Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Price of Chips
The genre of video games is still relatively rare, and because of Lin Yan's beginning, they are basically shooting games, shooting games, shooting games. Games with a slight variation are strategy games such as Bomberman and Tank Wars.
It can't be said that all game designers are not creative, but the inertia is too great. When everyone sees the popularity of "Space Invaders", they try their best to imitate it.
One of the more successful Space Invaders parodies is now on the market. It's Lembongan's Little Bee.
If the enemies in "Space Invaders" come from the bottom of the sea, with empty eyes and fluttering tentacles, then the enemy planes in "Little Bees" must come from the annoying world of insects - noisy wasps and dragonflies, caterpillars and butterflies.
Space Invaders enemies move slowly back and forth towards the player, but their flight paths aren't complicated. But the enemy planes in "Little Bees" are like children with ADHD, who never want to stay in the queue honestly, always coming to the last round of suicidal charges, making the players scramble.
Although the gameplay of "Little Bees" is almost a step up from "Space Invaders", it also encounters a more serious problem.
It's just that it's too similar to "Space Invaders II", according to the survey of interested players, the difference between the time of the two games leaving the factory seems to be different, and it can't be said who copied whom. However, one is an orthodox sequel to Space Invaders, while the other is Lembong, which was originally in the merry-go-round business and has just switched to video games. It is self-evident who the player prefers in his heart.
Similarly, in the course of this investigation, the player also discovered a very interesting thing. That is, the publisher of Space Invaders II has changed, and it is no longer a video game league, but a Chiba game. Then contact the recent video game league, there is no too high-quality game launch, it is easy to deduce that the original game maker in the video game league. Most likely have already jumped ship.
And when Lin Yan saw "Little Bee", he himself was stunned. Because, he almost forgot about this game, he thought this game. is the orthodox sequel to "Space Invaders", but he didn't expect that this game, which had such a great influence on him in his childhood, was actually an imitator.
The "Space Invaders II" he made did use the creativity of "Little Bee", which was not good for him to sue Lembongan. Although Lin Yan is a reborn. But he also wants to be a reborn with a bit of discipline.
Lin Yan didn't move here, but the Blue Dream Palace side was frightened, and they discussed a lot of crisis plans. In the development team of "Little Bee", every member of the team was checked, and it was found that no one was a commercial spy. They waited for the court summons tremblingly, but they didn't want the Chiba Foundation to take no action at all. While they can't figure it out, they don't dare to take it lightly, and they are always ready to be accused. They even thought, how good it would be to sue me directly, why should I be so frightened.
Most of the players. I'm not interested in the grievances and hatreds of game manufacturers.,Only those who are idle and hurt guys.,Because of the study of the secrets of the struggle between these manufacturers.。 However, pushing the passage of time, there will be more and more players with egg pain. Because, the player is also a human, not a tentacle monster, and while there are only five fingers on one hand, there is also a voyeuristic desire. Coupled with the promotion of video game media, in the end, various manufacturers are like girls. In the hearts of many players, there are face-painted attributes such as tsundere, black belly, natural stupidity, silly white sweetness, etc.
The video game industry has only been around for less than a year, and a brick family specializing in video games has been born. There is a brick family who put forward a more interesting statement. It's that video games are a medium. Through video games, the designers and players of video games play air games.
The game designer is like a big demon king, setting one difficult trap after another for the player, and the player is like a brave man with a lucky star, always finding a way to clear the game in the defeat after failure. And the process of this game. It's a fun-filled process.
Lin Yan also saw this comment, and he thought it was quite interesting. When an industry is big, there will always be all kinds of people who are attached to this industry. The emerging industry of video games can make this process more clear.
Lin Yan felt very relieved, it was really good that video games had such an appeal. He was sighing and received a call from Yuki Chiba.
Chiba Yuki said the price of the custom CPU and graphics processor, Lin Yan listened, and immediately patted the table and said, this price is absolutely not good.
How can these chips be so black, they want such a high price, the price is so high, how can home game consoles be sold.
Chiba Yuki was a little unimpressed by Lin Yan's anger, a central processing unit is less than twenty dollars, how can it be considered expensive.
Yes, how could she, a young lady who was born with a golden spoon, understand the truth of this.
"You don't understand." "I want the price of a home video game console to be under 15,000 yen, and the CPU will cost 5,000 yen at the price they propose," Hayashi said. And that's not counting the graphics processor, but can such a machine be under 15,000 yen? ”
"Why is it so cheap, even a piece of clothing is more expensive than him." Yuki Chiba muttered softly on the other side of the phone.
In Japan in the 80s, although wired telephones were already relatively developed, the noise of the lines was still a bit loud. In addition to the sound of people speaking, there is a relatively large distortion, and some relatively quiet words will also become indistinct.
Similar to today's corded phones, mobile phones will become popular after a while. People who have the money to buy a mobile phone, although they enjoy convenience, it is not all good enjoyment. Its call quality is worse than that of a wired phone, and basically you have to yell loudly when you make a call. A government official or a big boss with an identity makes a phone call, just like a psychopath.
"Can I negotiate a contract directly with the chip supplier?" Lin Yan asked.
"Huh? If you want to talk about it yourself, you should do it. In this way, you can come to me first, and then I will take you to the chip business to negotiate. Chiba Yuki said with some surprise, because in her opinion. Lin Yan is a lazy person with super good ideas. Although the ideas are excellent, people are just as lazy as good ideas.
