Chapter 943 - Extreme Racing with a New Mode
"Keep tracking, but we don't have to make announcements and explain anything for a domestic clown, let them jump, and we'll give everyone another explanation in the first month after the summer vacation. I'd like to see that if they can increase their phone sales by slandering and framing them, our carefully crafted iPhone artwork will definitely be spurned by consumers? I don't think so! ”
Yang Yun said righteously, full of disdain.
"Mr. Yang is right, the market is the only criterion to test the truth, word games can not make them increase their sales, and it is impossible for us to be fatally hit by hidden arrows. We'll see in a month! Zhang Guoqiang said indignantly.
Why does this sentence sound so familiar, Yang Yun thought for a long time before remembering: "Your online name is ...... Crash Bandicoot? ”
Zhang Guoqiang smiled: "You found ......"
Yang Yun laughed: "Wearing a trumpet to go into battle in person, is it a loss of your identity?" Come on, I've already contacted the police and the radio and television propaganda system in China, don't worry, they won't be happy for long. ”
After the report, Zhao Yongping deliberately stayed: "Mr. Yang, do you have anything to do later?" ”
"Fortunately, I want to go to Zhang Guoqiang's side to see the progress of the game, do you have anything to do?" Yang Yun asked.
Zhao Yongping replied: "Okay, why don't we go out together at noon and see how the market reacts from the perspective of an ordinary person?" Actually, I doubt that the number provided by the mobile company can really sell 160,000 contract machines in 2 days, which I think is a bit exaggerated. ”
"How many units they sell. In fact, you can see an approximate number from how many units are shipped on our side, and you don't believe in mobile companies. But you have to trust our sales department, right? ”
Yang Yun is well aware of the charm of the Iphone, in the era of his rebirth. China has become the largest market for Apple's mobile phone, surpassing the United States, the base of 1.3 billion people is not a joke, an iPhone 5 sells 2 million units a week, and the Chinese are very rich.
Zhao Yongping shook his head: "The number of shipments we have to China Mobile is 420,000 units, but the contract we signed with China Mobile is monthly. Our three factories in Asia are running production and assembly at full capacity, with a maximum production of 4.5 million units a month, and at the level of 160,000 units in two days, we may be able to sell two to three million units a month. Plus supply to other countries in Asia. If the production is at full capacity, the backlog of funds in the industrial chain is as high as more than 10 billion, which is particularly risky, and I hope to get an accurate number, so as not to be shot by someone and not know it. ”
Yang Yun knew what Zhao Yongping meant, this is to control the company's risks, it is now the initial stage of iPhone sales, and Apple itself is not proficient in the business, basically arranging production according to orders. It is impossible to quickly form a complete and safe business model, and many places are groping forward.
If these three factories in Asia are running at full capacity, the output of 4.5 million units a month will be quite large. It involves more than 30 supporting factories and enterprises, logistics companies and sales companies. This is a complete industrial chain, and there is no room for error in every link.
Longteng plays the role of centering and adjusting. For example, the capacitive screen provided by Lin's Investment Group, and the transaction method between Longteng and them is order-based monthly settlement.
Longteng places an order. Pay 10-20% of the first futures payment, Lin's investment to pay for the purchase of materials, after the production of delivery to Longteng, after the acceptance of Longteng, and then according to the order end date of the end of the natural month for settlement, the order delivery time on April 2, the settlement time on April 30, the delivery time on May 28, the settlement time on May 31.
When Lin's Investment Group purchases capacitive screen materials, it also presses the payment of primary component suppliers, when Longteng settles with them, when they settle with raw material suppliers, and pay a deposit of 20-30% at most, and component suppliers will subcontract out layer by layer, and the supply of various raw materials such as platinum, gold, copper, and electrolyte is also provided by different raw material suppliers.
This is a complete industrial chain, all the intermediate links are trying to minimize the risks that they may take in this link, the total amount of money involved in the output of 4.5 million units is about 15 billion yuan, and the entire industry will tacitly share it according to its ability, and all links are regulated by the market.
But in general, the largest general contractor, Longteng, must take the most risks, and who calls them the biggest goals, the biggest names, and the most profits?
This is also what Zhao Yongping is most worried about, as the general manager, one of his responsibilities is to reduce the risk of business operations, and to take every key point of some major events into his own hands, and safety is the most important.
