Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 565 Winter Solstice

   December 22

   The winter solstice has arrived in the blink of an eye. Today, Xue Yufei's three daughters rarely go to work. The three daughters wake up early in the morning and start working in the kitchen.

  In the living room, Yang Chen was holding the newspaper and was reading it with interest.

   In the past few days, the major newspapers in Hong Kong have repeatedly published the news of his second album, movie, and game consoles.

   In mid-December, Yang Chen's records, movies, and game consoles went on the market after more than a month of publicity, and they were released.

   In the past few days, the major newspapers in Heung Kong have been publishing comments from people from all walks of life, of which there are naturally good and bad ones.

   The most controversial, without a doubt, are game consoles.

   Yang Chen divided his game consoles into three grades, $50, $30, and $15.

  The lowest-end game console, known as the blue-body console, costs fifteen US dollars, plus the game card, which is just about one hundred Hong Kong dollars (the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar).

   Nowadays, the per capita salary in Xiangjiang fluctuates around HK$1,000. The game consoles sold by Yang Chen are already considered luxury toys for children.

  Although the price is a little expensive, it is not difficult to accept. The ability of Hong Kong people to accept new things is absolutely throughout the world. Whether it is adults or children, when the danger of a new thing has not appeared, everyone dares to try it.

   The reason why Xiangjiang became conservative in later generations was mainly caused by social pressure. Soaring housing prices and soaring prices made people lose money to try new things.

  Being surrounded by all kinds of pressure every day, tell me, who has the heart to play these things.

   With all kinds of advertisements, movie promotions, and album promotions, Yang Chen's game consoles were very popular in Hong Kong, and 100,000 game consoles were sold in just one week.

  The first ones to be promoted were mid-to-high-end game consoles of $30 and $50. As for low-end products of $15, it would take half a month before they were released.

  He Yang Chen is not a saint. Although he is not mercenary, maximizing his own interests is the most basic rule of survival for a businessman.

He has so many game consoles in reserve. If the fifty-dollar and thirty-dollar game consoles don't sell well, then he has to lose money to his grandmother's house. He has to put the expensive ones on the market first, so that people with middle and high incomes can buy everything that should be bought. Now, it is only in the interest to launch the last game console.

  Xiangjiang has a total population of 5 million. A handheld game machine like this is suitable for all ages. As long as he can sell 500,000 units in the end, he will be satisfied.

  30 to 50 US dollars of game consoles mainly rely on Europe, America and island countries, the only developed countries in Asia.

By the way, there are also local tyrants in the Middle East. With the help of Prince Hasar, Yang Chen's game console has also successfully entered the Middle East. In this era, many farmers in the Middle East oil-producing countries have undergone a gorgeous transformation, and they have become rich people.

  After the oil crisis, the economies of most countries in the world have slowed down, and only the oil-producing countries in the Middle East are rich in oil.

   In addition, there are Latin American and other countries. Although Latin American countries have fallen into the middle class trap since the 1970s, they have not recovered much until the 21st century.

   But that would have to wait until the global crisis comes before the economies of Latin American countries will collapse further. It is still early, and some Latin American countries are still quite rich.

In developing countries, the mid-end game consoles prepared by Yang Chen quickly opened up channels through the relationship between HSBC and Standard Chartered. Packaged and sold together, the popularity of his game consoles abroad was further opened up.

  Although sales are very popular in various places, the reserves of 200 million units cannot be sold in a few days.

   Now Yang Chen's game production company has resumed normal production, working overtime for several months in a row, and some factories even stopped work and went on strike.

   Those who give up are mostly equipment that needs to be repaired. They have not stopped running for several months, and even the machines can’t hold it anymore.

   In addition, desktop arcade machines and some game production factories have also started mass production. As long as they are stored to a certain extent, they will be available to the market.

   There are three grades of game consoles, low, medium and high, and the stock is terrifying. He is not afraid of the risk of running out of stock. Yang Chen's move makes it clear that he is killing the copycat products of various countries, and does not give anyone a chance.

  Because the storage capacity is large enough, orders sent from various countries are basically shipped directly when the money arrives.

   Moreover, it is still delivered locally, so there is no need to wait.

  Because as early as a month ago, Yang Chen had already shipped game consoles to various countries to wait for orders according to a certain percentage.

  When the game console was launched, it was unanimously recognized by the players, and the snowflake-like order immediately saved nearly half of the inventory he had prepared earlier.

   In a few days, the funds returned have filled his previous investment, and the remaining inventory, even if he can't sell it, he will not be troubled by funds.

   When it comes to pirates, Yang Chen is not polite. Several well-known law firms in Europe and America, Yang Chen spent a lot of money to keep them watching, and once someone dares to copy his game, send a lawyer's letter directly.

   In European and American countries, he has money, and he is not afraid of arguing with others.

  Any company that wants to pirate his games will pay dearly.

   Of course, for patenting this thing, he can only file lawsuits in countries with sound legal systems in the West, Asia, Latin America and Africa have no way.

   In these places, you can only use the price to fight against pirates.

  It is completely impossible to completely eliminate piracy.

   However, Yang Chen had already made arrangements to license the game console to local game manufacturers, and did his best to minimize the cost of the game console.

   Together with the game cartridges, fight a protracted price war with pirates to kill them.

  If pirates want to compete with genuine ones, the price must be much lower than that of genuine ones. When the selling price of genuine editions is so low that there is not much profit for pirates, they can naturally prevent the breeding of piracy.

  In today's developing countries, the protection of patents is very poor, and the lawsuit may not necessarily be won.

  The reason why the inland is called a big cottage country in later generations is that a large part of the reason is that the patent fees required by foreign companies are too high, and the things they sell are too expensive. Even though the cost of a few dollars, they sell for dozens or hundreds of high prices.

  Everyone is willing to buy products of the same quality and lower prices, copyrights, etc. Only when people have money and the price is not too outrageous, will everyone follow the rules.

  Otherwise, no matter how strict the law is, some people will take advantage of it.

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   (end of this chapter)