Giant of the times

At the end of the press conference, people had mixed reviews about electronic pets. The key is that many people had high expectations for Flamingo Company, but they did not expect that Flamingo Company would launch such a simple game, which was a huge disappointment.

The higher the expectations, the higher the disappointment.

In addition, Warner Bros. bought many media outlets that day and deliberately badmouthed Flamingo and Li Zetian.

"Chronos Li has exhausted his talents and completely lost his game design talent!"

"Electronic pets are poorly made and extremely rubbish!"

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All kinds of overwhelming negative news flooded newspapers across the United States.

However, the next day, the electronic pets were launched in major shopping malls across the United States. Countless students flocked to the store early in the morning, and the electronic pets in major shopping malls were sold out. For a moment, those who were not optimistic about electronic pets were stunned.

"How can such a simple game be so popular?!"

They were filled with doubts.

Warner Bros. and Sunbird couldn't help but be shocked. At the same time, they deeply felt that a huge crisis would come in the near future.

To everyone's surprise, within a week, Flamingo Company started a craze for electronic pets across the United States. Whether they are students or office workers, whether they are young or old, they all have a special liking for electronic pets. In this short week, Flamingo Company sold more than 400,000 electronic pet game consoles. , US$50 per machine, which means sales of up to US$20 million.

This whirlwind of electronic pets has just started, and subsequently set off a craze for electronic pets in RB Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and other regions.

A month later, electronic pets became popular all over the world and almost became a phenomenon-level game. Flamingo Company became famous, and Li Zetian was hailed as the "Father of Electronic Pets" by the media.

The host of ABC TV said: "Electronic pets have become popular all over the world, making the Flamingo Company famous in one fell swoop! It can be seen that Chronos Li is not as talented as some media described him to be. On the contrary, his talent is even greater than before. Many, just use a simple, unpretentious design to design an electronic pet. This lets us know that games do not have to be complicated, and simplicity may be more popular!"

"Los Angeles Daily News": "The Flamingo Company is coming fiercely. A simple electronic pet can set off a global gaming craze. So, what impact will their carefully developed TV games have? Can Sunbird Company still maintain its position in the family market? Dominance in the gaming console space?”

"New York Daily News": "The rise of new gaming giants is unstoppable!!!"

"Wall Street Journal": "Warner Bros. shares plummet, CEO Kevin Smith may be fired by the board of directors!"

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In one month, the sales volume of electronic pets reached 3.4 million units, with sales reaching 140 million US dollars, which not only brought huge fame to Flamingo Company, but also huge profits. With money, Flamingo can continue to recruit employees, expand the company's strength, and speed up research and development. The company currently has only over a thousand people. Although it is considered a big company, it is still far from being a gaming hegemon.

There is no doubt that the Flamingo Company's production capabilities cannot meet the needs of the market. In the future, it will learn from Nintendo to establish a royalty system and open the Flamingo game platform to third-party manufacturers. In addition to the need to purchase a high-cost development platform during development, , you also need to pay different royalties according to the sales situation and comply with the following three strict conditions:

1. Require third-party manufacturers to only release 5 games per year;

2. Each Flamingo game platform game must be reviewed;

3. Third-party manufacturers need to predict the sales volume of their products, and then Flamingo Company will produce game cartridges, and the production fees will be paid by the third-party manufacturers.

Under such rules, Flamingo Company has made considerable profits while completely passing the risk to third-party manufacturers, and it can also guarantee the quality of the game.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the Flamingo game console can defeat the Atari 2600 and dominate the home game console market.

Flamingo shocked the industry when it first showed its sword. At this moment, many third-party manufacturers have contacted Flamingo and expressed their willingness to develop games for the game console platform under development. However, he was rejected by Li Zetian. First of all, the development of the game console is confidential, and detailed data cannot be leaked for the time being to avoid plagiarism. Secondly, a bunch of companies that develop rubbish games come to visit. If their games are used, wouldn’t it be destroying the Flamingo Company’s brand?

With the games currently under development, Flamingo Company is strong enough to crush the Atari 2600 and become the dominant player! At this time, the Flamingo Company had a huge say, so it negotiated terms with third-party manufacturers and forced them to agree to its requirements! As for now, these third-party manufacturers think that developing games for the flamingos is helping the flamingos and providing help in times of need. Therefore, one can imagine the conditions they put forward...

However, they never thought about it, does Flamingo Company need help?

When Flamingo Company releases the game console, these game manufacturers will probably be so shocked that their jaws will drop!

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Electronic pets are still in hot sales and have become a stable source of income for the Flamingo Company. Its follow-up works are also under development. Due to technical and hardware limitations, they are actually limited in appearance, color, pet type, and some small functions. It is not possible to make improvements to powerful and sticky functions such as infrared connection, email, multiple pets on one machine, and photography. It is not that it cannot be made, but even if it is made, the price will be too expensive and cannot be sold. .

The media are always curious about legendary figures like Li Zetian, and the success of electronic pets has made him the focus of the media and the general public. Since the release of the electronic pet, the Flamingo Company has not made any moves. Media reporters have repeatedly tried to get some exciting news, but all in vain. Before Flamingo launched its console, everything was being developed in a highly secretive manner.

As a result, the media gave up on the goal of Flamingo Company and instead focused on the other two companies founded by Li Zetian, Galaxy Network Company and Sun Computer Systems Company. This only made them more disappointed. Sun Computer Systems Company's low profile was outrageous. , don’t even know what it is studying. As for Galaxy Network Company, it has not developed any products at present, and it is researching Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols, but it feels like there is no future.

A reporter said, what the hell are Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols? Never heard of it... not newsworthy at all.

It's just chaff in the eyes of others, but it is regarded as a treasure by Li Zetian.

While Li Zetian is developing games at Flamingo Company, he often pays attention to the development of Galaxy Network Company.

Xerox was sitting on a golden mountain without knowing it, and gave it to Galaxy Networks. After some hard work, Tian Shuai and Zhang Hao successfully defrauded Xerox's technology authorization under the pretext of improving and promoting Ethernet technology, and at the same time became one of the developers of the Ethernet protocol standard.

May I ask which computer wants to access the Internet without installing a network card?

After Li Zetian received the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Galaxy Network Company has taken the first step to success, and the future network equipment giant is just around the corner!

He told Tian Shuai: "Start developing network cards, and at the same time contact IBM, DEC, HP, Apple and other companies to seek cooperation!"

"I'm afraid Apple?" Tian Shuai hesitated with an embarrassed look on his face. If another company had developed the network card, Apple might choose to cooperate, but Galaxy Network Company was founded by Li Zetian. The two parties had some conflicts before, and both were unhappy. .

"Try to talk about it as much as possible. Although Apple has been suppressed by IBM, it still accounts for a lot of market share!"

"Okay!" Tian Shuai nodded, thinking that he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go talk to Apple...