Chapter 56: Cassettes and CDs
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Chiba games don't have a heavy history, and neither does Hayashi Hayashi, so neither Chiba games nor Hayashi have no way to miss the past like Ren Hell or Yamauchi Pu.
However, although there is no nostalgia for the past, looking to the future is the same.
Chiba games are simple to establish and have the advantage of a short period of time. The most obvious thing is that there are very few cases of passing the buck to each other, and there is almost no phenomenon of people floating on things. But the downside is also obvious, because there is no history as a reference, many employees of Chiba Games will even think that video games are like this, and they will always be like this, and Chiba Games will always be able to stand at the top of the video game industry without making any changes.
This is also the biggest obstacle encountered in the restructuring planned by Lin Yan. Many employees think that now Chiba Games is good, where do you need to restructure.
Restructuring is a blind toss, and it's not the same as being down-to-earth about how to do a good job of a new console and how to make a good new game for fun.
Chiba Yuki understands Lin Yan's thoughts a little, although she supports her psychologically, but she has no intention of supporting it with practical actions.
After all, under today's Chiba game system, Chiba games get the highest profits. According to Lin Yan's assumption, the restructuring will cause a significant reduction in the profits of Chiba Games, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is self-bleeding.
In the short term, this kind of bloodletting is a real loss, and the illusory effect in the long term is now invisible.
Capital is mostly profit-seeking and short-sighted, "capitalists will hang themselves on a rope." Sell to the executioner who executed him" is exactly what the phrase says.
No matter who it is, no matter who it is, there is almost no escape from this law.
Lin Yan didn't dare to say that if he reformed according to his own ideas, he would not fail. Because, although he was prophetic, he was still not a god. There is no way to know forever what the right path looks like. Perhaps, one day, all the video games he knows will have already been made by him. At that time, in addition to having management ability, he almost became an ordinary person.
However, that is a matter of the future, at least now Lin Yan knows that what he did is definitely not wrong.
"I think restructuring is imperative!" Lin Yan said categorically to Chiba Yuki. "Take the disc as an example, although at this stage, this technology is not mature. It has the super disadvantage of being very slow to read the disk, but its advantages are obvious compared to the memory cartridge. It has a lower manufacturing cost, a shorter cycle time for mass manufacturing, and a larger capacity. As long as the problem of optical disc reading speed is solved within an acceptable range, we can use optical disc as a storage medium on the new host computer instead of expensive cartridge memory. ”
"But. In this way, we will get less profit, and much less. Disc easy to make features. It is also more likely to be pirated, which will greatly harm the interests of Chiba Games and all third parties. Moreover, it is not so easy to control the production process, what do you think should be done about these problems? Chiba Yuki knew that what Lin Yan said was very reasonable, so she said that the main problem was that she could not use optical discs as storage media.
Let's be honest. Lin Yan didn't know how to solve these problems. There are few pirated games with memory cartridges, not because pirated game companies don't have the technology to imitate them. It's because they can't get the raw materials. That's right, they can't get into a blank memory cartridge. The entire chain is controlled by Chiba Games.
Optical discs, on the other hand, don't seem to be as easy to hold as memory cartridges. First of all, it's not realistic to make a new disc standard yourself. With the existing optical disc standard, it is bound to be very susceptible to piracy.
And because of the cheapness of the disc, the gray income of Chiba Games will also be reduced a lot, because, this black income is charged according to the percentage of the production cost.
If it's still the gray income of the original cassette, then the Chiba game is too shameless.
In business, reputation is still a heavy topic.
Lin Yan couldn't answer these questions well, he chose not to answer, he said, "In ancient times, human beings first recorded information on rock walls. The rock walls cannot be moved, which is very inconvenient, so there are few people who have knowledge, and it is difficult to spread and pass on knowledge.
Later, with the advent of wooden and bamboo tablets, information began to be recorded on these media. Wooden and bamboo slips are relatively lightweight and can be carried by one person. The efficiency of the dissemination of knowledge has been greatly improved, and there are also stories in ancient China such as the five cars of learning to be rich.
Later, it was paper, knowledge became cheaper, more people had access to it, and human beings became more civilized.
Later, the printing press was greatly reformed, knowledge was no longer the stuff of a few people, and a country from the royal family to the peddlers and pawns was able to read and write.
All this is a change in the communication media, which leads to the improvement of communication efficiency. Perhaps, some of them slandered paper because of the prevalence of paper, which caused bamboo slips to not sell. However, those who use the mantis arm as a car and prevent the development of things will eventually be swept into the garbage heap of history. No one remembers them anymore.
Compared with optical discs, memory cartridges are much more expensive, and expensive means that it is not conducive to distribution. Sister, you also know that video games are the entertainment of the poor, and they are cheap things. If we force the use of expensive cassettes for our own benefit, instead of cheaper discs.
Senior sister, you said that we are right or wrong to do this, whether our persistence is advanced or backward, and whether we will be crushed by the giant wheel of history.
If when we insist on using cassette, other people's game consoles use discs, and the price of a game is one-fifth of ours, and it can also play music programs, TV series, cartoons and so on.
Sister, you said which machine will users choose. We can't impose our will on users just because we have a high market share of our machines, pointing at the deer as the horse, don't you say? ”
After Lin Yan finished speaking, he took a deep look at Yuki Chiba.
Chiba Yuki lowered her head and pondered, of course she knew that what Lin Yan said was indeed not a problem, and there was nothing wrong. However, she still couldn't bear to give up the income of the cassette.
Compared to cassette, the cost of copying discs is almost zero, and the profits that Chiba Games can get from such cheap things are naturally greatly reduced.
After a while, Chiba Yuki raised his head and said, "Let's do this first, I'll think about it again." Even if you want to use a CD, the super red and white machine has been finalized, and it can't be used, and if you want to use it, it will be used on the next generation of hosts. So, there's no need to rush too much, right? (To be continued.) )