Super Game Empire

Yang Yun and Zhu Shuguang have not met for half a year. Whether it is personal relationships or official affairs, it is very necessary to meet and reminisce about the past and strengthen contact. Yang Yun really has a few things to do.

The first thing is that "Thief" and "Super Squad 2" are prepared for the launch. The former is purely technical display, and the playability is still not as good as the latter. The latter needs to cooperate with the promotion of the movie "Super Squad 2". Yang Yun has considered it again and again.

It is better to launch "Thief" as scheduled first, and then launch "Sacrificial Squad 2" in March, and try to launch a classic game every month, which can attract players' attention every month.

The second thing is that the production of "Diablo 1" has been basically completed. The promotional plan has been agreed after the Spring Festival. Yang Yun can do testing and modification in the next few days, and strive to make the game perfect.

Judging from the game's conception and gameplay, this game has not yet reached the point of being shocking the world. Moreover, this may be the last few masterpieces on the 32-bit SS platform, and it is very likely to encounter an embarrassing ending

, Players are waiting for the 64-bit version of Su. The sales of Dark 1 cannot be increased, the reproduction is not high, and the fame cannot be achieved. It can only become a mediocre work launched by Longteng, just like "Warcraft 1"

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Yang Yun, Blizzard Marcos and others carefully analyzed and discussed, and planned many plans, but finally decided to see if it will be launched in April. In general, we should check the release of n64 and su before talking about it.

So the third thing is very important. Yang Yun found Zhu Shuguang who returned to Beijing. At the Loongson and Dishui Lake Film and Television Game Base, he wanted to report new ideas, especially the sudden emergence of Loongson and Nintendo n64. It made Yang Yun feel that

He had a headache and urgently needed Zhu Shuguang's help.

This meeting was at Zhu Shuguang's home. Although his family moved to Shangshanghai to become an official, he still had his own house in the capital. It was located in the courtyard of the agency's family, secluded and safe.

After meeting, Zhu Shuguang's first words were made and tea was lighted. "GM has decided to build a joint venture with Shangshanghai Automobile."

Yang Yun's eyes lit up and he quickly bowed and smiled: "Congratulations to Mayor Zhu! This is a great thing that benefits the country and the people of Shanghai. The people of Shanghai will definitely thank you. How much GDP growth can this drive!"

Zhu Shuguang smiled faintly: "You Xiao Yang's contribution is also here, and the people in Shanghai should also thank you!"

This is Zhu Shuguang's political achievement. A considerable political achievement, and Yang Yun's matchmaking is also very important. Both of them are smart people and know very well, so they will not always talk about this matter.

, it's time to click.

Yang Yun hurriedly said: "Mayor Zhu, even without me, SAIC will marry General Motors. I didn't do anything. I can't afford such a big thank you! But I still want to say more, hoping to get into Shanghai Automobile.

Joint venture with General Motors and learn advanced automobile production technology, rather than being like Hongqi. It will become a joke for Chinese people for the rest of their lives!”

Yang Yun could only say such words in front of Zhu Shuguang. If he faced other officials, he would say at most two words - haha. No matter what the red flag is like, he heard netizens spray red flags in later generations.

All of them were heard!

Zhu Shuguang smiled: "It seems that you have a deep resentment towards the Hongqi car. It's better not to mention it! Let's talk about it. You seem to have never seen me in the past six months, and you have less reporting work. What are you busy with?

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After spending five minutes telling about his own development, Yang Yun said a little heavy: "Mayor Zhu, the experts we have poached from Amd Company are trying every day to bypass Intel's patents and strive to innovate, but

The research and development progress of Loongson is really not fast. In the game business, our old rival, Nintendo, launched n64, which caught our deployment off guard and was in a dilemma."

Zhu Shuguang raised his eyebrows and asked, "What a dilemma?"

Yang Yun sighed: "To deal with n64, Longteng plans to launch a 64-bit host, but this host is destined to be an intermediate transition product. In the early 1997, we had to participate in the Loongson evaluation. After we got the quota and received the national funding, we were the most

It will be launched at the end of 128-bit hosts as soon as 1997 or early 1998. In this way, 64-bit su will have less than two years of survival, which is very short."

Zhu Shuguang nodded: "I understand what you mean. Frequently asking consumers to update their hardware will be a huge waste and will affect the production of your entire platform. The launch of a new version of the game console is actually

The overall upgrade of the game industry chain involves many aspects, and things will become uncontrollable, right?"

This is the biggest headache for Yang Yun. Of course, it is OK to release the Su platform and fight against n64, but it requires enough excellent games to support the Su platform and use classic games with better effects to seize the market.

