When designing the form factor of his home console, Jester thought a lot.

In fact, industrial design is a very technical work, especially for consumer electronics, and a superior design can even increase the competitiveness of this product by a third.

After all, when people buy a product, their first impression is the appearance. Therefore, Toru Sumii, a master of industrial design, can become a treasure of Sony.

In the future, Apple's industrial design will lead the way, but in this era, Sony's industrial design is undoubtedly the leader of the times.

Well, Jester personally likes the design of the WALKMAN.

However, Jester decided on the appearance style of his game console after referring to Nintendo's future NES, Sega's MD, Sony's PS and NEC's PC-E. The body of the console borrows from the arc-shaped oval appearance of the first half of the PC-E, and the tail wing of the aircraft is decorated at the back of the body, which is to give American players a sense of immediacy that is a high-tech toy.

For the handle, Jester opted for his preferred half-moon look on the Sega MD, which in his opinion is much more attractive than the rectangular handle of the FC.

And it feels much better in the hand, too.

In fact, the exterior design of a real game console is not a simple matter, the exterior design of PS4 has been carried out from the beginning of research and development, and it has not been finalized until a week before the release, Sony's chief exterior designer Toru Sumii provided four alternatives, and Shuhei Yoshida, the president of SCE at that time, looked at these four alternatives in his office for a whole night before deciding on the final option.

In Jester's eyes, the PS4's appearance is simple and atmospheric, which is very successful, especially after comparing it with the XBO's kind of rubbing, it will produce a sense of tallness.

And his own design for the appearance of his first host, when the design was completed, he also opened the mold to make samples, and the employees of Mars Entertainment also praised it after seeing it, especially the arc design that is different from most of the current electronic products.

This time, the bidding will be issued by the Ministry of Electronics Industry, but it is Mars Entertainment Company that presides.

Two employees of the hardware R&D department from the headquarters of Mars Entertainment in California, thousands of miles away, were very complaining when they first arrived, especially after seeing the backwardness of the mainland, they did not agree with their boss's statement that the labor and cost here are cheap.

In the eyes of the two of them, to make a product, the first thing is to focus on quality, if the quality is not taken care of, even if the cost is low, the gain outweighs the loss.

But when they saw the samples sent by the manufacturers participating in the bidding from different provinces in the mainland according to their design drawings, they immediately had nothing to say, and then began to use the phone to shoot Jester's sycophants, praising their boss for being really wise and powerful, how could they know in advance that the quality of the products in the mainland was good and the price was low.

Jester just smiled and didn't speak.

In fact, the low quality of domestic products in later generations is due to the rise of small private workshops, in the eighties, or when state-owned manufacturers occupied the mainstream, domestic goods in addition to stupid big black coarse, especially some products with low technical content, in terms of quality, there is no problem.

A game machine needs to be supported by the manufacturers to say more, less is not a lot, and according to Jester's estimated future sales of his game console, several supporting manufacturers are definitely not enough, but in the early stage, there is no need to choose too much, this time the bidding plan is to bid three for each category, there are plastic factories, rubber factories, cable factories, and low-voltage transformer factories.

Shen Maogen's southern Jiangsu plastic factory has gone through the process of sample elimination and entered the candidates, and there are a total of seven candidate plastic factories, and their one is not big in the candidates.

The venue of the bidding meeting was selected in the conference hall of the Friendship Hotel, and the time was set at ten o'clock, but early, Shen Maogen rushed over.

It was just before eight o'clock when he arrived at the Friendship Hotel, but when Shen Maogen just wanted to enter, he was stopped by the guards, and after Shen Maogen showed his invitation to participate in the bidding, the guards were much more polite, but they still did not let him in.

The time of the bidding meeting is ten o'clock, and the time to enter the venue is nine o'clock, which has been stipulated a long time ago, no matter how good Shen Maogen is, it is useless.

In desperation, Shen Maogen had to find a place to squat for an hour and smoke some cigarettes to kill time.

Unexpectedly, he had just left the door of the Friendship Hotel a few steps before he heard someone calling him, he turned his head and saw that not far from him, there were more than a dozen people gathered together, one of them seemed to be shouting something to himself, but it was too far away for him to hear clearly.

After hesitating, Shen Maogen still turned around and walked over.

"Comrade, you are also here to participate in this bidding?"

As soon as he walked into these people, Shen Maogen heard the voice of one of them asking, and the other party was asking if he was also coming to participate in the bidding meeting, which made Shen Maogen suddenly vigilant, and he looked at the other party suspiciously.

