Although the seats in the Touching Fish Internet Cafe are much more relaxed than other Internet cafes, there is a limit to how relaxed they are.

When players surf the Internet, all they need is a table and a chair, even if there is enough space on both sides and behind to allow others to move around freely and give enough margin, at most it is only four or five square meters.

Although VR equipment can theoretically be played in a space of four or five square meters, this is only the basic space required for the game, and the buffer area is not counted.

If you are in your own living room or study, five square meters of space is enough, because this is a private space, and you don't have to worry about touching things or other people during play.

But it's not the same in an internet café.

If both players have five square meters of usable space, but because both players are constantly moving and waving their arms, it is easy to bump into each other and affect the game experience.

Therefore, for the sake of insurance, if you want to change to a VR equipment experience, you need to make a partition, and the space should be larger than your own home, and the real area required is at least six or even seven square meters.

With an additional two square meters of floor space for each piece of equipment, isn't the number of customers that can be accommodated in the entire space much less?

Moreover, VR games are just a temporary novelty, not a long-term solution. The real demand of most customers is to open the black with friends on the computer and play more terminal games.

Touching the fish Internet café opened a new VR game experience area, and the result is likely to be that the attendance rate was good at first, but it soon became deserted, and after the boom, no one cared.

People on the first floor want to play, but they don't have a camera; The VR equipment on the second floor was all empty, and no one came to play.

What a wonderful scene!

Then, Pei Qian came to the store of the Touching Fish Internet Cafe, that is, the sales area.

This is also the earliest planning of the fishing Internet café 1.0 has been finalized layout, this sales area is not big, there are only four or five containers, selling basically game-related peripheral products, such as mice, keyboards, handles, etc.

After the development of the ROF installation business in the fishing Internet café, there are also some products such as graphics cards, memory or ROF machines for sale and display.

As far as Pei Qian knows, the periphery in this place sells quite well!

Because the previous fishing Internet café was checked by Zhang Yuan, the recruited clerks are also very knowledgeable about computers, and the keyboards, mice, and headphones they choose are all classic models of first-line well-known brands, which are absolutely easy to use.

Players go here to take a turn, try it out and think it's very useful, and pay for it directly, although it is more expensive than selling it online, but most of the customers who can come to touch the fish Internet café to consume don't care about the difference.

After the fish Internet café became popular, there was a large flow of people, and this has also become a big source of income for the fish Internet café!

Pei Qian said: "All the third-party products here, including keyboards, mice, headphones, etc., are all cleared and will not be sold in the future!" We only sell our own products. ”

"Of course, the original recommendation function should be retained. The clerk can still recommend keyboards and mice and other peripherals to customers, but after the recommendation, let the customer place an order online, and we will not make money from this second-hand dealer. ”

In this way, the fishing Internet café will lose another piece of income.

Although Tengda's products may also be profitable, in general, Tengda's current products are relatively small, and there are not a few products in this place, which can be said to be a significant reduction compared to the previous category, and sales will definitely be greatly reduced.

Moreover, after the formation of the "professional sales team" under the leadership of Tian Mo, Pei Qian will begin to arrange for the sales there to "occupy" the sales area of all the fishing Internet cafes in turn, which will have a persuasive effect on customers.

In this way, the income of the fishing Internet café will definitely decrease!

It doesn't necessarily drop a lot, but it adds up.

Now that the Touching Fish Internet Cafe has opened so many stores, each store has dropped a little, and all of them add up to a large number.

Xiao Peng frowned and thought seriously.

Obviously, he is interpreting the deep meaning of Mr. Pei's words.

Xiao Peng is a group of old employees of the Touching Fish Internet Cafe, and he has witnessed the entire process of turning the Fish Internet Café into a profit, and the 2.0 and 3.0 models of the Touching Fish Internet Café are all operated by him, so it can be said that he has a very deep understanding of the entire business model of the Touching Fish Internet Café.

Obviously, he felt that there were some problems with Mr. Pei's plan.

"Mr. Pei, VR games are likely to be the general trend of game development in the future, and I understand this very well."

"But...... The current development of VR games is still too immature, and the number of players as a whole is not an order of magnitude or two worse than that of computer players. ”

"The number of players who are interested in VR games is less than a fraction of that of computer players."

"Of course, I'm in favor of opening a VR zone at the Touch Fish Internet Cafe, but it shouldn't be necessary to occupy the same large space as the computer, right? I think 1:2 is pretty much the same, or even smaller. ”

Pei Qian smiled.

knew that this Xiao Peng would not be so willing to accept this money-losing plan.

But it doesn't matter, Mr. Pei has his own incorruptible tongue waiting for this group of diehard diehards.

"You're right, the VR player base is indeed orders of magnitude worse than that of computer players."

