth. If your price is low, others can lower than your price.

It is impossible for Huaxia Factory to reduce the ex-factory price of hydraulic game machines, because Huaxia Factory must have enough profits to support research and development. There is no ability to prohibit imitations, and the only way to deal with it is to develop new products and develop products that others cannot imitate.

When others have the ability to imitate, Huaxia Factory has had enough in this field and can enter new fields.

The production cycle of ceramic products is a bit long, but fortunately, these factories have sufficient material reserves, and the long and tedious preliminary preparations have been completed.

The rest of the production steps, in about a week, can be batch production of finished products.

During this time, the assembly workers of electronic components have changed from raw hands to skilled hands, and the LCD panel production line has also been adjusted and put on the right track, mass-producing the screen of "Catching the Ball".

On November 5, a ship left Qingtai Port, and on November 20, it arrived at the Port of Oakland, California, seven days before the "Black Friday" and the American Christmas shopping carnival.

During these seven days, Parkinson's Trading Company is going to distribute these "catch" game consoles to all stores that can distribute them. Then, just wait for the money to be collected.

Since "Catch the Ball" is a high-end video game console, the price is not low, and this machine is about the same size as a water-powered game console, and it costs as much as fifty dollars. The FOB price of the Huaxia plant is also as high as 30 US dollars.

This is also the reason why a ceramic shell can give a ceramic factory fifty or sixty cents. A dollar is a hundred cents, fifty or sixty cents, but half a dollar.

The Qingtai local government turned a blind eye to the Huaxia Factory's behavior of distributing foreign exchange. Anyway, these ceramic factories are all in Qingtai, and the foreign exchange has not gone out, and the meat is rotten in the pot. As mentioned in the annual report, there are so many manufacturers who can export to earn foreign exchange, and it is better to hear it.

Of course, the foreign exchange of those electronic component manufacturers outside is not unknown to the relevant parties of Qingtai. However, this money did not enter the country at all before, and they couldn't manage it if they wanted to.

High-tech gadgets are already popular in the United States, so Parkinson's is also very optimistic about "Catch the Ball", a series of handheld video game consoles belonging to the "game watch".

The selling price of fifty dollars is not expensive at all in his opinion. Parkinson's Trading Company, following the trend of the market, has also invested heavily in video games.

The cassette of the game that can be played on the Atari console costs fifty dollars each. A portable handheld video game console costs only fifty dollars, which he thinks is very cheap.

If it weren't for sales, he would have planned to sell it for $100 each.

On November 27, 1983, the day of the Christmas shopping carnival in the United States, several video games were released for the first time.

Among them, the high-profile is the Atari first-party game, the game of the same name adapted from E.T. Alien.

It is said that the development of this game is 30 million US dollars, which is the largest investment and the most anticipated game in the history of Atari.

In order to ensure that there is no shortage of stock, tens of thousands of shopping malls across the United States have prepared more than 4 million spot tickets.

Neller, who recently drew a cartoon on the rowing caricature, has a lot more pocket money in his pocket, and he has prepared fifty dollars to buy this "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial".

He wasn't a big fan of video games, but he was a big fan of Steven Spielberg.

Many people who didn't play video games in the first place, like Naylor, started to pay attention to video games because of this game. Keep an eye on the Atari console.

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