Chapter 453 - Compare Performance and Price
Regarding digging into the wall and grabbing the market with a large number of games, Yang Yun is the least worried, he took precautions and began to deploy a few years ago, and the exclusive agreement is to deal with Sony or Nintendo's poaching moves!
Yang Yun said: "We are self-reliant and hard work, and we are all self-helped. Nintendo is still lacking in software, and they can only play the banner of 64-bit consoles, but they may not be able to pull in enough game providers. You know, at least 60% of the world's video games have signed exclusive agreements with us, and the rest are blocked by Sony, how much can Nintendo get? Even if they get 20%, how many high-quality games can they make? ”
Classic games are not cabbage, they are made when they are made, and Dragon Teng only makes three or five a year, and even games like "Warcraft 1" and "Diablo 1" cannot be used because of hardware limitations, and can only become second-rate works, with sales of no more than 2 million, it is conceivable how cruel the competition in the game industry is, and how bad the players' tastes are raised by Longteng!
Jiang Shaoyun was still a little uneasy, and reminded: "Mr. Yang, in 1989, MD was listed for sale in North America, and we had not acquired Sega at that time, and MD was able to maintain millions of host sales and gain a firm foothold. Later, it was the game we provided that made MD break out against suppressing FC, what if Nintendo followed our old path and players also bought N64 accounts? ”
This is a problem, if the N64 can't release enough games for a while, but like the new and hate the old, pursue the latest trends, and those hardware enthusiasts may still buy the N64 to experience true 3D. Once the N64 also sold millions of copies of the console, then Nintendo's game was released one. Millions of copies have been sold, and all that are not classics have become classics!
Seeing everyone else worried. Yang Yun smiled: "So, our task is here, how to make players not buy Nintendo's account, as long as we do this, so that players are not willing to buy N64, we can not release SU!" ”
How to stop players from buying N64 is challenging, players are not what you want to stop, you can stop if you want to stop!
The crowd whispered. This is very demanding, because they are only product providers, not product users, and it is difficult for consumers to control whether they are willing to buy N64.
Yang Yun was also emotional, history has been changed by him, and Nintendo's N64 finally abandoned the cassette medium, reducing its biggest shortcomings. From a technical point of view, the N64 in this historical version is almost invincible, with a 64-bit CPU. 32-bit GPU, 3D scaling technology, high resolution for games. The texture and detail surpass PS and SS.
The original cassette is indeed inferior to PS and SS due to capacity problems, but now the CD media can be changed. Tut, Yang Yun could only express envy, jealousy and hatred. Nintendo has really made a bloody investment, and the old guy Yamauchi Pu can come out in great strides and abandon those stubborn thoughts before, I can only say that Yamauchi Pu must have been stimulated by Yang Yun to be like this.
Yang Yun suddenly laughed, he remembered a sentence, competitors are the driving force to whip themselves and keep moving forward!
Isn't it because of the existence of many competitors, Longteng is constantly trying to improve himself, if there are no competitors, Longteng monopolizes alone, playing stand-alone games, then it is really boring!
After waiting for a while, Fang Jindong took the lead in speaking: "SS is not as good as N64 in terms of scale and resolution, and there is not much difference between SS and N64. As for SU, using a single-core 32-bit GPU is no different from the N64, and if you use a dual-core GPU, the effect should be three points stronger than the N64. I built yì and released our SU, but not mass production! ”
Yang Yun asked with interest: "This is a complaint to the players, Longteng has the strength to develop a 64-bit console, but it doesn't want to let consumers waste money in vain?" Near East, you can think of that, that's good! ”
Fang Jindong blinked: "SS, SU of single-core GPU, SU of dual-core GPU, N64, in fact, we can put it together and let gamers personally experience the difference in performance of different hosts, so that players' blind worship of N64 will not be so big, and they will not be willing to pay for it because it is the world's first 64-bit console, or the claimed true 3D effect." ”
Everyone laughed, and the executives who were born in sales thought it was quite novel to do this, Jiang Shaoyun smiled: "Then we will also add the sales price, if the N64 costs $400 and the SS price is only $250, maybe consumers will see, wow, even if Nintendo is the latest console and game, it's still not worth buying!" ”
This sentence reveals a message, that is, Nintendo's games are not cost-effective.
