Reborn Xiangjiang Tycoon Growth

Peng Yifei left to look for a simplified Chinese dictionary. It seemed like he was a man of great talent but of little use. However, Bao Zixuan also meant to test him. After all, as a driver and bodyguard, if he made any small moves, the boss would be the unlucky one.

Now Bao Zixuan's task is to write the traditional Chinese Wubi software first. These days, he basically stays in the office and sits in front of the computer at night, and once again entered the life of a coder.

When the compilation of traditional Chinese characters was about to be completed, Peng Yifei came back and brought back all the dictionaries requested by Bao Zixuan. A total of 32 books were brought back. From the first edition of the simplified Chinese dictionary to the latest version in 1978, there were a total of 16 large and small versions. Peng Yifei had each version.

I brought two copies back.

Bao Zixuan smiled when he saw these things, but he still didn't explain clearly! But this is also good. It is a very rare thing for subordinates to be able to unconditionally carry out the tasks assigned by them and to complete them with quality and quantity.

It can't be said that it's just a reference, and I don't want people to doubt it. I have to take this secret into the coffin.

This time not only Peng Yifei came back, but Yokoi Junpei also came with him. He also brought his latest product Gameboy handheld game console.

Junpei Yokoi has been under a lot of pressure this year. Although the game company started by Heiyun Group is still one of the most profitable subsidiaries of the entire group, these have nothing to do with him. Junpei Yokoi has been in the company for a year.

He received the highest salary in the entire group, but he did not bring any income to the company except spending money. Seeing that his former subordinate Jiro Furujo was already the director of the production center at the same level as himself, he felt very anxious.

When Bao Zixuan invited him to join, he promised that he could return to RB twice a month. However, in order to speed up the development of gameboy, he only went back once in a year, and it was to recruit hardware engineers back to RB. This shows the craziness of his work.

and serious attitude, the entire RB national work attitude before the Plaza Accord is very worthy of recognition.

Yokoi Junpei said to Bao Zixuan: "President, according to your requirements, all technical indicators can meet the listing conditions. We have done a lot of tests, and currently there are no problems running Xiangjiang Cube and Snake on the Gameboy game console.

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After all, Heiyun Games was established too young and did not have its own game inventory. Moreover, the hardware performance of the first-generation Gameboy game console was not very high and could only run some simple games.

Sales of Xiangjiang Cube have basically stagnated after about a year. After all, there are more and more good games, and players will become more and more picky. Bao Zixuan asked Yokoi Junhei to transplant it to the Gameboy handheld game console. Snake

As a 1976 game, it has long since been eliminated from the arcade market.

Yokoi Junping personally found Xiaogui Game Company and bought the copyright. After the game is sold in the arcade, it is difficult for small game companies to carry out secondary development. They do not have the strength in this area. At this time, Heiyun Game Company is willing to pay a high price

Buy the game copyright, why not?

Atari is not as generous as Heiyun Games. In fact, Atari was already negotiating with Heiyun Games before they approached Xiaogui Games.

As the absolute overlord of game consoles in this era, Atari 2600 has its own strong side. They believe that as long as you can access games on the Atari 2600 game console platform, you are lucky. As a result, they have always been stingy with game developers.

Atari's one-time buyout price for a classic game like Snake is only $2 million. They believe that if Atari doesn't buy out Snake, the game will be useless. There are currently no other games.

The machine platform can compete with Atari.

At this time, Junpei Yokoi of Black Cloud Games approached them to buy the game rights. The Imp Game Company, who was annoyed by Atari, agreed without saying anything when they heard the one-time buyout price of US$5 million.

Heiyun Games is much more sincere than Atari, and they are very quick to pay.

I was very happy to hear that Yokoi Junpei actually grabbed the Snake Bunzi Xuan from Atari. Atari is one of the main competitors of Black Cloud Games. Now they can grab the Snake copyright to weaken their opponents, but

This is something worth celebrating. In the past, Atari's rise was based on the game Space Invaders. Now part of the game's copyright is in the hands of Black Cloud and it is impossible to sell it to Atari. It is difficult to rise.

Bao Zixuan said to Yokoi Junpei: "Yokoi-kun, please introduce the hardware configuration of this game console to everyone."

Yokoi Junpei: "Okay, Mr. President. Gameboy has a four-color black and white screen, a four-bit CPU, and the capacity of the game cartridge does not exceed 16MB. It consists of 5 buttons, including our patented cross-key. He has

The adjustment of up, down, left and right is very convenient. On arcade machines, the direction adjustment lever may be more suitable for players' experience. But on small game consoles, our cross keys have an overwhelming advantage, so we have done a lot of experiments for this."

Bao Zixuan knew that this game console only had half the performance of the original Gameboy launched by Nintendo, but he was already very satisfied. After all, the Gameboy was released about 10 years earlier than in its previous life.

The technology alone has long been able to meet the research and development conditions. When the Intel 8086 chip appeared, the world's computer technology had already taken shape. Later technology upgrades and transformations were developed around this foundation. The basic framework has been determined, and the rest is much simpler.

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All that was lacking was creativity. In the era when arcades dominated gaming, who would have thought of making a game console the size of a palm. This is the reason why Nintendo did not successfully develop it until 10 years later.

Bao Zixuan: "How are the CPU and screen performance? How did you and Gucheng-kun discuss it?"

Yokoi Junpei: "CPU is a product 8 years ago, and the production line we purchased from Sony can fully produce it. As for the LCD four-color black and white screen, we have purchased a full set of equipment and technology from rca. As long as we enter the mass production stage, our own factory can meet the requirements

For the production of all parts, it can be said that we do not need to purchase any parts from outside. We only need to purchase raw materials."

Bao Zixuan was very pleased to hear this. Many people didn't understand why he wanted to buy so much technology. They thought that if he entered other fields randomly with a hammer and a stick, he would be finished sooner or later. Many people and companies had to wait and see.

Heiyun Group joke. Today I can finally feel relieved. His layout is slowly exerting its power.

If you don’t have the ability to produce ordinary chips and LCD screens, what will happen if rb parts suppliers collectively raise prices after business is particularly booming? Black Cloud game consoles can only purchase the required parts in the United States. The price has increased by at least 20%, and now

Heiyun can produce and use it by itself, so there is no problem of rising component prices.

At this time, except for some conflicts between Panasonic and Sony, rb companies are unanimous in their external relations and are very united. Black clouds have to be guarded against!

Bao Zixuan said: "What is the production cost now? How many units can be produced every day if the production capacity is fully released."

General hardware development engineers may not know how much production capacity can be achieved, but as Yokoi Junhei has worked on the production line for more than 10 years, before coming to the United States, he calculated with his old subordinates about the production cost of Gameboy and the maximum capacity that can be released.

3 times.

Bao Zixuan asked him this just because he knew Yokoi Junhei's character. If it were another engineer who wouldn't dare to ask him this question, it would be bad if he couldn't answer and cause psychological pressure.

Yokoi Junpei: "The current bare metal cost of GameBoy is 40 Hong Kong dollars, and a box of game cartridges is 6 Hong Kong dollars. The main cost is that the chip and screen are more expensive. If we want to achieve mass production, we can produce 30,000 units per day in the first month. If

When the full production capacity is released, it can reach 50,000 units, and now our Heiyun Group has the largest number of small CNC machine tools in the world."