Chapter 63: Falling Behind

"So, do you need to insert green onions?" Yuki Chiba asked.

"What, what?" Lin Yan was a little confused, and Chiba Yuki spoke too jumpy.

"That's it...... If you have a cold, you want to insert green onions...... Thirty percent of the net profit is invested in R&D, are you sure you don't have a fever? Chiba Yuki said.

"I don't have a fever, and I don't plug green onions, don't interrupt, let's get down to business." Lin Yan replied solemnly.

It is rumored that when you have a cold and fever, take a green onion and insert it into a chrysanthemum to reduce fever and treat colds. I don't know what the principle is, but it seems that there is a wide base of people in Japan. Although I haven't heard of anyone trying onions in recent years, judging by the breadth of this circulation, it seems that this is really a cure for colds in the past.

"Well, let's get down to business." Chiba Yuki also became serious when she spoke, but her eyes looked at Lin Yan's lower body, and Lin Yan began to panic.

Lin Yan hurriedly found a stool, sat down with his help, and said to Chiba Yuki, "Thirty percent of the net profit, I don't think it's much." The remaining 70% is enough for the company's operation and expansion. We have so much cash, what do we don't have to do, what's the use of keeping it? ”

"Of course...... It's useful. Chiba Yuki said.

"I think you're the big lion at the door of HSBC who shut up, and I know that if you eat it, you won't vomit." Lin Yan said.

"You're the lion. Do you know how important and valuable cash flow is for a company? Whether a company is doing well. Just look at how much cash the company has. There are quite a few companies that expand blindly and grow wildly. There is almost no such thing as cash flow. Everything. Almost all of them are built on bank loans. Such an enterprise can expand normally, but once there is any wind and grass, the capital chain is tight to break, and there is only one way to go bankrupt. ”

Chiba Yuki said at length.

Lin Yan couldn't interject on this, after all, he lived a new life, and he still knew very little about finance. Not to mention. When he was in that world, he was also circled by the so-called Internet finance for thousands of dollars. For the poor, he said that a few thousand yuan is not a small amount.

Cats have a cat's path, and rats have a rat's path.

Since cash can't be moved, there must be funds that can be moved, Lin Yan's mind made up the image of Sakai Masato in "Hanzawa Naoki", and said to Chiba Yuki. "Then let's borrow it from the bank, doesn't it mean that the bank borrows an umbrella on a sunny day and collects an umbrella on a rainy day. According to our current situation, our current market. It should be a sunny day, right, there is no reason why the bank should not lend us. ”

"You ......" This time it was Chiba Yuki's turn to be speechless. Skillful use of bank loans is actually a book of knowledge. Even if it is a well-run business, it will generally have a certain amount of loans. It's not because of business difficulties. So loans, but because banks have to lend to enterprises. If you don't lend, you don't give face.

After all, a company with a good market has no possibility of bankruptcy, and for the bank, it is a high-quality investment object, and there are many enterprises that deposit a lot of cash in the bank and borrow a large amount of money at the same time.

"Is R&D really that important? In the past, we didn't seem to have much research and development, and the most laborious time was when we designed the super red and white machine. Yuki Chiba asked.

"I didn't use it before, because video games were very simple back then. It's as simple as assembling an ore radio. In such a situation where everyone is very simple, it is creativity to come out and compete. Whoever has the better idea and the game that makes it more fun will choose whose game it is.

In fact, I never thought of my Space Invaders as the first arcade machine. Similar machines must have been born before, but perhaps because the game was not fun, or too difficult to promote, it eventually died.

And the simple operation method of "Space Invaders", and the scoring and ranking system, make players want to stop, which has created the glory of "Space Invaders". and, the hot start of video games.

Needless to say, I'll see it later, it's now, and then look back at the game "Space Invaders", I don't need to say, senior sister, you can also see that this game is not fun, and the graphics are not exquisite. It's just a few moving patches of color.

Most players say Space Invaders is a classic, is it a classic? Classic indeed. But if you let these players play now, will they play? No, it won't.

Because, "Space Invaders" has lagged behind this era, even if it is the culmination of "Space Invaders" by Dream Palace, "Little Bee" and "Big Bee" are not so much worse than our current flagship game, Mario Family Bucket.

Yesterday's wine is today's poison.

If we can't look to the future and keep standing at the forefront of the trend, we are likely to become a 'classic' like "Space Invaders", although it will be mentioned. However, it only has the past. They will pay attention to it, but they will not buy it.

Chiba-senpai, do you know what I mean? ”

"Yes." Chiba Game nodded.

Lin Yan continued, "The hurdle of home game consoles is that every time the home console is updated, the old machine is abandoned by the times, and the new game console has just been released. This time is the easiest time to accept the challenge, and in an idiom, it is not accepted.

If we don't invest enough R&D efforts. If, our machine, compared with other machines, is too much worse. Our system has also driven away many third-party game producers, so the future of this new console is also like this.

A game console, a game console, to put it bluntly, is still a platform, if this platform, not a gorgeous platform, but a grass platform. Why don't the actors above choose to go somewhere else to sing, and why don't the fans below go somewhere else to listen to the opera.

And at this time, what is the use of us only having this one grass platform. Do you pluck the straw to make tea?

Sister, do you know Moore's Law? ”

"Yes." Yuki Chiba nodded.

"Now that you know, you know that processor performance goes up exponentially, it might be a bit abstract to say that. The performance on the game console is that the new features are changing with each passing day, and they are becoming more and more complex, and if there are not enough good people to be responsible for the development, they will inevitably fall behind. (To be continued.) )