"Okay, since we are inspecting the market from the perspective of ordinary people, then let's pretend to be ordinary citizens, take a casual stroll in the capital, and take a holiday by the way." Yang Yun also wanted to relax, be grounded, and he was also tired in the company for a long time.
"I'll treat you to a veal steak at noon." Zhao Yongping smiled.
In the morning, Yang Yun walked around the R&D department, ran a few floors, briefly observed more than a dozen project teams, picked a few projects of interest, and listened to a brief report from the project director.
Since Longteng has almost monopolized the global video game market and more than half of the PC game market, Yang Yun was pleasantly surprised to find that in fact, Longteng's ability to create programs has not decayed as he feared.
He had always thought that only competition would stimulate his continuous improvement, and it was the competitors of Japan, Europe and the United States who stimulated the ability of Longteng's game programmers, and even he himself spent ten years like a war, and he couldn't stop every year, and he had to rush to preempt those well-known game masterpieces.
But after defeating Nintendo, Sony, EA, Microsoft, these competitors, the world's best game programmers have no room to survive, the vast majority of people will choose to rely on Longteng, on the Longteng game platform to produce all kinds of works, and the competition between these people is more intense, although everyone belongs to the same company, but the programmer's creative power has become stronger.
"I probably thought of what the reason, to use an easy-to-understand explanation, the starting point Chinese website and Tencent Literature Network were originally competitors, both websites have their own recommendation positions, and both have their own authors and readers. If the two websites merge, the number of recommendations will naturally be reduced by half, but the number of authors will double, the number of readers will double, and the competition pressure will become greater if you want to compete for the recommendation spots! ”
Yang Yun thought of the online literature market that he was more familiar with, and figured out this problem very easily.
If it is applied to other industries, it is the same, after the search engine is monopolized by whiteness in China, the cost of search ranking will naturally increase several times, after the film market is monopolized by several bigwigs, it is more difficult for low-cost good movies to come out, even the school is not exempt from vulgarity, in recent years, it is not uncommon for second-level colleges and universities to be upgraded to first-class universities, but there are only a few positions in the leadership team, and many middle-level cadres at the bottom want to get ahead, the competition is fierce, and it is difficult!
The global game industry has been unified by Yang Yun, which now seems to be a good thing, Longteng provides a standard game access threshold, in fact, it can control the quality of the game, so that the game industry shows a healthy development, of course, the premise is that Longteng's game platform is getting better and better.
"Qi Fang, your "Extreme Racing" project team is making good progress, but why do you feel that your team leaders are tired and don't seem to be very happy?" Yang Yun looked at the project leader named Qi Fang and felt that his face was not very good, and then he sat on the sofa of a somatosensory game testing machine under the arrangement of several staff members, ready to try out the game.
The premise of Extreme Racing is quite interesting, it is a single-player co-op game that allows three players to play together, including two mechanics, one responsible for pit stops and one responsible for refueling.
The driver is mainly responsible for driving, and the interface of driving is the ordinary interface of a general racing game, but there are several more functions that require the cooperation of hands and feet than ordinary racing games, namely pressing the clutch with the left foot, shifting gears with the right hand, and then there is the third place that is different from the setting of ordinary racing games, even the accelerator and brake need to be stepped on by the player.
Yang Yun was waiting for someone next to him to help him set the attributes, he tried to lift his left and right feet in the void, and felt the position of the clutch brake throttle, he was still a little uncomfortable with this set of settings, and his heels couldn't move, otherwise it was easy to step on the accelerator, but the camera system judged that he was stepping on the brakes.
I only heard Qi Fang complaining: "Mr. Yang, let me tell you something from my heart, if it weren't for the identity of Longteng's employees, our group might have been crushed by the pressure a long time ago." Did you know that when the Kungfu component started testing last year, all of us were tasked with a new game project, and I discussed it with Ma Xiaoxu for a week before deciding to make a racing game. ”
Ma Xiaoxu, the technical director of the "Extreme Racing" project team, also smiled wryly on the side: "At that time, we reported this racing project to Manager Zhang, and he told us that the favorite game of European and American players is Gun Car Ball. There are 132 gaming companies and studios worldwide that have submitted racing applications on the DC2 platform, not counting the independent PC game companies and NewSonic's game providers, as well as mobile games! (To be continued......)