In fact, Nintendo has always been selling at this price, and it is because of Yang Yun's rebirth that the world has become like this, and it can be said that the game industry all over the world has changed because of Yang Yun's joining.
In real history, the price of genuine game cartridges has always been quite high, and in the 8-bit FC era, a box of genuine cartridges sold for around $20-30.
In the 16-bit SFC era, big-name games like Final Fantasy III and Street Fighter II were able to sell for $69.99, regular games were around $50-60, and SFC consoles in that era were only about $200.
In the 32-bit era, SS and PS joined the warband, and disc games quickly lowered the price of the game to around $30-50, while cassette games remained high, hovering above $50.
In the N64 era, a cassette game cost $70, for example, N64's "Toy Story" released in 1997 sold for a super high price of $79.99, which was converted to the price of 2013, which was about $140, and the average person really couldn't afford to play.
The addition of Yang Yun has made the global game industry both love and hate, and the love is that the games made by Longteng are really fun, and have made great contributions to the popularization of games all over the world, and a large part of the contribution to the rapid development of the game industry is made by Longteng.
What I hate is that the disc games of the dragon are almost all about 20 dollars a piece, which directly cuts the price of the game in real history in half, which is also one of the main reasons why Nintendo's SFC games cannot be sold, and it is also one of the important reasons why Sony PS can't defeat the dragon by all means.
Just imagine, the zombie game, Dragon costs $20, Sony costs $29.8, and Nintendo's cheapest cassette costs $40, in contrast, Dragon Ton is the most fun and cost-effective, whose game do players buy?
What makes Sony and Nintendo hate is that they are so low, the dragon sells for $20, and the profit is still 40%, and Sony sells for $29.8, almost losing money and making money, and the price war with the dragon is hard, and no matter how low it is, it will be a loss, as for Nintendo's $40, it can't be helped, their cost is $25 a box.
Because China's labor is cheap and various costs are low, and the R&D cost of Longteng's classic games is almost 0, Longteng does not have to pay management fees to Sega, and does not need to share with other companies, only channel fees and transportation costs, and the biggest problem of Sony and Nintendo is that the R&D cost remains high!
With Yang Yun leading the R&D here, programmers only need to implement functions without spending a lot of manpower, material resources and time to think about designing games, how can Nintendo and Sony compete?
"The price of the N64, according to Yamauchi's usual habit, should at least be kept above $50! And although the price of our games is rising, the maximum is not more than 30 dollars, and only cooperative games like FF and DQ cost more than 40, so compared to N64, our SS platform is still the most cost-effective! Wang Zhe knows Yamauchi Pu very well, and he said this to Yang Yun once last night, which is also one of his dependences.
Yang Yun added: "If the price of their games is not high, in order to recover the funds and dilute the R&D costs, they will either increase the price of the console and make profits on the hardware, or they will die and consume Yamauchi's own small coffers." Regardless of their choice, we are the best value for money. So we discouraged, or suggested, players not to buy 64, and most importantly, to make players realize that it was not worth paying a high price for N64. ”
Everyone suddenly realized,Jiang Shaoyun and other sales department leaders quickly thought of other ways,For example, through guò authoritative media to N64,PS,SS and SU four host performance comparison,Hire water armies and commentators and others to deny N64,In fact, there are still many ways to block,Obvious moves,As long as you can block N64,It's a good move!
"Also, don't forget, we have a helper!" Yang Yun blinked and laughed: "I personally called Kutara Wood Ken and said a word. ”
Everyone's ears were pricked up, looking at Yang Yun, for fear of missing a word.
Yang Yun chuckled and said: "I said, in 1992, 1996, the wonderful performances once every four years, I really want to see the new moves of the Nintendo team in the 2000 World Cup!" ”
Hahahaha......
Laughing down a group of people, Yang Yun is also too bad, where are the World Cup years in these years? Where is the Nintendo team?
However, Nintendo betrayed Sony in '92, betrayed again in '96, and four years later in 2000, is this an allusion that Nintendo will betray Sony for the third time?
Zhao Yongping didn't hear Yang Yun talk about it, and asked after everyone laughed: "No matter what you say, this is our kind reminder!" What did Ken Kutaragi say? (To be continued......)