At the same time, the development of 32-bit SS game cannot be stopped. He also cannot avoid the embarrassment of releasing one game on two platforms in the future. Could it be that Su Game will slap the SS game in the face?

"The biggest difficulty Longteng encountered now is that he went around or around the CPU. We really have no choice but to do anything about this. I haven't made up my mind yet whether to release the Su version, because once it is released, it is equivalent to digging by myself.

"Nintendo jumps directly to 64 in 16, but Longteng can't jump easily, Yang Yun hesitated.

The two of them drank tea and smoked, but they didn't find a good way to deal with it for a while.

"If you don't care about n64, it's equivalent to giving up all the high-end markets to Nintendo. This is a very dangerous step. I'm afraid that the market I'll lose in the future will not be able to get back. No one knows what will happen in the next two years.

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"But if you care about n64, Su's game production toolkit has hundreds or thousands. From 1992 to 1996, all game suppliers have been able to design the game on the ss platform in the past four years.

Once the changes are made rashly, their costs will be greatly increased, and everyone will definitely not be willing to change them easily. It is tiring and troublesome to provide services to upgrade."

"Also, the design of 64-bit Su is very smooth. We have thoroughly studied the application of 64-bit CPUs on TV game consoles, but this only has a reminder effect on the Loongson project. We do not have the strength to develop 64-bit CPUs in one step, but it is still a good idea to do it.

We have to start with 32 people so honestly. When we developed a 128-bit CPU game console in 1998, Loongson was still 32-bit."

Yang Yun was like Xianglin Sao, spitting out a lot of bitterness. The current situation is very difficult. He invested in Loongson to improve the efficiency of his game console. By the way, he planned to independently master the CPU supply, reduce the hardware cost, and improve Longteng by the way.

International competitiveness also contributes to the development of the Chinese IT industry.

As a result, after going in and doing it, I realized that it was not that simple at all. This completely turned out that the development speed of the TV game console was far higher than that of Longson's research. Longteng tied himself up a big burden behind him and was tired.

Zhu Shuguang extinguished the cigarette butts and asked with a smile: "How much have you invested in the Loongson project?"

When it comes to Qian Yangyun, he is depressed: "It has been spent 2 billion US dollars. How long has it been? It hasn't been a year yet! We are under great pressure this year, and the scientific research funding will be at least 2.5 billion US dollars, otherwise it will be released in the first half of next year.

No results!"

Zhu Shuguang understood the statistics of Longteng’s general ledger over the past two years, and he frowned.

Investment in Longteng's film and television game base, investment in various game adapted movies, if Su and Nintendo compete, they will inevitably increase publicity and mass production and distribution. In addition, the bottomless pit of Longxin, there is also a Longteng company with hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

The funds for game research and development and the huge expenses of hundreds of employees, Longteng’s capital chain is very tight.

"There are also some charitable funds, science, education and cultural competitions we sponsor, and popular science education that we pay for. Although our company's net profit was US$1.96 billion in 1995, it is still not enough. Our investment in Loongson this year is still relying on our old capital!

If our company has saved some money in recent years, I'm afraid it will be difficult for even getting the national chip quota next year!"

The ship is big and you have to spend money everywhere. If you don’t pay attention, you may leak water if you break it.

The situation at China Resources Microelectronics Company is not good. The cost of the research institute's land, construction renovation costs, and fixed assets costs. China Resources Group also invested about US$500 million. This investment will not be effective within a few years.

The group is under great pressure.

Neither party wants to go public to raise funds because future interests are promising. Once successful, the benefits will be absolutely huge enough to create a second China Resources Group.

To put it bluntly, loans for such long-term investment projects are meaningless unless they are huge interest-free loans provided by the state, or loans with interest.

As for whether Longson will be controlled by Longteng, a private enterprise in the future, the country is not a fool on this issue. Yang Yun knew even more clearly that the country does not invest now, mainly because he was worried that Longteng and China Resources Microelectronics would not be able to do it, but once Longson

If the research and development is successful, the country must intervene. This is something that concerns the lifeline of the country's economy and cannot be thrown to a private enterprise to lead.

The best solution is to introduce a state-owned bank and let the bank consortium join in. This is also Yang Yun’s bottom line. Of course, that’s all a story. Anyway, after all, it’s just a lack of money.

Zhu Shuguang certainly knew this and said: "I will negotiate with China Resources Group on the issue of money. After all, central enterprises are more likely to come forward. With their guarantees, banks' loans will be smoother."

Yang Yun quickly refused: "You don't need to borrow money from the bank for the time being. If you borrow money now and repay it in the future, you will always owe favors. China Resources Group has a good relationship with the five major banks, but I don't want the Loongson project to have relationships with the five major banks!"

(To be continued...)