Game Development Giant

However, the complete demise of Apple is something in the future. There is no need to rush now, even if it is anxious, it is useless, because in reality, I know every step of Steve Jobs' strategy to save Apple, and I only need to be the first to take the lead in the future.

What surprised Jester was that Bill Gates was actually a fan of video games, which he really didn't know before.

Although I have heard rumors about this, the reason why Microsoft wanted to enter the video game industry was even at the cost of losing two billion US dollars a year. In addition to the fact that the video game market is really worth the effort, there are also Because of Bill Gates' personal reasons.

You know, Bill Gates' first exposure to computers was through games.

"What is your favorite game?" Jester asked with some curiosity. He was very curious about what game a person like Bill Gates would be particularly fond of, and Bill Gates' answer did not disappoint him. Jester was disappointed, it was really beyond his expectation.

"me?"

After hearing Jester's question, Bill Gates first pointed at himself, and then smiled. Wan ◎ ◎ Bar ◎ .nsb.cm He said: "My personal hobbies are still different from those of the public... My favorite game companies are "Minesweeper" and "American Cube". I think these two games are simply programs. An explosion of members’ wisdom and sparkle, it’s such an incredible imagination.” Of course, it was in his original world, not this world.

"Minesweeper" has been bundled with Microsoft's system software. Mars Entertainment will get a certain commission for every copy sold. The commission is not high, but both parties are very satisfied. However, "American Cube" currently only has the arcade version. Apart from the drembx version and gamneby version, there is no PC version.

Although there are many fans of this game who have cracked the kernel of this game and written their own PC version so that they can play the game on PC, there is no official version after all.

Bill Gates said this, obviously he is also very interested in this.

Jester also heard the hidden meaning in Bill Gates' previous sentence, and as far as he knew, in the world he knew, Bill Gates was indeed very interested in using games to promote, such as It is said that the original "Mine Sweeper" was a game bundled with win3.0. For another example, before the release of win95, Microsoft was boycotted by almost everyone. Even at the win95 promotion meeting, when the DS supporters in the audience were promoting the benefits of win95 while shouting DS in unison, they relied on Carmack's "Quake", which was in full swing at the time, turned the situation around. "The PC version of "American Cube"?"

Jester said this with a smile, and Bill Gates nodded slightly after hearing it. He didn't admit it directly, but he didn't deny it either. Instead, he changed the topic and said: "win3.0 is about to be launched. This is the first relatively mature version we jointly developed. Although compared to Apple's The visual operating system is a bit inferior, but we also want to open up the market with this. So I want to add "American Cube" as a bundled game."

Many people in later generations think that Microsoft's visual operating system, that is, the window-based operating system, started with win95. In fact, this is not the case. Before the launch of win95, Microsoft had already invested nearly ten years of hard work in the visual operating system. They worked hard on Apple's The Macintosh computer, the world's commercially available visual operating system computer, launched their first visual operating system at the end of that year.

This operating system, which had little reputation and not many people had even heard of it later, was also named after win, and the naming was very simple. It even looked like a test codename, called win1.0. Unfortunately, this operation The system ultimately failed.

What really made the win system famous was the win3.2 version. At this time, win was already very mature, and win95 was just a matter of course after adding audio and video entertainment functions. At that time, Bill Gates officially launched win95. Previously, in order to promote the audio-visual entertainment function that he advocated, it was Carmack who did the promotion.

For "American Cube", Jester still values ​​​​it very much, because he really knows the potential of this game. It can be said that so far, the value that this game has exerted to him is only Less than one-tenth of what this game can actually play.

For example, arcade machines, home consoles, or the PC version of "American Cube" that Bill Gates is very interested in now are not what Jester values. Now the total sales of the drembx version of "American Cube" have reached 400 More than 10,000 copies, this is indeed a very incredible result, because the total sales volume of many extremely well-made games is only one or two million units, while a game that has been released in the arcade version for a long time, produced by The game, which is not very difficult, can actually sell more than four million copies, and is even approaching five million copies.

But, for Jester, that's all.

In his eyes, what he values ​​most is actually the handheld version and the mobile version that may exist in the near future. It may be a bit far away to say that it is a mobile version, but the power of the handheld version, Jester has already We can see a lot from the gameby that was just released.

Although "American Cube" is bundled with Gameby and is free of charge for players, with the bundled "American Cube", it is extremely suitable for fragmented time and can be obtained at any point in time. For games played out, the mobile phone is the most suitable carrier.

The terrifying sales volume of seven million gameby units a month made everyone stunned. In order to meet the terrible order quantity of gameby required by Mars Entertainment, Hon Hai Electronics even turned down many PC companies such as Compaq. You must know that in order to get the order from Comper, Mr. Guo even did not hesitate to set up a branch directly next to the headquarters of Comper.

In order to allow Compaq to start physical production as soon as they come up with the design, even a certain person from the company that values ​​​​such a company has turned down a lot of appointments, although Jester is now Hon Hai. The reason for the No. 2 shareholder is among them, but as a profit-oriented company, in order to regard OEM as its core business, it even hesitates to shut down its own good computer brand directly to Mr. Guo, Jess The profit that Te can bring him has surpassed that of Comber.

Jester didn't think about this problem for a long time when faced with Bill Gates. In fact, he didn't think much about it. After all, the copyright of PC was not what he liked. This was one, and two, although Minesweeper had been developed. It has been successful for many years. Carmack was just a teenager when he made this game. Now he has entered Mars Entertainment as the development director of the 3D engine, and is even the developer of the game "Quake". The second producer, but this game is not very famous.

In the beginning, this game was sold out through his cooperation with Dell through the bundled sales of Dell computers. The effect was good at the time, and Dell did have a very high talent in selling computers. Of course, he cheated venture capital investors. His talent is also very high. Although Jester really wants to retain Dell's share, he feels that Dell himself is definitely unwilling. He still doesn't know what method he is thinking of to cheat his part. shares, and I don’t have that much experience to engage in intrigues with Dell.

Therefore, when Dell asked him a few months ago whether he was interested in selling the shares he held, he agreed without saying a word. Naturally, he was very satisfied with the sale price, and Dell, which had just gone public, also There was no shortage of liquid funds, and he had a very strong message about Dell. He purchased the shares in his hand at a price much higher than the market price. It was an extremely good ending for the cooperation between the two.

In fact, Jester saw that after he cooperated with Sandy Weill to acquire the Commercial Credit Company, he had already lost most of his shares in other rising stars, because he knew that this company How strong will be the future of commercial credit companies?

Now Sandy Weir is planning to reorganize the commercial credit company into Travelers Group. This future most powerful company on Wall Street will soon gradually emerge.

Later, after Travelers Group merged with Citibank, by relying on the shares in Travelers Group, which is still called Commercial Credit Company, I would get at least 2% of Citibank's shares. This number of shares would be enough for me to become a The executive director of Citibank will even be a very important executive director.

Those are truly important figures in the world.