Super Tycoon

Nintendo will still be the leader in the industry in the next few years. Even if it loses to Sunny in the future on video game consoles, but in terms of handhelds, no one can challenge it.

A GB, and its reduced version derived from this year, are selling very well. The sales volume of other companies' handhelds is only a fraction of Nintendo's. Even the Zhiduxing Z has sold millions of units worldwide, but it is not taken seriously by Nintendo because the profit margin gap is more than ten times.

Zhiduoxing Z solidifies several games on the hardware, does not support external cassettes, and does not support expansion, so players can only play a few games that come with it. After a long time, it is easy to get bored.

Nintendo is different. They not only sell handhelds, but also cassettes, and cassettes are their biggest profit. Handhelds are sold for more than 20 million, but cassettes are sold for 60 to 70 million, because Nintendo still uses the old strategy, there is only one game on a cartridge.

Of course, in the future, they will launch an all-in-one cassette, but not at this time.

In two more years, Nintendo will launch a color version of the GBC. The sales of this version will be even stronger. More than 50 million units have been sold worldwide, which will also push the overall sales of the GB series to 120 million units.

This is only the original version. In many regions of the world, there are still some pirated GBs for sale, otherwise this data will be even more astonishing.

But the game Pokemon that made GB more popular has now fallen into Zhang Yang's pocket, and even the original development company has become a subsidiary of Zhiduoxing.

This game once greatly promoted the sales of the GB series, and even sold very well on future video game consoles.

But now, this game will become Zhi Duoxing's, and the exclusive distribution platform will also become Zhi Duoxing's company. Exclusive distribution may make this game not as popular as in the previous life, and it will not reach the world record, but it will bring more loyal players and higher sales to Zhiduoxing.

For the overall interests of the company, sacrificing the interests of Huadao Spirit Company is nothing.

Zhang Yang originally thought that after two years, he would launch a color version of the handheld after the technology matured, to fight against GBC, but now, he changed his mind.

He will launch a new generation of Zhiduoxing Z2 to fight against Nintendo's GBP. At the same time, he will also adopt new technologies to support expansion and replacement of cassettes.

Originally, he was still thinking about how to bypass Nintendo's cassette technology, so that Zhiduoxing's handheld can store more and more interesting games. Now a company called SanDisk in the United States has launched their CF card, a future main Memory cards used in products such as digital cameras.

The size is small, but the capacity is not small. At this time, there are already 32M storage capacity of 8M and 16M or even higher. And an ordinary handheld game requires less than 3M space.

In other words, if you use a 16M CF card, you can guarantee that there are five or six games in it, or even more. Then the player can replace it by purchasing a new game card, so as to play other games.

And it can also store a bigger, more fun game, such as the Pokemon series.

Zhang Yang has entrusted Mr. Sun Yansheng of Wanyan Company to help contact SanDisk and get some samples. If there is no problem, this will be used in the future.

Although it will lead to an increase in cost, it will never be more expensive than GB, right? The price of GB is more than one hundred dollars. If you want to play other games, you have to buy game cartridges separately.

In the past, Zhiduoxing Z relied on the low-price strategy to compete. The retail price was 59 US dollars. If you replace it with a SanDisk CF card and add a card slot, the cost will increase by 30 US dollars. Then add the game and the price will be 99 US dollars. nineteen dollars.

This is still cheaper than GB, and at that time, it will be the same as GB, making money by selling game cards.

It is not my father who is responsible for the research and development of this product, but the chief engineer of another factory. Before that, Zhiduoxing Z was also based on the other party.

It's just that this one's speed is a bit slow,

Zhang Yang originally planned to introduce it to the market by the end of this year, but judging from the current progress, it would be considered good if the research and development can be completed by the end of this year, and the mass production of the production line will be adjusted at that time. Only next year.

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On weekends, Jia Tao and Li Wei came to Capital University to play with Zhang Yang and the others. They saw Zhang Yang carrying a bag and took out some models from the bag.

"What is this, a new handheld game console designed by your company? Applause game consoles don't play many games. In fact, I don't think it's interesting. It's not as fun as video game consoles and arcade machines, but you can usually lie in bed and play. Play anytime, anywhere."

"Hey, why is this one of yours getting bigger? If it's too big, I can play it, but elementary school students can't do it. Their palms are not so big."

As soon as Jia Tao saw the model of Zhiduoxing Z2, he made a suggestion.

"We do this because we want to put a few more batteries in it, so that the game console can play for a longer time. Before that, it could be played continuously for more than 20 hours, and now the goal is to be able to play for more than 30 hours."

Zhang Yang didn't say anything else, this is a change for the launch of the color screen, the power consumption of the color screen is higher, and more batteries can improve the battery life.

"Is there any difference? Everyone is doing it at a small level, why are you doing it at a big level?" Jia Tao looked strange.

Zhang Yang knocked his head, yes, he was confused. There is not much difference between the experience of 20 hours and 30 hours. He is considering the color screen, but this product is not a color screen, but a backlight is added to make the screen look brighter, and the power consumption does not increase much.

"Is this a handle? The handle of your game console needs to be enlarged? Hey, this feels good in the hand, it's very comfortable to hold, but why is it so thick?"

Zhang Yang explained: "Some electronic components have been added inside to increase the vibration function, so it should be thicker, can't you hold it?"

"Yes. You said that the vibration function is added in it. What's the use of it?" Jia Tao didn't understand at all. What's the use of the handle vibration? I heard that the BP machine has a vibration function.

"It's just playing sparring games. If you get hit, you will feel the handle vibrating. When you play racing games, you will feel the handle vibrating when you crash. Do you think it will be more fun?"

Jia Tao's eyes lit up: "Your company's technology is so powerful now? When will it be launched? Can old game consoles use this function?"

The old game console, Zhiduoxing G? This was developed for the Zhiduoxing G2. It was first created on Nintendo's N64 in the previous life, and was later fully adopted.

Yes, why do we have to wait until the next generation of game consoles to launch, it can be launched on top of the old ones.

Zhang Yang looked at Jia Tao, this kid really is a Fuwa.