Even, Chiba Games thought that if Lin Yan was a hardworking person. I believe it won't be a few years. Maybe in ten or twenty years, we will be able to create a larger enterprise than the Chiba Group. However, such a talented person. But so unmotivated.
And today she heard that Lin Yan, a guy who always likes to do nothing, actually wants to talk to the chip supplier in person. This made her original impression of Lin Yan a little solidified, and she was a little shaken. Could it be that he has always been a hardworking man? The lazy look in front of people is all pretended?
Although tempting a girl to make a mistake is not as simple as arousing the girl's interest. But if it's a chubby dun. Knowing that the goddess-like senior sister Chiba in her heart has an inquiring mind for Lin Yan, a guy who is a hanger, and I don't know if his psychology will collapse.
During this time, it has been a summer vacation, and the game club has no club activities. The meeting was originally planned to be held, but many people had problems, and the booth at the video gamer convention was suddenly added, which also forcibly interrupted the rhythm of the meeting. Otherwise, there is a chance to meet Lin Yan of the little chubby dun. I would also ask him if he wanted to make a game, but if he had made a result.
To be honest, when an industry is just emerging, it is always the easiest time to get in. Because, the industry in this time period has not yet gone through the accumulation of time. There are not so many lessons learned by predecessors that new people need to learn, and they can get started with a simple fumbling process. And this time period of the industry is also not very perfect, so it is easy to make something new and eye-catching.
And the more later. The easier it is for an industry to become a capital-eating industry. Gone are the days when one person could make a game, with ten people as the foundation, a hundred people as a foundation, and a multinational team of thousands of people. Making a game is not an era of uncommon things, it will really come step by step.
If, at this stage when all newcomers are new, they can't become a star in this industry, then it is estimated that they can only be a screw in this industry. And not a bellwether anymore.
Just like Shigeru Miyamoto, who became popular with Ren Hell with a "Donkey Kong", he is now about to be regarded as his own son by Pu Yamauchi, who is known for his seriousness. And his own son is a very gentleman, lingering among the geisha every day, it seems that the old man Yamauchi Pu may hand over the position of the president of Hell to Shigeru Miyamoto in the future.
Lin Yan went out and wanted to take a car, which was also a difficult thing. Due to Japan's national conditions, the streets are relatively narrow, and there are not many cars that can accommodate them. However, there is also an advantage to this, that is, because there are many people, public transport can be vigorously developed, and people can enjoy a greener way of transportation.
As a person who is not great, Lin Yan has never had any idea of enjoying green peers, what he wants is convenient passage. It's a pity that in Japan, even in Tokyo, there is no such thing as easy access. Take a taxi, not to mention the expensive ones, and it's hard to get a taxi. Because, there really aren't many taxis. In Tokyo, a huge megacity like a bloated cake, it's like a sparse black sesame seed, which is really rare.
Fortunately, I finally got a taxi. Lin Yan sat in the back row very well-behaved, and after saying the address, he began to enjoy high-end one-to-one service.
The grade of the taxi is really not low, the crown taxi, and the original Baishi they made the car is the same grade. In fact, no matter how high-end the car is, there are almost no cars in Japan.
I don't know if it's a tradition, or if it's a treaty. In Japan, no matter how rich a person is, no matter how high-ranking an official, he will make his own domestic car. This may be a support for the country's automobile industry, and I don't know which is more scientific than manufacturing. Maybe it's because Japan's industrial level is still relatively high? It's not like the industrial level in some areas, and the mud can't support the wall.
From Akihabara, it took more than an hour to almost cross Tokyo. Lin Yancai came to the home where Chiba Yuki lived during his vacation.
When she went to school, it was as if she lived in the school. After all, that school is her own property, and even if she treats anyone badly, it is impossible to treat her own eldest lady badly.
However, as soon as she has a holiday, she will have her own big house. It is indeed a big house, for Japan, a country that can build a country of 20 square meters, the house where Chiba Yuki lives is at least enough to build 30 or 50 countries. At that time, it is estimated that the embassies of other countries will be set up in each other's embassies, and it is estimated that it will be almost impossible to place the embassies of other countries like toilet cubicles.
got out of the car and paid the money quite heartbrokenly. Hayashi entered the door of her house amid the warm welcome of Yuki Chiba. It was really eye-catching as soon as you entered. Compared with Chiba Yuki's residence, Lin Yan's home is not much different from a slum. Even if you knock down a brick here, maybe more than twenty dollars.
Therefore, for Yuki Chiba, she really didn't understand Lin Yan's comparison with the CPU in the CPU. The Chiba Group itself does not produce low-end manufactured products that are sensitive to cost and price, and the products they produce have always been positioned at the high-end. Because of its excellent quality and good appearance design, it firmly controls the middle-class consumer group.
Due to Japan's national policy, which is basically due to the fact that the wealth is hidden from the people, the middle class is increasing rapidly, and the financial reports of the Chiba Group are getting better and better year by year.
For such a well-to-live country, they really don't look down on the still weak industry of video games. The reason why they are doing this now is more for the sake of the eldest lady's face.
That's right, the industry that Lin Yan has painstakingly wanted to develop and grow is like a small game in the eyes of others. It's okay to eat it, but it doesn't matter if you don't eat it.
Lin Yan figured out these messy truths, and he wasn't too frustrated. And it's not the same to be born, isn't that just a reason to give people a reason to struggle? If you are born as the son of the president, the son of a wealthy businessman, what is the meaning of this life? (To be continued.) )