Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Los Angeles.

As the official sale of the Xingyue console gets closer and closer, Lin Baicheng has been getting busier and busier these days. After all, he is responsible for coordinating the sales of the Xingyue console in the United States. Fortunately, with the help of an assistant, he was not exhausted to death.

Time flies to Friday. Tomorrow and Saturday, the Xingyue console will be officially sold in the United States, Japan and Hong Kong.

"Chengjun, our console has pre-sold nearly 10,000 units so far. It can be seen that many people like our games very much. The performance of the Xingyue console will not be bad when it is officially launched."

In the villa, Maori Haruko said to Lin Baicheng who was reading the relevant report.

"I hope so."

Lin Baicheng nodded: "Although the more consoles sold now, the greater the company's losses will be. However, the more consoles are sold, the more cassettes will be sold, thus making up for the losses on the consoles."

So far, Xingyue Electronic Game Company has developed a total of ten games, and there are still more games under development.

The Star and Moon console is different from Atari VC. Atari VCS is open. After any game company develops a game, it can publish it on Atari VCS, that is, make it into game cartridges for sale. However, the Xingyue console has a lock code system, and games that have not been reviewed cannot be released and sold on the Xingyue console.

At present, Xingyue console has no reputation at all. There is no game company that will hand over the games developed by itself to Xingyue Electronic Game Company for review, and then determine whether the game can be released on Xingyue console.

Therefore, in order to enrich the game types of the Xingyue console, Lin Baicheng recruited game engineers on a large scale when the development of the console was about to be completed. Later, he even opened branches in the United States and Japan. After all, some talents were unwilling to leave the country. In order to recruit talents Branches can only be opened in two places.

Nowadays, Xingyue Electronic Game Company has a large number of game engineers. Not only is the labor salary a huge expense, but the costs of the games they are developing are also very high. If the Xingyue console does not sell well, the company will suffer huge losses. .

Haruko Mouri said: "Now, apart from increasing publicity after the official launch of sales, we can only leave the rest to the market to decide."

"yes."

Lin Baicheng nodded slightly. There was nothing he could do except increase publicity. Whether the console could sell well could only be decided by the market, whether people liked the product or not. In other words, whether you like the games sold with the Xingyue console or not, you will choose to buy the console only if you like playing games.

It can be said that Lin Baicheng invested a huge amount of money in Xingyue Electronic Game Company this time. If it failed, the impact on him would still be considerable.

If this happens, then Lin Baicheng can only wait for the profit settlement of his investment in gold futures next year before he can have funds to develop other enterprises.

Speaking of gold futures, this week the international gold price finally broke through the shock zone of 250 US dollars per ounce and strengthened upwards. Unfortunately, the increase was not large. It only increased by 2.03% this week. However, an increase is better than a decrease.

Although the next day was Saturday, Lin Baicheng definitely didn't have time to play around this Saturday, because the Xingyue console officially started selling today. Lin Baicheng and his assistants went to work as normal, and all went to the Starlight Company, so that if there was an emergency, they could be there as soon as possible solve.

At the same time, as the official sales time comes, publicity efforts have been intensified, and TV station advertisements have begun to be launched in an effort to let more people know about the Xingyue console product.

Compared with Atari VCS, Xingyue console not only came out later, but also was a foreign product. Hong Kong is a place that many people have never heard of. Therefore, if investment in publicity is not increased, Xingyue console will The sales prospects are certainly bleak.

Starlight Company is working overtime today. It's nonsense to say that Americans don't work overtime. It's just that overtime pay is several times the normal salary. If there are employees who really don't want to work overtime, they certainly won't force it, lest the union get involved in case of trouble.

However, the boss requires the company to work overtime, but some employees do not work overtime. If there is no legitimate reason, capital has many ways to deal with such employees and tell them to get out of their way. Therefore, employees usually do not object to overtime work, as long as the money is available.

As for physical stores, it doesn’t count as overtime at all, because you have to work on weekends. Physical stores like toy stores have the best sales on weekends. How can they arrange weekend breaks? Capitalists want to make money.

"Eric, have all the tasks been arranged?"

Before the sales officially started, Lin Baicheng asked Eric Davis for inquiries.

"We have done everything well. Whether it is an unexpected situation or a sales boom, the company can respond immediately."

Eric Davis responded that he could be said to be very busy these days and did not dare to slack off at all.

"That's good."

Lin Baicheng nodded, said a few more words to Eric Davis, and then left, no longer disturbing Eric Davis' work.

Although the Xingyue console officially went on sale today, as of now, Lin Baicheng actually has nothing to do. Unless something unexpected happens, the people below have already done what needs to be done.

At eight o'clock in the morning, nearly 800 Starlight Toy Stores across the United States opened for business. Among the nearly 800 Starlight toy stores, about 500 urban physical stores will start selling Star and Moon consoles and related game cartridges today.

The clerks in various stores are already quite familiar with Xingyue consoles and game cartridges, and they are all ready to recommend sales to customers and are full of expectations.

When working at Starlight Toy Store, in addition to receiving a basic salary that is neither high nor low, the employees' monthly turnover of the store is related to their performance commissions and their wages, so they cannot help but care about it.

Because the performance commission of the clerks is related to the total sales, and the performance commission of each employee is the same, only the store manager is a little higher, so the clerks will not cause trouble to steal customers, and the performance commission is not allowed for everyone's sake. Some people are lazy, and everyone works together to increase the monthly turnover.

Of course, such a system must also have flaws, that is, it is unfair to outstanding employees, so each store has an outstanding employee award every month. The employee with the highest sales is an outstanding employee and can receive another bonus.

There is no perfect system, only a suitable system.

For now, under the operation of this system, the monthly turnover of Starlight Toy Store is not bad compared to other toy stores, and some are better. This is enough, and you can't ask for too much.