The interrogator obviously knew that this would cause misunderstanding among others, so he hurriedly waved his hand, indicating that he had no other meaning, and explained: "Don't misunderstand, comrade, I'm just curious to ask, I also came to participate in the bidding this time, I am Liu Tongwen, the director of Lunan Cable Factory......"

This self-proclaimed Liu Tongwen was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses with a broken leg glued with white medical tape, wearing a shabby, but very clean Zhongshan suit, with a hero pen in his jacket pocket, Shen Maogen looked at it carefully, and it was still the same as his own, and he immediately had a good impression of the other party.

So he nodded his head and said with a grin: "I am Shen Maogen from the No. 1 Plastic Factory in Southern Jiangsu, you can call me Lao Shen, and our factory was also selected as a candidate for this bidding." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a young man who was dressed as incompatible with Shen Maogen and Liu Tongwen suddenly looked at him.

Shen Maogen's senses were very keen, almost instantly he felt this almost undisguised, hostile gaze, he also turned his head to look at the past, but at the first glance, a disgust arose in his heart.

This young man was wearing a suit, tie, and a pair of calfskin shoes from a blue dyeing factory on his feet, which were shiny and shiny, and he was like those investors from Hong Kong, and he used hair wax to touch his hair very flat, and when he was in southern Jiangsu, Shen Maogen was very disgusted with this kind of young man who touched hair wax, in his eyes, this kind of person is a second-rate person who does not learn well.

"Hmph." Involuntarily, Shen Maogen snorted coldly.

Liu Tongwen, who was next to him, pulled Shen Maogen's sleeve and whispered to him: "His name is Pi Guangze, he is the new director of a plastics factory in eastern Guangdong, I heard that he just graduated from university, and he was directly promoted to the director after working as an assistant in the factory for a year, and he has relatives in the Ministry ......of Electronics Industry."

Immediately, Shen Maogen understood why the other party was hostile to him, it turned out to be the opponent of this bidding.

However, Shen Maogen, the factory director of these college students, has never been disdainful, a hairy boy knows how to manage the factory, and he knows how to shout reform all day long, so that he can reform and know Hu Lai, and he can't listen to the opinions of the old man, so he said that they are not like this in southern Jiangsu, but he knows that all factories that use this kind of college students as factory directors are not finished.

However, Shen Maogen rolled his eyes, as if he had thought of something, and then he quickly showed a very kind smile on his face, and took the initiative to walk to the young college student factory director named Pi Guangze, took out a box of big front door cigarettes that had just been opened and had only eaten one from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the front of the place.

"Little comrade, one?"

Unexpectedly, Pi Guangze just frowned, with a hint of disdain in his eyes, stretched out his hand to block it, and coldly spit out three words: "Don't smoke." ”

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, my daughter said it's good not to smoke, smoking is harmful to health."

Seeing the other party like this, Shen Maogen was not angry but happy, he smiled and lit the cigarette in his hand, and then took a beautiful puff, and then deliberately asked in an almost similar tone: "The little comrade is also from a plastic factory?" ”

Pi Guangze probably felt that people took the initiative to chat with him, and it was not good for him to have such a cold face, so he replied dryly: "Well, Yuezhou Guanghua Plastic Factory." ”

"Oh!" Then Shen Maogen's face suddenly showed a look of long-term admiration, and his tone was more eager, and even a little similar to touting, "I have heard of your factory, big factory, good quality, much stronger than our factory, we have a lot of your products, our factory is not good, you don't know, our factory is about to open the pot recently, this time to participate in the bidding, but I am not very optimistic, after all, we are a small factory, not as good as you are a big factory, there is no competitiveness." ”

Being slapped by his competitors like this, Pi Guangze couldn't help but feel a little fluttering, although he had only taken over the Guanghua Factory for a few months, but he also had some understanding of the past of the Guanghua Factory, although it was still a bit famous in eastern Guangdong, but in other provinces, it may not be famous.

"Could it be that in the past few months that I have been the director of the factory, the products of our factory have been sold to southern Jiangsu? No, I want to check the recent sales records after I go back, and if I really make a name for myself in southern Jiangsu, the salesman in charge of this place will hold a conference to commend me. ”

Since people came to pat him on the back, he didn't know how to lift it no matter how cold he was, so he also squeezed out a smile and said modestly: "Where and where, the reputation of our factory is very ordinary, not as good as your factory's...... By the way, what is the name of your factory...... Oh, yes, the first plastic factory in southern Jiangsu, I have heard what I have heard, when the salesman of our factory went to your market, he said that the strength of your factory is very strong......"

Shen Maogen sneered in his heart, they didn't have any products from Yuedong, but he still had a smile on his face, and when he saw that it was almost the same as the other party, it also made the other party have a good impression, so he showed a sad expression again.

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