"But...... Have you ever thought that it is for this reason that we need to use more VR equipment? ”

"Huh?" Xiao Peng was stunned for a moment, and did not react for a while.

Pei Qian explained: "Five years ago or even ten years ago, Internet cafes were far more popular than they are now, why? Because most gamers were relatively poor at that time, they couldn't afford high-end computers and couldn't get the best gaming experience, so they chose to go to Internet cafes with their friends to open black. ”

"Why has the entire Internet café industry changed in recent years? Internet cafes are becoming fewer and fewer, more and more refined, from a smoky low-end Internet café to an elegant and comfortable high-end Internet café? ”

"It's because the functions of Internet cafes are different."

"Now that everyone's economic level is high, there are more and more people who have high-end computers, so the crowd for Internet cafes is narrowing, and they have to change their model."

Xiao Peng nodded, agreeing with this.

Obviously, this is one of the key reasons why Touchfish Internet Café can stand out among many Internet café brands: it is the first brand to be a high-end Internet café, leading the entire market for a year or two.

Pei Qian continued: "In the future, Internet cafes will not necessarily disappear, but their attributes purely for playing games will definitely become more and more diluted. Moreover, in recent years, there has also been a trend of the gradual decline of terminal games and the rapid rise of mobile games, which has made the situation of Internet cafes even more difficult. ”

"It's true that the player base of VR games is relatively small, but have you ever wondered that it is precisely because VR is a new thing that fewer players are willing to buy VR glasses, so they are more inclined to experience it in Internet cafes? And a large number of VR glasses are equipped in the Touching Fish Internet Cafe, so that the enthusiasm of players to try the game can be satisfied as much as possible, so that the entire VR player group will expand faster? ”

Pei Qian's expression was serious, and he said it as if it were true.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart that in his memory, this should be a business model that did not work. At least the high-end Internet cafes in his impression did not replace half of the computers in the entire Internet café with VR glasses.

But it doesn't matter, this doesn't affect him to fool Xiao Peng.

Pei Qian is convinced that with his strong flickering ability and acting skills, coupled with his aura as the helmsman of Tengda Group, Xiao Peng will definitely be able to arrange Xiao Peng clearly, so that he can finally accept this decision in its entirety.

Sure enough, Xiao Peng showed a sudden expression after deep thought.

"I see!"

"The success of the Internet café is because of the insight into the development law of the entire Internet café industry and the fact that it is ahead of all its peers; And now when a large number of high-end Internet cafes are emerging and the competition is fierce, we have to make great strides forward again and walk in front of all peers again! ”

"When the time comes, the VR experience area will be a core selling point that distinguishes us from other Internet cafes!"

"Mr. Pei is really far-sighted!"

After suddenly becoming enlightened, Xiao Peng suddenly thought of some ideas: "Mr. Pei, I have a suggestion if you want to say this." ”

"We can change all the computer desks and monitors on the second floor to foldable shapes, put the main unit on top of the head with shelves, hang up the mouse, keyboard, headphones, headsets, etc., and use folding chairs."

"This way, players have plenty of space to experience VR content when they are folded, and they can play computer games normally with the table and stool unfolded."

Pei Qian: "......"

You're such a clever little ghost!

Obviously, Xiao Peng's plan is a more compromise plan, although the entire VR experience area is mainly to experience VR, but it can also be used normally to surf the Internet and play games.

It's a safe bet that players will be able to keep playing computer games while the VR craze subsides.

Pei Qian smiled in his heart.

Xiao Peng, Xiao Peng, in fact, if you didn't tell me, but did it secretly, I definitely couldn't do it afterwards.

But if you tell me now, won't you let me be ahead of time?

Pei Qian thought for a moment and immediately said, "Of course not!" ”

"Monitors and computer desktops are folded, which shouldn't be a big problem. But the chairs are also made foldable, so it will definitely be uncomfortable to sit on! ”

"No matter how designed a folding chair is, it is difficult to compare it with a dedicated ergonomic chair, gaming chair or single sofa, because the premise of folding must sacrifice comfort."

"We want to give players the best experience, and we can't make do with that."

Xiao Peng thought for a while: "Uh...... Mr. Pei, what you said makes sense, this is really inappropriate. ”

"But even if you play a VR game, you need a console, right? After all, those big VR games are built on consoles. And when opening the game platform or searching for content, you still need to use a keyboard, mouse and monitor. ”

"Even if you don't need the seats, you can't save them, right?"

Pei Qian thought about it, it was really like this.

With the current level of technology and content of VR headsets, it is impossible to completely replace the PC, and a lot of content needs to be set up on the PC before you can wear the headset experience.

The VR all-in-one machine can only run VR games that are about the same size as mobile games, and those large-scale games still have to rely on computers to calculate.

So the display, the console, and the keyboard and mouse are still essential.